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028 - Freestyling w/ DJ Carbon - James Bobetsky · Here's to You

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  Today on the Pod. It's a nice warm, lovely
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  February day sitting here in the early afternoon.
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  So we've got places to to be and people to see later on.
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  Got shit to do and people to fuck.
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  Just kidding. Sorry, I didn't say she did but
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  you guys know Fanny is single. But today, our very special
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  guests, you know, the first time I saw this guy, he totally blew
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  my mind over a decade ago. He was doing so many turntable
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  tricks that I had only seen on the internet up to that point
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  and see them in front of my eyes live.
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  And friend was like, wow, this I is the best DJ in town and a
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  decade later. He's still sitting there
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  everybody. Welcome, the great, the
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  powerful, the one and only moustached Tenderoni.
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  James, DJ carbon. Whoo, that's key.
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  What is good? Wow.
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  Oh man, he's a true fan as you can tell, I don't know if is the
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  rum or that. Thank you.
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  Thank you very much for that. I'm impressed how you doing
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  today? I'm doing all right, considering
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  the lack of sleep and all that but no man feeling good, glad to
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  be here. Gorgeous day in February.
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  I didn't expect sixties when I woke up and stepped outside.
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  Yeah, I'll take it. Yeah.
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  Oh, yeah. And you got, you got a couple of
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  other things to do tonight to. Right.
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  Yeah. Right.
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  After this, I will be over at Doma out on the east side, I'll
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  be chilling in their Lounge. Just kicking the tunes off on
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  the Saturday. Normally, I'm over there on
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  Thursdays, but they need some coverage.
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  So I'm going to step in to fill Bill.
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  So nice. Nice.
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  Well we're super excited that you squeeze the sitting because
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  this is awesome. We haven't had a DJ other than
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  Dusty and Mark on. So we haven't had one in a
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  really long time, so it's really good to be at what I like really
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  talk through that your career, all the things that you started
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  off doing. But first, first things first,
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  we want to know the story about the mustache because we know
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  that people will be like, oh yeah, the deejay with the Sash,
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  the best marketing and branding, I could ever do.
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  And what type of hair product? Did you use a mustache product,
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  you use for that Clubman mustache wax?
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  And if it's a really hot day and that's the wax is going to drip
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  a little touch it. Elmer's Glue, locks it in what
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  Elmer's glue stick. Literally just yeah, like glue
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  glue, like a glue stick. Like what do you do?
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  If it's too hot, I learned that trick because once I was
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  traveling and the wax that I use, it comes in like it's
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  almost like a toothpaste, kind of container.
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  It's aluminum and it busted in my luggage and I'm like, what do
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  I what? Yeah, so I tried the one of the
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  hair gels and it was kind of good, but it was really tight.
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  And someone said, oh yeah, right.
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  Elmer's, like, some dude that said, like, I use it when I'm in
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  like Vegas with the heat because it holds up, I was like, I'll
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  try it. I'm like, oh dude, this works
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  like a chance. So yeah, yeah.
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  So the original story of the mustache was so mean my friends
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  always did no-shave. November.
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  Uh-huh. So we would all clean shape to
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  start the month. I born and raised New Yorker
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  after moving here. I moved out all over the map so
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  as one of the things we would all get together and kind of do
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  online just as a way to keep up. Yeah.
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  And so we did it. I grew out my mustache.
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  And then we all had to shave and style for our final photos,
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  fundraising we were doing and it was just a way for us to all to
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  connect and talk smack. So, I shaved.
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  And I've had like, 80 busiest little baby Curl.
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  Yeah. And I ended up raising the most
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  money off of the final photo. They were like, dude.
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  Are you kidding me? Yeah, well, right.
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  Is, that was going on. A buddy of mine was getting
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  married. Good friend, Justin.
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  He was getting married. His fiancee says, can you keep
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  that for the wedding? She was obsessed with like the
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  mustache. Okay.
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  Yeah, I wasn't. This was going to go away, but
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  ya know if you want that for your wedding but that'll be my
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  wedding gift cause I was DJ in the wedding.
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  Yeah. So it's a sweet or keep letting
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  it grows a little bit longer, a little bit more of a curl.
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  I mean there's only like a month or so later.
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  Yeah. And then right after that I was
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  in a DJ about hmm and I hadn't shaved yet and I was just kind
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  of just being lazy about it and in The battle.
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  One of the other DJ's literally slaps on a fake mustache.
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  Oh sure. Yeah.
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  I'm DJ carbon to make fun of me. I'm like, yeah.
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  Oh yeah. Had this only three months and
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  this is how you're identifying me for a bat.
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  Like yeah. So at that point, I'm like,
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  dude, this has legs and and I got a kick out of it because
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  everyone everywhere I went like you get those looks and to this
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  day I still do and I'm kind of don't even see him half the time
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  anymore. But so I just rolled with it.
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  And then shortly after that I was in, I was on TV for Or doing
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  the promo, and everyone saw the mustache, and how we got on the
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  news. It was like 6:00 in the morning
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  on a Sunday. Yeah, my eyes were bloodshot.
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  I was struggling, but they wanted me to do some live DJ and
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  on the morning show. So we get on there and I'm on
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  there with my mustache. Everyone from my past 20 years
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  in Wichita, dad seems like what like my old high school teachers
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  when I first moved here and stuff and I was like they all
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  saw it and then it just became a thing and then it's become the
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  best. Marketing.
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  Like, DJ carbon, who guy with the mustache?
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  Oh yeah. Yes, he's everywhere.
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  So, yeah, so yeah, it just kind of stuck with it.
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  I'm like now, like even during covid I had to wear masks and I
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  could see people like, is it him?
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  I can't tell because I can't see the mustache.
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  Yeah. So I literally, like, all my
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  masks had mustaches on them. Yeah, we get Mario Brothers,
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  mask, there's a something to keep the brand on point and I'm
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  like, I will shave when I need to go in witness protection, but
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  until then, I'm rocking it. That is how long have you had
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  the mustache? OSHA.
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  Is that the original? Yes, that's that's what has me
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  on the news. That's so.
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  Oh my God. Yes.
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  And like the curl is not easy, I mean the curl is there well, but
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  this girl is way better. This was straight from the club,
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  so I didn't mean that was before.
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  It's like the 6:00 news or the seven and we were there like 5
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  a.m. Oh, my gosh.
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  Were you still like three Red Bulls in the parking lot?
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  But like during the whole interview I was sweat.
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  Everyone's like, why are you Swaying.
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  I'm like I didn't know. I was swaying.
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  I love that you say that. Because does he does that every
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  single time I'm always make fun of him.
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  He's like as soon as Dusty is like happier, every time we're
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  eating or just hanging out as soon as he started swaying, you
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  know, he's having a good time, I was out back Leigh's, it says,
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  that's how old he is. He's like, it's because my back.
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  So how long did it get you to or did it take you to get it into
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  that crow caws like that last year or two?
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  I've had it at this link for like eight, seven, eight years
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  now. I've been a trim it up.
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  Yeah. All the time.
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  So you go to someone like a bar. Okay.
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  Yeah. I don't trust anyone.
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  Yeah, well yeah, that's true. Brad man.
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  I've invested too much time. Yeah.
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  Well first, a cheaper just that I don't have anything else to do
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  in the morning. So this is what I'm this is my
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  routine. No, I don't got to get it up,
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  keep the hair. How do you start like when you
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  do you come when you wash it? And so yeah, comb it out on
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  normally. I'll rip wash everything out the
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  night before. So wake up in the morning.
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  Give it a quick rinse. If I'm jumping in the shower and
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  then basically wax. Just basically, I'll take a comb
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  through it real quick wax on the fingers to warm it up a little
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  bit, put the wax through, give it a little twist.
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  And then basically, with the wax, just put it right here on
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  the upside of my cheeks. So the wax will kind of Tuck
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  right there and stick. Yeah.
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  Then just let it dry out for like Like a minute and then just
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  pull it off right away with that little residue and then locked
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  in place, love it. Can you see it?
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  Like when you're like like, you know how your yeah, you can see.
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  Like right here? Yep.
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  Anyways, love the mustache. Yes.
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  I'm a huge fan, it's a gum take. If anybody tell you, you pay.
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  You like a million dollars to shave it.
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  Don't do it for a million dollars.
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  You can do that. What would be a lot with a
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  million dollars though? You really can't?
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  Yeah. A million is not that much
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  nowadays, it's not what it used to be.
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  I mean, I mean, but like for a lot of people who like can't
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  afford a lot of things, like a million dollars is a million,
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  that's a good, that's a good amount but like people back yeah
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  it'll grow back. What if we gave you 500 dollars?
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  Would you do it for free? Okay.
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  Okay what if it was 5,000? No.
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  Oh okay okay? What about 75,000?
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  Don't think so. Whoa.
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  Okay. So pretty high.
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  Yeah, you'd have to be pretty high.
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  I mean, yeah, it's part of the brand.
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  And I mean, with where I'm at now, I'm like, yeah, you know,
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  you like it have to be several years salary, to Fair, take away
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  from that. Like, I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna
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  stick with it. Yeah.
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  Yeah. Because yours already several
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  years in with it. Yeah, I mean, I've been DJing in
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  Wichita for 20, this makes 22 years.
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  I've been in nightclubs and bars.
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  Yeah, yeah. Oh yeah, speaking of yeah, as we
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  were talking earlier and you're trying to remember where we had
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  kind of like first met and where I saw the you doing all the
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  scratching and beat juggling and everything.
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  It was back at the Lizard Lounge for the horizons.
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  Yep, drum bass and I was good friends with Adam, he's like you
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  guys got to come out tonight and check out DJ carbon man, he's
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  really good like all right I remember that night very very
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  well yeah. That's the old crew.
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  Yeah, because I had kind of departed from that seat, at that
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  point. Because, yeah, we used to run
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  that was Jungle. Recon was the crew.
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  That was me, Chad, CJ, crave one, Chrissy as Gaia.
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  And then we had Justin this firewall.
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  So it was the four of us and we started a record label.
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  Did the whole nine. We actually, yeah, we actually
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  pressed vinyl. Why shipped I was shipping them
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  out of my house. We shipped more records overseas
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  than I did in the states. For the records we were
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  releasing was All right, Phoebe Raga mashup.
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  They go. They go for good money on eBay.
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  These days. It's kind of crazy.
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  I'm like, I still got like 20, I got the original acetate.
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  Still has the original dubplates heck.
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  Yeah. But yeah man.
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  Yeah Sunday. They invited me out and yeah,
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  that was years later because we had a big not a big falling out
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  but I'm like you go that way. I'm gonna go over here and kind
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  of hit the reset button and then it was all water under the
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  bridge. And yeah so we became good
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  friends once again still to this day with all of them even though
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  they've split. But but yeah, man, love those.
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  And yeah, that might of the Lizard Lounge.
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  I remember when they had that residency, what was it?
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  I forget what they call to. I want to say is like Horizon to
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  Horizon, that's what it was. Yeah, because actually Mark
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  engine trouble is going to throw something similar in March.
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  Okay down that barcode on Pawnee.
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  Yeah, yeah, so he like invited me.
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  Marco. Christina himself Ozzy, and
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  maybe someone else to come to United jungle.
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  Yeah. All time.
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  Say. Let me get vinyl out for a
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  change. So since your DJ, yes.
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  What type of music do you like? To DJ or to listen to basically,
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  how do I say this? Like, you know what made you
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  become a DJ? So I was before, I DJ I was a
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  huge hip-hop head. I like fell in love with hip-hop
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  because it was so accessible for a rapper.
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  One, two, three now Rock him. Hmm.
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  Okay. I mean like him not.
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  I mean, what? Kim was revolutionary.
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  Nas is probably my favorite Lyricist Tribe Called Quest is
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  my favorite Act of all time, cute.
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  I mean, I don't think he's the best rapper but the content but
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  it was when I first heard it I mean and to this day I could
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  listen to that all day. Long Tribe Called Quest my
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  number one of hip-hop all time frames down.
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  But no musically. I mean, I'm all over the map.
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  I mean I grew up before I was well, back when I first linked
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  up with that, that crew I wasn't DJ carbon.
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  I was MC carbon back then I would say what made you?
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  Ok, duh, MCD day. Okay, I'm still going to ask it,
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  it's an ignorant question. What's the difference between
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  him soon? And DJ.
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  Well, no MC. I was just a rapper.
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  I was just is the host these days, but no MC.
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  Yeah, but I took it as MC was the rat.
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  MC stood for move, the crowd old rock him verse and all that, but
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  no, I was like a battle rapper. I used to Freestyle if we were
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  to play something right now. Could you do it?
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  Yeah you really could? Yeah.
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  Okay. That's what we're coming back.
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  That's what we're going to copy. Good.
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  So it's okay, that's where we're going to come back with.
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  This is what happens when I'm doing shows these days like with
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  like Rudy and some of the guys they'll yeah.
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  Get carbon more drinks because we want him to Freestyle before
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  the nights over. I have to hear from you another
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  shot but I've heard him do it before.
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  What it was. I think.
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  I'm pretty sure it was that night at The Horizon when I
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  first saw him. Yeah.
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  Wow, that's good. This guy's great, it's hard to
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  wrap. I try wrapping and I'm like,
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  yeah, that's not for me. That's what kind of led to my
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  first gigs. That was, I got into it.
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  I'm some MC battles in town, eight miles.
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  I was the white kid in the club that I remember.
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  They had them pressed, Ash. Yeah, the first one was at
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  Indigo and then they didn't like it there, like, this is not our
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  crowd, you know, unless you know, God's that we got.
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  Booted out of there and then they ended up doing them at
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  Harry and all he's very knowledgeable.
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  What was that? Harry and Oliver.
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  I get it. So that's like down the street
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  from that place like went out because they asked me if I would
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  DJ for him. I'm like okay I can do that.
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  I was DJing for I'm like yo y'all come check me out and I
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  was hadn't been here that long so I didn't know the town that
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  well and it's that they're like oh no we ain't going there.
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  I'm like what do you mean? Then showed up I'm like oh like
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  there's some shit that went on there.
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  Yeah. But I was like, I'm going to
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  host these battles and I'm going to talk my shit because I was
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  like, he's ghost kid and everyone's listen to downside
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  beaten. Like, you don't like my Beats.
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  Fuck, you battle me. I remember the last night, there
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  was a dude, crush crush passed away, but the last night, he was
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  the winner, he was winning all the battles.
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  Like I want you to come on. Watch.
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  So I'm like all right. Fine and me and him went
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  head-to-head. Ed and I crushed him like he
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  took his soul from animosity. I don't know if you don't know
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  him but he was there. He was just like dude you could
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  hear a pin drop like every because the whole crowbar was
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  with his cheerleader. So then they were just like,
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  whoa. Oh man.
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  Hey, so you know, we're kind of jumping around a little bit Lat.
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  Yeah. Which I haven't even answered.
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  What music I liked. I know I know which is great.
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  So, how about how about something to kind of set us up a
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  little bit, right? Like, people know you around
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  you're the, you're the dj with the mustache, your DJ carbon,
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  but like, kind of set us up a little bit.
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  Sometimes we like to do like a quick background like where
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  you're from siblings, all that stuff from New York and was like
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  growing up in. Yeah, I was born and raised in
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  Long Island, New York, I was adopted and that'll play.
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  We answer another question that comes up later, but adopted do
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  that. My whole life grew up on Long
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  Island. We moved here.
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  I have a sister who's also adopted.
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  Not, no blood relation between us.
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  We moved here in 97. It was the day before my 17th.
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  Birthday, thanks, Dad. Worst thing, ever going from New
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  York, right? Experience some amount of
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  culture and nightlife and things for 17 years old and 97.
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  So, like, you were, you were like Prime hip-hop.
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  Like to, I Will Not Prime, right?
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  Like, that's so I kind of more like todos to look.
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  That was that was 97 was like the Pinnacle.
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  I mean, that you're talking about.
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  That was when bad that was, let's go Steve.
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  That was bigge pause. Yeah, that was.
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  That was yeah, okay, sorry. I was thinking like, what is it?
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  Isn't it like 85-89, that's NWA. Yeah, it would be.
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  Yeah. That's when you're talking about
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  like the roots. I mean, that's what I would call
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  like the old school but yeah, I mean, 97 was that's post golden
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  era in my opinion. But, but yeah, I mean, that was
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  when hip-hop was thriving, right?
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  And then so many, Different Lanes other York.
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  So then yeah. I like just yeah.
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  You got it from the from the from the culture that you did.
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  How? Yeah.
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  It was and I'm A hip-hop head through and through no matter
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  what I do no matter what a guy that's yeah.
• 19:28
  And I mean like I so I moved here hated it wasn't DJ and I
• 19:33
  was getting into the MC stuff and then at one point someone
• 19:36
  was at a party, someone was selling some decks and I was
• 19:39
  like, I will take those because I was throwing my own parties.
• 19:42
  Bought the Dexter and you were like, throwing your own parties
• 19:45
  because like that again, like that was something that you grew
• 19:47
  up with already know. So I got some when I first moved
• 19:50
  here, I didn't really find a place and then after I got
• 19:52
  through High School, kind of found the local Rave scene in
• 19:56
  9899 and met a few catch that were really into old school.
• 20:01
  Hip-hop like same stuff, I was East Coast hip hop to the
• 20:04
  fullest and also some of the cats that were big into some of
• 20:06
  the real stuff that I've also into.
• 20:08
  And I was like, wait a minute. My people know that they raised.
• 20:12
  I was like, oh yeah I miss back in the day Raves.
• 20:16
  Honestly, I remember one of the first ones I went to was at the
• 20:19
  Armory and DJ Shelly and DJJ were doing a back to back
• 20:24
  old-school hardcore set. And I was like, oh my God, I
• 20:28
  haven't heard this in a while, and I've just lost my, I'm like,
• 20:31
  all right, this is where I belong and I was that, dude,
• 20:33
  that was on the dance floor with a gas mask on.
• 20:37
  There's actually a video of me in 2002 Moon, Over America had
• 20:42
  released a DVD mean, a bunch of the homies from here.
• 20:45
  We went down to airport to, which was basically the
• 20:49
  predecessor to. What is now, EDC?
• 20:51
  Electronic Daisy, Carnival airport to was the lead up to
• 20:53
  that if you will. And we went down there and I was
• 20:56
  in the documentary standing in line, me and Chrissy and I got
• 21:00
  my cat in the hat on the side of nine hours to Rave all night.
• 21:08
  So you're throwing parties here, you're finding your people.
• 21:11
  And then So, yeah, I was throwing parties finding my
• 21:13
  people and then, let's just say, what's the best way to put this?
• 21:19
  Social Circles went into upheaval.
• 21:20
  So, I basically that whole group that I was hanging out with
• 21:22
  them, like, all right, I'm out shell.
• 21:25
  So basically just kind of hit the reset button on life and
• 21:28
  then got into the MC battles. Met a couple people.
• 21:33
  And then when I was doing the battles, I was spinning and like
• 21:37
  I was always big about samples and the old school drum brakes
• 21:40
  and where everything came from. And all Stuff.
• 21:42
  I was just a student of hip-hop if you will.
• 21:44
  So I remember one of the nights. I was just rocking doubles of
• 21:48
  Babe, Ruth Mexican famous, b-boy, drum brake.
• 21:51
  So I was just going back. And what do you know, just going
• 21:55
  back and forth and my homie. Pat comes up to me how my homie
• 21:59
  didn't know him. Then he's like what?
• 22:01
  You know about this. I'm like, I'm the one playing
• 22:03
  it. What do you know about them?
• 22:05
  I'm a b-boy and I'm like, nah, there's be boys out here.
• 22:08
  So you're like in Kansas, you're looking at One right there.
• 22:13
  Well we instantly hit it off and became homies and still homies
• 22:16
  this day he actually is down in Houston now but like that was
• 22:20
  just like oh this is where I belong.
• 22:21
  So I started doing b-boy battles.
• 22:24
  I need you to break down some battles.
• 22:25
  I mean, we drove the homie bands and Jabbawockeez what?
• 22:39
  That's so crazy. Oh my God.
• 22:42
  Going like all over the. Okay.
• 22:44
  Thank you. But then also Super Crew.
• 22:46
  I know those cats like all that America's Best Dance Crew.
• 22:48
  I know. Yeah a lot of those people as
• 22:50
  they would be always Judd. So the big thing for the DJ of
• 22:52
  the b-boy battles. It wasn't the DJ's were
• 22:54
  important. It was more important to the
• 22:56
  judges Works. They would fly in the top guys
• 22:58
  judges for the battle. So like all those cats it's like
• 23:02
  yeah I know that's that's the dude.
• 23:03
  I know that's a dude. I met.
• 23:04
  Oh yeah, you remember when we did this and like it's a small
• 23:07
  world, it's tight and that scene is now blown up as their group
• 23:10
  copper modern as well, right? Right cup of water.
• 23:13
  Is one of the it was Asian group back in SoCal.
• 23:16
  Sounds familiar. Yeah.
• 23:17
  Couple minor is one of the I'm ever back in the day.
• 23:20
  I used to watch their there's two season to.
• 23:25
  Yeah. Okay.
• 23:26
  Is it wait one thing in season one is?
• 23:27
  Well yeah. Oh baby.
• 23:31
  Just died walkies, huh? Oh anyways.
• 23:33
  I'm sorry. Oh yeah.
• 23:36
  No, and that. Now, that seems cold blowing up
• 23:37
  because breakdancing is in the Olympics coming up what I know
• 23:42
  that absolutely so interested now trying to figure out how the
• 23:48
  like, is it, how did that work? That's that's the questions I'm
• 23:52
  asking. Like house judging how is it is
• 23:54
  head-to-head? I don't want it to be, like,
• 23:56
  gymnastics floor, routines, where everybody likes.
• 24:02
  Like, you guys serve it better be like, you got served.
• 24:06
  It's gonna be so mad if it's not like that understanding.
• 24:10
  So, but yeah, I'm really Really curious to see what the rules
• 24:13
  because I'm sure there's also all kinds of stuff like normally
• 24:15
  did you him you got music but you can't have anything copy
• 24:18
  written when it's the Olympics or everything's gonna have to be
• 24:20
  created just for that. So I'm very curious the layers
• 24:23
  of what's going on but yeah breakdancing is an Olympic
• 24:27
  event. Now, what I love it, I I'm all
• 24:30
  for it. Yeah, I'm all for it.
• 24:32
  That's dope. Okay so let's see where we be
• 24:36
  boys. Okay.
• 24:37
  So we did the b-boy thing and then come to that.
• 24:42
  I was in one. I got a residency.
• 24:45
  My first residency was at fins Lounge.
• 24:48
  The original fins Lounge was a split-level bar, great place.
• 24:52
  And this is, this is when the error when everyone was kind of
• 24:55
  doing CDs because you can get your burn CDs.
• 24:58
  Yeah. LimeWire lime wine.
• 25:00
  Making you're making all your stuff.
• 25:02
  Yeah. But I was told vinyl guy I
• 25:05
  didn't like I didn't like the feel I was like no I need
• 25:08
  records. So and also at this point in
• 25:10
  time, no one was paying me enough.
• 25:12
  So I'm like in order to get to play a single song.
• 25:14
  So in order to get properly, play a song when you do mix in
• 25:17
  hip-hop you need two copies of the song cause you can like
• 25:20
  mixing the instrumental to the song that's playing and then
• 25:22
  you're going to take that off, put the root full version on,
• 25:25
  then drop into that, then do a little routine then.
• 25:27
  So you had to get two copies of a 12-inch single each vertex.
• 25:30
  H, copy is six bucks. So if I wanted to play one song,
• 25:34
  yeah, I had to spend $12 plus shipping and you hold it wasn't
• 25:37
  warped on your front porch. Yeah.
• 25:40
  So everyone used to be like You got that Newton like hell no.
• 25:43
  Like it's gonna be gone in two weeks, know about the music that
• 25:46
  I invested. So I was doing a lot of like
• 25:48
  mashups and I just people knew me for like just plain weird
• 25:52
  shit because I play whatever I can find in the dollar bin on my
• 25:55
  command shit work. Yeah.
• 25:57
  That was kind of my vibe. And I mean to this day I still
• 26:00
  have people that remember, those original days of fins, are
• 26:02
  people still hit me up here? I feel like I still got that CD.
• 26:05
  Frig no fresh volume 1 but yeah, it was.
• 26:10
  Did you always know that you wanted?
• 26:12
  Go into DJing like you didn't go like this truth, quote unquote,
• 26:15
  traditional real going into college that sort of thing or
• 26:18
  you didn't get you into. It was always just a side thing
• 26:22
  like I did it and then I got hit up about.
• 26:24
  Do you want to do this party? Want to do this party.
• 26:26
  So basically from 2001 through 2017, I was in Old Town door
• 26:32
  downtown at least twice a week for all those years at my Peak.
• 26:35
  I had five nights a week but it was just something that I did on
• 26:39
  the side. I always had a full-time job.
• 26:40
  So basically I work The Bombardier for seven years, I've
• 26:44
  worked at Coleman for eight years and I worked at are
• 26:46
  capital delivery and everyone's like, dude, you have a day job.
• 26:49
  I was like, when I left my day job was vice, president of
• 26:51
  operations at that company. And yeah, it was like wait what?
• 26:54
  I can't imagine that. I'm like no, I was like close to
• 26:57
  the vest where the button up and like all proper and but ya know,
• 27:01
  I had a big wake-up call a few years ago.
• 27:04
  So well I guess let me tell this story.
• 27:07
  Yeah, tell us, tell us what gets what you're doing.
• 27:09
  Just to where I'm at now. Yeah.
• 27:12
  So I've been DJing for like I said since 2001 and before that,
• 27:15
  but since 2001, I've been actively DJing in Wichita doing
• 27:19
  private events as well and this and that.
• 27:21
  So four years ago, I wake up in the middle of the night in pain
• 27:26
  and I never go to the doctor or anything like that, but that
• 27:29
  won't stop. Girl.
• 27:29
  I'm like we need to go to the ER, she's like, oh, that's not
• 27:33
  good because you would never do that.
• 27:35
  So, go to the, ER, I've kidney stones.
• 27:38
  So they're like, okay, but when you see the specialist have that
• 27:41
  they'll Follow up. Okay, so I go see the
• 27:43
  Specialties, like I don't like this game.
• 27:44
  Let's take another one. Whoo, we're 99%.
• 27:47
  Certain you have cancer. Okay, that's hard.
• 27:53
  Yeah, I in all honesty I was kind of in disbelief and
• 27:55
  everyone around me like, was a gut punch and I'm just like, not
• 27:58
  man, we're good. So basically they said we're
• 28:00
  gonna go in. We're going to cut a little part
• 28:01
  of your kidney off, and we're going to go in like five
• 28:04
  incisions cut a little part. Kidding off, you'll be fine.
• 28:07
  Three weeks later, three weeks will surgery.
• 28:09
  Surgery for three weeks. So said, schedule, the surgery
• 28:11
  for three weeks later a week and a half.
• 28:15
  Later, I got a message online. So I mentioned earlier, I was
• 28:17
  adopted, I knew that my whole life.
• 28:19
  I taken one of those online DNA test just because everyone claim
• 28:22
  me, they're like, oh, you definitely part this man, you
• 28:24
  definitely Italian. You definitely, like, all of it.
• 28:31
  And I love that. But yes, what unites us didn't
• 28:34
  think much of it. And, but then fast forward, two
• 28:38
  and a half years later. I get a message.
• 28:40
  Hi, I'm 99% certain Year. My nephew you were born on this
• 28:45
  date in this Hospital. Giving up to this charity group
• 28:48
  for adoption. Like how do holy shit?
• 28:51
  Yeah, they matched. They took a DNA test, 23 and me,
• 28:55
  both you and him. I took a DNA test and my aunt
• 28:58
  took a DNA test, just to find your heritage.
• 29:01
  Oh my God. And when you take the test, you
• 29:03
  can leave it open if you want people to be able to connect.
• 29:07
  And I definitely said with my story.
• 29:08
  Absolutely. Alright, so, because my sister,
• 29:12
  she was adopted as well. But I was, I was given up for
• 29:14
  adoption in New York state. She was giving up in Washington
• 29:16
  state. The laws are different, your
• 29:18
  blood sister, No, no just raised, but her birth family,
• 29:22
  contacted her after her 18th birthday, cuz they were able to
• 29:24
  open the books. So, my birth, my sister, my
• 29:28
  sister found her birth family, they stayed together.
• 29:31
  They give her up because she was too young.
• 29:32
  They were too young. My sister has two full blooded
• 29:34
  sisters. Whoa.
• 29:36
  And they came out to meet him. It was amazing.
• 29:38
  Like that is like a goose but like they're just our family
• 29:40
  just grew so. So I remember when that happened
• 29:47
  her. My sister's birth mother asked
• 29:49
  me. Do you want to find your mom
• 29:50
  like not to be selfish? But no like if she's in a bad
• 29:54
  place I have a good heart. I'm gonna want to help and I
• 29:57
  don't want the burden. Like I'm in a good place.
• 29:59
  I don't, you know. Yeah, yeah.
• 30:01
  So not don't know if I'm emotionally ready for that.
• 30:04
  Yeah, yeah. And and I'm in a good place.
• 30:07
  Yeah. I don't need a bird and I don't
• 30:09
  need, I don't need that. So, but anyways, so my aunt
• 30:14
  she's like well you're my nephew and I was like oh shit.
• 30:19
  So So she says, can I call you? And I'm like, yeah, absolutely.
• 30:22
  So that night we call Waterworks and the whole nine.
• 30:25
  I mean, it was so it turns out old, were you when that
• 30:28
  happened. This was so just 38. 39 is a
• 30:33
  very recent. Yeah.
• 30:34
  Yeah. This is like, yeah, yeah, this
• 30:36
  was this happened in 2018, November. 2018 is when I had my
• 30:44
  surgery. So so I call her.
• 30:47
  We even Stanley friend each other on Facebook and L.
• 30:49
  So it turns out my birth mother, she passed away in a house fire
• 30:52
  in 97. They were all on Long Island New
• 30:55
  York, I left Long Island, New York to move here in 97.
• 30:58
  So like really bizarre alignment like crazy, but she was one of
• 31:03
  eight brothers and sisters, so huge family.
• 31:07
  So we should never had any other kids never was involved after
• 31:11
  all that. But they went and found me on
• 31:14
  Facebook and they started looking at pictures.
• 31:16
  They saw pictures of my daughter Brooklyn, and one of my aunt saw
• 31:19
  this. Photo and literally like fell to
• 31:20
  her knees. Like, oh my God, it's Ellen.
• 31:22
  My birth mother. Like she was, it's our cyst.
• 31:24
  Like they were, just just shook. And so it was, I'm like, oh my
• 31:30
  God, this is incredible. All the feelings, all the
• 31:31
  emotions. P.s.
• 31:33
  I have cancer. I got surgery a week and a half.
• 31:37
  I don't want to back burner, this by any stretch, but I think
• 31:39
  I need to. Yeah, so I go in and have the
• 31:42
  surgery. The mass on my kidney had grown
• 31:45
  35% in three weeks O'Shea's. It was huge Very aggressive.
• 31:50
  They ended up removing my entire kidney among some complications
• 31:53
  going. Apparently, I decided to Hulk
• 31:56
  out during surgery and fight through anesthesia or something.
• 31:59
  Don't remember who that but uh, they, they removed the whole
• 32:02
  kidney. I came out, I am now four years.
• 32:04
  Remove completely cancer-free, yes, and Gratz, thank ya.
• 32:09
  So, it was one of the surgery was on Monday and that's
• 32:12
  Saturday, I had a gig. Hmm, obviously, I had someone
• 32:14
  booked the covering. I wasn't bad.
• 32:16
  I was like, whoa, but I was determined So you were going to
• 32:20
  try to make it. Yeah.
• 32:21
  Okay and they said you're not allowed to lift anything over 10
• 32:23
  pounds for the next six months. And I'm like, so I had Justin J.
• 32:27
  Scratch covering the gig and he's like, I'll whatever you
• 32:29
  need, man. So I'm literally in the
• 32:31
  hospital, get my phone out and like, rolling over.
• 32:34
  I'm racked in pain, but the doctor says, like you can't hurt
• 32:37
  anything. It hurts.
• 32:38
  Like hell but you're not going to damage anything.
• 32:40
  So whatever you're comfortable with not a high-top pain.
• 32:43
  Tolerance and I'm stubborn as hell.
• 32:45
  So I'm literally rolling out of bed and my wife's like, take it
• 32:48
  easy on long ago. My girlfriend - I don't like
• 32:51
  that. So literally would like to get
• 32:54
  my phone out, put Spotify on start playing like the Rocky
• 32:56
  theme song and I'm walking down, like people in the other waiting
• 33:01
  rooms is really go get him nuts. Yeah, long story short that
• 33:08
  Friday that's Saturday because so inspirational it's so
• 33:10
  motivating. It is yeah and I made it to the
• 33:13
  gig on Saturday reason why it was the Cattle Baron's ball
• 33:16
  which is the annual fundraiser for the American Cancer Society.
• 33:20
  So they, they look to me, like, you're not supposed to be here.
• 33:23
  I'm like, I'm gonna be here and like, yeah, I like my sides were
• 33:26
  taped up. I literally was leaking through
• 33:28
  my shirt a little bit, like they're, like, it's just that's
• 33:31
  a bit much. And I'm like, I had to be here,
• 33:33
  and so it was pretty amazing. And then shortly after that came
• 33:37
  through all that my girlfriend got married.
• 33:39
  I had two, aunts and uncle fly out to meet me.
• 33:41
  Almost 40 years old, first time in my life, I have blood family.
• 33:44
  Yeah, how was that? What was that?
• 33:45
  Like, how's your feeling? Just overwhelmed.
• 33:49
  Woman gratitude because they, they came in met the parents
• 33:51
  that raised me and and they were all in tears because it was
• 33:54
  like, we thank you for giving him the opportunity to live life
• 33:57
  that he has, and my parents thanking them for giving me to
• 34:02
  that, you know what I mean. So, it's just, just all the
• 34:05
  Gratitude and all the water works.
• 34:07
  And yeah, and yeah. So, yeah.
• 34:10
  And then, so that all happened, that'll happen in basically four
• 34:14
  or five months. Hmm.
• 34:16
  All of that from kidney cancer, married, birth, family, All
• 34:19
  that. Oh my God.
• 34:22
  So eventually went back to work. I was miserable and my wife.
• 34:26
  Now wife is like, I got a good job, take the leap.
• 34:30
  And I'm like, I've been the provider, I don't feel
• 34:33
  comfortable, you know, I've got two kids from format and gotta
• 34:35
  pay that, you know. And she pushed me and I made the
• 34:40
  leap, I left my day job in November of 2019.
• 34:43
  Hmm, just before covid really bad time to be a full and
• 34:47
  detailed. So I struggled through that I
• 34:50
  ended up coming up with side hustles.
• 34:52
  I'm like, you need to make $100 a day.
• 34:54
  I don't give a help. Damn what you do.
• 34:56
  I started making lamps. I'm literally sold custom art
• 34:59
  piece lamps? Yeah, craziest thing.
• 35:02
  But yeah. So I did that.
• 35:03
  And then got through it and then 21 came around and we've been
• 35:07
  gangbusters ever since so survive.
• 35:09
  That's tough tough time. And now I'm flourishing, I mean,
• 35:13
  at the end of last year, I was so busy that I had to hire other
• 35:15
  DJ's. I that was part of my Five-Year
• 35:17
  Plan. Yeah, ended up paying out good
• 35:18
  money too. A handful of guys at the end of
• 35:20
  last year with holiday parties in this and that.
• 35:22
  So I'm already growing to having a team within two years of
• 35:25
  hitting the ground running. Yeah, that's incredible.
• 35:28
  That is incredible. Look at you go.
• 35:30
  Yeah. See you to shop for that.
• 35:34
  Let me do that. Do we really want that?
• 35:38
  Do we. I'm okay Drink Alone.
• 35:46
  Hi, I like the bottle effect on the mic right there.
• 35:48
  So doodle yes. I always have to do that.
• 35:55
  That. Wow, holy shit.
• 35:57
  So okay. So now you're in.
• 36:01
  So now essentially four years into no three years, I can't do
• 36:06
  math, 2020. Feels like, it was like a
• 36:08
  lifetime ago, and then it also feels like it's five years long.
• 36:12
  Yes. And it also feels like it just
• 36:14
  happened. Yeah, that's just crazy.
• 36:15
  Your story is so inspiring. Like I love it.
• 36:19
  I love to share it, it's overwhelming.
• 36:22
  And I've had a handful of people.
• 36:24
  We'll just be like, that's incredible.
• 36:26
  And a lot of people I've had a few groups that after that
• 36:30
  actually, the next year for the Cattle, Baron's there, like,
• 36:32
  they did it virtual there. Like, could you record your
• 36:34
  story for us for our introduction for?
• 36:36
  I'm like, absolutely. And I just feel blessed to be
• 36:39
  able to share it and the fact that anybody gets feel some type
• 36:43
  of way and gets motivated in some type of way about it.
• 36:45
  Then all the more power to it so I'm just grateful to be here for
• 36:48
  it. So James hydrocarbon, thank you
• 36:52
  for sharing that with us. Cheers.
• 36:54
  Cheers Marcia. Thank you, salud.
• 37:04
  Our head is shrinking. I'm coming off of dry January.
• 37:06
  So who? Yeah.
• 37:09
  So who, and what influence you to be, what made you want to be
• 37:14
  a DJ full-time? Um, my cousin is where it starts
• 37:18
  well not full-time, full-time. Exit, that comes later after
• 37:21
  this one. Yeah, the full time actually.
• 37:24
  I mean, I've always wanted to but I was scared shitless.
• 37:28
  Probably one of the people that really made me think.
• 37:30
  About it. The most probably doesn't even
• 37:32
  know it was my homie, Brent tactic out of Kansas City.
• 37:36
  He was a promoter we when I was doing my Rock Island days, he
• 37:39
  would be booking National tours and he's like, hey can we get a
• 37:43
  date on a? We come through one of your
• 37:45
  Wednesdays. We had a party on Wednesdays
• 37:46
  that was really beyond words and it was you didn't think you were
• 37:51
  in Wichita, like yeah, we booked DJs and said, do what you do?
• 37:56
  Don't cater don't do nothing like go hard on you.
• 38:00
  And we were pushing boundaries and it was the biggest party for
• 38:05
  four years running. Like at capacity before the
• 38:09
  doors. Open type shed.
• 38:10
  Yeah. As back, then, our weekend
• 38:13
  started on Wednesdays. I think I'm, I think I have
• 38:17
  like, probably like 30 people that blame me for losing their
• 38:20
  jobs because it was called T, giw.
• 38:23
  Uh-huh. I got this Wednesday also
• 38:24
  called. FML it.
• 38:26
  Fuck my life. It's Thursday.
• 38:30
  I'm gonna put that on. I actually know what I do.
• 38:36
  We should name. What?
• 38:37
  I do an Instagram and like when I want to drink I'm gonna put
• 38:40
  fuck it's Thursday. Yeah we went there we went hard
• 38:44
  but ya know. He was booking that and he
• 38:46
  actually he was up in Kansas City and was funny.
• 38:48
  He would book these guys on National tours.
• 38:50
  They'd be doing like 10 20 city tours.
• 38:52
  Plus like how the fuck was Wichita?
• 38:54
  Kansas on a Wednesday. One of our favorite stops of the
• 38:56
  whole tour. We went we turned up But yeah,
• 39:00
  no. He actually left what he was
• 39:02
  doing and went full time doing. And now, he's managing a number
• 39:07
  of artists. I've actually booked a handful
• 39:08
  of people through him and he's just a great dude, super humble,
• 39:13
  super genuine. Always one of the tastiest,
• 39:16
  DJ's. I know.
• 39:16
  And just a paste. Yes, I love that.
• 39:19
  I love, I love that word to describe DJ's.
• 39:21
  One of my friends. He listens to a lot of DJ's to
• 39:25
  and he always talks about, like, listen to this, this tasty track
• 39:29
  and I'm always like, okay, Okay, he always says that to me.
• 39:33
  Sorry, keep going. Let's, those are the lamps.
• 39:35
  So those are the lamps that I made out of pipe fittings at a
• 39:37
  plumbing pipe fittings. What?
• 39:39
  That's cool. I ended up selling like over 200
• 39:42
  of those in town. Holy shit.
• 39:45
  How much did you sell them for? I think originally, it was like
• 39:48
  160 that one. Yeah, price has gone up since.
• 39:53
  But yeah, well, I mean you did say you were trying to make 100
• 39:56
  a week so 100, a sorry? Yes.
• 39:59
  Well yeah not a week There's My bad.
• 40:01
  But yeah, I would just hustle. I'd be like, I'm gonna be like,
• 40:04
  I would go to the pop-up Park when people when they have the,
• 40:06
  you know, the food trucks and I'm like I'm gonna DJ see if I
• 40:09
  get some tips, I'm gonna flip this.
• 40:11
  I'm going to flip a garage sale thing.
• 40:12
  Like I, you know, I, you know, I just whatever it was.
• 40:16
  I'm like, I will go wash dishes for the day.
• 40:17
  If I can't make, you know, my old job, thank God my boss.
• 40:20
  He's like, hey, you want to come back and do some Consulting?
• 40:22
  So I was in there once or twice a week, so like there were
• 40:25
  things that made it easy, but I was just determined, I'm like,
• 40:27
  I'm not gonna stop. I'm going to make a hundred
• 40:29
  dollars a day. And like, I was doing good like
• 40:31
  she even streaming. I was making money streaming
• 40:33
  until I got banned for social media for a while due to
• 40:36
  copyright. Oh I got a 3 month ban.
• 40:38
  I was not allowed to post on Facebook, goddamn copyright.
• 40:43
  Yeah, it's tough. We got told that for one of our
• 40:46
  episodes actually recently. Yeah, I had to answer to that
• 40:49
  and I was like, okay I'll calm down with but also like Emily
• 40:55
  and I were like, oh my God, I means we're making it because we
• 40:57
  got the copyrighted somebody Thing to us, nobody's listening
• 41:02
  to us. It's just a robot, a robot I'm
• 41:07
  going to. We're going to take the robots
• 41:09
  attention. Yeah, we're going to take the W
• 41:11
  because like the robot could have a avoided us.
• 41:14
  Like they were probably like, you know, if this plate if this
• 41:17
  podcast gets like 15 listeners. We're not going to say anything.
• 41:20
  Whatever their no one's listening to them.
• 41:22
  But like where we're at now? That robot was like, nah, you're
• 41:25
  growing copyright. We're like, yes.
• 41:29
  So your cousin Helped you influence to be a DJ, right?
• 41:32
  So that's where the name Carmen came from what so he gave it to,
• 41:35
  you know? So I was 14.
• 41:38
  I was this young kid Young Buck and I had a cousin that was a DJ
• 41:42
  and I was obsessed. I felt what I did.
• 41:44
  I was carry his crates into the club that I would sit in the DJ
• 41:48
  booth and watch in Rhode Island. So, I would sit there and watch
• 41:55
  and I was just like obsessed with it.
• 41:57
  I was like, oh my God, this man, I'm just like, thinking like
• 42:00
  This is your New York is like underground shit over there.
• 42:03
  Yeah. Damn.
• 42:05
  Different world different world. And so I was underage kid and,
• 42:09
  you know you had some of the bar staff that was just like and let
• 42:13
  me slip you a drink and someone like I let me refill your
• 42:16
  Shirley Temple. You know, any like that.
• 42:18
  I want to MD little brother, like everyone kind of looked out
• 42:25
  for me and I wasn't wandering. I was just like, I'm just happy
• 42:28
  to be here. I'm going to shut up.
• 42:29
  Yeah. But everyone kind of knew me
• 42:31
  from there. Like I was the young kid that
• 42:33
  was posted up in the DJ booth, well, that club closed down.
• 42:35
  So my cousin started teaching some other spots and they saw me
• 42:37
  there. Well, the first Club was called
• 42:39
  carbons like, hey, is that carbon kid.
• 42:41
  Well, after I moved here, there was another DJ Big Spade.
• 42:48
  His name is James, which is my name is well and he had the
• 42:51
  party house. So every time we be there, it's
• 42:52
  like James. Yeah.
• 42:53
  What's up? No, the other one?
• 42:55
  Ah, damn. I'm like our closest thing I had
• 42:57
  to a nickname was carbon and then that's it.
• 43:00
  Click on. Yeah.
• 43:01
  And now your dad's calling you Carbon 2.
• 43:03
  Yeah. It's just a mess of things.
• 43:04
  I love it. He's proud though.
• 43:06
  I remember like although I don't think anyone gets a newspaper
• 43:09
  but I remember every time I had an event in the paper, every
• 43:11
  time my name is in favor. First thing in the morning, he
• 43:13
  sent me a photo texted me and he's like look at you look at
• 43:16
  you like oh that feels good. Wait till allows pause cat
• 43:20
  podcasts out. Yes.
• 43:22
  Yes. Got to be able to access the
• 43:24
  podcast. I don't know.
• 43:25
  Hey, we're on everything. We're in everything.
• 43:27
  I don't know if he knows it. I'll go to his house and print a
• 43:31
  paper out and put right there in front of him.
• 43:35
  But on that note, let's take a quick break because we still
• 43:38
  haven't introduced your drink. We still haven't even gone into
• 43:40
  all of the awesome stuff but we did tap into learning a little
• 43:43
  bit more about you that a lot of people don't get to know you're
• 43:46
  excited about that. All right?
• 43:47
  Yeah. Oh and then we're coming back
• 43:49
  with you freestyling. But we have to have the drinks
• 43:52
  first. Oh yeah, back in the brake
• 44:38
  feeling. Great.
• 44:39
  Take me. A back to Wednesday night's
• 44:41
  Carvin popular genres of the EDM scene
• 44:55
  but man, it blew the roof off a rock out and back in those days.
• 45:00
  It was a whole thing. It's fun to see, coming back
• 45:03
  around a little bit like, with a mixes and I'm like, but I think
• 45:07
  it feeds into a, like, all the AMA piano and a lot of that for
• 45:09
  ya. That mid-tempo rain.
• 45:11
  Yeah like dude it was just dude everybody looks good dancing at
• 45:14
  that Tempo I money it is inherently sexy when he went 132
• 45:19
  BPM 170 p.m. just write very much is wholly.
• 45:23
  Iraq, two segments to we're sitting here with carbon, we've
• 45:27
  got our drinks made the drink that we chose.
• 45:31
  I helped choose because you had stated that you are into whiskey
• 45:37
  and being that you are from new York.
• 45:40
  We went with a New York sour. Yeah.
• 45:43
  So in the background you'll be able to hear Emily making a New
• 45:46
  York's. Our it's a just two ounces of
• 45:50
  whiskey. We chose for roses and then one
• 45:54
  ounce of lemon juice shaken over.
• 45:57
  I don't know if you want to start making it while I'm saying
• 45:58
  this. But okay.
• 46:03
  But okay. I thought you I thought we
• 46:04
  decided no. Where were you?
• 46:07
  So I'm just going to tie everybody since I'm the
• 46:09
  bartender. We're here today today.
• 46:13
  So Fanny already said, what were you using and everything.
• 46:17
  So what I'm going to do is going to make the drink so I need 2
• 46:22
  ounces of whiskey. All over me.
• 46:29
  I'm gonna make a song titled that Two ounces of whiskey all
• 46:33
  over. You do that.
• 46:36
  Bam. You need one ounce of lemon
• 46:38
  juice. This is all.
• 46:48
  This is all over me guys. Dan are you?
• 46:53
  Put 3/4 ounce of simple syrup. I don't want 3/4 Oz but I'm just
• 47:00
  going to eyeball it. And that's how you do it.
• 47:06
  That was perfect. Then top it, shake it.
• 47:14
  I would I would do it there. What's the deal with whiskey
• 47:20
  whiskey? Really enjoy.
• 47:24
  Just the all the different brands of varieties.
• 47:26
  I mean, like I enjoy, I'm a liquor guy.
• 47:29
  I'm a fan of a cocktail so but whiskey, I think within it,
• 47:33
  there's so many different flavor profiles that I've just gotten
• 47:35
  into it. Not I'm not a snob about it but
• 47:38
  I just just enjoy. And I'm like this is different
• 47:40
  than that. That's different than this and
• 47:42
  between all the different bourbons and Whiskey's.
• 47:44
  I've just gotten into it a lot more than anything else.
• 47:47
  I mean, I'll drink anything. My thing is that I'm saying
• 47:50
  earlier, I'm, I love a good cocktail when I go into a bar.
• 47:53
  What do you have that? Know what, I can't get somewhere
• 47:55
  else. That's what I like.
• 47:57
  I'm like, put me onto something new.
• 47:58
  Like, oh, everybody most popular drink is our old fashioned like
• 48:01
  this is the most popular drink at 17 other bars to you know.
• 48:04
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 48:05
  What's yours? Yeah, that's why I love a good
• 48:08
  bartender. Like when you can give me like
• 48:10
  I'm like normally I'll go in and like all right give me rum and
• 48:14
  something rum in a flavor and then figure it out.
• 48:18
  Like I want Citrus or wants our and a rum figured.
• 48:21
  Okay, what do you got, you know? Yeah, all right.
• 48:25
  I made our drink. Also, one more thing.
• 48:28
  One more thing. Whiskey.
• 48:30
  Did, you know, there's this thing called, like, people go
• 48:32
  around liquor stores and find one of the rares whiskey on the
• 48:37
  shelves and it's like, you'll find the whiskey at the
• 48:41
  allocator something like say this, but it's like a it's like
• 48:46
  a trend going on people go. Foreign liquor stores and fine
• 48:49
  like a rare risky and I guess like, one of the liquor stores
• 48:55
  here in Wichita, they bring out One Whiskey, every two hours and
• 48:59
  put it on the Shelf. It's like a really really yeah,
• 49:03
  yeah, yeah. Where they do like a release of
• 49:05
  it and stuff like that. Yeah.
• 49:06
  Actually they. So one of the things that's
• 49:08
  cool. The humidor West Side humidor.
• 49:10
  Yeah, over there. I forget what night they're
• 49:12
  doing it. I don't know if they're still
• 49:13
  doing but they were where it was killed the bottle.
• 49:16
  It was like kill the bottle. Days.
• 49:18
  So we'd have like a very rare whiskey.
• 49:20
  That would normally be like a, you know, like a 15 dollar shot
• 49:22
  or something like that. And they say until this bottle
• 49:25
  is gone, we're charging seven bucks a shot or so, you know,
• 49:27
  nothing like crazy discount. But know there's people that are
• 49:30
  doing, like crazy, whiskey Hans, like you get a rare thing.
• 49:34
  How many bottles of that? Can you get?
• 49:35
  I remember like, my uncle was visiting.
• 49:36
  He was visiting from Pennsylvania, and as he was
• 49:38
  driving down, they would like stop and stores and see if they
• 49:40
  could find some of this stuff. Yeah, that's what I did
• 49:43
  yesterday. For my brother-in-law.
• 49:45
  He's like, em, take me to all the liquor stores on.
• 49:47
  There's just the one liquor that is called something.
• 49:51
  Well, I've had to call but it's like a bourbon.
• 49:54
  I think it's bourbon. Whiskey and Bourbons are
• 49:56
  different, right? Same neighborhood.
• 49:59
  But yeah, that's kind of why I like whiskey because there's
• 50:01
  Bourbons is this Keys? There's ride, there's a lot of
• 50:04
  different takes. Yeah, that's what it is.
• 50:07
  My brother and all yesterday. And we took him, I took him to
• 50:09
  so many liquor stores here in Wichita, not even know about it.
• 50:12
  But anyways, taste your drink. Tell us what you think.
• 50:22
  Oh, that's nice really. Okay.
• 50:25
  Okay, yeah, I wasn't sure what the wind stopper.
• 50:28
  But ya know that cuts it really nicely.
• 50:31
  Okay. Yeah, I mess with that and with
• 50:32
  a shows, fractions, I love that. What is this?
• 50:41
  Does he chose that for you, Blue Barrel aged Cabernet Sauvignon.
• 50:45
  So I feel like I should be a Wong guy with how much Italian
• 50:47
  food. I eat, never have been, but I
• 50:51
  might have to try Of that on its own and your before we all said
• 50:53
  and done. Yeah I got a job face it.
• 50:55
  Good Maple and Maize Road. It's liquor store there.
• 50:58
  Oh, yeah, exact which no no. It's like Rolling Hills or yeah
• 51:03
  yells. Yep.
• 51:04
  The one with the Statue out front, just south of the
• 51:07
  Horizon. Yeah, yeah.
• 51:09
  I got you. Yeah, I normally go to Auburn
• 51:11
  Spirits just on the other side over there and 1/35.
• 51:15
  I'll stop in there sometimes because I live, I live, like I
• 51:18
  walk there. Nice homes, we don't mind.
• 51:21
  They do they do a really good job.
• 51:24
  Yeah, I would walk that way for liquor and then I used to I miss
• 51:27
  can I I used to walk that way for sushi.
• 51:29
  I would get sucky drunk. It can I and then walk we miss
• 51:34
  you Chef. Can I do you ever go over there?
• 51:37
  I never got the chance to like I've been living at Maple and
• 51:40
  Maize just south of Kellogg for a few years now.
• 51:44
  Gotcha. Yeah he's been gone for a
• 51:46
  handful. Yeah, we're actually gonna go
• 51:48
  visit, we became really good friends with chef and his wife.
• 51:51
  Mary, we took Sushi lessons and everything else.
• 51:54
  And they ended up moving to New Orleans and so me and wife,
• 51:57
  you're planning a trip. And we're going to stop by and
• 51:59
  see him nine. I remember actually, after they
• 52:02
  left, it was just before it was during covid.
• 52:05
  My wife is making sushi. I need we literally did like a
• 52:08
  FaceTime lesson with Chef. Who doesn't speak English?
• 52:11
  Mari would his wife would translate but he's traditionally
• 52:13
  Japanese trains and this and that but we did a FaceTime.
• 52:15
  Listen, he's translated as she's translating my wife's like you
• 52:19
  old the phone. I'm doing it, but yeah, they're
• 52:23
  awesome people. Awesome people.
• 52:25
  So, speaking of some ways to connect with people, right?
• 52:30
  Like, you were like, all right, so how am I supposed to
• 52:32
  understand what he's saying? Because you had to translate.
• 52:34
  We wanted to know a little bit about how maybe you engage and
• 52:37
  connect with your audience during a performance.
• 52:39
  But like outside of performing, Or even during during it out,
• 52:44
  know what that means. I don't know what she said at
• 52:49
  halftime to I don't like I mean for me like my big thing.
• 52:56
  I guess how I approach it as a DJ.
• 53:01
  I've always felt like especially in this market.
• 53:03
  I felt it was really easy for me to carve out my own lane.
• 53:07
  And the reason for that was because I felt like I came from
• 53:10
  one side where I'm like, I know what's good?
• 53:12
  Screw what you think is good. I'm going to do this, I get
• 53:15
  that. But then There was a lot of
• 53:17
  people with that mentality but then there was other people that
• 53:19
  would be the complete opposite to say, I'm going to go get the
• 53:22
  Billboard top 10 hits and that's what I'm going to do.
• 53:25
  And typically, most of the DJs and around here, when I was
• 53:29
  coming up, were in one of those two camps and there wasn't much
• 53:32
  in the middle and I just basically I was like all right I
• 53:35
  want to get you here but I know you're not ready to jump in the
• 53:38
  deep end so let's start here. Oh I went too far.
• 53:41
  Okay, let me dial it back a little bit, and then before the
• 53:43
  nights over, you're jamming, do exactly what I wanted to get to.
• 53:46
  It, just might take me. Little while to get there.
• 53:48
  But that was kind of the nature of it in and being able to take
• 53:52
  people on a journey with that. And and the big thing for me and
• 53:56
  this is just DJing in general. And what I consider to be DJing
• 54:00
  as a lot different for a lot of people because for me, DJing is
• 54:04
  not the act of mixing music. DJ is responding to what's in
• 54:10
  front of you in the crowd and going with that.
• 54:12
  So a lot of people plant asset and it's great.
• 54:14
  I mean it's it could be sonically Awful and Technical
• 54:18
  and all those things, but that's not DJing that's producing to me
• 54:22
  like you put these pieces together because they all work,
• 54:25
  but for me DJing is seen what's in front of you and responding
• 54:28
  to that and getting them to go to the next level because of
• 54:32
  something that you caught on the fly or something, you know what
• 54:35
  I mean? Like like it's being able to
• 54:36
  improvise and do that and that's something that the in the modern
• 54:41
  terms of what people think of DJing, you know, everyone knows
• 54:44
  the hand hearts and the the big festivals and that everyone's
• 54:46
  facing the DJ booth. I mean, my favorite thing
• 54:49
  growing up like I liked it when the DJ booth was in the corner
• 54:52
  and no one saw the DJ. And the best compliment I can be
• 54:55
  paid is when you walked out of the club dripping with sweat.
• 54:58
  That means my job. Yeah.
• 54:59
  I don't need the accolades of like, yeah, your kilt, like,
• 55:02
  that's cool and all, but but I liked it when people were
• 55:05
  dancing, the whole like, you're in the zone the moshing and this
• 55:09
  like, I'm a big fan of the dance.
• 55:11
  And, and what it means to people interacting in a dance, I don't
• 55:14
  like it when everyone's facing a DJ booth.
• 55:17
  It's I get it and it's where it is now and it's not going back,
• 55:21
  but but for me, like I said, even within that it's about
• 55:24
  responding to wear. Like when one of my first gigs
• 55:27
  was Finn's, Finn's Lounge, was a little split level 2 bar.
• 55:31
  The Dance Floor was like smaller than this table.
• 55:34
  It was a tiny little checkerboard dance floor, that
• 55:37
  pool table down said, but I love the space, because it taught me
• 55:40
  so much because I would have to learn.
• 55:42
  Okay, I'm playing this song. Tapping their toe nodding their
• 55:45
  head. You read these subtle body
• 55:47
  Movements and you learn how to read a crowd that helps me now.
• 55:50
  Like when I'm at a wedding, like a lot of times when I'm do DJ in
• 55:53
  a wedding, you know, normally a lot of people just put on a mix
• 55:55
  during cocktail hour. Yeah, I will actually mix music
• 55:59
  but the reason why I'm doing this so I could okay, I just
• 56:02
  played the freaking cup song from Pitch Perfect singing
• 56:05
  along, we're gonna get some Anna Kendrick shit with her over
• 56:07
  there. Okay.
• 56:08
  He's singing along to this one, you know.
• 56:10
  So I kind of read what they're doing and I kind of I'm setting
• 56:12
  them up. Like they don't know it but I'm
• 56:14
  like I'm paying attention to. Wow, your response.
• 56:16
  Okay, that That went over flat. Okay, I'm not going to get into
• 56:19
  that bag tonight, you know, but he read these little things.
• 56:22
  So DJing is about like, baiting these traps and like reading the
• 56:26
  crowd. Be like, okay, that's not going
• 56:29
  to work tonight. Okay?
• 56:29
  That killed last night. But tonight, it's not going to
• 56:31
  because this crowd isn't even feeling this.
• 56:32
  So don't worry about that. Where can I get, you know, and,
• 56:35
  and knowing the hits and it's great, but then how can I make
• 56:38
  it mine? How could I take them because?
• 56:40
  Like I know that this is going to work this they're not ready
• 56:45
  for, but how do I get them there?
• 56:47
  And taking them on that Journey, taking on that ride and it's
• 56:50
  really difficult now. Like, right now music is so
• 56:53
  tough because everyone is on Spotify or so, everyone's on
• 56:58
  their own Sub, Sub Sub sub genre of music with their customized
• 57:02
  playlist that sent to them by this company.
• 57:04
  Yeah, yeah. So there's no longer unifying
• 57:06
  music out there like what music of the past 10 years.
• 57:09
  Will you play at a wedding 10 years from now?
• 57:13
  For the past 10 years. Play it.
• 57:16
  I don't know like 50 Cent Candy Shop.
• 57:18
  Okay, that's more than 10 years ago.
• 57:20
  Yeah, that oh, oh shit. Really.
• 57:22
  Oh my God, why did I grow up? Oh okay.
• 57:29
  Hmm. Ten years ago you and also you
• 57:32
  set out a wedding so like yeah, yeah.
• 57:34
  Yeah. But that being said, weddings
• 57:35
  these days our weddings have changed too.
• 57:37
  Yeah. I mean, like people feel like
• 57:39
  the old-school wedding is you did it because you were expected
• 57:41
  to for your family now. Everyone's like nah we're going
• 57:43
  to turn like weddings are like they'll do a little bit of the
• 57:48
  traditional bow and Grandma and Grandpa leave with turn out.
• 57:50
  Yeah, that's true. That's true.
• 57:51
  Yeah. If the WAP is not on, I'm not
• 57:53
  coming but that's also not 10 years ago what saint J.
• 57:58
  You're right though like I mean, yeah, basically it's like the
• 58:02
  Bruno, Mars has some of the some of the dell and slow jams.
• 58:05
  There's probably a couple country jams that I'm not
• 58:07
  familiar with but I mean like, but as far as like, pop music,
• 58:10
  it's tough. Yeah.
• 58:12
  Real tough. Because again, like even what
• 58:15
  was the song of the summer? You know what I mean?
• 58:16
  Like, even if you didn't listen to radio back in the day, you
• 58:19
  were still aware of and it would that would have a response to
• 58:23
  it. Yeah.
• 58:23
  Like probably I would say, probably like song of last year.
• 58:25
  Yeah. Fucking right.
• 58:26
  From Drake. Something from the take care of
• 58:30
  Especially really danceable, you're not replaceable, it's
• 58:34
  vibing. But when you say 10 years ago,
• 58:37
  just wait city girls, so they come and just one of the best.
• 58:41
  Yeah, city girls pack it up was 10 years ago.
• 58:45
  No, that wasn't that long ago. Are you sure?
• 58:46
  Yeah, I feel like no city girls was like just pretty covid but
• 58:52
  it's within 10 years. That's true though.
• 59:02
  Especially I mean like sorry like artist.
• 59:04
  You're right, like, some artists will kind of hop on Trends so
• 59:08
  you only like hear of it in the moment because of the trend but
• 59:12
  you didn't stick to it. So it's not memorable.
• 59:14
  I told this to my son the other day.
• 59:15
  I'm like you. Okay, you spend $15 and you have
• 59:18
  every song ever made at the tip of your fingers.
• 59:21
  I spent $15 because I heard one song on the radio and I was
• 59:24
  going to take a chance that I like the whole album but I
• 59:27
  bought that for $15 every song All The Way.
• 59:30
  We'll do it front to back new every groove of it.
• 59:33
  Yeah. You listen to it.
• 59:34
  You like don't like it next. Yeah, you're not invested in
• 59:37
  your music. No.
• 59:38
  Problem is because it's become disposable.
• 59:39
  Because what I would save up for and get one think I would get
• 59:43
  that one album. You just that's a song.
• 59:45
  Yeah. Every song ever.
• 59:47
  Yeah, that's true. That, that has changed a lot
• 59:50
  with streaming. That's a really good point
• 59:52
  because like yeah when you would buy like a CD maybe you didn't
• 59:55
  like that one song in that CD or like there were several songs
• 59:58
  that you didn't like the sea but you were the best.
• 1:00:00
  First it? Yeah, that's like you.
• 1:00:02
  You like you open the part where it showed you all the lyrics and
• 1:00:06
  you were like playing it back and forth and you're like, all
• 1:00:07
  right. Did I get that right now?
• 1:00:08
  I miss that. To let me go back.
• 1:00:10
  You were like memorizing, the lyrics, exactly.
• 1:00:13
  And now it's just, yeah. It also helped people get
• 1:00:17
  exposed to music. I mean, like, there's songs that
• 1:00:19
  are big on Tick-Tock because they're good for 15 seconds.
• 1:00:23
  Yeah. But beyond that you play are
• 1:00:24
  liking the speed versions now. Yeah.
• 1:00:27
  Yeah, a lot of that has happened but I mean like, but Get that to
• 1:00:31
  translate when everyone's just in it for a little bit.
• 1:00:33
  It's really difficult to control the crowd in that regard and
• 1:00:36
  like normally when I do it, it's through Nostalgia.
• 1:00:39
  Because anything new doesn't work.
• 1:00:41
  Yeah. Like I'm only 25 people, really?
• 1:00:44
  Yeah, it like, that is kind of, I mean, that's also what
• 1:00:46
  tick-tocks basically doing. Now, I am not very active on
• 1:00:50
  Tick-Tock to be able to speak too much on it, but, like
• 1:00:52
  everywhere. I'm yeah, I like that.
• 1:00:54
  But like, to that point, I mean, they're throwing back Nostalgia
• 1:00:57
  tracks all the time now, and speeding them up to some degree,
• 1:01:00
  or Slowing them down or whatever.
• 1:01:02
  Iding, some type of VoiceOver because it's getting people's
• 1:01:04
  attention because of the Nostalgia part well.
• 1:01:07
  And even that Spotify, there was an article written Spotify for
• 1:01:10
  the first time ever. The older music was getting more
• 1:01:14
  strings than the newer music. It's so the whole game.
• 1:01:18
  Yeah yeah I like you know So I feel about the 90s but yes about
• 1:01:35
  the 90s, I have a bring back my techno music like I love my
• 1:01:39
  techno music. That's like my playlist was your
• 1:01:41
  90s technology. What are you talking about?
• 1:01:43
  You talking like what is love, the hataway's and all that.
• 1:01:46
  So like these and stuff we know. So I was more into like DJ baby
• 1:01:50
  boy and okay DJ you know all those stuff like DJ loopy, DJ
• 1:01:55
  all that stuff but like yeah I like those that was my techno.
• 1:02:00
  Back in the day Frank's right? Maybe.
• 1:02:04
  Yeah, they're break. I still love breakbeats.
• 1:02:06
  I am a break. Beat die-hard fan till the day.
• 1:02:08
  I die. Got a lot of a lot of like your
• 1:02:12
  old music getting remixed into breakbeats.
• 1:02:15
  Yeah, but those guys are yep. I remember that era.
• 1:02:20
  So when I started raving in Supermarket
• 1:02:38
  the Next Generation, these kit and they were good, they were
• 1:02:42
  good. I remember I remember that spot.
• 1:02:45
  Literally like 20 years ago, they still rent that out like I
• 1:02:49
  can Well actually because I still can't believe it like run
• 1:02:52
  down. This is the Mexican spot.
• 1:02:53
  A front wasn't that the people that started Molinos was
• 1:02:56
  running, I don't know that, but I had no light because the front
• 1:03:00
  was the Mexicans father, because I remember I did I did because I
• 1:03:03
  did some parties in the back with like, Rudy love jr.
• 1:03:05
  And them. And I want to say, they ended up
• 1:03:07
  opening Molinos, or if it wasn't that, it was another another
• 1:03:10
  really good spot. I love.
• 1:03:11
  Ali knows about to go get some of that when I'm done.
• 1:03:15
  Actually. Yeah, give me a Paratha.
• 1:03:18
  Yeah. Unfortunately they even Well,
• 1:03:20
  they're not related. Never mind that Molino stock
• 1:03:22
  area. That's not related to actually
• 1:03:23
  know what. What?
• 1:03:25
  Yeah, yeah. But they closed the East Wing.
• 1:03:26
  Yeah, it's gonna be oh, gee location.
• 1:03:28
  Yeah. But I mean yeah.
• 1:03:30
  That locations pretty good. They play.
• 1:03:32
  They also play some of the jams. Yeah.
• 1:03:34
  And it's right next to Horrors Bakery.
• 1:03:35
  Yeah, never a bad style of their press lettuce.
• 1:03:41
  Like you guys are like over here talking about these so I can't
• 1:03:50
  90s, Mexican pop jams and like all this stuff like you're
• 1:03:54
  hearing one is your hearing like Shakira you're hearing all these
• 1:03:58
  people and you're just like yeah this is a spot for me.
• 1:04:05
  So you're saying like it's harder now to try to get some of
• 1:04:09
  the audience to engage in your having a lean, a little bit more
• 1:04:11
  on Nostalgia tracks. I feel like that's kind of been
• 1:04:14
  my Lane a little bit just to try and bridge that Gap.
• 1:04:17
  I mean I could try and go new new but again everyone is so
• 1:04:21
  fractured that even people that say oh I like house which one of
• 1:04:25
  the 27 different genres and then the like oh I like disclosure
• 1:04:31
  it's like oh and I would play some and then like I've never
• 1:04:34
  heard this one. One.
• 1:04:34
  I'm like how do you know like everyone's taste.
• 1:04:37
  It's so specific that and and a lot of and hand in hand with
• 1:04:42
  that people are entitled as fuck because everything's so used to
• 1:04:48
  being at their fingertips and like I can have this on the two
• 1:04:50
  seconds. Why can't you do it right now?
• 1:05:04
  That because I love making fun of that because every time I
• 1:05:08
  always see that the videos on Rails and stuff that is always
• 1:05:11
  like when you're a DJ and this Here Comes This, Bitch play Bad
• 1:05:15
  Bunny, we did that to Mark and I like fucking hounded him to the
• 1:05:19
  outro. There's a DJ crooked trays
• 1:05:21
  called bad. Yo quiero Bad Bunny you play
• 1:05:23
  that song for our outro today? Yeah it's a club break and like
• 1:05:30
  in the traditional New York club break style but yeah they did a
• 1:05:34
  Like, it's hysterical and perfect because when I get the
• 1:05:37
  request, this is the song that I play.
• 1:05:40
  So how do you feel when somebody says that to you?
• 1:05:42
  How do you feel when someone now goes like, play this song to
• 1:05:45
  your point? Because back to that comment,
• 1:05:47
  right? Like people are so entitled now.
• 1:05:49
  Like we're actually. It depends on where I'm at.
• 1:05:51
  Yeah, like it's really Case by case because I have some places
• 1:05:55
  where I'm playing and I'm like let me do what I'm going to do
• 1:05:59
  and I never like to be a jerk about it but there's sometimes
• 1:06:03
  in places where Like I was playing at one spot, the other
• 1:06:07
  night and the spot has a expectation of what the music
• 1:06:10
  should be. Like that guy comes up to me and
• 1:06:12
  says the place is not dead right now.
• 1:06:14
  True play this. Can't do it man, man.
• 1:06:18
  Well I'm not gonna spend my money here anymore.
• 1:06:20
  I'm like okay but like like what do you want me to like you're
• 1:06:24
  not side of my checks. I'm like, why you got to be an
• 1:06:25
  asshole to me. I'm like you get like this.
• 1:06:35
  Something really good like as a DJ, when you get booked at a
• 1:06:38
  venue in a venue saying this is the vibe we're looking for.
• 1:06:41
  So you got to play this and you can't feel out your crowd
• 1:06:44
  anymore. You can't do the stuff that you
• 1:06:45
  got. So passionate when you were
• 1:06:47
  talking, there's levels to it though.
• 1:06:49
  I mean like I mean even that like I mean, every night I do is
• 1:06:52
  different, I mean, like right now, Wednesday nights.
• 1:06:55
  I'm at Rock Island, I'm doing all 90s 2000s night.
• 1:06:58
  So whatever I want to do. It's typically a lot of hip-hop
• 1:07:01
  but I'm open up to do whatever. Thursday's, I'm at Doma, I'm
• 1:07:06
  doing a lot of like disco vibey. New disco, new R&B Funk groovy
• 1:07:10
  stuff, kind of because they wanted to be house based, but
• 1:07:13
  they want a little bit of a throwback Vibe on Thursdays and
• 1:07:15
  I'm like, yeah, I could absolutely have a blast doing
• 1:07:17
  it. Yeah.
• 1:07:18
  But I do, you know, get into some of the sing along East off,
• 1:07:20
  you know, just so everyone catches that Vibe and you know
• 1:07:23
  and it's balancing what people know with what people don't
• 1:07:26
  cause you don't want to alienate people.
• 1:07:27
  So just figuring that out and then Fridays.
• 1:07:29
  I do adult skate at Carousel where I'm playing like
• 1:07:31
  old-school zap and Roger and all this fun stuff in the cats are
• 1:07:34
  out there with their Roll Bounce.
• 1:07:35
  And like, so I got three nights that are completely different
• 1:07:38
  and I'm like it depending on where you come.
• 1:07:39
  See me like I have couples that I can.
• 1:07:42
  We see you? I'm like what you see is not
• 1:07:44
  going to be what you're gonna get if you book me for your
• 1:07:46
  wedding. Yeah, but if you want to see me
• 1:07:48
  like turn everyone up a pump house, I'll be there this week,
• 1:07:50
  you know? So like every gig is different
• 1:07:53
  and I approach it that way and I tell everybody I'm like I do a
• 1:07:57
  lot of everything but like I became a go-to guy in town for
• 1:08:00
  like it was a who was it? The toasters there a throwback?
• 1:08:04
  Ska band old-school, Ska band like oh we book them possible
• 1:08:08
  in? No it's not.
• 1:08:09
  Okay, I was like what there are still people that are big into
• 1:08:13
  it but they were a band from the 70s that have been around
• 1:08:16
  forever and they're like, we don't have anyone to open
• 1:08:18
  locally carbon. Do you open?
• 1:08:20
  Yeah, like date would Damian. Marley played Riverfest.
• 1:08:23
  I got to open for them, Damian Marley, like so, like I fall
• 1:08:28
  into these Lanes, I'm like, oh, you want to do a rockabilly
• 1:08:30
  night? I could do it all rockabilly
• 1:08:32
  night. People your versatile.
• 1:08:35
  I love going into those rabbit holes, and finding, all this
• 1:08:37
  obscure stuff. I mean, like, and I like taking
• 1:08:40
  things to stuff, like, I mean, I got asked to do a masquerade
• 1:08:42
  party and this was a while ago, and I didn't tell them what I
• 1:08:46
  was doing, but I did it. And literally for the opening,
• 1:08:49
  two hours of the night, I played all covers of songs.
• 1:08:53
  So to play up the mask, yeah, it's someone else doing that
• 1:08:56
  song and then I like and some of the people that were in the god
• 1:09:00
  at me like dude, that freaking genius.
• 1:09:02
  Yeah. But like, you were, you were a
• 1:09:03
  brand Again, just like how can you connect that and how can you
• 1:09:08
  do something? So I love theme and Concepts and
• 1:09:11
  kind of going above above people's expectations that and
• 1:09:14
  as a DJ, I nerd out on stuff, but half the time when I'm DJing
• 1:09:17
  like I'll do something clever. Yeah, that 95% of the club
• 1:09:21
  doesn't get but I see that one first that.
• 1:09:22
  Okay. I see what you did.
• 1:09:23
  Yeah, you clever. You clever.
• 1:09:30
  Yeah, I love that stuff. So I mean like it's reaching out
• 1:09:33
  for those things. But yeah, I can I could be an
• 1:09:36
  asshole about apparently. It's funny over the years.
• 1:09:39
  I've been told I look like I am asshole, like they're like
• 1:09:44
  everyone. I'm like, I've had interviews
• 1:09:46
  with people in this and that like I am so intimidated by you.
• 1:09:49
  When I see you. Like, I'm like really do.
• 1:09:51
  I yeah, I got really get that a lot once upon a time, I was
• 1:09:59
  probably more of a jerk about it.
• 1:10:01
  I'm not gonna lie. I was a real jerk back into what
• 1:10:05
  don't know if you were there that night when I shut off the
• 1:10:07
  music for some people, he shut off the music.
• 1:10:10
  Oh, you're gonna have to tell them that tell us why.
• 1:10:16
  So Wednesday nights t.g.i. W, Wednesday night's Rock Island
• 1:10:20
  was one of these nights where I'm like, we do what we want and
• 1:10:23
  we're gonna get you to party but we're gonna do it in our terms
• 1:10:25
  and we're not doing and and Wednesdays is a big service
• 1:10:28
  industry night. So the big thing was we were
• 1:10:29
  playing me party music. That wasn't the music that
• 1:10:32
  everyone was going to have to. Here, all weekend long, you know
• 1:10:34
  what I mean? Like, we could turn up but then
• 1:10:36
  it's not like, oh God, I'm gonna have to hear this 17 times in
• 1:10:39
  the next three days. Yeah, so we actually used to
• 1:10:43
  print off pages and put them on the flyer.
• 1:10:44
  I put them all in the tables and stuff and I was like, one, let
• 1:10:48
  us do our job where the DJ's. Oh, yeah.
• 1:10:50
  To if you don't know her don't touch her on the Dance Floor.
• 1:10:54
  We had a lot of people and we were we were dicks about this
• 1:10:58
  was kind of like this was like 15 years ago.
• 1:11:00
  So I know a lot of people are a lot more aware, but we were on
• 1:11:02
  that like, Real, heavy. I'm like, dude.
• 1:11:05
  Girl, we had, we had a great mix and everyone to come out and
• 1:11:07
  have fun. My favorite part about that
• 1:11:09
  night was like at 10:00, I would start at 10:05.
• 1:11:12
  The dance floor is full. It was none of this pretentious.
• 1:11:14
  Like I feel nervous, I got to get drunk first before I could
• 1:11:16
  do that. Like, people ready to go and
• 1:11:18
  just cut loose. Yeah, so we had Rules of
• 1:11:21
  Engagement and but anyways, I remember there was one time
• 1:11:23
  specifically this dude comes up and I forget what it was, I
• 1:11:28
  think was Dynamite, who was that I would Dynomite.
• 1:11:35
  They all came from the same Dynamite that one, maybe I
• 1:11:39
  don't. It was Dino.
• 1:11:39
  Cyrus up. No, no, no.
• 1:11:41
  That's wrecking ball. Anyways, whatever the song was,
• 1:11:50
  it was a song that was that you. If you turned on the local pop
• 1:11:54
  station, we're going to hurt three times an hour.
• 1:11:56
  You know what I mean? It was like the heavy rotation
• 1:11:58
  song at that time and I'm like, listen, you probably not going
• 1:12:02
  to happen. Yeah yeah exactly.
• 1:12:04
  Okay five minutes later sees dude come up.
• 1:12:08
  His man comes up. Hey Max you get that I'm like
• 1:12:10
  yeah probably not gonna happen tonight my man sorry man, it's
• 1:12:13
  not the vibe here. Yeah, ten minutes later girl
• 1:12:16
  comes up, she pushes cleavage together.
• 1:12:21
  Listen, I told you, man. I told his man.
• 1:12:24
  It's not gonna happen, man. Yeah, so dude comes back up
• 1:12:28
  later, he's like, but why can't you play my song?
• 1:12:30
  I'm like, dude. Stop the music, dude, I told you
• 1:12:35
  that's not going to happen here. This is my night.
• 1:12:37
  I'm gonna do what I do. There's a jukebox up front in
• 1:12:40
  the building. Go fucking find it.
• 1:12:42
  Put a dollar in it cause you ain't even offered me a dollar.
• 1:12:44
  You're just saying, fuck you playing my song.
• 1:12:46
  Go put a dollar in the Jukebox. Listen the song and when you
• 1:12:48
  come back I'll buy your table and around, okay.
• 1:12:51
  But until then get the fuck out, I love that.
• 1:12:54
  And I literally waited for them to leave like no music playing
• 1:12:57
  no music played like, like, That was the day.
• 1:13:04
  I mean like a stand by it but I was a dick.
• 1:13:07
  Oh shit. That's hilarious though.
• 1:13:08
  But yeah, I'm like so what? It's treacherous waters, you
• 1:13:13
  know and and for that reason, I get why people want to do like
• 1:13:16
  fuck you. I'm going to do what I want and
• 1:13:17
  but I also get why that's tough for some people to swallow.
• 1:13:21
  So my thing was always like straddling that line.
• 1:13:24
  But yeah, okay, this is what, you know.
• 1:13:26
  Okay, went too far. Come back, come here.
• 1:13:32
  Most of the music that I play has pop sensibility.
• 1:13:35
  I'm not going like hardcore this or hardcore that I'm still
• 1:13:38
  playing everything that's generally palatable, you know
• 1:13:40
  what I mean? I'm not trying to like like you
• 1:13:44
  know, I'm not going to go too far with any didn't give a
• 1:13:46
  direction? So within that, everything's
• 1:13:48
  fair game. Yeah and that's what I love to
• 1:13:50
  do is bring people together through music so just trying to
• 1:13:52
  figure out it's harder and harder to do that these days but
• 1:13:55
  that's ultimately what I love to do.
• 1:13:57
  Yeah. When I get married I'm going to
• 1:13:59
  make you as made, put you as my DJ with Don't just to tell you
• 1:14:03
  right now, my whole family listened to ratchet music when
• 1:14:07
  we say ratchet, Knuck, If You Buck got a really good remix
• 1:14:12
  with that right now, I want to listen to it, I want to rock
• 1:14:17
  those beats underneath, I have to laugh.
• 1:14:21
  When you see me you're gonna be like, oh there she is, she go.
• 1:14:30
  So on the same tone of like, you know, music and figuring out the
• 1:14:34
  crowd, but also figuring out what you like Emily asked
• 1:14:37
  earlier. We never really got to know the
• 1:14:39
  answer. What is it that you like to
• 1:14:41
  play? If you had to choose, right, we
• 1:14:43
  heard you say you're very versatile which is amazing.
• 1:14:46
  And it sounds like you love to live in that because like it's
• 1:14:48
  fun for you, you get to fall into.
• 1:14:50
  These are traps. If you could pick.
• 1:14:53
  What would you say? Is something that you love to
• 1:14:54
  play? Or what is something that your
• 1:14:57
  if you could? What would, what would What
• 1:14:59
  would that be Funk and soul Funk, and soul, and soul is like
• 1:15:03
  the core of what I do. Like every every other genre
• 1:15:06
  that I listen to still has to have soul.
• 1:15:09
  Like, soul is my thing, like that's a big reason why I don't
• 1:15:12
  like, never really got down with a lot of the like what I would
• 1:15:15
  call them under the new brand of EDM.
• 1:15:18
  It didn't have the soul. It's like formulaic build drop,
• 1:15:21
  repeat, build drop, repeat like that kind of stuff.
• 1:15:23
  I'm like, but but if it how students got that, right vocal
• 1:15:27
  and it just just touches on those Souls strings.
• 1:15:29
  You saw Like that's have a good vocal in that like look like
• 1:15:32
  look. I feel you.
• 1:15:33
  I understand. Yeah.
• 1:15:36
  So that's my Baseline. But ya know what do I love the
• 1:15:38
  most like the funk consult the classics and the new stuff too.
• 1:15:41
  I mean, but like yeah, I'll listen to Al Green James Brown,
• 1:15:44
  you know, Sam Cooke. That stuff all day long.
• 1:15:47
  Can you go? Okay, tell us like a new artist
• 1:15:51
  today that is a little Funk and soul.
• 1:15:53
  My you are trying to get us on Mayer.
• 1:15:55
  Hawthorne my oh yeah he's probably like an We all got to
• 1:16:00
  put that down right now. He hasn't suffered that right
• 1:16:02
  now as a side project it's called tuxedo and Tuxedo was a
• 1:16:06
  little bit more funky. But yes, Mayer, Hawthorne you
• 1:16:10
  will hear me play. He's probably the artist I play
• 1:16:12
  the most from when I'm doing a dinner somewhere or like people
• 1:16:17
  don't know it but I'm playing him a lot.
• 1:16:19
  It's probably is probably my most played artist.
• 1:16:21
  Yeah. Just from because he's got just
• 1:16:23
  funky stuff that it's versatile. They like who I'm grooving.
• 1:16:27
  I don't know this song but it's yeah, it's right.
• 1:16:29
  It's just the right Tempo. It's just the right, not too
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  in-your-face but just enough and it just puts good energy in a
• 1:16:36
  room. So his Baseline is Beats and the
• 1:16:38
  structure of it is good and then what he does on top of it is
• 1:16:41
  just tasty. He's the new blue-eyed soul, I
• 1:16:43
  love tasty, I do like him. I have a, the mix that he did
• 1:16:47
  for like a BBC Radio that I'll play in the car every once in a
• 1:16:51
  while. Like yeah, we're going to have
• 1:16:55
  to check that out. You heard that here.
• 1:16:57
  So, you know, as we flip the Into a little bit, we've gone to
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  get to know you a little bit more, we've gotten to get to
• 1:17:03
  know your taste and the tasty tracks that you play.
• 1:17:05
  Can you tell us a little bit more about like some upcoming
• 1:17:07
  projects or events that you're working on?
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  And and then we'll kind of do another set of things and wrap
• 1:17:15
  up there. Oh boy, so I'm actually starting
• 1:17:18
  a new company. So I've got, I've been doing DJ
• 1:17:22
  carbon so I'm kicking off a new company going through right now.
• 1:17:26
  I'm not going to say the name because I don't have the rights
• 1:17:28
  to it just yet. So but basically focusing on
• 1:17:32
  employing other, DJs and also doing rentals lights, sound all
• 1:17:37
  kinds of bells and whistles, you know, recording photography,
• 1:17:43
  real estate. But but no, like just working on
• 1:17:48
  kind of developing that business.
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  A lot of people have a need for things and over the years, I've
• 1:17:55
  just become that guy where someone's like, I need someone
• 1:17:58
  could, you know, do you know, somebody can make Animals.
• 1:18:01
  You do, mariachi band. I want a Mortal Kombat arcade
• 1:18:05
  machine at my birthday party Rita entertainment.
• 1:18:08
  So, yeah, I'm basically becoming a booking agent for that because
• 1:18:11
  I've got all those connection I have for so long.
• 1:18:13
  So, you know, my family would love you right now, because
• 1:18:15
  we're looking for stuff like that.
• 1:18:16
  Also might be a chi in which saw is super expensive.
• 1:18:19
  Yes, oh my God. Like it's stupid expensive.
• 1:18:22
  There's only two. Yes, like it's just so
• 1:18:25
  expensive. It's like, but even in trying to
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  get them somewhere else. It's super expensive.
• 1:18:29
  Pensive anyway, sorry keep going.
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  Yes, actually working on that as far as other things.
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  So one of my, one of my favorite events from back in the day,
• 1:18:38
  used to do the series called refresh.
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  I did a lot of high-end fundraisers, so it was like a
• 1:18:45
  hundred, two hundred dollar tickets, all your drinks are
• 1:18:48
  included. But what I loved about him was
• 1:18:49
  everyone got dressed up. Everyone came in looking nice
• 1:18:52
  feeling good. Before the night ever started,
• 1:18:54
  they everything was on point. So I approached the folks over
• 1:18:58
  at Abode venue and Old venue. Cannabis, yeah, I missed a great
• 1:19:03
  place and we had a great deal, worked out.
• 1:19:06
  But basically, I would take their Open dates because they
• 1:19:10
  were primarily doing weddings and private events.
• 1:19:12
  And like, if you got a date open within the next three weeks,
• 1:19:14
  I'll take it instead of you being closed and they would make
• 1:19:17
  a killing on money. And they, we just had a great
• 1:19:21
  agreement. But basically, what I would do
• 1:19:23
  is throw a party that was twenty bucks in advance, or 30 at the
• 1:19:26
  door, something like that, and dress code strictly enforced.
• 1:19:29
  No jeans, no sneakers, which you don't have that anywhere in
• 1:19:33
  Wichita, you can go to the nicest restaurant in town and
• 1:19:37
  get sat next to someone that's got their shirt sleeve shirts,
• 1:19:39
  shirts sleeves ripped off and like, cut off jeans, George
• 1:19:43
  Saint, you know what I mean? Like, I am not trying to be
• 1:19:47
  stuffy like that, but there's a time and a place where I like a
• 1:19:50
  level of decorum like that classy.
• 1:19:53
  So, we did. I threw a party that was like,
• 1:19:55
  okay, get dressed up, come out and we did I did one.
• 1:19:58
  Then I did a second one. We ended up doing one quarter
• 1:20:01
  for about four years, before a boat close.
• 1:20:03
  That it was just a great event where people come out.
• 1:20:05
  Look nice. Get done up and have a nice sign
• 1:20:07
  out. So I'm hoping to bring that
• 1:20:09
  back, trying to find the right spot for it.
• 1:20:12
  Other than that, getting ready for the summer, the pool party
• 1:20:16
  that I throw it wave. So, is that the foam party
• 1:20:20
  thing? No.
• 1:20:21
  So I was like, that's a fever. I said, was nothing there for a
• 1:20:24
  second. Sorry, I set up about 20
• 1:20:27
  inflatable pools that you can sit.
• 1:20:29
  I know you're talking about because Michelle was telling us
• 1:20:31
  about it and she brought a bunch of stuff.
• 1:20:33
  Yeah, it's yes. And she's always with the
• 1:20:35
  duckies the day she's supposed to come recorded on a Sunday,
• 1:20:37
  but she's like, I'm going to the pool party.
• 1:20:39
  Yes! Yes, she literally told ya we
• 1:20:41
  like had planned it to do it. She was like no no guys are big
• 1:20:44
  party and and so you know you told us what what you're
• 1:20:50
  planning on and everything. Can you give some advice from
• 1:20:54
  aspiring DJs looking into breaking to the DJ Industries or
• 1:21:00
  Yes, why are you doing it first? That's the question.
• 1:21:04
  You need to ask yourself a lot of people see dollar signs, and
• 1:21:08
  rock star lifestyle. I got a DJ when I was DJing,
• 1:21:11
  DJing wasn't cool. Like well wasn't cool, not only
• 1:21:14
  that, but man, I probably can respect on BJs because they're
• 1:21:17
  like you just only push play. Yes.
• 1:21:20
  And not only that but everyone thinks like you're a rock star
• 1:21:23
  and you do this. You dude, I got to load up all
• 1:21:24
  my gear. The girl that was hitting on me
• 1:21:26
  took three other dudes home before I got a chance, She's
• 1:21:30
  ready to go then. Yeah, load up, man.
• 1:21:36
  So yeah. No.
• 1:21:36
  I mean like, don't DJ because it's cool and I think the other
• 1:21:41
  thing is like, it depends on what you want to do with it.
• 1:21:44
  Really if you want to be a working, like I consider myself
• 1:21:47
  to be a working DJ. And I think the big part of that
• 1:21:50
  is I can't be the DJ until I'm a DJ.
• 1:21:55
  Like everyone wants to be the DJ, not just be a DJ, just be
• 1:21:58
  one like Like work. Hmm.
• 1:22:01
  Keep your head down? Stay humble.
• 1:22:02
  Like I've had a lot of people like it's gotten weird now.
• 1:22:06
  Like people like, dude, your celebrity you're this, you're
• 1:22:08
  that like, it's really fucked up because my kids, like, why are
• 1:22:11
  you on my snap friends? Snapchat?
• 1:22:13
  Like this is weird. Why does my friend follow you?
• 1:22:18
  Why? Like yeah I want to go hang out
• 1:22:21
  with my friends and they were like hey we what's your dad up
• 1:22:24
  to tonight? We want to go out.
• 1:22:25
  Like I'm like so clean. You can't tell us anything
• 1:22:31
  challenging here. Hold on.
• 1:22:34
  Sorry. So we're going to do something a
• 1:22:36
  little different than what we've typically done to wrap up.
• 1:22:39
  We want to do something. That's kind of a little bit,
• 1:22:41
  like a lightning round. So these next as yes.
• 1:22:44
  These - five questions. Yes.
• 1:22:47
  This next set of five questions will be a little more like on
• 1:22:50
  the car. Tell us about it.
• 1:22:52
  So Emily was about to ask you about yeah name.
• 1:22:56
  Any particular a little a particularly Lee challenging
• 1:23:00
  gigs or venues. You have play.
• 1:23:02
  And how did you overcome it? Oh, I know, lightning round.
• 1:23:07
  I mean that's supposed to be lay me.
• 1:23:09
  I got to think about that. Okay, okay, okay, we'll give you
• 1:23:11
  an easy one or you. What's your favorite conspiracy
• 1:23:14
  theory that was going to be that?
• 1:23:19
  I mean that I believe or just like this, your favorite
• 1:23:22
  favorite could do, whatever I want to smack the Flatiron Earth
• 1:23:25
  out of people. You believe.
• 1:23:42
  Oh God, for me, it's Bigfoot. I believe in aliens but I don't
• 1:23:50
  think that's like a conspiracy anymore.
• 1:24:05
  9/11 was an inside job. I don't know.
• 1:24:09
  I don't know. Yeah, I know I've seen didn't
• 1:24:13
  kill himself, I know that. Yeah, the future of the industry
• 1:24:22
  evolving. It's probably not in a good way.
• 1:24:28
  I think things are going to get more and more.
• 1:24:29
  Virtual things are getting more and more digitized than AI is
• 1:24:32
  going to take over large. Extents.
• 1:24:35
  Yeah, I think it's going to be really hard.
• 1:24:37
  I think, I think the only time you're going to see real people
• 1:24:38
  in front of people is when people want to Nostalgia Vibe.
• 1:24:41
  Oh shit. Yeah, damn.
• 1:24:43
  Okay. Let's see.
• 1:24:44
  What is your favorite thing to do after work?
• 1:24:49
  Sit in my car for about like 20 minutes.
• 1:24:52
  When I get home, like I don't even get out the car that
• 1:24:54
  decompression in the car. That's a bit.
• 1:24:58
  It's a good vibe. Yes, it has in your car.
• 1:25:02
  Yeah, that's me. After I do weddings, actually.
• 1:25:05
  It's why I don't do as many more.
• 1:25:07
  Yeah. Look, let me pull up the heat
• 1:25:10
  on. Leave the engine running.
• 1:25:11
  I'm just gonna sit here for a minute, those are the best.
• 1:25:18
  Sometimes, right? And so, even when I work remote
• 1:25:21
  and I had to leave my house for a second and then come back.
• 1:25:24
  I will sit in for 20 minutes and just chill.
• 1:25:26
  Yes, that is true. Okay, where do you see yourself
• 1:25:30
  in five years taking over the world?
• 1:25:34
  Love it, love it. I find a question final
• 1:25:36
  question. What color is Dusty's underwear?
• 1:25:40
  She's not wearing it, ha it was great to meet you.
• 1:26:06
  So we're really excited about that but you're not off the hook
• 1:26:09
  just yet. Come on, let's go.
• 1:26:13
  Let's go. This is Dusty, has the he's got
• 1:26:17
  to beat turn me up in the headphone.
• 1:26:20
  I'm just kidding. The beets coming, right?
• 1:26:44
  All right, jack. Come off the top.
• 1:26:50
  Yo, its game bread? You know, we got it out the
• 1:26:53
  bottle, it's the rum, it's bread bread.
• 1:26:55
  I don't know you saying, you want more wealth off the top.
• 1:26:58
  I'm a carnivore. I gotta check it on the mic.
• 1:27:02
  I get loose, I ain't spending the lemon.
• 1:27:04
  No sour face, but I got the juice.
• 1:27:06
  We getting down right here at the podcast.
• 1:27:08
  What you gonna do? Cuz I'm gonna make it last.
• 1:27:11
  We kicking it in the 316th, calling on the mic and yeah, I'm
• 1:27:15
  in the mix, got a little bit of phlegm, gotta clear my Throat.
• 1:27:18
  But check out the style cause I never ever wrote it down.
• 1:27:22
  No pain. No pad y'all it's not musti.
• 1:27:24
  I'm in the spot em kicking with the homie Dusty.
• 1:27:28
  Yo you got to receive that's my man, check it out.
• 1:27:30
  He got to relieve a leave Supersonic and that's what we're
• 1:27:36
  doing. Knowing it glowing on The
• 1:27:37
  Chronic. We just chilling and posted up
• 1:27:39
  in a spot. If the football head flamingos
• 1:27:41
  Tucson, the track Never slack. When I pulled the verbal attack
• 1:27:46
  316 in the mix getting down like that.
• 1:27:48
  Hey, I don't know what I'm saying.
• 1:27:51
  Coughing on the mic straight up. I'm not playing.
• 1:27:53
  It's a freestyle and he's spitting into the Yamaha and
• 1:27:56
  that's what we gonna do. And you go very far, I gotta
• 1:27:59
  look up at the screen. Give me something else to talk
• 1:28:02
  about what you know, really talking about what, you know, we
• 1:28:07
  got enough the top. It's Topo Chico.
• 1:28:09
  That's the margarita. That's a hard sell to express
• 1:28:12
  your why? I need a little bit of that lot
• 1:28:14
  more, not less. Yo, and I got what you need to
• 1:28:17
  flavor. What you sought this goddamn I'm
• 1:28:20
  sloppy. We are so happy to have had you
• 1:28:42
  here. Thank you so much.
• 1:28:44
  Thank you so much for free, styling for sharing your story
• 1:28:47
  with us for sharing. Like what inspires you doing,
• 1:28:51
  off-the-cuff lightning round something that we're going to
• 1:28:53
  try a little bit more. I like that.
• 1:28:55
  Yeah. Oh man, this is amazing.
• 1:28:57
  It was hard. I was about to come in with you
• 1:29:03
  as well. The one thing we always do as we
• 1:29:19
  wrap up we just want to say again.
• 1:29:22
  Yes we're going to play that we're gonna play that but again
• 1:29:26
  carbon thank you so much tonight.
• 1:29:29
  Where can we find you tonight? I'm rolling out of here.
• 1:29:31
  I'm gonna be over at Doma on the east side, total on Town East,
• 1:29:35
  nice. Alright so we can find you on
• 1:29:36
  and Doma. If you want to catch up with
• 1:29:38
  him, he's got his full schedule on his Instagram.
• 1:29:41
  Carbon DJ on IG? Yeah, yeah.
• 1:29:43
  Carbon DJ across the board and DJ carbon dioxide on the
• 1:29:45
  website. It's got it all there to love
• 1:29:47
  it. Okay so well thank you again and
• 1:29:51
  this is pareve but Eva Bava. Bava