Blue Slide Serenade: Tales from Two Hearts
Blue Slide Serenade: Tales from Two Hearts: Join us as we embark on a heartfelt journey through life, adventure, and business. Hosted by a passionate husband and wife team, we explore the exciting worlds of DJing, MCing, photobooths, and balloon art while delving into the latest current events and pop culture. Each episode offers a unique blend of personal stories, professional insights, and entertaining discussions. Whether you're an entrepreneur, event enthusiast, or simply looking for inspiration, Blue Slide Serenade: Tales from Two Hearts has something special for you. Tune in and let our tales serenade your heart!
Blue Slide Serenade: Tales from Two Hearts
The Pause and Return: Reflections on Family, Health, and New Ventures
Welcome back to the chaos and charm of our lives! After disappearing from the podcast scene since April, we're finally breaking our silence to share the whirlwind that's kept us away from the mic. Between back-to-back DJ gigs, unexpected Vegas adventures, and health struggles, there's been precious little time for recording.
Our journey took an exciting turn at El Cortez casino, where we discovered a gambling experience vastly different from the Strip's glitzy establishments. While we emphasize that gambling should never be approached as a money-making venture ("You're going to lose every time"), the complimentary perks, friendly staff, and authentic atmosphere made for unforgettable memories. We even rubbed elbows with Vegas royalty, meeting both the casino's GM Adam and prominent slot YouTuber Vegas Matt.
Back home, our Havana nights continue thriving after more than a year, our photo booth business remains a hit at events, and family milestones have kept us grounded amid the chaos. From celebrating birthdays to supporting family through health challenges in Columbus, we've balanced professional commitments with personal priorities—though not without Gordon pushing himself to honor work commitments despite significant health issues.
The most exciting news? We're reviving Marion's sandwich company! Soon you'll find us at the local farmer's market serving up gourmet sandwiches from different cultural backgrounds—Cubanos, brisket specialties, panes con pollo, and more—all homemade with love and craftsmanship. As with everything we do, expect quality, authenticity, and a touch of our unique personality.
Ready to catch up on all our adventures and get a taste of what's coming next? Press play and dive back into our beautifully chaotic world—we've missed sharing it with you!
Thank you for tuning in to this episode of Blue Slide Serenade: Tales from Two Hearts. We hope you enjoyed the journey as much as we did sharing it with you. Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review our podcast on your favorite platform. Stay connected with us on social media for updates, behind-the-scenes content, and more. Until next time, keep the adventure alive and let your heart be serenaded.
What's up y'all? We are back. We've been on a little bit of a little bit of a break or a hiatus. You know, we just went and looked and realized that we hadn't recorded Blue Slide Serenade, our personal podcast for the two of us, since about April of this year.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we've just been so busy.
Speaker 1:Life has been crazy. Absolutely Really crazy, not in a bad Life has been crazy, absolutely, really crazy. Not in a bad way per se, no, just one thing after another. And yeah, there has been bad, there's been challenges, there's been stuff like that, but it's just one thing after another.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:It's one thing after another, it's one thing after another. So we're going to kind of rewind and do a recap and go back through our calendars, our Instagram feeds, our photo albums in our phones and we're going to kind of just try to recap and catch everybody up on what's going on in our lives. Gordie B and Marion.
Speaker 2:B over there, let's go.
Speaker 1:I guess going all the way back to April, we had one weekend that was so busy, yes, so busy. I think we had a Havana night on a Friday night.
Speaker 2:We did.
Speaker 1:Yes, so busy. I think we had a Havana night on a Friday night. We did Well. We had a wedding on Saturday here in town, at Limcado, I believe. Yes, I believe it was Limcado venue. Successful. You know all of the events were. You know they've been successful. I'm a bit hard on myself, you know.
Speaker 2:You are.
Speaker 1:I wouldn't say so much a perfectionist, but constantly seeking growth and improvement and growth. I'm just going to say growth, I'm going to leave it at growth, just constantly seeking growth in my mixing, in my DJ set, in my song selection, in my crowd reading, in everything. I'm pretty tough on myself. Yeah reading and in everything I'm, I'm pretty tough on myself. Yeah, um to the point where, even when people do give compliments, I don't really take them like I don't.
Speaker 1:I don't know how to take them because I'm I'm upset about a transition I had, or a song that just bombed and you know whatever else, or a hiccup, or whatever it may be.
Speaker 2:You're too hard on yourself.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Not okay.
Speaker 1:That's something I have to work on and grow.
Speaker 2:Because you're amazing.
Speaker 1:You know I'm decent, I can get the job done. I can get it done pretty well. I'm not the greatest DJ, I'm not the most artistic or you know anything in my sets and things like that, but I enjoy it. I enjoy people having fun. Anyways, yeah, we had a busy, busy weekend. Vanna was on a Friday night. We had a wedding at Lemkado on a Saturday.
Speaker 2:And then Sunday was Paso Robles.
Speaker 1:Sunday was Paso Robles and that was another wedding. To come back home that same day from Paso, you know, and that's not too bad, it was only about an hour and a half hour and 45 or something, you know, and there's, you know, I guess I'm getting to the point in age where I'm like I'd rather just be home. If we're in three hours, if we're within three hours of the house, I think I would prefer just to come home.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Unless it's something grand or extravagant, where we're, say, a hotel on the beach we got a beachfront hotel or something like that and we're going to stay there for a day or two and hang out, you know, whatever it may be or we're going to be in Vegas or whatever it was. And, speaking of Vegas, the day after those three events we got a little bit of rest.
Speaker 2:A day, 24 hours. That's what I said. A little bit, a little bit of rest.
Speaker 1:And we bailed out. We took off to Vegas. Yeah, we took off to vegas. Yeah, we took off to vegas for about a week. Yeah, and um, yeah, a few days went to the big name, you know, mgm park yes the big name and the little name right, not the main mgm, but the park mgm yeah, signature park mgm yeah, we, we enjoy the park, mgm, uh, the atmosphere, you know kind of the cleanliness. It's non-smoking which look, yeah, I smoke, you know weed here and there here and there, but cigarettes I'm not.
Speaker 1:I'm not a fan of no um and I really don't enjoy breathing that new york, new york cigarette air in, or you know some of these other places that have smoking. But that's, you know, that comes with Vegas.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You know we were watching a documentary or I don't know if it's a documentary or considered a documentary, but somebody was visiting the plaza and they were walking around with the GM or the guy from the plaza and, and smoking and gambling goes hand in hand apparently yeah it's. It's just they're synonymous um and uh.
Speaker 1:That's why, uh, plaza, they have a non-smoking section and the rest of the casino which is smoking yeah um, they're trying to hit both crowds yeah right, the smoking crowd and the non-smoking crowd and um, just statistically, I guess you know most people that gamble also smoke. So if you take away smoking, you're also going to take away business from your gambling and stuff like that yeah, so it's fine.
Speaker 2:Park mgm is is good if you're going to take your family. You know they have a great pool yeah, a couple pools and non-smoking yeah, yeah, a couple pools and I think Bruno Mars performs there.
Speaker 1:Uh-huh, jabberwockies are going to be somewhere in Vegas with the residency, I hear. Or they're already out there, but they just got renewed or something. Oh, okay, but they're out there and they have a—I'd really like to go to a Jabbawockeez show one day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, me too.
Speaker 1:You know, just for the hip hop.
Speaker 2:Mom said she's planning this weekend to go to one with Omar, to the Jabbawockeez Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Or a show.
Speaker 2:A show.
Speaker 1:All right, well, why going to go to the Stratosphere?
Speaker 2:The Strat yeah, yeah, yeah so.
Speaker 1:Are they going to get on the ride up there? I doubt it. The one that hangs off the side.
Speaker 2:No, mom's not going to do that.
Speaker 1:Not the Stratosphere, the other one, the oh, experience a few hundred bucks a person or something. Yeah, they have wizard of oz going on right there right now. Yes, they do. Um, so, yeah, so we didn't do well at the mgm. They kind of took us and these, these bigger casinos, they have a worse return to player usually than the off strip sites, you know. So we decided you know, we watch a lot of youtube and a lot, a lot of slot players and stuff like that is. We decided, you know, let's go to El Cortez.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And we made our first trip over to El Cortez and loved it.
Speaker 2:We loved it. We absolutely loved it.
Speaker 1:Loved it. It's just a little hop. Skip to Fremont experience.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean it's just right down the street.
Speaker 2:I had never been to Fremont it was my first time and I've been to Vegas lots of times. Lots of times.
Speaker 1:I'm not sure if I remember knowing that at the time that it was your first time at Fremont, but I'm sure you told me it was. Yeah, my memory's shit. I got a motorcycle helmet that's half shaved off in the head. I got head trauma, girl, I forget things, bad memory. Anyways, we got a motorcycle helmet that's half shaved off in the head. I got head trauma, girl. You know, I forget things. I have a bad memory.
Speaker 1:Anyways, we had a great time at the El Cortez. We met Adam, the GM over there. He's been a pleasure to interact with and see on the floor and his activity and just the relationships that he has with a lot of the YouTubers and stuff that go in there and the support that he gives them.
Speaker 2:But even if you're not a YouTuber, I think he's pretty amazing to his staff. He's amazing to the general public yeah, he started out as a blackjack dealer. Yeah, and he is.
Speaker 1:He worked his way all the way through the ranks up to a casino manager a casino boss.
Speaker 2:He's pretty awesome. So if you guys ever see him say hi.
Speaker 1:Yeah, bald guy dressed in a suit, bald white, bald guy dressed in a suit. Um, real nice guy, real nice. Wait, maybe too nice. I'm not sure about him. I might have to, I don't know. We went to the chef um the chef food truck in the mgm yeah, we did they have a replicated chef food truck in the mgm. It's been there for long time but we never went in the previous times that we went.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:But we decided to grab a little bite to eat there and it was okay. I can't say I was head over heels for it or anything like that. I think your Cubanos are better.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, much better. We just had one tonight, as a matter of fact. Yes, she just made one tonight. We just had one tonight, as a matter of fact. Yes, she just made one tonight. And speaking of that, we have a little something on the horizon. Yes, and we won't go too far into it. Maybe we will when we you know, later on in the podcast. We're only 10 minutes in and we've got a lot to talk about.
Speaker 2:still we do.
Speaker 1:But we have something on the horizon that we're thinking about doing, and anybody that knows us knows that when we decide we want to do something, we just jump in and do it. Yeah, we'll figure it out. We're gonna have our failures, we're gonna have our hiccups, we're gonna have our issues, um, but also anybody that knows us knows that we are going to deliver an amazing product yeah to the best of our abilities Always.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:There's pride there. There's pride there. So, yeah, we got back and we did the Father's Day celebration out at Heritage.
Speaker 2:Yes, we did.
Speaker 1:Heritage Park. Did the Father's Day celebration out there?
Speaker 2:Really really nice kids. There was a bunch of youthful kids and everybody was just so nice. There were a lot of vendors, youth, youthful kids and everybody was a lot of vendors out there too yeah, a lot of vendors um.
Speaker 1:It was a great, great turnout yeah yep, yeah, we've been, uh, we've been busy. We also got on with uh north of the river.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:We've been doing events with them, DJing for them, balloon arrangements, decor, things of that nature. We've been doing a lot of that with them and look forward to doing more of it with them. We like them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we like that group. We do have one coming up soon.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we have so much coming up.
Speaker 2:It's crazy, we're going to be so busy.
Speaker 1:Especially October.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're going to have to find some time to make more podcasts. I mean, we need to make time for it.
Speaker 1:We just have to do it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It just seems to be an easy thing to go by the wayside. Yeah, and it's not a bad thing. You know the Rodecaster. The device that we record on is very simple. You plug a power cord into it, you plug your mics into it and you plug your headphones into it and you're good to go. You hit the record button, just like we are now, and we're hot. We're hot. So that's how lazy I have been. As easy as that sounds. We've just been busy and we've been tired and we've just not super interested or not interested. We love it. I love the podcast.
Speaker 2:I love documenting life but you also haven't been feeling too good yeah, I've been having some health struggles.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've been having some health struggles and I think, think, we're on the verge of getting all that figured out.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:We got an ultrasound tomorrow morning. We got some labs tomorrow morning, fasted, so after 10 o'clock or whatever, I can't eat. So this podcast has to be done by 10 because I'm eating again before I can eat. Eating and drinking I can't eat or drink for 12 hours or something.
Speaker 2:Oh, they didn't even want you to drink water. Uh-uh, oh, that's weird.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because they usually want liquid in there.
Speaker 1:I don't know, not me.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Not me, but we've also been on a semi-health kick I can't say a great health kick. You know we're not, you know, off the deep end on it.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:We're just eating a little better.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:We've lost a lot of weight. I've lost about 30 pounds.
Speaker 2:I've lost about 20.
Speaker 1:And leaning out and you know we were getting a little chubs a little thick.
Speaker 2:It's because we're so in love.
Speaker 1:Oh man man.
Speaker 2:Because I cook so much, I don't really cook.
Speaker 1:You don't, yeah, you don't.
Speaker 2:When I cook, it's amazing.
Speaker 1:Oh amazing, she knows how to cook. The girl knows how to cook. Amazing, oh amazing, she knows how to cook. Girl knows how to cook. She cooks amazing, amazing food, and not just culturally, but just pretty much anything that she wants to cook. She's pretty great at it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:She's pretty great. You know nothing like a home-cooked meal, right? Yeah, you know, but I'm going to blame this on you, though, babe, that I don't cook so much, of course you're gonna have to blame it on me. I get blamed for everything you know. Whatever I'm used to it. At this point I'm like, okay, yeah this is my baby look so he'll be like what are we gonna eat?
Speaker 2:and I'm like, oh, I can make some enchiladas or some tacos. How long is that gonna take you?
Speaker 1:and I say maybe an hour, two hours, maybe now, look, I just have different value that I place on time and spending time with loved ones and things of that nature. Um, time is very, very, very valuable to me, don't? I mean, if you really want to, you know, get on my bad side or have me cut you out of my life, waste my time.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't have time for it. Yeah, our time is finite. We don't know how much time we have, and I place a very high value on mine.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Whether that be because of near-death experiences, motorcycle accidents, you know, trauma, whatever it may be, I just have a different outlook and I place things a little differently on my list of importance priorities, things that I care about or are important to me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, sometimes it doesn't take me two hours to cook something. I can cook something pretty good in about 20 minutes. Yeah, you can cook something together pretty quick yeah.
Speaker 1:Especially like the little taquitos or something. You know. Those are pretty quick usually, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then also like, if we want steak or something, you'll come in there and help me and I'll just cook the sides and you cook the main course.
Speaker 1:And we get to cook together, which we've been doing a lot of. Yeah, you know we've been doing more of it and I enjoy it and I want to even do even more of it, right, and and go down and experiment and, and you know, do some new dishes and things of that nature and and get good at it. Um, you know, we need to pick up a traeger, we need to pick up a smoker yeah, we do and we need to pick up a regular grill as well and a Blackstone.
Speaker 1:We do we need all three of those Every time we're out in Ohio at Mom's. I'm on those every day. Pretty much Every other day I'm cooking on one of those, Whether we cook breakfast or dinner that day.
Speaker 2:but we are cooking on them, which is a great experience. I mean, we get to do that with mom and get to bond with her, because she also loves to do it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:You know. And then she taught me how to make biscuits and gravy.
Speaker 1:I mean that's core, that's a core component, that is a foundational meal, Like if you want to be with Gordon Baldrige, if you want to date Gordon Baldrige, if you want to marry Gordon Baldrige.
Speaker 2:You already have someone, it's alright.
Speaker 1:Everybody else is shit out of luck, because this girl's already taking care of everything Everything but food is one of those things. There's a couple ways to my heart, and she knows the direct path to both. We met Vegas Matt out there too. Oh, we did. You know, we met Vegas Matt. He's a big YouTuber, big YouTuber. I think he's the number one slot YouTuber. Yeah, it's either him.
Speaker 2:Lady.
Speaker 1:Luck or Mr Handpay. Yes, I think those are the two Luck, or, mr Handpay. Yes, I think those are the top, or?
Speaker 2:NG NG's up there too. Yeah, If there's a top 10, they're usually in the first one through four.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's how it falls. Yeah, that's how it falls.
Speaker 2:Depending on how much money they lost. It's either they lost so much that they're six through 10, or they want so much that they're one through four.
Speaker 1:Because they have a slot league or a slot community or whatever, and they're ranked, you know, like a college football team, like a sports team, like whatever else. They're ranked. It's a serious thing. And we're ranked probably a thousand.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:All about the bonuses.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, we do have a slot channel.
Speaker 1:We have a slot channel. Um, we're growing it. We're, you know, slow and steady. Yeah, we're not in a hurry, we're enjoying the journey. We're enjoying, uh, you know what we're doing and we're making sure that the gambling and and the gaming and, and it stays enjoyable as well, once anything turns into work or a business or things of that nature, and you forget the fun aspect or the fun component or the lightheartedness or all the great memories that you made, even when you were losing, laughing about things, whatever it may be, you've lost and you won't make it. Your slot channel won't last and you will, you won't make it. Your, your slot channel won't last. Your djing career won't last.
Speaker 1:Your, you know, nothing will last no after you learn a hatred or a dislike of something and it becomes monotonous or work or a lot of you know you lose it, yeah, you lose it, and always gamble responsibly yeah, look, look, you're gonna lose no matter what you're gonna lose, I'm just gonna tell everybody right now you're gonna lose. I don't care if you're watching slot channels and you see mr hand paying. These guys win five thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars. What you don't see is it costs them $60,000 to win the 10.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So if you can do math which some of you apparently probably can't if you think gambling's a winning venture, go keep spending your money there. But you're doing it for the wrong reason right um, you have to look at it.
Speaker 1:You have to look at it like, um, like a game, uh, like um an event, like something that you've purchased tickets to, to go, experience and do yeah and and that's not a loss when you're coming back with fun memories or you know memories of bonuses or whatever else yeah, you know no different than buying tickets to a Kendrick Lamar concert, right. You spend $800, $1,500, whatever it is on decent tickets to any of these shows. You're technically throwing money away, right, because all you're creating is a memory.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So, if you look at it the wrong way, you're throwing money away. If you look at it the right way, you're creating money away. If you look at it the right way, you're creating memories, you're having fun, you're doing something, but you're going to lose. We lose, we lose every time.
Speaker 2:We do.
Speaker 1:We lose every time, and I'm not even joking. There might be one or two times that we've left plus, but overall in the big scheme in the big, big picture and at the end of the day we lose. Every session, yeah, every time, yeah, do we have 500 wins, 1400 wins? You know hand pay here and there, yeah, but the money that it costs to get to that um far outweighs the win yeah, and and you know you talk about.
Speaker 1:We talked about return to player earlier, um, in reference to the mgm park and the bigger, the bigger casinos. Yeah, rtp is a very real thing and it's set at the casino level, um, and it is managed by the gaming commission and the gaming board and and they cannot they cannot, apparently, who knows right, but from what I've researched and learned, it can't be changed dynamically. To change the RTP on any of these slot machines, they have to actually physically open the cabinet and program it or something along those lines, right, or they have to do it on the server on the back end, whatever it may be, but those are all logged events.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:The Gaming Commission has those logs and it prevents them from. You know, at one point in time, vegas, you know, when it was mob ran and back in the older days it was fixed even more. So right, yeah, but now it's less fixed. But obviously it's always in favor of the casino. It's always in favor of the casino. You guys, see these casinos, you see to hone, you know, you see um hard rock to hone. You see eagle mountain, you see tachi, you see chuck chancy, you see black oak, you see yamava. You see all of these casinos. Yeah, they didn't get built by losing.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:They didn't get built by losing.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:They got built by all of our money.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So do it for the experience, do it for the fun, do it without the expectation of losing or winning. Well, do it with the expectation of losing, for sure That'll definitely take the sting out when it does happen, because it's going to, but go in with the right mindset. I'm spending money on entertainment. Instead of going to Burning man, I'm going to El Cortez. Instead of going to the Kendrick Lamar, I'm going to El Cortez. Instead of going to Starbucks, every morning I'm going to El Cortez.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:Like you know, it's just, it's how you're choosing to spend your money.
Speaker 2:Well, the good incentive about going to El Cortez there is a Starbucks in there.
Speaker 1:There is a Starbucks in there and it is definitely not as busy as the Park. Mgm.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:The Park MGM, you're going to spend about 30 minutes in line for coffee if you're not smart enough to order it on the app or whatever. But here's the other thing El Cortez also takes care of you. You got free valet parking and our Jeep specifically cannot park in a parking structure because it doesn't fit.
Speaker 1:It's too tall, it is too big. It has a rooftop tent on it. It's lifted up four inches. It has 37-inch tires on it. It's too big. It'll clip, it'll break off, it'll scratch, it'll do something. Well, and you have to pay for parking at these places. El Cortez is free parking. You pull up, you grab your stuff, they valet it, they park it over in their parking lot. You get there, your rooms are comped most of the time. You get a couple hundred dollars worth of food vouchers. You get a couple hundred dollars worth of gambling free play. Quote unquote. Free play. It's a different experience.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I think they have that same experience at the plaza and the other places down on fremont you know not on the strip? No, and I think plaza is currently running a um all-inclusive no okay, I think you can go to plaza and you can get an all-inclusive thing. You'll get a wristband or whatever. You just go around eating and drinking and gambling and doing your thing right and they have a pool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, rooftop right the plaza has a pool.
Speaker 1:It's up on the roof, I think.
Speaker 2:Is it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, we haven't been up there.
Speaker 2:We haven't, we did go to the plaza.
Speaker 1:We went to the non-smoking section, we went to the smoking section. We've been all over the place over there, up and down Fremont and all of that good stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But what else? You know, we've had lots of photo booths still going out. Our photo booths are still very popular and very, very aggressively priced yeah like we are very um, I would like to say affordable yeah our photo booths are very affordable they are and a lot of times I feel like a photo booth and a dj and you're set, your party is set. Yes, regardless of the food, regardless of some of the other stuff you know alcohol, of course yeah alcohol, dj, photo booth and you're pretty good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's, that's a party I mean, like the photo booth has lines yeah, the photo booth is always backed up, it always has lines.
Speaker 1:People you know love taking pictures they do creating memories, having fun yeah, you know you get to be silly in front of a photo booth.
Speaker 2:I mean, a photo booth is almost like you're taking a selfie of yourself, but hands-free.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's like I said, it's one of those opportunities that you get to be silly, right Like you get to be silly. You get to be silly, right Like you get to be silly.
Speaker 1:You get to. You get to be goofy, yeah, whereas you know any other point in time. You know you're straight and narrow and you know working and you know you're not that big of a party monster or anything else. But something about being in front of a photo booth automatically gives you a pass to say be goofy as hell right now and you get away with it. We don't care how we look up on the big screen at Havana when we take our pictures and it displays to all the projectors on all the screens.
Speaker 1:And everybody in the world. Well, everybody in Havana, 150, 200 people see us.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:And they see each other and we all enjoy it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's so fun.
Speaker 1:We love seeing other people be goofy and silly and have fun. They love seeing us be goofy and silly and have fun, and it's almost like a commonality that we're as different as we all are, we're all the same too.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:As different as we all are. Some of us are lawyers, some of us are healthcare professionals, some of us are lawyers, some of us are health care professionals, some of us are djs, some of us are are culinary experts, you know. Whatever it may be, um, but we can all be goofy in front of a photo booth yeah and and I. That's. That's a big common, that's a big thing. I like that. I like that We've had quite a few Havannas, you know, every month Havana is once a month.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:And I got to say we're on probably Havana 15, 16, or 17 at this point. We've been going for well over a year. We've been greatly successful for well over a year. Legends prior 1933 has always been supportive of us. Yes, they've always welcomed us. They've always welcomed our crowds and our people, and even when maybe the bar isn't as hot as it needs to be, yeah, and that's something that we're going to have to figure out as well A lot of our Havana dancers. They're very serious about their craft.
Speaker 2:They are.
Speaker 1:They're very into dancing and social dancing and Latin dancing, and they're not interested in getting drunk and partying and being sloppy. They like to be out on the dance floor learning new moves, dancing with other people, practicing, refining their craft, their hobby, their passion, whatever it may be. So sometimes the bar sales are not all the way there.
Speaker 2:But it's more of like I feel like it's like they know their limit, Like they'll go get a drink yeah, You're not going to see someone throwing up and spilling this or?
Speaker 1:spilling that. They're not going to be belligerent, they're not going to be starting shit. They're not going to have to get drug out, they're not going to have to, you know, uber home or anything. Nobody gets sloppy.
Speaker 2:No, nobody anything.
Speaker 1:Nobody gets sloppy. No, nobody gets sloppy, yeah you know, but if you need an uber, get an uber. Yeah, absolutely always. You know. I think a dui is over ten thousand dollars nowadays oh, wow for all the fees and fines and, and you know, the school and everything else that you have to go through for yeah not to mention, you know, the.
Speaker 2:It's not worth it yeah.
Speaker 1:The worst part of possibly taking a life or losing your own as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it's not worth it.
Speaker 1:What else we had? We had our little Livvy. Our little Olivia turned 13.
Speaker 2:She did, she turned 13. She turned 13. She did.
Speaker 1:She turned 13.
Speaker 2:She turned 13. What did she want this year for her birthday?
Speaker 1:Didn't she want a makeup shopping spree?
Speaker 2:What she got. She got a makeup shopping spree. We had a little get together at home, just a little quaint thing with family, yeah, which she loved you. You know we did games, we did cake presents it was really really, really nice it was good sometimes it's nice just to do something little yeah you know. And then we had another birthday.
Speaker 1:We had kai's birthday yeah, that's jumping forward a little bit it's too forward okay yeah, we still have stuff that we've we've done between then and now. But yeah, we did have kai's birthday. She just turned 10, 10, 10 this girl's like six feet tall, maybe 5, 10, I don't know what she is she?
Speaker 2:She's taller than me, I'm 5'2".
Speaker 1:Well, that's not hard to do. 5'2 is not in the middle ground, it's not normal 10-year-olds are not taller than 5'2".
Speaker 2:10-year-olds taller than 5'2" no.
Speaker 1:Well, she is.
Speaker 2:She is, she's got tall parents.
Speaker 1:Avery's like six feet, I think it's got tall parents. Avery's like six feet I think I think so too, but you said you noticed it looked like Kai had a spurt and she was almost taller than Avery.
Speaker 2:Now, I think she is taller.
Speaker 1:How old's Avery? Thirteen, thirteen and Kai's ten now, and she's almost taller than Avery.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I feel like Avery's done growing. I don't think she's going to grow more. I feel like Avery's done growing. I don't think she's going to grow more.
Speaker 1:I think she's going to fill out. She's going to blossom some more, you know. But yeah, as far as height and stuff, I think she might be done.
Speaker 2:I mean, she's a tall girl. She's almost as tall as me, she's very tall. She might grow maybe another inch.
Speaker 1:She might have another spurt, yeah.
Speaker 2:Maybe when she turns 15 her sophomore year, or something yeah, but I don't think she's gonna grow that much more, but kai she still has another five years, five years, yeah, yeah, three years to catch up to avrian.
Speaker 1:Five years until she stops growing, probably yeah so kai could be looking at me eye level eventually yeah a six foot three little girl, jesus that's awesome we, uh, we've been going out to ohio, yeah, been going out to columbus, uh, without getting any specifics or details or anything like that.
Speaker 1:I, you know, I don't really divulge personal information too much, I don't really like, you know, but mom's had some health issues out there, uh, so we've been hanging out out there, you know, loving on her hanging out, you know having great times, you know, cooking, cleaning, fixing to doing nothing hanging out. We went out to the Ohio State Fair, columbus, ohio, ohio State state fair and uh, mom tony, have you guys listened to this? I apologize, but it was kind of shit. Hey, it was kind of shit.
Speaker 2:It wasn't, you know, it wasn't that great but you know I you know not to like say anything bad about my in-laws, but they need to get a cart. Oh, a scooter so we got mom a scooter.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:We got mom a scooter because you know she gets tired. Yeah, she's what? 70 now, mm-hmm. And then her husband, tony. He absolutely did not want to get a cart.
Speaker 1:Look, I can see both sides. Yeah, there's a part of me that says never get in a wheelchair unless you absolutely have to be in a wheelchair, don't do it. It's bad, juju, it's bad luck, it's badness all around. Don't do it.
Speaker 2:But he knows he has some bum knees.
Speaker 1:He has a bum knee or a couple bum knees. He hurts in his back. He has a bum back.
Speaker 2:He did such a great job. He pushed and he pushed through it.
Speaker 1:He trooped through it, but he also got cranky. He did, he did get cranky we love him though what can you expect if I'm in pain, I'm gonna be a little short too I'm gonna be like man don't be asking me about no funnel cake. Right now my fucking back hurts. Fuck your funnel cake.
Speaker 2:I'm in pain, motherfucker oh, but it was so much fun. We had so much fun with them so many memories yeah, you scared mom oh, I had to.
Speaker 1:I had to, you know. Look, I love when old people get scared for some reason. I I look, don't judge me, don't call me demented or anything else like that.
Speaker 2:I just think it's funny you can't be scaring old people. Yeah, you can.
Speaker 1:I chat, gpt'd it and it says very rarely will somebody have a fucking heart attack. So we're cool. That's a very, very small percentage of a possibility that anybody gets a heart attack from getting scared. So we're safe there. And look, it makes you feel alive.
Speaker 2:Babe, but you set mom up, so we were still here in Bakersfield and he's like oh, mom, I went to the hospital. I went to the doctor and the doctor said something's going on with my jaw.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my jaw's been hurting. Now, everybody knows, most of you probably know where this is going. You know everybody's seen the dog jaw pranks. But if you haven't, look, be smart about it. Plant the seed early, you know. You know, reference it a couple times in the weeks coming. Man, my jaw's been hurting. I had to go to the doctor. Leave it at at that. Right, you have to set them up. Right, you have to plant that seed, you have to set it up. And then you know, a few days prior, say, yeah, we're almost out there. Ma, you know it's going to be a couple more days. We're going to be out there. I'm looking forward to it. You know I might have to be a little easy on some food.
Speaker 1:My jaw's been hurting, you know went to the doctor, you know, set it up, plant that seed a little bit more right, Dig it down in there deep right, Get it planted and then we get out there.
Speaker 2:We're eating dinner.
Speaker 1:Oh, we're at the table. Huh, we're at the dining room table at mom's house. We're eating dinner and I was like mom, my jaw's hurting, feel this right here. And she goes to reach over to feel my jaw and you immediately do the dog barking. You turn your head and you and I even bit her finger partially. Her finger went in my mouth.
Speaker 2:She got so scared. She got so scared.
Speaker 1:Hey, didn't I scare Tony with something too? Did I get Tony while?
Speaker 2:we were out there. I don't remember.
Speaker 1:I don't remember, I don't remember, but anyways, we had a great time out there. You know, we cooked, we cleaned, we did nothing. We fixed some stuff, we worked on some stuff, we upgraded some stuff. We went to the home store and, you know know, bought some planters and bought a bird feeder and and bought some, some uh sealant, some glossy sealant for their, their, their deck outside, for their, uh, their patio outside, did all that changed light bulbs changed light bulbs, fixed a couple weak links in the fence outside, worked on the front flower bed, got some new wood chips down out there, just did all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 2:Lots of little things.
Speaker 1:Just to make things nice and comfy and homey. Yeah, lots of little things, just lots of little things. And again, lots of nothing too. We ordered pizza out there a couple times and the last one that we ordered out there was amazing. That pizza was the most probably authentic new york style. Uh, slash italian. Uh, it was amazing. The sauce, yeah, the spicy pepperonis with the regular pepperonis you know, they had the basil on there. The dough the crust the mozzarella cheese.
Speaker 1:Everything was just perfect. Great pizza joint we found out there and we're definitely going to be doing that every time we're out there. G's Body Works been picking back up here and there, you know, been working on more clients, new clients, returning clients and one of those clients just so happened to be one of the owners of Elevate Fitness here in Bakersfield. Elevate, with an eight at the end. It's the new gym over on Rosedale Highway next to like John's Incredible pizza back behind. What is that? Black angus or something I think so yeah, um, old, 24-hour fitness, beautiful gym.
Speaker 1:They have some 300 pieces of equipment, spacious, they have a pool, hot tub, sauna, steam room, you know free weights, you know everything. And uh, we got to talking and they were having a? Uh kind of an event, uh, almost a grand opening event, but their grand opening was a week or two prior, I think and uh, they asked me to go out there and dj out there. So we went out to elevate fitness and we uh set up and we d DJed for the entire gym for a few hours.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we did. Yeah, and that was nice.
Speaker 1:We are now members of. Elevate Fitness as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was so packed.
Speaker 1:It was. It was a very packed event. It surprised them as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, very, very successful event. I've been out there with Summer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, summer, you and Summer have gone to the gym. Now I've I've missed it both times now due to some health issues, you know, trying to be on the mend and trying to get better and, you know, rest and recover and all that good stuff, and that's affected a lot of things. It's affected g's body works. I've had to, you know, turn down appointments or cancel appointments, which I anybody that knows me knows I hate doing. It's not something that I like to do. It's not something that I I take great pride in honoring commitments yeah yeah, speaking of of the gym, somebody went on a gym shopping spree.
Speaker 2:What Huh what?
Speaker 1:What? And while she was doing the gym shopping spree, our daughter walked in and decided she wanted some gym stuff too.
Speaker 2:Spoiled brat. Who you or, her, her, why not you? Because I work.
Speaker 2:Because you have to put up with me I work that's the cost of doing business yeah, I do a lot of things for you so we got a bunch of uh bunch of shorts I got new shoes, I got tops, bottoms long, bottom, short bottoms yeah, I'm a big fan of fabletics, so I was starting to get disappointed in fabletics though yeah as you guys were shopping, I was very, I was getting a little irritated with them because the way that their site is set up, the way that their inventory is set up, yeah it wastes your time, like some of them are blacked out right, so like the extra, extra, extra small option was grayed out because maybe it was sold out.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:The 3X didn't exist because maybe they just don't make them that big for, you know, whatever it may be. And then you have your regular small, medium, large, extra large, extra extra large, whatever it may be, and you go through, you select your size, you select your inseam, you select your rise and yeah, all of these other things, only for the motherfucker at the end to tell you, uh, we're out of stock of that one yeah, like hey man, it's no longer available and it's like but when you're on and then upon initial ordering, it says there's only four left yes and you go to order it and it's like, oh no, there's none left, so their site.
Speaker 1:I think it's deceiving yeah um, I think they might.
Speaker 1:Actually. They might actually have a problem one day with that. Yeah, legally I. I think one day they might have a uh, like a dishonest kind of business practice that they're running. Uh, for one you have to be a member, which is fine, whatever. That's that's their business. If that's how they want to run their business, then you have to be a member. To buy fabletics, then it is what it is. But allowing people to go in there say that there's four to six left, you go drill down and then it says there's none. You know, it's like, hey, yeah, what's my goddamn membership for if I can't even order the shit that I want to order?
Speaker 2:or need to order right.
Speaker 1:So I think somebody is going to get sue happy or lawsuit happy or whatever else and they're going to say you know what, fuck them.
Speaker 2:So I've been trying to look at other workout places.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and you know the way social media works, the way our phones work, the way the world works now is if you even say something in the air. All of a sudden you're scrolling through instagram and you're starting to get ads for this shit yeah right.
Speaker 1:So no, no shit. We ordered the stuff. We ordered stuff from amazon, we ordered stuff from fabletics, we ordered stuff from you know multiple places. All of a sudden, we're scrolling through Instagram or Facebook and all the ads that are popping up are now shapewear or athletic wear, or whatever it may be. So I keep sending Marion. I'm sitting here scrolling or whatnot, and I'd be sending her hey, here's another company that you might want to look at. Maybe you like the way they look or fit, or whatever it may be. And I mean there's hundreds of them, though there's. There's too many of them.
Speaker 2:There's way too many, there's too many and then you're like you have to try them on. Like you, you have to try them on because you put them on and you're like, okay, I like the way these fit.
Speaker 1:But then it's like the true test is when you're running or you're working out and you're in the gym yeah, and they start climbing or whatever or rolling yeah, so. And booty cheeks are hanging out.
Speaker 2:That's okay, just kidding, okay, just kidding.
Speaker 1:Attention all Elevate women. If your booty cheeks are showing in the gym, my wife says it's okay if I look.
Speaker 2:No, I did not say that it's okay if I look. No, I did not say that it's okay. No, I did not say that.
Speaker 1:It's okay if your booty cheeks are hanging out.
Speaker 2:You said Babe, that's not okay. Who's yours? That is not okay.
Speaker 1:Who's it okay for?
Speaker 2:I was kidding, you took it too far. No, yes, no.
Speaker 1:I'll snatch that up real quick. I wouldn't.
Speaker 2:You, I wouldn't you know, I'm very classy. Yeah, I know, yeah, I know I'm just being silly.
Speaker 1:So Elevate was great. The girls went back to school. Everybody's kids went back to school. Everybody has their kid pictures that they post.
Speaker 2:I know, but we have a senior.
Speaker 1:We have a senior now.
Speaker 2:We have a senior. Yeah, we have a couple that will be going into high school soon. Yeah, we have our last year in eighth grade, yeah, and then the other two. They'll be a while, yeah, but yeah, so we have our oldest. She's a senior, which she's already prepared us yeah she's like senior year is gonna be expensive yeah, and it has been well. Life is just expensive period yeah, but you know, I think we want her to be able to experience her senior year to the fullest.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because we didn't get to it's gonna be her last one. No, hell no we didn't get to like I want her to go to prom, I want her to go to all these things and you know she's. She's very smart. What happened in the Bluffs not too long ago? Someone got shot.
Speaker 1:You can't say smart. You got to be careful with that you got to be a little sensitive to that.
Speaker 2:Somebody died at the Bluffs? No, but I'm saying she doesn't want to go to those parties.
Speaker 1:She doesn't put herself in bad positions.
Speaker 2:She doesn't, she doesn't. She doesn't put herself in bad positions.
Speaker 1:She doesn't, she doesn't, she doesn't put herself in possible bad places and positions. She's very sound, very mature, she has a good head on her shoulders, she's driven, she knows what she wants. She knows what she doesn't want.
Speaker 2:But also if she asked us if she could go to a party. She's very honest with us.
Speaker 1:Well, she knows that we're going to ask the correct questions.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and for the most part.
Speaker 1:Is there going to be a parent there? Is there going to be adults there? Is you know who's going to be there? What's the crowd like? Are they jocks? Are they cheerleaders? Are they you know? What are they?
Speaker 2:Yeah, are you?
Speaker 1:know, are they Arvin kids? Are they Eastside kids?
Speaker 2:I don't think that matters, but I'm saying like she, even if we were to say, yes, Mama, you can go to the party, she would call, be the first, we would be the first, she would call if something was not right.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, we know, yeah, she'd just call us to pick her up, or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she'd be like I don't want to be here. Yeah, I'm to be here, yeah, I'm out. Yeah. But you know, our 13 year old asked, not too long ago too, if she could go to her, her, her friends brothers 17th birthday. I we said absolutely not yeah, nah, nah nope, nah, nah, you know, so it's, you know these kids, kai, she picked up the saxophone.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Kai is going to be a little saxophone player like her dad. You know, I've played saxophone since I was in about third grade. I was taught mostly by my father.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:He taught me how to you know how to blow on the goddamn thing, first and foremost right, yeah. How to make it honk right. And then you know the notes, reading music, tempo, timing, key. You know all of the other important things that go into music. So, yeah, she picked up saxophone.
Speaker 2:And I'm sure it's nice for you to ask her what does this note mean? And she tells you exactly what it means.
Speaker 1:Or she doesn't and I'm able to educate her.
Speaker 2:Yeah Right, so that's nice. It's nice to know that you know you have an influence on her.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It's pretty cool. So yeah, they were both out here with their saxophones.
Speaker 1:Yeah, honking on them, playing them. She's all excited. She's like Marion, can you take me to the music store so I can go buy reeds and I was like what's that?
Speaker 2:sure, but I don't know what the fuck you're talking about, but yeah, she's all like she wants to do that, and so we get to do all those things with our little girls. And yeah, what else? So we get to do all those things with our little girls, yeah.
Speaker 1:What else? We have more coming up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but you know what? We didn't finish talking about her birthday. Whose Kai's.
Speaker 1:We didn't get to start because you tried to start it too soon and we had other things that happened between then and her birthday.
Speaker 2:Well, she just turned 10.
Speaker 1:Just turned 10. Today, officially today.
Speaker 2:Officially today she turned 10.
Speaker 1:But we celebrated Monday.
Speaker 2:Monday she was going to be with her mom.
Speaker 1:Yep, and so you know we have kind of a little tradition when they turn double digits they get 10 gifts. The amount of presents.
Speaker 2:You know that they are their ages.
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, I, I did a little bit more because, yeah, we always do I added extra gifts in certain yeah, one bag had three gifts in it instead of one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so she wanted makeup. We got her makeup. We heard we got her games. We got her slime we got her.
Speaker 1:You can take that slime shit back. I'm serious, that shit is sand slime, it's just a mess, it's gonna be back in that one it's gonna be in the carpet, it's gonna be in the bed sheets, it's gonna be on the bed rails, it's gonna be on the door handles.
Speaker 2:She is not like that, stop it she's not messy shit, stop it, she's not messy Shit man. But anyways, I got them nothing. Bunk cakes for her birthday and we got her trick candles. That was fun.
Speaker 1:Those were some ghetto trick candles, though those were like sparklers. Like you know, we tried to get the candles that didn't get blown out, right. You blow them and they just fucking reignite, right, and these motherfuckers definitely did reignite, but they were sparkling like sparklers from the fourth of july. They weren't like regular, like you know, good, you know non-blowout candles. They were ghetto. They're probably some gunpowder on there or something right, just burning and just contaminating the cupcakes but anyway.
Speaker 2:So I'm like I get up in the morning and I was like you know what? I'm going to have a little cake with my coffee. These little girls ate all 24 cupcakes.
Speaker 1:No, not all 24.
Speaker 2:No, but I'm saying there was probably like what?
Speaker 1:You're trying to make up for the ones that you also ate.
Speaker 2:No, I did eat.
Speaker 1:All right.
Speaker 2:But they were all gone. So but I'm glad, I'm glad they ate them. And you know, sometimes we have leftovers and we don't eat them.
Speaker 1:I had to miss our last Havana because of this little ailment. I was not feeling well at all. I had a flare up.
Speaker 2:I was not feeling well at all.
Speaker 1:I had a flare-up. I was not feeling well at all, so I actually missed a Havana and had another flare-up a few days later. And we had a quince on Sunday that I was hell-bent on making. I was not going to be in the hospital. I was not going to have an overnight stay in the hospital. I was not going to have surgery in the hospital. I was not going to be in the hospital. I was not going to have an overnight stay in the hospital. I was not going to have surgery in the hospital. I was not going to miss this Keen Set. Again, it comes down to principles and values and work ethic and things of that nature, and probably some stupidity right, and probably some stupidity right, probably some stubbornness, some stupidity, all of that mixed in where I really should get myself checked in, checked out, do all this stuff. But we were busy, we had prior commitments and I take those very seriously. So we had Wellness Water, joe.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was going to say shout out to our friend, yeah big shout out to Wellness Water Liquid IVs.
Speaker 1:Joe came out here. I was supposed to work on him that day. He had an appointment for body work and we were supposed to work on his back and his shoulder and I had to cancel. And he was very understanding about it, very understanding about it, and everybody is nice about it and understanding about it, very understanding about it, and everybody is you know, everybody's nice about it and understanding about it. I hate myself for it. I dislike it myself. I'm harder on myself than they are right, but they can't, you know. Joe came out here and hooked me up to an IV, administered a couple meds and an IV for me and we got through the Kinset.
Speaker 2:You were finally able to sleep.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Without pain. Yeah, I had. There was one night in particular that was just the most hellacious of them all, you know. Just to give you guys a little insight on what's going on Some stomach issues, whether it's appendicitis, whether it's gallbladder, whether it's bacteria, whatever it may be very very very ill Diarrhea 15 times a day throwing up, just constant, just hellacious.
Speaker 1:And it got so bad, the stomach cramps and the bloating and the pain and the discomfort and everything else you know. Throwing up and having diarrhea, simultaneously sitting on a toilet with a bucket right or spewing it all over the ground like I initially did accidentally. Yeah, I'm sorry for the graphicness. Y'all you know it. Just you know everybody's been there, I'm sure.
Speaker 2:Yeah, at least once in their life.
Speaker 1:But, you know, body started, you know not doing well, had to practically get butt-ass naked and lay on the bathroom floor to cool the body off, to not pass out. And we were, you know, inches, seconds, maybe a minute away from calling the ambulance Because we were trying to go to the hospital, we were going to go to the ER, but I couldn't get off the toilet for more than two minutes at a time. No, so you know, the trip from here to maybe mercy downtown five minutes, ten minutes, I don't five minutes, maybe seven minutes.
Speaker 1:Um, I probably would have shit on myself three times on the trip yeah and I'm not gonna shit in my jeep, not gonna do it but you know.
Speaker 2:So finally his little episode was done and I saw him lay on the bed and I'm like I'm not moving him. He just kind of.
Speaker 1:I think I had finally had a look of of some kind of relief uh-huh some kind of of calmness you did they just, you know, once everything's done, once everything's out, once you're past that point where your body is now able to just relax exhale yeah right, like just exhale just yeah and relax.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I was like nope, I'm not moving him, I'm not waking him up, because that was probably the best rest he was gonna get for a while for a little bit, and not at a hospital and in the prior, the days and week prior to that, you know, sleep and rest had been way off and few and far between. So I was exhausted, I really was, I really was. But we had a great quince we did we had a great keen say um.
Speaker 2:It came out, we delivered we did such a great job we had a party.
Speaker 1:Um, oh, what else we got. We got stuff coming up. We got, you know, we got a comedy show coming up. We've had a couple comedy shows with Clyde that we've also dj'd in this in this time since we've podcasted last at least two, I think and great events as well. Rich came out and supported Rich came out and he even came up and dropped a set at the end of the night.
Speaker 1:Comedians all done came up there, took over, dropped a set, and he's always more than welcome to any of my friends or anybody that I have a good working DJ relationship with is always welcome to come out to any event that I'm at and you're more than welcome to jump on and have some fun and give the crowd a different perspective, Give the crowd a different genre, Give the crowd a different tempo, a different beat, just a different, you know a tempo. A different beat, a different, just a different experience.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And we all play different music and we all have different ideas about what music for when and where and why and who and everything else, and we all go about it differently. And that's a very beautiful part of DJing and music is if somebody tells you hey, I want you to do a 90s and 2000s hip hop and pop, set right, we're all going to have different songs.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean, some of the ones might be the same Low or whatever else. Some of these songs might be the same, but we're all going to pick some different songs and they all had different meanings to all of us at different points in our lives. You know, or we enjoyed them. You know more than maybe another song, and that's another wild thing about djing, these, these weddings and quinces and and things that have that span multiple decades or genres and and music styles. Right, you always have to approach those because you want to get something for everybody. Right, you can't play 80s music all night, you know, unless it's specifically an 80s theme.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But if we're talking about a wedding, you know my approach to these open format events is my old people come first.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:My older generation comes first 60s, 70s, 80s, whatever that may be, Funk, disco, pop you know, country, and then I'm going to work my way throughout the evening and and try to hit those different ages in those different genres and and things of that nature. But it uh, it's a hard thing to do to keep everybody happy.
Speaker 2:It is, it is.
Speaker 1:It's a very, very tricky and difficult thing to do, at least in my opinion. Yeah, right, are we seasoned at it? Yeah, can we do it? Yeah, does that make it easy? No, it just means that I've done it a few times now.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:And always learning. You know, you get to the end of your night, the end of your set, and you're like shit, I didn't play Bruno Mars.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Why did I not play Bruno Mars? What is going on and it's a whole dynamic right, it's a whole equation of who's on the dance floor. How old are they? What music are they currently rocking out to? How old are they? What music are they currently rocking out to? Who's the next? You know who's going to be the next demograph that you're going to play for.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Right, mixing that in with the interruptions of special dances and whatever else may be and different, you know, announcing certain things, and then mixed in with that, people requesting songs and certain things and it's a big balancing act.
Speaker 1:It's a big juggling act. You know it's not balanced, it's juggling, it's it's juggling. You're just constantly juggling and it's uh, it. It could. It could get stressful, uh, especially if your your music is unorganized. If you're unorganized just as a person in general, right, but if your music library is unorganized, which our music library is constantly getting worked, there's constant additions to it, there's constant cleanup to it. Yeah, there's constant tagging to it, whether it be year, whether it be genre, um, sorting, um, everything are are. I'm very ocd on that. It's because it, it's, it's one of those things that'll save me I feel, like if I'm prepared there, I can get myself out of something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can. I can quickly go to the 80s pop and I can quickly identify some bangers in there and I can quickly hit them.
Speaker 2:It's even easy for me that I'm a beginner. I can just go to that folder and look and play.
Speaker 1:It's almost no brainer. The thinking, part of it, part of that thinking, has been taken out yeah now they're still thinking there yes, yes again. You know demograph here, genre, you know your crowd your crowd where you're at in the night. Uh, whatever it may be, there's still plenty to think about, but that removes one component that you have to worry about or think about, you know, and I think that's. I think that separates quite a few DJs.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I think it separates quite a few DJs. Look your DJ that's been doing this for 30 years. Great, great. But guess what? You're still human, you still have a brain and you still forget things yeah, you forget good music.
Speaker 1:You forget a lot of give me. We were in bed last night and I was going through music, working on music cataloging, categorizing, analyzing, analyzing, setting cue points, marking them, color coding them, id tagging them with years and genres, and you know you play some of these music. Man, I forgot all about this song. This song is badass. You know it's a banger, it's a hot song, it's a. This song is pretty fire Like. I remember this song from. You know some know some movie, you know a certain scene in a movie and a lot of songs I can.
Speaker 1:I remember them like that I can hear a song and I'm like, oh, I remember this scene in the movie where this song played, right, um. So, yeah, I, I rely on my library. I do rely on my library and it is backed up it, it's backed up. It's on the cloud, it's on an external drive. I have copies of it. So that's an important component, important component.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:We got the comedy show coming up. Oh, speaking of high school kids, summervin high hit us up yeah my alma mater, right my high school yeah where I graduated from many moons ago. You know, um, and we're gonna be djing their uh grad or their uh. What is it what? What's that night called? Was it formal no uh homecoming homecoming. Okay, we're gonna be dead.
Speaker 1:We're gonna be djing their homecoming dance and it's gonna be fun yeah, I've been working on a lot of music for them yeah you know, and and we talked about this on the most dope podcast at the chewies than when we did that recently, which we haven't talked about either.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:But we talked about. I always find it difficult Clean versions of songs, not only clean as in lyrically, but you also have to be careful with the suggestive part.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah, and in the clean versions don't necessarily filter out the suggestive parts of those songs. So you have to be careful, because nowadays songs are more and more sexualized, more and more.
Speaker 2:You know, just raw kind of, dirty kind of it's more explicit very like, yeah, when we listened to music back then it's like it.
Speaker 1:They were naughty too, but not as you know, look you know what's funny about that. I'm glad you said something about that, because, um, the songs back in our day were very bad too yeah, like, how many licks does it take to get to the center? Worse than that, you know but going way back, yeah, even like white lines. You know it's talking about cocaine. Yeah, you know there's. There's songs, you know like a prayer madonna, madonna, like a prayer. She's talking about fellatio on her knees.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Just listen to them lyrics and it's something that as a kid I didn't pay any attention to it. No, I hate to say it because I feel like I was never sheltered or anything like that, but I was innocent to it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I enjoy music. Back in the days I enjoyed music more because of the beat, the sound um the tempo, not the lyrics no nowadays, I listen to a lot of lyrics. I love lyrics. Yeah, it's the poetry behind the music. Right, and you can catch things in there, whether they're doing a storytelling, playing on words, whether they're saying something nasty, whatever it may be. Like Jessie Reyes, for example, she's playing in the background right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And she talks about milk.
Speaker 2:She does. She needs some milk real, real bad yeah, man, man um but you know, I think kids are still innocent, right, that's not okay though that's not okay.
Speaker 1:Do you want your daughter yelling and singing out I need some milk, real bad. And she thinks she wants to go in the kitchen and get some milk out of the refrigerator. And she don't know what she's talking about.
Speaker 2:And but all of us do and we're like hey, hey, whoa but you can't really say that because they're gonna dig and be like why is this inappropriate?
Speaker 1:why? Why is it called milk mom? Oh man, it's, it's terrible, it's terrible.
Speaker 2:But yes, yes.
Speaker 1:We got more birthdays coming up. Your birthday, summer's birthday, yes yeah, candy, oh yeah, speaking of wellness water. And Joe Candy is Joe's sister their brother and sister, candy's having a birthday party next Saturday that I'll be DJing out there. Originally she just invited us, rsvp'd us right Come out. I'm like cool, you're going to have a DJ out there. She has some DJs in her family.
Speaker 2:I think.
Speaker 1:And she said, no, we're kind of trying to watch the costs.
Speaker 2:I was like, well, well, I got you, then yeah, I'm gonna do it for you.
Speaker 1:I mean, she's been so good to us, like yeah, look, I'm not a free, j I'll cut that shit out. Everybody trying to get that idea right now about gordon's out there, dude djing for free, I don't. Candy is another story. Uh, marion had to have some surgery, both required and elective, and during that recovery process Candy was basically her nurse.
Speaker 1:She came out and did the massages and cleaned her and treated her and took very good care of her. So it's the least we can do. You know, and they've been longtime clients of mine, mine, you know body work clients, friends of the family now, um, we know a lot of the same people, some some of the same events, you know stuff like that. So more than help, more than happy to go out there and dj her 50th, I think, her party okay for her, um, so that'd be good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, steve's calling, let me pause this podcast real quick. Y'all, all right, y'all. Magical moment of pause and record. We are back. Our neighbor Steve called our Rottweilers our little Houdinis.
Speaker 2:And they like to break out.
Speaker 1:They do. They're big enough, obviously being Rottweilers, that they can break a wooden fence yes. And we've had to do some repairs and some reinforcements and things like that. But Steve had just called and said, hey, there's a Rottweiler running around out in the front. I was like, oh shit, and they got out again. So we paused and we run back to the backyard and now both of our Rottweilers are there, miraculously, I know, hanging out, chilling, doing what they're supposed to be doing and not breaking out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but there's been times.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they have multiple times now. We thought we lost one of them permanently but he came back somehow he did.
Speaker 1:It's a very upsetting experience, very bad experience to have it's scary for I hate to say, for me particularly but I have a major love for my dogs. I love my dogs, I love them and you know it's like a family member. For me it's like losing a family member. I don't want to lose my dog. That's my boy, that's my boy. But anyways, we are at about an hour and ten in right now and we haven't even talked about the biggest thing we have to talk about yet yeah we um have been pondering this and thinking about it for quite a while.
Speaker 1:Marion used to do it at one point yes and we are looking to get back into it and grow and possibly become bigger.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Just like everything right, you get into something. You want to grow and get bigger. But we think we are going to be out at the farmer's market very soon.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:When I say very soon, we're probably talking about October, November, because there's a process. There's stuff that we need to get done, ordered by set up, worked out, figured out, but we are going to restart Marion's sandwich company.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So Marion used to have a sandwich company. She used to have a sandwich company. She used to have a sandwich shop, a sandwich truck, a food truck, yes, and she used to sell delicious sandwiches, anything from a cubano to a grilled cheese, to uh, what else?
Speaker 2:like a regular turkey sandwich.
Speaker 1:Panes con pollo.
Speaker 2:Panes con pollo. So my whole plan was I wanted it to be like a culture experience, right Like sandwiches from different regions, yeah. Like I had a torta which was like you know.
Speaker 1:We have to have one of those too.
Speaker 2:It's the Mexican staple right. Of sandwiches, and then I had a Salvadorian sandwich, which is a panas con pollo. And then I had like a grilled cheese with mozzarella sauce.
Speaker 1:Mozzarella sauce.
Speaker 2:I mean right, mozzarella, not mozzarella.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Marinara Sorry.
Speaker 1:Mozzarella is cheese, it is cheese. I guess you could create a mozzarella sauce, though, true.
Speaker 2:Cheese was made out of mozzarella cheese and then with marinara sauce, and so I just want to hopefully get that back up and running, and then we'll have some desserts too Well it's not, hopefully.
Speaker 1:We're going to do it. We've talked about it for a few years, actually, off and on, but just recently we decided you know what we want to dive in. Yeah, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna dive straight into the deep end yeah so we're gonna get our, our pop-up, our canopy, our tables, all of our marketing, all of our logos, all of our marketing, all of our logos, all of our materials. You know everything, all the way down to napkins.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Right Sandwich presses, heat units, cold units, and we will be out at the farmer's market soon.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Selling just amazing. I say gourmet sandwiches. Right, we talked about this the other night too, about a sandwich experience. It's one thing to go into your kitchen and make a peanut butter and jelly.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's another thing to make a ham and cheese. It's another thing to go to Subway, right, and then it's another thing to go to a cafe or a restaurant that sells lunch, that has, you know, decent sandwiches.
Speaker 1:This is going to be all of those elevated yeah right, this is going to be more of a gourmet posh and and we're not talking about price uh, we're not raking people. We're not going to rake people over the coals. We're not going to over, uh, we're not raking people. We're not going to rake people over the coals. We're not going to overprice any of our things. You know, we're doing it because we love it, yeah, and we want to share it and experience it and and you know, gives us another thing to do, yet another thing to do, yeah, um, so we're gonna, we're gonna be smoking our own briskets, smoking our own meats, smoking our cheeses. We'll have a brisket sandwich out there. We'll have a few different options on sandwiches and we will sell out. We're just going to. I mean, that's not being cocky. That's not being cocky, it's a level of confidence in our abilities and our product and everything else.
Speaker 2:They will sell out.
Speaker 1:You know, the main two that are probably going to sell out every time are going to be the panas campoyo and the brisket.
Speaker 1:It's going to be hard to beat those two. Yeah, you know they're going to be the panas campoyo, yeah, and the brisket. It's going to be hard to beat those two. Yeah, you know, um, they're going to be an experience. You know, this is not store-bought shit, it's not. You know, there's going to be a lot of craft and love and preparation and, uh, everything's going to be homemade yes, you know um from the slaw to the yeah, everything homemade yeah.
Speaker 1:Everything, yeah, Everything. It's going to be an experience. You know we have some names we're thinking about. You know we got some names for sandwiches we're thinking about. We're going to be working probably with Stacy soon on the digital aspect and on the marketing and on the logos and Menus, everything else aspect and on the marketing and on the logos and everything else.
Speaker 1:The print shop or quick quality, quick custom signs, or whoever we'll be looking at for the print shops out in Delano, they do elevates, all of elevates, graphics and design and all of their stuff. So I had talked to them when they were here about canopies and stuff like that. They do everything.
Speaker 2:We have a guy here in town too that did our Beats Over the City sign.
Speaker 1:Correct QCS, which I mentioned.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I heard Delano so I was like I didn't know what it was called the print shop is Delano, quality Custom Signs is Bakersfield.
Speaker 1:Okay, so yeah, we're going to be looking at doing that and going from there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it'll be a great, great new little venture. We have so many.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we do. You know I love doing new things, I love the new challenge, I love getting things and growing things and developing things and watching them grow and seeing them grow and develop and the work behind it. Of course, the money that comes with it, but also the pain.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You know, as morbid or strange as that may sound, you know that's a part of the experience. Yeah, you know we were talking. You know, if we're at the farmer's market on Sundays and we have weddings or Havana's or anything else on Fridays and Saturdays, we're going to be a couple of tired motherfuckers.
Speaker 2:They are.
Speaker 1:You know we're going to have to smoke meat all night until the next morning, you know, in certain situations, yeah, you know, in certain situations. You know, of course, I'm going to have technology with my smoker and everything and I'm gonna have bluetooth and it's going to be networked to my, you know, our house and our infrastructure and you know, and I'll be able to monitor things and do things remotely and I'm probably be able to leave meat on there, you know, letting it.
Speaker 2:you know, 250 for 14 hours or something right, yeah, um you know what I'm excited for, what the pos system oh, like clover, or square or something because I know you're gonna make that so immaculate oh yeah, that's gonna be there's gonna be five buttons.
Speaker 1:There's five sandwiches, five chips, five drinks. Keep it simple. I want anybody that goes there and, you know, eventually works for us, because that will happen as well. You know, a brick and mortar, whatever it may be, will probably happen. Yeah, I want it to be efficient for anybody that comes in and experiences us. I want it to be efficient experience for the customer and I want it to be an efficient experience for the employee. So, yeah, we'll have all that nailed down and figured out and everything. That's not a big deal. That's going to be pretty easy.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:We'll have a little POS system, we'll have some solar generators out there powering everything, so everything will be nice and quiet. You know, professional, clean, quote unquote eco friendly. If you're, you know, a big person about environmental stuff, which you know I think we all need to be somewhat. You know we have, we have kids and grandkids and things of that nature that you know we have to leave a nice earth for so little things that we can do the. You know whether it be a solar generator.
Speaker 1:And then you know, then somebody is going to be listening to this podcast and they're going to say you know how much lithium ion it takes to dig up in the earth and how it's coming from Africa. And we're doing this to people and we're doing this to people. Look, we're all trying our best and if it's slightly better than another method, then at least we're progressing in the right direction. And as technology advances, you know, hopefully the materials and things of that nature that are needed to be used for these batteries or whatever else are minimal or negligible or, you know, completely solar paneled or whatever it may be.
Speaker 2:But uh, but I guess you have to think about it in a positive way, right, even though they're digging up that stuff in africa, it's a job well, but are these people getting exploited, right?
Speaker 1:is it more of a slavery thing than it is a job where we can support our families kind of comfortably, right? So that's where that part comes in. You know, conflict diamonds, blood diamonds, you know, or lithium, ion phosphate, whatever these batteries are made of, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, these phones that we have in our hands, and you know these road casters and all of this technology, and you know everything that these batteries in our hands and you know these road casters and all of this technology, and you know everything that these batteries in our laptops and everything else. Obviously, it's all coming from somewhere and we're not ignorant to that fact.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And we're not turning blinds eyes, you know, to those facts. We're just doing the best we can, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, wow, all right, all right, all right what all right, what we're.
Speaker 1:An hour and 20 minutes in all, right, an hour and 20 in. We've been talking for a while, y'all, and uh, we appreciate you guys tuning in and just keeping up with us and you know being interested in our lives. You know being interested in our lives, you know if you are, you know if you like the soap opera that the Baldrige household is, you know, and all the stuff that we're into and everything else. But, yeah, we're going to go ahead and call it here, guys. We appreciate you guys tuning in. Again, it's an hour and a half of your time that you know if you're listening to it throughout the day, or on your lunch or on a break or whatever else. And you know, I hope you got some laughs out of it, I hope you got some insight, I hope you know some entertainment, whatever it may be, um, but we love y'all, we appreciate y'all, um, and we'll catch you on the next one yes, bye, guys.