From Casual Gigs to Big Dreams

Have you ever wondered what it takes to transform a casual get-together into an unforgettable event? Join us on this lively episode of Blue Slide Serenade as we recount our thrilling Havana Night experiences, where our passion for DJing, MCing, photo booth magic, and balloon decor turned a simple gathering into a spectacular celebration. We also share the joy of our spontaneous gigs at Off the Rails, comparing the laid-back vibe to the meticulous planning and execution required for our larger events, giving you an insider’s view of the hustle behind the scenes.

Ever faced the frustrations of dental care or the everyday irritations of road rage? We open up about our personal struggles, from navigating the costly and complicated world of dental health to enduring the maddening moments caused by others' inconsiderate behavior. Beyond these day-to-day challenges, we look at the bigger picture, discussing the importance of social media for our business, the exciting potential of hiring additional staff, and the dynamics within the DJ community—highlighting both the supportive collaborations and the occasional envy that comes with it.

Balancing the fun and the serious, we explore broader societal issues like rising energy costs and the impact of electric vehicles. We also touch on lighter moments, from our fascination with pop culture and beloved YouTube personalities to the excitement surrounding Anderson Paak and the Free Nationals' tour. We wrap up by reflecting on the importance of charity, our practical approach to spending, and our unwavering commitment to growing this podcast. Whether you’re here for the laughs, the insights, or a break from daily stress, this episode promises to deliver a rich, engaging conversation.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:05

hey let's go groovy.

Speaker 2: 0:15

What's up, y'all? Blue slide serenade. It's been a couple weeks since we've been able to get together on our personal little podcast. The uh most Dope Podcast has been pretty consistent. We need to knock this one out and get back on track with it. Busy lives will do that to you.

Speaker 1: 0:37

Yes.

Speaker 2: 0:38

So Blue Slide Serenade basically a podcast about me and Marion, our life, our businesses, our adventures, struggles, hilarious moments you know, whatever it may be, Everything and anything in between Two hosts Gordie B me Gordon and.

Speaker 1: 1:04

Queen B.

Speaker 2: 1:06

Marion. All right, so episode overview of today's episode is going to be just life updates, personal stories, business spotlight. We'll go over recent DJing, mc, photo booth, balloon decor, gigs, challenges, tips and tricks. We might be able to enlighten anybody with things that are going on in the industry DJing, mcing, photo booths, balloon decor, current events, pop culture, movies, music, things of that nature. So we're going to go ahead and jump right in Life events and personal stories, recent events, recent events.

Speaker 2: 1:59

I guess one of our biggest recent events is Havana Night. No, um, number three. Yes, havana night number three. It could be number two, uh, because the first one was kind of an impromptu. Hey, let's get together tomorrow and let's see how many people we can get out here and see if we can make this make sense. And it did so. We jumped into a havana night too, went all out, decor, leds, balloons, photo booths, um, we had a singer, yeah, a couple d, a whole lot of dancers, and then, this last event, we had a dancer, shiva, I believe her name was. She's Iranian, so she's Iranian, moved out to Ventura County and now I believe they're in Kern County and I think they have a dance studio here or they're're involved in the community with, you know, dancing and all of that nature. We've had a couple one-off things a little birthday party here and there, graduation party here and there, quite a few photo booths going out and one of the bigger ones again right up there next to Havana, off the rails.

Speaker 1: 3:23

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 3:24

You know we got to go hang out with Becca and I think his name's Anthony, her husband. Yeah, tony Anthony Got to hang out over there, took a photo booth over there, spun some reggae, some afro beats, some mashups, some hip-hop slash reggae mashups. Just a good time overall. Good time overall. Which one was your favorite event?

Speaker 1: 3:56

They all have like this little different about them, right.

Speaker 2: 4:00

Their little uniquenesses.

Speaker 1: 4:01

Their uniqueness and the people. And you know, I think with Off the Rails was fun because it wasn't so stressful.

Speaker 2: 4:15

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 4:16

Where things need to get done and we have to do this and that, and over there we just got to be ourselves and enjoy it, enjoy the people and have a drink, and it was nice.

Speaker 2: 4:29

Yeah, hang out, hang out. Everybody loved the music. We had a few people come out and support us Oscar and his wife, adam and his wife, had a few people come out hang out support. But that is an interesting thing, you know, when we go to off the rails, jerry's, you know things like that. It's, it's not quote, unquote our event. We don't own the event per se, we just perform.

Speaker 1: 5:00

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 5:01

And or provide a service, and or provide a service, whereas with 1933, havana night, we are working all day, our tail's off. I am having to take a Friday off of work, I'm having to take PTO, so I'm missing a whole day of work, that income, which is pretty significant.

Speaker 1: 5:24

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 5:25

You know not to toot my own horn. Beep pretty significant. Yeah, you know not to toot my own horn. Beat beat. Yeah, you know, and you know, thankfully we're in a place that I can do that right, so it's not a big deal.

Speaker 1: 5:37

And don't get me wrong Havana nights I have a great time, it's a wonderful night, but by the time 1.30 hits we're out.

Speaker 2: 5:46

We don't even break down.

Speaker 2: 5:47

No, we're out yeah, we leave, we bounce. So normally we're there at um 1933, at about 11 am, 12 pm. We're there all the way till about 5 30 pm. We gotta go pick up the girls. If it's our weekend with our girls um, rush back home, jump in the shower. Yeah, get well, you have to. You know it takes me like two minutes to get ready. You know a shower, what is it? Shit, shower and shave the three s's I don't shave, so uh, shit and shower, which everybody does, and that's what I have to do he doesn't even have to pick out his clothes what do?

Speaker 1: 6:26

you mean.

Speaker 2: 6:27

I mean you don't pick them out. I mean, look, I'm easy, I can just wear shorts and a t-shirt, jeans and a t-shirt, I don't. But you know what? Uh, this last Havana, we really um up to the professionalism, if you will. Yeah, like we went out there suited and booted, we were dressed to impress. It was a professional, very, very, very professional event. I think we had 250, about 250 in attendance.

Speaker 2: 7:00

We did pretty well. But yeah, going back to what you were saying, that is an entire event and experience that we are doing and we are setting up. It is five hours of setup between the both of us, Five hours with you, five hours with me. Go pick up the girls, get home, get them situated, get them settled in.

Speaker 1: 7:22

Make sure they're fed.

Speaker 2: 7:23

Yeah, everything's good, and then head back to 1933. Yeah, um, so there's about an hour and a half two hour period where we go from 1933 out to go, you know, take care of business, then back to 1933 at like 8 pm or you know whatever, because the social dance portion, all right, no, I don't think it's the social dance, it's the intro dance, their free class that they do. That starts at nine on the dot, and this last Friday, this last Havana Friday, we probably had a hundred people already at nine on the dot, between people getting in there trying to catch a seat and people wanting to go do the intro class by default right away. 100 people. Yeah, now, everybody knows, you know, people show up later, right, fashionably late. That's why that saying exists Fashionably late, because people are that. That. That's why that saying exists Fashionably late, because people are going to show up at 10, 30, 11, 11, 30. But even by then we had 200 people, yeah.

Speaker 2: 8:35

So the next goal with Havana is we have a lot of growth that we're looking at. We're looking at more talent singers, dancers, whoever might want to come out and showcase their skills, their talents, their abilities. We're going to do some techie stuff. We got our photo booths that are going to be. If anybody's rented our photo booths before, just to give you a brief glimpse, if you haven't. There's several different functions on them. You can take a photo in successions of four, so if you hit photo, it'll have you take four different pictures.

Speaker 2: 9:18

If you do GIF, it'll do a GIF. If you do boomerang, it'll do a boomerang. And that's about where we leave it. There's other options to do some other things here and there, but I think those three are the biggest ones and cover most things. Well, after you take those, you'll be presenting an option to SMS immediately. So you click the SMS button, you put your phone number in and it texts you your media, your pictures, your gifts, your boomerangs, immediately. Well, we have integration now that we will be live streaming those pictures and gifts and boomerangs throughout the evening, live as the evening unfolds, on all the projectors in 1933. So you know people are going to have fun with it. I think People are going to go take pictures and come back inside and just wait till they see their picture on the TV.

Speaker 1: 10:15

That'll be fun.

Speaker 2: 10:16

It'll be fun. It'll be a lot of fun. And we have some other stuff. We won't go too far deep into it, but we have other things that we're working on. And we have some other stuff. We won't go too far deep into it, but we have other things that we're working on. Less than 24 hours after the last event, we have already started planning the next. We already have the post out there. We have the event out there. We're trying to invite people. We would love it if anybody could comment like, share post, tell your coworkers, tell your family, tell your friends. I think the next major goal is going to be 300, which I truly believe will hit 300 July 26th, and we're going to keep growing it. We've got a lot of work to do on it and we're having a lot of fun with it, so that's a nice touch.

Speaker 2: 11:05

Uh, so we definitely we got to shout out everybody that has come out and supported us. Uh, rented our booths, uh, rented our lights, um, anything. Uh came out and simply supported it. Havana night came out and supported it off the rails. Like I said, oscar and his wife, adam and his wife, um, and those are. Those are busy individuals as well. Yeah, you know those. You know adam and oscar, very, very, very busy, yeah, um. And then you know, of course, off the rails, becca anthony uh having us out there, allowing us to uh come hang out, and, you know, provide some vibes, provide some music and uh, things of that nature 1933 and brian um russ, brie nate um lyle, security um everybody that's out there making that that possible, and obviously cns, you know carlos and stephanie yeah um, if it wasn't for carlos and stephanie?

Speaker 2: 12:10

I'm not even going to flatter myself or entertain myself, but havana night would not be happening without them oh no um, they are the meat and potatoes, if you will, for havana night yeah um, they have such a hold on the community, they have such an influence in the community, they have such a following in the community.

Speaker 2: 12:31

We're just blessed to be able to work with them and they have very, very similar work, ethics, ideas and things of that nature, and a vision, a vision for Havana Night, not just hey, this Friday, and that's it right. What's our vision? Our overall vision, our five-month plan, our nine-month plan, things down the road, but that's about the gist of business right now Challenges and wins. I think one of our biggest challenges, um I think it's time yeah, time is.

Speaker 2: 13:13

Time is a killer it's a huge challenge if we could clone ourselves, it would be so wonderful. However, that may be an opportunity right, I'm not going to complain about time and things of that nature, but that might be an opportunity to where we can hire a couple people, you know, provide a, an income for a couple people, for, you know, various projects, various things. Um, we're going to need a couple people for 1933, on j 26th. We're going to need somebody at the door and I'm not sure. I think we're going to need a couple people.

Speaker 1: 13:53

We'll see.

Speaker 2: 13:54

But we'll see Photo booths and props. Now, props you know I hate props. I mean I love them. They really set things apart, they enhance. You know they're fun, and I'm talking about PVC things that are not flimsy, things that are not going to get torn up too easily. Props just kind of I'm not real. I'm not a big fan of them. You know we order our props from Amazon or whoever. They're cheap. They're paper cutouts. I'm not a big fan of them. We order our props from Amazon or whoever. They're cheap. They're paper cutouts. You've got to glue the damn sticks to the props half the time. They come with little dots that don't work, so we hot glue every single one of them.

Speaker 2: 15:03

It's literally like a little factory hot gluing stuff, but they're super flimsy and they get torn up every single time and most of it is unruly little kids. Yeah, parents that uh are at some you know event that are just letting their kids run amok uh-huh and they're. Look, I'm not gonna say they're bad kids because they tore up a photo booth crop right. That doesn't mean you're a bad kid, but there might be a certain level of respect or appreciation or maturity. You know things.

Speaker 1: 15:38

You know that they might not necessarily have in their life yet yeah, but you know, it becomes a a teaching moment for the parent too, like, hey, respect people's stuff.

Speaker 2: 15:50

Yeah, yes, respect other people's property and equipment.

Speaker 1: 15:53

But then it makes you think too do we want to put more money into more expensive props when they're just going to be thrown?

Speaker 2: 16:02

Well, I think the PVC props are pretty durable, but they're definitely more expensive.

Speaker 2: 16:10

And here's the thing our price point on photo booths is borderline low, so it's not something that we're necessarily going to be providing yeah um, now, if you go with somebody else, use somebody else's photo booth and they want to provide props for you and they charge $600 or $700 for your event cool, but we're usually down at about $300 or $400. So props are not always going to be something that we're going to provide, something that we're going to dump money into, because we're on the low end already now. That's not to say that if you approach us and you ask us, I'm definitely going to dump money into because we're on the low end already now. It's not to say that if you approach us and you ask us, I'm I'm definitely going to entertain, I'm definitely going to quote you and I will definitely get those props for you, but there is an added cost to that yeah not only the cost, but you know time, which you know.

Speaker 2: 16:59

Time is also money. Um, other challenges in the industry DJing. Emceeing the next most dope podcast, we're going to talk about haters, if you will. That's kind of a childish term but it's just easier to use. There is a lot of quoteunquote hate in the DJ community Envy, insecurity, and I don't know if that's the entire DJ community around the world. I don't know if it's Kern County, I really don't know. But on the other end, we've worked with a lot of DJs that we have collabed with and that we do have great relationships with. We did a lot with Johnny and Marcy early on.

Speaker 2: 17:55

A whole lot with Johnny and Marcy. Shout out to OG Redeemed and DJ Wifey.

Speaker 1: 18:00

They're awesome yeah great people.

Speaker 2: 18:03

I love them and I really don't have a problem with anybody in the community. Um, because it, I hate to say it's not that serious to me. It's serious, you know, I love it and I take it seriously. Obviously I put a lot of work and time and passion and podcasts and and collaborating and things of that nature. Um, dj ace my boy, um dos muchos ill flow um nate yeah, nate.

Speaker 2: 18:36

Yeah, does nate have a dj name? I don't know. Is it just nathan antwine? Nate antwine now n-a-l nathan antwine something that Antwine. Now N-A-L Nathan Antwine something that's his company now, I don't think Nate has a quote, unquote DJ name, but I technically don't have much of one either. Gordy, everybody knows me as G. Everybody knows me as Gordy. My name is pretty simplistic. My name is pretty simplistic.

Speaker 1: 19:02

But you know what I love about our group that we're close to in the DJ community? They're all about us growing and us about them growing, oh you know what, and we're leaving a lot of people out. Yeah.

Speaker 2: 19:19

John Cota ASM Dance Floors. We got a trailer from John.

Speaker 1: 19:25

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 19:25

I mean, he hooked us up. I didn't have the credit, I didn't have the money right up front, but he trusted me, I trusted him and that transaction went through just as we planned. We wrote it up, we signed it, we did a contract, we did everything, did everything the right way, perfect. Then you're still talking about Rich, richie, rich.

Speaker 1: 19:46

Uh-huh.

Speaker 2: 19:46

Okay, rich is the one that introduced me to John Right. Rich is the one that has almost every DJ in this city. Go guest DJ spot at the Condors or at Chewy's or up at Eagle Mountain or wherever he's at. He's all about support and all of those things. Flex.

Speaker 2: 20:07

I got my s9 from flex my mixer came from flex um mario out on the coast, out in oxnard depeche mode. I got my 1200s from him right and I look anybody. I apologize, I've probably left quite a few out. Oh, I'm working. I've been talking with Cheeto, another another DJ. He does a lot of stuff down at the Mint and he's doing a lot of graphics. He has a lot of projectors. He has a sick little setup where he just has. He has shit everywhere like just graphics up on the walls and everything else. So I've been talking to him picking his brain.

Speaker 1: 20:49

Hey, I got a sick mix yeah, I was gonna say him yeah derrick has been instrumental for me personally, huge.

Speaker 2: 20:58

I have literally bought every single one of his music packs, every single one of his crates. I have bought every single one, I have every one. Above that, I was subscriber number one to his breaking bread foundation, his patreon account, which he uses to go, you know, help feed people up in the Bay Area.

Speaker 1: 21:22

Oh, that's awesome.

Speaker 2: 21:25

And I just talked to him this last week. I wanted to run it by him. You know we've been talking about it for a while, but I decided that I wanted to open up my own selfie store. I wanted to create my own crates and sell my own crates, my own intros and outros and things of that nature.

Speaker 1: 21:44

Yeah, and if you don't know something about my, about gordon, is he his files. All his music is absolutely clean, pristine, um. You won't see anything out of place, it's perfect perfect.

Speaker 2: 22:04

Everything's immaculate. I'm very OCD when it comes to my music and I'll tell you why Because I'm new. I'm fairly new and that's how I had to get started. I had to be organized. There's things that are going to go wrong when you go DJ places. I don't want one of those things to be something that I have control over. If something goes wrong somewhere, it's not going to be because of me, hopefully, right. So you want to set yourself up for success. You want to be organized and you want to set yourself up for success, but anyways, yeah, I was talking to Derek and I said hey, man, I just kind of wanted to run this by. You didn't necessarily have to, but out of respect for him, uh, you jeezy um and some of these other guys that have their selfi stores and all their crates and everything, um, but mostly sick mix, because, again, I own every single one of his crates um, I want to get his blessing, if you will yeah and he was cool as hell about it.

Speaker 2: 23:03

He's like yeah, man, for sure do it. And so I'm starting to work on some crates, intros, outros, and those will be up on the Selfie Store. I don't know if it's like 10 bucks a crate. You know 20 to 40 tracks or something, you know just whatever. For me, it's just another way for me to be more involved in the community. Like this podcast, like the most dope podcast, um, it's just a way for me to to get deeper into the culture yeah yeah.

Speaker 2: 23:41

So yeah, I. And look, I I'm again. I'm sure I left out a whole bunch of people, so I apologize. I'll try to get a nice little list running for the most dope podcast next week.

Speaker 2: 23:50

I'll try to get everybody shouted out. But again, I love you all, I appreciate you all. It's been a nice little, nice little run so far. That's business. That's business. What else, what else? We had to go to the dentist. Man, there ain't nothing like dental pain. I have a theory that your teeth and your nerves in your mouth are in such a such a close proximity to your central nervous system, aka your brain, that that little pain signal fires very quickly, very quickly. And look, I grew up poor. I grew up in Arvin, below middle class. I don't know that I would say poverty per se. We were okay in Arvin. Right, there was people that had it better. There was people that had it worse, not a big deal. But dental was not one of the priorities in the household. Right, that was a luxury, if you will.

Speaker 1: 25:04

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 25:06

Yeah, it's a luxury. So, anyways, I got some pretty bad teeth here and there and I still don't really take care of them as much as I should. Look, I floss multiple times a day, brush everything else. I think genetically I just might have some bad teeth, you know, I think people do yeah, I mean, your brother jesse, has perfect teeth yeah, right and he he doesn't have the perfect diet.

Speaker 1: 25:34

No, no. But growing up we always had to tell him brush your teeth, brother, brush your teeth. And every time I went to the dentist he was was cool.

Speaker 2: 25:43

He was cool. Yeah, I hate that yeah.

Speaker 2: 25:46

So, anyways, we finally get myself into the dentist up here. I won't even tell you what dentist it was, but it was over on this side of town Got in, they took all the images, all the x-rays, and I don't like the dentist. I think. I think a lot of people don't like the dentist per se, but I think I might have had a couple bad experiences at a younger age where I really don't. I don't trust them. You get that White Coast syndrome where your fucking blood pressure just shoots through the roof.

Speaker 1: 26:20

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 26:22

And which mine was like 170 or something, some crazy number right, like you're going to have a stroke or a heart attack range. Anyways, got it all. Got me out of the seat, went over to the office, sat down with somebody. She had these couple sheets printed out and she started going over it. Man, you're talking about sixteen thousand dollars and I'm like you gotta be fucking kidding me Like I work for Dignity Health.

Speaker 1: 26:53

We pay for insurance.

Speaker 2: 26:56

I have dental insurance, but I think dental insurance is almost a scam. I feel like dental insurance is almost like a healthcare spending account. They don't really cover anything. Needless to say, I will not be wasting money on dental insurance in the future. I will just use whatever money I was going to spend on dental insurance to take care of dental issues. I don't need a middleman to do what you're not going to cover for me. I don't need it. So anyways, yeah, that was a big negative.

Speaker 2: 27:31

so we shot down to mexico you know, um, down the five, straight down the five, which I prefer to the 805, to the eight. You know, your mom lives out in lemon grove, um, and then then we keep shooting out towards what is it? Calexico, uh-huh, get over to Calexico park, walk across.

Speaker 1: 27:59

To Mexicali To.

Speaker 2: 28:00

Mexicali Uber to the dentist. I got like three root canals done for $600, which is roughly 200 a piece, you know, plus whatever little fee here and there, maybe for like Novocaine or whatever they gave me for.

Speaker 2: 28:17

So I think it was like 700 total. We're going to go back down next Tuesday, got to get some more work done and hopefully, you know, one or two more trips and I'm I'm good, I'm caught up, I'm chill, but I'm good right now. I don't really have any too much pain or anything, and so that's good. Uh, we got the dentist.

Speaker 2: 28:39

Oh yeah, man coming back from the dentist oh god oh my god, I'm look, I'm in a foul mood, I'm probably just in a bad mood, and you get. You get to a point where you get tired of people feeling like people are inconsiderate or taking advantage or things of that nature.

Speaker 1: 29:00

So uh, you were in pain yeah, and I'm in pain.

Speaker 2: 29:03

Yeah, I'm not. I'm not pleasant, right. So we're driving, driving, driving, driving, and we decide to stop in uh, is it lions or castaic, castaic? And we go over to, um, the gas station what's that one called pilot, pilot, the pilot station or anybody that's been to the pilot station? They're, uh, single pumps through the parking lot. It's not like there's you, you know, four pumps on each side. There's literally one pump on each side of their island and they're packed, which is understandable. People travel.

Speaker 2: 29:40

So we, we just parked behind a vehicle that's parked to get gas, yet they're not getting gas. So now, at this point, I'm like, okay, look, man, you parked here, you're taking up a spot for people who actually need to get gas, just so you can go inside and buy some monsters and corn nuts or something right, like, look, there's other parking spots and this is not the right one for you. Look, there's other parking spots and this is not the right one for you. His boy was sitting outside on the passenger side of the vehicle, standing around, the gas door was open, but there was no pump in the vehicle, no gas actively being pumped, and I'm like, okay, well, somebody's going to come out and pump gas. Somebody had to go in and use cash.

Speaker 2: 30:32

You know, not everybody is a digital person. Yeah, so dude finally comes out and I haven't said a word to his boy or anybody and he starts pumping gas. It's like great, great, we're next right, no big deal, I'm glad I didn't say shit. You know, I'm in pain, I don't. I don't know if I'm just irritable and in pain or if I'm just. These guys are really inconsiderate pricks. Yeah, so this guy finishes pumping his gas, docks the you know the gas gun or whatever into the machine the gas gun or whatever into the machine, and then proceeds to start talking to another person after he's done pumping gas outside of his car?

Speaker 1: 31:23

yeah, and I'm done.

Speaker 2: 31:24

Yeah, so we, we honked at him yeah and he started to he threw his arms up. He looked back, threw his arms up and kind of gave the hold up little you know, the hands up in the air, like hey, just wait a minute, or whatever. And it's like, look, motherfucker, I've already been waiting for a minute. Nah, I'm not waiting another minute, get your fucking ass out of the fucking way of me getting gas. So right after he did that, he thought he was going to be funny.

Speaker 1: 31:54

Uh-huh.

Speaker 2: 31:55

And he started walking away from his vehicle back into the pilot. Well, I don't know what to say about it, other than I opened the Jeep door and I sprung out of the Jeep pretty aggressively and started walking towards the gentleman pretty aggressively and he kind of stopped in his tracks.

Speaker 1: 32:27

Uh-huh.

Speaker 2: 32:28

And I said, is there a fucking problem? He was like no, no problem, no problem, and he tried to mouth off about something else. But at this point he is reversing course and about to go back to his vehicle instead of, you know, further antagonizing the situation and walking back into the pilot, which he had no need for. He was just trying to be a dick yeah and he's mouthed off.

Speaker 2: 32:55

He said, and I basically told him. I said look, motherfucker, I'll move the vehicle with for you, like I'm gonna get in my jeep and I'm going to plow through your fucking car and push you out of the way yeah then I'm gonna proceed to get gas. So he runs off, runs back into his car. His boy never comes out to help him or check on him or anything else, and as he's pulling away from the gas pump he flips me off uh-huh I'm like whatever dude you?

Speaker 2: 33:26

you just tucked your tail between your legs exactly. You tried to act like a tough guy. I jumped out of the vehicle. You seen me and you were like, oh shit, yeah, wrong one, because look, there's always somebody bigger, stronger, tougher, faster, whatever.

Speaker 1: 33:42

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 33:43

And that goes for me included. There's people bigger than me too. There's people smaller than me. You can get any one of these little jujitsu guys to just beat the shit out of a huge guy. Right size isn't really, uh, necessarily a deciding factor, but it is intimidating and it does help, yeah. So, anyways, we get gas finally and we decide, okay, well, let's stop and eat yeah we've been driving, we're tired, so we go to denny's right next door park, get out, go to the door, only to be told they're closed yeah and this is very, you know, obviously unexpected.

Speaker 2: 34:27

So there was probably something wrong in the facility for them to be closed. Well, denny's is 24 hours right yeah, for the most part yeah, so then we're like oh okay, walked off, jumped back in the jeep, seen a frost frosty king or a foster's freeze or something I don't remember what it was. They were closed.

Speaker 2: 34:51

I think they had drive-thru access. But look, we were kind of tired, we just wanted to stop and stretch out a little bit. So I was like, okay, you know what? Now that's two. Let's just go to the McDonald's right here real quick. We park, go to the door it's locked. And it was the side door. So I was like, okay, well, maybe they're just the side door's locked. So then we go to the front door, it's locked. So at this point I'm like, hey, we're fucking out. If this is a sign for to tell us, hey, this is, you're not supposed to be here, let's go ahead and get you out of here. Let's just get out of here. We'll stop in Fraser, something right?

Speaker 2: 35:30

yeah the bottom of the grapevine anywhere. But we're not meant for this here. For some reason, and right before we went to McDonald's, we we get to the intersection, our light turns green and we are about to proceed through the intersection and this LA County fire truck is already almost in the intersection before he even lights up his sirens and lights and blows through recklessly as all hell. Now look, hey, they're first responders. There's something that they got to get to. So, look, I ain't going to really shit on them or anything about it. And I made mention. I said, ok, well, well, there's a wreck on the freeway now, so we're screwed anyways yeah so we go to mcdonald's they're closed.

Speaker 2: 36:19

Three strikes, you're out. We're pissed off. I already almost had to beat somebody's ass at a gas station. I'm over it like I'm in pain. I'm over it Like I'm in pain. I'm over it. I'm not the one, don't test me today.

Speaker 2: 36:33

So we get on the freeway right out of Castaic and, like a mile in, yeah, traffic is backed up. Two hours standstill on the freeway, closed, I guess like a big truck, not a diesel, you know a, not a big rig, but like a f-350 or a 3500. You know a dually that was carrying a, uh, transporting cars. It had about three cars on their, their their little vehicle transport, all caught fire, all burnt down to the ground. So, yeah, hey, somebody had a worse day than us. Yeah, you know, and a lot of times you lose sight of that. You're like, fuck man, I would start pissing and moaning and everything else, but you're like, hey, in actuality, somebody had a worse day than us. We're alive, we have our health, we're gonna be home in a couple hours. We have our vehicle. It hasn't burnt down, you know, um. So we stopped in fraser on the way back and then finally got home.

Speaker 2: 37:39

Yeah, uh but talk about vehicles. Man, that jeep, oh man, our jeep, is the most temperamental vehicle in the world. Now, I didn't help it and my dad always used to say, hey, if it's not broke, don't fix it.

Speaker 1: 38:01

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 38:01

But I've always been of the mantra or the thinking hey, I'm going to make it better. No, it's not broke, but it could be better.

Speaker 1: 38:12

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 38:13

And you know, jeeps are like Barbies or stuff like that, from barbies to girls as jeeps to boys. Uh, the customization is almost endless. Yeah, now, I did everything to mine and I got it the way I wanted it to look and had to replace gears and all kinds of money in it. But anyways, you know it's, it's lifted way up, has has huge wheels, tires, has armor all around, has a tent up on the top. Inevitably it's a lot heavier than it once was. So you just can't drive it like you used to or originally did, going up a hill you got to take it easy.

Speaker 2: 38:57

You got to take it easy. You know them. Rpms try to jump up on you and when those RPMsms jump up, temperature jumps up and you know you don't want to explode an engine or anything yeah, which I've done and that was a cool little 12 g's or something yeah it was not cheap. It was rough, very rough. We got some photo booths coming up. We have a few more DJ events, big ones, little ones, balloons are really taking off.

Speaker 1: 39:34

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 39:35

Really taking off, especially since we're actually posting them now. We weren't really it wasn't really getting pushed as much as like geez body works. Every time I do something I post yeah right, and that's to keep things top of mind. You know if, if people don't know what you do, they're never gonna be able to ask you for your services or your products yeah so um I think that's a win for me, right, or? Absolutely.

Speaker 1: 40:03

I need to post more.

Speaker 2: 40:04

It's a big win that posting more, getting your name out there, getting your art because it is it's, it's, pure art. Getting your art out there is just beautiful, right.

Speaker 1: 40:16

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 40:17

And it's it's always wanted events. When somebody goes to plan a baby shower, balloons are almost like number one on the list, right. I mean you have food, maybe catering, maybe stuff like that, but they also want the decor.

Speaker 1: 40:36

The photo opportunity yeah.

Speaker 2: 40:38

Yeah, photo opportunities are huge, which is something that you know we do over at 1933, with a couple photo booths beautifying things. You know there is a lot of photo opportunity. Speaking of that, we're also looking at a videographer, photographer, you know, again, local talent to sing, perform, do whatever and really just keep growing that thing. Yeah, that's a pretty good one. The balloons is a big win. The CRM software, honeybook, getting all of that set up, getting all of our invoices, all of our contracts, all the CYA stuff, but also that professional touch, you're able to provide somebody an invoice from a legitimate piece of software with your letterhead, with your logo, with everything, and it's legit, right. And that's not to say that you can't conduct business via Instagram DMs or via Facebook Messenger or text message. And yeah, hey, sir, I got you, zelle me $150 to secure your date, the remainders due a week before. You know that kind of thing. But I think that almost pigeonholes people, right?

Speaker 2: 42:01

Yeah, I think that almost pigeonholes people right yeah, to a certain it's not a demograph per se, but to the public right. When you start working with businesses, you need and and just send you 150 via zelle or cash out.

Speaker 2: 42:28

Right, they're not so don't, don't pigeonhole ourselves. Look, I'm still gonna do the, the facebook messenger, text message, stuff like that for people, if, if, that's how they operate, I don't care. But I also want to have everything ready for the huge corporations, companies, businesses, people that need to uh, you know, account for things and write things off and and do all of that. So that's a, that honey book, the posting, all of those are very, very big things. Our friends, people that we've actually rented to, people that we've actually decored for, um, those that's also very important too, because they're gonna, they're gonna send business yeah, they're to send business.

Speaker 2: 43:20

Yeah, they're going to send business. We don't really have any. You know we're thinking about going live on the podcast eventually. Yeah, probably video podcast eventually, but probably initially it'll probably just be going live on Facebook or Twitch.

Speaker 1: 43:41

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 43:41

You can see us, you can interact with us, hang out, talk shit, ask questions. We can do some polls and things like that. Get a little bit more interactive with y'all. Some giveaways, some prizes, stuff like that. What else have we got going on? You know what? Let's talk about a little culture. Let's talk about the shoe game. Yes, let's talk about the shoe game. Now, we are, I don't know if I say, pretty big fans of YouTube, but we like to watch a lot of YouTube and just let it run.

Speaker 1: 44:22

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 44:22

Right, you know it's mindless, I can work. I can work on music, I can work on health care epic career. I can work on content. I can work on a lot of things with in this instance I'm going to say Rami the Icon.

Speaker 1: 44:42

Cool Kicks.

Speaker 2: 44:44

We watch a lot of it. Now the funny thing is I would never spend over $300, probably on some Jordans or some whatever. It's just not my thing, right now you want you tell me to spend, you know two thousand dollars on all this podcast stuff. Yeah, no problem yeah I'll get some podcasts. Yeah, I'll get some dj stuff.

Speaker 2: 45:13

I'll get some stuff that will vision wise think, will eventually help business, help make money yeah that's the only time I really spend money anymore is if I have thought it out and I say you know what? That's gonna help xyz, or that's going to make money yeah um, otherwise I really don't spend that money.

Speaker 2: 45:38

But then again I do spend that money because we have five daughters who all want Jordans, jordan 4, concretes, this and that, and pink and purple and colorways and whatever else, and I think it's usually always Jordan 4s. But I think they like a few of the other models too and those things like $500, stockx, wherever you pick them up from, because you're trying to get legit ones right.

Speaker 1: 46:07

And these kids know.

Speaker 2: 46:08

Oh yeah, the kids know, they know if the color's slight Again because we watch Cool Kicks. Yeah, and Rami, and what's the other cat's name? I love him too.

Speaker 1: 46:19

Oh, I know the guy with the curly hair yeah, I always call him jack harlow.

Speaker 2: 46:24

he does look like him. I mean, look, he don't look like him really. It's just because he's white and he has curly hair. Yeah, you know, that's why he's quote, unquote, jack harlow. Um, but they go through and they, they, they inspect these shoes that people are trying to sell them and they'll be like, okay, well, the color's slightly off. They teach you the label on the box the font is a little too thin, they don't smell right. They tap, they hit the bottom of the sneaker and they'll say if it sounds like a cantaloupe, it's good, but if it sounds like a watermelon, it's not.

Speaker 2: 47:02

Something like that and there's all kinds of shit that goes into it for them to be able to cover their asses and make sure that they're not getting forgeries, fakes. Personally, if I ever get some J's, some Jordans, some SBs, bricks, whatever dunks, I'm going to get a Nike don't get mad at me a Jordan don't get mad at me but I'm going to get the knockoffs.

Speaker 1: 47:29

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 47:29

Because I'm not going to worry about creasing my fucking shoes, I'm not going to worry about walking pigeon-toed or putting little crease guards in and all of this other shit or someone stepping on them.

Speaker 1: 47:41

Yeah, I mean we're at places where there's a lot of people. It's going to happen, yeah.

Speaker 2: 47:48

And it's not worth getting shot or stabbed or anything else like that for.

Speaker 2: 47:52

A pair of fucking shoes not my thing, man, but yeah, so a little hypocritical. We buy them for our daughters but we will not do it for ourselves. And that's not to say we don't spend money on ourselves in other areas, because we definitely do, um, but again, most of my shit is business. You know, most of the money I try to spend anymore is business. I don't know that I have anything like look, look, I got turntables. I got like three controllers. Do I need four controllers? No, I don't need four controllers.

Speaker 1: 48:25

Do you want them? Yes, yeah, I mean, why not? You know, it's nice to have a backup.

Speaker 2: 48:28

Nice to have a few rigs, nice to even be able to help one of your boys out if one of his goes down or breaks or whatever else. And it's nice to have a setup that is static. It stays where it stays. You don't want to have to look. If I just want to play some music right now, I can literally walk over to the laptop, open it up, turn the turntables and mixer on and go to town. A lot of people don't. They don't have that.

Speaker 2: 48:59

And they have to go set their stuff up, break it down, put it back up everything else, and by that time I'm tired. I don't want to do it now.

Speaker 1: 49:06

Yeah, no.

Speaker 2: 49:07

But if it's already out, yeah, I'm rocking on them. I'm going to rock on them, yeah. So what else did we have that we were going to go over? We talked about the shoes. We talked about the shoes. We talked about.

Speaker 1: 49:25

We got some. Oh, man yeah we got another one that's kind of going a little bit back.

Speaker 2: 49:30

But hey, but it's all right. You know this is random, this is a random podcast.

Speaker 1: 49:36

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 49:37

Let's talk a little bit about charity.

Speaker 1: 49:40

Yes.

Speaker 2: 49:41

Now at the beginning of this year, and generally throughout our lives, we always try to be charitable. We always try to give back, donate, you know things of that nature. Sometimes, sometimes, it gets to a point where you feel that it might be getting taken advantage of.

Speaker 1: 50:06

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 50:09

Because there's other charitable organizations that we work with that gladly pay.

Speaker 1: 50:15

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 50:15

Now, obviously we give them a great discount, you know, sometimes upwards of three hundred dollars discount Right discount. Sometimes upwards of $300 discount right, and we're only collecting 100, which is fine because we're still giving back.

Speaker 2: 50:31

That 100 will cover our gas to and from our time, and that's about it. We're not really profiting anything, and it doesn't always have to be about profit and making money and things like that when you give back. Other times you work with a charitable organization and they want it completely free, which again, that is okay too. There's nothing wrong with that. However, sometimes it feels like it gets taken advantage of, sometimes it feels like a bit much and sometimes you kind of wonder. You know there's income coming into these charitable organizations, right?

Speaker 1: 51:13

And it's because people talk yeah, people talk and they give themselves out, and they give themselves out. You know, they basically start talking about all the money that is being put into this and that.

Speaker 2: 51:32

And it's like, oh okay, so you couldn't give us $100 for gas.

Speaker 1: 51:34

Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2: 51:37

Yeah. So that's getting a little, I wouldn't say, out of hand yet we're going to handle it. Take care of it, make sure that we're, you know, doing our due diligence and homework.

Speaker 1: 51:49

And I think you know it gets us to the point where we're going to have to limit ourselves. Hey, we're only going to do 10 this year. That's it. Yeah, yeah, because it's work.

Speaker 2: 52:02

Yeah it absolutely is.

Speaker 2: 52:03

You have to squeeze it in, you know, and a lot of those charitable things are during weekdays even right middle of the week, tuesday afternoon, like well, do you understand that that means I have to take off of my work and my job? Marion has to take off of her work and her job, and one of us or both of us are going to have to go over there, set things up, leave, come back. Break it down, leave, go home. Right and again. Well, I just got done talking about this jeep. The thing gets 11 miles a gallon. All right, that's nobody else's problem but my own.

Speaker 2: 52:39

Um, but yeah, I gotta at least cover my basic expenses yeah I'm not trying to make money off of everybody and charity and things of that nature. But yeah, so at the beginning of the year we don't do new year's resolutions in the classic sense of New Year's resolutions. We create plans. We don't just have goals, we don't just have resolutions, because if you don't have plans for those things, they're junk.

Speaker 1: 53:16

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 53:17

They are what they are right Like.

Speaker 1: 53:19

I want to lose weight.

Speaker 2: 53:20

Okay, what's your plan? Are you going to start meal? All right. Are you going to start meal prepping? Are you going to start? What are you going to do to do that? Right? What are the four steps that you're going to take to try to achieve that quote-unquote resolution? So, anyways, me and Marion, every year we get together and we figure out our priorities. She'll get a big sheet of paper. I'll get a big sheet of paper. I'll put my top 10 things that I think I want to achieve or accomplish this year. She'll put her top 10. And then we'll mix those bad boys together in creating a top 10 that has both of our stuff.

Speaker 2: 54:01

And we like to revisit that list I wouldn't say frequently, but we keep it top of mind because, you know, it's something that we know we can scratch out. Yeah, we accomplish something, we completed something, we, we did something we set out to do. So, six months, in June, july, we're here and we start going through all of them and we have been. You know again, not to sound cocky or to our own horror, but we have been wildly successful at accomplishing and achieving what we set out to do. Yeah, we were able to knock like 20 things off of our list and once we do that, then we reevaluate right. We reevaluate Now how important is the remaining items? What do we need to redirect our focus and energy on? What do we need to add to the list? What do we need to remove from the list? So we got there and we're knocking that out already as well.

Speaker 1: 55:06

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 55:07

That's going very, very well and I've never been that person right, that's been super organized and goal orientated, All of that stuff. But there is something to writing something down on a piece of paper yeah and creating a plan for each one of those things and keeping it top of mind, having a picture of it in your phone, putting it up on the wall in your room, somewhere in your shop, wherever it may be, so you can just keep looking at it every day when you wake up and like, okay, what do I got next?

Speaker 2: 55:47

let's, let's yeah let's knock something else out and it gets a little addicting. Um, it's a little addicting for me to to do that, because you see progress and you're like, ok, I know how to make progress finally. So it's a, it's a nice thing.

Speaker 1: 56:04

It doesn't matter how big or how little it is. It's just an accomplishment, it's a goal.

Speaker 2: 56:11

And that's why I try to preface it is. I'm not trying to brag or sound cocky or anything Shit. Some of the stuff on the list was like hey, pick up after yourself. It's just like hey, hey, there's some of the simplest things, right? Yeah, now look, that's not. Hey, we have some huge things on there, but we also have some very, very small things that we just feel will make our lives better, easier, more comfortable and or contribute to our ability to achieve those other goals Less time spent wasted here, less time spent wasted there, less money spent wasted here. Now we can use all of that extra energy that we were having to use on some real thick stuff, real big stuff, things meaningful and matter. What else? What do we got in pop culture? We got some movies.

Speaker 1: 57:11

Oh yeah.

Speaker 2: 57:12

We watched Inside Out 2 with the girls Great movie. I mean, the first one was great, second one's great.

Speaker 1: 57:20

Hilarious.

Speaker 2: 57:21

Yeah, anxiety.

Speaker 1: 57:23

The new character yeah, Anxiety. The new character. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Don't hey don't.

Speaker 2: 57:26

Hey, you can't spoil. You already did. I don't. No, I didn't spoil, I just said a human emotion called anxiety. You're the one that said, oh yeah, a character comes out and the name's anxiety. I told you before we started this podcast he did. I told you before we started this podcast you can't spoil shit for people. People get mad.

Speaker 1: 57:46

It's been out long enough.

Speaker 2: 57:48

Hey, but not everybody has had the ability. Hey, we're talking about our economy. Not everybody's been having the ability to go spend some extra money in this economy.

Speaker 1: 58:00

That's true.

Speaker 2: 58:00

Between gas and food. Hey, we're doing good to survive at this point, yeah, oh hey, let's not forget about electricity and the amount of money PG&E is trying to rake Californians or whoever over the. I mean just raking them, and you know, you've kind of seen it coming with solar and everything else. Pg&e is not going to want to lose money and you know, you kind of seen it coming with solar and everything else.

Speaker 2: 58:26

Pg&e is not going to want to lose money. You know, because you know 70 of 50, 40 I don't know what the numbers are people are converting over to solar right, so now they don't have that energy bill, they're paying a solar company, and they're paying a solar company much less than what their energy bill was. Yeah well, you think pg&e's just gonna lay back and be like oh cool, yeah, we're making less money now no they're gonna charge you more, yeah, yeah, they're not going to.

Speaker 2: 58:50

Same thing's gonna keep happening with fuel. All these electric cars, uh, the hybrids, the hydrogen hybrids, uh, all of these other you know alternative fuels that are coming out. Do you think all these oil companies are gonna be like, okay, yeah, well, we had a good run. Our, our time is coming to an end. No, gas is gonna go to six, go to seven, go to ten.

Speaker 2: 59:13

A lot of people don't understand or know that in european countries, gas prices are exorbitant, like ridiculous ten dollars and above for a liter or whatever they, I don't know, they're a royale with cheese. You know why they call it a royale with cheese? Because of the metric system. You don't even know what I'm talking about right now. I just made you watch the movie pulp fiction. Oh man, come on, look at the big brains on bread. You know what they put on french fries in amsterdam instead of ketchup mayonnaise? That's john travolta right there. Um, yeah, we watched that. We watched the new bad boys movie.

Speaker 2: 1:00:07

Look again, and I've said this probably on almost every single podcast. I don't like will smith, I don't respect the guy, um and it. It shouldn't bother me as much as it does, but I don't like and it shouldn't bother me as much as it does. But I don't like a man of his stature doing what he did to Chris Rock. I mean, it might as well have been a female up on the stage that you're slapping the shit out of. That's how I view it. You don't hit a woman and you don't hit a little nerd. Chris Rock's a little nerd. Will Smith man this dude's been ripped for all kinds of movies, just jacked I Robot, I Am Legend, ali, bad Boys. Dude's always jacked. He's a big dude.

Speaker 1: 1:00:54

That was a good movie.

Speaker 2: 1:00:55

It was Very good movie and again I have to side with Marion on this one. You can't really get rid of his work his catalog.

Speaker 2: 1:01:07

His work ethic yeah you can't really get rid of that. And look humans, people, they make mistakes. So, yeah, I need to ease up on the guy a bit. He's made a mistake, he tried to apologize. Whether or not somebody else accepts that apology or not, you you can't control that. You can control what you can control and that's you apologizing, recognizing you did something you shouldn't have done, yeah, being remorseful for it. You know, whatever it may be, but yeah, very good movie and I won't. I won't dive into it and I won't look.

Speaker 2: 1:01:40

No, I'm gonna tell you the reason I'm not gonna dive into it because as soon but I want to talk about it. No, I'm going to tell you the reason I'm not going to dive into it, because as soon as I do, you're going to spoil shit for people again. You can't be trusted.

Speaker 1: 1:01:49

Oh man.

Speaker 2: 1:01:50

What is his name? Lil Reggie. Oh yeah Lil Reggie, chitty, chitty, bang, bang. Hey Lil Reggie, I'm glad he's still in the movie.

Speaker 1: 1:02:03

That's all we're going to say, chitty chitty bang bang, chitty chitty bang bang, motherfucker. It was a good movie.

Speaker 2: 1:02:08

Yeah, anderson Paak and the Free Nationals going on tour. We are definitely getting tickets. We are definitely going. Love, love Anderson Paak. He has that funk. It's not just hip-hop, it's not just rap, but he has that funk, that funky bass, that groove, that groovy, funky hip-hop. It is just amazing. So we got to go see Anderson and he'll be up and down California so we might be able to watch him a couple times. Yeah, just go hang out, have a good time. Maybe, invite somebody. Maybe take a couple people.

Speaker 2: 1:02:53

We'll see yeah, that didn't sound very Actually everybody listening. Sorry, you motherfuckers are not invited. I don't know if you heard that in marion's voice or not, but she was like we'll see. That means no, that means gordon, you, you fucked up. You're not inviting anybody. I'm like okay, am I wrong? Tell me maybe no, no, no. Let the people know. The people want to know, the people deserve to know why you won't let them come with us to go watch Anderson.

Speaker 1: 1:03:26

I think my thing is I don't like to be on other people's time.

Speaker 2: 1:03:32

No, we don't have to be. You're not coming in our vehicle, but we can go to the show together and then go our separate way, right, I don't care if you go in late.

Speaker 1: 1:03:48

I don't care if you go in late, I don't care if you go in early, like, but we can hang out at the show. Yeah, there's nothing wrong with that?

Speaker 2: 1:03:51

yeah, you know who I think would love to go? Who becca? Yeah, yeah, from off the rails she, yeah, that's, that's kind of her style, her genre. You know, it looked like she likes the della soul and all the old school hip hop, but I really think that some of the jazzy, groovy, funky Anderson, paak, schoolboy Q, mac Miller, all of these artists, I think that's the good stuff currently. Right, I don't do this trippy red and some of this other junk that I don't really have a great appreciation for. Hey, but again, as DJs, we play music for other people not for ourselves If we played music for ourselves.

Speaker 2: 1:04:32

I don't know how much of a crowd I'd have, because I'd have a whole bunch of reggae, a whole bunch of afro beats and a whole bunch of that groovy Henderson Pack, mac Miller, schoolboy, khaled, all kinds of all over the place. I'd be playing Fortunate Son. I'd be playing 70s and everything else, funk oldies. I'd be all over the place. Oh true, open format right.

Speaker 1: 1:05:00

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 1:05:00

Cumbias, you know, merengueengue salsa, bachata mashups.

Speaker 1: 1:05:05

I'll be playing all of it yeah, and I love all of it. You know what I want to know what? Where did drake go?

Speaker 2: 1:05:12

hey man, never been a fan, never been a fan. Um, I think he looks goofy for one. I'm not sure why women think he's Babe. You don't say things like that. He looked goofy as hell. He looked like a turtle or something. He has a weird face, babe. But beyond that, a common tried to tell people, like 15 years ago, that Drake was a punk. People been you know, but he has it figured out. I can't hate him for the business side of it, right.

Speaker 2: 1:05:46

And Mac Miller didn't like him either huh, did it all without a Drake feature. Uh-huh, that's one of his lines in one of his raps.

Speaker 1: 1:05:54

Yep.

Speaker 2: 1:05:54

I did it all without a Drake feature.

Speaker 1: 1:05:57

Uh-huh.

Speaker 2: 1:05:58

We don't need Drake.

Speaker 1: 1:05:59

I know, but where'd he go, he, we don't need Drake, I know but where'd he go?

Speaker 2: 1:06:01

He has disappeared. Kendrick Dunn bodied him.

Speaker 1: 1:06:06

Uh-huh.

Speaker 2: 1:06:07

Bodied, buried Dunn.

Speaker 1: 1:06:11

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2: 1:06:21

But then again, arguably, where's Kendrick now? Yeah, like, did they need each other? No Well, where's Kendrick now? Is he on the next song, on the next album? Like kendrick's always been kind of quiet yeah you know he has a couple albums and then you know people trying to make that, that argument about, uh, the amount of platinum and triple platinum and quadruple platinum and whatever other terms are used for Drake and his success, yeah, and it's like hey, man, you're talking about quantity over quality.

Speaker 1: 1:06:54

Uh-huh.

Speaker 2: 1:06:54

It's like there's a big difference. Right, there's a huge difference. And look, I'm going to piss a lot of people off for this one too. I'm not a fan of LeBron. I don't like LeBron as a basketball player. As a human being, it sure seems like he's a great human being, great human. He's not in the news cheating on his wife, beating on his wife, fucking hookers, doing drugs, beating his teammates' asses do anything right. Of course you got Coach LeBron right. He's a coach of every team. He plays on right and he's probably gotten plenty of coaches and players fired and everything else. But look, number one scoring okay. But look, number one scoring okay. But how about all the other stats?

Speaker 1: 1:07:47

you're talking about quantity over quality.

Speaker 2: 1:07:48

Yeah, all right. I mean, you're talking about lebron with a couple rings, you know um, you know building these super teams and shit. I still stick with kobe I still stick with Jordan and I'll still stick with, like AI or Penny Hardaway or.

Speaker 1: 1:08:08

Tim Duncan, right Tim Duncan.

Speaker 2: 1:08:13

I'd stick with a whole bunch of other players that stuck it out with their teams, developed chemistry, grew overcamecame, stuff like that, not people that run from team to team, been trying to build super teams and stuff like that. I'm not. I'm not a fan of it. So, yeah, you have the scoring title, but you don't have the championship title or several other titles. So I mean, if that's what your goal was, hey, hey, that's his goal. I can't argue with his goal. I don't like him as a baller. Don't like him All right. Well, we're about an hour and 10 minutes into this long one.

Speaker 1: 1:08:56

We always say we're going to keep it to 30, 45 minutes.

Speaker 2: 1:09:01

Yeah, but I mean, if you're into some juicy substance, we're going to talk about it. We got nothing else to do, nothing better to do. Look, you don't have to listen to the whole hour and you definitely don't have to listen to it all in one sitting. No, hang out, chill, listen to 20 minutes, go on about your day. Listen to 20 minutes on your way home, listen in the bathtub, listen in the shower, listen while you're getting ready, whatever, I don't care.

Speaker 2: 1:09:29

I appreciate it If you get a kick out of it and a little glimpse into our crazy ass lives 18 hour days and a lot of the things people don't see you know, everybody sees the, the benefits.

Speaker 1: 1:09:47

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 1:09:47

Everybody sees the big Havana night off the rails, Jerry's pizza wedding One, two, three, four and five photo booth Fifteen to sixteen. And you know, graduation party Can't say whatever it may be. Yeah, people don't see the behind the scenes yeah, 18 hour days, and that's not even exaggeration no I mean 16 might be average at this point, um, but definitely, definitely time.

Speaker 2: 1:10:17

Um talked about a whole bunch of stuff, yeah, but if you guys you know, if you make it through this subscribe to the podcast, it's free. All you got to do is add it to one of your streaming platforms. I think we have a way that you could donate like three bucks or however much you want.

Speaker 2: 1:10:38

I don't remember what it was but, you could possibly shoot us three bucks so we can buy a soda or something. Stop it, we don't need it. We don't need it. We're not struggling that bad. But if you like it you find some humor in it and you like listening in and you want to. You want to donate? You want to contribute a feel free, we'll give you a shout out and all that good stuff. But leave some feedback. You know comment like, share, you know do whatever. Next episode is going to be most dope.

Speaker 1: 1:11:14

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 1:11:15

That'll be next week. I think we're at least going to have ill flow and dose here. Yeah, I was trying to get ace as well. Yeah, I was trying to get ace as well. And I know spoon. Oh, you know what? I don't think I mentioned spoon earlier. Spoon is awesome oh man Spoon is so wonderful, such a breath of fresh air.

Speaker 1: 1:11:41

So humble.

Speaker 2: 1:11:42

Humble, fun, funny. A good spirit, a good soul he is. Oh man, I don't know if there's a bad bone in that dude's body, love spoon. He was talking about wanting to get on here and talk about haters. Yeah, so that is going to be the next episode for the most dope. We're going to talk about the hate. Uh, jealousy, envy, greed. You know seven deadly sins, whatever you want to call it. We're going to talk about it. Um, what were you going to say?

Speaker 1: 1:12:15

I said if, if nice had a definition, it'd be spoon yeah, spoon's so, spoon's, so chill man, he is awesome, I love.

Speaker 2: 1:12:22

Spoon, and you know what Spoon does things right.

Speaker 1: 1:12:25

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 1:12:26

His setup is immaculate.

Speaker 1: 1:12:30

Yes.

Speaker 2: 1:12:30

He takes pride in his gear, in his setup, in his appearance, in his performances. Hey, he has R&B Sundays, right? Oh yeah, he's had a couple of those. We got to get out there. The last two. We bought tickets to both, we gave tickets away to both, but we weren't able to go hang out. And I want to go hang out. I don't care about spinning, I don't want to do no guest set, I don't want to do any of that, I don't want to do shit. But sit there, eat some food, have some drinks, enjoy some tunes. But Spoon, hey, I apologize, spoon, I left you out for a minute, my dude, but I did not forget you before the end of the episode.

Speaker 1: 1:13:13

No, we saved the best for last.

Speaker 2: 1:13:18

So, yeah, that's going to be the next episode for the most dope, um, our episodes, largely, are going to remain the same. A couple of weeks we'll do another blue slide serenade, um, and again, it's always just going to be funny shit. That's happened in our lives. Current business, um goals, um projects. We're working on life and just being real and just genuine, real people.

Speaker 2: 1:13:50

I'll tell you whether I farted and shit on myself or whatever I say I don't care, I don't have, I'm not embarrassed by any of that, but we're going to go ahead and wrap this up. I'm not embarrassed by any of that, but we're going to go ahead and wrap this up. Thank you guys for joining. Thank you for listening in. I believe we've had over 150 streams of our podcast. Several cities, several states, three countries, you know, okay, I'm going to. I'm going to try to make it sound like we're we're doing big things, but the countries have been Mexico, america and Canada.

Speaker 1: 1:14:33

So yeah, and I think Mexico was mom, it was mom, it had to be mom. She was in Mexico and she downloaded it from.

Speaker 2: 1:14:40

Mexico. I'm not sure who was in Canada and listened to it, but thank you for my Canadian listener. My Canadian listener because I don't believe we have multiples of them yet. But all up and down California, arizona, probably thanks to Dose. Up and down California, probably thanks to Ill Flow and Beck from Off the Rails. So, yeah, again thank you guys. I hope we keep growing it. We're going to keep doing it regardless. We don't care.

Speaker 1: 1:15:15

One, two listeners. Yeah, I don't care.

Speaker 2: 1:15:18

As long as you get a laugh and you get away from the monotony of the day-to-day grind and everything else like that, I've done my job and I've done what I've set out to do Make somebody laugh and give you guys a sneak peek into our lives and maybe help you understand why we're quote unquote so busy and we may not be able to make it out everywhere all the time. But again, I will always support, we will always buy tickets, we will always give tickets away, whether we're going to be able to go or not. Yeah, and that's our way of showing you guys love and appreciation and recognizing your hustle and everything you guys are doing. So with that we are out. Thank you guys for joining Gordie B.

Speaker 1: 1:16:07

Queen B.

Speaker 2: 1:16:08

And we'll see you guys on the next one.