Heart-Shaped Pizzas, Wedding Dinner Tracks, and the Banger Calculator Idea

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What's up everybody.

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Welcome to Beyond the DJ Booth Podcast.

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I'm Brian B, one of the co-hosts.

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Yeah, that's good to buy beyond the dj boothcom valentine's week coming up what you and ashley doing.

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I'm guessing you don't really think about that stuff too far in advance, did you?

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no no, actually we do a tradition.

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We started this in new york because, man, when we moved to new york, everybody and their mother's going out to dinner, and it's an arm and a leg, bro.

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It's so expensive, right?

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I don't know how I got lucky with this, but we do a pizza spot.

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Oh, that's so easy, Like just so easy.

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We try to do a different one Last year.

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I feel like it was one of our better ones.

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We were going to go to this.

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I don't even have to make a reservation, just go right, right so then I'm like, dang, okay, we can't do that one so then I googled and we went to vix italian restaurant.

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It's good, it's solid, yeah it's like city market.

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I told you it was gonna slap it was.

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It's like got the cobblestone stuff.

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There's like a bunch of wedding dresses that are on that same street for whatever reason.

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There's a wedding venue in the middle of it, is it?

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Yeah, okay, yeah Solid.

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If you ever come to Raleigh, shout out Vicks, shout out Vicks.

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It's a good spot.

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It's a great call your Valentine's tradition or what you're thinking.

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I'll let you think about that.

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Circle back.

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Valentine's Day.

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I'm going to say nothing, I'm going to go nothing on the day.

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You don't even do flowers.

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Do you do flowers?

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I would do pickup flowers, publix pre-made bouquet.

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No delivery, no Fallons.

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No Fallons.

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Nah, shout out Fallons Good spot.

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I don't do the inflated roses package.

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I would do a flower pickup at Publix on the way home with maybe, like a delicious filet, mignon grill out night.

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I would never go out on Valentine's Day, nor do I think I would be ostracized by her for that.

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Okay, now I know that they aren't by blood, but that's true, two little girls that ashley has right.

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She has daughters, right I feel like I have to because it's like I mean, she is blood.

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So I gotta do it, but like daughter right?

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do you think you're gonna do anything there?

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Have you done it yet?

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no, what am I supposed to do?

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What are you doing?

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so I get her like one of those candy things that's like a heart shaped right, something like hershey's kisses.

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Yeah, something, something, okay, I'll do that.

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You want me to do that?

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I think you should.

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Okay, I will.

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What about for my punk ass son?

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Nothing right, that's a, that's a hard pass.

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Yeah, no man, they're terrible.

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Give them like some kind of like text message.

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That's just super like girly and just love you guys, right, you know, or?

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Go get them one of those cards from hallmark like those super sentimental ones, yeah, or get them someone is a gift from god a birth child, or the other thing you do is just go like get them some kind of underwear that's like valentine based and just send it to them in the mail like boxers with hearts on them yeah, that's genius.

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I might do that just to be an ass no, and then they'd probably eventually wear them because they run out of laundry, you know, because they don't ever do their laundry.

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Yeah, well, I came up with, uh, some songs, yeah yeah, we've done music in a while we talked about forgetting bangers.

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A couple episodes ago forgotten bangers but this might not be bangers from that standpoint, but just like good love songs that you're thinking of the playing at a wedding maybe, or like ones that you just are like in the bag, that not every dj is playing, or something that you just but not necessarily a ballad.

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Yeah, it doesn't have to be.

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You think my girl's a ballad I do.

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Interesting, because down here it's not I mean from the standpoint of if someone said hey, can you play a slow song?

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That would be something I would play.

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Yeah, not here, it's not slow enough right, I mean a lot of people shag to it here.

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Okay, and I'm not talking about humping like shag, like the beach music dance.

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So similar tempo.

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But I'm curious if you classify this.

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Would you say let's stay together by Al Green's ballad?

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See, I was going to say that was going to be one of my choices.

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Let's stay together.

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Al Green, same tempo.

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I would play it for the same crowd, but you, absolutely not.

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Not here.

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Give me an example I'm thinking out loud like Ed Sheeran.

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Okay, so like literally no yeah.

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Right Like 50 beats per minute.

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Yeah, you're barely getting a pulse, right.

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I keep coming up with that Is it?

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Let's get married?

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The original.

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I feel like you were just going to come up with that, thinking out loud dude, Are you even playing that anymore?

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I can't because of that whole like man don't bring that up.

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I can't play it because of that like literally, when that lyric comes up, I'm like, is everybody else thinking it?

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Like I'm thinking it?

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I had to ban that song 86th, unless someone asked if you have to go, if you have to pull a ballad, though in a two or three hour dance set, what are you gonna pull?

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current track, or it doesn't matter wonderful world, oh, louis armstrong.

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I feel like that one's iconic.

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You can't go wrong with that.

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Yeah, I hate it, it's literally less than two minutes.

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I know I always go nasty like at the end of the night, like I always go.

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Let's get it on or I haven't played that one, either I haven't played them in a while either.

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I mean, those used to be go-to's for me, but I haven't played them.

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People get pregnant out there but you consider those both ballads.

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Let's's get it on, I do Okay, yeah, no, it's not sexual healing, I'm just playing on that one.

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Yeah, so what would be a ballad for you?

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We're on Valentine's songs still.

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Is that what you classify these?

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As all ballads, the ones you've came up with, or just great love songs?

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I?

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think we've already mentioned mine, I mean.

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I will still play Thinking Out Loud, going to slow dance to it.

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Okay, but it's a good floor.

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Opener Dinner just ended.

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Oh, I ate too much pot roast or whatever.

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Who serves pot roast?

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You must be in the South.

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Nobody serves pot roast here, I'm just playing Meatloaf.

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I definitely play.

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Let's Get it On as a ballad.

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What else do we play, saquon?

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We rarely play ballads, country stuff.

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Thomas Rhett Die a happy man.

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Die a happy man.

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For whatever reason, I have an affinity for that Tennessee whiskey.

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I love Stapleton.

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What's his other one?

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Joy of my life, my dad.

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I can't.

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My sister and my dad used to play that song.

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Really.

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It just fucking destroys me.

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The other night I was cooking and I go, hey, google play Chris Stapleton, and they go to that first and I was like I'm done.

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Might as well.

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Just burn the whole damn food up.

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Dude, I was like I'm done, I can't do that one.

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I don't even have a ballads folder.

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Do you no?

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Maybe we should make a ballads crate.

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Maybe we should.

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I came up with five songs though.

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Okay, shout out, brian, let me see here.

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I'm going through my music right now.

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This is off season and if you're not doing this, you might want to consider doing it.

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Looking through this generation of brides, they graduated three or four years from high school, so I'm looking at anything from like 2015 on for the most part.

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Here's what I was thinking the other day.

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What is the metric or what is the formula that mean you could come up with for what decade of music is going to hit the hardest for your client this weekend?

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So, for example, the girl I met with today.

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She said we've been together forever, we have two kids.

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We just never got married.

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They were late thirties.

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What is the decade for a 37 year old bride and groom that's going to hit the hardest on the dance floor?

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What's the era of life that they grew up in that you think that music is the hardest?

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Early dance floor.

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What's the era of life that they grew up in that you think that music hits the hardest?

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Early 2000s.

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So if you're 37, you think early 2000s is going to hit the hardest?

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Yeah, because you got to think about it Like they were in college.

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So it's 2025 now, so you're backing off 20 years, yeah yeah, yeah, so 37 minus 20, they're 17 years old in 2005.

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Yeah, I would be looking at like 21 to 24.

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Like what were they listening to when they were 21 to 24 years old?

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I feel like high school is more.

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More poignant or more memorable.

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When I go back and I think about.

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I'm literally trying to like, like.

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I think this would be a good little calculator app or something to have.

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Don't steal my idea.

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I just put it out there to the world.

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Now everybody's going to make an app that does this.

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It's called the banger calculator or whatever and you type in the couple's age.

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Well, it's always high school into college, right?

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I mean, yes, I guess I'm just asking you.

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So, like right now, I'm looking at it as most of my couples, because I do ask this question on our forum like when did you graduate high school?

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Yeah, I'm getting a lot of those.

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Your couples are 23, 24 years old.

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Yeah, a lot of them I'm not getting 30-year-olds Because.

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I thought the median age had gone up, I mean maybe a bit.

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I mean, most of them are that 2016 to 2020 in that range of graduating.

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I haven't really focused on that era of music to look for songs.

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I'm sorry I sidetracked you.

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I also can't get this melody out of my head, is it this?

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That's let's Get Married.

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The non-remix.

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This is what I was trying to come up with.

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Jagged Edge, yes, you don't fuck with this.

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Not that this is sexual.

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It's a little urban, hold on.

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Let me just let it's a little urban, that's right.

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Hold on, let me just let it ride for a second.

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That's a pass.

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Hold on, man Just hear the first.

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I'm out in the first five seconds.

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I know, wait man, I'm trying to make a baby over here.

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Hold on, here we go.

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Is that a karaoke version?

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How long is that intro?

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This is too slow.

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You ain't never played, but you've never played this version.

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I haven't, but it's a ballad.

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I'd be pissed if you played that version Over the remarkable edit.

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What?

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if I played a little bit of that, you're slow dancing.

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I mean, if you mixed into it and then I went into You're gonna go ape over that part of it.

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That's good Make an edit.

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That's what I kept trying to say.

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That's good, make an edit, I'll do it.

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That's what I kept trying to say.

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That was what I kept trying to think of.

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Yeah, I guess, man, you know that song better than I do, bro I think I've probably had my son to that.

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What year did that come out Like 98, probably.

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Okay, okay, sorry, you were still in the clubs back then.

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I was still in the club.

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Maybe another bullet out there that I'll know about running around.

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So here's one for you.

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I actually got a clip.

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This came out in 2014.

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Okay, this is one of their I wouldn't say underrated songs.

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Probably this is One Direction Night Changes.

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Okay, are you playing this?

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No, but I would, I think during dinner.

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Okay, but I would I think during dinner is a good one.

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I'm just going to hit it from the chorus.

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Let me hear it.

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Great song, good tempo, great song.

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It's a sing-along but not a dance song.

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No, great song.

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I think the most talented member of 1D oh, it's Harry, don't you think?

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Yes, but I do have an honorable mention of Zayn.

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Okay, zayn's my dog, that's my guy, but I mean, harry's my real dog, but, like Zayn, honorable mention.

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Styles is definitely the dude.

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Great song, by the way, and good dresser, great dresser.

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She got him laced up now a lot of artists release acoustic versions of their songs.

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Okay, I don't know if you're playing this one 2020, justin bieber but this version you're probably not playing this without dancing Like the original, but this acoustic version hits.

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What'd you do?

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He released it.

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You like Bieber oh.

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I love Bieber.

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I love him Especially like this stuff, I don't care.

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Some of his other tracks Bieber or Timberlake.

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If you had people in Justin gun to your head, I don't know, man, that's a toughie.

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What If you had people in Justin gun to your head?

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I don't know, man.

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It's a toughie.

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What would you do?

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I'm going to go.

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Yeah, of course you would, but he's on the way out, bro.

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Stop it.

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Dude, come on, stop it.

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He hasn't put out a good record in how long.

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Come on, he's due, he's due A light 10 years.

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All right Until.

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I Found you the reverb on the vocal.

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Let me hear it.

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I mean, that is a great flow.

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I think I'm freaking out.

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I don't know something about this.

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I never liked it Really.

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I thought you would like it.

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I do like those throwbacks.

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It was coming on the radio when I was waking up in the morning, you know, because I wake up to regular FM.

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Yeah, I didn't really like that era of music, whatever that kind of doo-wop, yeah, like when billy joel come on, I fuck with ellis, saquon, k sand elvis.

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He said the community doesn't like ellis.

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Well, I can see that.

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I can see that I like it.

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We let saquon speak for the entire black.

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Go ahead, all right.

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Even when billy joe went through that whole doo-wop movement, I wanted to kill him Really.

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Yeah, I hated those songs.

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Oh man, like Uptown Girl, really.

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Oh, it's so bad, it's so bad.

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The only one of his that I didn't like in that era was the Longest Time, oh God.

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It's so.

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So the longest time I think I liked uptown girl because of the video it was christy brinkley, bro.

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Yeah, that was iconic.

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That was probably the only reason why I give that a pass.

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All right, jose gonzalez, heartbeat you playing this one.

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This is 2003.

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It's kind of a cool like alternative indie.

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Oh, I do know this right Good song.

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I've had a lot of good success with it.

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This is a good one.

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Who is this?

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Jose.

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Gonzalez, I do like this yeah right, I don't know, put some of these on your radar.

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Okay, alright, last one, put some of these on your radar.

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Okay.

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All right, last one.

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This one came out this year.

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This is the Moonlight version of Stargazing by Miles Smith.

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Are you playing this, mm-mm?

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Take my heart, don't break it.

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The Moonlight version Love me to my bone.

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It's like 120 something yeah.

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More stuff?

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Not yet.

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This is the same Love me to my bone.

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All this time I've wasted.

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You were right there, all along you and I stalked, as if I get a lot of people sing along.

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It's a twining song, great song.

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Damn dog, we were never strangers.

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That's the last song, damn dog.

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That's the last song.

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Damn dog, what is he doing?

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He's killing us.

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You're a wizard.

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You're a wizard on this.

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Let's do this.

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Let's commit to putting together a Spotify playlist of some of these Ballads, or dinner.

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To me they're different.

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I say dinner because I feel like that's a hard spot.

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Dinner is Dinner.

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To me, though, is is a forgotten art and it needs to be curated properly.

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I'm not saying you have to be mixing, but the songs have to be great.

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I'll make this statement and this is non-controversial.

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It's not even a hot take.

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This is actually just facts.

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If somebody doesn't come up to you one time during dinner and go who is this or I love what you're playing for dinner, you're fucking up.

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I'm going to go that far.

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I agree.

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Would you agree with that, yep?

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Because you're not again, you're not trying to be front and center, you're not trying to, like, steal the show, but you're trying to set this, this mood.

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You're trying to play stuff that's a little bit outside the box, that is setting the vibe, no matter if you're at, and I'll change it depending on if I'm in a barn or a fancy hotel or at the beach.

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Of course, I'll change the songs around a little bit.

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Yeah.

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I mean, I have the tried and trues, but that point of music in the night is very important.

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I agree.

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And if you don't have somebody saying that, something ain't right.

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So look at the camera.

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Yes, let's make the social post.

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What's the word?

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They got to comment in the social media post to get this link, if?

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you want the link to our curated Brian B and Joe Bunn dinner list?

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Comment the word dinner D-I-N-N-E-R Boom.

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We'll get it to you.

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Easy, let's hit up the question.

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Tony the Hitman from Miami Florida, bro Wow, is that the DJ?

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That's scary.

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I don't know.

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Now I feel like we have to answer.

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I don't know, I don't know.

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Is he a wrestler?

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Is he?

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Is he an?

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assassin.

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Wow, this is awesome.

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Are you raising your dj prices or your add-on prices in 2025?

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yes, all of the of the above and, in fact, set up another page yesterday, or 2026.

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I'm getting a lot of inquiries Me too.

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It's crazy.

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What's going on with that?

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I?

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don't know.

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And they're like deep they're like in the fall.

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Don't go out for 2025 pricing.

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Oh, a thousand percent, this is my hot take.

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I out.

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If it's fall of 2026, we tell them our books aren't open.

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Yet what if they go to the joe bun and book him?

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hey, more power to you get lost.

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Yeah, I figure, if we're getting hit up that early, there's going to be a bunch in there that are going to come closer.

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There's a lot of opportunities that could come in that are better opportunities than the standard.

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Like you know, wedding and destined yeah whatever it might be.

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So I I always don't want to lose out on some of those opportunities.

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Where you get a green room, yeah, where you get a green room.

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Get that llama.

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You know what I mean.

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He said a llama.

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I raised the add-on prices, Tony, and the base rate of just four hours and then, which incrementally made the packages go higher.

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How?

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did you arrive at the rate of increase?

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The beauty of having the company to set up the way.

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It is where Randy's kind of my right-hand man is.

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Just he's a sounding board.

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So we had a meeting to start the year.

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Right, we sat right in there and sat on the couch and both of us had our laptops out and I was like, okay, let's look at the pricing.

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We laid it all out on a spreadsheet.

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Okay, ceremony's $5.95.

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Now Can we go to $6.25 without losing business?

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Or $695.

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Can we go up $100 on this?

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I would be hard-pressed to answer that question.

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I mean, $50 is no big deal, but that's what I'm saying.

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But if you do each of these things $50 or $100, then it increases that package price, which is what we're trying to get.

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