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DJ Hulio on Buffalo Chip Nights, Community Support, and Music as Storytelling · The Scene Projects

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  Hell yeah, brother.
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  Oh, this is nice.
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  I wanna thank you.
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  You're doing this, man.
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  Thank you.
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  This is awesome to sit down.
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  Welcome into a very exciting episode of the scene.
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  I'm your host Bubba Starts, and with me today is my brother Ryan, better known as DJ Julio.
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  Julio, welcome to the show, brother.
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  Thank you.
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  Welcome to my house.
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  Yeah.
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  This is great.
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  We don't get to do a lot of on-site, you know, shoots like this.
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  So, when we got the opportunity, I'm glad that you jumped at it and and let us come in here.
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  If you hear some meows in the background, we got some attention seeking cats.
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  It's all good.
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  I got one at home too.
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  She makes appearances on the show already.
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  So Nice.
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  This is as comfortable as I get doing these interviews,
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  man.
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  And it needs to be
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  that way sometimes.
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  No.
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  And I think it should be.
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  Yeah.
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  You know, what
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  I what I tell a lot of people when they come on the show is, like, you know, just nobody's
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  listening.
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  Right?
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  Nobody's not doing like, don't worry about all the cameras or the microphones or or what's
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  what's going on around you.
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  It's about the conversation, man.
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  100%.
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  And and we have such great ones.
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  And probably some of the best ones we've had will never make it to tape anywhere.
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  But, obviously, ten years you've been at the Surgess Buffalo Chip now.
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  It was an incredible time, you know, a month and a half ago now.
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  It's crazy that it's been that long
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  It is.
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  Since we left now.
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  The memories are still fresh.
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  You know, it's been for me, you know, I've been there.
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  Right?
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  I've been to the Chip.
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  I've done a day.
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  I've been to a concert and but I've never spent the whole week there.
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  Right?
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  And I didn't stay on the property, but I was there plenty when all the action was happening.
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  Got to meet some incredible people, but a decade you've been there now running club chip,
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  and obviously, you were a patron before that.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  Ten years of it.
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  What's kind of the what's in of just a few words, what is the buffalo chip for all of
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  those listening that have never been there and never experienced it?
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  Like, at its essence, what is the Buffalo Chip?
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  Home.
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  For me, it's home.
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  For for for people coming and visiting, it's a it's a reunion.
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  It's friends and family that have seen each other from across the world.
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  We have friends that fly in from New Zealand and come in from Alaska, out from Arizona, over
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  from Montana.
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  And it's it's nine days that we get to just be together like a family reunion, much like a
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  family reunion.
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  That's the best way to explain it.
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  And I think that gets lost, especially because you're bringing in these large name bands.
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  You you know, this year, Marilyn Manson was there.
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  What a huge act that was.
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  Five finger death punch put on an awesome show.
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  Jason Aldine for our country fans.
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  They just announced their first headliner for the twenty twenty six rally, and it was Lainey
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  freaking Wilson.
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  Yeah.
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  That's gonna be huge.
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  Huge.
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  Huge, man.
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  So so happy that they did that.
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  You know, there's a lot of bands I'd love to see.
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  A lot of bands I'd love to see, but she's got such momentum right now.
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  Right.
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  You know?
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  And it's it's really gonna put up you know, bring on you know, we're gonna get a lot of
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  people there.
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  Do you have yeah.
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  A lot.
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  I mean, it It's gonna be Kid Rock or bigger.
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  I I think it might be even bigger because Kid Rock can be such a polarizing figure for a lot
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  of other people, and maybe they just don't like his music.
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  I don't know a single soul around that doesn't love Lainie Wilson.
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  No.
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  Me neither.
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  Me neither.
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  And and to talk about Bobby, Kid Rock, he puts on, you know, one of the best performances.
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  Now we all know his music.
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  We've seen his face for a hundred years, it feels like.
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  But his his stage presence, the shows that he and then a lot of bands are.
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  But I think Lenny's gonna outdo that.
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  I think she's gonna she's gonna trump that.
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  Well, and like you said, it's the momentum factor where, you know, kid rock twenty years
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  ago on that rise, you know, coming out is different.
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  Now he's kinda one of the OGs.
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  Mhmm.
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  Shout out to them.
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  They had us for his his big tour, Rock the Country this year.
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  They were out in Sioux Falls, so we got to see him, and the show was incredible.
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  The pirate techniques, the screens, the video, man, like, is just unreal.
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  I mean, as far as being a showman, he's made a career out of that and being outlandish, and
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  and also by not giving a shit what anybody else thought about him.
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  Right.
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  You know, the one one of the things that impresses me most about him is he does that
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  sober.
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  He doesn't drink.
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  He doesn't smoke weed.
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  He doesn't do anything before his performance.
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  He's completely sober on that stage, giving us 100% himself.
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  Right.
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  And I think that's important for young performers to know as well that if you're, you
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  know, and they probably got a bad rep during the eighties.
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  Right?
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  The eighties and those hair metal bands and and guys were just getting totally, you know, shit
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  faced before they jumped on and delivered their art.
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  That that's not what it's about, man.
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  You're out there to do a freaking job.
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  Yeah.
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  Right?
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  And I I noticed that early on in my career was like, can't be my best if I'm drinking in a
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  purely physical manner.
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  Yeah.
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  I can't sing for three hours a night if I'm putting down booze and dehydrating my vocal
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  cords and all of those things And it gets scratchy.
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  In the press.
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  Oh, yeah, man.
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  And then you're wrecking yourself.
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  And if you're trying to do that back to back nights or back to back to back to back to back,
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  you know Exactly.
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  Man, you can't party.
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  So the only way to do it really is to do it, you know, at least when you're performing, to
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  do it sober, to be putting down the water because you gotta be wanna give a 100% of
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  yourself, a thousand percent of yourself into that one hour that you have with these people
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  or, you know, maybe a two hour show.
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  Right.
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  And if you're dulling your shine as an artist in that moment, you're kinda losing out on a
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  little bit of and you're doing yourself a disservice by doing that.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  No.
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  And I'm not I'm not here to promote any kind of drug use while you're while you're playing.
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  I don't I don't drink much.
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  I don't I I I stay I stay semi sober if if you if you will.
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  Semi sober.
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  Yeah.
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  I think Billy Striggs called it California sober.
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  Right?
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  Yes.
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  100%.
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  That's that that'd be the better better explanation.
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  Yeah.
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  And and I want people to to get to know you a little bit too, man.
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  So, you know, you don't have to go all the way back to the beginning, but I know your
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  upbringing has informed a lot of who you are as a man now, how you look at people, and how you
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  treat people.
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  Give us a little bit of the backstory, you know, DJ Julio before he was DJ Julio.
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  That's a little shit.
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  You know, my I grew up from broken home.
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  Didn't have a great first father.
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  My second father was great.
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  He adopted me when I was five and brought me into music.
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  He was in Wakefield, which you said you knew a little bit about Wakefield.
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  South Dakota Rock and Roll Hall of Famers, man.
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  South Dakota Rock and Roll Hall of Famers.
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  I might be there one day.
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  We'll see.
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  Yeah.
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  We're working on it, brother.
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  We're working on it.
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  But so I got to I got to experience music behind the scenes a long long time ago.
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  I was five, six, seven years old, and that that's where it started for me is the grit and
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  grime behind the scenes.
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  That that's where it was for me.
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  But I grew up I grew up in Sioux Falls.
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  I was born in Leeds, South Dakota, not not far from where I live now.
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  Moved over to Rapid City, bought a home in Blackhawk.
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  I own a plumbing company.
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  You know, I grew up.
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  You can almost see the water towers from where we're sitting.
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  Right over there in those trees, when I when we moved from Sioux Falls, we moved to Rapid.
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  Second grade, probably third.
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  We spent on Norwood Elementary, so I grew up on the North Side for a little while here in
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  Rapid.
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  Went over to the West Side, not to Blackhawk when I was 12, and this is where I've been
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  pretty much since.
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  Yeah.
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  Just and you're a staple of a name out here in the Black Hills I mean, everybody knows you.
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  And everybody knows you because your personality has put you out there.
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  I I don't know a single person that would have a bad thing to say about you.
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  You've always given so much of yourself to putting on other artists, to helping other
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  people to get their art out there, and to get into shows, and you know, performing, yes, is
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  one thing.
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  But I feel like you you take your role as, you know, kind of a papa bear of the scene now.
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  You take that very seriously.
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  I I wish I took it more seriously sooner.
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  We have a lot
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  of great artists in the South Dakota area.
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  West West River, for sure.
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  East River's been blooming for years.
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  You know, with the us over here are starting to show their faces, and I try to be.
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  You know, we we get busy in life and forget our meaning sometimes.
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  And as of recent, I've come back to that.
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  I want others to shine.
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  I want others to do their do their best, and I'm a hold you accountable.
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  You know?
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  If you want this and you say you want it and then you half ass it, make them mess with
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  you.
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  Right.
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  I'm not gonna do it.
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  And I think that's what people have been seeing from the seed projects the last year is that,
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  man, we're an open door.
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  But if you're not here to put in the work and you're not here to carry the speakers, you
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  know, so to speak in Yeah.
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  In any fashion that it might be that like, man, we ain't got time for you.
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  If you're not putting in all of yourself and you're just here to capitalize off the
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  platforms that we've built, well, there ain't no room for you here, man.
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  We only got people we only got room for people that are gonna help us roll the boat.
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  Yeah.
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  And I gotta see you hear you, you know, more than more than twice a year.
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  You know?
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  That's how I know you're you're invested.
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  If I hear you once a month, I know you're invested into whatever we're doing.
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  If it's a show that I'm gonna be a part of, I need to hear back from you.
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  If I'm if it's a show I'm putting on, I need to hear from you if you're gonna be a part of it,
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  and if I don't hear from you.
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  Yeah.
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  No hard no hard no hard feelings.
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  I'm a slap your hand in public, and we're gonna be friends.
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  That's that's just what we're gonna do, but we just won't work together in music because
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  that's not a good fit.
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  It's killing killing the friendship in the process.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  Well, and it you know, they always say that it's hard to hard to work with your friends.
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  I I think I, you know, I disagree with that.
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  It it kinda depends on who your friends are.
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  Yes.
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  I guess.
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  Yeah.
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  You know, there's nobody that I would rather work with growing these things than my friends.
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  Like, to me, that's what it's all about.
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  100%.
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  100%.
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  I used to have a studio.
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  Well, you guys can't see it.
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  No.
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  I wouldn't we wouldn't really call it a studio.
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  But I I had my gear set up right over here for years.
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  People could come and play.
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  You know, I'm always here to play.
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  I'm always here doing that.
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  And as of the last year, I've well, since Rally, I put my stuff in my my trailers, and
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  that's where it's at.
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  Gonna sit back, and I'm gonna enjoy this winter, and then it's then it's hard pressing
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  come the first of the year.
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  Yeah.
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  Yep.
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  Well and and we know you'll be back at the Buffalo Chip for the twenty twenty six rally
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  celebrating eleven years.
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  Yeah.
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  And I know it never feels like you've made it.
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  I I and and that you don't take any of it for granted.
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  I mean, you're texting them this week and being like, hey.
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  Am I invited back next year?
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  And, honestly, Damien's like, what
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  the hell are you talking about?
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  And and to be honest, I don't I I text very very seldom.
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  I'll call you.
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  Right.
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  I've I've learned that about you over the course of the last few months.
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  If you're important to me and it's important that we need to talk, I'm a call you.
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  You know?
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  And I called Damon, and, yeah, he said, you know we're just busy.
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  Don't worry about life.
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  Yeah.
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  You know?
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  And then they put a post up, which is an awesome post, and I love seeing that from them.
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  And that's that's the other that's the other thing that I was gonna tell you.
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  In a in a few short words, why the buffalo chip?
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  When I say it's a family reunion, it's not separate families.
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  You become almost ingrained.
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  It's like it's it's 100% the words home the the words home.
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  You're a part of it.
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  They make you feel a part of it.
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  The the Woodruffs, you know, behind the scenes, we got Mary, who I work directly with.
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  There's the Chris, there's so many great people out there.
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  The behind the stage people, they they just all make well, for me, they made me feel home.
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  Right.
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  And they made me feel at home with them this year.
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  I was just on, you know, the content creator, which there were several 100 of us at the end
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  of the day.
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  You know?
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  I went down to the creator party that they had at Camp 0.
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  And for me, I knew a lot of people are gonna get caught up in the stuff that you kinda know
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  about.
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  Right?
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  Obviously, the you know, you you have Burnout Alley.
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  You have Bikini Beach, and you have the big concerts, right, and the main auditorium, you
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  know, the amphitheater area.
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  I really wanted to shine a light this year if I was gonna be there on the kind of dark corners
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  of it.
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  So I spent some time down at Cam 0, spent some time at the, you know, the sports complex down
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  there, the Motor Sports Complex.
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  Freaking awesome, man.
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  Giant yeah.
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  This six mile track that they're ripping the side by sides around the whole time, but not
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  necessarily a lot of spectators just because it's hard to promote everything that you're
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  doing when you're literally doing everything.
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  All day long.
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  Yeah.
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  It's crazy.
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  So I got to spend some time there for the Ultra four racing, and they threw me a freaking
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  security shirt.
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  They're like, get in the fucking side by side, man.
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  We're cruising up to the top of the hill, take some shots, and do that.
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  So we we we just had a ton of footage, man.
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  I probably had a terabyte of footage that I freaking shot this this year and to capture all
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  the moments, to capture all the things that people don't necessarily see because it is so
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  overwhelming.
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  Yeah.
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  Right?
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  It can be so huge and not everybody spends ever even if you stay at the campground, you're not
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  in the amphitheater every night.
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  Because you're probably gonna party too hard one night, and you'll be like, no no no.
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  I gotta I gotta sleep tonight.
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  Right?
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  You're I'm gonna find one or two where I might get six hours of sleep instead of four.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  No.
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  And and this year, it was being there every day, every you know, for the rally as a as a
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  spectator, it is it is overwhelming.
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  We would before before I got the contract, 10 rallies ago, so it was the seventy fifth, we
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  would we would get up.
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  We'd have breakfast, you know, with everybody, maybe go to the pond for a little bit.
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  Some of us hop on bikes, go go rip the hills.
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  And now being being the inside part of it, it's still the same.
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  Nothing's changed.
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  Except for now, when it's time to party, I get to be that party.
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  Right.
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  Yeah.
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  I get to be at the big engine bar the big engine bar cheering cheering my other DJs on
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  VIP Rob and whoever else might be with there with him.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  Big shout out to Rob.
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  We're using his cameras to shoot this today.
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  So, Rob, I appreciate you, brother.
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  And I I can't can't thank you enough for for letting us use your equipment to to really give
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  this interview the time that it deserves.
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  I mean, I I do most of my stuff over the computer on Zoom or, you know, now we use a app
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  called StreamYard that's allowed us to really increase our production value.
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  We were live before recording this.
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  I was at the Cinch playoffs Governors Cup on the main concourse, and it's the same thing.
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  Just like you said, like, you are a part of the party.
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  Yeah.
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  And to be invited into these large scale events was just said, man, I was a shit kid too.
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  You know?
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  Like, to see us all where we've come and to be not just invited, but respected.
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  And I think that's what I've really come to appreciate.
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  As I get a little bit older, I'll be 40 in, you know, a few months and and accepting the role
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  that I have as an elder statesman of the scene, not just our brand, but of everyone around
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  here.
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  A lot of people come to me for advice.
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  A lot of these younger artists and even ones that have been around for a while.
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  Hey, Bubba.
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  What do you think about this?
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  Or or you know, who who can I talk to in this area?
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  Like, are a trusted source of information.
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  Yeah.
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  And I'm I'm so happy that I found like this.
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  Right?
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  This outlet to get all of it out there without having to take a 100 calls a day.
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  Yeah.
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  You know?
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  That would be exhausting.
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  No.
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  And you do a great job.
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  Yeah.
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  I've been following you for years, and just now starting to be a part of it is is you do a lot.
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  You're doing a doing a good job, so so pay yourself for that.
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  Go Thank you.
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  Your team.
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  I hear you I hear you got an amazing team.
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  Yeah.
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  And we do.
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  A lot of people behind the behind the scene, right Yeah.
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  That are doing it and, you know, producers that have come on that I I didn't know most of these
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  people six months ago.
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  Right.
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  But they've come in and have proved themselves worthy.
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  They want to be here.
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  Right?
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  And that's kind of what we talk about.
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  You know, I have a lot of friends that and I hope you guys are watching the show.
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  And if you are, get a hold of me, man.
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  Come on and do this with it.
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  Like, this
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  is they we're just having fun.
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  Two dudes on a couch,
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  you know.
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  Right.
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  Exactly.
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  Talking.
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  That's how it started one time, wouldn't it?
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  Two dudes on the couch?
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  Pretty much.
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  Yeah.
• 16:49
  Wasn't there something with my podcast called that?
• 16:51
  Yep.
• 16:51
  There probably was.
• 16:52
  I'm gonna owe somebody some money for this one if it gets it gets a lot of views.
• 16:55
  They should have cost money because we just brought them attention.
• 16:58
  Right.
• 16:58
  There you go.
• 16:59
  I gotta start turning that narrative around.
• 17:00
  This isn't two dudes on a couch.
• 17:02
  We are two dudes on a Man,
• 17:07
  what what is it that keeps you going, Julio?
• 17:10
  I I mean, it's it's not the money.
• 17:12
  I mean, it is.
• 17:13
  We we get paid for what we do.
• 17:14
  I I get paid to perform and to show up, but it's never been about that to me.
• 17:19
  What is it for you that keeps you pushing and setting up shows?
• 17:23
  And and obviously, the rally is an easy one to get fired
• 17:25
  up for.
• 17:26
  Yeah.
• 17:26
  Right?
• 17:26
  It's easy to come out and to know that you're gonna be performing for thousands of people
• 17:30
  over the course of ten days, but to keep doing shows and setting up smaller things, and I know
• 17:36
  you had a pretty regular gig downtown in Rapid City for years.
• 17:39
  I don't know if you're still doing that, but That that unfortunately, we
• 17:45
  we we paid the price due to somebody else's bad day.
• 17:49
  We lost a good friend down there to violence.
• 17:53
  And shortly after, we went Loki.
• 17:58
  That's one of the cats.
• 18:00
  Yeah.
• 18:01
  You could come here too.
• 18:03
  Yeah.
• 18:03
  You wanna be on the show, Loki?
• 18:05
  No.
• 18:05
  So that was a friend of yours.
• 18:06
  Yeah.
• 18:07
  I remember hearing about it.
• 18:08
  I I've been out of the Rapid City area for a while, but, you know, definitely something like
• 18:12
  that shakes up a community, and not just the city of Rapid City, but especially you and your
• 18:17
  crew.
• 18:17
  Yeah.
• 18:18
  And it it
• 18:19
  it was hard on the bar, and it wasn't it wasn't so much hard on the bar because of anything
• 18:24
  financial.
• 18:25
  It was hard on the bar because this young man was a good friend of ours, everybody at the
• 18:30
  bar.
• 18:32
  And just just the phone calls that the bar received afterwards, and it it it became
• 18:39
  evident in order to keep our staff safe and and the crowd safe that we were just we were gonna
• 18:46
  shut it down.
• 18:48
  And so that bar has been shut down since June '22.
• 18:58
  One of the twenty one or twenty two, we shut the bar down.
• 19:01
  And it's still empty.
• 19:02
  The the place is still empty.
• 19:03
  Nobody's doing anything with it.
• 19:04
  And and as far as live DJs, unless unless I'm creating a show, there's no weekend, you know,
• 19:13
  spot besides AB's in Rapid City that that a guy could, you know, bring that kind of a club
• 19:18
  scene to rap it again.
• 19:21
  I hope it I hope it changes because going downtown and listening to a DJ that that plays
• 19:27
  and mind you, I'd go down early just to listen to the other DJs.
• 19:31
  I'd go I'd walk down to the 445 and watch the live bands for a little bit and head over to
• 19:36
  Ignite or Cole, which is now Press Start, which, you know, they have music.
• 19:40
  I'm not sure if they're using DJs now or not, but they don't have much of a dance floor
• 19:44
  because of all the games.
• 19:45
  Right.
• 19:45
  It's a fun place to fun fun place to go.
• 19:47
  Don't get me wrong.
• 19:48
  No.
• 19:48
  And it's kinda sad that that corner just kinda isn't the spot anymore.
• 19:54
  Right?
• 19:54
  Because for so long, I mean, I remember when it was Dublin Square, and that's where we
• 19:57
  performed at.
• 19:58
  And before that, it was what was it called?
• 20:00
  The Arena.
• 20:01
  Yeah.
• 20:02
  It's had many names that corner, but it was always the spot.
• 20:05
  And, you know, I know that they tried there with Cole, and Cole was great.
• 20:09
  As far as what I saw, you know, a little more upscale.
• 20:11
  Shout out to our guys, you know, DJ Stitch and and Oakley who ran that place for years.
• 20:17
  Yeah.
• 20:17
  Oakley.
• 20:17
  Always bringing that, you know, and it's been in the top 40 stuff.
• 20:20
  Right?
• 20:20
  They were what they were.
• 20:22
  Their crowd was who their crowd was going to be.
• 20:24
  Right?
• 20:24
  But, you know, you go across town and Bud Ugly's for years.
• 20:27
  Right?
• 20:28
  Was I had that spot too.
• 20:29
  Was the spot, man, for if you wanted, you know, real DJs.
• 20:33
  Shout out to Greg Cook, GOAT Boy, Full Throttle.
• 20:36
  Yeah.
• 20:37
  Well and, man, what what they've built over there, over the last several years since they
• 20:42
  moved, you know, even farther out of town to that piece of property just north of the just
• 20:47
  north of Barabute there, man.
• 20:49
  Like, incredible.
• 20:50
  And the new stage and VIP areas that they built at full throttle now.
• 20:54
  I mean, obviously, we love the chip, but we got love for all these people that are coming out
• 20:58
  and bringing the party, man.
• 20:59
  Yeah.
• 21:00
  No.
• 21:00
  I you know, Mike Ballard and all of those guys over there, they're great people, you know, to
• 21:04
  me.
• 21:05
  I they may not be great people to other people, but to me, they've they've always treated me
• 21:08
  with respect.
• 21:09
  So nothing but love for them out there.
• 21:11
  Yeah.
• 21:12
  Home, I'm sorry.
• 21:12
  I'm by I'm I'm partial.
• 21:14
  Right.
• 21:14
  It's Buffalo Chip.
• 21:15
  So Right.
• 21:16
  And that's not
• 21:16
  to say that, like, I'm not gonna come out and check out your place.
• 21:19
  Right?
• 21:19
  And and me, I'm out there during the day Yeah.
• 21:21
  But I'm not coming back for some of the concerts at night most of the time.
• 21:24
  I was a little disappointed.
• 21:26
  I didn't go out for Hank Junior.
• 21:28
  Mhmm.
• 21:28
  I wanted to, but we have prior engagements.
• 21:30
  You know, for me, so much of what I'm doing now is to support operation combating veteran
• 21:34
  suicide.
• 21:35
  Right.
• 21:35
  Which is great.
• 21:36
  Being being the marketing director for them, and that's actually I I stayed with Charlotte
• 21:39
  and Casey last night because they had a bet going on at Kathmandu this weekend that I was
• 21:43
  supposed to be a part of.
• 21:45
  But, you know, two weeks ago, I got the the email from the Cinch playoffs that are like,
• 21:49
  hey.
• 21:49
  We'd love to have you on the concourse again, and we saw what you did last year.
• 21:53
  We thought it was great.
• 21:54
  You're not gonna turn that invitation down, man.
• 21:55
  Right.
• 21:56
  We're talking we were in front of, know, 15,000 rodeo fans this weekend.
• 22:00
  You don't get that visibility, often No.
• 22:03
  Or some people at all, and the chance to just stand on the concourse and to pass out flyers
• 22:07
  for what we do, but also the causes that we're supporting.
• 22:11
  It's like, that's our superpower.
• 22:13
  Yeah.
• 22:13
  Right?
• 22:13
  I'm able to turn all of that door to door marketing, you know, selling magazines back in
• 22:17
  the day Right.
• 22:18
  Into a real valuable, you know, skill right out there.
• 22:23
  Thousands of people walking by and just running that script, man.
• 22:25
  Support our nonprofit.
• 22:26
  Support our, you know, support operation better.
• 22:28
  It's support veterans.
• 22:29
  They were like, by the end of the night, it was just support veterans.
• 22:31
  Take this.
• 22:32
  This is how you're gonna help save a life today.
• 22:33
  Right?
• 22:33
  Donate a little bit of money.
• 22:35
  Check out what we're doing.
• 22:36
  Share that with somebody else and come and be a part of it.
• 22:38
  And that's kind of the point we're at now is that bringing in more organizations that are
• 22:43
  already doing things like, look, we just wanna be a a part of what you're already doing and
• 22:47
  supporting you in those causes.
• 22:49
  You know, the big dream is to build some housing units to really help these, you know,
• 22:55
  young men and and women mostly that are that are coming through struggling with, you know,
• 22:59
  suicidal thoughts and That's you hit something
• 23:04
  there before we lose it.
• 23:05
  Want Shopko, which is now Napa, was empty for several years.
• 23:10
  Why doesn't the city buy it?
• 23:13
  Why don't they use our tax dollars to put put a housing development to get, you know, a whole
• 23:17
  ass therapy session in there?
• 23:20
  Right.
• 23:20
  You come in this door, you get checked in, you get sober if you need to, you get education if
• 23:25
  you need to as far as finding jobs, how to find a job, how to do this, what what it looks like
• 23:29
  trying to buy a house, what it looks like trying to rent a house.
• 23:31
  Do you know how to do plumbing?
• 23:32
  What what we got all of these people in these big ass buildings that sit dormant for nothing.
• 23:37
  Yeah.
• 23:38
  Well, and
• 23:38
  that's why organizations like ours have to do what we want to do.
• 23:42
  Because I I feel like what happens and and I don't know that it's the root cause.
• 23:48
  Obviously, you're dealing with people that have seen some stuff that they're never gonna get
• 23:52
  out of their heads.
• 23:52
  Right?
• 23:52
  You're gonna deal with a lot of the PTSD.
• 23:55
  But those thoughts and those memories only come back when you're idle.
• 23:59
  Right?
• 23:59
  Idle hands are the devil's playground.
• 24:01
  Right.
• 24:01
  And if and I think what happens is that people get out of the military and you've been
• 24:06
  surrounded by a community.
• 24:07
  You've been around your people this whole time.
• 24:09
  You've lived on base or close to base and you've been around that.
• 24:12
  And then as soon as you're not active duty anymore and you're kind of thrown back out into
• 24:16
  the world, you don't necessarily fit in with everybody.
• 24:19
  You're gonna have a darker sense of humor than most regular people.
• 24:23
  Right.
• 24:23
  Right?
• 24:23
  I mean You've done a job that god bless you for doing it, but you had to do some horrible
• 24:30
  things in order to get the job done, and god bless you for doing it.
• 24:33
  That's I mean, that's what they need to know deep, deep down.
• 24:37
  Right.
• 24:37
  It was a job.
• 24:38
  It was hard.
• 24:39
  We all got hard shit.
• 24:40
  We deal with in our jobs.
• 24:43
  That I bless you for it.
• 24:45
  God bless you for it.
• 24:46
  Well, and how do we build communities for veterans that that is also including all of
• 24:53
  those things.
• 24:54
  Right?
• 24:54
  Not just building a housing unit for people to come and sleep.
• 24:56
  No.
• 24:57
  No.
• 24:57
  No.
• 24:57
  All the programs, all the get togethers, and having, you know, a lot of community built into
• 25:02
  the idea from the ground up.
• 25:06
  Right?
• 25:06
  Like all of that is built in.
• 25:07
  What I wanna do is I wanna build podcast studios in all of them.
• 25:10
  Get these guys and gals talking.
• 25:12
  Right?
• 25:12
  Get these veterans sharing their stories so people can see into those lives and you don't
• 25:16
  have to share all the gory details.
• 25:18
  Right?
• 25:18
  But at the end of the day, it becomes an archive for yourself and for the public to go,
• 25:25
  man, I I went through something like that.
• 25:28
  Right?
• 25:28
  And I think that's the important thing to drive through is like you're you sharing your story
• 25:33
  isn't for everyone.
• 25:34
  It's for that one person whose life it's going to change.
• 25:38
  Right?
• 25:38
  And that's kind of where I've seen a huge growth.
• 25:41
  I I say on my podcast, if I have the conversation, it changes one life and that life
• 25:44
  is mine Mhmm.
• 25:45
  Then it was a win.
• 25:46
  Win.
• 25:46
  And and no doubt, it's always been my life and the other person on the podcast.
• 25:51
  And then who knows what happens when it gets out there in the world?
• 25:53
  We have no control over that.
• 25:54
  No.
• 25:54
  No.
• 25:55
  That's a ripple.
• 25:55
  I mean, everything's
• 25:56
  a ripple.
• 25:57
  And that's speaking to who I was and who I am is is where I'm at today.
• 26:03
  How I got here today was nothing more than a ripple.
• 26:05
  Something happened in my life that pushed me this direction, and I had choice.
• 26:10
  I can live darker.
• 26:11
  I can live light.
• 26:11
  How am I gonna live light?
• 26:13
  I'm a be friendly to everybody.
• 26:14
  I don't care if I dislike you, hate you, love you to death.
• 26:18
  When I see you, I'm gonna treat you with respect because why not?
• 26:21
  You know, and now it works out.
• 26:25
  I get all the respect and the love in the world from the people at the Buffalo Chip.
• 26:29
  I go around my community here in Blackhawk.
• 26:31
  People know who I am.
• 26:32
  They shake my hand.
• 26:33
  They wanna they wanna say good day.
• 26:36
  Ten, fifteen years ago, it would have been heads down, and that guy's a dickhead.
• 26:41
  But we we live and learn.
• 26:44
  Yeah.
• 26:44
  And I think that's something that both of us have have really grown over the last ten,
• 26:50
  fifteen years of you know, I because early on, it's hard to be.
• 26:54
  It's about me.
• 26:55
  It's about what I'm doing.
• 26:56
  And over time, it's probably just part of getting older and having those experiences and
• 27:02
  growing as a man.
• 27:03
  Right.
• 27:03
  Right?
• 27:04
  To realize that having kids and raising kids probably affected me more than anything,
• 27:08
  honestly.
• 27:09
  You know, I I I went on the wrong, man.
• 27:12
  When I when I caught my charges and show, was like, fuck.
• 27:14
  I'm not going to prison.
• 27:15
  I wasn't thinking about my kids at all.
• 27:16
  I was thinking about me.
• 27:17
  Mhmm.
• 27:17
  Right?
• 27:17
  And then my son Mick was born down in Mexico.
• 27:20
  My daughter was conceived down there, and it was finally taking a hard look in the mirror
• 27:24
  and going, look, they didn't ask for this life.
• 27:26
  Right.
• 27:26
  And if you're gonna bitch and moan about the life that somebody else gave you, you know,
• 27:31
  without going too deep into my backstory on this episode, listeners of the show, you all
• 27:35
  know how to find it.
• 27:35
  You all probably know the story already, but it it was hard for me to be okay.
• 27:40
  Well, you're gonna do the same fuck up shit to your kids that that your dad did to you.
• 27:44
  Yeah.
• 27:44
  Right?
• 27:44
  And you're gonna give them all the same you're gonna give them all the same issues that you
• 27:48
  have.
• 27:49
  Like, do you stop that?
• 27:50
  And it started with personal accountability.
• 27:52
  Yep.
• 27:52
  It said, you made those choices.
• 27:54
  You're gonna go back and bite the bullet.
• 27:56
  You're gonna do your time, and and you're gonna come out a better man for it.
• 27:59
  And it was at that point that I started I almost just started demanding more respect for
• 28:04
  myself because I was like, look, you can frown upon the decisions that I made, but I I owned
• 28:09
  it.
• 28:09
  Yeah.
• 28:10
  Right?
• 28:10
  I am who I am Yep.
• 28:11
  Because of owning it, not because of the things that I did, because I stood up and took
• 28:15
  accountability Right.
• 28:16
  Said, you know what?
• 28:17
  I'm gonna satisfy that to society.
• 28:19
  Right?
• 28:19
  I'm gonna do my time.
• 28:20
  I'm gonna get out regardless of how laws have changed in the last, you know.
• 28:24
  I mean, as soon as I got out pretty much the a few years later, the laws changed and now
• 28:28
  things I was doing would have never landed me in prison for two years.
• 28:31
  Right.
• 28:31
  But, you know, I I'm I don't sit back and look on that with regret either.
• 28:35
  I mean, prison brought me a wife, a trade, and a mission.
• 28:40
  Right?
• 28:40
  And that mission was to help other young men because that's all I saw in there.
• 28:43
  Right?
• 28:43
  Is these young men that were just lost.
• 28:45
  They didn't have a purpose.
• 28:46
  They didn't have a community.
• 28:47
  They didn't have any of that.
• 28:48
  Right?
• 28:49
  And, know, I think you got to start building communities where you're at.
• 28:53
  For you, that was obviously the DJ world, you know.
• 28:56
  But also, know, your dancers mean a lot to you too.
• 28:59
  They bring a lot to the show.
• 29:01
  And these young ladies, they got a story.
• 29:05
  Right?
• 29:05
  And they're coming from not great backgrounds, but they're out there doing their art form.
• 29:12
  Right?
• 29:12
  And and it's not all about just shaking their ass.
• 29:15
  No.
• 29:15
  Right?
• 29:15
  It's much more than that.
• 29:17
  They're they're family.
• 29:21
  They're sisters.
• 29:21
  They're I mean, they're some of them are younger than being too young to be my sister,
• 29:26
  but they're they're family.
• 29:28
  They come out.
• 29:29
  They they do work hard, and they work for tips.
• 29:32
  And when I when I say work, it's they they play.
• 29:36
  They play for tips.
• 29:38
  You know, they they talented bunch of girls.
• 29:41
  I I tried to there's video of me trying some of the things they do, and that's not great.
• 29:46
  I don't I can't do that.
• 29:47
  I can't dance that way.
• 29:50
  But it it adds to it's part of the show.
• 29:52
  Yeah.
• 29:53
  Right?
• 29:53
  Like, they're not up there because they, you know, because it brings them some, you know,
• 29:59
  personal joy always.
• 30:02
  Right?
• 30:02
  Like, it's hardest dancing seven, eight hours a day, man.
• 30:06
  Yeah.
• 30:06
  Like, it is work.
• 30:07
  No.
• 30:08
  It is.
• 30:08
  But it's part of the show, especially out at the Buffalo Chip, the biker culture to have
• 30:13
  them, but they really and especially the girls that you got on the team and the family that
• 30:18
  they're there to make it an experience for the people that are there.
• 30:21
  Yeah.
• 30:22
  Right?
• 30:22
  They take a lot of pride in that, and that's what I really saw this year as different from
• 30:27
  years past because it's hard to it's hard to capture that in a night.
• 30:30
  Right?
• 30:31
  It's hard to see that because there's so much input coming at you, but being there for the
• 30:35
  whole week and watching how they were supporting one another and, I mean, the
• 30:39
  blisters on the hands and on your feet and on, you know, your your body is giving out because
• 30:44
  you're tired, but a lot of your girls are doing they're performing sober as well.
• 30:48
  Right?
• 30:49
  It's not like we're out there partying.
• 30:50
  Yes.
• 30:51
  We are playing.
• 30:51
  Right?
• 30:52
  Our work doesn't look like your work.
• 30:54
  Most people watching this.
• 30:55
  Right?
• 30:55
  No.
• 30:56
  We get to have a really good time doing what we do, but we couldn't do the job and especially
• 31:01
  in a marathon that is the surges motorcycle rally, especially at the Buffalo Chip.
• 31:07
  If you're trying to be part of the if you're trying to party and put on the party at the
• 31:11
  same time,
• 31:11
  it just doesn't work.
• 31:12
  No.
• 31:12
  We've lost DJs and we've lost girls because of that.
• 31:15
  I mean, it's when I say lost, they you know, they're alive and living well.
• 31:19
  We just as much as it's a party up there, we have rules.
• 31:24
  You know, we have standards.
• 31:25
  We we wanna be able to I feel for the girls, they wanna dance and show how the music is
• 31:30
  making them feel to everybody that's looking around so then people can feel safe.
• 31:35
  You know, now I feel safe.
• 31:37
  This girl up here is showing me how the music's making her feel.
• 31:39
  I can too show the world how my how how I feel to this music.
• 31:43
  That's a great point that I never thought of it that way, but that's why the dancers are so
• 31:48
  important because if you didn't have them, nobody would dance.
• 31:52
  Well Right?
• 31:52
  They would be
• 31:53
  on them boxes, and they'd be tripping and falling.
• 31:55
  Yeah.
• 31:55
  Right?
• 31:55
  We would just not have to have the boxes up there anymore.
• 32:00
  And we would still get people dancing.
• 32:01
  You know?
• 32:01
  They they people are going to dance.
• 32:04
  The girls are there to show them that it's okay.
• 32:06
  Yeah.
• 32:06
  Right.
• 32:06
  It gives them the freedom.
• 32:07
  It gives them the confidence maybe to go out there because, you know, especially, you know,
• 32:11
  the girls are scantily dressed.
• 32:13
  Right?
• 32:14
  You know, it's part of the show.
• 32:15
  They're in swimsuits.
• 32:16
  Right.
• 32:16
  Basically, swimsuits.
• 32:17
  Right.
• 32:18
  You know, out out there doing their thing, but I never thought about the the mental side of
• 32:22
  that.
• 32:23
  That is you seeing them up there, you know, wearing their bathing suit and dancing and
• 32:29
  doing all the things that they're doing, that it makes you feel a little less stupid maybe to
• 32:34
  go out there and shake your ass on the dance floor.
• 32:35
  Right.
• 32:36
  Because nobody's watching you anyway.
• 32:37
  They're watching them.
• 32:38
  Right.
• 32:39
  Right.
• 32:39
  You know?
• 32:39
  What what a lot of people don't understand about that whole that the club, any club that
• 32:45
  you walk into.
• 32:45
  I mean, it's we're using the Buffalo Chip Club Chip as the model here.
• 32:51
  When you come up there I'm telling you a story.
• 32:53
  If I'm active in my set and I'm playing my music, maybe you don't know this, I don't plan
• 33:00
  a set.
• 33:01
  I don't put music in the in in lines.
• 33:03
  I don't do what you see all these DJs in, you know, Miami and Vegas and Tomorrowland and all
• 33:09
  the, I'm not creating a list of music.
• 33:12
  It's I'm gonna start here, and I'm gonna watch.
• 33:16
  And from what I see, I'm gonna tell the story to the next song, to the next song, to the next
• 33:19
  song, to the next song.
• 33:20
  Never know which one's coming next.
• 33:23
  In my storytelling, my girls, not my girls, the girls are dancing to that visually dictating
• 33:33
  what that story is to the crowd.
• 33:35
  Yeah.
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  It's interpretive dance.
• 33:37
  Yeah.
• 33:37
  So when that happens, then
• 33:39
  it naturally it brings people that wanna hear the story together.
• 33:43
  And in my mind, that's what DJing is.
• 33:45
  When when I do this, I don't even when I was young, walking my my my very first mixtape I
• 33:51
  ever made, I was in fourth grade.
• 33:53
  I was recording, and I've said this before.
• 33:55
  So if you've heard me before, you've heard this story before.
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  I would listen to the Hot one hundred.
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  It was a radio station back back in I'm not gonna tell you how old that how how long ago
• 34:05
  that was.
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  But I would record the songs, the entire Hot one hundred, and then I would take those songs
• 34:12
  and put them in the order I wanted them in to dictate what I wanted the mix to look like.
• 34:17
  And, I mean, it was it was a lot of fun.
• 34:20
  That was that was great.
• 34:20
  That was the first time I ever put a story together through through music.
• 34:24
  And if you go onto the YouTube, it's r d Horan on YouTube, h o r a n.
• 34:32
  There's a few that absolutely suck, and I like them up there.
• 34:36
  People are like, take them down.
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  I'm like, no.
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  Because I wanna show what it was and what it is.
• 34:40
  What it started like, what it is now today.
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  And if you listen to my mixes that are on there, you'll hear a story.
• 34:45
  You've gotta find it.
• 34:46
  It's your it's your job to find it, but it's in there.
• 34:47
  Yeah.
• 34:48
  I love that because that's always what I've brought to music as well.
• 34:52
  And, obviously, we're we're different forms of the same art.
• 34:55
  Right?
• 34:55
  Yeah.
• 34:56
  Different in music.
• 34:57
  Right?
• 34:57
  You know?
• 34:58
  What what you saw of me playing out at Big Mama's yesterday was very much the same.
• 35:02
  I mean, I usually start with the same five songs, but even those songs tell the story of
• 35:05
  who I am.
• 35:06
  Right?
• 35:06
  Yeah.
• 35:06
  Starting off with a little fishing in the dark into Copperhead, but then immediately mixing in
• 35:10
  like more of me, which is the the Sublime and the mixing Steve Miller with a little bit of
• 35:16
  Shaggy in there.
• 35:17
  Right?
• 35:18
  And like being able to expose you to like, this is who I am.
• 35:20
  This is the stuff that I've been into.
• 35:22
  I I'm here to perform for you, but I'm trying to get a feel for what you're into without
• 35:27
  having to sit up here and go, what do you wanna hear?
• 35:28
  Yeah.
• 35:29
  You know, like Exactly.
• 35:30
  Because you're gonna shout a bunch of artists that maybe I don't know.
• 35:32
  Right?
• 35:32
  I don't know every song.
• 35:33
  That's not my job.
• 35:34
  Yep.
• 35:34
  Yep.
• 35:34
  That's not who I am, but I can get close and I can use that feeling out process to do exactly
• 35:40
  what you do.
• 35:40
  It's like, hey, man.
• 35:41
  I know I know they're gonna love this song.
• 35:42
  Right?
• 35:42
  They they love those.
• 35:43
  They will love those ones, then I know they're gonna have that some so I might go away from
• 35:47
  that for a little while, but I already know what I can come back to.
• 35:49
  Right.
• 35:49
  It's called I call it fishing.
• 35:51
  Called it fishing for years.
• 35:52
  Yeah.
• 35:52
  I know you said fishing in the dark, and, again, you'll hear on one of my interviews, I
• 35:55
  call it fishing.
• 35:56
  I fish the crab.
• 35:57
  I'll throw my rod out.
• 35:58
  My first song, I'll throw you know, I'll do my first jerk.
• 36:01
  That's my second song.
• 36:03
  Third jerk.
• 36:04
  Okay.
• 36:04
  I gotcha.
• 36:05
  Really in then.
• 36:06
  Yeah.
• 36:07
  It's it's till the dance is really
• 36:08
  good.
• 36:08
  Acting.
• 36:09
  What I was most impressed
• 36:10
  with yesterday, I've never heard it before, you know, but the way that you did it, you know,
• 36:14
  going from one song right into the next song on the one, on beat for those who don't know what
• 36:21
  that meant.
• 36:23
  And it just was it was like you were DJing but with the guitar.
• 36:26
  Yeah.
• 36:27
  Yeah.
• 36:28
  Totally.
• 36:28
  It was like, I I I dig this.
• 36:30
  And I'm sorry I didn't stare at you.
• 36:32
  I can't you know, I put my back to you for only only one reason, and that's because I didn't
• 36:37
  want to make you nervous by any means.
• 36:38
  Yeah.
• 36:39
  And I I appreciate that.
• 36:40
  I don't know
• 36:40
  who gets nervous or who you get nervous around, but even when I watch out my DJ friends, I'll
• 36:45
  stand off to the side so they can't directly see me.
• 36:48
  Right.
• 36:48
  Right.
• 36:49
  Well, I appreciate that, but I'm in the zone, man.
• 36:51
  Yeah.
• 36:51
  And much like you are when you're up there, and that's why I wasn't afraid to put a camera in
• 36:54
  your face, so it'd be up above you and getting all the crazy shots
• 36:57
  that we got.
• 36:58
  Right.
• 36:58
  From the thing.
• 36:59
  And can't get to see some of that.
• 37:00
  Man, and we made a short promo reel just to get something out right away, but I have so much of
• 37:06
  this stuff to go back and to chop up.
• 37:08
  And I know Rob's got a ton of footage too, so we'd love to put it all together and to make a
• 37:12
  nice promo reel for for, you know, not just for the Buffalo chip either.
• 37:17
  It's for the fans.
• 37:18
  Mhmm.
• 37:18
  For you to see, hey, man.
• 37:19
  Come come come see what we do.
• 37:20
  Yeah.
• 37:21
  Right?
• 37:21
  Like, pay the the price of admission is worth it.
• 37:24
  Yeah.
• 37:24
  Right?
• 37:24
  Like, and and that's what I've always, kinda strived with the with the scene projects and
• 37:30
  with, you know, I've always been focused on the artist.
• 37:32
  Like, it it's not necessarily about the fans when I'm talking with you or when I'm talking
• 37:36
  with any other of the 200 plus artists that have been in our show over the last year and a
• 37:40
  half.
• 37:40
  Right?
• 37:41
  Right.
• 37:41
  It's about them.
• 37:42
  Should tell me your story so we can put it out there into the world.
• 37:45
  But for our coverage of like a rock the country or for our footage of the rally at all the
• 37:50
  venues we went to and especially the Buffalo Chip is to show the the fan side of it.
• 37:56
  Right?
• 37:57
  All of the vendors that are out there, the guys like Op One Vet who I got to form a
• 38:00
  relationship with, and, you know, the whole the whole Freedom Day celebration is incredible.
• 38:07
  Right?
• 38:07
  Like, to to have the vets, you know, represented on stage, the big presentations,
• 38:14
  it's again to be front row for, you know, my breaking down in tears because of what she's
• 38:18
  been able to do Mhmm.
• 38:19
  You know, as a former Buffalo Chip, you know, poster bottle winner.
• 38:23
  Right?
• 38:24
  And and but to get her continued dedication to the family and to raising money for veterans
• 38:30
  and just all the things you were doing.
• 38:31
  And to see her on stage being right there and capturing those moments of her overcome with
• 38:37
  emotion.
• 38:38
  Right?
• 38:38
  Because it's important to us.
• 38:39
  Like, it means something to us.
• 38:41
  Yeah.
• 38:41
  It means so much to us to be able to support these communities that that's what I was about.
• 38:47
  It's about supporting those other like you said, we all kinda have our own family, and
• 38:51
  then you come into the larger one.
• 38:53
  I have to imagine, know, to kind of equate it to the, you know, the native American tribes
• 38:58
  that used to be out here.
• 38:59
  They all knew each other.
• 39:00
  Mhmm.
• 39:00
  Right?
• 39:00
  You know, everybody wasn't at war all the time.
• 39:02
  No.
• 39:03
  A lot of times, they were they were in peace with each other and that, hey, that's yours and
• 39:07
  this is ours and this is how we live and they would get together in, you know, a a powwow or
• 39:11
  or whatever they would call them then.
• 39:13
  That's what we kind of identified as now, but Right.
• 39:15
  You know, we're very blessed in the Black Hills to to have that culture still represented and
• 39:21
  still very alive and well.
• 39:23
  And this is just a different family, a different family of families coming together.
• 39:28
  Yeah.
• 39:29
  And we get to do it, you know, every year that first Friday in August for the next ten days
• 39:34
  and celebrating with some of the biggest names in rock and country and the biggest names in in
• 39:41
  EDM right here in the Black Hills.
• 39:43
  And
• 39:44
  I would say I would say club.
• 39:45
  I have some friends that are EDM producers and music players, and those guys can get it.
• 39:51
  Yeah.
• 39:51
  Yeah.
• 39:52
  Club?
• 39:53
  Take me to the club.
• 39:54
  I'll take that I'll take that one.
• 39:57
  Well, I think that's a great point to cut it off, man.
• 40:00
  Take me to the club.
• 40:01
  Take me some t shirts.
• 40:02
  We need some t shirts, man.
• 40:05
  Yeah.
• 40:05
  Exactly.
• 40:06
  Awesome, man.
• 40:07
  Well, this is DJ Julio, my brother Ryan.
• 40:12
  Man, this has been great, and it's gonna be great again when we all get back to the Buffalo
• 40:16
  Chip.
• 40:17
  I wanna thank Damon and Woody, obviously.
• 40:20
  You know, you guys are at the top of it, but everybody involved with the Buffalo Chip
• 40:24
  family.
• 40:24
  Thank you for having me there as part of the scene projects to capture it.
• 40:29
  Special shout out to Cody.
• 40:31
  Cody Ertman, I put those kids on one of their first shows way back when they were in high
• 40:35
  school, man.
• 40:36
  Really?
• 40:36
  And
• 40:36
  now, yeah,
• 40:37
  I have tape from that somewhere in the archives, man.
• 40:40
  But him and his friends were still in high school and to now see to have him kinda return
• 40:46
  the favor.
• 40:47
  Yeah.
• 40:47
  Right?
• 40:47
  To put me on and to get me a pass to be there and the access, I definitely took full
• 40:53
  advantage of it, you know, and got out there to.
• 40:55
  Supporting bare knuckle fighting and getting to meet Cheyenne Bentlip and watch our South
• 40:59
  Dakota girl, you know, take a
• 41:01
  win home.
• 41:02
  She's such a badass.
• 41:03
  Yeah.
• 41:03
  And we've been we've been friends now, on Instagram since then and kinda always sharing
• 41:08
  her stuff and her journey, and can't wait to have her back.
• 41:11
  I hope we get to see her again.
• 41:13
  I hope BKFC comes back for the third year in a row.
• 41:15
  I can't imagine why they wouldn't want to.
• 41:18
  Oh.
• 41:18
  Hey.
• 41:19
  Maybe hopefully Connor comes back again this year.
• 41:21
  That'd be pretty cool.
• 41:22
  I got Assuming he's not president of Ireland by that point.
• 41:24
  Which he probably will be, which is fine.
• 41:26
  He can come over.
• 41:26
  He he'll be fine.
• 41:28
  More than welcome.
• 41:29
  Yeah.
• 41:29
  I got to meet him that year.
• 41:30
  Yeah?
• 41:30
  Yeah.
• 41:31
  He came up to the club, hung out for a little bit.
• 41:33
  That's incredible, man.
• 41:34
  Yeah.
• 41:34
  There's no remorse.
• 41:35
  As I thought he was.
• 41:36
  I mean, don't get me wrong.
• 41:37
  I wouldn't scrap with the dude.
• 41:38
  No.
• 41:38
  He was short.
• 41:39
  Yeah.
• 41:39
  I didn't realize he was that short.
• 41:40
  No.
• 41:41
  Well, he in what?
• 41:42
  He fought in the, the featherweight, wasn't it?
• 41:44
  That was the first one he came up, man, and, throws that concrete right hand, though.
• 41:50
  Would not wanna mix it up with him.
• 41:52
  No, sir.
• 41:53
  Will shake his hand and go away.
• 41:55
  Right.
• 41:56
  Awesome.
• 41:57
  Anything you wanna plug before I let you go, man?
• 41:59
  No.
• 41:59
  Just get your ticket to
• 42:00
  the Buffalo Chip.
• 42:02
  Find me on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube.
• 42:06
  Have fun.
• 42:07
  When words fail, music speaks.
• 42:09
  Listen to it.
• 42:10
  Yep.
• 42:11
  Come see us at Club Chip.
• 42:12
  That's where we're both gonna be, all week all week long during rally.
• 42:16
  Get your get your passes now.
• 42:18
  Yes.
• 42:18
  They're cheap now.
• 42:19
  Now.
• 42:19
  Do it.
• 42:20
  If you know you're gonna be coming out for Sturgis, the the clock is already ticking.
• 42:24
  They've already announced, the biggest headliner that they maybe have ever had.
• 42:28
  I know Skynyrd and Kid Rock and those are big, but We had is at the top of the heap right Ozzy
• 42:34
  Osbourne.
• 42:34
  Right.
• 42:35
  She's got some work to Right. Do
• 42:36
  Do She's got some work to do there.
• 42:37
  Yes.
• 42:38
  But also it wasn't Ozzy at the height of his career too.
• 42:40
  Yes, it was a big name, but Lainey is at the top.
• 42:43
  I mean, Grammys right now.
• 42:45
  Mhmm.
• 42:45
  And I feel like if the Buffalo Chip can start to bring in more of these artists that they're
• 42:49
  taught Jason Aldine this last year.
• 42:50
  Right?
• 42:50
  Yeah.
• 42:51
  And and starting to lean more into that country road because country is where rock music was.
• 42:55
  You know what we need
• 42:56
  around here?
• 42:57
  What's that?
• 42:57
  We need Lincoln Park.
• 42:59
  Oh, man.
• 42:59
  That'd be awesome.
• 43:00
  And we obviously know that that Chester is gone, but the the band is still
• 43:04
  Another dumb story.
• 43:05
  I played basketball with those guys.
• 43:06
  Oh, yeah?
• 43:07
  Chester Bennington, Mike Shinona, and exhibit when they performed in Rapid.
• 43:12
  The times you had.
• 43:13
  We need to start a podcast of our own that's just the DJ Julio memory bank.
• 43:17
  Yeah.
• 43:18
  That's what what do I remember now?
• 43:21
  Just kidding.
• 43:22
  Well, and you almost need somebody else to come in and be talking about it to bring them up
• 43:25
  because what you're gonna remember are are different than what most people would care to
• 43:30
  remember.
• 43:30
  For a lot of people, it's the it's the big names, and it's the those things matter.
• 43:35
  To us, those kinda get filed back in the archives and only get brought up Yeah.
• 43:38
  When the band comes up.
• 43:39
  You know?
• 43:40
  Yeah.
• 43:40
  You know Mike Liberatore or he he goes by Liberate or Riley Skier?
• 43:44
  No.
• 43:45
  So they're couple of the guys I was talking about in the EDM scene that just really know
• 43:50
  how to play, really know music, and that's one of my favorite times DJing.
• 43:54
  We did a three way, a Menage 12 music, if you will.
• 44:02
  Just did back to back to back.
• 44:04
  All three of us played at Synesthesia two years ago, three years ago.
• 44:09
  It was a lot of fun.
• 44:10
  Yeah.
• 44:11
  You know?
• 44:11
  And a and a special shout out.
• 44:12
  I'm glad you brought it up.
• 44:13
  Synesthesia, a great little festival been going on here.
• 44:17
  Was just a week or two ago.
• 44:18
  Right?
• 44:19
  It that's I
• 44:19
  think it's two weeks after the rally.
• 44:21
  So when however long ago that's been.
• 44:23
  Yeah.
• 44:23
  Yeah.
• 44:24
  Well, shit.
• 44:24
  That's been a month now too.
• 44:25
  It's crazy how fast the time moves and the dilation of time.
• 44:29
  Right?
• 44:29
  And I think you notice it a lot more as elder statesmen now Yeah.
• 44:34
  That it's just like it it can seem like it's so long and such a short amount of time in the
• 44:39
  same breath.
• 44:40
  And, man, I I've I've enjoyed the time that we've had here today.
• 44:44
  Yes.
• 44:44
  Getting to sit down with you in your home.
• 44:46
  I thank you for having me in here and and sharing your space, man.
• 44:50
  It's it doesn't look much different than mine.
• 44:52
  Crystals on the wall and Yeah.
• 44:54
  And plants in every window.
• 44:56
  You know?
• 44:56
  Shout out to the wife.
• 44:58
  Yeah.
• 44:59
  I I do my own decorating at the house.
• 45:01
  You guys can't
• 45:02
  see it, but the one thing I did in this room was I hung that TV.
• 45:07
  My wife has done all of this.
• 45:08
  She's she's great.
• 45:09
  Well Maybe in your b roll, you'll
• 45:11
  we'll hit a little we'll hit a little pan and get it in there for sure.
• 45:15
  Speaking of TV, this one might air on TruTV plus, our our new network that we've joined.
• 45:21
  And watching the scene projects kinda go from audio only less a year ago where it was only
• 45:27
  that.
• 45:28
  We went to video in January.
• 45:30
  The the the projects just passed a thousand uploads and a quarter million views on YouTube
• 45:35
  last week.
• 45:35
  Congratulations.
• 45:36
  Thank you.
• 45:37
  It's tough to come by, man, and not everybody gets a chance to do it.
• 45:40
  So I'm trying to take it all in stride.
• 45:42
  You know, it's not about us.
• 45:43
  It's about the artists that we support.
• 45:44
  We got a new show called Love Noise, every Wednesday at 9PM live on YouTube, Twitch, and
• 45:50
  all the other places where we're going, but, a chance to hear artists Yep.
• 45:56
  Yep.
• 45:56
  Every Wednesday nine nine central, so 08:00 out here.
• 46:00
  And it's a great time to meet new artists, not just the interview portion, but getting to hear
• 46:05
  their music and getting to hear the story behind that song.
• 46:08
  Right?
• 46:08
  Or the recording of it or just whatever.
• 46:10
  Right?
• 46:11
  And Right.
• 46:11
  It's just it's just a hang, man.
• 46:12
  It's this, but we do it every every week live on Zoom and and on our, you know, streaming
• 46:18
  networks.
• 46:19
  And it's just been fun, man.
• 46:21
  Building out this community has been the the the greatest blessing of my life to have this
• 46:25
  kind of opportunity too.
• 46:27
  Thank you for doing it.
• 46:27
  Well, thank you
• 46:28
  for being part of the scene,
• 46:29
  brother.
• 46:29
  I know you've built a lot of it, so appreciate you coming on the show.
• 46:33
  Appreciate y'all listening.
• 46:34
  That's DJ Julio.
• 46:35
  I'm Bubba Starts, and we'll see you at the club.
• 46:38
  See you at the club.