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From the DJ Booth to Broadcast with Mr. Goodfella · Teach Me Something Hosted By DJ Prostyle & Penny Dellas

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  Speaker 1: Hey, what's up.
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  Speaker 2: This is DJ pro Style and this is Penny Tellas.
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  Speaker 1: And this is Teach Me Something.
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  Speaker 2: Brought to you by Berkeley College.
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  Speaker 1: And we are back. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,
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  Speaker 1: welcome back to teach Me Something.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we are at the iHeart h Q today filming
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  Speaker 2: in the studio with DJ pro Style, popa Pro.
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  Speaker 1: Papa Pros in the building and our girl Penny is here.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we are here. Is gonna be the new thing.
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  Speaker 1: Another hashtag has been creating.
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  Speaker 2: Podcast pro hashtag and Papa Pro.
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  Speaker 3: And then we had what was a bunch of them.
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  Speaker 2: There's so many. There's so many, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So we're getting to the end of the year. Now
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  Speaker 1: we have to go out strong and today's episode is
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  Speaker 1: going to be amazing. Can you tell us something? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like our amazing special guest.
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  Speaker 2: Excelled this year and we continue to excel. But the
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  Speaker 2: person that's on the podcast today is so cool because
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  Speaker 2: his journey has been nothing but a journey of north
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  Speaker 2: and he is a close friend of mine and I'm
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  Speaker 2: very excited to introduce this guest. We are here with
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  Speaker 2: a hisano known as mister Goodfella from DJ to working
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  Speaker 2: with CBS on the Drew Barrymore Show, shut out to I.
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  Speaker 4: Like that we are here. That was nice. I'll never
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  Speaker 4: get a nice intro again.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry. You can always grab this from the you know me,
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  Speaker 1: from wherever it airs. You can use it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna use it for do you need to drop?
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  Speaker 4: I do?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 4: Great, so we leave it.
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  Speaker 2: The equity has gone through the room. So Angel, you
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  Speaker 2: entered the music industry at twelve years old, You founded
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  Speaker 2: your own company by the age of eighteen, and today
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  Speaker 2: you serve as the studio staff head for CBS Paramounts
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  Speaker 2: Emmy Award winning Drew Barrymore Show.
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  Speaker 5: See, I'm gonna have to use the school. It's gonna
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  Speaker 5: be like the highlight of my whole career.
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  Speaker 2: It's so beautiful. You've come a long way from interviewing
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  Speaker 2: Pro Style in vintage.
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  Speaker 1: Wow right to that.
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  Speaker 4: I mean that was big too.
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  Speaker 2: That was you know.
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  Speaker 5: No, No, it's a battle for the first. But I
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  Speaker 5: think I think I'm gonna give that on the first
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  Speaker 5: because pros right across from me, because I'm here. But
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  Speaker 5: if it wasn't, I might I might give it a second.
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  Speaker 1: But hell, I'm one of those steps along on your
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  Speaker 1: journey where you're at.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely pro You were like the god of DJs.
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  Speaker 1: During that time. I was definitely outside.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he was definitely you were the Prods.
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  Speaker 1: It was a movement. It was a lot going on.
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  Speaker 2: The budge pro you really are He's like, stop it,
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  Speaker 2: no really but no, okay, Angel, enough about pro Yes,
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  Speaker 2: more about.
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  Speaker 1: You just did a whole episode where you went crazy.
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  Speaker 2: But now, well, seriously, how did you get into DJing?
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  Speaker 5: So, my my my family, my dad or was very
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  Speaker 5: musically inclined, right, that's the right word, inclined. He always
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  Speaker 5: wanted to be in the music industry, and I guess,
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  Speaker 5: like he never made it, so like I, I guess
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  Speaker 5: I followed in his footsteps. I do have some family
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  Speaker 5: members that are on the Latin side from my father's side,
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  Speaker 5: and uh, it just one thing led to another, and
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  Speaker 5: I just wanted to be in the music industry, and
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  Speaker 5: I was I was bound to do anything, whether it
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  Speaker 5: be like producing or djaing or like singing or whatever.
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  Speaker 5: But I just wanted to be in the music industry,
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  Speaker 5: you know. So yeah, like I guess, DJing was the
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  Speaker 5: first step. I used to take my dad's sorry, Dad,
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  Speaker 5: I used to take my dad's old records and I
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  Speaker 5: used to like scratch on them, but I wasn't supposed to.
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  Speaker 5: He had real, like you know, real old school vinyls.
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  Speaker 5: I remember scratching his uh it takes two vinyl. Wow,
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  Speaker 5: that that was autographed. I shouldn't have done that, but
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  Speaker 5: you know, that was the start, you know. He called
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  Speaker 5: me one day Wiki Wiki and he was like no.
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  Speaker 5: I was like sorry, so you know, and here we are.
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  Speaker 2: So I looked at you pro because I was remembering
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  Speaker 2: when you said when you used to do those summer
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  Speaker 2: parties and they would just melt all the records, the records.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but that this is that was not the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: That was like keep into my career. Yeah, that's when
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  Speaker 1: we had to do outdoor events. Yeah, you ever did
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  Speaker 1: an outdoor event with vinyl? No? You ever? Did you
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  Speaker 1: ever DJ on vinyl?
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  Speaker 4: I DJed so I DJ. Don't see these? I didn't.
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  Speaker 5: I wasn't at the vinyl stage. The vinyl stage was
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  Speaker 5: a little before that, a little before me, you know.
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  Speaker 5: So I did do the CDs. And let me tell you,
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  Speaker 5: if I can't see and see these were heavy. I
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  Speaker 5: can't imagine carrying them around trades.
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  Speaker 4: Vinyls.
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  Speaker 1: No, what took the old team. That's why. That's why
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  Speaker 1: back in those days, I had such a big team, right.
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  Speaker 1: That was also a way to get in to the club,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's that's Club one O one. Carry carry
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  Speaker 1: the crates, carry the DJ's craze, I mean crazy, like
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  Speaker 1: I got six six people coming in carrying crates. My
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  Speaker 1: whole teams in the building already. So but yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: was that's a whole other episode you guys could check out.
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  Speaker 1: But we were talking about how when I would do
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  Speaker 1: outdoor events, whether it was in Florida or sometimes La
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  Speaker 1: or wherever it was that was hot. Yeah, the vinyls
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  Speaker 1: would literally melt while you're playing the record. They would
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  Speaker 1: literally you could actually start seeing them go like this
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  Speaker 1: and warp in real time, and it's like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: that's real. It was devastating, devastating because some vinyl you
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  Speaker 1: got to start thinking like, I can't just get I
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  Speaker 1: have to stop playing. I'm not gonna ruin my These
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  Speaker 1: vinyls are too hard to get.
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  Speaker 5: And if it was like, you know, a hit at
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  Speaker 5: the time, you know, and you couldn't get it.
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  Speaker 1: And back then, remember so back back then, it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: like now where you know, you could just down the
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  Speaker 1: record and you own it forever. If you had it
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  Speaker 1: on vinyl and they stopped making the vinyl, that's it.
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  Speaker 4: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, my advantage when I was young DJing
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  Speaker 1: compared to these days is that everybody couldn't just be
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  Speaker 1: a DJ because you had to have the music right.
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  Speaker 1: And so like, if I went and did a crazy
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  Speaker 1: old school set, that's because I had the records, so
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  Speaker 1: I could play the slick Rick records, that this that
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  Speaker 1: Biz Marquis blah blah blah, and have two of the
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  Speaker 1: vinyls too, so I can lover Blah blah blah, Pete
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  Speaker 1: Roxy l Smooth and keep going if you came into
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  Speaker 1: the game later on, unless you got like I was
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  Speaker 1: lucky enough to get get it from another DJ, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, like you know, back then it's like it's
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  Speaker 1: like now you ask somebody, you could come up to me.
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  Speaker 1: If I'm cool with you, I just give you my
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  Speaker 1: whole you know, hard drive. Here's fifty thousand songs. You
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  Speaker 1: have everything you could think of, every genre of music
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  Speaker 1: from old to new where back then it was wasn't
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  Speaker 1: like that, So you could be real passionate about wanting
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  Speaker 1: to do it back then, but it would be very expensive.
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  Speaker 1: You have to buy the buy the records, and if
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  Speaker 1: you couldn't get a hold of the vinyl, then.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't happening right, right, But what was happening was
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  Speaker 2: Angel founding his own company at eighteen, right, So in
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  Speaker 2: the spirit of that, what did entrepreneurship look like for
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  Speaker 2: you at that time?
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  Speaker 5: So so the the way that we came upon that
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  Speaker 5: was so I was in college getting ready to come
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  Speaker 5: into I went to Mercy College and I bumped into
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  Speaker 5: this kid who was just like he was playing on
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  Speaker 5: the piano and I'm getting the class late and he's late,
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  Speaker 5: and you know, so you know, we link up. And
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  Speaker 5: you know, I had DJ gear, but I didn't have equipment.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm like, you know, this would be a perfect time,
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  Speaker 5: you know whatever. And this kid he had tons of equipment,
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  Speaker 5: like his dad was like a gearhead. And so we
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  Speaker 5: created a company. And I told him, I said, well,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I'm a DJ. You know you have gear
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  Speaker 5: that's like sitting there that's not doing anything. Let's collab
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  Speaker 5: and you know, we become a company. So we become
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  Speaker 5: a company, and I just started doing like house parties
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  Speaker 5: and you know, basically events. But at this point in time,
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  Speaker 5: I mean we're carrying around like two like eighteen inch
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  Speaker 5: subwarfers like pvs, like the all in ones with the
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  Speaker 5: subwarfers like huge, and we're like carrying these up to
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  Speaker 5: like apartments and it's it's insane.
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  Speaker 1: That was a good time, right, good time.
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  Speaker 5: My back is probably still hurting from that. I'm probably
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  Speaker 5: still feeling it because equipment was very heavy back in
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  Speaker 5: the day.
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  Speaker 1: It was funny because I just saw on social media,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they have that this this whole thing on
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  Speaker 1: social media going on, where they where is it? The
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  Speaker 1: is it? The why? Why? Where they they show the
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  Speaker 1: person like going from from that to this. Okay, somebody
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  Speaker 1: on stage and a sudden like and somebody was showing
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  Speaker 1: themselves like djaying an event, and then they show them
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  Speaker 1: after and they're like lugging the speakers and the lights
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  Speaker 1: and stuff out, like it's all great, but somebody gotta
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  Speaker 1: stay back and bring all this tuf.
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  Speaker 5: Let me tell you if I could record today that
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  Speaker 5: equipment because we no longer have it, it's been blown
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  Speaker 5: out or you know, it's in the garbage somewhere. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I definitely would do one of those videos. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: because let me tell you again, like I'm talking about
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  Speaker 5: these speakers were taller than me and I'm short, you
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  Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. So I'm like, at this point
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  Speaker 5: in time, I'm probably like five to two. These speakers
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  Speaker 5: are like what five eight, five nine, you know, and
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  Speaker 5: we're lugging these speakers around because that's all we had.
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  Speaker 5: You know, like there was more modern equipment, but we
• 9:35
  Speaker 5: didn't have the money for it. So we had to
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  Speaker 5: do with the means that we had in order to
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  Speaker 5: make money to get to the next level of entrepreneurship
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  Speaker 5: and eventship. And you know, get the lights and your
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  Speaker 5: speakers and your DJ gear, and you know you you
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  Speaker 5: did with what means you had.
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  Speaker 1: That's awesome. It can relate to everything he's saying.
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  Speaker 3: You wanted a DJ on the podcast? What season one?
• 10:06
  Speaker 3: He's like, I would love to get a DJ in here?
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: Oh really?
• 10:09
  Speaker 5: Talk?
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  Speaker 1: Did I say that you did well?
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  Speaker 4: Where is the person?
• 10:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: There is?
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  Speaker 1: So Now do you still DJ? Now?
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  Speaker 4: I do still DJ? Now?
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  Speaker 5: I'm part of if I can say it, can I
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  Speaker 5: of course I'm a part of Maximore Productions.
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  Speaker 4: I'm one of their DJ hosts.
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  Speaker 1: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 5: I've been with them since about twenty twenty eleven, twenty ten.
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  Speaker 5: I also have I still have my company, so I
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  Speaker 5: still do private events and uh, you know, just moving around.
• 10:44
  Speaker 5: You know, club scene has changed, so you know, not
• 10:47
  Speaker 5: matching the clubs anymore, you know. I do like doing bars, though,
• 10:50
  Speaker 5: I feel like the bar scene has become way more.
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  Speaker 1: Where it's at now. Yeah, big night like night clubs
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  Speaker 1: are still never going to take away from night clubs, right, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, nothing against the nightclub It's still there's some
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  Speaker 1: amazing the ones that are left, right put it like that.
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  Speaker 1: So like in New York, for instance, and everyone knows
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: what's in the city, majority of the bigger night clubs
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: and around the whole tri state have shut down and
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: they'll yep. So you know, you are left with a
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: few that are still around. And it's cool and shout
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  Speaker 1: out to those clubs. But it has become more of
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: a lounge, kind of smaller hook a lounge into many, you.
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  Speaker 5: Know, and I feel like people more people go out
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  Speaker 5: to these like, you know, because I feel like the
• 11:28
  Speaker 5: people that support you are the ones that you grew
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  Speaker 5: up with, you know, the ones that you promoted to
• 11:32
  Speaker 5: back in the day, you know. So I feel like
• 11:34
  Speaker 5: these are the people that are that are giving you
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  Speaker 5: the full support, you know, the people that want to
• 11:38
  Speaker 5: be in bed by like nine o'clock, you know, but
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  Speaker 5: they'll come out to party with you for one day.
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  Speaker 4: People, Yeah, we're getting we're getting up there, you know.
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  Speaker 5: So they they'll they'll stay out for like one two o'clock.
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  Speaker 5: You know that that's uh, that's probably surpassing it, you know,
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  Speaker 5: or like, you know, one of the penny nights.
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  Speaker 4: We're not going to talk about that.
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: Don't talk about it. Let's talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like the past couple of weeks on the pod,
• 12:05
  Speaker 2: there's been a lot of shape. I just want to
• 12:08
  Speaker 2: reiterate that I represent a higher education institution and we
• 12:12
  Speaker 2: will continue.
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  Speaker 3: To our next question. Would you like to ask that question?
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, we're just free.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not old.
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: Do you want me to go?
• 12:17
  Speaker 2: But no, We've we've had a lot of events. We've
• 12:19
  Speaker 2: had jingle Ball, We've had power sessions. There's been a
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  Speaker 2: lot of things, and we sometimes end our days at
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: six thirty in the morning. Later.
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  Speaker 5: She used to get at me for being out late,
• 12:30
  Speaker 5: you know I did, but you know, I'm seeing posts
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  Speaker 5: at six seven o'clock in the morning, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm still going to the gym.
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  Speaker 6: So I'm oh, that's where you were going, you know,
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  Speaker 6: being responsible whatever, I'm reading your questions, I'm not even
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  Speaker 6: keep it so one on this.
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  Speaker 1: So how did you get from from djaying obviously being
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  Speaker 1: where you're at now with CBS paramount.
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  Speaker 5: So going going back to what I had stated earlier,
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  Speaker 5: So I wanted to make it in the industry by
• 13:02
  Speaker 5: any means possible. I went to school for production and
• 13:06
  Speaker 5: engineering and then out of school. Because of the time
• 13:11
  Speaker 5: that I had gotten out of school, the recording studios
• 13:16
  Speaker 5: were kind of dying because of the the napster, the
• 13:21
  Speaker 5: LimeWire people are stealing music, you know, like so the
• 13:25
  Speaker 5: the production engine and engineering of music had changed at
• 13:29
  Speaker 5: that point in time. A lot of studios were dead.
• 13:32
  Speaker 5: So there was really no studios to go work at
• 13:34
  Speaker 5: unless you were going to like Powerhouse or something like that,
• 13:37
  Speaker 5: and you needed, you needed connections to go to these studios.
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  Speaker 5: So I just decided to basically, like Branshaw, I needed
• 13:45
  Speaker 5: to make money. I needed to pay for those you know,
• 13:48
  Speaker 5: those those school bills which were you know piling up,
• 13:51
  Speaker 5: you know. Mercy college was in the next wasn't a
• 13:54
  Speaker 5: cheap school to go to. So I got into stage handing,
• 13:59
  Speaker 5: which is basically, uh, here in New York City is
• 14:01
  Speaker 5: anybody that does entertainment, and you know, the theaters. And
• 14:05
  Speaker 5: I became a sound engineer, and I basically just started
• 14:08
  Speaker 5: doing a whole bunch of theater work. And you know,
• 14:12
  Speaker 5: one job led to another. During the pandemic, I ended
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  Speaker 5: up at CVS Broadcast Center and in that that turmoal
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  Speaker 5: of of change, everything was shut down. Broadway was shut down,
• 14:25
  Speaker 5: theaters were shut down, there was no shows, there was
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  Speaker 5: nothing going on.
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  Speaker 1: A ghost town out here, remember, but.
• 14:30
  Speaker 5: TV was still going on. And at this point in time,
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  Speaker 5: Drew Barrymore is coming into New York City to basically
• 14:37
  Speaker 5: start her show, The Drew Barrymore Show. And here we
• 14:42
  Speaker 5: are six seasons later, uh going into seven hopefully, and
• 14:49
  Speaker 5: that's where we are.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome, that's amazing. And she pioneered during COVID she oh, yeah, absolutely,
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  Speaker 2: she did the first of its kind of the live streaming,
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  Speaker 2: having you know, the guests human, having the audience human,
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: and it was unprecedented and she had that vision. So
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: what was that like?
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  Speaker 5: It was very different? And very hard for the digital
• 15:10
  Speaker 5: team because we were basically bringing in I don't I
• 15:15
  Speaker 5: don't work for the digital team, but I worked for
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  Speaker 5: the studio itself. But they were basically virtual interviewing people
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: that looked like they were in the studio but were not.
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  Speaker 5: Which was it was like green screen holograph. Like it's
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: insane because when you look at it, you really thought
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  Speaker 5: that the person was there. The person was not there.
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  Speaker 5: I hope this doesn't I hope I didn't throw out
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  Speaker 5: a secret.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: But no, she's spoken about it.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, great.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: During those times, everyone knew that you weren't allowed to be.
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: There, right because you know COVID and you know and
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: and and social distancing. Let me tell you, my nose
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: hurts just thinking about it. Wearing the mask. We had
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: to get tested every single day. If you were not tested,
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: you were not working.
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  Speaker 1: Every day.
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: You had that cubes every day every day, five days
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: a week. There was a cute tip going into both
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: nostrils up to my brain.
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  Speaker 4: It sucked. It was bad. You know, I don't wish
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: want anybody.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: You know, they played it safe and right. You executed well.
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  Speaker 2: So I had the privilege of going to a taping
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: nice so everywhere I know, and it was so cool
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: and seeing you work with your team, and you know,
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: first of all, a lot goes into these tapings. You
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: just see a thirty minute segment, but it's so much production.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: It was about a three hour taping and then that's condensed,
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  Speaker 2: you know to the show duration.
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: I mean it used to be pro studio for one apart. Yeah, yeah,
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: my studio used to be your studio, so I mean
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: same one.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: I've never realized that.
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: That same one, which is which is crazy because now
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: that I'm thinking about it, right, yeah, it wasn't even
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: one or six.
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: It was fifty seven seven, right.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: It started, I believe, I think somewhere.
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: So studio forty one is used to be your studio.
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: So and you used to do BET of course, so
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: you park for over ten years, so you would know,
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: like basically, you know, it wasn't oh I know the
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: hole behind the scenes.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, h you know a lot. There's a lot of work.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: I mean it starts in the morning, right, It starts
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: in the morning from meetings to you know, walk through
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: to you know, stage set up, and that thirty minutes
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: to one hour show takes.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: Like a lot hours hours. But we get it done.
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: You know, we make the magic happen.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: My job was easy. I just watched you on TV PRO.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: There's a lot, there was a lot back then that
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna I'm gonna reach out when they're
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: in town. Actually, that's you just brought up some great
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: guests and hopefully they're watching. We're gonna get Terrence and
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Roxy or maybe one of them in here, or even Tiger,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: even Julisa somebody from that. From that was got the
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: honor work with all of them, But that would be awesome,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: so they could explain really what was going down behind
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: the scenes leading conversation, because what you see on TV
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: is one thing, but the preparation leading up behind the ring,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: the changing descripts and back then and read. It's amazing
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: because reading prompters, you know, live studio audience, they're counting
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: in your ear. They're telling you as you read, there's
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: a word coming up, get past that word, like it's crazy,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: like the stop and go and the going take a
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: polls here, wait, wait here, we're gonna jump past this line,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: go to the next one. I remember having those. I
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: used to be the kid who wouldn't even read in school,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: like out loud and then I'm finding myself like TV
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: with like a million people watching.
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: So I actually have some memorability that I have from
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: the studio because i'm one of the studio heads now
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: and I would love to bring that for you guys
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: for when that interview does happen, which is a boxing
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: glove from one of your dressing rooms, from from one
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: of the it might be from one of the dressing
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: rooms and one of the shows, from one of the
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: shows that you did. And also I have a go
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: go from the lights that says one O six in park.
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: Oh wow, so you know it's I'm pretty sure it over.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, awesome, that'd be awesome. But I love that area,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: that whole that whole studium were pulling up to it,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: they'd have the kids lined up down the block outside.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: I actually stay at the holiday and most of the
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: time right off the Black Nice how they were Marriott.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure which hotel it was, but there's a
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: few a few now now it's changed. Oh yeah, now
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: it's totally it's a whole different I'm talking about what
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: went totally different ball the long time ago, totally different
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: ball game. But there's so much behind the scenes for
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: these live you know, for these TV shows. I'm sure
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: that I can only imagine what you guys do. I
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: had the honor of for like a couple of months
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: I DJed for Good Morning America Nice and those days
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: were crazy cars picking you up at three thirty in
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: the morning. I mean it's to bere By for you know,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: to beat the traffic, and they're the wholes are already
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: there like at four morning before the show starts at
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: six I guess is when it aired or something like that.
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: So luckily, so we we tried to go live. We
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: did the whole live thing. We couldn't do live because
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: of timing issues. But even not being live, like being
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: a recorded show, it's a lot, you know. We have
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: to be there early in the morning, you know, seven,
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: eight o'clock in the morning, you know, basically shoot two
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: shows one show. You know, it takes all day, you know,
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: and like you said, you know for a thirty minute segment,
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: you know, to even an hour slot. It's it's a
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: lot of work that goes into it. But I wouldn't
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: change it, you know. I love what I do. Like
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: I said, the whole premise of being in the business
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: was to get somewhere, right, and this is this is
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: a part of getting somewhere and being somewhere. And here
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: we are teach me something. Yeah, I love it.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Well, so you're proudly Dominican and Puerto Rican?
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Yes? Who cooks better? What's that?
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: Man?
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: Like?
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: For the right here or just in general? To viral?
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Who's a better cook? The Dominican or the Puerto Rican?
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Let me see what you say? Who has better food?
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Say that one?
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: I plead the fifth?
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: I can what the answer is?
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: I can't do that, you know, but I might go
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: get a sun culture after this?
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Whoa, there we go. How has your cultural identity influenced
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: your sound, your work ethic and your approach to entertainment?
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: Wow, that's a good question. Make sure you send me that.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: I might have to ask people the same question.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: We asked good questions here that that was.
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: That was a good one. That was a good one.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: To figure out the answer?
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: Well, musically, right, So I grew up with a lot
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: of old school music, right, so like the Beatles. My
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: dad was like a rockhead, believe it or not. Yeah, yeah,
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: So like I grew up with a lot of like
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: you know, old school music, like early in the morning,
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: but then it would it would quickly change, you know,
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: once Mama woke up, because now we're playing sadasa you know.
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: Now you know we motivated into the drinking time, so
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: now we're playing medange, you know. And you know, growing up,
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: you know it influences you as a DJ, right because
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: you become versatile. You know, you're not just playing one
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: genre and you start mixing in a lot of those
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: old genres into your sets, and you start building and
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: creating your own type of sound, right kind of sort
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: of and him being musically inclined and like me having
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: these how should I say these influences really really, I
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: guess kind of built what my sound was and like
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: who I was as a DJ, and just basically like
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: as a as a person that likes music, it helps
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: you a lot, I guess as a DJ to kind
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: of bring people to the genres that they don't listen to, right,
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: because now you start playing a lot of that old
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: school music that people have never heard and it becomes new.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: That's how a lot of these TikTok videos are coming
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: out now. There's a lot of music that you know
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: came out when when I was growing up that was big,
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: and you know now it's like flourishing again. It's coming
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: out again because you know, kids are using it because
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: maybe their parents listen to it or everything.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: The rewatch podcasts, all these series, everything's coming back.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: So we are vintage and also trending.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: There you go.
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: That that was good too. You know, you gotta send
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: me little little blueprint of it. You know I'm not producer,
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: but did that answer the question?
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: And you know, this.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: Industry is so unpredictable.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: We were speaking about this in our in our last
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: episode of how you know, a lot of things are
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: temporary and you have to enjoy those moments and enjoy
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: the ride.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: And evolve with it or ad adapt is another word.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Adapt evolved. It's gonna it's constantly going to change, so
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: you have to keep up with the times. Right It's
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: just like we talked about or anything about DJing Vinyl
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: versus the thought of djying off of a computer. When
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: it first came out to me, I was like, what,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Like it's I was like nervous to do it because
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: I didn't trust it. Right right now, it's like I
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: couldn't even imagine not djying, Like it's so easy now
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: and I mean, it made a lot easier. But but
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: also you know.
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: I feel like even though it made it easier, it
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: made you it makes you work harder, right because now
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: you got so many DJs, so everybody, yeah, everybody could
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: be a DJ. So everybody has access to music. But
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: now it's what do you have that somebody else doesn't have?
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: You know, so now you're playing, you know, you're looking
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: through your crates to play something that it hasn't been played.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: It takes a lot now, you know, for the DJ's
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: watching to listen it, it's gonna take just like anything,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: I feel, it's gonna be harder. There was a time
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: where it got really easy, like you're saying, right, because
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: like when music transferred from being on vinyl and these
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: things you got to carry around to a computer. And
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: then people started realizing, oh wait, so you're saying, if
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: I buy a computer, hey, will you hook me up
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: with your music? Yeah? Yeah, here it's plug in. Now
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: you have all the music. Now you're like, oh wait,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: and my boy owns a lounge or you knows somebody
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: who does it. On next thing, you know, two weeks
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: ago you were going to the club. Two weeks later,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: you're actually playing the music. It's that simple, right, So
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: it created this space which is great for more, more
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: DJs and more things to come up, but it is
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: now getting to a point where it's going to be
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: harder to separate yourself from the rest, Right, what do
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: you do? Even even sound wise, because I go to
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: I've been to a lot of clubs now and it's like, wow,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: a lot of people sound the same now, like literally
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: on the microphone, first thing out of the mouth, whose
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: birthday is? It makes no noise, Like everyone's kind of
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: saying the same. So what do you do? So now
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: it's becoming a what do you do to separate yourself
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: from the next DJ? And that's where social media and
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: how do you look and all this kind of stuff
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: comes into play. Like it's a full on, full on
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: job now where it may be just about who plays
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: the best music, now it's a lot more to you know,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: even in nightclubs, you know, and you know for DJs,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: they want the DJ now to like do everything almost
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: like okay, what tables are you bringing tonight? Can you like?
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: So now like the DJ has to be the promoter,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: but so you know what, you got to own the
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: club too, yourself you know, wow, Like I love how.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: In entertainment we wear like fifteen hats. But it comes
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: because of that hustle, right, that drive, that struggle, and
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: it's interesting these transferable skills, right that we obtain. And
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: now on the corporate side, when we are everyone seems
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: to say, wow, you're really Type A and Type no.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: We had to hustle and have like twenty but in order.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: To it's almost and like I said, it's it's almost.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: It's almost with everything now, like you have to wear
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: more than one hat. You have to you have to
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: do that. You know, you have to be able to
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: because these companies, you know, across the board and every
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: every industry is looking at minimizing, right. So how they
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: do that is they just say, hey, if Penny could
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: do that person's job and that person's job, well, then
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: we don't need that person. That person Penny could do all.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Oh, we know because we're doing the multiple jobs all
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: of us here at once, which is you know, and
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: we've dropped a lot of gems in this last segment
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: of advice for those coming after us or aspire and
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: for me, I would say, you know, in marketing, we
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: say be liquid, be able to adapt Adaptability is a
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: really very important strong skill set to have or to nurture,
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: to learn. What would your angel?
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: What was the question again? I was looking at the jacket.
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, the jacket is the jackets? Fine jacks?
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: What color she's given me like.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: The Yeah, I couldn't. I knew it was like a pink,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: like a.
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: It's nice, right, she's giving me like pink lady vies.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: Well, because now in the health journey, losing the twenty
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: eight pounds, I'm able to fit back in space clothes,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: I feel like I went shopping, but it's like my
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: old clothes.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: I wear a music video.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: That's funny that you said that, because I definitely have
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: like a bunch of Tzarr shirts that I realized I
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: could never wear, and now I'm at that like little again.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: Yes, now you can put them on.
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: I feel like we're all on the health journey. You
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: should have seen what I was drinking this morning.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: That as a social media you know, social media has
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: a lot to do with it. And when I say that,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: I mean because you're trying to look a certain type
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: of way, I mean because the information is endless, especially
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: when you start looking in like you start finding yourself,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: like scrolling healthy things. Then all a sudden, you're like everything.
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: Everything's healthy now.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: It used to be all crazy stuff on my feet,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: and I eliminate a lot of it now I go
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: on my feet at the algorithm. Algorithm wise, for myself,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: it's like eternalize either all sports stuff for my kids,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: train like things to make a kid do this, like
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: fascinating agility stuff, or.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Like for me, it's coming and recording every other week
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: and seeing pro shredding way and I'm like, well can
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: I do to improve myself? As he's like I ran
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: five miles this morning. Piece of advice on him for
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: those aspiring to be in the entertainment industry.
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: Piece of advice. So it was actually it goes great
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: into what I was going to actually stay earlier.
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: I quick story.
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: So in high school, I went to one of these
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: fairs and l cooj was there and then ol Coolja
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: stated about like this BMW that he had like a
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: die cast of, and he said that he was going
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: to get that car when he grew up, and he
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: actually got that car even though like he blew up
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: years later. But there was one thing that he said
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: that stuck with me, which was do what you love
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: and love what you do, and you never work a
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: day in your life. And that's what I'll say to
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: them is basically, do what you love and love what
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: you do, and you know working will be fun for you.
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: Go for it.
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: You know you want to be a podcast, you want
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: to be a gamer, you want to be a DJ,
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: you want to be a producer, engineer, whatever it is,
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: you know, a put all your eggs in the basket
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: and just go for it because you never know what
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: you're going to get out of it.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Students, creatives, listeners, just hit play and do what you
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: gotta do. Before we entered our last question, Angel, So
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: you used to work for not just right those in
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: New York. If you know, you know, you know you know,
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: and you did all content, interviews, photography for the club scene.
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: I was back then one of one, and you can
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: all come at me if you feel that I wasn't.
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: I was the first and last VJ for SO. I
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: used to go to the clubs and I used to
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: basically take pictures, but I used to also record the
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: artists and the DJs and I used to interview them,
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: and boy a time was had and pro was actually
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: one of my interviews.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: There's an interview, and I received the YouTube link and
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: I was showing popa pro baby pro on this YouTube.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Good time time.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: That intro sent me. The intro sent me the necklace.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: It's like such a time period. I was like, wow,
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: what a throwback. And then we started looking at pictures
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: from vintage and when you were yeah and all this stuff.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: I used to bring all the artists uptown, like the
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: hip hop artists. Yeah, it was a good time.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: You still bring them when I when I do.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Spots here and there.
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we spread it.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Out now now we do the pro Stown friends and
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: twenty six one is going to be crazy, just know that. Okay,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: but let me get that outside.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, let me get some beat twelve shots.
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah right, okay, that's what we're doing.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: But how was it at that time? Because pros you said,
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: like the king of New York at that time?
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: How was it you keep saying again like that used
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: to be you know, no, I said, definitely outside anymore.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: I said that at that time, right, because you know
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: one O six in park doing all of these things.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: How was it interviewing him at that time for you?
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: It was? It was amazing.
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: It was and I'm not just saying that because you're
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: you're here, you know, and I'm on your show whatever
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: on used guys show. But uh, you know pro stole
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: back then, Pro Style had this, uh this DJ team
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: called all Pro DJs. He also had you know, all Pro.
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: I mean, these guys were walking around with big chains
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: that set all Pro on him. And I was like,
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: you know, I want to be all Pro DJ, you know,
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: and and you know, but I was like in my
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: own lane, you know what I'm saying. So like I
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: used to do everything to try and like catch pro
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. And like I used to
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: always see him at the club, you know, I you know,
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: any club that I went to because I was a
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: photographer videographer for se the you know, also host and
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: this particular one was his interview. Like I was out
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: there just like particularly for him, and he was with
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: a DJ with a mouth that that night, which was
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: an all Pro DJ also. And so just so you know,
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: the audio did not come out properly, like my questions
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: didn't come out properly, Like my audio was completely cut off,
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: and all we could get was basically all Pro all
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: pro pro styles answers and my video guy just had
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: to like throw magic on that and some cinnamon and
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: make it work. And that's how that interview came about.
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: But yeah, like pro style was definitely outside, you know.
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: And uh, you know, back then there was only a
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: few like DJ crews that you want to be a
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: part of, and it was like you were either an
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: all pro DJ, you were uh, you know, a heavy
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: hitter or you know, like a commissioner. And you just
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: if you weren't a part of one of these DJ
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: crews like you were just you were not down, you
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: were not getting booked, you weren't getting no play, you know,
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: and you know, he was definitely outside during this time.
• 34:43
  Speaker 7: You know, good times, man, good times. We'll do a
• 34:49
  Speaker 7: whole We'll do another episode of It's all great times.
• 34:56
  Speaker 7: It's all part of the journey. Yeah, it's all part
• 34:58
  Speaker 7: of the journey.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: You're looking back, would you do it all over again?
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: I Mean I got to where I'm at today because
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: of everything I've done. There's there's been no I didn't
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: leap anywhere, like I've literally done every single step. Like
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: there's no parts of this industry that you know, did
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: I intern for anybody? Know? Right? But I literally there
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: might not actually been interns, to be honest with you,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: when I got into this industry, right, you know, I'm
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: trying to say, like, so I've been in this game
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: since the beginning essentially, like hip hop even was, you know,
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: just getting onto the radio back then and things like that.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: So I was blessed enough to like really jump into
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: this this industry from the beginning and take every single step.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: But so I've seen it all from you know, Like
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: I said, I DJed my graduation party when I went
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: from middle school to high school, Like, I DJ'ed the party.
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: So it was hard work back then. I mean there
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: was no social media, there.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Was no no. I used to go to Kinkos that
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: what was called member was that was called Kinkos.
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: The flyerplaces Kinkos Kingos, right, Staples, No, I.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Don't even know about Staples. But I used to go
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: to Kinkos. This is when I was in Florida. I
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: used to go there and have to make At first,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: I used to design meme up like we like, cutting
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: things out, put in a thing, scan it. If the
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: scan came out good, there we go. There's our flyer
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: scan you know, five thousand of them and sitting there
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: cutting them and create our own flyers and then go
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: out and drop them off at barbershops and places. And
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: there's no aspect. Like I said, there's really no part
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: of the game that I can't relate to and say
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: I did. I didn't do that the just before the Internet,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: before everything in my space and all these things came
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: out where you could start promoting through that this hand
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: in hand back then and having like you say, during
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: those old pro times we used to have. I used
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: to hire the girls to stand outside, you know, collect collect,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: not street team, collect that every time you were going
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: in and out of the club, they get your phone number,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: put you in the thing here, take a picture, give
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: you the card for our website which you go see
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: the pictures on. But all this was to collect, you know,
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: your information, so that we could promote to you where
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: we'll be at next, so you know, we should to
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: do it all.
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: It definitely built me as a as an entrepreneur and
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: as a person, and with everything that I'm doing now
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: because I still have my company, I still do DJ
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: even though I have a staff job at CBS and
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: I work for who I work for.
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: But I wouldn't change it.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: You know, passionate.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: I'll say this too before we leave. We were blessed enough.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: It's a blessing that we came from an era that
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: it had to take physical labor to through things. Right,
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: if you wanted to talk to the girl, I had
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: to go talk to the girl in her you know.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Now it's like, I thank god I already got that's
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: another episode, right, Like thank god I got engaged and
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: married prior to being this whole like Instagram and everything
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: like that, because it's just a mass dating service is
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: what it became. Like nobody talks anybody. I'm like, like,
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: I got friends and they'll talk to her, Like, so,
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: what did you like, did you talk to her? Like
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: now I hit her on the d I'm like you,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: so you haven't physically went up to her.
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: And I used to have to go out and then
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: I actually have to get meet people.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: Like oh, let me tell you it works back then.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: So back then, if you wanted to create a name
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: for yourself, you had to put in that work. You
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: had to you had to be you had to put.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: In you know, the boots on the ground footwek that
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: street team, that promo team, and really we know about
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: the promo team.
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: I was outside three days a week for one night event,
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: just turning out flyers.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: It didn't matter what even managing talent like I had
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: to travel to other states and you physically went and
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: gave the CD or the thumb drive, whatever it was
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: to promote the talent. Like now you can just send
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: an M.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: That's why the industry, That's why I said, we're blessed
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: because unfortunately for the next generations coming up now or
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: behind them, imagine, imagine our kids and their kids, what
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: actual jobs are going to be left? Right, you understand?
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: So I think on that note, it's trying to close
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: it out.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: It is so Angel. We ask all our guests in
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: one word, what would your legacy be?
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: One word? That's a big question too. That's a good one. Legacy, Evolution,
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: it's a good one.
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: Oh I like that word. Interesting, pro Why you say that?
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Is that your word?
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: We have a thing about words on this podcast, not
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: just how we close, but also we spoke on our
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: Christmas episode about goals and words and some may have basic.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: You didn't say evolution, you said elevation. All right, yeah, different,
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: very two different words, two absolutely different words with different meanings,
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: but good try Penny anyway, Thank you so much for
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: being here today.
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: Thank you for having me guys, Thank you Angel, thank.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: You so much for being with us today. I hope
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: that everyone listening today got some gems that they can
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: and uh, thank you.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Thank you for these conversations too, about music and production
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: and djaying that.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: We could we would need you loved this episode.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: Well, there's so many stories that you could tell, he
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: could tell, and I could tell, and you could tell
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: between all of us. We're in this kind of entertainment
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: business that we literally could sit here and talk about it.
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: Maybe we can have a therapy episode.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Man, you need therapy, always, meditation or therapy.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: I am a therapy all right, Okay, it's good.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: Its good for you. Who's that?
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: All right?
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: Well, thanks for listening to teach me something with a
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: DJ pro Style and Penny tellas of.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: Course, presented by Berkeley College.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: Tuning next week and happy new here everyone and everybody
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: out there.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: We will see you in twenty twenty six, where we're
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: gonna it's gonna be incredible.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna have a cutout of pro.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be great, it's gonna be amazing. Let's go.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: Hey, Thanks for listening. Tune in next.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Week for all new episode of Teach Me Something
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  Speaker 2: Brought to you by Berkeley College ass