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Before we start the episode Something Jizzo
and myself and our guest, which is

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DJ juice Box. It's the unofficial
introduction to you something all of us have

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a connection on. It's our sports
team. So with Jizzo the Dallas Cowboys,

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yeah, and then with me the
Lakers. So that's the connection with

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all of us, and we can
start with the recent the bakery of our

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La Los Angeles Lakers. Oh my
god, man, man, Well,

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first things first, I'm happy to
be back here. So it's been a

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while since I've been in the studio. We're gonna talk about that when we

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start a show, bro. But
yeah, man, the Lakers, right

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bro, at least we gotta win. But that was actually you know,

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I was saying, I'll be happy
if they beat the team that they haven't

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beat twelve straight games. So I
was happy they got the one win to

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get it out the way. But
I don't know, I don't know,

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it's almost like just so sad to
see that the Timberwolves are just smacking them.

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But then it's almost like the Timberwolves
saw what we did in twenty twenty

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was to go length, go big, you know, so we had what

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I mean, we had centers.
We had Jabelle McGee, we had Dwight,

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and then we had a D at
the four, and I don't know,

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we always go back and forth and
Laker fans know, like, why

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are we having a D at the
five? Like put him at the four?

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He can go from there, you
know. So But yeah, I

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mean, so how are you see
you know? Do you see hope for

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the future? You know what?
Because I just feel like bron is getting

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older, is it's gonna be one
of those where is he really gonna have

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it? I mean he's still he's
still had an impact, right like his

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best Yeah, he's like low key
our age and still balling like O age,

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what are you talking about? I
roll out of better platic nerve and

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I'm like, yo, how is
he doing this at like thirty eight thirty

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nine years old? You know?
But I think if if we can land

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the right coach, right, yeah, if they can land the right coach

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and can make like the right pieces, you know, meaning players, But

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I think the accountability goes all across
the board from the GM Polinka, like

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Polinka gotta get the blame. Hot
pocket Hams was just not it, bro,

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Like, I mean, I feel
I think the job was just too

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much for him. I think he
knew it too, and low Ki he

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knew like towards the he was just
like this job was just he knew.

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I think the writing was on the
wall in his end, you know.

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So, And then how about you, how do you guys feel about this

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NFL season coming up? Okay,
so it's funny that me and Juice Box

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and two of our other friends,
shouts to Gurb and David, we have

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this this group chat that we literally
talk, which I hear we talk about

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every day all day. Matter of
fact, we were just talking this morning

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and we just it's funny because Juice
Box says this is like our therapy.

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It really is. But I think
we've all gone to the point that we're

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just tired of like the Cowboys and
Jerry Jones and the bullshit that they try

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to sell us every year. And
this year we're like making a thing that

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we're not buying, like any Cowboys
gear, we're not trying to support.

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And what you say this morning that
even when the game is televised, like

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stream it. So now, yeah, I've been streaming it. Yeah,

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because all the Cowboys games are national
It's like the Fox game of the week.

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Oh cool, you know, And
it doesn't make sense for Cowboy fans

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to get red zone unless you know, you're a big fan of football,

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you want to watch it for fantasy. But I strictly just watched Cowboys football,

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right and then to see what other
team is on in the morning and

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whatnot. But I went to the
Niners Cowboys game. I took my my

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eight year old son last year at
Levi's, you know, so it was

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it was a great experience. We
got hooked up with field passes. So

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before the game started, folks at
levi saw us and they're like, hey,

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you want field passes? Like,
here you go. So I never

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put a video out there. I'm
going to put one together just to show

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the experience. It's great. I
mean, I've been to Levi's a couple

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of times. I've been there when
Dak and Zeke rookie year twenty sixteen,

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twenty seventeen. I went to the
games. I seen them, you know,

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win at Levi's. I seen them
lose. But after this season,

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you know, thinking that, like, you know, hey, this is

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probably probably the one chance I think, as realistic Cowboy fans that we are,

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we were just hoping, like if
we can just get to the championship

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game and then most likely lose to
the Niners, we would have been fine

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with that. But we're always one
and done, like one playoff game and

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out one playoff game, and we
haven't sniffed an NFC championship since the nineties,

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and it's just like we're just tired
of it. Yeah, We're just

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tired of it. I gotta we
gotta, we gotta be like that that

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one video, like my kid be
like, Dad, when was the last

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time we went to the Super Bowl? Brouh? I was damn near your

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age? He since there he goes
like damn, I'm like all right,

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like and then he's kind of like
all right, I'm gonna go play Fortnite,

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you know. And I'm just sitting
there like watching like the replays of

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like the Yester years on YouTube all
like like a grumpy old man. So

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well, our Laker stress is done
for the season. Now is gonna be

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your guys turn cowboys? All right, I'm ready to get this episode started

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this You Give Me Fire podcast?
What that is? John Magic? And

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we are back super excited about this
guest. Former co worker, a fellow

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DJ super interested about his timeline because
it's one of those where I'm not too

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familiar with how he started in radio
and DJing, so I'm excited about that.

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But speaking of DJing, you know, there's there to me, there's

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like two ways of looking at DJ's. There's one side where a person just

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has skill. They have the skill, they know how to DJ, how

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to mix, how to scratch,
all this stuff. And then there's the

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other side where there's DJs that just
get it. They get where they're at

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there, they get if they understand
the assignment, if they're on the radio,

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if they're DJing a wedding, if
they're at a club, they get

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it. And our guest, he
gets it. So I'm super excited to

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have him in here. DJ ju
just box what's going on. It's funny

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that people still recognize that drop man
you Kenny Man. That was that was

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that was so random on the spot
when he did that, because he was

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like, Hey, could I do
a drop for you? And I just

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had the mic on literally like the
whole drop is he goes, hey,

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man, let me get some of
that juice box and then that was it.

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That was it, and he was
trying to force I'm like, bro,

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that was it, and so like
there's like a longer version, and

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so I just cut it down to
that version. But people still like when

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you hear the drop, they look
back, I'm like, were you on

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the radio? I was like yeah, They're like I remember hearing you.

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Like, oh my god, that
that drop sounds health familiar, you know.

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So you have one of the dose. I think that's one of my

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favorite drops is the juice Pox.
Yeah, I have a couple, but

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that is like the classic ones.
Like you just saying Kenny Drake, the

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what do we call him to the
homie? You just saying Kenny just triggered

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my memories of all of us just
hanging out that years ago the cellar.

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All of us always put up.
Yeah, man, back when there was

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clubs and bars in Fresno. No
really though, it would be it would

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be like we had the same circle
of people that would go on the Tuesdays,

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on the Thursdays, the Saturdays Attachy
Palace. Remember we talked about that.

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So yeah, Juice Box, he's
been in a circle with us for

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a while now. All right,
so let's start from the beginning. We

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always usually asked our guests, are
you originally from the valley, and I

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don't think you are right. No, so originally from the Bay Area.

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So born and raised in Mountain View, California, so home of Google and

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whatnot, you know, so I
call it Google View. Went to school

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in Santa Clair and San Jose,
you know, so born and raised,

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you know, South Bay. That's
that's my stomping ground. And then so

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after graduating high school, came to
Fresno two thousand and four, So the

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fall of two thousand and four,
came out here, you know, as

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a as a young Whooper Snapper eighteen
years old, you know, out here.

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The first time I ever came to
Fresno was dog days in the summer

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July. And I remember we were
on Blackstone and my parents looking at me,

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like you want to go to school
here? And it's like nine o'clock

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at night, like still ninety one
degrees because it's like in the summer,

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like in July. And I was
like, yeah, I mean, I

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guess it's kind of cool. Wait
real quick that that was the reason why

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you were coming here was for a
school visit school. Okay, yeah,

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yeah, So so me and as
everyone knows, k Rich, you know,

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shout out to k Rich. We've
known each other for I mean since

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we were kids, So we've known
each other for twenty four years. We've

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grown up with each other. That's
literally my brother, you know. Okay,

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that's something I thought. You guys
met in college. No, each

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other since high school. You guys
came out here together, essentially came out

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here. Yeah, we came out
here together. You know, we together

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and everything, right real, yeah, all that we've grown up out here,

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you know, so and we're you
know, I'm happy to say that,

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you know, Fresno five five nine
is my home because I think it's

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been it's gonna be, what eighteen
years I've been here, so essentially the

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same amount of time that I've grown
up in the bay, you know.

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So the bay is always me,
it's in me, but the valley is

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also like I'm proud, like my
wife is from here, my kids are

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are born and raised in here,
you know, so I'm definitely like proud.

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But anytime I go back home,
I always got to flex on my

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kids and be like, yo,
like this this is where daddy's from.

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Put on some forty and whatnot on
the one oh one head to my parents.

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But uh yeah, so it came
out here. But I started djying.

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I first started in two thousand and
three, so my dad used to

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have DJ gear, so like I
kind of messed around with the DJ stuff

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from there, you know, and
then didn't really start again get into it

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until two thousand and five ish around
there, you know, So uh got

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into it, you know. So
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would literally just go to like the
house parties, right, and you know,

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we're dating ourselves. But back then
when we had like the five CD

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changer boom box and maybe mixes on
the CDs, and we would go through

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them and I'm like, bro,
like these songs are boo boo, Like

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go back to that one Little John
song. Right. Yeah. So one

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day we i mean we both already
were just infused with music. That's how

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our bond started. And we just
was like, we gotta like start djaying

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and just start doing these parties,
you know. And yeah, man,

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I mean we low key took our
financial aid money from school, gear the

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turntables and all that stuff, you
know, And that's how it started,

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you know, and back there or
here it started here. Yeah, so

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you he started as state, right, That's when you got serious yeah,

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Win died the whole full Clip DJs
thing Full Clip around two thousand and six.

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Clip DJs, which is the crew
your crew sort of. Yeah,

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so it was like the first crew. So basically like our Mentors, which

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is our homie hob season San Diego. You know, he does weddings and

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events still in San Diego. Full
Turntable is hip hop cat, I mean

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on the vinyl, can cut and
scratch and whatnot. And so he was

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the one that basically showed us like, hey, this is basically the fundamentals

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of hip hop in its essence,
how to like go on vinyl and whatnot,

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just keeping it real authentic. Our
other homie, check O DJ Checko,

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we met him when he was at
Santa Clair University and so back then,

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you know, we would go to
Santa Clair University and they had this

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event called the Bronco and he was
DJing the Bronco on vinyl. Mind you,

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Tororado was already there at the time. He had creative the vinyl and

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just going off of vinyl. We
love that shit though, right, Like

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he almost like refused to use yeah, yeah, he almost refused, Like

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he didn't get on Serrato till like
I don't know, two thousand late late,

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So, uh, he was the
one that I mean when when you

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know, we started on vinyl,
he basically told us like no, like,

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if you're gonna DJ, you gotta
start on vinyl. So when we

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started DJing, we were on vinyl, learning by the ears and whatnot,

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you know, before riding the screens
and looking at the waves and whatnot.

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You know. So and that was
the crew you know, from from when

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we started, you know, and
then doing a lot of events in San

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Jose downtown events you know, during
the hyphee movement and whatnot. You know.

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So that in itself was just an
experience to say the least during that

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time to go back and forth from
Fresno, go back to San Jose,

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dj around San Jose, San Francisco, wherever it was, you know,

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Milpedis, Fremont, you know,
and uh yeah, man, it was

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just uh those early years were fun
because it was just a lot of like

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learning, playing music and you know, full circle as to currently what's going

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on today with like the kids,
which we'll get to still like they they

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love the two thousands. I mean, the two thousands is still running when

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it comes to parties and whatnot.
Off from the days when we used to

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be on the clubs and the radio
and whatnot, when you were Oh,

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go ahead, and I was gonna
say this was like kind of around the

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era that I met Juice Box.
We had a class together. I know

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you'd like to tell this story.
Okay, we had a class at prison

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state, right, and so we
had a mutual friends. Shout out to

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Samantha. We had a mutual friend
and so one day we're we had a

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class, you know, like a
business management class. It was yeah,

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yeah, and this was back in
the day when we had like you know,

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you had to match your your hat
with your shirt, with your shoes

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with everything, right, everything match. Back then, that was the style.

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Go look at a social boy video. That's that's what it was.

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Social boy video. Yeah, was
it the big the jerseys? Was it

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that area yet? It was coming
out of that era, but still but

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still with the bag ship. Yeah. So, like Gisel walks in and

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he had a blue a baby blue
shirt, and he had like, you

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know, I already know the option
of shorts, right, he had like

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some white nikes on and like a
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And I looked at him and I'm
like, but like, why is he

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so fitted? At night? It
wasn't been like eight in the morning,

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like first class of the day.
And I'm like and I'm like living across

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the street and the Bulldogs, so
like I'm coming up in like sweats and

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like literally slides, which basically is
a college I didn't know the assignment apparently,

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but I was just looking at him, but like why is he so

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fitted? Like it was almost like
no reason, right, like where am

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I going fucking class? Like I
was like he's looking clean, but like

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but bro, like why are you
so fitted? Like that's funny and and

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yeah man, but like but I
knew like early on, I'm like all

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right, like you know, like
this dude knows what's up, like the

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style wise, we probably couldn't get
along with just music and what's current and

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whatnot the time. You know,
so you weren't interning yet at this time

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or were you? I know I
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I think I'm not even been part
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so this was like early what this
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around there, I think seven around
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doing just weekends at the time.
Uh, but I didn't. We just

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had that mutual friend and yeah,
I was showing up the class fucking unnecessary

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like that. But then where we
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this into the station at that time, and then we all kind of like

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introduced each other and that's how I
got to know Juice Box. Yeah.

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Yeah, we kind of we had
that class, but even like really talk

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to each other really, I guess
that's what I was trying to you guys,

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we knew of each other because we
had a mutual friend, but we

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didn't really know each other until like
we met until I met kay Rich and

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he got into the station and then
he was like, oh, this is

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my boy juice Box, and like
oh ship, and then we all kind

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of like got to meet everybody.
Yeah. Yeah, so it was yeah,

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like during that time was just new, you know. So and during

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that time we would like, you
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from like events, going out,
you know, doing the bars, the

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clubs. I mean back when Switch
was GA Lubs. Yeah you know when

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uh, I mean it was like
on the Rocks, the Red Room or

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yeah, because you guys were DJing, fraternity parties a lot, and you

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weren't yet, no no, no
so but so at this time we were

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heavy in the in the college rotations
of parties and they got this ship jumping,

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yeah you know so, and so
the way it started was, I

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mean, shout to Carriage. That's
that's the homie. But the talent that

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like he just got it, you
know. And so, uh, when

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we would do parties, I would
I would always be the opener, you

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know. I would always open up, you know, so like playing all

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the records, and it's funny because
you know, like speaking to all the

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DJs, I would start from like, you know, the seventy bpms and

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work all the way up to like
the one hundreds and back then in the

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two thousands, all the cracking records
were like one hundred on up, like

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the one other record, the two
short blow the whistle, all the Little

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John records, right like all the
all the ship was all around there.

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So I would just like set him
up and he would just go from there,

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you know, and just rip it. And again he gets it,

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yea gets it, you know.
So So those years of just us understanding,

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and I mean still to this day
when we DJ together, it's one

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of those where we don't have to
look at each other and I know which

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record to drop, and he knows, like even if he's saying something on

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the mic, I know which record
at the I'm gonna type this in And

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here we go and just look at
each other and then we left because it's

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like, you know, we've we've
known each other for all these years.

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We know exactly like what to play, how to go back and forth with

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it, you know. So it's
like a good sports team with that chemistry.

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You guys have that chemistry, yeah
for sure. So uh yeah,

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so so like the U during that
time, you know, definitely, you

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know, we were heavy in the
clubs and whatnot, the bars and and

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whatnot. So this was when you
know, all these places were around,

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you know, So anyone that's like
kind of like in the bar seeing that

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clip scene. Now, you probably
don't remember some of these spots. They're

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probably like you know, I don't
know, like grocery grocery stores now.

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Yeah, yeah, literally, but
but uh yeah, I mean they're great

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times. I mean the folks that
grew up with us, you know,

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like definitely remember the days when you
know, it was the full clip DJs

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of free. But it was dope
though, because you guys had your own

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banner, your own t shirts,
and you guys were like doing all the

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fat parties and just parties around the
schools and then like the little club parties

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that like the colleges. So you
guys had like the college scene on lock

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which is which I always thought was
dope. And then that's when I started

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kind of like hanging around with them
because Kate Rich was at the station at

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that time, and you kind of
like, hey, yo, I'm about

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to go DJ's it's frat party.
And then we'd show up and then Juice

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Box, like you said, he
was opening and it was just it was

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jumping off. It was like a
good time. And then we had the

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parties, uh at the Bulldogs the
parties. That was another one that I

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would hear about. I guess you
guys would be on the balcony. Yeah,

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yeah, so it all started by
accident too. Yeah. So it

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was like fourth of July, so
for those that would go home for the

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summer, like I mean, there
was some Bacon apartment spots and whatnot.

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So the first time we were on
the balcony and we had like those old

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school like like tall speakers that just
on the top, you know, and

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the balcony overlooked the looking overlooking the
pool and just imagine a Yeah, the

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complex surrounded the pool and like one
of the balconies overlooked it. So it

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was like the perfect setup. Yeah, and so we basically just ran power

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in one of the vacant apartments.
Yeah, was in and I mean it

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was almost like the VP because in
there we just had like our drinks in

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there and whatnot, all the all
our gear. But did you wait,

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so you guys were planning this first
party pool party, do you have to

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get uh permission? Well, you
knew the manager, right or someone of

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the people that so it was it
was I forgot who it was at the

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time. But basically we we had
it good. We had it in good

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with them, you know, so
they they allowed it, you know,

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like, hey, we're just gonna
do like I think we kind of pulled

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off as it was a birthday party, yeah, you know. And then

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so from there we just had we're
playing music and I mean people just start

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coming over. I mean we would
start like, I mean, I don't

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know, three o'clock. It went
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But the music was going out to
the pool outside from the I guess the

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thing that's going through my head is
do you do that thing where you have

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to knock on every door and like, hey, just let you know we're

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a party. I think it's one
of those situations where it's mostly students that

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live there, so everyone kind of
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so we didn't have an excuse to
be like I'm studying. Yeah, maybe

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it's like you had to work,
but it's like like you know where you're

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at, like Holliday weekend, the
holiday weekend, like people are wanted,

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they want to swim, they want
to hear music, you know. I

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think like during that time, people
were bringing food, alcohol. It just

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like it was. It was.
It was dope about it was so organic,

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like it just people started. It
was like, damn, next thing

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that was cracking. The one thing
I remember from those parties was one little

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Waynes the Carter three dropped. I
think this was two thousand and eight,

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and it was huge. That was
like the record of the year, like

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you know, so and then also
the homie Deontay shout out to Deontay asked

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for swag surfing and we were like, uh, and you know, back

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then, I was kind of like, uh, I think I know this

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record and we played it and people
like they knew it, you know,

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but we were doing the whole back
and forth. That's what it is right

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now in twenty twenty four. Back
then, it was just a record and

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the people were just kind of doing
like the little dance to it and whatnot.

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You know. So, but it's
crazy to see that that's one of

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those records that's just i mean organically
just still kind of like it's a cultural

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hip hop type of hit that like
you have to play, know so,

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I mean even the kids today low
key know it, you know, and

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it's yeah, it's it's crazy,
but h we Yeah, we just kind

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of just used to throw parties or
wherever. Man Like we would go to

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like different venues like hey, we're
DJ's, can we throw a party here?

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And then we would kind of like
do a deal, like you know,

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like you guys can keep the bar
sales and we'll get whatever it's at

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the door and and whatnot, you
know. So and so we had like

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a lot of homies that would just
had connects like yo, DJ at this

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one spot, DJ over here and
over here and whatnot, you know.

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So and so that's what it was. That's how it was kind of like

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you know, getting our footing you
know for yourself, building a name and

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whatnot, which which worked, which
I thought. It was helped to just

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kind of grow organically in the college
scene. To see these guys come up

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at the college parties and then like
the little the little little hangouts like club

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sauce at the times it was jumped
in, uh, and then to see

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where they got now, So it
was cool to like kind of grow with

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those guys. All right, So
so you you guys got the party college

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scene locked down? How did you
what was the first uh you know,

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thought that you wanted to get into
radio? Was it just because kay Ridge

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was there? Now you have to
follow him? Like what was the transition?

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So no, yeah, so like
Carridge got on radio I think in

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two thousand and eight. Yeah,
yeah, so I remember just you know,

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from listening to radio. So growing
up listening to radio, Uh,

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definitely, I knew like this was
something that like you had to earn.

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So I knew at the time.
I'm like, I'm not ready for radio.

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I was like basically like you know, knowledgeable, enough to know like

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when I'm ready, I'm ready,
and I feel like when when I was

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ready enough to get on radio,
like I would be like, you know,

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basically given the opportunity, you know, I didn't want to be the

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ones like knocking on the door,
can I get on? It's not like

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because growing up in the Bay,
I would grow up listening to the DJs

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like Jasponoza when he was on one
ninety four nine, you know, or

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while one was seven at the time, you know, friends in you know

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og DJ's my favorite DJ, Scotty
Fox when he was on CHMEO. I

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would go back home Scotty Fox and
I got a chance to DJ with Scotty

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Fox, you know, up in
in Bay one time, and it was

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one of my highlights of like my
career as a DJ. Just one of

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my favorite DJs listening to you know, so, so I know that going

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into radio like you have to be
seasoned. You gotta sound clean, you

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gotta sound crisp. It's a different
type of djan. Yeah. So even

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listening to the to the DJs here
when I started, you know, so

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listening to you magic and and knowing
that you're like, okay, he's from

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like la is a so cal area. So hearing your style, I'm like,

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I knew it. I'm like,
nah, he's clean, you know.

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So even like the you know,
Dizzy shout out to Dizzy listening to

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him now he's got it. Ren
Rock, the Oge listening. I'm a

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huge fan of ren Rock, like
listening to his mixes, you know.

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So I knew. I'm like,
Okay, I can't just step in and

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not like come in with like you
know, uh, feeling not ready.

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I had to come in prepared,
you know. So Herb Herb was like

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another og like listening to RB and
whatnot. You know. So, so

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I was given the opportunity around twenty
thirteen, and I think Gizzo and Herb

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like kind of basically was like asked
like, Hey, do you want an

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opportunity to get on the station,
And I said yeah, because I think

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at that time twenty thirteen, give
me some time. I was. I

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felt like I was ready ready,
you know, so so way I didn't

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know this that you were you kind
of quarterbacked him getting into station. Yeah

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and a hat Okay, yeah,
yeah for sure. This so Herb was

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still doing the at the time.
Coordinator. Yeah, Ka Rich we were

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all kind of like riding for it
because like it was time, you know

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what I mean, Like he had
paid his dues, he was clean.

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We needed a DJ, and it's
just like yo, we this is our

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guy right here. Yes. So, so HERB made me submit like three

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different mixes. Put submitted mix,
twenty minute, thirty minute mix, all

409
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right, cool, put through it
in there, send me another one.

410
00:24:45.079 --> 00:24:47.039
All right, cool through another one. And I knew like it was just

411
00:24:47.079 --> 00:24:49.480
like let me see like the versatility
from yeah yeah, and so I knew.

412
00:24:49.480 --> 00:24:52.480
I'm like, all right, let
me do like radio style, let

413
00:24:52.519 --> 00:24:55.799
me do like one that's a more
uptempo, let me do one that's like,

414
00:24:56.319 --> 00:24:59.839
you know, general kind of poppy
mix whatever, you know. So

415
00:25:00.559 --> 00:25:04.359
and he asked me like, hey, can you DJ Memorial Day weekend?

416
00:25:06.079 --> 00:25:07.720
And I was like, all right, yeah, we could do it,

417
00:25:07.759 --> 00:25:11.160
but you gotta go live for two
hours. And I knew that was a

418
00:25:11.240 --> 00:25:15.240
test. That's a different beast.
You can you sound good like recorded,

419
00:25:15.400 --> 00:25:18.880
you know, but like let's see
you do this live. And that was

420
00:25:18.920 --> 00:25:23.640
one of the most nerve wracking moments
in my career, stepping in the studio

421
00:25:25.480 --> 00:25:27.279
and just being like, damn,
do you remember who he went live with

422
00:25:27.599 --> 00:25:34.279
Yeah, with God what's his name? Man? The Prophet really was here

423
00:25:34.480 --> 00:25:37.839
real quick. Can we just put
some context into this because we're talking about

424
00:25:38.039 --> 00:25:45.519
recording and live. Of course,
with technology, we could record things and

425
00:25:45.599 --> 00:25:48.119
make it sound good and that's what
you'll hear on the radio. But this

426
00:25:48.319 --> 00:25:55.119
was an era where everyone was DJing
live, Yeah, and we all wanted

427
00:25:55.119 --> 00:25:59.559
to. It was fun especially like
the mixt weekends. It's funny you say

428
00:25:59.559 --> 00:26:03.079
that because that was always kind of
a time where we needed extra mixers because

429
00:26:03.079 --> 00:26:07.119
it's literally Friday through Monday mixing like
from noon to midnight, so you need

430
00:26:07.240 --> 00:26:11.319
extra mixers. So that sounds about
right. The Herb wanted him during that

431
00:26:11.359 --> 00:26:14.359
time because we probably needed bodies.
And it's just a good time because it's

432
00:26:14.359 --> 00:26:18.160
like a party on the radio during
that time. Uh, and so that

433
00:26:18.279 --> 00:26:21.200
was perfect. But I guess you
work with the Prophet during that time,

434
00:26:21.200 --> 00:26:23.079
which is funny. Yeah, we're
in the room. We're in the studio

435
00:26:23.119 --> 00:26:26.559
where we're recording this podcast, which
where you would have been DJs, which

436
00:26:26.759 --> 00:26:30.079
is the mixing room, and I
know the first thing he came in,

437
00:26:30.119 --> 00:26:33.279
he was like, Yo, we're
the table. It's kind of redecorated in

438
00:26:33.319 --> 00:26:37.559
here. So let's take us to
that first on air live shift. Yeah.

439
00:26:37.599 --> 00:26:41.759
So I come in and set up. I think I got like an

440
00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:45.480
hear a hour early, and I
think I don't know if someone was here

441
00:26:45.480 --> 00:26:47.720
beforehand. I don't know if it
was Dizzy or rent Rock. And they

442
00:26:47.720 --> 00:26:48.759
were like, oh, you're gonna
mix live and all all right, and

443
00:26:48.799 --> 00:26:52.200
you know they were they've been in
here, they know didn't and they're like,

444
00:26:52.200 --> 00:26:52.799
good luck, man, like,
all right, do what you do?

445
00:26:52.960 --> 00:26:56.680
You know you have fire. I
had no one in here, and

446
00:26:56.720 --> 00:26:57.519
I kind of wanted that. I
was like, I don't want anyone to

447
00:26:57.599 --> 00:27:02.119
hear, Like, let me just
kind of like concentrate because I think the

448
00:27:02.160 --> 00:27:04.880
first hour I didn't really like scratch
or anything like much on it because I

449
00:27:04.920 --> 00:27:08.079
was nervous. So it was just
clean, safe. I kept as simple.

450
00:27:08.519 --> 00:27:11.720
Second hour, I was like,
Okay, I'm good, and so

451
00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:15.160
like I was able to kind of
like, you know, go a little

452
00:27:15.160 --> 00:27:18.240
harder with the creativity and whatnot.
You know, so uh just overly like

453
00:27:18.319 --> 00:27:23.359
dropping the Juice Box logo during the
mixes and whatnot. Yeah. So and

454
00:27:23.400 --> 00:27:26.519
then after that, you know,
I was invited to, uh to come

455
00:27:26.519 --> 00:27:30.160
back again, you know, and
then having a time slot like you know,

456
00:27:30.240 --> 00:27:34.079
during the weekends and whatnot. And
but like you guys mentioned like,

457
00:27:34.119 --> 00:27:38.640
I mean, the fun times were
just like being in the studio going live.

458
00:27:38.880 --> 00:27:42.279
I mean, like as a as
a radio listener. You know,

459
00:27:42.319 --> 00:27:45.519
I'm trying to paint it for you, like you guys are hearing like us,

460
00:27:45.759 --> 00:27:49.039
and it sounds like it's fun and
it's live, and it is because

461
00:27:49.079 --> 00:27:52.200
we're talking on the radio. We're
talking about quick current events stuff. We're

462
00:27:52.200 --> 00:27:55.920
talking about the music, like yo, this is a new Chris Brown.

463
00:27:55.920 --> 00:27:56.720
I don't know if you guys heard
it yet. I mean, you know,

464
00:27:56.920 --> 00:27:59.880
with this day and age, I
mean, we're pretty quick to hear

465
00:28:00.119 --> 00:28:03.759
music like just like that with our
phone. But back then, you know,

466
00:28:03.799 --> 00:28:06.799
we were able to premiere records and
then you know, I mean even

467
00:28:06.839 --> 00:28:08.480
sometimes I'll tune into BE ninety five
and I'll be like, what song is

468
00:28:08.519 --> 00:28:11.799
this? Yeah? Because okay,
like I'm just listening to like podcasts about

469
00:28:11.799 --> 00:28:17.720
like sports and how shitty the Cowboys
are yeaheah, you know, so like

470
00:28:18.039 --> 00:28:21.759
but once in a while, like
you know, like I'll turn tune in

471
00:28:22.440 --> 00:28:23.400
and then you know, and I'll
be like, oh shit, what song

472
00:28:23.480 --> 00:28:26.480
is this and then like I'll have
to like look it up. I'm like,

473
00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:27.319
oh I like this song, Oh
this is that one song? Okay?

474
00:28:27.359 --> 00:28:30.039
Cool? You know, so radio
still does his job in which like

475
00:28:30.079 --> 00:28:33.880
it's still like, you know,
gets music out there for everyone. But

476
00:28:33.240 --> 00:28:37.839
I mean think about like how fun
it sounds like to have like a mixer

477
00:28:37.839 --> 00:28:40.880
and whatnot. And that's what I
love. That's what I grew up listening

478
00:28:40.920 --> 00:28:44.200
to as a kid, growing up
with the boom box and then calling you

479
00:28:44.200 --> 00:28:47.559
know, like ninety four nine ko, like can I hear this this song

480
00:28:47.599 --> 00:28:49.440
and whatnot? I mean I mean
like that's what I wanted to bring in.

481
00:28:49.640 --> 00:28:52.599
Yeah, you know, I wanted
to like come in and give a

482
00:28:52.640 --> 00:28:56.720
fuck about putting together like a quality
mix that like people like wanted to be

483
00:28:56.759 --> 00:29:02.079
like yo, that was a dope
mix. So so yeah, man,

484
00:29:02.119 --> 00:29:03.799
I mean it's it's it was.
It was just a blast, you know,

485
00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:07.200
just to to do radio. It's
something that I still cherish to my

486
00:29:07.279 --> 00:29:11.680
heart. You know. You know, I got kids now, so like

487
00:29:11.759 --> 00:29:14.559
they definitely like are like, oh, you used to be on the radio.

488
00:29:14.599 --> 00:29:15.960
It's like yeah, you know,
and all the mixes that I did,

489
00:29:17.039 --> 00:29:19.480
I have them all saved from like
over the years, I have them

490
00:29:19.519 --> 00:29:22.000
all saved up, you know,
so that one day I can just like

491
00:29:22.519 --> 00:29:23.960
play for them, you know,
like, hey, look, this is

492
00:29:23.960 --> 00:29:26.400
my time when I was on radio, this is the music at the time,

493
00:29:26.440 --> 00:29:30.880
and whatnot. You know. So
we we've mentioned just and I have

494
00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:34.200
mentioned this before in the past episodes, but just even when the mics are

495
00:29:34.240 --> 00:29:38.079
not on, but whoever's DJing,
we would all just come and hang out

496
00:29:38.440 --> 00:29:42.319
around. Yeah, just sit here
and juice boxes DJing. But then we'll

497
00:29:42.359 --> 00:29:45.200
just be all talking here on the
side. Yeah. I remember like having

498
00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:51.640
to be here on New Year's Eve
doing a shift and just bringing everybody up

499
00:29:51.680 --> 00:29:55.640
in here, like yo, we're
gonna have our own Yeah. It was.

500
00:29:55.759 --> 00:29:56.839
It was fun, man. And
I mean like, and I think

501
00:29:56.880 --> 00:30:00.440
that's something that like, you know, we wanted people to kind of here,

502
00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:03.240
like, oh it sounds cracking over
there, there's people in the background

503
00:30:03.319 --> 00:30:04.880
talking and move on to feel like
it's like a house party. That energy

504
00:30:04.960 --> 00:30:07.240
kind of like relates to the listeners. You know. If it sounds like

505
00:30:07.240 --> 00:30:11.400
we're having fun, they're probably having
a good time too. Yeah. Something

506
00:30:11.519 --> 00:30:15.640
you know we always talk about on
their personalities where they kind of emulate people

507
00:30:15.720 --> 00:30:22.200
they've heard just out of curiosity,
you learning how to DJ each year?

508
00:30:22.319 --> 00:30:26.000
Were was there anyone that you kind
of listen to that you wanted to emulate

509
00:30:26.079 --> 00:30:30.240
when you were still when you were
learning, or looked up to maybe yeah,

510
00:30:30.279 --> 00:30:33.200
I know you you brought the other
names before, but yeah, so

511
00:30:33.440 --> 00:30:38.759
skill wise, skill wise, you
know, so god like I wanted to

512
00:30:38.880 --> 00:30:44.640
basically just have my It took a
while to like really understand what my style

513
00:30:44.759 --> 00:30:48.480
is. You know, every DJ
has their style and whatnot, and so

514
00:30:48.759 --> 00:30:52.519
you know, when I started DJing, I wasn't the much. I wasn't

515
00:30:52.519 --> 00:30:56.519
a talker. So like those that
know us know that, like Kybridge was

516
00:30:56.559 --> 00:30:57.920
the one that was always on the
mic, phenomenal on the mic. You

517
00:30:57.960 --> 00:31:02.799
know, Like I did not like
talking on the mic. I think I

518
00:31:02.839 --> 00:31:04.039
was just very I was quiet growing
up as a kid. I was just

519
00:31:04.200 --> 00:31:07.920
very shy. So it's kind of
crazy that like I fell into doing radio

520
00:31:08.039 --> 00:31:12.279
and even like continue to DJ and
like I mean weddings and corporate events because

521
00:31:12.319 --> 00:31:15.599
like I'm talking on a microphone.
Yeah, you have to put yourself out

522
00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:18.000
there hundreds of people and having to
show like personality, you know, and

523
00:31:18.079 --> 00:31:22.599
so so I had to like learn
to be like what kind of DJ am

524
00:31:22.640 --> 00:31:25.759
I going to be? You know, I want to be a DJ where

525
00:31:25.759 --> 00:31:27.599
like I'm able to kind of like
show a little bit of cuts and scratches,

526
00:31:27.680 --> 00:31:32.680
you know, and whatnot, and
also like just be clean. I

527
00:31:32.759 --> 00:31:34.279
always wanted to come off as like
that's a clean mix, you know.

528
00:31:34.440 --> 00:31:40.880
So I mean even like uh,
I think some of the cleanest mixes that

529
00:31:40.920 --> 00:31:45.640
I've ever heard radio wise, I
mean from like down in La so like

530
00:31:45.960 --> 00:31:48.960
Real ninety two to three, power
one oh six, you know, just

531
00:31:49.000 --> 00:31:55.000
DJ a Man. I mean his
mixes just sound clean. E Rock.

532
00:31:55.160 --> 00:31:57.319
You know, he's now in Vegas, and I mean his mixes always sounded

533
00:31:57.359 --> 00:32:00.640
clean. Friends in the og,
you know, sounded clean, you know,

534
00:32:00.839 --> 00:32:06.880
so Eric Deluxe also his mixes,
the Cuts, Sour Milk. I

535
00:32:06.920 --> 00:32:09.400
mean, these these are guys that
like I listen to and like and I'm

536
00:32:09.480 --> 00:32:13.000
just like, yeah, this is
like kind of like what I wanted to

537
00:32:13.079 --> 00:32:16.440
sound like, just clean, cut, scratches, not go overly. I'm

538
00:32:16.480 --> 00:32:21.559
not too much of a turntable list
like, you know saying I'm still practiced.

539
00:32:21.559 --> 00:32:23.039
I still practice to this day.
I was just practicing yesterday, you

540
00:32:23.079 --> 00:32:25.759
know, like the kids are going
to bed last night I'm in my room

541
00:32:25.880 --> 00:32:30.079
like cranking music. I'm playing,
you know, like I'm I'm putting it

542
00:32:30.240 --> 00:32:34.200
level. Yeah, I'm putting together
you know, these these podcast mixes that

543
00:32:34.240 --> 00:32:37.440
we'll talk about and just recapping years, you know, and I was playing

544
00:32:37.519 --> 00:32:39.759
music from like two thousand and four
and just thinking like, oh my god,

545
00:32:39.759 --> 00:32:43.880
this is music from like twenty years
ago, and then like and it's

546
00:32:43.920 --> 00:32:46.240
crazy to see that, like it's
coming coming back in full circle, because

547
00:32:47.039 --> 00:32:51.440
I mean it's still popular today,
you know, like these these these songs.

548
00:32:51.480 --> 00:32:52.720
You know, So as matter of
fact, list can we get into

549
00:32:52.720 --> 00:32:55.000
that about these songs? You got
something else? Well? I was just

550
00:32:55.000 --> 00:32:59.160
gonna ask during that era, you
know, just on I this is what

551
00:32:59.359 --> 00:33:02.519
kind of what was our profession was
radio? Were you what was the mindset

552
00:33:02.559 --> 00:33:07.000
of where did you want to go
profession wise while you were DJing on the

553
00:33:07.079 --> 00:33:12.599
radio. Yeah, So I thought
that, you know, radio could have

554
00:33:12.680 --> 00:33:15.440
been like, you know, we'll
see how far it could go. But

555
00:33:15.319 --> 00:33:21.160
I felt that at the time that
I wanted to really push myself, like

556
00:33:21.200 --> 00:33:24.720
as a DJ. So I was
on B ninety five, I think I

557
00:33:24.759 --> 00:33:30.279
got on twenty fourteen, and then
I ended in twenty nineteen. So twenty

558
00:33:30.359 --> 00:33:34.480
nineteen, I felt like I wanted
to really like challenge, give myself a

559
00:33:34.559 --> 00:33:37.119
challenge, you know, just because
at that point, you know, I

560
00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:38.920
knew like, Okay, I can
mix, I can scratch, I can

561
00:33:38.960 --> 00:33:44.039
do this, I know the music. I was starting to come around as

562
00:33:44.039 --> 00:33:47.319
to like, you know, be
more comfortable on the microphone and talking and

563
00:33:47.400 --> 00:33:51.440
so in even I was doing you
know, like a private event such as

564
00:33:51.480 --> 00:33:54.519
weddings, which is what I'm primarily
doing nowadays, you know, but I

565
00:33:54.599 --> 00:33:59.599
wanted to you know, hone in
on that skill and craft. And so

566
00:33:59.680 --> 00:34:02.359
I knew that like I had to
like kind of turn and really like build

567
00:34:02.359 --> 00:34:06.119
my own brand, like you know, and I wanted to like really just

568
00:34:06.720 --> 00:34:08.760
go out there and branch and like
just build a brand, build the name,

569
00:34:09.320 --> 00:34:13.039
you know, and whatnot. So, uh, people know me as

570
00:34:13.280 --> 00:34:15.159
Juice Box, you know. Other
people still call me as you know,

571
00:34:15.199 --> 00:34:17.519
my first name, Hugo. You
know. I mean, there there aren't

572
00:34:17.559 --> 00:34:22.360
that many Hugos that a lot of
people know. So I wanted to go

573
00:34:22.440 --> 00:34:24.760
out there and just kind of like
really start that branding, you know.

574
00:34:24.880 --> 00:34:30.360
So as as a DJ who does
weddings, private events, high school events,

575
00:34:30.840 --> 00:34:32.960
uh, corporate events, I'll still, you know, I'll go back

576
00:34:34.000 --> 00:34:37.920
to San Jose and work with a
couple you know, uh dot com companies

577
00:34:37.920 --> 00:34:42.199
out there when they do events and
whatnot, you know. So but yeah,

578
00:34:42.239 --> 00:34:45.000
but but weddings is basically one that
like as a DJ, it's it's

579
00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:50.039
it's a difference between doing radio and
in doing weddings that is like a huge

580
00:34:50.039 --> 00:34:52.360
And and and clubs are you are
you dipping into the club scene at all

581
00:34:52.760 --> 00:34:57.239
or not so much anymore? Not
not so much? You know, I'll

582
00:34:57.320 --> 00:34:59.960
I'll still do it once in a
while, you know, like if if

583
00:35:00.039 --> 00:35:02.800
there's like an opportunity, like I'll
dip in there. One thing for sure,

584
00:35:02.880 --> 00:35:07.760
I remember when we started doing clubs. I remember the first time I

585
00:35:07.800 --> 00:35:09.719
opened up for for Magic. We
was to do, uh, what's the

586
00:35:09.760 --> 00:35:15.400
club in Clovi is uh the seller
cellar door or one of the cell seller

587
00:35:15.679 --> 00:35:19.519
right, So I remember, I
think it might've been the first time Magic

588
00:35:19.599 --> 00:35:22.960
heard me, you know, and
so I opened up and I knew I

589
00:35:23.039 --> 00:35:25.599
had like the approval When he came
up to me, he says like,

590
00:35:25.800 --> 00:35:30.039
that's how you fucking open a set. That's a fucking opening set right there.

591
00:35:30.079 --> 00:35:31.760
And then I think, like I
I think I finally got like his

592
00:35:31.840 --> 00:35:35.440
respect there because he was like,
oh shit, okay, like he's good,

593
00:35:35.559 --> 00:35:37.480
you know so. And I remember
thinking to myself like I want to

594
00:35:37.519 --> 00:35:40.320
do good, like I want to
give a fuck. I want people to

595
00:35:40.360 --> 00:35:43.960
like walk in and be like oh
shit, like okay, that's what's up.

596
00:35:44.000 --> 00:35:45.559
You know So there's a dope mix
like who's that dude in that hat

597
00:35:45.599 --> 00:35:50.639
over there? Beard? You know
so? But yeah, I don't do

598
00:35:50.719 --> 00:35:52.360
as much. I don't do the
clubs as much anymore, you know so.

599
00:35:52.519 --> 00:35:55.920
I'll still do a couple events around
town, some of the brunches,

600
00:35:55.960 --> 00:36:00.320
like shout out to uh the Cocky's
but a brunch, you know so I'll

601
00:36:00.360 --> 00:36:02.800
step in and and do those.
Those are a blast to do. I

602
00:36:02.800 --> 00:36:07.559
think that really gave me the opportunity
to really flourish as a DJ, as

603
00:36:07.559 --> 00:36:13.239
a person, to just have fun
give like go out there and like drunker

604
00:36:13.360 --> 00:36:15.920
nuts and like yo, like yo, this is who the fuck I am.

605
00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:19.400
So clubs are still fun. I
don't do them as much, you

606
00:36:19.440 --> 00:36:22.840
know so, but when I do, I mean, they're they're still fun

607
00:36:22.920 --> 00:36:25.320
to do, you know. Okay, before we get to the podcast mixing,

608
00:36:25.480 --> 00:36:30.320
because you brought up branding, do
you remember Juice Box wasn't his name

609
00:36:30.360 --> 00:36:32.199
when he first started wrighting. Weren't
you just DJ Juice? Yeah, so

610
00:36:32.280 --> 00:36:36.880
I was DJ Juice because obviously,
Okay, so for you know, like

611
00:36:36.920 --> 00:36:42.440
those who speak Spanish, huge Google
is Google like Juice in Spanish, right,

612
00:36:42.760 --> 00:36:45.800
so that was easily like GJ juice. Oh that ship's fucking you know,

613
00:36:45.840 --> 00:36:50.639
and I spell it different j e
uce because I'm a junior, so

614
00:36:50.800 --> 00:36:53.239
like Juice number two junior, Like
I had this whole thing, right,

615
00:36:53.400 --> 00:36:57.719
and so, but then there's other
DJ Juices. There's a DJ Juice in

616
00:36:57.719 --> 00:37:00.920
the Bay Area, there's a DJ
Juice locally, the I'll go here DJ

617
00:37:00.039 --> 00:37:04.719
Jews like the og you know,
shout out to DJ Juice here and Fresno

618
00:37:04.840 --> 00:37:07.800
like that's the homie, you know. So so yeah, so I think

619
00:37:07.880 --> 00:37:13.239
in twenty ten was like I gotta
like either do something, change it or

620
00:37:13.280 --> 00:37:15.920
add to it. So I thought
to myself, like, I'm gonna do

621
00:37:15.039 --> 00:37:19.360
Juice Box. But wait, why
wasn't the mentality like, no, I'm

622
00:37:19.400 --> 00:37:22.280
gonna be the DJ Juice in town. Well, because other DJ Juice,

623
00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:24.280
I mean, he had this,
he was he's been out here for a

624
00:37:24.320 --> 00:37:27.320
minute. That's true. By the
way, he's the homie like what we

625
00:37:27.400 --> 00:37:29.719
know. I was like, nah, you know what, like I don't

626
00:37:29.760 --> 00:37:31.519
want to like, I just I
want to like I'm not to kind of

627
00:37:31.519 --> 00:37:35.559
like separate yourself, right, I
want to separate myself and I I you

628
00:37:35.599 --> 00:37:37.639
know, I want I want to
be cool with like all the DJs in

629
00:37:37.719 --> 00:37:39.760
town. I got no qualms on
anyone here. Did you ever talk to

630
00:37:39.840 --> 00:37:44.320
him about this? Does he like
did you ever know? No? Okay,

631
00:37:44.360 --> 00:37:46.000
No, it was more for you, like, okay, I want

632
00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:50.800
to change. Yeah. Yeah.
And so I just thought that the name

633
00:37:50.920 --> 00:37:54.079
DJ juice Box is so funny,
Like I thought to myself, someone probably

634
00:37:54.119 --> 00:37:59.239
thinks of a juice box, that's
a that's a dumb sounding DJ name,

635
00:37:59.559 --> 00:38:01.320
And then I was probably one of
them. At first, I wasn't a

636
00:38:01.360 --> 00:38:07.159
fans. I wasn't a fan when
you did it because I understood why it

637
00:38:07.159 --> 00:38:09.239
was juice because of your name.
So when you first did it, at

638
00:38:09.239 --> 00:38:13.639
first, I wasn't a fan,
but then it kind of grew on me.

639
00:38:13.760 --> 00:38:16.159
It grew and I think just because
people are just like, I don't

640
00:38:16.199 --> 00:38:19.559
know a juice box exactly. That's
what I was gonna say, Like,

641
00:38:19.599 --> 00:38:21.719
you know, no one else has
that name. So I think that's kind

642
00:38:21.719 --> 00:38:22.880
of like why. I like,
people like at the time already knew me.

643
00:38:22.880 --> 00:38:25.880
They've already called me Juice, like
Juicy, what's up, you know,

644
00:38:27.079 --> 00:38:29.480
like, and so I was like, I can't like not just call

645
00:38:29.559 --> 00:38:32.360
myself DJ, I don't know whatever, you know, Like, so I

646
00:38:32.440 --> 00:38:36.480
just had to go Juice box,
you know, and with the with the

647
00:38:36.599 --> 00:38:39.440
drop, you know, I mean
that really came brought it together, brought

648
00:38:39.440 --> 00:38:43.159
it home and be like, okay, cool, you know. So I

649
00:38:43.159 --> 00:38:45.199
think I so the thing the whole
reason I we wanted to get you on

650
00:38:45.239 --> 00:38:50.280
this topic because we've been talking a
lot about clubs and the scene and the

651
00:38:50.639 --> 00:38:52.559
change of you know, with the
new generation. But you had tweeted something.

652
00:38:52.599 --> 00:38:54.679
Matter of fact, I got the
tweet here, and you said,

653
00:38:54.920 --> 00:39:00.000
the kids at prom are requesting more
records from the two thousands stand of current,

654
00:39:00.079 --> 00:39:02.480
and so I think kids would rather
hear party slash club records of yesterday

655
00:39:02.480 --> 00:39:07.760
than of today. They can slap
today's music anytime. And so that was

656
00:39:07.760 --> 00:39:09.880
like interesting to me because it's kind
of been in the same realm of the

657
00:39:09.920 --> 00:39:14.159
things that we've been talking about with
the new generation and the music they want

658
00:39:14.199 --> 00:39:16.079
to hear and the songs that they
want to hear. And so you've been

659
00:39:16.079 --> 00:39:22.239
doing a lot of proms lately in
these like high school events, and that's

660
00:39:22.239 --> 00:39:24.079
the change you've been seeing, is
they want to hear because we see it

661
00:39:24.159 --> 00:39:28.599
on TikTok. These old ass songs
are like trending again. Which, by

662
00:39:28.679 --> 00:39:31.599
the way, I get surprised when
they're singing along and know it, right,

663
00:39:31.599 --> 00:39:35.760
I know it, yeah, because
you post I love I love your

664
00:39:35.800 --> 00:39:38.920
recap videos. Man, I'm watching
them. Yeah and yeah, I get

665
00:39:38.960 --> 00:39:45.599
surprised when you guys drop a song
from our era and they're singing it word

666
00:39:45.719 --> 00:39:49.280
for words. So I think to
myself, Okay, so like let's bring

667
00:39:49.360 --> 00:39:52.239
it down. These kids are in
high school, right, they're sixteen,

668
00:39:52.480 --> 00:39:57.320
seventeen years old. Right, they
were born in two thousand and six,

669
00:39:57.400 --> 00:40:00.039
two thousand and seven, two thousand
and eight. They're a sophomore if my

670
00:40:00.039 --> 00:40:05.719
mouth is correct. So you have
to think about that their parents are either

671
00:40:06.320 --> 00:40:12.119
elder millennials or older gen X folks
that grew up listening to stuff from like

672
00:40:12.400 --> 00:40:15.360
the nineties and the two thousands.
So what are they listening to as they're

673
00:40:15.400 --> 00:40:20.480
growing up, stuff from like the
two thousands, from the nineties, right.

674
00:40:20.599 --> 00:40:23.119
So basically, if you I'm gonna
I'm thirty eight, all right.

675
00:40:23.199 --> 00:40:27.440
So if you're like thirty eight and
up and probably have a kid like in

676
00:40:27.519 --> 00:40:31.280
high school or junior high, chances
are they're they're listening to you know,

677
00:40:31.360 --> 00:40:35.840
the two thousand stuff growing up.
Right. Listen, I got a I

678
00:40:35.880 --> 00:40:39.760
got a playlist that this past weekend. Shout out to uh Hoover High Foul

679
00:40:39.840 --> 00:40:45.000
or High I did their proms this
past month. Dude, the kids were

680
00:40:45.079 --> 00:40:49.239
rocking, man. But listen to
the playlist, Kisha cole Love. That's

681
00:40:49.480 --> 00:40:52.159
a big record that who's giving you
this playlist? The school is, the

682
00:40:52.199 --> 00:40:55.239
school is, this is what the
kids that are requesting because I tell them

683
00:40:55.559 --> 00:40:58.679
I need you to tell the kids
what they want to hear. Well,

684
00:40:58.760 --> 00:41:00.679
first of all, are you messaging
these is what he did? No?

685
00:41:00.800 --> 00:41:05.440
No, no, no no no, Drake, no no no no.

686
00:41:05.480 --> 00:41:08.320
But like I'm talking to like the
forminators administrators, I'm like, hey,

687
00:41:08.440 --> 00:41:12.519
you know, can you do me
a favor, like ask the kids like

688
00:41:12.599 --> 00:41:15.639
you know or what we do is
we'll do like a QR code. The

689
00:41:15.719 --> 00:41:19.480
kids can like put the QR code
submit like the songs that they want here.

690
00:41:19.679 --> 00:41:23.760
Yeah, So Keisha Cole Love is
one of the biggest records that these

691
00:41:23.800 --> 00:41:28.480
kids love. That's some crazy I'm
trying. I'm trying to think this that's

692
00:41:28.519 --> 00:41:31.280
equivalent to like what for us,
like a a tevin Ca Campbell Can we

693
00:41:31.320 --> 00:41:36.119
talk? Yeah? For us?
Right yeah, Flow right er Low that

694
00:41:36.159 --> 00:41:38.199
came out in two thousand and eight, Walk a Flock of No Hands that

695
00:41:38.280 --> 00:41:43.039
came out, Yeah, that's you, Mac Dre Gets Stupid twenty four,

696
00:41:43.079 --> 00:41:45.440
twenty years that that dropped, you
know Usher, Yeah, that came out.

697
00:41:45.519 --> 00:41:49.440
Confessions was like the biggest R and
B album two thousand and four,

698
00:41:49.599 --> 00:41:52.280
right lit John get Low Wow.
I mean these are records, so this

699
00:41:52.320 --> 00:41:55.639
is livingly like our high school era. Yeah, and then Sweedy my Type.

700
00:41:55.719 --> 00:41:59.639
That's that's their that's their current stuff, even though that record came out

701
00:41:59.679 --> 00:42:05.119
a couple of years ago. Right
justin Bieber Baby Wow banger for them,

702
00:42:05.679 --> 00:42:07.960
I just drop of it and I
could just go back and forth, and

703
00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:10.400
they are singing their heart out,
you know, obviously like the Taylor Swift

704
00:42:10.440 --> 00:42:14.880
and all that. But something about
these records for them, to them,

705
00:42:14.960 --> 00:42:19.760
these are like their throwbacks. To
them, that's their old school when you

706
00:42:19.800 --> 00:42:22.360
think about it, you know,
so, but What's interesting though, why

707
00:42:22.400 --> 00:42:24.960
do they want to hear those at
like the dances. Is it because they

708
00:42:25.000 --> 00:42:29.960
feel they can dance to these songs
more or like what do you think the

709
00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:36.719
reason is? I think that they
probably grow up hearing stories from their parents,

710
00:42:36.920 --> 00:42:39.920
or they probably on social media and
they're on TikTok, and then they're

711
00:42:39.920 --> 00:42:44.320
probably like hearying like you know,
the millennials like yo, back in the

712
00:42:44.400 --> 00:42:46.199
club days we used to have we
used to hear these records. We to

713
00:42:46.199 --> 00:42:51.119
hear this record. And if you
kind of listen to music today, music

714
00:42:51.159 --> 00:42:53.599
today is more about the vibes.
It's vibe stuff. It's more like,

715
00:42:53.679 --> 00:42:57.559
you know, you're kind of kicking
back, like having like a a kickback

716
00:42:57.599 --> 00:43:01.159
of house party and you're listening to
what Byby records that's on right now.

717
00:43:01.639 --> 00:43:06.000
So but if you want to like
have a great time in dance, nothing

718
00:43:06.079 --> 00:43:09.320
is like compared to those early club
records. I mean, like, I

719
00:43:09.360 --> 00:43:14.440
mean, we we're we're a testament
because we grew up and went through it,

720
00:43:14.480 --> 00:43:17.039
you know, and so uh,
I mean these kids, like I

721
00:43:17.039 --> 00:43:20.199
mean, if they want to have
a great time, yeah, they want

722
00:43:20.199 --> 00:43:22.719
to hear Montel Jordan's this is how
we do it it comes up asking for

723
00:43:22.760 --> 00:43:25.800
like eighties records, I'm like,
what the fuck I'm want to hear that.

724
00:43:27.360 --> 00:43:30.559
I feel like TikTok too has a
lot to do with it with the

725
00:43:30.599 --> 00:43:35.920
high school kids because I'm seeing dances. You know, TikTok is known for

726
00:43:36.039 --> 00:43:40.039
the when they're doing these dances where
they use they use songs from back in

727
00:43:40.079 --> 00:43:45.480
the days. For instance, I
don't play Poisoned by Bail Bidevo hardly ever

728
00:43:45.519 --> 00:43:51.000
anymore, but I see that it's
coming. They're doing it, but it's

729
00:43:51.079 --> 00:43:54.519
the sped up version. But at
least they know what that's they can they'll

730
00:43:55.360 --> 00:43:59.679
recognize the song when they hear it
again. Yeah, but I'm like,

731
00:43:59.679 --> 00:44:02.119
oh man, and I might have
to bring poison Belle Bivdevo back on my

732
00:44:02.760 --> 00:44:07.840
list because I'm seeing it on TikTok. So. Here's something that we've been

733
00:44:07.840 --> 00:44:10.679
talking about about, like with the
clubs recently, is that we're seeing a

734
00:44:10.800 --> 00:44:15.119
shift in like kind of the atmosphere
of the clubs and people not really dancing

735
00:44:15.159 --> 00:44:19.280
and it's more about the lounge.
And it's like, and I'm a fan.

736
00:44:19.360 --> 00:44:22.119
I know, we're all kind of
a fan of the dance clubs where

737
00:44:22.119 --> 00:44:24.480
people are actually dancing and moving around, but it doesn't seem like it's that

738
00:44:24.679 --> 00:44:28.840
anymore. But now kind of like
what you're telling us, what these teenagers

739
00:44:28.880 --> 00:44:31.159
are doing and what they're wanting.
Do you think that when once they start

740
00:44:31.199 --> 00:44:35.719
growing and getting into the club scene, that maybe that that dance club is

741
00:44:35.760 --> 00:44:40.000
going to come back around? Give
it? Yes? I think right now

742
00:44:40.519 --> 00:44:45.280
what we've been with the trend with
hip hop. Yeah, I have my

743
00:44:45.320 --> 00:44:47.440
own theory just because I'm a nerd
like that, and I go back and

744
00:44:47.480 --> 00:44:51.320
listen to a lot of different music
from like the past and whatnot. You

745
00:44:51.440 --> 00:44:57.320
Yeah, I think that there's been
a trend since. I think music kind

746
00:44:57.320 --> 00:45:00.880
of started changing around twenty eighteen,
twenty nineteen. Everything prior to that.

747
00:45:00.960 --> 00:45:05.320
So when I was on radio between
twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen up till twenty

748
00:45:05.360 --> 00:45:09.320
nineteen, music was in a good
in a good pocket where there was music

749
00:45:09.360 --> 00:45:14.079
that was hip hop, there was
music that was radio friendly, there was

750
00:45:14.199 --> 00:45:16.719
music that was you can dance to
it. Like let's say, for example,

751
00:45:17.079 --> 00:45:20.840
twenty fourteen, remember the Mustard era, Yeah had like you know,

752
00:45:20.880 --> 00:45:24.039
the supposed to be the tanasehe tuon. Those were good radio records and you

753
00:45:24.079 --> 00:45:27.280
can still play them at the club
and what you can still dance on me.

754
00:45:27.679 --> 00:45:30.360
After twenty nineteen, the pandemic,
I think kind of fucked up music,

755
00:45:30.960 --> 00:45:34.400
like if you because because we were
inside, right, yeah, it

756
00:45:34.440 --> 00:45:38.199
got depressing. The one, the
one popular record in twenty twenty was the

757
00:45:38.280 --> 00:45:44.880
Baby rock Star that living look a
Baby and I'm sorry but that I was

758
00:45:44.920 --> 00:45:47.360
through TikTok. That song fucking sucks. Like every time I heard it,

759
00:45:47.440 --> 00:45:50.920
I changed it because I don't know, Like, I don't know, because

760
00:45:50.920 --> 00:45:53.159
the time was depressing because the Corona
virus. We were all inside. You

761
00:45:53.159 --> 00:45:57.840
would hear the guitar and I'm just
like, oh the fuck it just felt

762
00:45:57.840 --> 00:46:00.480
I don't know. But after that, music hasn't really been the same.

763
00:46:00.880 --> 00:46:05.840
I don't know, Like I think
like that the pandemic really kind of shifted

764
00:46:05.880 --> 00:46:09.119
everything. So we're four years out
from from it, I think we're starting

765
00:46:09.159 --> 00:46:12.880
to kind of come out of like
this rut. When it comes to music,

766
00:46:12.960 --> 00:46:15.840
it's I think it's just a hip
hop where it's out right now.

767
00:46:15.840 --> 00:46:19.400
It's kind of in like a staleness
where it's out right now. Even radio

768
00:46:19.519 --> 00:46:22.360
songs are just kind of like,
eh, you know, it's a lot

769
00:46:22.360 --> 00:46:27.639
of like slower tempo kind of records, and I think that's why like Latin

770
00:46:27.719 --> 00:46:30.920
music really kind of sparked man.
Yeah, because that's because that's where people

771
00:46:30.960 --> 00:46:32.400
are dancing. Yeah, I mean, I mean, like now, like

772
00:46:32.519 --> 00:46:37.400
when I do parties, like i'm
it's either if it's not fifty to fifty,

773
00:46:37.480 --> 00:46:42.119
I'm playing more Spanish music party good
points. So growing up, I

774
00:46:42.159 --> 00:46:44.800
mean I knew Spanish music, you
know, I mean, I'm Salvadorian.

775
00:46:44.880 --> 00:46:50.079
I didn't grow up listening to the
Mexican corridosallo's all that. But out here

776
00:46:50.079 --> 00:46:52.360
in the valley, I had to
like quickly learn. Yeah, I gotta

777
00:46:52.519 --> 00:46:57.639
I gotta know these records, you
know, so and so and so.

778
00:46:57.800 --> 00:47:00.119
Like I got like, you know, my current uh DJ buddies that like,

779
00:47:00.159 --> 00:47:04.079
you know, I'm working with,
they put me up on games.

780
00:47:04.079 --> 00:47:07.079
So shout out to uh Lunatico,
you know R two oh, you know

781
00:47:07.280 --> 00:47:09.519
Echo, Like they're the ones that
put me on when it comes to the

782
00:47:09.519 --> 00:47:13.360
Spanish records, like hey just play
this or play that, you know,

783
00:47:13.480 --> 00:47:16.079
so to. But I think now, like give it, give it about

784
00:47:16.159 --> 00:47:20.960
two three years. I feel like
music is gonna shift to where it's gonna

785
00:47:21.000 --> 00:47:24.079
go back to like a dancing like
dancing. People are gonna want a club

786
00:47:24.119 --> 00:47:28.960
more. I mean we're kind of
like coming out of this whole bottle service

787
00:47:29.039 --> 00:47:31.519
era at the clubs. Hope,
so because that shit is so whack to

788
00:47:31.559 --> 00:47:35.000
me, you know what I'm saying. Everybody just wants bottle service. Everybody

789
00:47:35.000 --> 00:47:37.199
wants to do it for the gram. Yeah, you know, show what

790
00:47:37.239 --> 00:47:38.960
they're in VIP and no one's fucking
moving, you know what I'm saying.

791
00:47:38.960 --> 00:47:43.480
It's just like all for show.
But like take me back to the clubs.

792
00:47:43.559 --> 00:47:46.320
Jumping off people are jumping literally dancing
moving, you know what I'm saying,

793
00:47:46.519 --> 00:47:50.199
breaking a sweat. We got to
go back to like when we just

794
00:47:50.239 --> 00:47:52.119
like pull up and like dance on
the female, like and if you got

795
00:47:52.199 --> 00:47:58.559
dissed, you got this and you
just moved on. Like when like you

796
00:47:58.599 --> 00:48:00.440
go up on a girl and then
like he looks at the homegirl and she

797
00:48:00.480 --> 00:48:04.679
gives you that like yeah, here's
a confirmation that she kind of looks back

798
00:48:04.719 --> 00:48:07.880
at your like okay, cool,
Like you know, so we had to

799
00:48:07.920 --> 00:48:08.920
go back to those days. You
know, I think I think a lot

800
00:48:08.960 --> 00:48:13.920
of these kids are just missing like
those those club days, man, like

801
00:48:14.000 --> 00:48:16.519
just going out having a good time, like breaking the sweat. You know.

802
00:48:17.440 --> 00:48:22.880
I think we talked about the previous
one where they they go for themselves

803
00:48:22.079 --> 00:48:24.519
with the gram and then they lead
show people that I was there. You

804
00:48:24.559 --> 00:48:27.840
know what I'm saying. Make sure
you saw what I was wearing. But

805
00:48:27.960 --> 00:48:30.880
yeah, let's take it back to
having fun at the clubs and the parties,

806
00:48:30.880 --> 00:48:32.400
which was the original point of it. You know what I'm saying.

807
00:48:34.039 --> 00:48:37.920
Let's kind of fast forward. Let
me just ask you, this is DJing

808
00:48:37.199 --> 00:48:42.320
cause you know, like you said, you're DJing the schools, the weddings

809
00:48:43.159 --> 00:48:46.360
sometimes clubs. Is this your main
source of income right now? Yeah?

810
00:48:46.639 --> 00:48:53.559
Oh no, this is full time? So I think I started basically just

811
00:48:53.760 --> 00:48:57.559
was like I think I need to
do this full time. Like around twenty

812
00:48:57.800 --> 00:49:02.119
eighteen, twenty nineteen. Remind me, did you correct me if I'm wrong?

813
00:49:02.159 --> 00:49:07.199
Did you just you you chose to
leave radio, right I did?

814
00:49:07.280 --> 00:49:08.760
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, you're
like, yeah, I think I'm done.

815
00:49:08.840 --> 00:49:12.360
Like yeah, you didn't get like
cut or nothing like no, yeah,

816
00:49:12.440 --> 00:49:15.920
no, I I left, you
know, but it but it was

817
00:49:15.960 --> 00:49:17.800
just it was a tough. It
was a tough decision because I love to

818
00:49:17.840 --> 00:49:22.119
do radio. I loved it,
you know, just because I love to

819
00:49:22.239 --> 00:49:25.599
like actually wanted to put a good
product of a mix out there because growing

820
00:49:25.679 --> 00:49:30.039
up I listened to like great mixes, Like I listened to some dope DJs,

821
00:49:30.320 --> 00:49:34.920
and so when I stepped in as
a radio DJ, I had a

822
00:49:34.960 --> 00:49:37.960
responsibility of, like, you need
to put together quality mixes. You need

823
00:49:38.119 --> 00:49:44.960
you need to sound solid. I've
heard some shitty mixes and it just irked

824
00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:46.880
me because I'm like, dude,
like you gotta like put some respect on

825
00:49:46.880 --> 00:49:51.079
your name. You gotta have people
people want to like, want you to

826
00:49:51.199 --> 00:49:53.360
like, you know, like it's
a privilege essentially to do what we're doing,

827
00:49:53.440 --> 00:49:57.719
right what I'm saying. So,
but but I at the same time,

828
00:49:57.840 --> 00:50:00.079
I I decided to step back because
I kind of wanted to focus on

829
00:50:00.079 --> 00:50:04.039
my on my branding and just take
more time. And yeah, I went,

830
00:50:04.159 --> 00:50:07.480
I went full time, you know. So I uh, with the

831
00:50:07.480 --> 00:50:10.519
support of my wife, you know, she she told me, like you,

832
00:50:10.599 --> 00:50:13.320
she told me, like, I
think you need to do this full

833
00:50:13.360 --> 00:50:15.639
time. I mean, and when
you when I look back at it,

834
00:50:15.679 --> 00:50:19.440
I mean, I've been djaying for
now, it's going to be what eighteen

835
00:50:19.519 --> 00:50:22.159
years. I've been doing this for
eighteen years, you know, from when

836
00:50:22.159 --> 00:50:25.159
I started from the inception and it's
it's essentially my career, you know.

837
00:50:25.719 --> 00:50:30.639
So so when I when I do
meet with like clients who want to book

838
00:50:30.679 --> 00:50:32.599
for a DJ, I tell them
like, listen, you're not I'm not

839
00:50:32.960 --> 00:50:37.320
doing this part time. This isn't
like a side thing, a weekend thing.

840
00:50:37.320 --> 00:50:42.119
This is my profession. Yeah,
this is what my resume speaks for.

841
00:50:42.239 --> 00:50:45.519
I've done radio, i do this, I've done this, I was

842
00:50:45.559 --> 00:50:47.679
here, I've done there, you
know, school. So yeah, I

843
00:50:47.679 --> 00:50:52.280
mean so so and when a lot
of people hear me, like they just

844
00:50:52.400 --> 00:50:54.480
come up and they're like, you're
really good, and I'm like, I'm

845
00:50:54.480 --> 00:50:59.320
always appreciative because I want I want
people to care about the music. I

846
00:50:59.360 --> 00:51:01.239
want them to you know, have
a great time for me. At the

847
00:51:01.320 --> 00:51:04.039
end of the night, when people
come up and say, like, dude,

848
00:51:04.079 --> 00:51:07.000
that was fun. People are sweating, they're drunk, and they're like

849
00:51:07.920 --> 00:51:09.199
bad to me, like that means
they had a blast, you know.

850
00:51:09.320 --> 00:51:12.760
So, so yeah, this is
full time now. Yeah, shouts out

851
00:51:12.800 --> 00:51:15.440
to you. Because DJ there's different
lanes. There's the touring DJ, there's

852
00:51:15.480 --> 00:51:20.039
the festival DJs, the radio DJs, the club DJs, and you found

853
00:51:20.039 --> 00:51:25.840
this lane where you're especially in town
not a lot of people do. There's

854
00:51:27.000 --> 00:51:30.239
a lot of our homies are doing
it too. But yeah, you have

855
00:51:30.360 --> 00:51:34.119
this lane where essentially doing private events
you know what I'm saying exactly, and

856
00:51:34.199 --> 00:51:39.719
I know how much those pay the
clubs and shouts out to you for even

857
00:51:39.800 --> 00:51:45.400
investing in that, because I think
this was years ago where you posted like

858
00:51:45.760 --> 00:51:49.639
something you bought for you know,
uh a gig, and I think I

859
00:51:49.719 --> 00:51:52.800
messaged I was like, yo,
like that DJ, but I don't know

860
00:51:52.800 --> 00:51:54.800
what you bought, but you bought
something where I was like, Yo,

861
00:51:54.880 --> 00:52:00.239
that booth is tight. Yeah,
and so you're doing it the right way,

862
00:52:00.239 --> 00:52:02.039
thank you? No, Yeah,
did the investments? Man? Like

863
00:52:02.119 --> 00:52:06.079
you? You have to you have
to give a damn you know, like

864
00:52:06.239 --> 00:52:10.280
and to if you want other people
to invest in you and pay for you

865
00:52:10.360 --> 00:52:15.079
what you're asking for, you have
to invest the timing within yourself to show

866
00:52:15.519 --> 00:52:17.800
others like, listen, this is
what I do. This is my profession.

867
00:52:19.360 --> 00:52:22.719
And you have to execute. I
think like the execution portion of it

868
00:52:22.760 --> 00:52:29.239
is, you know, uh easy
nowadays I can just pull up in DJ

869
00:52:29.440 --> 00:52:31.880
and whatnot. I feel like at
this point in my career, I am

870
00:52:32.079 --> 00:52:37.920
like hitting the strides like in just
perfect, like I'm comfortable on the microphone.

871
00:52:37.079 --> 00:52:39.800
I'm comfortable to talk in front of
like random strangers, you know.

872
00:52:39.880 --> 00:52:44.440
I mean I've DJed at the Save
Mark before, you know, like in

873
00:52:44.440 --> 00:52:46.519
front of thousands, you know,
so with the help of like being on

874
00:52:46.679 --> 00:52:52.239
radio and when and with you know, everyone around here. So for me

875
00:52:52.280 --> 00:52:54.320
to do a wedding, I mean
those are fun. I Mean. The

876
00:52:54.360 --> 00:52:58.079
only thing that sucks is like out
here, like if you're doing a wedding

877
00:52:58.079 --> 00:53:00.880
in the summer, and yeah,
I'm in a suit, I'm over your

878
00:53:00.960 --> 00:53:02.559
chug and like gallons of water to
stay hi. That's the only thing that

879
00:53:02.599 --> 00:53:06.440
sucks. But like, I mean
the execution of it, because I've done

880
00:53:06.440 --> 00:53:08.840
so many like over the years,
i already know like how to like go

881
00:53:08.920 --> 00:53:12.960
about it. Sometimes, like I'll
run the whole wedding myself, you know,

882
00:53:13.119 --> 00:53:15.760
like and people are paying me to
like can you do the whole wedding?

883
00:53:15.920 --> 00:53:19.840
And can you run this from the
beginning to the end, And I'm

884
00:53:19.880 --> 00:53:22.960
like, absolutely, let's do it. I will sit down, we'll knock

885
00:53:22.960 --> 00:53:25.599
everything out. I'll give you suggestions. Do you want to do this?

886
00:53:25.760 --> 00:53:28.960
Do you want to do that?
Here we're running a little bit behind.

887
00:53:29.000 --> 00:53:30.599
You want to push up, you
know. So uh you know, so

888
00:53:30.679 --> 00:53:35.400
doing private events and weddings, like
I mean, there's a lot of responsibilities

889
00:53:35.440 --> 00:53:38.880
and you have to care because you
have to remember, like these are moments

890
00:53:38.880 --> 00:53:43.519
that people are gonna remember. Yeah, really, and you can't mess up.

891
00:53:43.559 --> 00:53:46.000
And there's no sick days with DJs. There are no sick days.

892
00:53:46.079 --> 00:53:51.239
If I have a flu too bad, like bring a night cool, drink

893
00:53:51.280 --> 00:53:54.199
pliny water and do it. You
know. So where where can uh like

894
00:53:54.280 --> 00:53:59.159
the public, uh, you know, get information on booking? You Are

895
00:53:59.199 --> 00:54:01.760
you going through a company? Are
you working with partners or can they go

896
00:54:02.079 --> 00:54:07.119
directly to you? Yeah? So
I work with Moss Entertainment. So so

897
00:54:07.159 --> 00:54:12.880
if you want to like, check
us out website Moss M A S H

898
00:54:13.079 --> 00:54:15.480
E N T Weddings dot com.
So if you want to check us out,

899
00:54:15.519 --> 00:54:19.360
it's about five of us in there
in the crew. So shout out

900
00:54:19.360 --> 00:54:23.079
to a DJ Lunatico, uh,
DJ Echo Arturo, myself, DJ Juice

901
00:54:23.079 --> 00:54:27.199
Box and DJ Kbridge. Five of
us right now. You know. We

902
00:54:27.199 --> 00:54:30.679
we do weddings, private events,
school events, I mean you name it,

903
00:54:30.719 --> 00:54:34.360
you know, divorce parties. You
know, we'll be in there and

904
00:54:34.400 --> 00:54:37.039
you know and get a crack and
you know so. But yeah, if

905
00:54:37.039 --> 00:54:39.280
you want to hit hit me up
on the socials, it's everything like the

906
00:54:39.320 --> 00:54:45.840
same at DJ juice Box d J
J e U C E b o X.

907
00:54:45.880 --> 00:54:49.880
That's Instagram, Twitter if you want
to see me like talk shit about

908
00:54:49.880 --> 00:54:53.719
my team when they're you know so
Facebook. Yeah, sometimes I feel like

909
00:54:53.760 --> 00:54:58.440
on Twitter juice Box during the Lakers
season, juice Box would get mad at

910
00:54:58.440 --> 00:55:01.639
me for my negativity. You know
what it is too, It's who I

911
00:55:01.639 --> 00:55:05.360
find. I don't know because you
might not be following the same people I

912
00:55:05.480 --> 00:55:08.360
follow, which is my friends,
and we all feel the same, and

913
00:55:08.440 --> 00:55:13.360
I feel like you're getting just mine. So maybe it's not it's not translating

914
00:55:13.400 --> 00:55:16.360
because I'm talking shit with my friends. Yeah, and he's seeing it.

915
00:55:16.400 --> 00:55:20.000
But he's seeing it, so he's
like, Yo, magic is very negative

916
00:55:20.039 --> 00:55:22.920
over here. I don't be like
magic, what the fuck domestic as magic?

917
00:55:23.000 --> 00:55:27.400
Yo, We're down ten. We
got this, bro, you know.

918
00:55:27.519 --> 00:55:29.559
But then I love it when you
join when you join it, I'm

919
00:55:29.800 --> 00:55:32.039
all right, I'm gonna join that. I'm like, I'm the same way

920
00:55:32.119 --> 00:55:36.360
in our group chat. I'll be
the most negative person in our group chat,

921
00:55:36.639 --> 00:55:38.559
and juice Boxes like, nah,
we're good still, and I'm like,

922
00:55:38.599 --> 00:55:40.559
no, man, I'm ready to
turn this shit off already. Man,

923
00:55:40.719 --> 00:55:45.119
I'm always the one I got hold. I'm down twenty one in the

924
00:55:45.159 --> 00:55:47.639
fourth, two minutes left. Bro
it ain't over yet. Ain't over yet,

925
00:55:47.880 --> 00:55:52.639
you know. So but but yeah, but like also, if you

926
00:55:52.679 --> 00:55:55.800
guys are on podcast and one that
I just uploaded some mixes on YouTube.

927
00:55:55.800 --> 00:56:00.280
So if you go on YouTube,
search a DJ juice box, I'm currently

928
00:56:00.320 --> 00:56:05.639
working on the series of your reviews
for for mixes. So I've done two

929
00:56:05.719 --> 00:56:08.039
thousand and one. I broke it
up in two so I've done two thousand

930
00:56:08.039 --> 00:56:12.800
and one R and B in two
thousand and one hip hop. I uploaded

931
00:56:12.840 --> 00:56:16.280
like these mixes on YouTube, and
the numbers blew up because I forget that,

932
00:56:16.760 --> 00:56:20.440
you know, YouTube is there to
like kind of put mixes out there

933
00:56:20.480 --> 00:56:22.239
and whatnot, you know, so
I just can't monetize off of it,

934
00:56:22.280 --> 00:56:29.360
which I don't care. But I
just my mixes have gotten like already hundreds

935
00:56:29.360 --> 00:56:34.480
of thousands of listens, you know, and I just uploaded them like about

936
00:56:34.480 --> 00:56:37.480
a two months ago. But these
are mixes that I started working around twenty

937
00:56:37.519 --> 00:56:40.760
twenty. You know. I've had
this, like, you know, a

938
00:56:40.840 --> 00:56:45.400
project in my idea of wanting to
do recap of mixes, like you know,

939
00:56:45.440 --> 00:56:47.599
over the years. So I've done
two thousand, two thousand and one,

940
00:56:47.760 --> 00:56:51.760
you guys can check that out.
Two thousand and two, hip hop

941
00:56:51.760 --> 00:56:53.599
and R and B. Two thousand
and three. I did those last year

942
00:56:53.639 --> 00:56:57.559
for hip hop and R and B, and so this year I'm working on

943
00:56:57.599 --> 00:57:00.599
two thousand and four. R and
B is gonna drop first, and then

944
00:57:00.679 --> 00:57:04.880
hip hop later on down the year, and then I'll probably come back circle

945
00:57:04.920 --> 00:57:07.519
around to like the twenty elevens.
I did a twenty eleven. I gotta

946
00:57:07.559 --> 00:57:10.280
re upload that one, but go
back to the twenty twelve's and whatnot,

947
00:57:10.320 --> 00:57:14.679
probably you know, for their twenty
years or whatnot. And then you even

948
00:57:14.719 --> 00:57:19.719
do like specific like Aliya mixes or
outcasts. Yeah, like all yeah,

949
00:57:19.719 --> 00:57:22.280
Like I'll put together like quick little
TikTok songs and mixes you know that people

950
00:57:22.360 --> 00:57:24.920
can just like you know, put
up there, you know, just branding,

951
00:57:24.960 --> 00:57:28.519
you know, just throwing mixes out
there. I mean the DJs out

952
00:57:28.519 --> 00:57:30.480
there. There's some dope DJs that
are just putting out some great content,

953
00:57:30.599 --> 00:57:34.880
you know, and you know TikTok
we're scrolling. Yeah, and so I

954
00:57:34.880 --> 00:57:37.920
gotta I gotta come with a record. You just drop it real quick,

955
00:57:37.960 --> 00:57:40.320
thirty seconds of just a bunch of
records, you know whatnot. So it's

956
00:57:40.400 --> 00:57:43.800
great promotions, just kind of put
the name out there, you know,

957
00:57:43.960 --> 00:57:47.840
so just promote mixes. Like I
love putting these mixes together because I call

958
00:57:47.880 --> 00:57:52.079
them like passion projects. They kind
of just kind of like take us back

959
00:57:52.079 --> 00:57:53.800
to like a moment when we were
like younger, and it's like, oh,

960
00:57:53.920 --> 00:57:57.800
back in the day, man,
when life was simple and yeah,

961
00:57:57.960 --> 00:58:00.519
man, McDonald's wasn't as expensive.
You know, Taco bell was like a

962
00:58:00.599 --> 00:58:04.559
dollar. You know, there's a
there's definitely a lot of nostalgic field to

963
00:58:04.559 --> 00:58:07.480
it because some of my favorite mixes
are like the era let's say the era

964
00:58:07.599 --> 00:58:09.719
mixes that he puts out from the
from the years and like, yeah,

965
00:58:09.719 --> 00:58:13.480
it will take you back to a
certain time in your life. And not

966
00:58:13.559 --> 00:58:15.599
to mention, those mixes are very
good for like workouts, you're going on

967
00:58:15.679 --> 00:58:19.679
for a walk and uh or if
you know, you just want to reminisce

968
00:58:19.679 --> 00:58:22.599
about the good old days. So
I do really like when he puts these,

969
00:58:22.639 --> 00:58:24.199
Like you like your mixes, I
guess you would call them, yeah,

970
00:58:24.679 --> 00:58:28.079
but you said those are on YouTube. They're on YouTube. They're on

971
00:58:28.119 --> 00:58:31.920
YouTube. Go to Apple podcasts if
so the iPhone listeners, go to podcasts,

972
00:58:31.960 --> 00:58:36.159
just type in my name DJ juice
Box and it'll pop up in there.

973
00:58:36.880 --> 00:58:39.719
All the mixes I've done, I
have some old ones over the years.

974
00:58:39.760 --> 00:58:44.000
I did a Neptune's mix back in
twenty ten. People still like ask

975
00:58:44.079 --> 00:58:47.400
about it. Did you do a
Nate Dog mix too? No? No,

976
00:58:47.400 --> 00:58:53.440
no, that was uh DJ Steve
Wonder okay, stee h he uh

977
00:58:53.559 --> 00:58:57.400
he did a mix It's called Nate
and no wait, dude, that mix.

978
00:58:57.559 --> 00:59:00.039
I think that was what was the
one that really like inspired me to

979
00:59:00.119 --> 00:59:04.840
do like a theme mix the mixes, you know. So, but yeah,

980
00:59:04.880 --> 00:59:07.880
so YouTube, it's on there,
you'll check it out. Uh,

981
00:59:07.960 --> 00:59:12.480
it's also on iTunes as well.
I'm not on iTunes, Apple podcasts and

982
00:59:12.519 --> 00:59:15.599
whatnot. So go go on my
Instagram and you'll follow the link and then

983
00:59:15.639 --> 00:59:20.960
it'll take you all there to go
back and listening to them. I try

984
00:59:21.000 --> 00:59:23.519
to keep it in an hour.
I crme in like as much as fifty

985
00:59:23.559 --> 00:59:27.480
songs in these mixes. And yeah, I mean, I mean, I'm

986
00:59:27.519 --> 00:59:30.480
just I'm quickly mixing, quick mixing
them, you know, so people have

987
00:59:30.519 --> 00:59:32.679
asked like, hey, can you
make like longer mixes, But like I

988
00:59:32.840 --> 00:59:36.400
just think to myself, like,
no one wants to hear like a ninety

989
00:59:36.440 --> 00:59:37.840
minute mix. Yeah. Less,
it's more keep them wanting to come back,

990
00:59:37.880 --> 00:59:40.079
you know what I'm saying. Yeah, But then I I also remember

991
00:59:40.079 --> 00:59:45.119
that there are people that like like
to you know, clean the house and

992
00:59:45.159 --> 00:59:50.039
have YouTube on in the background and
whatnot. So I might just start putting

993
00:59:50.039 --> 00:59:52.440
together like just mixes of like you
know me, you know, mixing like

994
00:59:52.480 --> 00:59:55.480
at the house. Yeah. People
like to see like the live mixes and

995
00:59:55.519 --> 00:59:59.079
whatnot, you know. So that's
something that like I'm gonna work on soon,

996
01:00:00.159 --> 01:00:02.039
you know, just to kind of
you know, scratch the itch of

997
01:00:02.039 --> 01:00:05.800
the days when I used to do
radio, because like I still try to

998
01:00:05.800 --> 01:00:07.639
find the times to like put together
some mixes and whatnot, you know,

999
01:00:08.039 --> 01:00:12.320
for you bro. Yeah, yeah, it was good to catch up with

1000
01:00:12.360 --> 01:00:15.719
you face to face. I know. It kind of when with social media

1001
01:00:15.760 --> 01:00:20.039
you feel like you hang out with
your friends anyways. And also I'll say

1002
01:00:20.039 --> 01:00:23.960
this because it man, it you
just saying these names. It just reminds

1003
01:00:23.960 --> 01:00:27.000
me of when we used to hang
out. We call you guys, call

1004
01:00:27.039 --> 01:00:31.719
it the h Q House on where
was that at? Yeah, well we

1005
01:00:31.719 --> 01:00:37.119
don't live there anymore, but yeah, Getsburg. Yeah, we used to

1006
01:00:37.199 --> 01:00:39.920
just go there and just hang out. Man, the stories that we have.

1007
01:00:40.400 --> 01:00:45.000
We had a DJ room, just
a wall full of like posters and

1008
01:00:45.039 --> 01:00:47.840
whatnot, you know, and uh
and when artists would stop by, we

1009
01:00:47.880 --> 01:00:52.039
would just pull like the vinyls,
like like Rich would hit me up,

1010
01:00:52.039 --> 01:00:55.159
like yo, look for that one
Genie vinyl or that one Mario record,

1011
01:00:55.519 --> 01:00:58.960
and then we would pull up the
station and the artist would be like,

1012
01:00:59.039 --> 01:01:00.079
dude, you have this still and
it was sign it. You know.

1013
01:01:00.440 --> 01:01:05.360
We still have some of those,
you know. Yeah man those yeah,

1014
01:01:05.400 --> 01:01:07.360
like it's just for sure, and
I know we're we're we you know,

1015
01:01:07.400 --> 01:01:10.480
you have a family and we're all
older now, so it's not even one

1016
01:01:10.480 --> 01:01:14.199
of those things like yo, we
don't even hang out anymore, Like no,

1017
01:01:14.400 --> 01:01:16.480
it it was great when we got
to do it back then. And

1018
01:01:16.519 --> 01:01:20.559
now we're all older and I'm glad
we're all still friends. Yeah. The

1019
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way we hang out now is going
to like his kids birthdays, you know.

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So it's just a different topic hangout
now. You know what I'm saying,

1021
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life life, and you know,
yeah, exactly it's still it's still

1022
01:01:29.679 --> 01:01:31.440
great to see everyone. I'm still
I'm still happy that, like you know,

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01:01:32.000 --> 01:01:35.519
most of us are still in town. Yeah, shout out to Kenny.

1024
01:01:35.559 --> 01:01:38.000
Kenny lives in New Orleans now,
Oh wow, yeah, so shout

1025
01:01:38.039 --> 01:01:40.280
shout out to him. It's been
a minute. I think he'll be out

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here soon, you know so.
But yeah, man, it's it's great

1027
01:01:44.840 --> 01:01:47.639
to be back here man at the
station, the old stomping ground. So

1028
01:01:49.199 --> 01:01:52.039
definitely great memories here. I I
grew up a lot as a DJ,

1029
01:01:52.320 --> 01:01:55.920
you know, so, and and
as a as a person, as an

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01:01:57.000 --> 01:02:00.960
m C. It all started here
for me, you know, and so

1031
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thank you guys for having me.
It was definitely, you know, an

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honor to be here. I listen
to you guys all the time. Definitely,

1033
01:02:06.480 --> 01:02:09.559
you guys got some funny ass stories. Story about that one I told

1034
01:02:09.599 --> 01:02:13.719
I told you about, texted you
about which one I was trapped in the

1035
01:02:13.719 --> 01:02:16.360
closet? That one? That one? Yeah, how come we never heard

1036
01:02:16.400 --> 01:02:19.519
of this story? Yeah? Bro
heard that story? What I went to

1037
01:02:19.639 --> 01:02:22.320
old girl's house and her dad was
chasing me through their house. We got

1038
01:02:22.320 --> 01:02:24.199
some story. We're gonna we're gonna
keep it off. The podcast from h

1039
01:02:24.320 --> 01:02:28.320
Q back in the day. Oh
yeah, man, me and juice Box

1040
01:02:28.360 --> 01:02:32.119
got some stories Vegas, some Vegas
stories. Oh my god. I don't

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01:02:32.119 --> 01:02:36.199
know. We might have to open
this up on another day, but it

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might get us fired. Until next
time, DJ juice Box, this could

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give me for our podcast.