Before we start the episode Something Jizzo and myself and our guest, which is
DJ juice Box. It's the unofficial introduction to you something all of us have
a connection on. It's our sports team. So with Jizzo the Dallas Cowboys,
yeah, and then with me the Lakers. So that's the connection with
all of us, and we can start with the recent the bakery of our
La Los Angeles Lakers. Oh my god, man, man, Well,
first things first, I'm happy to be back here. So it's been a
while since I've been in the studio. We're gonna talk about that when we
start a show, bro. But yeah, man, the Lakers, right
bro, at least we gotta win. But that was actually you know,
I was saying, I'll be happy if they beat the team that they haven't
beat twelve straight games. So I was happy they got the one win to
get it out the way. But I don't know, I don't know,
it's almost like just so sad to see that the Timberwolves are just smacking them.
But then it's almost like the Timberwolves saw what we did in twenty twenty
was to go length, go big, you know, so we had what
I mean, we had centers. We had Jabelle McGee, we had Dwight,
and then we had a D at the four, and I don't know,
we always go back and forth and Laker fans know, like, why
are we having a D at the five? Like put him at the four?
He can go from there, you know. So But yeah, I
mean, so how are you see you know? Do you see hope for
the future? You know what? Because I just feel like bron is getting
older, is it's gonna be one of those where is he really gonna have
it? I mean he's still he's still had an impact, right like his
best Yeah, he's like low key our age and still balling like O age,
what are you talking about? I roll out of better platic nerve and
I'm like, yo, how is he doing this at like thirty eight thirty
nine years old? You know? But I think if if we can land
the right coach, right, yeah, if they can land the right coach
and can make like the right pieces, you know, meaning players, But
I think the accountability goes all across the board from the GM Polinka, like
Polinka gotta get the blame. Hot pocket Hams was just not it, bro,
Like, I mean, I feel I think the job was just too
much for him. I think he knew it too, and low Ki he
knew like towards the he was just like this job was just he knew.
I think the writing was on the wall in his end, you know.
So, And then how about you, how do you guys feel about this
NFL season coming up? Okay, so it's funny that me and Juice Box
and two of our other friends, shouts to Gurb and David, we have
this this group chat that we literally talk, which I hear we talk about
every day all day. Matter of fact, we were just talking this morning
and we just it's funny because Juice Box says this is like our therapy.
It really is. But I think we've all gone to the point that we're
just tired of like the Cowboys and Jerry Jones and the bullshit that they try
to sell us every year. And this year we're like making a thing that
we're not buying, like any Cowboys gear, we're not trying to support.
And what you say this morning that even when the game is televised, like
stream it. So now, yeah, I've been streaming it. Yeah,
because all the Cowboys games are national It's like the Fox game of the week.
Oh cool, you know, And it doesn't make sense for Cowboy fans
to get red zone unless you know, you're a big fan of football,
you want to watch it for fantasy. But I strictly just watched Cowboys football,
right and then to see what other team is on in the morning and
whatnot. But I went to the Niners Cowboys game. I took my my
eight year old son last year at Levi's, you know, so it was
it was a great experience. We got hooked up with field passes. So
before the game started, folks at levi saw us and they're like, hey,
you want field passes? Like, here you go. So I never
put a video out there. I'm going to put one together just to show
the experience. It's great. I mean, I've been to Levi's a couple
of times. I've been there when Dak and Zeke rookie year twenty sixteen,
twenty seventeen. I went to the games. I seen them, you know,
win at Levi's. I seen them lose. But after this season,
you know, thinking that, like, you know, hey, this is
probably probably the one chance I think, as realistic Cowboy fans that we are,
we were just hoping, like if we can just get to the championship
game and then most likely lose to the Niners, we would have been fine
with that. But we're always one and done, like one playoff game and
out one playoff game, and we haven't sniffed an NFC championship since the nineties,
and it's just like we're just tired of it. Yeah, We're just
tired of it. I gotta we gotta, we gotta be like that that
one video, like my kid be like, Dad, when was the last
time we went to the Super Bowl? Brouh? I was damn near your
age? He since there he goes like damn, I'm like all right,
like and then he's kind of like all right, I'm gonna go play Fortnite,
you know. And I'm just sitting there like watching like the replays of
like the Yester years on YouTube all like like a grumpy old man. So
well, our Laker stress is done for the season. Now is gonna be
your guys turn cowboys? All right, I'm ready to get this episode started
this You Give Me Fire podcast? What that is? John Magic? And
we are back super excited about this guest. Former co worker, a fellow
DJ super interested about his timeline because it's one of those where I'm not too
familiar with how he started in radio and DJing, so I'm excited about that.
But speaking of DJing, you know, there's there to me, there's
like two ways of looking at DJ's. There's one side where a person just
has skill. They have the skill, they know how to DJ, how
to mix, how to scratch, all this stuff. And then there's the
other side where there's DJs that just get it. They get where they're at
there, they get if they understand the assignment, if they're on the radio,
if they're DJing a wedding, if they're at a club, they get
it. And our guest, he gets it. So I'm super excited to
have him in here. DJ ju just box what's going on. It's funny
that people still recognize that drop man you Kenny Man. That was that was
that was so random on the spot when he did that, because he was
like, Hey, could I do a drop for you? And I just
had the mic on literally like the whole drop is he goes, hey,
man, let me get some of that juice box and then that was it.
That was it, and he was trying to force I'm like, bro,
that was it, and so like there's like a longer version, and
so I just cut it down to that version. But people still like when
you hear the drop, they look back, I'm like, were you on
the radio? I was like yeah, They're like I remember hearing you.
Like, oh my god, that that drop sounds health familiar, you know.
So you have one of the dose. I think that's one of my
favorite drops is the juice Pox. Yeah, I have a couple, but
that is like the classic ones. Like you just saying Kenny Drake, the
what do we call him to the homie? You just saying Kenny just triggered
my memories of all of us just hanging out that years ago the cellar.
All of us always put up. Yeah, man, back when there was
clubs and bars in Fresno. No really though, it would be it would
be like we had the same circle of people that would go on the Tuesdays,
on the Thursdays, the Saturdays Attachy Palace. Remember we talked about that.
So yeah, Juice Box, he's been in a circle with us for
a while now. All right, so let's start from the beginning. We
always usually asked our guests, are you originally from the valley, and I
don't think you are right. No, so originally from the Bay Area.
So born and raised in Mountain View, California, so home of Google and
whatnot, you know, so I call it Google View. Went to school
in Santa Clair and San Jose, you know, so born and raised,
you know, South Bay. That's that's my stomping ground. And then so
after graduating high school, came to Fresno two thousand and four, So the
fall of two thousand and four, came out here, you know, as
a as a young Whooper Snapper eighteen years old, you know, out here.
The first time I ever came to Fresno was dog days in the summer
July. And I remember we were on Blackstone and my parents looking at me,
like you want to go to school here? And it's like nine o'clock
at night, like still ninety one degrees because it's like in the summer,
like in July. And I was like, yeah, I mean, I
guess it's kind of cool. Wait real quick that that was the reason why
you were coming here was for a school visit school. Okay, yeah,
yeah, So so me and as everyone knows, k Rich, you know,
shout out to k Rich. We've known each other for I mean since
we were kids, So we've known each other for twenty four years. We've
grown up with each other. That's literally my brother, you know. Okay,
that's something I thought. You guys met in college. No, each
other since high school. You guys came out here together, essentially came out
here. Yeah, we came out here together. You know, we together
and everything, right real, yeah, all that we've grown up out here,
you know, so and we're you know, I'm happy to say that,
you know, Fresno five five nine is my home because I think it's
been it's gonna be, what eighteen years I've been here, so essentially the
same amount of time that I've grown up in the bay, you know.
So the bay is always me, it's in me, but the valley is
also like I'm proud, like my wife is from here, my kids are
are born and raised in here, you know, so I'm definitely like proud.
But anytime I go back home, I always got to flex on my
kids and be like, yo, like this this is where daddy's from.
Put on some forty and whatnot on the one oh one head to my parents.
But uh yeah, so it came out here. But I started djying.
I first started in two thousand and three, so my dad used to
have DJ gear, so like I kind of messed around with the DJ stuff
from there, you know, and then didn't really start again get into it
until two thousand and five ish around there, you know, So uh got
into it, you know. So Krich and I like, I mean we
would literally just go to like the house parties, right, and you know,
we're dating ourselves. But back then when we had like the five CD
changer boom box and maybe mixes on the CDs, and we would go through
them and I'm like, bro, like these songs are boo boo, Like
go back to that one Little John song. Right. Yeah. So one
day we i mean we both already were just infused with music. That's how
our bond started. And we just was like, we gotta like start djaying
and just start doing these parties, you know. And yeah, man,
I mean we low key took our financial aid money from school, gear the
turntables and all that stuff, you know, And that's how it started,
you know, and back there or here it started here. Yeah, so
you he started as state, right, That's when you got serious yeah,
Win died the whole full Clip DJs thing Full Clip around two thousand and six.
Clip DJs, which is the crew your crew sort of. Yeah,
so it was like the first crew. So basically like our Mentors, which
is our homie hob season San Diego. You know, he does weddings and
events still in San Diego. Full Turntable is hip hop cat, I mean
on the vinyl, can cut and scratch and whatnot. And so he was
the one that basically showed us like, hey, this is basically the fundamentals
of hip hop in its essence, how to like go on vinyl and whatnot,
just keeping it real authentic. Our other homie, check O DJ Checko,
we met him when he was at Santa Clair University and so back then,
you know, we would go to Santa Clair University and they had this
event called the Bronco and he was DJing the Bronco on vinyl. Mind you,
Tororado was already there at the time. He had creative the vinyl and
just going off of vinyl. We love that shit though, right, Like
he almost like refused to use yeah, yeah, he almost refused, Like
he didn't get on Serrato till like I don't know, two thousand late late,
So, uh, he was the one that I mean when when you
know, we started on vinyl, he basically told us like no, like,
if you're gonna DJ, you gotta start on vinyl. So when we
started DJing, we were on vinyl, learning by the ears and whatnot,
you know, before riding the screens and looking at the waves and whatnot.
You know. So and that was the crew you know, from from when
we started, you know, and then doing a lot of events in San
Jose downtown events you know, during the hyphee movement and whatnot. You know.
So that in itself was just an experience to say the least during that
time to go back and forth from Fresno, go back to San Jose,
dj around San Jose, San Francisco, wherever it was, you know,
Milpedis, Fremont, you know, and uh yeah, man, it was
just uh those early years were fun because it was just a lot of like
learning, playing music and you know, full circle as to currently what's going
on today with like the kids, which we'll get to still like they they
love the two thousands. I mean, the two thousands is still running when
it comes to parties and whatnot. Off from the days when we used to
be on the clubs and the radio and whatnot, when you were Oh,
go ahead, and I was gonna say this was like kind of around the
era that I met Juice Box. We had a class together. I know
you'd like to tell this story. Okay, we had a class at prison
state, right, and so we had a mutual friends. Shout out to
Samantha. We had a mutual friend and so one day we're we had a
class, you know, like a business management class. It was yeah,
yeah, and this was back in the day when we had like you know,
you had to match your your hat with your shirt, with your shoes
with everything, right, everything match. Back then, that was the style.
Go look at a social boy video. That's that's what it was.
Social boy video. Yeah, was it the big the jerseys? Was it
that area yet? It was coming out of that era, but still but
still with the bag ship. Yeah. So, like Gisel walks in and
he had a blue a baby blue shirt, and he had like, you
know, I already know the option of shorts, right, he had like
some white nikes on and like a blueberry hat, like the backward hat.
And I looked at him and I'm like, but like, why is he
so fitted? At night? It wasn't been like eight in the morning,
like first class of the day. And I'm like and I'm like living across
the street and the Bulldogs, so like I'm coming up in like sweats and
like literally slides, which basically is a college I didn't know the assignment apparently,
but I was just looking at him, but like why is he so
fitted? Like it was almost like no reason, right, like where am
I going fucking class? Like I was like he's looking clean, but like
but bro, like why are you so fitted? Like that's funny and and
yeah man, but like but I knew like early on, I'm like all
right, like you know, like this dude knows what's up, like the
style wise, we probably couldn't get along with just music and what's current and
whatnot the time. You know, so you weren't interning yet at this time
or were you? I know I was, I was interning at this time.
I think I'm not even been part time during this time. Yeah,
so this was like early what this has got to be two thousand eightish maybe
around there, I think seven around there, So I was I was probably
doing just weekends at the time. Uh, but I didn't. We just
had that mutual friend and yeah, I was showing up the class fucking unnecessary
like that. But then where we really got closest when k Rich got into
this into the station at that time, and then we all kind of like
introduced each other and that's how I got to know Juice Box. Yeah.
Yeah, we kind of we had that class, but even like really talk
to each other really, I guess that's what I was trying to you guys,
we knew of each other because we had a mutual friend, but we
didn't really know each other until like we met until I met kay Rich and
he got into the station and then he was like, oh, this is
my boy juice Box, and like oh ship, and then we all kind
of like got to meet everybody. Yeah. Yeah, so it was yeah,
like during that time was just new, you know. So and during
that time we would like, you know, just get to know each other
from like events, going out, you know, doing the bars, the
clubs. I mean back when Switch was GA Lubs. Yeah you know when
uh, I mean it was like on the Rocks, the Red Room or
yeah, because you guys were DJing, fraternity parties a lot, and you
weren't yet, no no, no so but so at this time we were
heavy in the in the college rotations of parties and they got this ship jumping,
yeah you know so, and so the way it started was, I
mean, shout to Carriage. That's that's the homie. But the talent that
like he just got it, you know. And so, uh, when
we would do parties, I would I would always be the opener, you
know. I would always open up, you know, so like playing all
the records, and it's funny because you know, like speaking to all the
DJs, I would start from like, you know, the seventy bpms and
work all the way up to like the one hundreds and back then in the
two thousands, all the cracking records were like one hundred on up, like
the one other record, the two short blow the whistle, all the Little
John records, right like all the all the ship was all around there.
So I would just like set him up and he would just go from there,
you know, and just rip it. And again he gets it,
yea gets it, you know. So So those years of just us understanding,
and I mean still to this day when we DJ together, it's one
of those where we don't have to look at each other and I know which
record to drop, and he knows, like even if he's saying something on
the mic, I know which record at the I'm gonna type this in And
here we go and just look at each other and then we left because it's
like, you know, we've we've known each other for all these years.
We know exactly like what to play, how to go back and forth with
it, you know. So it's like a good sports team with that chemistry.
You guys have that chemistry, yeah for sure. So uh yeah,
so so like the U during that time, you know, definitely, you
know, we were heavy in the clubs and whatnot, the bars and and
whatnot. So this was when you know, all these places were around,
you know, So anyone that's like kind of like in the bar seeing that
clip scene. Now, you probably don't remember some of these spots. They're
probably like you know, I don't know, like grocery grocery stores now.
Yeah, yeah, literally, but but uh yeah, I mean they're great
times. I mean the folks that grew up with us, you know,
like definitely remember the days when you know, it was the full clip DJs
of free. But it was dope though, because you guys had your own
banner, your own t shirts, and you guys were like doing all the
fat parties and just parties around the schools and then like the little club parties
that like the colleges. So you guys had like the college scene on lock
which is which I always thought was dope. And then that's when I started
kind of like hanging around with them because Kate Rich was at the station at
that time, and you kind of like, hey, yo, I'm about
to go DJ's it's frat party. And then we'd show up and then Juice
Box, like you said, he was opening and it was just it was
jumping off. It was like a good time. And then we had the
parties, uh at the Bulldogs the parties. That was another one that I
would hear about. I guess you guys would be on the balcony. Yeah,
yeah, so it all started by accident too. Yeah. So it
was like fourth of July, so for those that would go home for the
summer, like I mean, there was some Bacon apartment spots and whatnot.
So the first time we were on the balcony and we had like those old
school like like tall speakers that just on the top, you know, and
the balcony overlooked the looking overlooking the pool and just imagine a Yeah, the
complex surrounded the pool and like one of the balconies overlooked it. So it
was like the perfect setup. Yeah, and so we basically just ran power
in one of the vacant apartments. Yeah, was in and I mean it
was almost like the VP because in there we just had like our drinks in
there and whatnot, all the all our gear. But did you wait,
so you guys were planning this first party pool party, do you have to
get uh permission? Well, you knew the manager, right or someone of
the people that so it was it was I forgot who it was at the
time. But basically we we had it good. We had it in good
with them, you know, so they they allowed it, you know,
like, hey, we're just gonna do like I think we kind of pulled
off as it was a birthday party, yeah, you know. And then
so from there we just had we're playing music and I mean people just start
coming over. I mean we would start like, I mean, I don't
know, three o'clock. It went all the way till all night long.
But the music was going out to the pool outside from the I guess the
thing that's going through my head is do you do that thing where you have
to knock on every door and like, hey, just let you know we're
a party. I think it's one of those situations where it's mostly students that
live there, so everyone kind of But also it was during the summer,
so we didn't have an excuse to be like I'm studying. Yeah, maybe
it's like you had to work, but it's like like you know where you're
at, like Holliday weekend, the holiday weekend, like people are wanted,
they want to swim, they want to hear music, you know. I
think like during that time, people were bringing food, alcohol. It just
like it was. It was. It was dope about it was so organic,
like it just people started. It was like, damn, next thing
that was cracking. The one thing I remember from those parties was one little
Waynes the Carter three dropped. I think this was two thousand and eight,
and it was huge. That was like the record of the year, like
you know, so and then also the homie Deontay shout out to Deontay asked
for swag surfing and we were like, uh, and you know, back
then, I was kind of like, uh, I think I know this
record and we played it and people like they knew it, you know,
but we were doing the whole back and forth. That's what it is right
now in twenty twenty four. Back then, it was just a record and
the people were just kind of doing like the little dance to it and whatnot.
You know. So, but it's crazy to see that that's one of
those records that's just i mean organically just still kind of like it's a cultural
hip hop type of hit that like you have to play, know so,
I mean even the kids today low key know it, you know, and
it's yeah, it's it's crazy, but h we Yeah, we just kind
of just used to throw parties or wherever. Man Like we would go to
like different venues like hey, we're DJ's, can we throw a party here?
And then we would kind of like do a deal, like you know,
like you guys can keep the bar sales and we'll get whatever it's at
the door and and whatnot, you know. So and so we had like
a lot of homies that would just had connects like yo, DJ at this
one spot, DJ over here and over here and whatnot, you know.
So and so that's what it was. That's how it was kind of like
you know, getting our footing you know for yourself, building a name and
whatnot, which which worked, which I thought. It was helped to just
kind of grow organically in the college scene. To see these guys come up
at the college parties and then like the little the little little hangouts like club
sauce at the times it was jumped in, uh, and then to see
where they got now, So it was cool to like kind of grow with
those guys. All right, So so you you guys got the party college
scene locked down? How did you what was the first uh you know,
thought that you wanted to get into radio? Was it just because kay Ridge
was there? Now you have to follow him? Like what was the transition?
So no, yeah, so like Carridge got on radio I think in
two thousand and eight. Yeah, yeah, so I remember just you know,
from listening to radio. So growing up listening to radio, Uh,
definitely, I knew like this was something that like you had to earn.
So I knew at the time. I'm like, I'm not ready for radio.
I was like basically like you know, knowledgeable, enough to know like
when I'm ready, I'm ready, and I feel like when when I was
ready enough to get on radio, like I would be like, you know,
basically given the opportunity, you know, I didn't want to be the
ones like knocking on the door, can I get on? It's not like
because growing up in the Bay, I would grow up listening to the DJs
like Jasponoza when he was on one ninety four nine, you know, or
while one was seven at the time, you know, friends in you know
og DJ's my favorite DJ, Scotty Fox when he was on CHMEO. I
would go back home Scotty Fox and I got a chance to DJ with Scotty
Fox, you know, up in in Bay one time, and it was
one of my highlights of like my career as a DJ. Just one of
my favorite DJs listening to you know, so, so I know that going
into radio like you have to be seasoned. You gotta sound clean, you
gotta sound crisp. It's a different type of djan. Yeah. So even
listening to the to the DJs here when I started, you know, so
listening to you magic and and knowing that you're like, okay, he's from
like la is a so cal area. So hearing your style, I'm like,
I knew it. I'm like, nah, he's clean, you know.
So even like the you know, Dizzy shout out to Dizzy listening to
him now he's got it. Ren Rock, the Oge listening. I'm a
huge fan of ren Rock, like listening to his mixes, you know.
So I knew. I'm like, Okay, I can't just step in and
not like come in with like you know, uh, feeling not ready.
I had to come in prepared, you know. So Herb Herb was like
another og like listening to RB and whatnot. You know. So, so
I was given the opportunity around twenty thirteen, and I think Gizzo and Herb
like kind of basically was like asked like, Hey, do you want an
opportunity to get on the station, And I said yeah, because I think
at that time twenty thirteen, give me some time. I was. I
felt like I was ready ready, you know, so so way I didn't
know this that you were you kind of quarterbacked him getting into station. Yeah
and a hat Okay, yeah, yeah for sure. This so Herb was
still doing the at the time. Coordinator. Yeah, Ka Rich we were
all kind of like riding for it because like it was time, you know
what I mean, Like he had paid his dues, he was clean.
We needed a DJ, and it's just like yo, we this is our
guy right here. Yes. So, so HERB made me submit like three
different mixes. Put submitted mix, twenty minute, thirty minute mix, all
right, cool, put through it in there, send me another one.
All right, cool through another one. And I knew like it was just
like let me see like the versatility from yeah yeah, and so I knew.
I'm like, all right, let me do like radio style, let
me do like one that's a more uptempo, let me do one that's like,
you know, general kind of poppy mix whatever, you know. So
and he asked me like, hey, can you DJ Memorial Day weekend?
And I was like, all right, yeah, we could do it,
but you gotta go live for two hours. And I knew that was a
test. That's a different beast. You can you sound good like recorded,
you know, but like let's see you do this live. And that was
one of the most nerve wracking moments in my career, stepping in the studio
and just being like, damn, do you remember who he went live with
Yeah, with God what's his name? Man? The Prophet really was here
real quick. Can we just put some context into this because we're talking about
recording and live. Of course, with technology, we could record things and
make it sound good and that's what you'll hear on the radio. But this
was an era where everyone was DJing live, Yeah, and we all wanted
to. It was fun especially like the mixt weekends. It's funny you say
that because that was always kind of a time where we needed extra mixers because
it's literally Friday through Monday mixing like from noon to midnight, so you need
extra mixers. So that sounds about right. The Herb wanted him during that
time because we probably needed bodies. And it's just a good time because it's
like a party on the radio during that time. Uh, and so that
was perfect. But I guess you work with the Prophet during that time,
which is funny. Yeah, we're in the room. We're in the studio
where we're recording this podcast, which where you would have been DJs, which
is the mixing room, and I know the first thing he came in,
he was like, Yo, we're the table. It's kind of redecorated in
here. So let's take us to that first on air live shift. Yeah.
So I come in and set up. I think I got like an
hear a hour early, and I think I don't know if someone was here
beforehand. I don't know if it was Dizzy or rent Rock. And they
were like, oh, you're gonna mix live and all all right, and
you know they were they've been in here, they know didn't and they're like,
good luck, man, like, all right, do what you do?
You know you have fire. I had no one in here, and
I kind of wanted that. I was like, I don't want anyone to
hear, Like, let me just kind of like concentrate because I think the
first hour I didn't really like scratch or anything like much on it because I
was nervous. So it was just clean, safe. I kept as simple.
Second hour, I was like, Okay, I'm good, and so
like I was able to kind of like, you know, go a little
harder with the creativity and whatnot. You know, so uh just overly like
dropping the Juice Box logo during the mixes and whatnot. Yeah. So and
then after that, you know, I was invited to, uh to come
back again, you know, and then having a time slot like you know,
during the weekends and whatnot. And but like you guys mentioned like,
I mean, the fun times were just like being in the studio going live.
I mean, like as a as a radio listener. You know,
I'm trying to paint it for you, like you guys are hearing like us,
and it sounds like it's fun and it's live, and it is because
we're talking on the radio. We're talking about quick current events stuff. We're
talking about the music, like yo, this is a new Chris Brown.
I don't know if you guys heard it yet. I mean, you know,
with this day and age, I mean, we're pretty quick to hear
music like just like that with our phone. But back then, you know,
we were able to premiere records and then you know, I mean even
sometimes I'll tune into BE ninety five and I'll be like, what song is
this? Yeah? Because okay, like I'm just listening to like podcasts about
like sports and how shitty the Cowboys are yeaheah, you know, so like
but once in a while, like you know, like I'll turn tune in
and then you know, and I'll be like, oh shit, what song
is this and then like I'll have to like look it up. I'm like,
oh I like this song, Oh this is that one song? Okay?
Cool? You know, so radio still does his job in which like
it's still like, you know, gets music out there for everyone. But
I mean think about like how fun it sounds like to have like a mixer
and whatnot. And that's what I love. That's what I grew up listening
to as a kid, growing up with the boom box and then calling you
know, like ninety four nine ko, like can I hear this this song
and whatnot? I mean I mean like that's what I wanted to bring in.
Yeah, you know, I wanted to like come in and give a
fuck about putting together like a quality mix that like people like wanted to be
like yo, that was a dope mix. So so yeah, man,
I mean it's it's it was. It was just a blast, you know,
just to to do radio. It's something that I still cherish to my
heart. You know. You know, I got kids now, so like
they definitely like are like, oh, you used to be on the radio.
It's like yeah, you know, and all the mixes that I did,
I have them all saved from like over the years, I have them
all saved up, you know, so that one day I can just like
play for them, you know, like, hey, look, this is
my time when I was on radio, this is the music at the time,
and whatnot. You know. So we we've mentioned just and I have
mentioned this before in the past episodes, but just even when the mics are
not on, but whoever's DJing, we would all just come and hang out
around. Yeah, just sit here and juice boxes DJing. But then we'll
just be all talking here on the side. Yeah. I remember like having
to be here on New Year's Eve doing a shift and just bringing everybody up
in here, like yo, we're gonna have our own Yeah. It was.
It was fun, man. And I mean like, and I think
that's something that like, you know, we wanted people to kind of here,
like, oh it sounds cracking over there, there's people in the background
talking and move on to feel like it's like a house party. That energy
kind of like relates to the listeners. You know. If it sounds like
we're having fun, they're probably having a good time too. Yeah. Something
you know we always talk about on their personalities where they kind of emulate people
they've heard just out of curiosity, you learning how to DJ each year?
Were was there anyone that you kind of listen to that you wanted to emulate
when you were still when you were learning, or looked up to maybe yeah,
I know you you brought the other names before, but yeah, so
skill wise, skill wise, you know, so god like I wanted to
basically just have my It took a while to like really understand what my style
is. You know, every DJ has their style and whatnot, and so
you know, when I started DJing, I wasn't the much. I wasn't
a talker. So like those that know us know that, like Kybridge was
the one that was always on the mic, phenomenal on the mic. You
know, Like I did not like talking on the mic. I think I
was just very I was quiet growing up as a kid. I was just
very shy. So it's kind of crazy that like I fell into doing radio
and even like continue to DJ and like I mean weddings and corporate events because
like I'm talking on a microphone. Yeah, you have to put yourself out
there hundreds of people and having to show like personality, you know, and
so so I had to like learn to be like what kind of DJ am
I going to be? You know, I want to be a DJ where
like I'm able to kind of like show a little bit of cuts and scratches,
you know, and whatnot, and also like just be clean. I
always wanted to come off as like that's a clean mix, you know.
So I mean even like uh, I think some of the cleanest mixes that
I've ever heard radio wise, I mean from like down in La so like
Real ninety two to three, power one oh six, you know, just
DJ a Man. I mean his mixes just sound clean. E Rock.
You know, he's now in Vegas, and I mean his mixes always sounded
clean. Friends in the og, you know, sounded clean, you know,
so Eric Deluxe also his mixes, the Cuts, Sour Milk. I
mean, these these are guys that like I listen to and like and I'm
just like, yeah, this is like kind of like what I wanted to
sound like, just clean, cut, scratches, not go overly. I'm
not too much of a turntable list like, you know saying I'm still practiced.
I still practice to this day. I was just practicing yesterday, you
know, like the kids are going to bed last night I'm in my room
like cranking music. I'm playing, you know, like I'm I'm putting it
level. Yeah, I'm putting together you know, these these podcast mixes that
we'll talk about and just recapping years, you know, and I was playing
music from like two thousand and four and just thinking like, oh my god,
this is music from like twenty years ago, and then like and it's
crazy to see that, like it's coming coming back in full circle, because
I mean it's still popular today, you know, like these these these songs.
You know, So as matter of fact, list can we get into
that about these songs? You got something else? Well? I was just
gonna ask during that era, you know, just on I this is what
kind of what was our profession was radio? Were you what was the mindset
of where did you want to go profession wise while you were DJing on the
radio. Yeah, So I thought that, you know, radio could have
been like, you know, we'll see how far it could go. But
I felt that at the time that I wanted to really push myself, like
as a DJ. So I was on B ninety five, I think I
got on twenty fourteen, and then I ended in twenty nineteen. So twenty
nineteen, I felt like I wanted to really like challenge, give myself a
challenge, you know, just because at that point, you know, I
knew like, Okay, I can mix, I can scratch, I can
do this, I know the music. I was starting to come around as
to like, you know, be more comfortable on the microphone and talking and
so in even I was doing you know, like a private event such as
weddings, which is what I'm primarily doing nowadays, you know, but I
wanted to you know, hone in on that skill and craft. And so
I knew that like I had to like kind of turn and really like build
my own brand, like you know, and I wanted to like really just
go out there and branch and like just build a brand, build the name,
you know, and whatnot. So, uh, people know me as
Juice Box, you know. Other people still call me as you know,
my first name, Hugo. You know. I mean, there there aren't
that many Hugos that a lot of people know. So I wanted to go
out there and just kind of like really start that branding, you know.
So as as a DJ who does weddings, private events, high school events,
uh, corporate events, I'll still, you know, I'll go back
to San Jose and work with a couple you know, uh dot com companies
out there when they do events and whatnot, you know. So but yeah,
but but weddings is basically one that like as a DJ, it's it's
it's a difference between doing radio and in doing weddings that is like a huge
And and and clubs are you are you dipping into the club scene at all
or not so much anymore? Not not so much? You know, I'll
I'll still do it once in a while, you know, like if if
there's like an opportunity, like I'll dip in there. One thing for sure,
I remember when we started doing clubs. I remember the first time I
opened up for for Magic. We was to do, uh, what's the
club in Clovi is uh the seller cellar door or one of the cell seller
right, So I remember, I think it might've been the first time Magic
heard me, you know, and so I opened up and I knew I
had like the approval When he came up to me, he says like,
that's how you fucking open a set. That's a fucking opening set right there.
And then I think, like I I think I finally got like his
respect there because he was like, oh shit, okay, like he's good,
you know so. And I remember thinking to myself like I want to
do good, like I want to give a fuck. I want people to
like walk in and be like oh shit, like okay, that's what's up.
You know So there's a dope mix like who's that dude in that hat
over there? Beard? You know so? But yeah, I don't do
as much. I don't do the clubs as much anymore, you know so.
I'll still do a couple events around town, some of the brunches,
like shout out to uh the Cocky's but a brunch, you know so I'll
step in and and do those. Those are a blast to do. I
think that really gave me the opportunity to really flourish as a DJ, as
a person, to just have fun give like go out there and like drunker
nuts and like yo, like yo, this is who the fuck I am.
So clubs are still fun. I don't do them as much, you
know so, but when I do, I mean, they're they're still fun
to do, you know. Okay, before we get to the podcast mixing,
because you brought up branding, do you remember Juice Box wasn't his name
when he first started wrighting. Weren't you just DJ Juice? Yeah, so
I was DJ Juice because obviously, Okay, so for you know, like
those who speak Spanish, huge Google is Google like Juice in Spanish, right,
so that was easily like GJ juice. Oh that ship's fucking you know,
and I spell it different j e uce because I'm a junior, so
like Juice number two junior, Like I had this whole thing, right,
and so, but then there's other DJ Juices. There's a DJ Juice in
the Bay Area, there's a DJ Juice locally, the I'll go here DJ
Jews like the og you know, shout out to DJ Juice here and Fresno
like that's the homie, you know. So so yeah, so I think
in twenty ten was like I gotta like either do something, change it or
add to it. So I thought to myself, like, I'm gonna do
Juice Box. But wait, why wasn't the mentality like, no, I'm
gonna be the DJ Juice in town. Well, because other DJ Juice,
I mean, he had this, he was he's been out here for a
minute. That's true. By the way, he's the homie like what we
know. I was like, nah, you know what, like I don't
want to like, I just I want to like I'm not to kind of
like separate yourself, right, I want to separate myself and I I you
know, I want I want to be cool with like all the DJs in
town. I got no qualms on anyone here. Did you ever talk to
him about this? Does he like did you ever know? No? Okay,
No, it was more for you, like, okay, I want
to change. Yeah. Yeah. And so I just thought that the name
DJ juice Box is so funny, Like I thought to myself, someone probably
thinks of a juice box, that's a that's a dumb sounding DJ name,
And then I was probably one of them. At first, I wasn't a
fans. I wasn't a fan when you did it because I understood why it
was juice because of your name. So when you first did it, at
first, I wasn't a fan, but then it kind of grew on me.
It grew and I think just because people are just like, I don't
know a juice box exactly. That's what I was gonna say, Like,
you know, no one else has that name. So I think that's kind
of like why. I like, people like at the time already knew me.
They've already called me Juice, like Juicy, what's up, you know,
like, and so I was like, I can't like not just call
myself DJ, I don't know whatever, you know, Like, so I
just had to go Juice box, you know, and with the with the
drop, you know, I mean that really came brought it together, brought
it home and be like, okay, cool, you know. So I
think I so the thing the whole reason I we wanted to get you on
this topic because we've been talking a lot about clubs and the scene and the
change of you know, with the new generation. But you had tweeted something.
Matter of fact, I got the tweet here, and you said,
the kids at prom are requesting more records from the two thousands stand of current,
and so I think kids would rather hear party slash club records of yesterday
than of today. They can slap today's music anytime. And so that was
like interesting to me because it's kind of been in the same realm of the
things that we've been talking about with the new generation and the music they want
to hear and the songs that they want to hear. And so you've been
doing a lot of proms lately in these like high school events, and that's
the change you've been seeing, is they want to hear because we see it
on TikTok. These old ass songs are like trending again. Which, by
the way, I get surprised when they're singing along and know it, right,
I know it, yeah, because you post I love I love your
recap videos. Man, I'm watching them. Yeah and yeah, I get
surprised when you guys drop a song from our era and they're singing it word
for words. So I think to myself, Okay, so like let's bring
it down. These kids are in high school, right, they're sixteen,
seventeen years old. Right, they were born in two thousand and six,
two thousand and seven, two thousand and eight. They're a sophomore if my
mouth is correct. So you have to think about that their parents are either
elder millennials or older gen X folks that grew up listening to stuff from like
the nineties and the two thousands. So what are they listening to as they're
growing up, stuff from like the two thousands, from the nineties, right.
So basically, if you I'm gonna I'm thirty eight, all right.
So if you're like thirty eight and up and probably have a kid like in
high school or junior high, chances are they're they're listening to you know,
the two thousand stuff growing up. Right. Listen, I got a I
got a playlist that this past weekend. Shout out to uh Hoover High Foul
or High I did their proms this past month. Dude, the kids were
rocking, man. But listen to the playlist, Kisha cole Love. That's
a big record that who's giving you this playlist? The school is, the
school is, this is what the kids that are requesting because I tell them
I need you to tell the kids what they want to hear. Well,
first of all, are you messaging these is what he did? No?
No, no, no no no, Drake, no no no no.
But like I'm talking to like the forminators administrators, I'm like, hey,
you know, can you do me a favor, like ask the kids like
you know or what we do is we'll do like a QR code. The
kids can like put the QR code submit like the songs that they want here.
Yeah, So Keisha Cole Love is one of the biggest records that these
kids love. That's some crazy I'm trying. I'm trying to think this that's
equivalent to like what for us, like a a tevin Ca Campbell Can we
talk? Yeah? For us? Right yeah, Flow right er Low that
came out in two thousand and eight, Walk a Flock of No Hands that
came out, Yeah, that's you, Mac Dre Gets Stupid twenty four,
twenty years that that dropped, you know Usher, Yeah, that came out.
Confessions was like the biggest R and B album two thousand and four,
right lit John get Low Wow. I mean these are records, so this
is livingly like our high school era. Yeah, and then Sweedy my Type.
That's that's their that's their current stuff, even though that record came out
a couple of years ago. Right justin Bieber Baby Wow banger for them,
I just drop of it and I could just go back and forth, and
they are singing their heart out, you know, obviously like the Taylor Swift
and all that. But something about these records for them, to them,
these are like their throwbacks. To them, that's their old school when you
think about it, you know, so, but What's interesting though, why
do they want to hear those at like the dances. Is it because they
feel they can dance to these songs more or like what do you think the
reason is? I think that they probably grow up hearing stories from their parents,
or they probably on social media and they're on TikTok, and then they're
probably like hearying like you know, the millennials like yo, back in the
club days we used to have we used to hear these records. We to
hear this record. And if you kind of listen to music today, music
today is more about the vibes. It's vibe stuff. It's more like,
you know, you're kind of kicking back, like having like a a kickback
of house party and you're listening to what Byby records that's on right now.
So but if you want to like have a great time in dance, nothing
is like compared to those early club records. I mean, like, I
mean, we we're we're a testament because we grew up and went through it,
you know, and so uh, I mean these kids, like I
mean, if they want to have a great time, yeah, they want
to hear Montel Jordan's this is how we do it it comes up asking for
like eighties records, I'm like, what the fuck I'm want to hear that.
I feel like TikTok too has a lot to do with it with the
high school kids because I'm seeing dances. You know, TikTok is known for
the when they're doing these dances where they use they use songs from back in
the days. For instance, I don't play Poisoned by Bail Bidevo hardly ever
anymore, but I see that it's coming. They're doing it, but it's
the sped up version. But at least they know what that's they can they'll
recognize the song when they hear it again. Yeah, but I'm like,
oh man, and I might have to bring poison Belle Bivdevo back on my
list because I'm seeing it on TikTok. So. Here's something that we've been
talking about about, like with the clubs recently, is that we're seeing a
shift in like kind of the atmosphere of the clubs and people not really dancing
and it's more about the lounge. And it's like, and I'm a fan.
I know, we're all kind of a fan of the dance clubs where
people are actually dancing and moving around, but it doesn't seem like it's that
anymore. But now kind of like what you're telling us, what these teenagers
are doing and what they're wanting. Do you think that when once they start
growing and getting into the club scene, that maybe that that dance club is
going to come back around? Give it? Yes? I think right now
what we've been with the trend with hip hop. Yeah, I have my
own theory just because I'm a nerd like that, and I go back and
listen to a lot of different music from like the past and whatnot. You
Yeah, I think that there's been a trend since. I think music kind
of started changing around twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen. Everything prior to that.
So when I was on radio between twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen up till twenty
nineteen, music was in a good in a good pocket where there was music
that was hip hop, there was music that was radio friendly, there was
music that was you can dance to it. Like let's say, for example,
twenty fourteen, remember the Mustard era, Yeah had like you know,
the supposed to be the tanasehe tuon. Those were good radio records and you
can still play them at the club and what you can still dance on me.
After twenty nineteen, the pandemic, I think kind of fucked up music,
like if you because because we were inside, right, yeah, it
got depressing. The one, the one popular record in twenty twenty was the
Baby rock Star that living look a Baby and I'm sorry but that I was
through TikTok. That song fucking sucks. Like every time I heard it,
I changed it because I don't know, Like, I don't know, because
the time was depressing because the Corona virus. We were all inside. You
would hear the guitar and I'm just like, oh the fuck it just felt
I don't know. But after that, music hasn't really been the same.
I don't know, Like I think like that the pandemic really kind of shifted
everything. So we're four years out from from it, I think we're starting
to kind of come out of like this rut. When it comes to music,
it's I think it's just a hip hop where it's out right now.
It's kind of in like a staleness where it's out right now. Even radio
songs are just kind of like, eh, you know, it's a lot
of like slower tempo kind of records, and I think that's why like Latin
music really kind of sparked man. Yeah, because that's because that's where people
are dancing. Yeah, I mean, I mean, like now, like
when I do parties, like i'm it's either if it's not fifty to fifty,
I'm playing more Spanish music party good points. So growing up, I
mean I knew Spanish music, you know, I mean, I'm Salvadorian.
I didn't grow up listening to the Mexican corridosallo's all that. But out here
in the valley, I had to like quickly learn. Yeah, I gotta
I gotta know these records, you know, so and so and so.
Like I got like, you know, my current uh DJ buddies that like,
you know, I'm working with, they put me up on games.
So shout out to uh Lunatico, you know R two oh, you know
Echo, Like they're the ones that put me on when it comes to the
Spanish records, like hey just play this or play that, you know,
so to. But I think now, like give it, give it about
two three years. I feel like music is gonna shift to where it's gonna
go back to like a dancing like dancing. People are gonna want a club
more. I mean we're kind of like coming out of this whole bottle service
era at the clubs. Hope, so because that shit is so whack to
me, you know what I'm saying. Everybody just wants bottle service. Everybody
wants to do it for the gram. Yeah, you know, show what
they're in VIP and no one's fucking moving, you know what I'm saying.
It's just like all for show. But like take me back to the clubs.
Jumping off people are jumping literally dancing moving, you know what I'm saying,
breaking a sweat. We got to go back to like when we just
like pull up and like dance on the female, like and if you got
dissed, you got this and you just moved on. Like when like you
go up on a girl and then like he looks at the homegirl and she
gives you that like yeah, here's a confirmation that she kind of looks back
at your like okay, cool, Like you know, so we had to
go back to those days. You know, I think I think a lot
of these kids are just missing like those those club days, man, like
just going out having a good time, like breaking the sweat. You know.
I think we talked about the previous one where they they go for themselves
with the gram and then they lead show people that I was there. You
know what I'm saying. Make sure you saw what I was wearing. But
yeah, let's take it back to having fun at the clubs and the parties,
which was the original point of it. You know what I'm saying.
Let's kind of fast forward. Let me just ask you, this is DJing
cause you know, like you said, you're DJing the schools, the weddings
sometimes clubs. Is this your main source of income right now? Yeah?
Oh no, this is full time? So I think I started basically just
was like I think I need to do this full time. Like around twenty
eighteen, twenty nineteen. Remind me, did you correct me if I'm wrong?
Did you just you you chose to leave radio, right I did?
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, you're like, yeah, I think I'm done.
Like yeah, you didn't get like cut or nothing like no, yeah,
no, I I left, you know, but it but it was
just it was a tough. It was a tough decision because I love to
do radio. I loved it, you know, just because I love to
like actually wanted to put a good product of a mix out there because growing
up I listened to like great mixes, Like I listened to some dope DJs,
and so when I stepped in as a radio DJ, I had a
responsibility of, like, you need to put together quality mixes. You need
you need to sound solid. I've heard some shitty mixes and it just irked
me because I'm like, dude, like you gotta like put some respect on
your name. You gotta have people people want to like, want you to
like, you know, like it's a privilege essentially to do what we're doing,
right what I'm saying. So, but but I at the same time,
I I decided to step back because I kind of wanted to focus on
my on my branding and just take more time. And yeah, I went,
I went full time, you know. So I uh, with the
support of my wife, you know, she she told me, like you,
she told me, like, I think you need to do this full
time. I mean, and when you when I look back at it,
I mean, I've been djaying for now, it's going to be what eighteen
years. I've been doing this for eighteen years, you know, from when
I started from the inception and it's it's essentially my career, you know.
So so when I when I do meet with like clients who want to book
for a DJ, I tell them like, listen, you're not I'm not
doing this part time. This isn't like a side thing, a weekend thing.
This is my profession. Yeah, this is what my resume speaks for.
I've done radio, i do this, I've done this, I was
here, I've done there, you know, school. So yeah, I
mean so so and when a lot of people hear me, like they just
come up and they're like, you're really good, and I'm like, I'm
always appreciative because I want I want people to care about the music. I
want them to you know, have a great time for me. At the
end of the night, when people come up and say, like, dude,
that was fun. People are sweating, they're drunk, and they're like
bad to me, like that means they had a blast, you know.
So, so yeah, this is full time now. Yeah, shouts out
to you. Because DJ there's different lanes. There's the touring DJ, there's
the festival DJs, the radio DJs, the club DJs, and you found
this lane where you're especially in town not a lot of people do. There's
a lot of our homies are doing it too. But yeah, you have
this lane where essentially doing private events you know what I'm saying exactly, and
I know how much those pay the clubs and shouts out to you for even
investing in that, because I think this was years ago where you posted like
something you bought for you know, uh a gig, and I think I
messaged I was like, yo, like that DJ, but I don't know
what you bought, but you bought something where I was like, Yo,
that booth is tight. Yeah, and so you're doing it the right way,
thank you? No, Yeah, did the investments? Man? Like
you? You have to you have to give a damn you know, like
and to if you want other people to invest in you and pay for you
what you're asking for, you have to invest the timing within yourself to show
others like, listen, this is what I do. This is my profession.
And you have to execute. I think like the execution portion of it
is, you know, uh easy nowadays I can just pull up in DJ
and whatnot. I feel like at this point in my career, I am
like hitting the strides like in just perfect, like I'm comfortable on the microphone.
I'm comfortable to talk in front of like random strangers, you know.
I mean I've DJed at the Save Mark before, you know, like in
front of thousands, you know, so with the help of like being on
radio and when and with you know, everyone around here. So for me
to do a wedding, I mean those are fun. I Mean. The
only thing that sucks is like out here, like if you're doing a wedding
in the summer, and yeah, I'm in a suit, I'm over your
chug and like gallons of water to stay hi. That's the only thing that
sucks. But like, I mean the execution of it, because I've done
so many like over the years, i already know like how to like go
about it. Sometimes, like I'll run the whole wedding myself, you know,
like and people are paying me to like can you do the whole wedding?
And can you run this from the beginning to the end, And I'm
like, absolutely, let's do it. I will sit down, we'll knock
everything out. I'll give you suggestions. Do you want to do this?
Do you want to do that? Here we're running a little bit behind.
You want to push up, you know. So uh you know, so
doing private events and weddings, like I mean, there's a lot of responsibilities
and you have to care because you have to remember, like these are moments
that people are gonna remember. Yeah, really, and you can't mess up.
And there's no sick days with DJs. There are no sick days.
If I have a flu too bad, like bring a night cool, drink
pliny water and do it. You know. So where where can uh like
the public, uh, you know, get information on booking? You Are
you going through a company? Are you working with partners or can they go
directly to you? Yeah? So I work with Moss Entertainment. So so
if you want to like, check us out website Moss M A S H
E N T Weddings dot com. So if you want to check us out,
it's about five of us in there in the crew. So shout out
to a DJ Lunatico, uh, DJ Echo Arturo, myself, DJ Juice
Box and DJ Kbridge. Five of us right now. You know. We
we do weddings, private events, school events, I mean you name it,
you know, divorce parties. You know, we'll be in there and
you know and get a crack and you know so. But yeah, if
you want to hit hit me up on the socials, it's everything like the
same at DJ juice Box d J J e U C E b o X.
That's Instagram, Twitter if you want to see me like talk shit about
my team when they're you know so Facebook. Yeah, sometimes I feel like
on Twitter juice Box during the Lakers season, juice Box would get mad at
me for my negativity. You know what it is too, It's who I
find. I don't know because you might not be following the same people I
follow, which is my friends, and we all feel the same, and
I feel like you're getting just mine. So maybe it's not it's not translating
because I'm talking shit with my friends. Yeah, and he's seeing it.
But he's seeing it, so he's like, Yo, magic is very negative
over here. I don't be like magic, what the fuck domestic as magic?
Yo, We're down ten. We got this, bro, you know.
But then I love it when you join when you join it, I'm
all right, I'm gonna join that. I'm like, I'm the same way
in our group chat. I'll be the most negative person in our group chat,
and juice Boxes like, nah, we're good still, and I'm like,
no, man, I'm ready to turn this shit off already. Man,
I'm always the one I got hold. I'm down twenty one in the
fourth, two minutes left. Bro it ain't over yet. Ain't over yet,
you know. So but but yeah, but like also, if you
guys are on podcast and one that I just uploaded some mixes on YouTube.
So if you go on YouTube, search a DJ juice box, I'm currently
working on the series of your reviews for for mixes. So I've done two
thousand and one. I broke it up in two so I've done two thousand
and one R and B in two thousand and one hip hop. I uploaded
like these mixes on YouTube, and the numbers blew up because I forget that,
you know, YouTube is there to like kind of put mixes out there
and whatnot, you know, so I just can't monetize off of it,
which I don't care. But I just my mixes have gotten like already hundreds
of thousands of listens, you know, and I just uploaded them like about
a two months ago. But these are mixes that I started working around twenty
twenty. You know. I've had this, like, you know, a
project in my idea of wanting to do recap of mixes, like you know,
over the years. So I've done two thousand, two thousand and one,
you guys can check that out. Two thousand and two, hip hop
and R and B. Two thousand and three. I did those last year
for hip hop and R and B, and so this year I'm working on
two thousand and four. R and B is gonna drop first, and then
hip hop later on down the year, and then I'll probably come back circle
around to like the twenty elevens. I did a twenty eleven. I gotta
re upload that one, but go back to the twenty twelve's and whatnot,
probably you know, for their twenty years or whatnot. And then you even
do like specific like Aliya mixes or outcasts. Yeah, like all yeah,
Like I'll put together like quick little TikTok songs and mixes you know that people
can just like you know, put up there, you know, just branding,
you know, just throwing mixes out there. I mean the DJs out
there. There's some dope DJs that are just putting out some great content,
you know, and you know TikTok we're scrolling. Yeah, and so I
gotta I gotta come with a record. You just drop it real quick,
thirty seconds of just a bunch of records, you know whatnot. So it's
great promotions, just kind of put the name out there, you know,
so just promote mixes. Like I love putting these mixes together because I call
them like passion projects. They kind of just kind of like take us back
to like a moment when we were like younger, and it's like, oh,
back in the day, man, when life was simple and yeah,
man, McDonald's wasn't as expensive. You know, Taco bell was like a
dollar. You know, there's a there's definitely a lot of nostalgic field to
it because some of my favorite mixes are like the era let's say the era
mixes that he puts out from the from the years and like, yeah,
it will take you back to a certain time in your life. And not
to mention, those mixes are very good for like workouts, you're going on
for a walk and uh or if you know, you just want to reminisce
about the good old days. So I do really like when he puts these,
Like you like your mixes, I guess you would call them, yeah,
but you said those are on YouTube. They're on YouTube. They're on
YouTube. Go to Apple podcasts if so the iPhone listeners, go to podcasts,
just type in my name DJ juice Box and it'll pop up in there.
All the mixes I've done, I have some old ones over the years.
I did a Neptune's mix back in twenty ten. People still like ask
about it. Did you do a Nate Dog mix too? No? No,
no, that was uh DJ Steve Wonder okay, stee h he uh
he did a mix It's called Nate and no wait, dude, that mix.
I think that was what was the one that really like inspired me to
do like a theme mix the mixes, you know. So, but yeah,
so YouTube, it's on there, you'll check it out. Uh,
it's also on iTunes as well. I'm not on iTunes, Apple podcasts and
whatnot. So go go on my Instagram and you'll follow the link and then
it'll take you all there to go back and listening to them. I try
to keep it in an hour. I crme in like as much as fifty
songs in these mixes. And yeah, I mean, I mean, I'm
just I'm quickly mixing, quick mixing them, you know, so people have
asked like, hey, can you make like longer mixes, But like I
just think to myself, like, no one wants to hear like a ninety
minute mix. Yeah. Less, it's more keep them wanting to come back,
you know what I'm saying. Yeah, But then I I also remember
that there are people that like like to you know, clean the house and
have YouTube on in the background and whatnot. So I might just start putting
together like just mixes of like you know me, you know, mixing like
at the house. Yeah. People like to see like the live mixes and
whatnot, you know. So that's something that like I'm gonna work on soon,
you know, just to kind of you know, scratch the itch of
the days when I used to do radio, because like I still try to
find the times to like put together some mixes and whatnot, you know,
for you bro. Yeah, yeah, it was good to catch up with
you face to face. I know. It kind of when with social media
you feel like you hang out with your friends anyways. And also I'll say
this because it man, it you just saying these names. It just reminds
me of when we used to hang out. We call you guys, call
it the h Q House on where was that at? Yeah, well we
don't live there anymore, but yeah, Getsburg. Yeah, we used to
just go there and just hang out. Man, the stories that we have.
We had a DJ room, just a wall full of like posters and
whatnot, you know, and uh and when artists would stop by, we
would just pull like the vinyls, like like Rich would hit me up,
like yo, look for that one Genie vinyl or that one Mario record,
and then we would pull up the station and the artist would be like,
dude, you have this still and it was sign it. You know.
We still have some of those, you know. Yeah man those yeah,
like it's just for sure, and I know we're we're we you know,
you have a family and we're all older now, so it's not even one
of those things like yo, we don't even hang out anymore, Like no,
it it was great when we got to do it back then. And
now we're all older and I'm glad we're all still friends. Yeah. The
way we hang out now is going to like his kids birthdays, you know.
So it's just a different topic hangout now. You know what I'm saying,
life life, and you know, yeah, exactly it's still it's still
great to see everyone. I'm still I'm still happy that, like you know,
most of us are still in town. Yeah, shout out to Kenny.
Kenny lives in New Orleans now, Oh wow, yeah, so shout
shout out to him. It's been a minute. I think he'll be out
here soon, you know so. But yeah, man, it's it's great
to be back here man at the station, the old stomping ground. So
definitely great memories here. I I grew up a lot as a DJ,
you know, so, and and as a as a person, as an
m C. It all started here for me, you know, and so
thank you guys for having me. It was definitely, you know, an
honor to be here. I listen to you guys all the time. Definitely,
you guys got some funny ass stories. Story about that one I told
I told you about, texted you about which one I was trapped in the
closet? That one? That one? Yeah, how come we never heard
of this story? Yeah? Bro heard that story? What I went to
old girl's house and her dad was chasing me through their house. We got
some story. We're gonna we're gonna keep it off. The podcast from h
Q back in the day. Oh yeah, man, me and juice Box
got some stories Vegas, some Vegas stories. Oh my god. I don't
know. We might have to open this up on another day, but it
might get us fired. Until next time, DJ juice Box, this could
give me for our podcast.