What Would You Do If You Couldn’t DJ Anymore?

What would you do if your main gig disappeared tomorrow?

We put that question on the table and followed it into some unexpected places : law, sports agency, music programming, even D1 basketball before circling back to the core skills that make great DJs irreplaceable: reading people, controlling momentum, and telling a story in real time.

From there, the episode jumps into both the practical and the absurd. We break down a ’90s slumber-party after-party concept that actually improves events. We talk why themed after-parties are a cheat code for music curation, how not to cannibalize big reception moments, and what discoverability really looks like in 2026: where SEO, social proof, and timing collide. 

In our "story time" segment, we talk through a 65-and-a-half birthday that found Brian B through ChatGPT, featured a bass-and-vocal virtuoso, and somehow ended with Jenny McCarthy FaceTiming Donnie Wahlberg from the dance floor while he played a smart NKOTB routine.

Then we shift into a blunt breakdown of a venue showcase: banner messaging that sells benefits (not features), the impact of DJ-plus-sax fusion, and the contact-form mistake we won’t make again. When three DJs started clashing in the same outdoor space, we solved it the hard way: syncing systems with wireless remotes so one playlist fed multiple rigs, zero chaos. Along the way we unpack ROI on wedding showcases, when saying no is the smarter play, and how much “relationship value” actually matters when attendance is soft.

We wrap with growth and future-proofing: scaling a gear line toward seven-figure revenue while navigating real manufacturing constraints, and building a weekday corporate niche in medical software to balance the calendar and reduce dependence on weddings.

It’s honest, tactical, and a little unhinged. Part strategy session, part story hour, and part field guide for creative businesses wondering what comes next.

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Transcript

Kicking Off And Patreon Shoutouts

SPEAKER_03 0:17

What's up, everybody? Welcome to Beyond the DJ Booth. I'm Joe Bunn. That's my boy Brian B, and we are back with another brand new episode to start your February the right way. Episode seven. Episode seven, season six. Let's thank our friends. Well, friends from Patreon, uh, we appreciate y'all. Skip over to that slide if you don't mind, my man. Saquon. Uh the Patreon is patreon.com slash beyond the DJ Booth Podcast. If you didn't know, there are two tiers there. You're gonna want to choose the top tier because there are some golden saucy nuggets full of ranch dressing. Yes. And buffalo sauce that you need to get uh and are gonna help you with your shows. So just take the top tier. If you don't like it, you can cancel anytime. But shout out Excellent Entertainment. What a name. Excellent Entertainment.

SPEAKER_00 1:13

Can you get that?

SPEAKER_03 1:14

I mean, I feel like there's probably 30 of them, but excellent entertainment.

SPEAKER_00 1:17

Yeah. I mean, you wouldn't want to be like sucky entertainment, or good point. You know?

SPEAKER_03 1:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:22

Jason Landry.

SPEAKER_03 1:23

And my guy Joey McDonald. Appreciate you guys. I can't remember.

SPEAKER_00 1:28

You don't remember.

SPEAKER_03 1:29

I don't remember. I mean, it's it's hard enough to keep up with my own uh family, much less our extended family.

SPEAKER_00 1:36

So, this opener, why don't you set this up? This is what would we be doing if we weren't DJs?

SPEAKER_03 1:41

Man, so I don't know how this conversation started with my boy Johnny Rich down in Florida. He works with Malik and those guys at Curate. Love those guys. Yeah, good dudes. And Johnny Rich, uh, you'll see him online as J.R. Conti, but I'll I I think his DJ name is Johnny Rich. Great DJ name, by the way. I love that name. Johnny Rich. Uh Johnny Rich said, hey man, what do you and Brian think y'all would be doing if you weren't DJing it? And I said something completely crass. I'm not gonna say it, but I I I don't know. I don't know any other world. I don't know any other job since I was 13. So I was like, man, I don't freaking know. And all of a sudden he just responds back as if he's been thinking about this. He goes, I feel like you would be a barista at an overpriced coffee shop.

SPEAKER_02 2:38

Wow.

What We’d Do If We Weren’t DJs

SPEAKER_03 2:38

So we got this picture here. Love the overalls. Uh if you're watching on YouTube, uh he AI generated these within seconds, he's firing these off to me. I mean, I don't hate this idea. Saquon said, There's no way that I could be a barista. Wouldn't you rather be at a barista at a real bar? I feel like you'd be a better bartender. That's late night, though. That's late night. That is true. Not a big late night guy anymore.

SPEAKER_01 3:03

It had to be early morning. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 3:05

Yeah. You'd be running it, not pouring, not not pouring shots of uh some great latte art you got going on. A guy is spot on, though. I gotta be honest. It's really good. And then I go, what about and then he goes, what about Brian B? And then I think I said, I feel like Brian would be a barber because you you're a you're the king of getting a haircut.

SPEAKER_00 3:25

I I am, but yeah, nah, I wouldn't ever want to do that.

SPEAKER_03 3:28

I couldn't and he goes, nah, the baby's hair only.

SPEAKER_00 3:32

So here we got the Brian B with the gold chain, wow, the the hairbrush. Yeah. So then when you said this to me that we were talking about this, I thought you were saying, like, legit, what would you do if you were?

SPEAKER_03 3:45

So I'll come back to mine. Yeah, what would you be doing?

SPEAKER_00 3:48

So it'd be one of three things. Okay. So I got a picture here generated.

SPEAKER_03 3:53

Is that a a lawyer?

SPEAKER_00 3:55

A lawyer. Okay. I've always loved to like just win arguments. Okay. So I would do that. You an Ashley.

SPEAKER_03 4:00

Sports agent. Oh, an agent.

SPEAKER_00 4:02

Oh, okay. I like that. I've always wanted to do that.

SPEAKER_03 4:04

I think you could be good at that.

SPEAKER_00 4:05

Or a programmer for like Spotify, like, or those are all good, dude. These images, that first one is terrible, by the way. Why did they do that to me? Uh the other two are not too bad. They even got my watch on there and everything. That's crazy. It is crazy.

SPEAKER_03 4:23

What did you use for that? Just out of curiosity.

SPEAKER_00 4:27

It generates images now.

SPEAKER_03 4:29

I know, but it takes forever. I don't know. I feel like nano banana is superior. Yeah. I I mean, I I don't really do it much. Well, I mean, you don't have five fingers or anything weird, so I mean it's obviously good. Yeah, it's quick. I mean, not five fingers, six fingers. Everybody's got fingers.

SPEAKER_00 4:43

Any of those jobs. If I if I wasn't in D.

SPEAKER_03 4:45

You know, ironically, man, I feel like you would be really good at all three of those or any of those three.

SPEAKER_00 4:51

Man, what would I be doing? Or, you know what? The fourth one would be if I if I really wanted I would love to have been a basketball coach. Like not like college? Yeah. D two, D one? D1. D1. Wow. I would do that. I love it enough. I worked high school. I do high school, but they don't pay anything. That's the problem. I feel like you would be good at that too. Because you played. Like I played. I didn't know. I I coached um the Boys and Girls Club where I went and played for uh before I got to high school.

SPEAKER_03 5:24

When in California? California.

SPEAKER_00 5:26

When I finished high school, they were looking for coaches.

SPEAKER_03 5:29

So and how old would the kids? God.

SPEAKER_00 5:31

Eighth grade? Eighth grade? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 5:33

So I my son played for that league. Oh, really? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:36

So I Oh no, no, Salvation Army, sorry. Well, I was like in my twenties. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, I really shouldn't be coaching these kids, probably. I'm like, it was just I thought it was kind of weird in a sense. Like, I think that's perfect age to catch that age. But dude, that was when like uh it was after Pat Riley was kind of a coach, and that whole like wear a suit, slick back the hair was a thing. Dude, I did all of that. Stop it for a freaking, you know, boys and girls club. And I'm down there like pounding the ground, you know, press, you know, like just calling it. But dude, we won the championship my first year. Did you ever do it again? No, I never did it again. So I'm one and oh. You really are, man. One more going top. Yeah, but it was awesome. I actually really like because to see where these kids came from, like before they, you know, had been coached to like where we ended up. I'm like, wow, this was actually a really cool experience. It made it kind of got me fired up to do it.

SPEAKER_03 6:30

I mean, ironically, man, even after he said that, I don't think I ever even gave it another thought. Like, you gave it a thought. You've created some images here. I I I don't I don't know what I would be doing. I really don't, man. I I you would be an entrepreneur. There's no doubt. That was exactly what I was gonna say. It would have to be some so I don't care if it was a food truck. It would have to be something where I'm working for myself doing something that I either like or love. Yeah, I I just cannot see anything like that. I never wanted to go back to school to learn a trade or to be a lawyer or a doctor. I never, you know, I think I had a couple of friends that were super talented in high school and went to college and got drafted. I did think about getting my agent card at one point. I do remember that. Yeah. Um man, the radio DJ thing was absolute the worst fucking job I ever had. Well, and did you ever do that?

SPEAKER_00 7:26

No, and it doesn't pay, I know.

SPEAKER_03 7:27

It doesn't pay. It's horrible. They have no allegiance to you, they'll move you. It it is the I I I know there's probably a lot of radio DJs listening to this, and I'm sorry I'm shitting on that profession, but I had the worst experience ever.

SPEAKER_00 7:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 7:41

At a major station. Well, and I clear channel.

SPEAKER_00 7:43

To your point, there is no loyalty, and I knew some really talented people that got moved all the time. Shit on.

SPEAKER_03 7:49

And they were promised the world. Jeff Brown got moved all up. Squirrel used to be a radio DJ, I think. Um uh who else? Trailer. Yeah, yeah. Tough yeah, it's a tough occupation. Anyway, I definitely wouldn't be doing that.

SPEAKER_00 8:03

Well, let's move into the pop culture minute. Okay. Brian B.

SPEAKER_01 8:07

Jobon dropping heat just for fun. Pop talk spinning like a wreck of spine. Pop culture class where the stories collide. Two DJs bringing the flavor we're a while.

Alternate Careers And Coaching Stories

SPEAKER_00 8:26

So uh I saw this online from a wedding professional. She posted this idea of wedding party, wedding after party versus wedding slumber party. Thought it was a decent idea. Okay, let's hit the video.

SPEAKER_04 8:46

So I was just at a wedding industry event thrown by two like very big thought leaders in the wedding industry, and they threw an after party that was a 90s slumber party, and I just don't understand why n all wedding after parties are not slumber parties. They had a pajama changing service, like you threw your pajamas in a bag, and then they like brought that to the event, and then there were dressing rooms for you to change into. And when I am telling you, the girls in the bathroom, the do you have a lip gloss? Do you have a deodorant? Do you your guests will never forget it? So forget like this after party. Everybody wants to change anyway. They want to get into jam jams. Like there was McDonald's and like beds and like posters on the walls and like nostalgic candy, like fun dip. Like the napkins on the bar were like screenshots of Aim Messenger. That's what you should do. You should have a slumber party, and like it should be 90s coded or like princess diaries coded. Like, we're thinking about this all wrong. The Bachelorette party is not the time for that slumber party vibe. It is the after party when everybody wants to kick off their heels and dance to like I don't even know. The playlist was so fire. I the Backstreet Boys. Bring out, just just do that. That's all I've got. I need to post here more. Okay, bye. Love you.

SPEAKER_03 10:30

Bobs? Do you know her? I don't know her. Okay. No, it just came up on feed. Dude, I kind of like it. I I don't play a lot of after parties like you do. I guess my first question is how many people are normally at an after party?

SPEAKER_00 10:43

A hundred less. A hundred or less. And that's a that's coming from, I guess, kind of let's say one february. Does she really mean like to sleep in that room though? No, not to sleep. It's just like the theme. I got you. Right, right. You know?

SPEAKER_03 10:55

Yeah, yeah. I love the idea of- I do I love I love a lot of it. I mean, I love the the idea of the theme.

SPEAKER_00 11:01

Drop off your pajamas and then you just put it in there. Right. I mean, I don't think guys are gonna go to this length of like, you know, hey, hand me the lip gloss necessarily. No, right, right.

SPEAKER_03 11:11

But I mean I put on my jam jams. I don't have jam jams. Do you have jam jams? I feel like you have a matching.

SPEAKER_00 11:18

No, no. I actually want my negatives. Like, what do you sleep in?

SPEAKER_03 11:21

Drawers?

SPEAKER_00 11:22

Uh no, just no, uh shorts. Shorts and a wife beater. And a beater? Yeah, a beater. Yeah. Like a white, like an actual No, no, no. It's like just cut off, kind of cut off sleeves. Dude, I love it. I'm just I'm just straight boxers. That's it. No shirt. No shirt. Wow. Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_03 11:40

Okay. I know no shirt. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_00 11:42

You don't go the nude, you don't go nude jam jams. You don't go the nude, nude?

SPEAKER_01 11:45

You not go Winnie the Pooh style?

SPEAKER_00 11:47

What's that?

SPEAKER_01 11:47

Just shirt.

SPEAKER_03 11:51

That's pretty good. Forget that Winnie the Pooh just rocks a fucking shirt.

SPEAKER_00 11:55

I forgot about that.

SPEAKER_03 11:56

It balls out. Winnie the Pooh's wild, dude, if you think about it. Oh man. Oh. Just shirt. Nah, that's not a good look. I can't do nothing. Not a good look.

SPEAKER_00 12:09

Not a good look. But I like the idea.

SPEAKER_03 12:10

I do do. Yes. It's a great idea. Did you just say doo doo? No. I do too. I do too.

SPEAKER_00 12:16

No, it's a great idea, man. I just think it's something that people are. I mean, I'm always getting asked, like, how can we make this different?

SPEAKER_03 12:22

1000%. Save this, send them this, or send it to the planner that is kind of like egging you on to do it and be like, and then you sell it. Like, I will kill this shit.

SPEAKER_00 12:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:32

Let me go in full Brittany. Again, if it's a 90s theme, let me go in full British British.

Radio DJ Real Talk

SPEAKER_00 12:36

Or 2000s, one direction. You know, there are so much stuff. Dude. Just I love the idea of a themed party, anyways, because it really helps set the direction musically to what to stay away from at the reception.

SPEAKER_03 12:47

Thousand percent. That was about to say it delineates what you can play at the reception versus all right, I'm going into this thing, I'm gonna change it to my jam jams, and I'm going full boy band mode. Yeah, you know what I mean? So you're not hitting bye-bye bye and all that stuff during the reception.

SPEAKER_00 13:02

If you had to go, what kind what kind of jam jams would you be bringing into this? I'm curious.

SPEAKER_03 13:06

It would have to go on themes. So like if it was like truly 90s boy band, I would find like some in sync like on Etsy or eBay or something. Yeah. Or like you like a theme too, right? Like, I mean, I'll if I need, like you said, if I'm getting paid, I'll dress up.

SPEAKER_00 13:23

If I Tara's always mad at me because I don't do anything for Halloween. I'm like, right, I'm not you're not paying me to go right on the street.

SPEAKER_03 13:30

I'm not doing it. I will do Halloween. Yeah, just because I never really did Halloween. As a kid? I did it as a kid. My mom was unbelievably good at making costumes.

SPEAKER_00 13:41

Oh, my mom did it, and she was not good.

SPEAKER_03 13:43

Yeah, no, my mom was outstanding. My Mr. T costume, I did not go blackface, don't worry. I did not, but the Mohawk was fucking elite. Did you do it to your actual hair? No, I had a bald head wig on, a bald head cap, and then my mom cut the strip out the middle. And I think, you know, back then I had a hair, I was a kid, and it was long, like I have this long kind of mop. And she pulled it out of that little strip in the bald head wig and then just kept teasing it. And she gave me all of her costume jewelry, like and that was when the A-team was like everything to me. And I came out the house with the sleeveless denim vest on, bro. You couldn't tell me nothing. So my white Mr.

SPEAKER_00 14:22

T when I uh told my mom that I'm never having her make a costume for me again was when uh Karate Kid was big. Yeah. So I went as Mr. Miyagi. Okay. And we didn't have a lot of money back then or anything. So my mom's like, um, so let's let's get your uh let's get your suit jacket. Okay. And then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna give you oh no, it was a bathroom robe. It was a bathroom robe that she cut in half for the for the ghee, as they called it, right? Then she says, go get your um your suit tie. We're gonna use that as your belt, right? And then go get your your shower shoes. We're gonna use those for your your feet. And I'm like, what are we doing here? This looks nothing like Mr. Miyagi whatsoever. And then she found a bandana, you know, that didn't even look like it was just like a cowboy one. It was a cowboy one, it wasn't even like a karate one. And I go out there and they're like, What are you? I'm like, I don't know. Your guess is as good as mine. Get me out of here.

SPEAKER_03 15:22

So I'm like, mom, from now on, we're buying it. I remember um Raggedy Andy. She had a she made this wig out of yarn. It was unbelievable. Yeah. Shout out my mom, dude. That's amazing.

Pop Culture Minute: Slumber Party After-Parties

SPEAKER_00 15:34

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SPEAKER_00 17:29

So this is where we do gig recaps, things like that. I wanted to talk about this Chat GPT 65.5 birthday that just happened this last week for me, which again we're batching this, so this is will be a few weeks.

SPEAKER_03 17:40

By the way, before you get into that one, I just want to say the only other gig I did other than what we talked about on the last one was I went to Dom's 40th birthday party.

SPEAKER_00 17:48

You want to talk about that first? Go back.

SPEAKER_03 17:49

Yeah, just I just was gonna enter, it wasn't a lot to tell, but I mean Dom uh prone had his 40th birthday party outside of Atlanta in one of the suburbs. And I had to be there. I mean, Dom's my boy. Yeah. We started the DJ's vault together, we started Crate actors together. So I went and he was like, Will you play 45 minutes at the end of the night? And I was like, Who was playing before you? Um this dude hired a metal karaoke band, and they were really good. So it was a live karaoke band with the list up on the TV.

SPEAKER_00 18:23

So they just didn't play instruments. They no, no, they played.

SPEAKER_03 18:26

I mean, go ahead.

SPEAKER_00 18:26

So what's a karaoke band? As a difference between a cover and they're the singers. Oh, you're the singers. Yes. So they just played the instrumental.

SPEAKER_03 18:33

Yes. Interesting. And the the playlist was fire. I mean, you know, bright side, my own worst enemy, sugar were going down.

SPEAKER_00 18:40

So you got to pick from their list of what they knew.

SPEAKER_03 18:42

Yes, just like a karaoke.

SPEAKER_00 18:44

But they're live music. Wow. Never seen that.

SPEAKER_03 18:46

They were called Metalsome. And about eight, ten people go up, and then all of a sudden I hear, next up, Joe and Ashley. And I go, What the fuck? And I've I go, I don't do karaoke. I've never done karaoke in 54 years ever. Yeah. Not Eminem, not bust a move, not anything. And I was like, huh? And Ashley's like grabs my arm and like, next thing I know, they're ripping in the sugar. We're going down. And I'm like, well, I guess we're doing it. Yeah. I got the bit we'll put the video in here if you want to.

SPEAKER_01 19:17

I mean, you want it for yet. If I just tell you everything you want to hear, is that just who I am in sweet?

SPEAKER_03 19:32

It was not good by any means, but I mean, it was, you know, I I love that song. Like it's top five of all time for me. So, and then she was kind of into it, and I was like, well, and then the crowd was into it. I was like, well, it it kind of just worked.

SPEAKER_00 19:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 19:46

And nobody was great. Right. It wasn't one of those audiences where like everybody's like a ringer.

SPEAKER_01 19:51

Yeah, that's nice to carry a lot of things. It's not supposed to be fun, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 19:54

It was fun. And I was like, you know what? You you sold me. You like you tricked me, but but we had fun. Then I played for 45 minutes, trailer played for 45 minutes, got a lot of people dancing at the end of the night. How many people were there? Great party. 50. Okay. Small party. Great party though. Great way to do it for your 40s.

unknown 20:14

It was fun.

SPEAKER_03 20:14

Yeah, that's awesome. Great time. Anyway, I want to hear about this 65th.5 party.

SPEAKER_00 20:19

Before I get there, the karaoke thing, there used to be so my boy Rooney G.

SPEAKER_03 20:22

No, we talked about yours.

SPEAKER_00 20:23

You're yours for like no, those are the karaoke songs, but I never it made me think of another type of entertainment with the karaoke band that you're talking about. Yeah. He hired and sold tickets for an air guitar band. Okay. They don't play anything. It's all not like lip-synced, but like lip played. Like they don't even play the instruments. They are just basically playing to what, like, let's say Guns N' Roses is playing. Yeah, yeah. They will fake, like, they're not even plugged in. And people will go ape over this. And they were selling tickets at$20 a pop at the bar for this air guitar band that would come in and play. Stop.

SPEAKER_03 21:04

I'm not kidding. So not a cover band, not a karaoke band, literally an air band. An air band. Then they air band. Drummer, air guitar, air bass player, air singer. The whole thing. And they were doing what? Just like whatever.

SPEAKER_00 21:17

They actually, I saw it on um Were they doing rock covers?

SPEAKER_03 21:20

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:21

Rock covers it was uh well, that's all I saw was rock. But they actually have this on ESPN as well, like the Ocho or whatever, like one of those fringe uh channels of theirs. Yeah. And they're they have like an uh an actual, like I don't want to say it's a uh um airband competition. Yeah, they have an airband competition. Come on, I'm not kidding.

SPEAKER_03 21:43

It's crazy. I mean, I know those guitar solos from those like Van Halen records and Guns N' Roses records. Like, I know my name.

SPEAKER_00 21:54

So let's talk about this party. The 65 and a half birthday party to set the stage. If you didn't listen to the episode that we talked about this a while back, this lady found me on Chat GPT. Yeah. And I was shocked. It was actually during the collective, like the morning of before we were talking about like the new trends and stuff. I just happened to have the inquiry sheet where she listed it.

SPEAKER_03 22:11

And you put use in your presentation.

SPEAKER_00 22:13

Yeah, like that morning. It was like fresh. So uh it actually booked. I thought it was a fake, and um, she was a former publicist for a bunch of Hollywood stars at one point. She's now retired. I misspoke on one of the last episodes that you clipped for me, and I said that she was turning 65. She was turning 60 in 2020. Okay, right. She waited until 2026, so she's now 20 uh 65 and a half. Right. That's where I misspoke. Right. Let's clear the air on there. Okay. And so she's throwing this party, and she her theme was that she was gonna have like six and a half wishes. Random. If it's your 65th birthday, you would think you'd have 65 wishes and a half, but whatever. So six and a half. And her first wish was to have uh, well, I guess I'll get to it in a second, but the the party was having happening in Jacksonville, Florida. Which just happened this week. What was the venue? It was called Private 131. Just a place you could rent out. Beautiful space. I got some pictures of it here. So let's hit the first picture. This is the entrance of the space coming off of the elevator. We're going into the entrance here. No planner. No planner. Wow. Actually, they did have a planner, but he was really a designer. Yeah. That also did some planning stuff. Go to the next photo here. They had this thing that she had this table that said, I said no gifts, because people always bring gifts no matter what, even if you tell them no. So there's like four gifts on there. I just thought that was kind of cool looking. Uh, this was the outdoor space of the venue. So indoors is where the dancing was happening. I had a remote speaker, you can kind of see it in the back back there. Uh, where they had a bar out here. This reminded me of the Graduate Hotel Rooftop. Had that same kind of flooring, very symphallic uh floral there, as you can see. Wieners. Um couple wieners, yeah. Shorty's uh Joe Buns.

SPEAKER_03 23:59

A couple of Joe Bunski. Wait a minute, hold on.

Story Time Setup And Patreon CTA

SPEAKER_00 24:03

What how many people were good there? Uh about a hundred. Okay, okay. So then we go to the next. This was cool. They're in the space, they actually have a thing. These are not this is not signage, this is like raised like lettering. Yeah, it's a green room in there, and so this is where we hung out until six o'clock. And then at six o'clock, we me, and there was another act before me. Um I'll show you him in a second. But then we got kicked out because the celebrity had to be in there the rest of the night, basically to hang out until his time was in. So he had to kick us out. But it was cool that they had this. I've never seen a sign like that. Yeah, green room. Yeah, that's cool. Um, so I was wish number four. Yeah, they made me wear this shirt, right? And to your point, I said, I'm only wearing this because I'm getting paid. I would never wear this kind of stuff, but whatever. Uh, so I was the fourth wish, as we talked about on the previous episode, Tony Cox, which I'll get to that story in a second. He was the half wish.

SPEAKER_03 24:51

Is that the right name at this time? Because you call it something. Yeah, I called it. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_00 24:55

So Tony Cox was there. That was his shirt. Uh and then um, this is her first wish, right? Uh, which is Casey Abrams. I do remember this guy. I do remember the bun up there on the top, hair bun. But if you're not watching it, it's basically a guy who is a bass guitarist. I thought this was gonna suck, to be completely honest. I didn't look him up beforehand or anything like that, but he was gonna play with no tracks, just the bass and his vocal. And it was incredible. This dude was crushing. He was having people singing along during cocktail hour. I was he was supposed to be background, but people were so into it. Right. And he was doing everything from you know, uh standards, standards to white stripes to hip hop, all with a bass line only in his vocal, and he was an incredible singer.

SPEAKER_03 25:40

Yeah, no, he he I remember this was when I used to still watch American Idol. I remember this kid.

Jenny McCarthy, ChatGPT Booking, And A Wild 65.5 Party

SPEAKER_00 25:44

So she was like, my first wish is I would when I saw that guy on American Idol, and she gave a speech and she said that I wanted to have that guy at my 60, 60th party. Well, now it's 65 and a half. And then her second wish was great wine, great food, and all of that. So that was that. Then the third wish was I can't remember, fourth wish was a great DJ. Wow.

SPEAKER_03 26:03

And then she picked herself off asking Chat GPT. That's unbelievable, man. Seriously, like I mean, yeah. So then we get there. Shout out you.

SPEAKER_00 26:13

I mean, like, that's and I see this blonde, yeah, and I'm like, wait a minute, I think she looks a little familiar. I'm like, is that Jenny McCarthy? I think it is. Yeah, and sure enough, it was. She looked good. So she wrapped her at some point. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 26:25

She looked good.

SPEAKER_00 26:26

Yeah, yeah. Oh, she looked great. She was great, and she was super nice.

SPEAKER_03 26:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:30

And then uh the whole th story is that she went to a party at Howie Mandel's house. This is the client, and said, Hey, and and he would always make fun of her for not having a date. He's and so finally she's like, I have a date. And she's like, made a joke about it, and she brought Tony Cox with her to the thing. This is the picture from that party. Oh, wow. Howie Mandel, her, and Tony Cox. And he cracked up. And uh everybody was like, whatever. So she's like, for my 65th and a half, I, you know, our date got cut short, no pun intended. And uh, I wanted to have him be my half-wish. That's great. So she he came out, he danced for a little bit, so you can see him on the dance floor. This is the only picture I got of him from the DJ booth. She was out there dancing, and um, dude, Jenny McCarthy uh pretty much fell in love with me uh for whatever reason. Wow. She got to the point where she was FaceTiming Donnie. Stop it. That's Donnie on the pick on the phone, saying, We have to hire this guy. Like she, but she treated me like she never said one word to me. I was like third person. She's she asked the client, why like they're right in front of the booth, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. She asked the client, she's like, Where did you find this DJ? She's like, I just found him online. That's like her answer. So then she's like, Donnie has to hear this guy, he needs to come to Vegas. Uh and so she facetimes him. Is that where they live? I I don't know. That's where he has a residency, I'm guessing. Uh or New Kids does, I guess. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Anyway, so she's FaceTiming him. Listen to this DJ. And I'm so I waved like at one point on the phone to this dude. And then she, you know, she left about an hour or so later. Uh it was an incredible party. It was an interesting um age dynamics, as you can kind of see there. There's a lot of older people in her age range, but a lot of younger people too. Sure. Here's a little people actually get down. Oh, they totally got down until it was, I think, uh started at seven, and we went till 10:30. So not long. That's pretty long. Yeah, I mean three and a half hours. Three and a half hours. No, because uh an hour was hit that other guy. Okay, okay. So I played for two hours. Nice. Uh, here's a little video of me doing a the a scan of the room if you want to see the inside. Oh no, I guess we didn't. There was a video, was there? I guess not in there. Should be one. Okay, it's fine. Yeah. Um, I'll insert it. Here's a video of the space. Uh cool venue. And a lot of people were like told her that, hey, we we will hire this guy. So I don't know what will come from it, but who knows? Maybe I'll be on tour with new kids. I I did have a routine, that's why I I was gonna mention that too, where I actually have a little bit of the right stuff. Uh-huh. I it it what used to be in lieu of um, I think I gave you that edit of this is how we do it. Yeah. And to it would go into that. Uh, yeah, it would say I would loop back to uh something about the old school, yeah, and then I would play the oh oh oh yeah instead of the um fresh prints. Yeah. So I still had that routine. Uh and so during that time, because I was like, I never know if celebrities really want their music played. Right, me neither. He wasn't there, right? But is it kind of cheesy to play it? Like, I don't know. So she, the client, comes up to me and goes, Hey, I think you should play a backstreak, uh not backstreet, new kids track. And I'm like, I happen to be in that same like in that same uh tempo range. Yeah, and so I'm like, let me go ahead and just go into this. And so I played it, he came out, and then she's FaceTiming him while I'm playing it, and he he they all lost it, so it was all kind of a cool, cool thing. So wow, great party. Hope I get more of them. We'll see what happens. So I left that. Yeah, and then drove three hours, drove three hours back to Destin and did my first event showcase at a venue in probably the last one I did was 2012. Jesus Christ. So what is that? Uh 14 years?

SPEAKER_03 30:14

14 years, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:14

Another one in 2026. So I haven't done one in a while. So I picked your brain, I was like, dude, this is for my mid-level brand. Yeah, I'm not trying to go crazy with this, I'm not going all out on the booth, right? You know, she told me she is a new venue, so let me set the stage. New venue, they're coming in the market, they have a beautiful piece of property on the water, and basically she's this is a pay-to-play place. I haven't done that either. Yeah, me neither. But I was like, you know what? I'm paying for it because this is gonna be a good venue, could be. Yeah, um, you like the space. I like the space, it's has potential, but I can already see the problem. The writing on the wall is that it is gonna be a venue poor uh client that is gonna book this spot. It's too much money. I have no money for anything else. Yep. And I already see it because to some of the vendors that were there, I was like, they should not be here. Yeah, and that's no shade on them, it's just not it doesn't align. Let's just put it that way. So I thought it would be worth me showing some pictures from this. Um, so here's a video of the walkthrough of my space. I was out on the thing. You owe me for those banners. I do, yeah. I actually did pay a pretty penny for them though. Yeah, I thought. So I had a little uh I had a little uh my ceremony speaker on the far right, had the two banners. It was a very windy day. I had two DJ furniture pieces, which was that piece there, and then uh behind it that little facade because we have a bunch of different things that we can do. It also hid all my cables. You can see, unfortunately, I've got that um lighting case there because it was so windy that thing was gonna blow over. I have it zip tied to the evolve.

SPEAKER_03 31:44

The pipe and drift. Oh, wow. Because it was gonna move that quickly. I had some sandbags for you, but I don't know how you would have gotten it.

SPEAKER_00 31:50

I do have sandbags on the other one. Right. I didn't think it was that windy, it's gonna be that windy. Um, and then as we go into the different pictures here, you can kind of see this next one. This again, a little close up of it. This is really critical. I think uh to say what you do, and this is uh something I got from you. You're like, hey, make sure besides your logo, what do you do? Yeah, put that at the top. No, at the top, right. That's what I say. So DJ and live entertainment, and that's what I tried to sell here. Yeah, it's like listen, there in that market, there is not a lot of people doing fusion. So I wanted to lead with that because everybody else is gonna say we just do DJing, whatever. So I said, listen. How many other DJs were there? Uh two others of other companies. Do you know them? I do know them. Yeah. So you can see that I got the sacks guy with the DJ to show exactly what this is. Yep. I like that. And then the other thing, uh, I can't remember whether it says in the bottom. What does it say, Saquon?

SPEAKER_03 32:36

Your story, your energy, our pack. No, one pack dance floor. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:41

So I want to say that we pack the dance floor, but we customize it. The QR code goes to my website. Yep. I was thinking I was gonna do this instead of print a thing. I will say I kind of didn't like this after I did it. I should have done a more simplistic form, just because it was it's tied into DJ Event Planner. Yeah, no one wants to fill out all that information. Right. Like, how did you hear about us? All the different things. I should have just done like a Google thing that just said name, email, date. That's it.

SPEAKER_02 33:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:06

And so I got three that came from this. Um, I did have business cards. I think that's critical. Yeah, I still do. I saw your post on that just the other day.

SPEAKER_02 33:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:16

Uh I mean, I didn't print anything else off, but I think just having the card, it is, it's kind of critical.

SPEAKER_03 33:22

That was what I knew you were running out of time, and I didn't I don't think even Alpha Graphics could have pulled it off for you. But we always do a four by six card. Yeah. One side is probably just a photo. The back has our pricing on.

SPEAKER_00 33:33

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 33:33

Literally the pricing, the three packages. And so because we we were having people like, turn around, let me write this down, you know, and they're like trying to take notes and stuff. I'm like, no, you don't need to do that. Here's a card with all the information on it. And you could QR code that as well.

SPEAKER_00 33:47

But my other thought was if I had to do it again, I wouldn't put the QR code. I'd have the iPad right there ready for them just to type it in. Yeah, we did that before.

SPEAKER_03 33:54

We've done that before as well.

SPEAKER_00 33:55

So I thought this would be easier because they could do this at their own leisure.

SPEAKER_03 33:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:59

But uh that was a miss on my part. The next banner, if you go to the next picture, this one just says, I think it says like 50 events. What does it say, Saquon on the top? I don't know if you can read it.

SPEAKER_01 34:09

50 weddings per year per DJ. All fully custom.

SPEAKER_00 34:14

So we try to tell them, well, listen, our guys, again, I'm looking for differentiators to be listed here. Yeah. And to me, that just says, hey, listen, we're not uh a factory. We have 10 DJs on our team, but they all only take 50 weddings a year. So you can be guaranteed, and that's kind of what I led with was like, listen, the difference between us and the other DJs around here, we have the fusion stuff, and we only take 50 events.

SPEAKER_03 34:34

And it's because what's up with those with that little roll, and why'd you bring that out?

SPEAKER_00 34:38

Because we do a lot of ceremonies on the beach. Oh, right. And they always want to know what that looks like. And I like to show them, hey, it's battery powered. You love that thing. I mean, I'm gonna ride or diet until it dies. Yeah, then I'll go with the everse eights, which I know it's where I need to be. Right. But I'm like, this thing works great. No, you you you've been a ride or die with that thing. And it's got EQ, it's got I mean, it's everything. Yeah, I've done a bunch of events with that. So that's uh what we had with that. And um, I think that was it. Cool. So are you doing any wedding shows? Let me close the segment with that. Are you doing we do a dozen before March? And how do you feel like the return's been on them lately? Like, is it worth doing it? I mean, you have to do it right because of the relationship, or you are cutting them down, like what at some point, I feel like the market.

SPEAKER_03 35:20

We definitely cut down. We definitely have cut it down.

SPEAKER_00 35:23

And what's your criteria for keeping them? What happened last year? Leads or bookings? Like, what's your criteria for saying what happened last year to make this assessment? Leads. And how many people showed up?

SPEAKER_03 35:35

So what's like the rainy, rainy? So this year they would call, hey, we've got another wedding show at the blah blah blah house. Okay, cool. Randy, what happened last year? Um, let me ask Chris. Hey, Chris, what happened at the so-and-so? Uh four people showed up. How does he remember that? I would never remember that. Because we only make the DJs do one or two a year. Okay. So they would go, Oh, yeah, I did that. It was fucking terrible. Nobody showed up. Yeah. And I'll just go, Randy, just tell them we're we're we're all out of free this year. Or just we're we don't have anybody that you know is willing to take off their Sunday. Or just make up something, man, and and be diplomatic about it. Hey, but we still love playing there, you know. We we always recommend you something else.

SPEAKER_00 36:15

Right.

New Kids Routine And Celebrity Moments

SPEAKER_03 36:16

But we're not coming. Right now, if I'm pulling fifty, hundred thousand dollars out of that place, right? I'm coming regardless. Right. But if it's a a pseudo-new place or a place that just did a poor job of promoting it, we're not going again.

SPEAKER_00 36:29

So what is the max you'll do in a year? Ten of these? And they're always the same time of year? January, February?

SPEAKER_03 36:37

It's usually in the very beginning of the year.

SPEAKER_00 36:39

Fifteen, twenty?

SPEAKER_03 36:40

Okay. I mean, that's still a lot. Yeah. For the whole year.

SPEAKER_00 36:43

But still, I mean, there's only so many weeks.

SPEAKER_03 36:45

I think Mer Merriman Wynn does probably win a quarter, so that's four. Gotta do those. And let's say another ten, the beginning of the year. Ten different venues.

SPEAKER_00 36:52

And are you or Randy going to all of these? Oh no. So you only send the Okay. Well, I the pictures I see, you guys are together in some of these.

SPEAKER_03 37:00

We we we will go to the Merriman Wynn one in in two weeks. We'll be there on the Sunday. He and I. But the other ones you just send a DJ with similar setups? Yeah. Like banners. Yeah, a couple banners, and maybe if they want a booth and uh and uh two speakers. One guy is enough to cover it. I usually like to try and get two to go, to be honest with you. Background music is pretty much not live DJing.

SPEAKER_00 37:23

Okay. Yeah, I played some mixes. Did you? Yeah. I had some pre-mix stuff. It was great.

SPEAKER_03 37:27

Yeah, same as us.

Wedding Showcase Strategy And Booth Setup

SPEAKER_00 37:28

You know, um, same as us. One thing I did uh do with this particular one is there were two other DJs and we were somewhat in proximity. And as soon as we started, she said, Hey Brian, we're gonna uh separate the DJs so they're not all playing at the same time because it was a mess would have been a mess. Mess, hot mess, yeah. So she said, I want you to play from one to two thirty. Uh-huh. The next guy to go whatever. Sure. Well, those other guys didn't get the memo because they're playing full felt boogie. And I'm just like, dude, like, this isn't gonna work. So I go to the the the venue owner and I said, Listen, I don't mind going over and telling them, but I don't want them to feel like I'm like pressuring them. It really needs to be you that delivers the message. I'm happy to go with you if to communicate like the technical side. But I said, why don't we just I have wireless remotes, I'll plug into their speakers as well, so it's all the same music, and then when they're done, I'll give them the transmitter, I'll put the receiver in mine. Oh, wow. Because I mean, it was like one big outdoor space. Yeah, yeah. It wasn't like we were like in our own little booth spaces or whatever. Yeah. And they all jumped on board with it. But as soon as we did that, it was a lot more clean for everybody because it was so much music going on. It's like no one can think, no one can talk. And that was a win. So it actually like diffused any kind of you know tension amongst the vendors. But I'll be honest with you, man. I she said she registered 50 people. I bet you half showed. If that, that's not good. And I just was like, Yeah, that's not good. And in the destination market, it's really tough to get people to come from out of town to this. Yeah. So we had some locals, they didn't have a lot of money. I could that's just typical thing there. So it wasn't great. If I had to do it again, I would do it just because it was a new venue. But if she asked again, I probably won't do it.

SPEAKER_03 39:05

Yeah, man. I it for me now it's gotten to be how was it last year? And then how much money have we made there in the past few years? You know what I mean? And like I said, if we're pulling tens of thousands of dollars out of there yearly, I don't care what's happening, we're doing it. Okay. You know what I mean? Like it's just it's a bad look to be like, nah, we're good. Yeah. It's just a slap in their face.

SPEAKER_00 39:24

Right. Well, especially if they're sending you a business. So you gotta know your numbers. Yeah, you gotta know what happened. Yeah. Do you track it in the inquiry source or I think Randy tracks it in the inquiry source?

SPEAKER_03 39:33

And then also just asking the previous year's DJ what happened at this thing last year. Do we want to do it again? Hey man, no, it was shitty. Like they didn't get anybody there. I wasted my entire Sunday away from my family. Like, and I'm like, all right, we're not doing that again.

SPEAKER_00 39:47

So to help people, one last thing on this what are you using for a form? Is it linked to that? Like, is there a software program?

SPEAKER_03 39:55

I think that our QR code, um, honestly, Brian, just goes directly to the Raleigh contact form. Instead of going to bun DJ Company.com, it would be Bundy J Company slash contact or whatever. Slash Raleigh slash contact.

SPEAKER_00 40:07

There's still a lot of stuff to fill out. Mine doesn't have a lot. It doesn't.

SPEAKER_03 40:09

It's it's name, date, phone number, venue. That's it.

SPEAKER_00 40:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 40:14

Got it. Maybe maybe there's how you how you heard about us. That that would make a lot of sense. So yeah, I agree. It's a little much, but I mean, not too much. But I do like the iPad idea of just something they can do right there. Already listed to that. Sitting on a cocktail table. Yeah. That could work too. Yeah. All right. The screen that we're using now is touch screen. Yeah. That's a great thing. That's what I bought this for, really. For the way it shows.

SPEAKER_00 40:38

I definitely would if I could go back, I would do that. Yeah. I think that's a win-win. Yeah. Well, let's hit the question and then let's let's wrap it. Question of the day.

SPEAKER_03 40:51

Uh, our boy Richie Steadman. Shout out Richie Steadman. Best DJ in Utah. Best DJ in Utah. What a company name. What a great company name. What are you reading? What are you changing? What are your goals? And what does 2026 have in store for each of you? Well, I know what you're reading, which is about nothing. To be fair, I did uh because I'm going on a trip today, uh, download a new James Patterson book. I only read uh like trashy murder mystery type shit.

SPEAKER_00 41:17

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_03 41:18

I I if I had a guess, it won't get read until I go to the a beach and sit on it and read it. I don't think I'll read it.

SPEAKER_00 41:24

So we're like uh what, two weeks into the year? Have you and Randy had your meeting?

SPEAKER_03 41:28

No meeting yet. I my intentions are to have a meeting with you about all the stuff podcast, yeah. Life, uh, customer experience. And then I have a uh meeting with Randy, what went well, what didn't go so well, yeah, what DJs are performing well, etc. And I don't really have goals necessarily in terms of monetary. I I feel like the only thing that I'm super focused on right now is a new thing that I'm not ready to talk about yet. And then for Bund gear, I I need to get that company stable, you know, and I've had supply chain issues and fulfillment issues, and who's making it and where are we making it?

SPEAKER_00 42:10

And why do you keep flip-flopping? Tariffs, uh most of there is like like uh time timelines, you know. So like it's just not when you say it's not stable, why is it the the people you're picking aren't like uh are you trying to I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 42:26

At the end of the day, man, it's just the industry, it is very difficult to make anything in the United States. Okay. I'm I'm sorry. I don't I if you're in manufacturing, you can contradict me, but I I guarantee people that are if anybody listens to this that is making something in mass, it is very difficult to do in the United States. Hence why everybody goes to China, Vietnam, right, uh Mexico. I don't care. Mexico. Yeah, South America. I don't care.

SPEAKER_00 42:50

It's it's it is so when you're talking about stability, you're talking about just supply chain.

SPEAKER_03 42:55

Supply China's been incredible to me, man. That factory's been great, the product is unbelievable. I can't tell one from the other. Okay, I make it right here in the United States ten minutes from here, or if I make it in China and comes over on a ship, I can't put them side by side and tell you which came from which. Ever. Not once have I been able to. The quality's there, it just takes a long time to get here. So speaking of taking a long time to you have to plan accordingly.

SPEAKER_00 43:22

So speaking of taking a long time to get here, three weeks ago, yeah, we talked about this cart. The command center cart. So you want to clear the air on that or where are we at with it?

SPEAKER_03 43:31

Uh I mean, I thought we were gonna be able to make it in the United States because it was not as complicated. And to drop in January. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 43:38

Right.

unknown 43:39

Nah. Nah.

SPEAKER_03 43:40

Price wasn't right, turnaround time wasn't right. Oh, well, well, I can make it, but I can't get the casters for it. I can make it, but then you got to take it somewhere else, get it powder coated. It's just so what's the timeline? Are you even doing it? Absolutely. It's being made now. I would say they'll be here first week of March.

SPEAKER_00 43:57

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 43:57

So you along with the new quad pods, which are the stands that hold the tube lights.

SPEAKER_00 44:02

And your strategy the last time we talked was you're not going to put anything on the website until you have it in the inventory. Is that still the case? Or are you pre-order?

SPEAKER_03 44:09

I think so. Or if I know it's in the ocean and like on the way here and they're done, and I've gotten one of them and seen it and been like, I love this thing, then I might go pre-sale. But I need to have like a a one of the batch that's being made. Right. I just, man, as much as I love America and as much as I wanted it to work here, it just it doesn't. Sorry. Like I it not for me at least. So it's not a goal, but you'd say 2026 has I need to make I need to that company needs to grow seven figures. That needs to be a million dollar company. In one year. Yeah. And that's not preposterous. We're we're three. That's not profit, that's revenue. Yeah, gross revenue. Gross revenue. It needs to be seven figures. Yeah. We're three quarters of the way there. Yeah. We need to we need to cross that threshold.

SPEAKER_00 44:52

Right.

SPEAKER_03 44:53

For people to take the company serious to ever sell it.

SPEAKER_00 44:56

And is your goal? What about distribution? Do you think you can just do it directly? You need to get some partners involved, like man, the margins get messed up, man.

SPEAKER_03 45:04

I guitar center wanted to take it on.

SPEAKER_00 45:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 45:06

You know, they were they would have sold it for us, but man, the margin just it doesn't make any sense.

SPEAKER_00 45:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 45:10

I mean, yeah, they'd move some product, but I mean what and are those even players anymore? I'm talking more like online retailers. Amazon. I think they're players. I mean, Amazon would be the same thing. It's just margin, man. They're just gonna take too much of the money.

SPEAKER_00 45:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 45:23

It's gotta be B2C, man. And that's why what and and I don't we don't make a ton of money on these things. You know what I mean? Like it's gotta be business to consumer.

SPEAKER_00 45:32

Got it.

SPEAKER_03 45:32

You want it, it's at bungear.com. Please go buy it there. There is no other, there is no other place to buy it, quite frankly.

SPEAKER_00 45:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 45:40

So that's for me. Uh I that that I'm hyper focused on that company right now.

SPEAKER_00 45:45

What about you? I think we talked about this on a previous episode for me, but I need to make some new relationships. And uh so I'm that's kind of my focus this year is to like go after some um new inroads. Not and I'm not even talking about weddings necessarily. I mean, I actually just want to get out of the wedding business as my primary and do other ones. So I actually I just I started before the year kicked off, but I have gone into a micro segment of the corporate world with medical software companies.

SPEAKER_03 46:17

Yeah, you were telling me that.

SPEAKER_00 46:18

And it's booked my January. In fact, this this um person who's kind of helped me make these connections has said your September, you will not be home the whole month because that's when we pull, that's when we have our fourth quarter kind of kickoffs and stuff. She's like, these are during the week, by the way. Yeah, these are not weekend joke shows. So we're testing this uh right now. I've got a show actually Thursday in DC. So I'm gonna do that. And then um, what else? And then the week after I'm in Fort Lauderdale. Same company, same company. Yeah, week after that, I'm in Coronado, California. So I've got these filled my January. Yeah. In addition to already had three weddings. Yeah. So I'm you're busy. So I'm busy. So I'm really hoping that these take off.

SPEAKER_03 46:58

Shout out and shout out that medical company.

Vetting Shows, Lead Quality, And Forms

SPEAKER_00 47:01

Yeah, and I don't know. We'll see if they'll I mean I my goal is that hopefully, you know, they they lead to other inroads in that same industry. Yeah, it's very niche, yeah, but could be good. So that's kind of my goal.

SPEAKER_03 47:12

You know, again, it's the same thing. It kind of it kind of leads me back to that, you know, the whole Epic Games thing, which by the way, I've had have I've salvaged the show. You know, the convention center burnt down and that's right. Then I was gonna get you to do it, and then I just finally was like, I gotta change my plans and do this show because they were started to talk about bringing in some buckface from California I've never heard of. And I'm like, I can't lose this Epic Games account. Like, but I kind of think or thought that that was gonna lead to more things that haven't. Yeah, that it hasn't.

SPEAKER_00 47:44

Well, you get that you've been with them for so long, you gotta keep them.

SPEAKER_03 47:47

I gotta I gotta take care of my people though, man. Yeah, you know, it's just it's it's those recurring corporate clients are outstanding. Yeah. Yeah. Totally. Yeah. What's at the gear corner? I know this is a long one. This is where I'm hungry. The gear's here. The gear.

SPEAKER_01 48:07

Is here, is here, is here, is here, is here, is here, is here, is here, is here.

SPEAKER_00 48:11

So we gotta we gotta shout out Sean's signs, I think is his name.

SPEAKER_03 48:16

Yeah, okay, okay. According to Sean's signs or scenes, in the UK, gear is cocaine.

SPEAKER_00 48:23

So when we say the gear is here, it's here, we're saying the cocaine is here for apparently.

SPEAKER_03 48:29

It's it is not here, people. There's no coke here.

SPEAKER_00 48:34

So if you've been watching from the UK or listening, we we are not a cocaine distributor.

SPEAKER_03 48:38

When we talk about beach music and the dance shagging, we're not talking about humping. Because I know shagging does not mean a dance that they do in the south. In the UK, it means humping. Yeah. Shaggy.

SPEAKER_00 48:52

So here's my piece for the for the for the segment here. This is a multi-charger 3.0. Wow. Look at that premium.

SPEAKER_03 49:01

That is a lot of USBs, people.

SPEAKER_00 49:03

And a lot of different types. Yeah. So not just C, A, bunch of different ones. Fast charging.

SPEAKER_03 49:08

No, fast charger, Ricky. Wow.

SPEAKER_00 49:11

I was looking for something I could just plug in and not have to bring anything too thick.

SPEAKER_03 49:14

Right.

SPEAKER_00 49:15

So this is, I don't even know what the brand is.

SPEAKER_03 49:18

I love the way you leave the cellopane skin on stuff.

SPEAKER_00 49:20

Yeah, I don't like that to get scratched up. Yeah. I don't like to get scratched up. There's no case. All I want to do is take it off. I know, I know, I know.

SPEAKER_03 49:25

He's like, don't do it. What do you think? This is uh$29.99.

SPEAKER_00 49:29

That is$21.99. Okay. Okay. But I don't know. It's just a good one. It's small enough. I wish it would be more compact. Yeah. I wish this thing would like uh recess in or something like that. The plug, because I hate it when they hit bend or whatever. Right. But I've used it on this last trip. It was great. And uh it's a good one. So I think the fast charging is the orange, maybe. Maybe I'm not too sure. Uh, but it does have a fast charging one, and you can do multiple things, including your computer, into it as well.

SPEAKER_03 49:57

All at once.

SPEAKER_00 49:57

So all at once. So highly recommend it if you're looking for it. I'll have the link in the newsletter that goes out.

SPEAKER_03 50:04

And under the YouTube video.

SPEAKER_00 50:06

Yeah, if we can do that. Cool. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 50:07

Love it.

SPEAKER_00 50:08

Let's uh close this out.

SPEAKER_03 50:09

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