#57 - DJ Marcus Being Marcus

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SPEAKER_00 0:00

Today's podcast is brought to you by Zapotis Grill at 904 Papico Highway. They've been proudly serving the Florence community for many years. And don't forget, they are also proud members of the Florence Foodie Club. They are partners of ours, meaning that when you show them your Florence Foodie Club membership card, you receive a 10% discount on your ticket price. Mr. Marcus, we go pretty far back.

SPEAKER_04 0:21

Man, we go way back. Matter of fact, this is dedicated to Swole. This whole meet, this whole podcast today is dedicated to Swole, our barber, um, loss of life. This is how we met up. And um, golly, 20 years. Yeah, it's been over 20 years, man. Uh, yeah, absolutely. Easily.

SPEAKER_00 0:48

Easily more than that, really.

SPEAKER_04 0:50

Yeah, we we go back to swole. We go back to Madden Challenge. Yeah. Yeah, we go back back.

SPEAKER_00 0:56

So that was really where I remembered, and that was the that was the first thing that I was going to ask. Let's do this before we get ahead. Okay. Just for the audience, give a little bio and background. Who you are, where you're from, what you do.

SPEAKER_04 1:06

Okay. My name is Marcus Evans. But in the DJ world now, since I'm a DJ, they call me Marcus B. Marcus. Um, born and raised in Hartsville, South Carolina, but lived in Florence for the past 25 years. If you know me, you know me from a lot of things. You know me from the Madden Challenge tournament. I am the OG, the originator. You know me from fundraisers I've done with Heart Association and Cancer Society. You know me as a baseball coach. And now you know me as a DJ. All right.

SPEAKER_00 1:42

Quite an extensive resume.

SPEAKER_04 1:44

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:45

Oh yeah. So go, all right. So now going back to that, uh, and out and the streak continues. We're on a barber streak because we had my barber, James Clark, uh, from Pete's barber shop. That's right. And which is where I ended up landing after I'm not gonna get into that. People that listen to the show every week, like, man, we got to hear this story again for the third week in a row. But finding a barber has to be the right fit, you know? Correct. And so um, with Swole's unfortunate passing, that, like many of us, left us on the search for a barber chair, and uh that led me to James. So we had him on a couple weeks ago. Then we had Trey Witt from The Remedy on last week, and now we got an episode dedicated to Swole today, you know? So it's like the barber theme continues. But um, yeah, that was definitely a while back. But where I specifically remembered you from was the Madden Challenge. So tell people what that was, they wouldn't know.

SPEAKER_04 2:39

Okay, so if you are a video gamer, the Madden Challenge is basically a tournament playing the video game. And back in the 90s and 2000s, it finally made it mainstream. Before we had the game and leads and everything else, Madden Challenges was it. And so I thought how cool it would be to bring it to Florence and make it happen. And it started at the very bottom. Remember the very first one we did it over at the old holiday inn on 52. Now Claire. I didn't even know about that. That was the very first one. We had 30 people show up, and I was like, man, we gotta do it bigger and better. So we took it over to the mall, and every year from the mall, it got bigger and bigger and better before that last one where we had the Vipers and the Gangcock and the Tiger and everything. It was crazy. Had the Bobcat cheerleaders, had Panther cheerleaders. It just turned into one big, one big circus, man. It was fun.

SPEAKER_00 3:44

It was pretty awesome. So for a little context, um I I grew up a video game player, but all I ever play is sports games. Right. And particularly Madden, particularly football was always really been my go-to. And I would uh people that don't know the culture of that whole thing, we would we would gamble money. Um, you know, we would bet money on the games. You can't use the word gamble. I get in trouble using the word gamble in South Carolina frequently. Let me stop with that word. We didn't gamble, we would put a friendly wager on the game. We would take a chance. We'll take a chance. A friendly wager, you know, just a chance, an opportunity to see what money is Monopoly style, yeah exactly. And um, it's funny, man. I was I was in quite a few of these rooms, and I would always advance. It seemed like I would always make it pretty deep, but never win. I never won out of one of them. So I'd always I'd always get deep into it and then lose to somebody. Unfortunately. And that's what happened. I did I did the uh tournament at the mall two or three times, and same thing happened.

SPEAKER_04 4:47

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 4:48

I think I think I got through the first round every time that I came out there, maybe even the second round, but I never I never got to the finals.

SPEAKER_04 4:55

But you realize when once you play in that type of element, it makes your video game knowledge rise a little bit. It pushes you to that next level because you're in front of friends and family, you know, you got eyes watching you, like everybody's walking around the mall. They see what's going on. It's a real competition.

unknown 5:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 5:17

So um video game world, just check it out. All I can tell people to do, check it out. Try it for yourself. Check out some of these tournaments, man. They're awesome. These guys can really ball.

SPEAKER_00 5:29

It was a ton of fun, honestly. It was. So what what I was thinking about this, though. What would it take? It don't have to be the exact same thing, but what would be the potential of something like that making a return?

SPEAKER_04 5:43

Trust me, I thought about it. I I thought about it plenty of times. Um the biggest challenges that you face when you do this, one, you got to have the equipment to do it. Yeah. The equipment from the TVs to the games to the to the systems, um, that's like the biggest obstacle first. And then the second obstacle is the location. And then once you get past those two, long as you had as long as you have a venue and long as you have the equipment, you can really do whatever. But I think the biggest challenge that we faced was how society is today, man. Like, society today is so different. I had a I had to the lat the last tournament, I had people steal video games and controllers. And that's part of the reason why I was like, man, I'm kind of done with this, because it it kind of puts my my other clients, like Best Buy was my number one client for the consoles and stuff. It put STEM at risk. And then I lose money off of it because this is supposed to be a not not-for-profit fundraiser. And um it kind of took the love out of it for a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 6:57

I didn't know that. Yeah, that I could see that. That's a problem, man. Don't steal stuff. Just you know what I'm saying, get a job and work hard. You'd be surprised how much money you can make.

SPEAKER_04 7:07

I know.

SPEAKER_00 7:07

And what you could buy.

SPEAKER_04 7:09

That's true. It's crazy, man, but that that's really what happened at the end. It just it became a liability.

SPEAKER_00 7:18

Makes sense. So it stayed on this video game topic for a second. Have you seen that the uh there's been a lot of conversation about this lately? You probably know what I'm about to say, but the the the all digital consoles was coming next. So I think 2028, the PlayStation, what are we on now? Six.

SPEAKER_04 7:34

We're on five. We're on five.

SPEAKER_00 7:37

We're on five?

SPEAKER_04 7:38

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 7:38

Okay. Okay, I done lost count. I thought I had a PlayStation 5 at the house, so I got a PlayStation 4.

SPEAKER_04 7:44

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 7:44

Okay. But anyways, we gotta um that just goes to tell you, I don't I don't play like I used to at this point. If I went in one of those tournaments now, I'd I'd be out in the first round. I'd get smoked. I can beat my son occasionally, uh, and that's about it. But um, anyways, the new console is gonna be all digital, so there's not gonna be any physical media. This has been an ongoing conversation with the advent of streaming services like Netflix and Hulu and Amazon Prime and all of that. We don't have DVDs anymore. In fact, uh, a lot of times people aren't even using books anymore, but now it's hit the video game world. And um, you already could buy digital versions of games. Some games there was only digital. I think the NASCAR game that came out last year was only digital on PlayStation, if I'm correct. And uh this is a problem. If we're gonna open this conversation, I want to get your take. I want to let you take it because I know you you know where to go with it. But I'll say something first. I saw a like a montage video on Facebook this morning. I almost cried, I almost shed a tear. It was so just uh sentimental to me. But it showed this, and uh, I hadn't thought about this aspect of it, but it said, man, they're taking away our memories. You know, no, it didn't. It said that they're they're taking this away, but they can't take away our memories. So it was like home videos with some little emotional music playing in the background of all these kids from all different generations. I'm I'm talking about going back to like Super Nintendo or Nintendo, these videos. And uh, they're opening their their games on Christmas morning. Yep. Now, as a parent, the video game is one of the easiest gifts for me to get. Hope my sons don't see this. This is one of the easiest of gifts for me to give for the kids at Christmas because it's relatively cheap in comparison to a lot of things these days. 50, 60 bucks, and whatever that game is that's come out that they've been wanting anywhere in the fourth or third quarter of the year, I can buy that, stash it away, wrap it up, and it's gonna steal the show. That or a pair of sneakers, they're gonna be so excited about it. Can't do that now. So I'm thinking, I'm like, this morning, I'm like, dang, what am I gonna do? Like, like, would I like take a like a flyer at a game and wrap it in something and then say, we're gonna download this for you this morning? I mean, you could still do that, they'd still be excited, but it's not the same.

SPEAKER_04 9:58

Right.

SPEAKER_00 9:58

So there's a sentimental disappointment in this that there's there's no more physical media, but there's also a financial issue with it. And I know you've probably already thought this through. Oh, I'm I'm ready for this one. Go ahead. Do you take it?

SPEAKER_04 10:13

All right, so first things first. We go back to back back to like the 90s and 2000s where we miss out on the release parties. The simple, the simplest thing of staying up till 12 o'clock midnight, to go to GameStop, yeah, to wait in line, to hang out with everybody, hang out with all the gamers and just network, where you miss all of that stuff. Um, you talk about Christmas, you talk about special occasions, they what the kids look forward to, that's not gonna happen no more. The biggest concern that I have is that once they go streaming, they control that. So if by any chance they want to stop at any point in time and say, look, we're done, we're gonna lose all the games.

SPEAKER_00 11:04

Yeah. So a couple things. One, I think we won't even have a GameStop. How does GameStop continue to, based on their business model, continue to function over the next few years after this happened? So this is the other thing that I was explaining to my kids. There's something called the resale market. All right. So a lot of times, like say a game will come out and they I you we might not buy it on the initial release, but it might be a game they might have interest in, or whatever the case is. You go purchase a game a few months after it's come out, then you can get a used copy of the game, and it's much cheaper. There's games right now that work that you would like to play if they're in your genre that you can go to GameStop and purchase for 15 bucks. That's correct. That game was originally $60. Now I've learned something from watching the PlayStation Store. For whatever reason, they don't put these games on sale very frequently. Some games seem to never go on sale.

SPEAKER_04 12:07

Correct.

SPEAKER_00 12:08

So, like, um it could be a sports game. It's like uh like say 2K comes out. If you wait till about the trade deadline of the NBA season, the game's much cheaper. Correct. Or the NHL game. After the trade deadline, the game's much cheaper because the season's almost over.

SPEAKER_04 12:22

Like the uh the college, uh, not college football, but the uh FIFA FIFA game during the World Cup, the game went down to 20 bucks.

SPEAKER_00 12:31

Yeah. So, so you know, you can go buy uh, and then they could put them on sale in the digital copies as well, but it doesn't seem to happen as frequently. But really, what I'm getting at is the used copies, though, especially particularly that. Right. They don't seem to put stuff on sale as much, and some of that might come down to the particular stores. They might they might run a promotion, but if you take them out of the equation, you all you have are these digital versions, and you're at the mercy of one entity of whenever there's a sale, you don't have any used copies, period. This is the biggest problem. There's twofold. That means A, you can't go buy a used copy of a game for cheaper. You'll never you literally cannot do it now. Nope. But secondly, you can't ever get any of your money back. So if I I'm, you know, my kids they'll stop playing games. Then they want a new game. You know how many times I've gone to GameStop, and you go up there and take uh three or four of the games they don't play anymore because the new Spider-Man game has come out or the Wolverine game's coming up or whatever, and they really want it, so you're gonna get it for Christmas. And uh you go up there, take three or four games, and you get like $23 back. That's money back in your pocket. You apply that towards the game, and now the $60 game is $37 or whatever. That's gone. There is no more of that. You will pay $60 for each one of those games. You'll get none of that money back, and you're gonna pay $60 for the game that you're going to get. And by the way, guess what else? If you change, if you have two consoles in the house, so like we do. We got one, you know, the kids have a console, and then we got one downstairs uh for everybody else to use if they want to. You got to buy an individual digital copy for both of those consoles. So now a $60 investment is a $120 investment if you want that game on multiple consoles.

SPEAKER_04 14:16

Yeah, that's that's where they're making their money at. It's robbery. It's robbery. It's absolute robbery. It's unfortunate. Like, I can't take my game and say, hey, I'm gonna let my friend borrow it. Nope. All that's gone. All that's gone. So I I understand why Sony's doing it. It's a smart strategy for them, but for the actual consumer and what we normally deal with, this is this is not a win for us. And then um I I and then what some of these games and what they're trying to do now, especially with today with the college football game and the drama that's going on with that right now.

SPEAKER_00 15:01

Um where What's the drama going on with that right now?

SPEAKER_04 15:04

So college football got released last week, last Wednesday. The pre-release. The full release is Friday, right? Full release is Friday, but I was glad. That's right, all day. Um, but yeah, I've been playing it since Wednesday. Okay. So Road to Glory Dynasty Mode.

unknown 15:22

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_04 15:24

So last year you had XPs that you game per game to upgrade your player and upgrade your coach.

SPEAKER_00 15:31

Don't tell me you gotta buy them now.

SPEAKER_04 15:33

Now you gotta buy them.

SPEAKER_00 15:36

I refuse. I just won't have any XP. Offline. Nah. You got to buy.

unknown 15:42

Nah.

SPEAKER_00 15:43

I refuse to do that.

SPEAKER_04 15:44

No. Even one of the one of the top gamers came out this week and said, nah, that's not gonna fly.

SPEAKER_00 15:53

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_04 15:54

Yeah, that's what they're doing.

SPEAKER_00 15:55

That's greed, man. Yeah. It's really what it is. Yeah. I get it. You know, I understand business, but at a certain point you gotta have some kind of ethics about you. Like, come on now.

SPEAKER_04 16:04

But see, I could understand if it was NBA 2K, where you taking, you playing on my player and you constantly playing, you constantly developing. But in college, how many years you got in college? Three to four, three to four? Maybe now five. Yeah, okay, maybe. Yeah, but the new rule, maybe you can do five. But uh after that, you go to NFL. So, all that money you spent, you're gonna spend $100 to upgrade your player for four years?

SPEAKER_00 16:36

I already gave you $60 for the game. Exactly. I can't get my money back for it. I gotta buy another copy if I got two PlayStations in the house, and you're gonna charge me to build my fake character up on the game? That's not right. No. If I'm gonna pay you another $100, I should get faster in real life. Then I might consider it. But man, I got I got exponentially faster when I paid that $100.

SPEAKER_04 16:57

They are so greedy right now.

SPEAKER_00 16:59

It's sad. It's ridiculous. It's sad. They've already done this, but the music industry's been like this. Correct. And a lot of people don't think about it. My mind goes places. You know, I'm a big picture thinker and I think about the future and stuff frequently. And I've thought about this many times. There's so many songs that are so nostalgic to me, you know, like um my own stuff. There's so much different music that one day you might want to hear a song. And in a post-apocalyptic world where everything was digital and streamed, I don't have any way. If I had a Walkman from 1994 or a device like that that was modern, but it was functional, and I got my CDs, you know, my dad had this big record collection. Thousands of records, I think, seemingly. It was it was a lot of records. I ended up selling them. Um I piecemealed some of them, but I ended up selling the rest of the collection to a guy down in Myrtle Beach. I hope you're enjoying those if you see this. But um, I just couldn't, I didn't have the storage for them, and it was, it was just felt like the thing to do. But um I grew up in that, a music room, CDs everywhere and vinyl records everywhere. And I understand that in a post-apocalyptic world, and your song comes to your mind and be like, man, I'd really like to hear that Bobby Brown song, but you can't. You just gotta play it in your head. You have no way to access it because all this stuff has been destroyed in such a world, and you don't have a simple tape or CD or something that you can put in and play.

SPEAKER_04 18:25

Right.

SPEAKER_00 18:25

You you got to go to your phone. That's terrible. We could lose all that culture and history overnight in the wrong situation the further away that we get from physical media.

SPEAKER_04 18:37

That's one of the crazy. That's one of the crazy things about DJing that people are talking about now that, you know, we're not taking crates and all this vinyl no more. Put everything on a hard hard drive.

SPEAKER_00 18:50

Which it saves space. Part of me, I kind of like that. I don't like hoarding. Like I like, I like space. I don't like stuff all on top of me, but but this component of it's a problem. I'll tell you something else crazy that I saw on this note, because maybe, you know, in such a world, things could be recreated. I saw a video where I didn't even know this was a thing. I didn't I don't under I don't I still don't I watched the video, I watched them do it, and I still don't understand the technology on this. I'm like, how do they do that? They took uh there's somebody out there on the social media world that knows how to um take these uh they're like wax tubes or something that the music way back in the day, talking about physical media, one some of the original physical media similar to a record. You put a needle on it, it's the same same type of concept. I know I probably sound a real ignorant right now, just bear with me. Okay. But basically, they um this needle writes the information in the wax, and then you put the needle on, play it back, and it'll play it. Yeah. Dude took a Biggie Smalls record and played it through this tube and had it write it out and then played it back. And this was music technology from like the 20s, I think. And so when you heard it played back, well, it was like the weirdest thing in the world. If you had looked that video up, if you had it.

SPEAKER_04 20:07

I looked that up because I know I did see a video of Jazzy Jeff creating his own wax.

SPEAKER_00 20:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 20:15

Actually, he created his own vinyl. I seen that. I haven't seen the biggie one yet, so I'll I'll look that one up.

SPEAKER_00 20:21

It was super weird because it sounds like what you would think it sounds like. It sounds like Biggie Small's record, I forgot what song it was, from like the 1920s or 10s or something. It's strange. It's super strange. He fed it in and then fed it back out.

SPEAKER_04 20:39

Very weird. And that makes that makes me think about all the AI stuff that's going on, too, which is crazy. That's another topic.

SPEAKER_00 20:45

We're another topic. So you but you take that uh 20s biggie and play it at a club that's see how that goes over. Oh, God. So tell us a little bit about the the DJing game. Like how'd you get into it and then kind of how does it work? Now I got a question about the technology too.

SPEAKER_04 21:01

Well, how I got started was actually kind of weird. Um back even back back in the back in the days, I always was infatuated, infatuated by the DJs and how they did what they did. Uh my mentor, DJ Kid Jay, I hope you're watching. Uh, I used to be in Dynamite all the time watching him and how he just a random white dude just coming out playing just nasty hip hop, like 90s hip hop. It was like, dude, and uh I was just floored and I got I got caught up into the essence of not just the music, but the true meaning of a DJ. And what what does a DJ do? And I So what is that? So the true the true essence of a DJ the DJ is like, yes, you got the MC who rocks the crowd. He he he's the he's the he's the headliner, but back in the nineties Your DJ is just supporting you as the MC. Because your DJ sets the tone. Your DJ is the maestro. He he he leads everything. And to go to clubs, back in the day, you you would go to a club because who's the DJ there? If it was, of course, B-Lore, if it was Skills, if it was like old school DJ Tad, DJ Fox, you know, if those guys were DJing, you went for the DJ. Because you knew that DJ style fits you. You know, and like, and shout out to DJ Skills, shout out to DJ Styles, shout out to Voodoo Chow, and shout out to Phenom. Those guys that I just called out, they take you for journeys. And they take you for journeys in different ways. And the biggest thing about being a DJ, a DJ is supposed to make a person feel. And it's kind of hard to make a person feel today with the type of music that's being played today. That's why a lot of DJs play a lot of the older 90s and 2000s tracks because Why do you think that is? Those songs got soul and those songs have feel. I'm gonna give you a prime example. Songs like Back That Up, songs like uh This is How We Do It, songs like Staying Alive, those songs stand the test of time. Like we still play. Songs like Waka Flocca, like Waka Flocca still got four hits, three or four hits that he we still play today, that still rock, and he's still getting paid for it. Why? Those songs have soul, those songs have feeling, those songs have longevity. Have you heard a track that you feel today that 20 years from now you'll still hear it?

SPEAKER_00 23:56

No, I don't. Well, I guess the question I got is why do you think that is? What's missing?

SPEAKER_04 24:04

What's missing?

SPEAKER_00 24:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 24:06

I think a lot of things that are missing today is really gonna be based off of the musical, the music side of the game, and what the record companies are willing to let let go. Where their mindset's at. I don't think that they I think it's a microwave society right now. I think they just pull people out there and say, okay, we're gonna throw them out there and let him do something. And you know that they're rapping or they're singing with no substance, but you're trying to find a trend that's gonna hit an algorithm. You're not trying to find a trend that will hit a soul. So um that's the reason why I feel today female RB is where it's at right now. Those ladies are dropping tracks with soul, they're dropping set tracks that are gonna last for a while. You know, that folder track, that track hits, and it you can feel it. She was talking about something. You know, the you you won't have too many albums like the Usher Confessions album or the Mary J. Blige My Life album, like that no more. It's hard, it's hard to replicate that. Uh, you know, to today, you're talking about the hip-hop game. The song that I listen to the most, I know everybody listens to Spin That, and that's each it's each their own. But I'm listening to T.I.'s Pistol on the Dance Floor because he took an old school keep sweat track, Don't Stop Your Love, and remade it and put his flow on it, and it it feels authentic. It makes me feel something.

SPEAKER_00 25:44

All the old heads like us is so excited about TI's reemerges as well.

SPEAKER_04 25:49

Exactly, exactly. It's like I said, same thing about music, it's the same thing goes with DJs. We gotta make you feel something. And that I think that's what a lot of the music game is missing right now is the feel.

SPEAKER_00 26:03

Yeah, it's definitely different. My son uh was in the car the other day, and I said, because we've been working on our own stuff, we'll take a plug real quick, a shameless plug, too. This was the idea behind the Lynch's Rivers song that we put out, or the P. D. Bridge song that uh Tootie Fry Bologna, he had an alias change that we put out a couple weeks ago, but it was to something you could relate to. You know what I mean? Something that meant something to you. It wasn't just you know catchy or whatever. Right. So hopefully we accomplished that. But um, in doing some of these things, just going back and listening to some different things and thinking stylistically about stuff, and I asked my son, I said, one thing I haven't done is listen to anything from your generation. I haven't even attempted to do that. I said, tell me something that's popular right now, spend that. And um, I'll go play it. Well, that wasn't what he gave me, and I'd have to go back through my history and look at what it was, and I can't remember anything about it. I should tell you everything you need to know right there. But I was trying to think who it was. Um, I can't remember. I'm not gonna sit here and dead air us trying to figure it out, but um, you know, it didn't do anything. I I didn't know, but I didn't even know how to approach it. I'm just kind of like, I don't know. Like when you heard some of these older people, somebody that has caught my attention lately, because like I said, just listening to stuff from and you know researching different styles and just thinking through things, trying to say, look, what could we do creatively? Somebody that popped up in my algorithm was Ludacris.

SPEAKER_04 27:30

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 27:30

And Ludacris just did the freestyle with the um the TIB. Yeah. But I I went back and I was I I texted a friend of mine and I said, You realize like Luda, I didn't really thought about it until now. But I know the, and I'm I'm gonna be honest, I'm a lot removed from the scene at this point for years now. So, you know, I'm out of the loop on some things, but I know that the versus culture is very popular right now. And it's taking these old artist catalogs and putting them head to head. And I called my friend, I voice messaged him and I said, you know, really thinking about this, I don't think there's many people out there that could really go toe-to-toe with Ludacris as far as hit records goes.

SPEAKER_04 28:11

No.

SPEAKER_00 28:12

But he was so unique and comical in the things he did, he kind of was in his own vein. But now being older and thinking back through it, I'm like, man, the the talent level uh and what he was able to accomplish and what he brings to the table almost not very seldom matched, I'll put it that way.

SPEAKER_04 28:29

It's kind of hard to figure out who you would put Ludacris with. Toe-to-toe. Because Ludacris could go toe-to-toe with some of the best. He can go toe-to-toe with Nelly. He can go toe-to-toe. Easily. He can go toe-to-toe with Wayne. Now, now Wayne got way more hits, but if you're talking by the criteria of versus which is your best 25, Luda can drop, Luda can drop a strong 20. Easy. And even some of the deep cuts are are strong bangers. Um people under underestimate Luda because they they tend to forget how good of a freestyle MC he really is, and how he delivers. Once again, it's all about I'm going back to the feel part. It's really about feel. When you heard Ludacris do the TI remix, you felt every bit, every verse of it. Like you couldn't help but when he started with the skirt down to the 500k, you felt every every bit of it. That that was just a classic, classic case of freestyling at his best. And not too many people can do it, like Luda.

SPEAKER_00 29:56

That was my point. So, like, who now, going back to what we were on, like that level of creativity and character? Because to me, and I'm I probably just sound like the old guy in the room now, but it's like man, all this stuff sounds the exact same. Like my son even said that. To be fair, to me, he said that at 15. He was like, I'm gonna be honest, all this stuff sounds the same. He said, I'm gonna try to find you something that sounds a little different. He said, because it all sounds the same. I'm like, when Luda was out, and even now, nobody sounded like him. He was unique. Somebody else that was really popular from our day would be DMX, it's like a Hall of Famer. If you really listen to DMX's lyrics and um and his del his like uh his his rhythm, you know, his cadence, his style, not that complicated. There's nothing really complex. His writing was some of the most simple bars that you could really write stylistically. It's not complicated writing, but his character and delivery and the depth of what he was trying to communicate in a lot of it, he tried to take you somewhere, you know what I mean? Some sometimes not somewhere good for the record. That's true. But I'm just saying that his character that he brought is really what made him, and his delivery is what made him shine.

SPEAKER_04 31:07

I'll say it like this here. So when you talk about character, you have to do it in two ways. You have to talk about the artist, and you have to talk about the producer. Because the producer is a big part of the production. So from an artist standpoint, character-wise, and I have to marry both of them. Artist, Missy Elliott, producer, Timberland.

unknown 31:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 31:32

That that's that's what that's what we miss. We we miss somebody that would do some totally off-the-wall sidebar stuff. We miss Buster Rhymes when he was in his creative mode. He he's he's he's a little more calmed down now. But back when in the 90s, Buster was Buster.

SPEAKER_00 31:52

Mystical was in that vein.

SPEAKER_04 31:54

Mystical was in that vein. Um who's in that vein today from a producer standpoint? Pharrell. God. The new the new little baby. That new little baby track is sick. That that production, Pharrell's production in 2026 has been impeccable. Started with the clips album last year, going all the way up to this year, everything that he's touched, it's just production goal.

SPEAKER_00 32:28

Yes, it's key. So going back to it, just because you mentioned it, I'll I'll plug something else. But if you if you go to the record that we put out, Sammy and the Food is Time to Eat, uh, the I Could Lose Weight Track, I was actually doing the RD trying to come up with just some ideas, and that was one of the last ones that was recorded uh in here for that record, and it was um Superfly was actually the inspiration for that track. So we sailed in Timberland. I was watching, I was like trying to think through different stuff from my childhood, and I was looking at that video and I was like, man, this one was crazy. You know, this was so hilarious at the time, and it was so captivating. It was the track, it was the lyrics, it was the style delivery, it was the video with the big goofy suit and all that. Like everything about it was so interesting, and that so when we went and started trying to like create something, that's exactly the track that that was inspired from.

SPEAKER_04 33:20

How during your creative part of producing your album, when you actually found the lanes that you wanted to do, how fun was it to try to put yourself out there and say, okay, I need my mind clear. I want to figure out how I want to deliver the track. How was that process for you?

SPEAKER_00 33:42

This is why we did it. It was really just I I figured, I told my wife this. I said, We're, you know, I'm getting to the age now where the runway is getting short to do anything like this and it'd be reasonable, you know. So we got probably not that much more time to do a project like this, and I'd like to do it. And we did it all over the place intentionally. So there's country music on there, there's a heavily hip-hop album, uh, and then there's some other off like random, like 80s style synthwave stuff on there, which is really some of my favorite stuff, honestly. The cheesesteak song, you uh comment on. I don't know what you would classify that as. I don't know if that's a hip-hop RB fusion or what it is, but that's one of my favorite ones, also. But uh me and and Tootie for that, for that matter, too, just um, you know, just wanting to be creative, really just have fun with it. That was the whole thing. I say it on the record. I said, look, people might be confused. Why are y'all doing music? We're having a good time, man. We hopefully you are too. If you listen to it, hopefully you enjoy it. But that's that was really it. It was just something to have fun and see what we could come up with.

SPEAKER_04 34:42

That's the whole purpose, man. If you if you're not having fun, why the world are you doing it?

SPEAKER_00 34:48

Yeah. And to your point, I think a lot of the music now, I'm sound like the old head, but I think a lot of music nowadays is um what's an appropriate civilized word? Uh not appealing. No. So I said, well, let's try to give you something, something different. And so we made an album centered around food. I don't know, I've heard anybody do that. I'm I'm sure somebody has somewhere, but that's that's really like the common theme of the whole record, and just take different different concepts and styles and but center it around food, though. And local, our our local culture too.

SPEAKER_04 35:19

That's why if you if you hear me mix, if you hear me mix at home, nine times ten, I'm in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s bag. It's very seldom I'll play like current songs of today, unless it's like if it's popping right now and I'm gonna feel it for a little bit, then I might play it. Other than that, old school stuff.

SPEAKER_00 35:38

It's all wash. So we we were at, so and I want to talk. We, you know, you're a baseball guy. We were at the Florence Flamingos All-Star game last night, and uh it was a good time. They did a drone show afterwards, that was really awesome. So shout out to Mitchell and them and whoever put that together because it's really cool. But um, I was I had a couple with me that are from Europe. Okay. So the the guy's from England and um the young lady that he's uh probably maybe soon to be married to. I don't know. We'll see. I don't know. I don't know anything. But either way, they uh she's from Austria and they're over here doing some mission type work and some internship. And so I took them to the baseball game. The young lady is never her name's Belinda. She had never even seen a baseball game ever. Never seen baseball. The guy, Liam, he um he's he's familiar with the sport a little bit, but I was asked him questions, it's kind of a side tangent conversation, but I said, Do y'all even get baseball in England on TV? He said, Not at all, none. Literally zero. There is no baseball. And I kind of knew that subconsciously, but hearing him say it was kind of mind-blowing to me. I was like, wow. But uh while we were sitting there, there was a few different old school tracks playing Southern Rock stuff. And I told you I come up with this eclectic background. My dad with all these records, I've seen Greg Allman twice. I've seen Tom Petty guy rest his soul. Also, all these guys are dead now. It's kind of depressing. But um, I've seen Tom Petty up in Raleigh uh back in like the late 90s. And um, so you know, I just got a diverse background and appreciation for music. But even with that, and to your point, the 80s, 90s, early 2000s. So whether you're talking hip-hop, RB, I would even say pop music. Right, that's kind of like the peak, you know, and it's kind of been to me downhill since then. Um, but with the rock and roll, it was the same thing, it just goes back a little bit further. So, and some people would probably even say the 50s. I can't testify that I don't know much about it. But I think this, you know, in the 50s there was um a lot that you know people look fondly on. But in the 60s, 70s, and some of the stuff that was playing last night, I was thinking about this.

SPEAKER_04 37:45

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 37:45

I'm like, man, we really peaked because the talent level with some of those guys on the guitar, these were live bands, and they would go out there and they'd do these jam sessions. Some of these bands like the Almond Brothers are a great example. Them boys would play, you got Greg on the keyboard, the old organ that he would play on, and um they they they run one track for like 30 minutes. I mean, it's like crazy, man. But the skill level and the talent, um, it's some of that's you just got these simple riffs, and then they're then you know, it's just repetitive. They cycle them and it's over. It's just not the same as it used to be.

SPEAKER_04 38:22

Let me break it down like this here. For all my music lovers out there, you know, there's nothing better than watching live bands go to work. I don't care if it's a hip-hop concert, a rock concert, the best concert I've ever seen was this year, was Bruno Mars concert. Everybody played musicians, everybody was musicianists, everybody played an instrument. Those concerts are the best concerts. Because it once again, it's it's feel. The whole thing comes back to feel. And to see these these musicians go out there and just let it rip, especially, you know, somebody on a microphone, somebody do a drum solo. That's the best feel in the world.

SPEAKER_00 39:09

It's real, real music. Real music. So it's I don't know, you know. I I always say it, I say it a lot. I said it on the last episode. We the 90s was the peak of human civilization. I just think it was. Well, unfortunately.

SPEAKER_04 39:23

Not just that, look at how much competition you had in the music game in all genres, from from your hip-hop genre, which was heavyweights, your your pop genre, you had the Backstreet Boys in NSYNC, and then you had 98 degrees. 98 degrees, like old time. Hansen brothers, Hansen, you you had so much so much. Um in the pop, in the pop genre, in the country genre. Yeah. Um, you still had a little bit of rock then. Like, I mean, you had um you had Nirvana, you you had you had so much.

SPEAKER_00 39:59

Rage Against the Machine.

SPEAKER_04 40:00

Yeah, yeah, Metallica. You had uh had corn, like you had so much to listen to. And today it's just not the same.

SPEAKER_00 40:11

It's weird. So I I got a question about so when you're DJing, you're taking especially when you're crossing over these different songs, and they may even cross, they may even cross genres. One thing that I couple things that I've always found so impressive listening to DJs, and I never understood because I'm not familiar with the equipment at all. I don't even know how it works, but um just whenever one, somebody that could scratch well, I always like that. Even so if I like to have a hip-hop song and somebody incorporate that into the record, some scratching and mixing, I always just like that that sound, that feature. So that's one element. I think a lot of people think of the scratching, but the actual merging and blending of songs. So a lot of times y'all will take uh you'll like you'll be playing a song and you'll be mixing it and doing your thing. You got your next song lined up and it'll blend in, but the vocals will start to come in from the other song onto this one. How in the world, how do y'all make that work? So is there like a setting where you set the BPM and Okay, so I'm asking secrets of the game right now, possibly, but I don't understand how that happens.

SPEAKER_04 41:15

So basically, when you're DJing music, you want to make sure that the BPMs are the same. And you want to make sure the beats are lined up. One of the first things I learned how to do when I DJed, I learned how to transition. And that that that was that was more key to me than scratching because I won't be able to go from one track to the next. So the key of that was making sure that I drop the next song on the beat match. Matching the matching the beats are both songs. Make sure they line up and then let it rip. So today, how things are set up, today we have new technology called stems. So stems is four buttons. One is for the vocals, melody, bass, and drums. I can hit one of the buttons, I can take one of those elements off. So I can turn any song into an instrumental. So, like if so, if somebody comes to me and say, hey, I want to do karaoke. I don't have the karaoke screen, but if you know the lyrics, I can take any song and make it karaoke. And now if I feel like you're struggling to um catch up to the song, I'll just bring the vocals back in for a little bit so you know where you're at and then take the vocals back off.

SPEAKER_00 42:34

Nice.

SPEAKER_04 42:35

So, so a lot of a lot of the things that you see, especially if you watch my live, you see me do this a lot. What you're saying, I do that a lot. I will take a song literally and be like, okay, I like how this beat sounds to this song. Especially a country song. I will mess a country song up. Don't, don't, and don't care. I will mess it up. But it it just uh I want I like different sounds. I'm like, I'm kind of like the old movie Pitch Perfect. Yeah, you know, where it where you had the girl that just she was very futuristic in mashups. And I love, I love a good mashup. I love I love to make a song have a different body to it. You know, I love taking um, I think one of the best ones I love playing for people at weddings is the one where we go Alabama Dixon Land Delight, and then when it when the hook starts, I'm dropping in Biggie. Everybody looks at me like, you did that? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, with I'm letting you know this is gonna be a different part of the night. So it always it always sets a tone. Always.

SPEAKER_00 43:47

I see that uh from your social media is just you have a very diverse audience, basically. It's like you're getting booked to a variety of different places.

SPEAKER_04 43:55

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 43:56

What's your favorite type of event to DJ?

SPEAKER_04 43:58

Weddings.

SPEAKER_00 43:59

I figured you were gonna say.

SPEAKER_04 44:00

Weddings. Weddings are it. Like, uh here's why. Because weddings, you got one shot to make a special moment happen. And um, I take pride in that. I take pride, I take pride in seeing the bride and groom, all their visions come to life. And it's so much fun because you meet a great group of people, dynamics. You meet like like this weekend, I did a I did a destination wedding in North Carolina, and it was white and Jamaican. So we were mixing country with with Jamaican. It was crazy. So, so it it was whatever you get, you get you get to find out something about the couples that are together. You get to find out what music choices they like, and then your job is to go out there and see if you can take these things and just put together and put your own spin on it.

SPEAKER_00 45:00

Okay. Well, it definitely sounds like DJ and's opening a lot of doors for you, and it's been a success. It's been going well.

SPEAKER_04 45:07

Man, it's been a blessing, man.

SPEAKER_00 45:08

I applaud that, man. You know, stepping out and trying to, I think we all, you know, or I can't say all, I guess, but a lot of us have this thing in our heart that, you know, it'd like to kind of not only just get out of the rat race, but kind of just make your own terms, you know what I mean? Yeah. Um, you know, it's a it's a blessing and a privilege to be able to do that. And it looks like you're getting that opportunity, so I commend you on that.

SPEAKER_04 45:31

Man, I appreciate it, man. We both, we I I said this earlier off the record, but me and Sam have come a long way. And um to sit there and be at the barbershop and be at the video, be at the Madden Challenge and say, 20 years from now we'll be doing this. I I I'll probably say, No, ain't no way. Not me. I don't know about you, but not me. I mean, I'm just I'm content doing what I'm doing, but you know, to to be able to, for me personally, be given the second chance at, you know, life. And you know, for my for my son to be my focus, you know, uh there's a lot of if there's a lot of things that happened in my life where if I didn't have my son with me, I don't know where I'd be at right now, to tell you the truth. So he's been like the primary driver of, you know, where I'm at now. And then to cap it off, to have a strong wife, a strong supporter, and my wife Sandra beside me. And, you know, she was the first one to really take this DJ career and say, you know what? I hear you at home, I believe in you. And the first thing she did for me, she bought my first major controller. And then she told me, you gotta look the part, you gotta, you gotta look like you're a DJ. And I took that and ran with it. Literally, I ran with it. And um, so I can't thank both of them enough for just driving me to be the man I am today.

SPEAKER_00 47:08

Yeah. I can relate to that a lot too. Uh, there's a lot of people don't understand, you know, there's a lot of riskness. When you start DJing, you're not getting paid. You know, like there's not money coming in when you're starting out trying to do something, and you're going into a landscape that's basically like jumping out of the airplane and looking for the parachute later and just hoping, you know, or believing it'll pop up at some point. But I believe we're gonna be all right. And it's the same way with a lot of these things. You're just you're taking a risk, trying to be creative, and you don't know how you're gonna get received. Everybody's a critic these days, so you know what I'm saying? Like you almost felt you go into a harsh landscape wherever you're gonna be received or not. But um, I just have a great respect for people, and I think you have to have this to do what you've done. I know we have to do what we've done, where it's like, I don't really care. You know, I'm gonna I'm gonna take a risk on something. I mean, like, what's the worst case scenario? Y'all gonna laugh at me like I don't or not pay attention to it, then so be it. We could always fall back and work a job, you know? That's right. So um, but this it is a job, it's a lot of work. So not to say that it's not, but um, anyways, I'm just glad to see you're having success with it. I follow you on social media and see the events, uh, the live streams. So I'm gonna give you a chance at the end. And for the audience, I'm gonna give Marcus a chance at the end, just plug where everybody can find you, your social medias and all that. So we'll get that before we close up. Before we do, though, you know that every episode we have to talk some food. Let's do it. So I'm gonna ask you, I'm gonna jump right to it. Okay. This is our Florence Foodies favorite Florence food items segment presented by Zapata's Grill. And the question is name a few. You can name one particular thing, but you welcome name as many as you like. Things that you like to eat when you go out to eat with you or with you and your family in Florence County.

SPEAKER_04 48:51

In Florence County. So I go ahead and tell everybody Kneechiwa is a staple in my house. Like, look, we love sushi, we love our Kenichiwa. Um shout out to my friends at Angry Chicken. Honestly, by far, some of the most consistent chicken I've ever had. Chicken, seafood, between Angry Chicken and Um and Taco Yaki. Those those that's that's family for me. So um I always support them. Um I went that I did a full review last week. I don't know if you've seen it or not. I didn't see it. Shout out to EDK and Catering. I went there and I actually I seen them on TikTok. I seen I seen a lot of people post about it. I said, I'm gonna go try them out. And um I tried out their big plate with the sub sandwich and the burger and then the hot dog and the loaded fries. I was like, oh yeah, that hits.

SPEAKER_00 49:56

I saw a post from them literally before we came in here. Like, like go check them out. It was uh, it was I think it was it says smoked turkey and mac and cheese. I don't know if that was smoked turkey and mac and cheese, or if it was smoked turkey, mac and cheese. I'm not sure. But um the images, it looked good though. I was like, man, I I've been over there a few times, but I don't I was like, I need to get back over there.

SPEAKER_04 50:17

Oh yeah, it is it's solid. Um I'm gonna give a shout out, even though they're not open anymore. Shout out to Jazz on Dargan. And the reason why I shout them out, their collard green egg rolls was sick. Yeah, don't don't laugh at me when I say that. Collard green egg rolls. Oh, yeah, that's a thing. That's a staple. Staple. Um I think the the biggest thing with Florence, I want to see. I want to see, I don't want to see the same stuff over. I want to see more diversity.

SPEAKER_00 50:52

Right.

SPEAKER_04 50:52

You know, I you know, I understand we're bringing in another um Chipotle. I get it. I want to see Kava. I want to see culvers. I want I w I want to Culvers would be nice. Kava, culvers. I I I want to see something different. You know, I want I want to I want us to expand our our food a little bit, you know. You know, try give me a Jamaican joint so I can get some oxtails. Like, like let's let's expand a little bit, Florence. Uh that that's my challenge to Florence. Expand.

SPEAKER_00 51:25

Have you uh have you been to Tootsie's Everything Waffle in Quimby?

SPEAKER_04 51:29

I haven't yet. I've seen I I've seen I'm going to check her out because I've seen her video too.

SPEAKER_00 51:34

So I went last week and I got um, it's to your point, because I was looking at the menu, and you know, I'm looking for things that are different too. Like it's the same, it's the same space that we're talking about. These these restaurant owners, there's a lot of overlap. It's the same thing. Whether you're DJing the different things that we're doing, or if you're a restaurant owner with a menu, you really should be or could be, you know, maybe some people's model is to stick to a particular lane that everybody knows. But a lot of times there's a benefit trying to be creative. You're trying to be creative and put things together in the kitchen, come up with something. So I'm looking for, all right, what are they doing creatively here? And um I was gonna get fish and grits anyways. I kind of made my mind up when I first looked at the menu, but I said, let me look through this. They have the grant, it's like grandma's favorite or grandma's classic, something like that. It's grandma's. It's the same thing. It's grits, then it's got their collards on it, and then it's got your choice of meat. And you could do fried chicken, fried fish, shrimp. This is my favorite. You could do oxtails or turkey wings on the grits. And so I was kind of like get pulled towards the turkey wing aspect, but I was like, I'd already made my mind up to do the uh fish. They got oxtails. They're not just yeah.

SPEAKER_04 52:47

Okay, okay, yep.

SPEAKER_00 52:48

It's all from the joint, but it's not coming. You should. So it's not just um, it's not just um grits on this dish though. These are sweet potato grits. That was what jumped out to me because everybody does grits. Okay. And immediately I understood, I was like, yeah, okay, I could see how you could do that, but I've never heard it. And maybe it's maybe people do that all over the place. Have you ever heard of sweet potato grits? I hadn't.

SPEAKER_04 53:11

Two seasons I'm coming.

SPEAKER_00 53:12

That's all that's all I need to say. I'm coming. I wouldn't sit in here and put on for them if it wasn't true because they're not, at this current moment in time, at least, a Florence Foodie Club partner, okay? So this isn't me plugging anything. Taco Yaki and Angry Chicken are you mentioned them, shameless plug. You receive a discount if you're a Florence Foodie Club member by showing your car to Taco Yaki or Angry Chicken. Make sure you sign up today if you have not already. Lucy Waffle is not a partner, and I'm still plugging for them heavy because I'm telling you, I knew when I walked through the door and I started talking to Courtney. She was behind the bar working. I knew it was gonna be excellent. Then I looked at the menu. So I'm gonna say this. I posted it the other day. I'm telling you now that I think the name is misleading and the location is obviously it's in Quimby, so that'll throw you off, but Quimby's not that far.

SPEAKER_04 53:55

Okay, let me tell everybody something.

SPEAKER_00 53:58

Certified banger.

SPEAKER_04 53:59

Certified certified banger, okay. Okay, that means I'm going. Okay. There's a lot of companies, a lot of businesses that's been in the same spot as Tootsie's. And they all been good. We just gotta support it. That's all to it. We gotta support it. Because one one of my boys used to be there back in the day, and he had a barbecue spot there. And he had them barbecue balls. Barbecue balls. Oh God shout out to Toby. Um he made his barbecue ball. A barbecue bomb. Okay. So it was I'll never forget this. It was uh pulled pork, it was uh chicken bug with sausage wrapped up in a ball, fried, fried, and then she put drizzles and barbecue sauce on top of it.

SPEAKER_00 54:58

Well, okay, I don't see how that could be bad.

SPEAKER_04 55:01

Brother, that that slaps. That's slaps. I'm I'm I'm Toby, I miss you, man. Um, but yeah, everybody that's been in that spot, they they have a successful business, but the problem is people hadn't come out there to support it because it's at Quimby. It's a tough location, tough location. Um but it's it's kind of sort of like, and I I'm I'm gonna put in a plug too for um the cinema. And and shout out to KP. Um the reason why I plug him because I was talking I was talking about him earlier this week, where I said for a lot of businesses, a lot of people like to complain about where a venue is located at, but they don't look at it from an ownership standpoint where look, I got opportunities.

unknown 55:54

Correct.

SPEAKER_04 55:54

And I'm gonna maximize it no matter if I'm at the prime location or I'm at a bad location, I'm gonna maximize the opportunity. So I salute any business that's actually trying to put themselves out, toopsies cinema, that's gonna say, hey, I'm here. It's your choice to show up. Maybe I maybe I'm not a fit for you, but at the end of the day, I'm gonna put my best foot forward and let you know that I'm here. And um, that's big. So Tupsies are coming.

SPEAKER_00 56:25

That's an important part of it. When you go out there, you'll see that. That's people don't often you're right, understand that part of business, you gotta take an opportunity. Same thing with this studio. We talked about that before we sat down. You got to work with what you can get your hands on, and then, you know, God willing, you're having success because the key is your product and your presentation and your character and your service and all of that. That's right. Then money will come in and you can upgrade your systems. Probably the same thing with DJing. You might have to start off with one board, but you you really working hard and putting out a good product, and you're blessed in that regard for your hard work, and you upgrade it, and your presentation increases.

SPEAKER_04 56:58

You'll be amazed how I got started. You'll be amazed. It's it's crazy, it's crazy how you brought that up. This is how I got started. I followed Eddie George. Eddie George, the football player.

SPEAKER_00 57:13

I was about to say the football player.

SPEAKER_04 57:14

Okay. So there was a there was a video of him getting to know Eddie George outside of football. And one of the things that Eddie George did was DJ.

SPEAKER_03 57:25

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 57:26

I never forgot that. And the day that I seen that was the day that I actually picked up my computer, my old desktop, and I downloaded free software. I downloaded virtual DJ, and then I started downloading tracks. This was back in 2014. And so from 2014 to 2020, I would just do it as a hobby at home, just messing around, clicking on buttons, didn't have a controller, didn't have headphones. That's how I learned how to transition. I learned how to read wave patterns. Then during COVID, it's the official launch of Marcus being Marcus as a DJ. So what ended up happening was a friend of mine hit me up on TikTok and was like, I need a mix for a walk. I said, I'll do it for you. I'll do it on TikTok so you can hear it. Because I was already doing it as a hobby. So I started promoting on TikTok me just labbing at the house like I normally do. It was a hobby. It wasn't supposed to be serious. It fell in my lap. And then I had somebody that kept watching me like, would you DJ my son's birthday party? And that what started everything else. So the very first event I had, I brought my whole entire desktop with me. Keyboard, the mouse, the big old monitor, and all. I brought it all with me. And then my my speakers, shout out to Francis Mirror Recreation, where I used to be the president at the baseball field. I borrowed a PA system and plugged it into the headphone jack. And that's how I got the sound to come out. That's how I got started. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 59:16

Yeah. That's usually how it goes. People don't, you know, people come in later and they don't understand. Like, you know, if you're able to get to that place what people would define as success, it's like, man, usually the origin story is not, nobody just handed it to you and gave you a setup. Like, no, we had to start with what we could work with and try try to do our best.

SPEAKER_04 59:36

My first laptop was given to me by my uncle, uncle-in-law for 50 bucks. And my first my first board was given to me by my boy Jake Weatherford. He had an old board. He like, man, I see what you're doing. I want you to work with something. So he actually gave me his old board, and that's how I got started, man. It's just a it's just a slow progress. And you know, I didn't rush it. The biggest thing I'm proud of, I didn't rush the process. Yeah. I stayed true to it and um keep elevating.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:07

Well, you're making a lot of progress, and I can see that. Um, so I congratulate you on that. And so why don't you do this? We'll we'll land the plane, but take a couple minutes and just let everybody know where they can find you at. If you want to book Marcus, uh, we'll definitely put all of his contact information down in the description, down in the show notes. Why don't you go ahead and take a second and plug everywhere that you're at?

SPEAKER_04 1:00:26

Well, first thing first, thank you for having me on your show, man. I'm proud of you. Proud to call your brother too, man. So so y'all y'all make sure you keep checking Sammy out. But you can find me on TikTok under Marcus BMMarcus. Same thing on Instagram as Marcus BM Marcus. And then on Facebook, Sounds by Marcus Evans. I'm live every Wednesday night from 8 to 10 p.m. with the Marcus B Marcus show. Live on On the Beat Radio. That's on the beat247.com is the website. Or you can listen to us on two apps, either the Live 365 app or the Get Me Radio app, and just search on the beat radio. That mix is played not just on Wednesday, but a repeat is played on Saturday night at 8 p.m. as well. Also on On The Beat Radio, I do two other mixes for them. I do a ride out mix every Wednesday around 6 o'clock p.m. on the same radio station. And this is a 30-minute freestyle mix where I just have fun and um just really try to get y'all home on the JOB. And then on Tuesday nights, about 10, about 11 o'clock, there's a show on the beat radio called The Fancy Crown, Crown and Truth Show. And so during that show, the the the boss, Fancy, she actually talks about real real life issues, about dating, about life, and how what men and women go through. But then she actually asked me to produce a 15-minute mix called the Quickie Mix. And it is what it is. It's a 15-minute mix for the lovers, significant others, and side pieces all around the world to get their quickie on. That's right. Side pieces need love too. And um, I just tried to find some love songs, just set the move for that show. And um, anything else, um, I'll go live wherever I go. So if I do a wedding, nine times ten, I will be live. If I'm not live, you'll see a 360 camera version of it later on. And uh I just like to show you guys where I'm going and how what I'm doing, different types of events that I work with. I I do weddings, I do uh private events, I do corporate events. Um I got a lot a lot of things coming up in the future. So God's been good, man. So let's keep this train rolling.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:53

All right. Well, there you go. And again, I'll have his information down in the description and show notes so you can find all those links. Um, Marcus, I appreciate it. Appreciate you. We might have to work together on a Florence Foodie's collaboration of some sort. Maybe we can resurrect some kind of tournament, like a one-off or something. We might have to see.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:09

We got to see.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:10

Maybe a college tournament, you know? We gotta see. Might be able to get you on the sticks in that tournament. You know, my stick game's still good. I think that'd be pretty cool. I still play. We might have to see what we can come up with, see if we can create some kind of event, have a good time.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:27

I I'm I'm I'm ready to bring it back. I'll be honest with you. I'm ready to bring Madden back. I am. I think I think Florence deserves another Madden tournament.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:37

Well, who knows? Maybe that'd be something that could happen.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:40

You never We'll see. We'll see. If the right, if the right people, if you're listening, you want to be a part of it. Um, and if you want a charity that wants to be a part of it too, I'm I'm down to listen. So if if somebody wants to make it happen, if if we figure that if it's I don't care if it's the ice cats, I don't care if it's the civic center, I don't care if it's uh Magnolia Mall, if somebody wants to do it, let's make it happen.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:08

All right. Well, there you have it. Marcus, I appreciate you. Hey, appreciate it, man. As always, we appreciate y'all. God willing to see you.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:17

I couldn't lose weight, but I'd rather have the plate. I couldn't lose weight. Couldn't lose weight.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:28

Tacos Maria. Prepared for me with Deregita. My attire is always player, but I don't dip in dabble like Urban My Lad. I stay in my lane like Kyle Larson, and just get to the cheese like Micah Parsons. I probably make me a play the taco yaki. Escape to the right like I'm playing hockey. I probably check someone to pay them off.