Full Transcript for Captain Cork

00:04:07,910 --> 00:04:10,109 been somehow ingraded in the surfing 78 00:04:10,109 --> 00:04:10,549 Shaun: community. 79 00:04:10,750 --> 00:04:11,180 Yeah. 80 00:04:11,310 --> 00:04:12,170 Yeah, that's interesting. 81 00:04:12,170 --> 00:04:15,630 Yeah, there is a kind of like a cool connection between music and surfing. 82 00:04:15,630 --> 00:04:19,269 Besides like, I mean, I've learned about so many bands through surf videos. 83 00:04:19,450 --> 00:04:23,310 When I was a kid, that was definitely like the way that that I got 84 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:25,060 introduced to a lot of awesome bands. 85 00:04:25,355 --> 00:04:27,765 But, um, yeah, let's, I mean, let's jump right into it. 86 00:04:27,825 --> 00:04:32,165 Uh, how does, you know, how do you think music and surfing are related for you? 87 00:04:33,215 --> 00:04:33,885 Cory: This is actually funny. 88 00:04:33,885 --> 00:04:37,105 You said that the first thing that popped into my mind was being a Grom. 89 00:04:37,185 --> 00:04:41,794 I think I was 11 and I was in the parking lot of Ocean Hut Surf 90 00:04:41,794 --> 00:04:44,634 Shop in Lavalette, New Jersey, and they were throwing a concert. 91 00:04:44,905 --> 00:04:47,115 Um, the band was, uh, Oh God. 92 00:04:47,115 --> 00:04:47,715 It was like. 93 00:04:48,829 --> 00:04:51,069 I think or something, but it was straight punk rock. 94 00:04:51,270 --> 00:04:53,880 And we were all moshing in the parking lot of the surf shop. 95 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:57,509 And it was just like, like, that was like my introduction, I guess you can say. 96 00:04:57,550 --> 00:05:00,460 So, yeah, right, right off the rip, surfing and music were hand in hand. 97 00:05:00,479 --> 00:05:01,440 That's awesome, man. 98 00:05:01,510 --> 00:05:03,610 Shaun: Were you a punk rocker like back in the day? 99 00:05:03,849 --> 00:05:04,439 Cory: I was. 100 00:05:04,450 --> 00:05:07,560 So I played drums growing up before I did any electronic. 101 00:05:08,700 --> 00:05:09,270 Interesting. 102 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:10,590 And are you from Lab Violette? 103 00:05:11,310 --> 00:05:12,350 Uh, no actually. 104 00:05:12,350 --> 00:05:15,400 I'm from, I guess technically Basking Ridge. 105 00:05:15,450 --> 00:05:17,090 I moved around a lot when I was younger. 106 00:05:17,150 --> 00:05:20,439 I was born in Morristown, New Jersey. 107 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:22,880 And then the M O R R I S, Morristown. 108 00:05:23,420 --> 00:05:26,180 And then I was able to Move around a lot. 109 00:05:26,180 --> 00:05:30,600 We went to Rhode Island for a quick minute and then back down to 110 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:33,150 Bernardsville, New Jersey And that's where we stayed for a little bit. 111 00:05:33,159 --> 00:05:34,979 So Bernardsville and Basking Ridge is where I'm from. 112 00:05:35,079 --> 00:05:38,130 Shaun: Nice, man, and and right now We're in Atlantic City. 113 00:05:38,130 --> 00:05:39,700 So how long have you been down in this area? 114 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:45,590 Cory: Moved down here the end of summer of 2019 So it's been just over five years. 115 00:05:45,590 --> 00:05:46,110 I want to say. 116 00:05:46,150 --> 00:05:46,550 Nice. 117 00:05:46,570 --> 00:05:47,250 Shaun: Yeah, something like that. 118 00:05:47,455 --> 00:05:48,094 Awesome, man. 119 00:05:48,164 --> 00:05:50,575 Yeah, and so you mentioned you played drums before and that 120 00:05:50,575 --> 00:05:51,985 you do electronic music now. 121 00:05:51,985 --> 00:05:53,365 So how did you get into music? 122 00:05:53,405 --> 00:05:55,265 Mm hmm 123 00:05:55,265 --> 00:05:59,604 Cory: To be honest, I've thought about this a little bit and I feel like 124 00:05:59,604 --> 00:06:04,344 the answer I keep coming back to is my dad My dad is a sober deadhead. 125 00:06:04,655 --> 00:06:08,610 So Just from that alone, he followed them around and did all that. 126 00:06:08,610 --> 00:06:12,719 And it's able to just, in a good mind frame, show me that life, which 127 00:06:12,719 --> 00:06:13,839 has just been wonderful for me. 128 00:06:14,050 --> 00:06:14,750 Oh, that's awesome. 129 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:15,569 Yeah, it wasn't. 130 00:06:15,590 --> 00:06:20,269 Yeah, it was a great introduction into that realm, which then I explored into Led 131 00:06:20,269 --> 00:06:22,159 Zeppelin, the Allman Brothers, Pink Floyd. 132 00:06:22,180 --> 00:06:23,110 I took it all down. 133 00:06:23,170 --> 00:06:24,709 Nice. 134 00:06:24,710 --> 00:06:25,130 Shaun: Nice. 135 00:06:25,130 --> 00:06:27,690 Yeah, I remember listening to a lot of Almond Brothers when I was growing up. 136 00:06:27,690 --> 00:06:30,230 I don't think I, I don't think the dead was around a lot. 137 00:06:30,270 --> 00:06:34,080 It was like Almond Brothers, Cream, uh, that whole thing. 138 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:36,640 So there is a strong sober community. 139 00:06:38,020 --> 00:06:39,559 Oh man, uh, Ginger Baker, right? 140 00:06:39,559 --> 00:06:40,599 He's the drummer for Cream. 141 00:06:40,609 --> 00:06:41,000 I think so. 142 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:41,230 Yeah. 143 00:06:41,260 --> 00:06:42,130 Crazy drummer. 144 00:06:42,469 --> 00:06:47,350 Um, so, uh, There is a strong sober community in the 145 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:49,250 dead, uh, in debt and fish. 146 00:06:49,270 --> 00:06:51,010 Like what, do you remember what that Q that group's called? 147 00:06:51,010 --> 00:06:51,270 I can't remember. 148 00:06:51,580 --> 00:06:53,639 Cory: They all have different names really for fish. 149 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:55,650 It's the fellowship, uh, dead. 150 00:06:55,650 --> 00:06:56,700 It's the warfrats. 151 00:06:56,990 --> 00:06:58,030 There's, there's a whole bunch of them. 152 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:01,989 Basically the like, um, universal rule would be if you're looking for 153 00:07:01,989 --> 00:07:05,250 that environment at a concert, you're looking for a yellow balloon, the 154 00:07:05,250 --> 00:07:06,599 yellow balloon will be your safety. 155 00:07:06,620 --> 00:07:08,629 Interesting.

156 00:07:08,710 --> 00:07:12,229 Shaun: So you can go and enjoy like when people are, you know, usually, uh, you 157 00:07:12,229 --> 00:07:14,159 know, drinking, doing drugs, whatever. 158 00:07:14,170 --> 00:07:16,400 You can go and be sober and hang out with sober friends. 159 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:16,750 Cory: Yeah. 160 00:07:16,750 --> 00:07:19,430 So one of my favorite or my all time favorite jam band 161 00:07:19,430 --> 00:07:20,520 would be the disco biscuits. 162 00:07:20,530 --> 00:07:23,429 A lot of people know that they have a following as well called the digital 163 00:07:23,430 --> 00:07:26,909 Buddhas and you can go and enjoy as well and hang out with the Buddhas. 164 00:07:27,020 --> 00:07:27,740 Shaun: That's awesome. 165 00:07:27,770 --> 00:07:28,400 That's awesome. 166 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:31,170 I, I saw the disco biscuits in Atlantic city at the house of 167 00:07:31,170 --> 00:07:33,019 blues, uh, not that long ago. 168 00:07:33,020 --> 00:07:33,719 I feel like. 169 00:07:34,484 --> 00:07:35,155 Was it last winter? 170 00:07:35,155 --> 00:07:35,984 Was it that long ago? 171 00:07:35,994 --> 00:07:36,794 Yeah, I saw 172 00:07:36,794 --> 00:07:39,575 Cory: them when they came here too, but I think that's when it was. 173 00:07:39,575 --> 00:07:41,414 It was a good night, that's what I remember. 174 00:07:42,715 --> 00:07:45,755 Shaun: So, uh, how did you get into, you said you played drums growing 175 00:07:45,755 --> 00:07:49,575 up, was that, and your, and your dad, um, when did you start making music? 176 00:07:49,605 --> 00:07:50,785 When did you start playing the drums? 177 00:07:50,795 --> 00:07:51,825 So, 178 00:07:51,915 --> 00:07:53,115 Cory: oof, that's actually a good question. 179 00:07:53,115 --> 00:07:58,485 When I started playing the drums, it was probably around like seven ish, maybe? 180 00:07:58,605 --> 00:07:59,455 First instrument? 181 00:07:59,515 --> 00:08:01,155 Yeah, the only instrument, actually. 182 00:08:01,165 --> 00:08:02,955 My hands are too small to play a guitar. 183 00:08:03,505 --> 00:08:08,470 I try, they're just like, I have chubby fingers, so So all I can 184 00:08:08,470 --> 00:08:09,880 really do is chug on a guitar. 185 00:08:10,230 --> 00:08:11,860 Um, but yeah, so I played drums. 186 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:13,750 I always just kind of messed around with them. 187 00:08:13,780 --> 00:08:16,710 And then in high school, actually, no, I was in eighth grade. 188 00:08:16,719 --> 00:08:17,650 My friends were in high school. 189 00:08:17,650 --> 00:08:18,619 I hung out with an older crowd. 190 00:08:19,060 --> 00:08:20,830 They started a band. 191 00:08:20,919 --> 00:08:24,969 Um, so I started playing, I guess you can say, I never really played normal drums. 192 00:08:24,969 --> 00:08:27,940 I played heavy metal and hardcore screamo music. 193 00:08:28,050 --> 00:08:28,920 That's all I ever drummed. 194 00:08:29,070 --> 00:08:31,640 Did you learn like in the school band or how did you learn how to play? 195 00:08:31,670 --> 00:08:34,610 No, just by year I tried taking a drum lesson once and I've 196 00:08:34,610 --> 00:08:35,509 never really been good with it. 197 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:39,940 Learning stuff when someone's like trying to show it to me my my best 198 00:08:39,940 --> 00:08:42,750 avenue is to get my hands on it and just kind Of figure it out from there. 199 00:08:42,940 --> 00:08:46,689 Yeah, so that's what I did and for some reason I got blessed with hearing I can 200 00:08:46,689 --> 00:08:49,629 hear music really well like to this day. 201 00:08:49,630 --> 00:08:51,379 I'll actually admit to the listeners. 202 00:08:51,409 --> 00:08:53,515 I can't read music I can't. 203 00:08:53,755 --> 00:08:54,125 Okay. 204 00:08:54,135 --> 00:08:54,485 But. 205 00:08:54,495 --> 00:08:54,965 Me neither. 206 00:08:55,385 --> 00:08:55,635 Right? 207 00:08:55,635 --> 00:09:01,514 But if I listen to a three minute song, I could probably play back at least a 208 00:09:01,514 --> 00:09:05,295 minute and a half, if not two minutes of whatever drum part pretty quickly. 209 00:09:05,655 --> 00:09:05,975 Wow. 210 00:09:05,985 --> 00:09:06,305 Yeah. 211 00:09:06,795 --> 00:09:07,344 Wow, that's amazing. 212 00:09:07,344 --> 00:09:09,554 Like maybe listen to it one other time just to make sure I had the 213 00:09:09,554 --> 00:09:11,024 fill right or something, but yeah. 214 00:09:11,175 --> 00:09:11,564 Wow. 215 00:09:11,574 --> 00:09:13,675 So I don't know how I got, it worked out on that end, but. 216 00:09:14,074 --> 00:09:14,625 That's awesome. 217 00:09:14,635 --> 00:09:15,515 So I stuck with that. 218 00:09:15,515 --> 00:09:20,184 And then making music, I actually, uh, uh, we'll, we'll get into this. 219 00:09:20,184 --> 00:09:20,304 Yeah. 220 00:09:20,305 --> 00:09:20,319 Awesome. 221 00:09:20,609 --> 00:09:23,660 Topic, but I lived in Texas for a little while in Austin, Texas. 222 00:09:23,660 --> 00:09:25,949 And that's where I started making music. 223 00:09:25,949 --> 00:09:27,350 I haven't made music in a while. 224 00:09:27,350 --> 00:09:32,140 I'm actually just starting that again now because my, uh, I had a bad laptop. 225 00:09:32,749 --> 00:09:35,009 I just didn't have the right equipment to do it. 226 00:09:35,010 --> 00:09:38,619 And I couldn't use free software where I just couldn't save my stuff. 227 00:09:38,620 --> 00:09:40,920 And it's just buy your stuff, people buy your stuff. 228 00:09:41,050 --> 00:09:41,439 Shaun: Yeah. 229 00:09:41,500 --> 00:09:41,660 Yeah. 230 00:09:41,660 --> 00:09:44,310 It definitely does make life a lot easier when you can do that for sure. 231 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:46,449 Even though I use this, uh, the. 232 00:09:46,795 --> 00:09:49,564 Software I used to edit the podcast is Reaper. 233 00:09:49,575 --> 00:09:50,255 It's a free to, 234 00:09:51,455 --> 00:09:53,214 Cory: oh dude, I use Rekordbox to DJ. 235 00:09:53,215 --> 00:09:54,345 That's free to download as well. 236

00:09:54,345 --> 00:09:54,915 You can buy it. 237 00:09:56,085 --> 00:09:58,904 If you have, if they say you should buy something, you should probably buy it. 238 00:09:58,955 --> 00:09:59,155 Shaun: Yeah. 239 00:09:59,155 --> 00:10:00,935 I just keep hitting that still evaluating button. 240 00:10:02,914 --> 00:10:04,454 Cory: I just keep re downloading it anyway. 241 00:10:04,455 --> 00:10:05,214 So it's all good. 242 00:10:07,115 --> 00:10:08,785 Shaun: So, uh, so yeah, get into it. 243 00:10:08,805 --> 00:10:09,975 When did you move to Texas? 244 00:10:09,975 --> 00:10:13,435 Like, so how did you get from New Jersey to, so you're playing drums. 245 00:10:13,755 --> 00:10:17,015 metal, uh, and stuff like eighth grade high school. 246 00:10:17,375 --> 00:10:17,755 Is that your sign? 247 00:10:17,775 --> 00:10:18,015 Cory: Yep. 248 00:10:18,025 --> 00:10:18,375 Yeah. 249 00:10:18,375 --> 00:10:18,929 So. 250 00:10:19,819 --> 00:10:23,090 Uh, yeah, probably through, let's call it like sophomore year of high school. 251 00:10:23,130 --> 00:10:30,110 And then after that was, uh, my life took a left turn for a little while. 252 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:35,570 Um, I always overindulged on things my whole life and for 253 00:10:35,570 --> 00:10:37,039 a phase it was substances. 254 00:10:37,050 --> 00:10:39,350 So I got into the opiate phase for a little while. 255 00:10:39,350 --> 00:10:42,510 So drumming took a left, surfing took a left, backseat and all that. 256 00:10:42,950 --> 00:10:45,000 Um, so it got me into Texas was rehab. 257 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:49,089 I just had some, had some issues in the, my father being sober. 258 00:10:49,089 --> 00:10:49,289 Yeah. 259 00:10:49,395 --> 00:10:52,515 was, uh, knew some connections and got me to a pretty good place out there. 260 00:10:52,685 --> 00:10:53,035 Wow. 261 00:10:53,075 --> 00:10:53,485 Yeah. 262 00:10:53,555 --> 00:10:56,585 When, when did you, uh, so like what, how old are you? 263 00:10:56,585 --> 00:10:57,375 Like when this happened? 264 00:10:57,645 --> 00:10:57,904 All right. 265 00:10:57,915 --> 00:11:01,175 So this is where I'll have to sound weird for a minute. 266 00:11:01,175 --> 00:11:02,314 So I'm 32 now. 267 00:11:02,345 --> 00:11:04,085 I was 20 when that happened. 268 00:11:04,085 --> 00:11:06,005 So I don't know what year that would have been. 269 00:11:06,005 --> 00:11:08,944 I guess that would have been like, what, 2011 ish, something like that. 270 00:11:09,015 --> 00:11:09,314 Yeah. 271 00:11:09,314 --> 00:11:11,655 But so you were 20 when that was after high school. 272 00:11:12,775 --> 00:11:14,704 Somehow, um, I got through high school. 273 00:11:14,704 --> 00:11:15,495 I got my GED. 274 00:11:15,545 --> 00:11:16,375 I didn't graduate. 275 00:11:16,425 --> 00:11:19,535 Um, I missed too much school cause I used to take the, why do 276 00:11:19,535 --> 00:11:20,935 I need to go to school category? 277 00:11:20,935 --> 00:11:22,424 I'm not doing school stuff anyway. 278

00:11:22,444 --> 00:11:26,414 So, uh, and then ended up in Texas without, you know, all the 279 00:11:26,425 --> 00:11:29,514 useless details, you know, that happened, went to Texas and then 280 00:11:29,905 --> 00:11:32,714 spent six months in a treatment facility that was a wonderful place. 281 00:11:32,754 --> 00:11:36,980 And then I, moved into their, if you want to call it halfway 282 00:11:36,980 --> 00:11:40,063 house program, which was just an apartment block in Austin, Texas. 283 00:11:40,063 --> 00:11:40,636 Okay. 284 00:11:40,636 --> 00:11:41,740 It was pretty cool. 285 00:11:41,740 --> 00:11:44,489 I got a job at a bistro there and life started getting pretty good. 286 00:11:44,490 --> 00:11:48,769 And then I met a few friends that were musically inclined and one of 287 00:11:48,769 --> 00:11:51,419 them was a DJ and his name was Zach. 288 00:11:52,090 --> 00:11:54,070 And we just started hanging out a lot. 289 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:57,790 Um, I met my friend Andrew, who we got an apartment together with, 290 00:11:57,850 --> 00:12:02,230 and Zach would just bring over his CDJs, the old ones, the, these are 291 00:12:02,230 --> 00:12:04,090 just when the 2000 Nexus came out. 292 00:12:04,090 --> 00:12:07,660 So for anyone who was a CDJ head, it was like just when the two thousands 293 00:12:07,660 --> 00:12:10,570 went over to the Nexus model and I got to learn on those, he just 294 00:12:10,570 --> 00:12:12,540 bring 'em to my house and show me. 295 00:12:12,570 --> 00:12:13,710 'cause he played drums as well. 296 00:12:13,710 --> 00:12:16,110 So he'd be like, think about it in the sense of when you do a four 297 00:12:16,110 --> 00:12:17,640 beat on drum or an eight beat. 298 00:12:17,670 --> 00:12:21,310 Put that into the wavelength bars and he showed me how to break it 299 00:12:21,310 --> 00:12:23,979 down and I just kind of transferred my knowledge over to that. 300 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:24,369 Shaun: Yeah. 301 00:12:24,369 --> 00:12:26,199 So let's even, let's even back it up even further. 302 00:12:26,199 --> 00:12:26,379 Sure. 303 00:12:26,379 --> 00:12:30,459 So A CDJ is like a turntable, but with the CDs, right? 304 00:12:30,459 --> 00:12:31,074 Is that what it's exactly, 305 00:12:31,239 --> 00:12:31,479 Cory: yeah. 306 00:12:31,479 --> 00:12:36,160 So, and then nowadays they don't, I mean, to be honest, I think they still take CDs. 307 00:12:36,340 --> 00:12:36,850 CDs. 308 00:12:36,850 --> 00:12:37,960 I truly am not even the one to know. 309 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:39,370 I've never tried to load a CD into one. 310 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:40,420 I've been on the USB drive. 311 00:12:40,625 --> 00:12:44,385 So I'm a youngin as far as DJs are concerned. 312 00:12:44,865 --> 00:12:49,005 I don't know the days of carrying crates into shows with vinyl on vinyl records. 313 00:12:49,795 --> 00:12:51,525 I haven't done that struggle. 314 00:12:51,974 --> 00:12:52,944 Shaun: Have you ever done that? 315 00:12:52,945 --> 00:12:53,875 Have you ever done vinyl? 316 00:12:53,974 --> 00:12:54,515 No, and I've 317 00:12:54,554 --> 00:12:56,994 Cory: thought about it, but truth be told, I respect that. 318 00:12:56,994 --> 00:13:00,505 I have a friend of ours, actually, a local guy in the area, His name's 319 00:13:00,505 --> 00:13:02,295 Christian and he plays as DJ Lousy. 320 00:13:02,305 --> 00:13:05,615 He does some vinyl stuff and it's beautiful to watch. 321 00:13:05,615 --> 00:13:08,575 It's something I get mesmerized from because I'm just like, I 322 00:13:08,585 --> 00:13:10,814 don't know how people do that. 323 00:13:10,814 --> 00:13:12,564 You know, like it's a totally different realm. 324 00:13:12,604 --> 00:13:14,305 It's completely different from what I understand. 325 00:13:14,425 --> 00:13:14,795 Yeah. 326 00:13:15,125 --> 00:13:15,755 Most likely. 327 00:13:15,775 --> 00:13:18,105 You know, like I've never actually put my hand on it to tell you how different 328 00:13:18,105 --> 00:13:21,385 it is, but it looks like an art form. 329 00:13:21,385 --> 00:13:22,055 It truly does. 330 00:13:22,064 --> 00:13:23,454 Like, I think what I do is cool. 331 00:13:23,485 --> 00:13:24,824 That, that looks super cool. 332 00:13:24,895 --> 00:13:25,295 Shaun: Yeah. 333 00:13:25,365 --> 00:13:25,745 Cory: Mm 334 00:13:25,745 --> 00:13:25,795 Shaun: hmm. 335 00:13:26,005 --> 00:13:28,035 Now, were you listening to electronic music? 336 00:13:28,035 --> 00:13:30,885 How did you get into it, uh, like, to want to play it? 337 00:13:30,925 --> 00:13:34,645 Cory: You know, I, I hate to admit it, but it kind of just came around the 338 00:13:34,655 --> 00:13:39,395 time of, I started doing bad things, and those type of environments, it's 339 00:13:39,395 --> 00:13:42,596 fun to do bad things in, you know, and Like club, that type of thing? 340 00:13:42,596 --> 00:13:45,885 Yeah, yeah, so think like, whatever, think ecstasy and then think clubs, right? 341 00:13:45,974 --> 00:13:47,494 You take ecstasy, where do you want to go? 342 00:13:47,494 --> 00:13:49,775 You want to go hear loud music, and what kind of music do you want to hear? 343 00:13:49,775 --> 00:13:51,395 Something that'll keep you going for six hours. 344 00:13:51,655 --> 00:13:53,925 The only thing that keeps you going for six hours is electronic music. 345 00:13:53,984 --> 00:13:55,295 Yeah, it's just kind of the way it is. 346 00:13:55,810 --> 00:13:57,089 The Grateful Dead's not going to do it. 347 00:13:57,099 --> 00:13:57,599 Not really. 348 00:13:57,599 --> 00:13:59,790 I mean, Grateful Dead works great with psychedelics, but at some 349 00:13:59,790 --> 00:14:02,779 point with other stuff, you're just kind of like, not, yeah. 350 00:14:04,029 --> 00:14:04,599 Makes sense, yeah. 351 00:14:04,599 --> 00:14:08,540 So then, I don't know, like, trying to think, ooh, ready? 352 00:14:08,540 --> 00:14:09,249 I just remembered. 353 00:14:09,519 --> 00:14:12,339 Deadmau5 was the first EDM concert I ever saw.

354 00:14:12,430 --> 00:14:12,680 Yeah. 355 00:14:12,680 --> 00:14:17,700 At the Montclair State Theater in, oh my god, it was like 15, I think? 356 00:14:17,770 --> 00:14:18,400 16? 357 00:14:18,990 --> 00:14:20,460 And I have to give you props, Joel. 358 00:14:20,540 --> 00:14:25,350 He broke an eight foot part of the drywall ceiling. 359 00:14:25,370 --> 00:14:27,670 He crumbled it because the bass was so loud. 360 00:14:28,210 --> 00:14:29,010 I'm not kidding. 361 00:14:29,010 --> 00:14:31,399 There is proof of it on my Facebook way back. 362 00:14:31,419 --> 00:14:35,410 It was I was standing in the top and it literally fell and it felt 363 00:14:35,410 --> 00:14:37,859 like the the like the ground shook. 364 00:14:37,890 --> 00:14:39,804 And I was like, oh, that seemed a little out of place. 365 00:14:39,845 --> 00:14:43,185 Abnormal to me and I turned around and it legitimately was the ceiling crumbling. 366 00:14:44,445 --> 00:14:46,235 Shaun: So heck yeah, dead mouse from the rip. 367 00:14:47,235 --> 00:14:50,654 Did you, at that point, did you think like, Oh, maybe I want to do this someday? 368 00:14:50,654 --> 00:14:52,734 Or maybe I want to make this kind of music or no, 369 00:14:52,734 --> 00:14:55,715 Cory: I never even like truly the electronic life never. 370 00:14:56,060 --> 00:14:58,630 looked like something I wanted to do until I was in Texas. 371 00:14:59,250 --> 00:15:01,260 It just looked like a party scene to me. 372 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:03,839 I never really thought anything past it. 373 00:15:03,859 --> 00:15:08,219 And then when I was in Texas, um, my friend Zach showed me that I actually 374 00:15:08,219 --> 00:15:09,849 had a purpose being in those clubs. 375 00:15:09,849 --> 00:15:13,050 And like, I kind of did, I found the same interest I did with, um, 376 00:15:13,069 --> 00:15:16,349 drumming, like the same kind of like passion where like, I wanted to play 377 00:15:16,349 --> 00:15:19,209 drums repeatedly, same thing, DJing. 378 00:15:19,209 --> 00:15:20,420 I wanted to just keep playing music. 379 00:15:20,810 --> 00:15:22,709 It's really all I personally want to do. 380 00:15:22,709 --> 00:15:26,220 I don't, I don't, Think I'm going to make it into like the million dollar 381 00:15:26,220 --> 00:15:27,720 famous category, you know what I mean? 382 00:15:28,030 --> 00:15:30,680 But if I get to play really good music with a bunch of my friends and have 383 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:31,960 fun, that's great That's, that's kind 384 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:32,550 Shaun: of the goal, right? 385 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:33,530 That's awesome, man. 386 00:15:33,660 --> 00:15:34,810 Yeah, that's really cool. 387 00:15:35,090 --> 00:15:38,570 So how, and I mean, just on that, I mean, you've played some pretty 388 00:15:38,570 --> 00:15:40,540 cool venues here in the area. 389 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:45,889 Um, you played our pizza party for Global Pizza Day 20 Bolognese. 390 00:15:45,889 --> 00:15:49,189 We 100 22nd every year. 391 00:15:49,190 --> 00:15:49,899 Let's go. 392 00:15:50,150 --> 00:15:53,599 Yeah, I think we did the count, uh, and at PizzaDao, PizzaDao. 393 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:56,329 xyz, if you want to check it out, or GlobalPizzaParty. 394 00:15:56,330 --> 00:16:02,720 xyz, um, we throw the world's largest pizza party every year since 395 00:16:02,740 --> 00:16:07,169 2021, and I think we had more than 10, 000 participants last year. 396 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:08,010 Cory: That's insane. 397 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:08,400 Yeah. 398 00:16:08,450 --> 00:16:09,840 That's literally insane. 399 00:16:09,860 --> 00:16:12,220 10, 000 people were down for PizzaDao, that's nuts. 400 00:16:12,220 --> 00:16:12,620 Shaun: Yeah. 401 00:16:12,690 --> 00:16:13,870 Yeah, all over the world. 402 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:15,790 Let's go. 403 00:16:15,790 --> 00:16:22,300 And I think we had, uh, 14 cities in India, and we want to double 404 00:16:22,300 --> 00:16:23,380 that for this upcoming year. 405 00:16:23,380 --> 00:16:25,350 So like, we're just trying to get bigger and bigger every day. 406 00:16:25,500 --> 00:16:25,570 It's 407 00:16:25,570 --> 00:16:26,110 Cory: going to be great. 408 00:16:26,439 --> 00:16:28,819 10 years from now, it's going to be like 200, 409 00:16:28,820 --> 00:16:29,209 Shaun: 000. 410 00:16:29,210 --> 00:16:30,170 That would be nuts. 411 00:16:30,530 --> 00:16:32,379 Then we'll definitely be in the Guinness world records. 412 00:16:32,410 --> 00:16:32,550 Yeah. 413 00:16:32,550 --> 00:16:33,160 We're going to Italy. 414 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:33,789 If that happens. 415 00:16:33,790 --> 00:16:34,910 Yeah, absolutely. 416 00:16:35,019 --> 00:16:35,789 Absolutely. 417 00:16:36,449 --> 00:16:37,219 So you played that. 418 00:16:37,219 --> 00:16:40,160 I mean, you, you've played some pretty cool venues here in the area. 419 00:16:40,310 --> 00:16:40,730 Um, 420 00:16:40,990 --> 00:16:43,990 Cory: I've played some pretty cool ones in the U S in general, 421 00:16:43,990 --> 00:16:45,370 but specifically around here. 422 00:16:45,380 --> 00:16:45,589 Yeah. 423 00:16:45,589 --> 00:16:46,900 I've played some, some pretty cool ones. 424 00:16:46,900 --> 00:16:47,500 I've been blessed. 425 00:16:47,750 --> 00:16:48,160 Shaun: Yeah. 426 00:16:48,229 --> 00:16:53,895 Um, Any, so did you immediately start doing like club stuff back in the day? 427 00:16:53,895 --> 00:16:55,564 Were you just learning how to do it? 428 00:16:55,564 --> 00:16:59,025 Like, what was the progression from, okay, I'm having fun with this. 429 00:16:59,035 --> 00:17:00,575 I'm creating music too. 430 00:17:00,865 --> 00:17:03,214 I'm going to DJ at a, at a venue. 431 00:17:04,494 --> 00:17:05,534 That's a good question. 432 00:17:05,734 --> 00:17:08,639 Cory: I gotta, I gotta think back to the beginning of the Texas days. 433 00:17:10,099 --> 00:17:15,080 Just guessing off what I'm feeling is the right answer to that is it was Zach. 434 00:17:15,100 --> 00:17:17,550 We

played as a group in Texas. 435 00:17:17,550 --> 00:17:18,549 I never played alone. 436 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:22,109 And I want to say if my memory serves me right, it was all him. 437 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:26,389 He had the drive and he knew the promoters and was doing his own DJ thing 438 00:17:26,390 --> 00:17:27,769 when he kind of brought me into it. 439 00:17:28,130 --> 00:17:32,200 And we kind of just played well together and just, he brought me along. 440 00:17:32,220 --> 00:17:36,680 So I think it was, I want to say a pool party was the first time I ever 441 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:37,789 played in front of people with him. 442 00:17:38,360 --> 00:17:39,980 Something local, maybe like 20 of us. 443 00:17:40,030 --> 00:17:45,710 And then the next one was, uh, he brought me to, uh, memory, right? 444 00:17:45,780 --> 00:17:48,060 We played at a club called V lounge. 445 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:49,320 I don't even know if it's still there. 446 00:17:49,620 --> 00:17:52,450 And it was to open up for a band called the bloody beat roots. 447 00:17:52,460 --> 00:17:54,550 If anyone remembers who they are, they are legends. 448 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:56,419 They DJ in venom masks. 449 00:17:56,540 --> 00:17:57,189 Oh, okay. 450 00:17:57,230 --> 00:17:57,739 They're awesome. 451 00:17:57,950 --> 00:18:02,649 Um, we got to open up for them and that was the, the hurdle from hanging out 452 00:18:02,649 --> 00:18:07,600 at my house playing to at a pool party to that was a legitimate club and bar. 453 00:18:07,950 --> 00:18:11,850 Shaun: And how much time between like you first get into it, first learn how to DJ 454 00:18:11,909 --> 00:18:13,579 to like that pool party and then that. 455 00:18:14,645 --> 00:18:17,055 Cory: Um, six months tops. 456 00:18:17,155 --> 00:18:17,455 Okay. 457 00:18:17,475 --> 00:18:18,825 Yeah, it was, it was pretty quick. 458 00:18:18,825 --> 00:18:21,765 It was maybe like two, three months, two, three months. 459 00:18:21,765 --> 00:18:23,545 We played together just messing around. 460 00:18:24,404 --> 00:18:26,065 The pool party was all of us just hanging out. 461 00:18:26,065 --> 00:18:27,295 I want to say around month four. 462 00:18:27,315 --> 00:18:31,635 And then right after that was like five weeks, six weeks of practice. 463 00:18:31,644 --> 00:18:33,804 And then that gig, and then from there it went. 464 00:18:34,995 --> 00:18:35,945 We went all over. 465 00:18:35,955 --> 00:18:38,115 He was able to get us booked. 466 00:18:39,215 --> 00:18:41,735 I've played in every city in Texas except Dallas. 467 00:18:41,815 --> 00:18:42,145 Oh wow. 468 00:18:42,145 --> 00:18:43,375 I'm very blessed in that category. 469 00:18:43,384 --> 00:18:43,814 Wow. 470 00:18:43,835 --> 00:18:44,125 Yeah. 471 00:18:44,475 --> 00:18:44,794 It's a big state. 472 00:18:44,794 --> 00:18:45,484 I don't know why, yeah. 473 00:18:45,485 --> 00:18:49,604 I don't know why, never Dallas, but never Dallas. 474 00:18:49,605 --> 00:18:50,225 Interesting. 475 00:18:50,245 --> 00:18:53,744 My favorite venue in Texas was a place called The Silo. 476 00:18:53,825 --> 00:18:56,385 It is an abandoned missile silo in the 5th Ward. 477 00:18:56,465 --> 00:18:56,945 Oh wow. 478 00:18:57,085 --> 00:18:57,655 Yes. 479 00:18:57,765 --> 00:18:58,945 That was epic. 480 00:18:58,995 --> 00:19:04,865 It was abandoned cars, like, um, you know, bonfire status, graffiti on the walls, no. 481 00:19:05,350 --> 00:19:09,620 No roof to the place and the DJ booth was about 15 feet elevated 482 00:19:09,620 --> 00:19:12,050 from the dance floor So you just kind of felt like a badass. 483 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:12,450 Wow. 484 00:19:12,470 --> 00:19:13,360 Yeah, that's so cool. 485 00:19:13,360 --> 00:19:15,460 Yeah, you were just like this is cool It's 3 a. 486 00:19:15,460 --> 00:19:15,650 m. 487 00:19:15,650 --> 00:19:16,440 I'm in the fifth ward. 488 00:19:16,460 --> 00:19:18,830 I'm 15 feet above 50 people. 489 00:19:18,869 --> 00:19:19,539 I'm having fun. 490 00:19:19,869 --> 00:19:20,670 Shaun: That's crazy. 491 00:19:20,690 --> 00:19:21,590 Yeah So, 492 00:19:21,659 --> 00:19:22,540 Cory: but it was sketchy, I'll be honest. 493 00:19:22,740 --> 00:19:24,270 Yeah, I guess it's all underground, right? 494 00:19:24,270 --> 00:19:26,460 Oh yeah, yeah, that was the type of place where when we loaded the gear 495 00:19:26,460 --> 00:19:29,260 back in the car at the end of the night, we were escorted by people with guns. 496 00:19:29,330 --> 00:19:31,439 Like, it was like, it's a sketchy area in the 5th Ward. 497 00:19:31,449 --> 00:19:31,949 You know what I mean? 498 00:19:31,949 --> 00:19:33,850 Like, yeah, that wasn't, yeah. 499 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:37,899 It was so fun, but then, like, you kind of remember, like, I'm in Texas, and I'm 500 00:19:37,899 --> 00:19:41,879 in this area that, like, they've made documentaries about this region, like, 501 00:19:41,879 --> 00:19:46,580 legitimate, got, like, National Geographic has done, like, how bad it is down here. 502 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:49,940 You're like, okay, let's get out of here. 503 00:19:50,129 --> 00:19:51,260 Shaun: Wow, that's nuts, man. 504 00:19:51,860 --> 00:19:52,959 Yeah, no, no Dallas. 505 00:19:52,959 --> 00:19:54,770 That's good for the Eagles fans who are listeners. 506 00:19:54,770 --> 00:19:56,590 You know, I think, I think you have to do it out of respect. 507 00:19:56,610 --> 00:19:58,759 No, always, always, always. 508 00:19:58,840 --> 00:19:59,840 So what are you doing? 509 00:19:59,890 --> 00:20:01,570 So how are you, GeckoBirds? 510 00:20:01,940 --> 00:20:06,689 Uh, so like, how are you creating music like with somebody? 511 00:20:06,770 --> 00:20:08,919 You said you're playing with somebody like. 512 00:20:08,959 --> 00:20:10,129 So we just played together. 513 00:20:10,139 --> 00:20:12,810 Cory: We didn't, at that time we weren't making music yet. 514 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:15,110 We started that maybe. 515 00:20:17,024 -->

00:20:19,745 A year after I lived there for just under four years. 516 00:20:20,064 --> 00:20:26,264 So within the first we'll call it for a timeline sake, year one was rehab and 517 00:20:26,284 --> 00:20:31,624 getting reacquainted with myself and Austin year two was learning to DJ and 518 00:20:31,705 --> 00:20:34,004 beginning to play some pretty cool places. 519 00:20:34,485 --> 00:20:39,175 Um, and then year three was how do I actually try and 520 00:20:39,195 --> 00:20:40,115 make some money out of this? 521 00:20:40,135 --> 00:20:41,085 Cause I was 23. 522 00:20:41,270 --> 00:20:43,660 Three or 22 not going to college. 523 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:45,670 So I was like, I need a job, right? 524 00:20:46,580 --> 00:20:48,290 Wasn't trying to flip weed forever 525 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:56,270 Do something real so I was like, okay, that's how we do it And I guess like 526 00:20:56,469 --> 00:21:00,089 how you would like explaining how to create a song like that would be a whole 527 00:21:00,089 --> 00:21:04,570 different podcast in itself But okay, like you would just you start with a 528 00:21:04,750 --> 00:21:08,989 a general Somebody that if you want to work with somebody you'd sit down with 529 00:21:08,990 --> 00:21:13,620 someone whose mindset you You Value or his mindset you can kind of understand 530 00:21:14,020 --> 00:21:17,360 It's the reason why me and Dylan now with weekday underground Sunday double is 531 00:21:17,360 --> 00:21:22,510 what he plays as we play so well together because we both He can be doing something 532 00:21:22,530 --> 00:21:26,760 on a track and in my mind I know where he's gonna go which means I know what I 533 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:30,730 can do to mess with it and make it cooler So are you playing at the same time? 534 00:21:31,090 --> 00:21:32,180 We are okay. 535 00:21:32,190 --> 00:21:33,420 Yeah, so think about it like 536 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:38,760 The best way I could explain it is if there's four CDJs and there's two of 537 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:42,290 us up there, we each have two songs we can play at one time and we battle 538 00:21:42,290 --> 00:21:43,289 our two songs against each other. 539 00:21:43,940 --> 00:21:46,620 I take my two songs and I see if I can make them work with his two songs. 540 00:21:46,730 --> 00:21:47,240 Gotcha. 541 00:21:47,510 --> 00:21:49,480 So all four of these songs are playing at the same time? 542 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:50,150 They can. 543 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:50,580 Okay, gotcha. 544 00:21:50,590 --> 00:21:51,910 That's chaotic as heck. 545 00:21:53,070 --> 00:21:54,010 Doing that is nuts. 546 00:21:54,020 --> 00:21:54,720 People can do it. 547 00:21:54,759 --> 00:21:56,950 It's called chopping when you do all songs at once. 548 00:21:56,990 --> 00:22:00,479 And you're switching the fader from left to right or from your to yours? 549 00:22:01,140 --> 00:22:02,770 So yeah, so you have multiple ways of doing that. 550 00:22:02,770 --> 00:22:04,850 I don't like using the cross fader that way. 551 00:22:04,890 --> 00:22:07,080 I like using the up and down volume fader. 552 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:07,550 Okay. 553 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:10,259 So I just use, say like if I'm going from track one to track two, 554 00:22:10,260 --> 00:22:13,679 I just flip those two, like one up, one down versus like left to right. 555 00:22:13,789 --> 00:22:14,119 Shaun: Yeah. 556 00:22:14,140 --> 00:22:15,390 It's just, that's all preference. 557 00:22:15,449 --> 00:22:15,919 Gotcha. 558 00:22:16,289 --> 00:22:16,809 Gotcha. 559 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:18,920 And so like, what are you doing with this music? 560 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:20,310 Like, what kind of music are you playing? 561 00:22:20,310 --> 00:22:24,530 Like, is it just like deadmau5 style or is it like, I wish, oh my God. 562 00:22:24,790 --> 00:22:27,919 So like when you do that pool party, like what kind of music are you playing? 563 00:22:27,930 --> 00:22:31,389 Cory: So back in the day in Texas, it was all what I guess. 564 00:22:33,430 --> 00:22:38,910 I guess what nowadays would be called the big room or kind of like bouncy stuff. 565 00:22:38,910 --> 00:22:40,500 We played it was called Melbourne Bounce. 566 00:22:40,540 --> 00:22:43,170 I mean, it still kind of is, but that was what I played in Texas. 567 00:22:43,530 --> 00:22:47,270 If you remember the term shuffling, when people would shuffle at EDM 568 00:22:47,270 --> 00:22:49,580 shows, they would just move their feet up and down and like, looks 569 00:22:49,580 --> 00:22:50,740 like they're sliding on the floor. 570 00:22:51,150 --> 00:22:52,410 That was the kind of music we'd play. 571 00:22:52,410 --> 00:22:57,650 Just straight like 130 BPM heavy bass beats, just nonstop, you know, 572 00:22:58,630 --> 00:23:00,029 the same song that sounds like plays 573 00:23:00,029 --> 00:23:01,520 Shaun: for eight hours straight type deal. 574 00:23:01,719 --> 00:23:05,000 And then like, actually, cause like, cause I don't really even know too. 575 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:05,240 Right. 576 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:07,315 Cause you hear people say like, Oh, they're just, They just push 577 00:23:07,315 --> 00:23:08,685 a button and walk away, right? 578 00:23:08,725 --> 00:23:12,595 So like, but you mentioned that you're like, going, uh, that you, when you're, 579 00:23:12,625 --> 00:23:15,885 you're actually like listening to the other person when you're playing together, 580 00:23:16,044 --> 00:23:17,375 and then trying to like play off of it. 581 00:23:17,375 --> 00:23:18,974 So like, what are you doing up there? 582 00:23:18,975 --> 00:23:21,565 Like, what's going on behind the What do DJs actually do? 583 00:23:21,575 --> 00:23:21,845 Yeah, 584 00:23:21,845 --> 00:23:23,905 Cory: what's going on in the cockpit there, you know? 585 00:23:24,325 --> 00:23:25,825 So, that's actually a really good question. 586 00:23:25,885 --> 00:23:27,605 Sometimes we can just press play. 587 00:23:27,635 -->

00:23:29,805 I'm not going to lie to you and say, I don't have the ability to just 588 00:23:29,805 --> 00:23:32,035 press play and just stand up there and look cool for three minutes. 589 00:23:32,254 --> 00:23:33,325 I do have that ability. 590 00:23:33,895 --> 00:23:35,175 Um, I don't do that. 591 00:23:36,625 --> 00:23:40,245 For me, it's more fun because I like to try new stuff. 592 00:23:40,275 --> 00:23:45,055 I like to try and do like the vocals of this Rihanna track over the bass 593 00:23:45,055 --> 00:23:46,635 beat of this Dylan Francis track. 594 00:23:48,255 --> 00:23:52,605 Shaun: And so you pull these samples and have them set up on a board kinda? 595 00:23:52,605 --> 00:23:55,905 Cory: Yeah, so what DJs, I guess what we'd actually do is 80 percent of what 596 00:23:55,905 --> 00:23:58,605 we do is all done before we get up there. 597 00:23:58,635 --> 00:23:58,995 Gotcha. 598 00:23:59,004 --> 00:24:02,215 When I get up there and I plug in my USB, every song that I have up 599 00:24:02,215 --> 00:24:04,315 there has been analyzed, queued up. 600 00:24:04,399 --> 00:24:07,320 And when I mean cute, I just put different points in the song where 601 00:24:07,570 --> 00:24:10,340 I can push a button and go to the beginning, the middle, the end, the 602 00:24:10,340 --> 00:24:14,050 chorus, the drop, the little sketchy vocal part, like whatever I want. 603 00:24:14,409 --> 00:24:17,459 So that way, when I'm up there and let's say you and me are playing, you're 604 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:19,369 bringing in a song that sounds great. 605 00:24:19,820 --> 00:24:24,529 I have an idea that maybe this little vocal part of this song might go good 606 00:24:24,529 --> 00:24:25,949 over the drop you're about to bring. 607 00:24:26,460 --> 00:24:27,590 I load that track up. 608 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:30,320 Hit, bring it up to that point real quick, and then I play 609 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:31,940 it at the same time as yours. 610 00:24:32,030 --> 00:24:32,430 Shaun: Wow. 611 00:24:32,470 --> 00:24:34,310 So you're doing this all in real time. 612 00:24:34,570 --> 00:24:35,130 All in real time. 613 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:38,249 in your library, listening in your library, pulling this 614 00:24:38,250 --> 00:24:39,310 up, the part of the song. 615 00:24:39,330 --> 00:24:42,400 But I've done all the pre work to set all the tracks 616 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:45,860 Cory: up and cue them up so that I don't have to load this track and 617 00:24:45,860 --> 00:24:49,250 then spin the CDJ and search for the part of the song that I want. 618 00:24:49,300 --> 00:24:49,820 Gotcha. 619 00:24:49,820 --> 00:24:53,400 It's all just at my fingertips and I can do it, but none of it is set 620 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:57,145 where like, I know what you're going to do, so I know what I'm going to do. 621 00:24:57,145 --> 00:24:58,805 Like, no, we have no idea what you're doing. 622 00:24:58,815 --> 00:25:00,915 You have no idea what song you're sitting on right now or

623 00:25:00,915 --> 00:25:01,795 what you're going to do next. 624 00:25:01,795 --> 00:25:03,865 And I don't know either, but we're going to figure it out. 625 00:25:03,874 --> 00:25:04,314 Shaun: Wow. 626 00:25:04,374 --> 00:25:05,925 That sounds like the hardest way to learn. 627 00:25:06,285 --> 00:25:07,075 You're going to learn how to do this. 628 00:25:07,075 --> 00:25:08,004 It's just really fun to me like that. 629 00:25:08,015 --> 00:25:08,565 Now, granted, 630 00:25:08,565 --> 00:25:09,965 Cory: that's not preparing a set. 631 00:25:09,965 --> 00:25:13,845 Like, uh, you know, to go up there, if you're doing something really important, 632 00:25:13,855 --> 00:25:16,915 like if you were playing at one of the big casinos or something, I would sit down. 633 00:25:17,205 --> 00:25:19,255 And prepare a set, you know what I mean? 634 00:25:19,255 --> 00:25:21,395 You'd want to make sure that I want to make sure the songs that 635 00:25:21,405 --> 00:25:24,715 I play are songs that you want to hear as an audience member. 636 00:25:24,715 --> 00:25:26,735 That's the most important part of being a DJ. 637 00:25:27,055 --> 00:25:28,505 Nobody cares what I'm really doing up there. 638 00:25:28,505 --> 00:25:31,175 As long as you're having, that's the point of being a DJ is to create the 639 00:25:31,175 --> 00:25:35,805 environment and the lifestyle and to get you the experience and that you 640 00:25:35,905 --> 00:25:37,495 are paying for, that you want to have. 641 00:25:37,515 --> 00:25:37,885 Yeah. 642 00:25:37,905 --> 00:25:41,395 You don't care if I'm, you know, double clicking this button or 643 00:25:41,395 --> 00:25:42,765 doing that to bring in this. 644 00:25:42,765 --> 00:25:44,375 You just, you don't want it to suck. 645 00:25:45,395 --> 00:25:46,025 Basically, right? 646 00:25:46,254 --> 00:25:47,195 Shaun: Yeah, totally. 647 00:25:47,495 --> 00:25:50,925 And this is a good segue too, because you are playing a casino coming up. 648 00:25:50,925 --> 00:25:50,944 We 649 00:25:50,945 --> 00:25:51,445 Cory: are. 650 00:25:51,595 --> 00:25:51,905 Shaun: I did 651 00:25:52,155 --> 00:25:52,865 Cory: secretly do that. 652 00:25:53,875 --> 00:25:54,304 We are. 653 00:25:54,335 --> 00:25:56,074 Me and, uh, we've been blessed. 654 00:25:56,074 --> 00:26:00,065 The Dose Twins have asked me and the Weekday Underground Boys, 655 00:26:00,074 --> 00:26:01,444 shout out Weekday Underground Boys. 656 00:26:01,454 --> 00:26:05,764 So me, Sam Wise, Big Booty Keto, Big Body. 657 00:26:05,764 --> 00:26:06,535 I always said Big Booty. 658 00:26:06,535 --> 00:26:06,875 I love you buddy. 659 00:26:07,335 --> 00:26:10,835 Big Body Keto and Sunday Double are going to open up for the Dose 660 00:26:10,835 --> 00:26:12,945 Twins, uh, oh my God, December 28th. 661 00:26:13,740 --> 00:26:16,470 at Harris pool day party, daytime party. 662 00:26:16,470 --> 00:26:18,760 So from noon to five, that's good for me. 663 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:19,790 That's my speed, right? 664 00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:20,980 Dude, my mom's coming. 665 00:26:20,980 --> 00:26:21,950 It's going to be a good time. 666 00:26:21,950 --> 00:26:24,180 All the family men bring, it's going to be a family friendly event. 667 00:26:24,230 --> 00:26:24,650 Shaun: That's awesome. 668 00:26:24,650 --> 00:26:24,910 Cory: Kind 669 00:26:24,910 --> 00:26:25,090 Shaun: of. 670 00:26:26,379 --> 00:26:27,110 So, uh, 671 00:26:27,129 --> 00:26:28,800 Cory: is this your first time playing in a casino? 672 00:26:28,910 --> 00:26:30,390 It's my first time playing in anywhere big. 673 00:26:31,465 --> 00:26:31,955 like that. 674 00:26:32,014 --> 00:26:35,004 Um, I've played a few different places that I really like, like me and Dylan 675 00:26:35,004 --> 00:26:36,855 got to play at Nodo in Philadelphia. 676 00:26:36,895 --> 00:26:37,855 That club was pretty cool. 677 00:26:38,475 --> 00:26:42,654 Um, but my favorite venue I got to play at was a place called the cavity and 678 00:26:42,684 --> 00:26:46,045 explaining that would take forever, but all you need to know is if you know 679 00:26:46,054 --> 00:26:49,235 what the cavity was, we're going to hopefully Do it again because I want to. 680 00:26:49,235 --> 00:26:50,055 That place was insane. 681 00:26:50,095 --> 00:26:50,675 Nice, man. 682 00:26:50,675 --> 00:26:51,455 We need to make another one. 683 00:26:51,455 --> 00:26:52,585 It was just an art installation. 684 00:26:52,585 --> 00:26:53,505 We got to DJ in. 685 00:26:53,515 --> 00:26:54,365 In Atlantic City? 686 00:26:54,395 --> 00:26:54,625 Yeah. 687 00:26:54,675 --> 00:26:54,895 Yeah. 688 00:26:54,895 --> 00:26:56,914 If we could have another art installation that I somehow get to 689 00:26:56,915 --> 00:26:58,834 DJ in, gosh, that would be insane. 690 00:26:58,995 --> 00:27:01,325 Shaun: Did you DJ at the, uh, the James? 691 00:27:01,344 --> 00:27:03,464 Were you, did you, I know I went there with you. 692 00:27:03,465 --> 00:27:04,455 Or did I go there to see you? 693 00:27:04,455 --> 00:27:04,464 That's it. 694 00:27:04,464 --> 00:27:05,124 That's the cab, yeah. 695 00:27:05,124 --> 00:27:05,574 Oh, yeah. 696 00:27:05,575 --> 00:27:06,194 Okay, nice. 697 00:27:06,194 --> 00:27:06,484 Yeah. 698 00:27:06,485 --> 00:27:06,585 If we 699 00:27:06,585 --> 00:27:07,725 Cory: can do that again, dude, let's do it. 700 00:27:07,745 --> 00:27:09,695 Shaun: Yeah, that was such a, that was an amazing venue. 701 00:27:09,785 --> 00:27:10,115 Yeah, 702 00:27:10,115 --> 00:27:12,975 Cory: obviously we'll never recreate that place is one of a kind, but like, 703 00:27:12,975 --> 00:27:16,045 just the idea of like having some sort of art installation, like, uh, 704 00:27:16,565 --> 00:27:20,015 all right, for local listeners, Lucy, I've had this idea that I want to DJ 705 00:27:20,025 --> 00:27:22,604 inside Lucy throw a party in her belly. 706 00:27:22,685 --> 00:27:23,205 There you go. 707 00:27:23,214 --> 00:27:23,855 How dope would that be? 708

00:27:23,855 --> 00:27:25,605 Lucy's a giant elephant, 709 00:27:25,615 --> 00:27:26,525 Shaun: like structure. 710 00:27:26,605 --> 00:27:29,865 I think you could do it from the how to from on top and have the party 711 00:27:30,115 --> 00:27:32,055 outside downstairs and just like, I 712 00:27:32,055 --> 00:27:33,085 Cory: just want to do it inside. 713 00:27:33,125 --> 00:27:33,425 Yeah. 714 00:27:33,425 --> 00:27:34,015 At nighttime. 715 00:27:34,725 --> 00:27:35,715 There's not a lot of space in there. 716 00:27:35,815 --> 00:27:36,175 I know. 717 00:27:38,645 --> 00:27:41,514 But, uh, but yes, tickets for Harrah's are pretty cheap. 718 00:27:41,584 --> 00:27:43,715 So it's like 10 or 15 bucks, I think. 719 00:27:43,784 --> 00:27:44,254 Shaun: Awesome. 720 00:27:44,344 --> 00:27:45,145 That's amazing. 721 00:27:45,455 --> 00:27:47,645 Uh, December 28th, what day of the week is that? 722 00:27:47,844 --> 00:27:48,245 Saturday. 723 00:27:48,294 --> 00:27:48,965 Okay, nice. 724 00:27:49,284 --> 00:27:49,804 That's great. 725 00:27:49,965 --> 00:27:51,124 Should That's awesome, man. 726 00:27:51,125 --> 00:27:54,844 So, uh, what are some of the other venues that you played around here that you like? 727 00:27:54,844 --> 00:27:57,705 You mentioned the Cavity, but, um, and the Pizza Party, of course, 728 00:27:57,705 --> 00:27:58,769 but like Pizza Party's a good one. 729 00:27:58,770 --> 00:28:00,180 Yeah, I've definitely I've seen you. 730 00:28:00,190 --> 00:28:03,330 It's so amazing because I've seen you play at our friend Steve's 731 00:28:03,330 --> 00:28:05,080 birthday party down the street here. 732 00:28:05,120 --> 00:28:05,670 That was fun. 733 00:28:05,730 --> 00:28:08,410 You know, and then I've seen you play at the cavity. 734 00:28:08,460 --> 00:28:11,009 I think I saw you at, you played anchor rock club before 735 00:28:11,079 --> 00:28:12,110 Cory: I have played anchor a few times. 736 00:28:12,110 --> 00:28:12,330 Yeah. 737 00:28:12,409 --> 00:28:12,789 Yeah. 738 00:28:12,810 --> 00:28:14,209 Very blessed in that area as well. 739 00:28:14,369 --> 00:28:17,679 The no trope family has been gotten me on there a few times. 740 00:28:18,380 --> 00:28:21,700 Um, we're actually going to be doing that again to, uh, 741 00:28:21,700 --> 00:28:23,010 week two underground starting. 742 00:28:24,215 --> 00:28:27,225 Second Thursday of every month at Anchor Out Club, we'll be having an event. 743 00:28:27,465 --> 00:28:27,905 Nice. 744 00:28:27,905 --> 00:28:29,075 So feel free to come out for that too. 745 00:28:29,075 --> 00:28:29,715 Yeah, it's free. 746 00:28:29,805 --> 00:28:30,815 All those will be free. 747 00:28:30,835 --> 00:28:31,165 Second Thursday. 748 00:28:31,185 --> 00:28:35,545 It's for second Thursday of every month starting 2025 nice rock free 749 00:28:35,545 --> 00:28:35,865 Shaun: show. 750 00:28:35,915 --> 00:28:38,025 So what is, uh, what happens at that show? 751 00:28:38,025 --> 00:28:39,305 You're just up there DJing. 752 00:28:39,395 --> 00:28:39,744 Cory: Yeah. 753 00:28:39,744 --> 00:28:42,864 So for, for those, like I won't always be DJing, so we'll have some of like 754 00:28:42,864 --> 00:28:47,115 the other part of the family go, but yeah, we'll just, we'll just try and 755 00:28:47,125 --> 00:28:50,114 go and have fun that we just want to create a community and environment 756 00:28:50,115 --> 00:28:51,804 that people want to be a part of. 757 00:28:51,875 --> 00:28:55,004 Like it sucks when you don't feel like you're a part of something. 758 00:28:55,675 --> 00:28:57,785 So why not something to be a part of? 759 00:28:58,145 --> 00:29:00,635 Shaun: What was that show where they had? 760 00:29:01,325 --> 00:29:06,315 the documentary on playing behind the DJ and then you got the the silent disco 761 00:29:06,335 --> 00:29:10,325 headphones so that you could where they had the big couches at anchor rock club 762 00:29:10,665 --> 00:29:12,705 Cory: oh my god yeah um 763 00:29:12,975 --> 00:29:15,464 Shaun: what was that thing was that was one of the coolest i was 764 00:29:15,465 --> 00:29:17,135 trying to describe that to people 765 00:29:17,145 --> 00:29:17,635 Cory: yes 766 00:29:17,905 --> 00:29:22,305 Shaun: it was like we got there early and they brought in all these giant couches 767 00:29:22,335 --> 00:29:27,185 and like oversized so like me and lee at one point we're sitting in one of those 768 00:29:27,185 --> 00:29:32,675 like chaise lounges yeah and uh yeah and then I saw people with headphones on, 769 00:29:32,705 --> 00:29:36,245 and I saw the documentary, and then at one point I put two and two together, 770 00:29:36,295 --> 00:29:40,104 and then yeah, you put the headphones on, and you can either listen to the DJ, 771 00:29:40,104 --> 00:29:45,485 which is going on in the room, or you can listen to, is it Richard Attenborough? 772 00:29:45,535 --> 00:29:46,050 I guess so, yeah. 773 00:29:46,050 --> 00:29:49,115 Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was like, it was, watch BBC Earth. 774 00:29:49,155 --> 00:29:49,465 It was. 775 00:29:49,715 --> 00:29:51,875 And that was like, mind blowing. 776 00:29:52,135 --> 00:29:53,305 remember that was DJing 777 00:29:53,315 --> 00:29:56,475 Cory: in front of a BBC National, like, freaking documentary. 778 00:29:57,970 --> 00:30:01,030 Shaun: That was honestly one of the coolest, like, surreal experiences. 779 00:30:01,030 --> 00:30:01,380 I'm not gonna lie, 780 00:30:01,380 --> 00:30:02,220 Cory: I kind of forgot we did that. 781 00:30:02,220 --> 00:30:02,920 We should do that again. 782 00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:04,320 That was really, really cool. 783 00:30:04,370 --> 00:30:05,540 Yeah, that was awesome, man. 784 00:30:06,070 --> 00:30:10,740 That was, um, the last winter we did No Trip, did a homie hangout. 785 00:30:10,770 --> 00:30:12,069 That was just like a chill homie hangout. 786 00:30:12,069 --> 00:30:13,200 We did a lineup for that. 787 00:30:13,210 --> 00:30:16,749 Me and, uh, my buddies JD and

Anthony, Double D's and Yuri. 788 00:30:16,940 --> 00:30:17,670 Just played. 789 00:30:17,710 --> 00:30:18,590 We just had a good time. 790 00:30:18,770 --> 00:30:19,620 That's awesome, man. 791 00:30:19,620 --> 00:30:20,470 Yeah, it was a lot of fun. 792 00:30:20,530 --> 00:30:21,540 Shaun: So what's the vibe like? 793 00:30:21,550 --> 00:30:25,090 What's the difference between the Texas vibe and the South Jersey vibe? 794 00:30:25,110 --> 00:30:25,710 Ooh. 795 00:30:25,770 --> 00:30:26,499 And Philly, I guess. 796 00:30:26,500 --> 00:30:27,539 South Jersey, Philly. 797 00:30:27,590 --> 00:30:29,089 Like, you can even differentiate those two. 798 00:30:29,090 --> 00:30:29,620 Ooh. 799 00:30:29,630 --> 00:30:31,490 Cory: That's in You're the first person to ever ask me that. 800 00:30:31,500 --> 00:30:32,430 That's interesting. 801 00:30:32,970 --> 00:30:34,230 I gotta ponder this for a sec. 802 00:30:34,260 --> 00:30:35,380 The difference 803 00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:41,510 Shaun: Because I feel like Texas musicians have a specific style. 804 00:30:41,540 --> 00:30:45,150 Like when I'm thinking of like, I was a big Ben Queller guy in high school and 805 00:30:45,150 --> 00:30:49,290 like that guy was from Texas and like he had a very specific like, even though he 806 00:30:49,290 --> 00:30:53,600 played like an alt rock kind of indie, um, almost like with a punk feel, it 807 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:58,820 was still, you know, Very rooted in like roots rock country rock style, you know, 808 00:30:58,820 --> 00:31:03,140 so I can only imagine that the people Growing up with that as their culture 809 00:31:03,490 --> 00:31:08,399 have a different response to edm music than like philly You know, which is 810 00:31:08,399 --> 00:31:12,599 definitely I think of philly as like big with punk rock and hard rock But then 811 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:13,952 again it had a huge hip hop culture. 812 00:31:13,952 --> 00:31:15,260 I mean the roots are from philly. 813 00:31:15,260 --> 00:31:16,080 So like it's true 814 00:31:16,815 --> 00:31:17,195 Cory: Yeah. 815 00:31:17,345 --> 00:31:17,515 Shaun: Yeah. 816 00:31:17,515 --> 00:31:18,565 So what do you see out there? 817 00:31:18,605 --> 00:31:19,825 Cory: The, I, oof. 818 00:31:20,125 --> 00:31:24,525 The difference I guess I would see is music out there just in general. 819 00:31:25,245 --> 00:31:30,645 Is on a freaking pedestal music is so important is as important as God and 820 00:31:30,645 --> 00:31:36,204 football in Texas I swear to God it is you especially in Austin like Sixth 821 00:31:36,204 --> 00:31:40,235 Street is the main street where all the bars are and it's just a line and every 822 00:31:40,235 --> 00:31:45,505 single bar you walk down you get You can go country music rock music EDM rap You 823 00:31:45,505 --> 00:31:50,505 could go, you know chilled coffee shop and back to country You just have so many 824 00:31:50,505 --> 00:31:55,310 of every option you could ever think of You And they'd let everybody play like, 825 00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:58,020 like they have open mics all the time. 826 00:31:58,020 --> 00:32:00,050 They have pop ups in the park all the time. 827 00:32:00,050 --> 00:32:03,630 They have like, it's just, it is a music scene or it was, I 828 00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:05,409 have not lived there since 2015. 829 00:32:05,430 --> 00:32:09,270 So I can't, you know, it's been nine years, but when I was there, it was to 830 00:32:09,270 --> 00:32:11,440 go to Zilker park to play disc golf. 831 00:32:11,450 --> 00:32:15,340 The odds of you seeing a pop up music, like drum circle or was. 832 00:32:15,985 --> 00:32:21,685 Nine out of ten times, you know, like it's just it was so ingrained versus Here 833 00:32:21,685 --> 00:32:27,264 was not like that as much but I feel like it's becoming like that now It's showing 834 00:32:27,264 --> 00:32:31,534 a lot more of the same like there are music events going on three at least three 835 00:32:31,535 --> 00:32:35,955 nights a week in Atlantic City now It's not just big casino things happening at 836 00:32:35,955 --> 00:32:37,405 you know, the giant nightclubs there. 837 00:32:37,405 --> 00:32:40,770 It's stuff You know, Union Hall Arts right next to Tony's. 838 00:32:40,770 --> 00:32:41,010 Yeah. 839 00:32:41,180 --> 00:32:44,160 Or there's stuff going on, like popping up on the boardwalk. 840 00:32:45,270 --> 00:32:46,070 I know my buddy J. 841 00:32:46,070 --> 00:32:46,230 D. 842 00:32:46,230 --> 00:32:48,169 does random pop up silent discos. 843 00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:48,720 Oh, cool. 844 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:50,650 Literally popping up at Gardner's Basin one time. 845 00:32:50,650 --> 00:32:51,400 Just going ham. 846 00:32:51,459 --> 00:32:52,060 Like, wow. 847 00:32:52,079 --> 00:32:52,399 Yeah. 848 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:55,399 Like there's it's starting to create that environment. 849 00:32:55,460 --> 00:32:56,380 I absolutely love it. 850 00:32:56,710 --> 00:32:56,979 Yeah. 851 00:32:56,979 --> 00:32:58,259 It just brings people together. 852 00:32:58,620 --> 00:32:59,300 Shaun: That's awesome, man. 853 00:32:59,430 --> 00:33:02,800 I grew up here and we never really had like a strong music scene. 854 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:06,570 There was like Bubba Mack's Shaq in Ocean City and like, 855 00:33:06,780 --> 00:33:08,829 you know, um, Bubba Mack's Shaq? 856 00:33:08,859 --> 00:33:09,239 Yeah. 857 00:33:09,239 --> 00:33:09,519 Oh yeah. 858 00:33:09,580 --> 00:33:11,580 Bubba Mack was a blues guitarist. 859 00:33:11,580 --> 00:33:13,099 It was like, he kind of looked like Jerry Garcia. 860 00:33:13,109 --> 00:33:14,360 He had like, I'm going to have to look this guy up. 861 00:33:14,399 --> 00:33:15,450 Oh, he was great, man. 862 00:33:15,450 --> 00:33:15,630 Yeah. 863 00:33:15,630 --> 00:33:18,110 And actually I remember, I can't remember what station it was on, 864 00:33:18,110 --> 00:33:21,790 but you could watch the live, or I don't know if it was recordings of 865

00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:25,800 Bubba Mack playing in Ocean City and like Danny Eyre and all those guys. 866 00:33:26,045 --> 00:33:29,455 On TV, like on like the local public access, you could watch, 867 00:33:29,725 --> 00:33:31,055 you could watch Bubba Max Jack. 868 00:33:31,075 --> 00:33:31,605 Oh, let's go. 869 00:33:31,715 --> 00:33:32,855 Yeah, it was awesome, man. 870 00:33:32,895 --> 00:33:37,194 Uh, and then like when, when casinos first came here, a lot 871 00:33:37,194 --> 00:33:40,984 of area musicians got jobs in the lounges cause the lounges had music. 872 00:33:40,984 --> 00:33:42,115 So that was actually going to be a question 873 00:33:42,305 --> 00:33:42,614 Cory: for you. 874 00:33:42,614 --> 00:33:42,874 Yeah. 875 00:33:42,875 --> 00:33:43,384 Like how were they? 876 00:33:43,535 --> 00:33:44,385 that scene over. 877 00:33:44,395 --> 00:33:47,415 I feel like the lounges would have been like what I saw in Texas as 878 00:33:47,415 --> 00:33:51,055 those little bars that you could just walk in and play at for four people. 879 00:33:51,075 --> 00:33:51,275 Yeah. 880 00:33:51,305 --> 00:33:52,335 It goes probably the same thing. 881 00:33:52,345 --> 00:33:52,615 Shaun: Yeah. 882 00:33:52,615 --> 00:33:55,635 And when I was growing up, there was like, you know, punk was really big and like 883 00:33:55,954 --> 00:33:57,925 there was, I mean we did shows everywhere. 884 00:33:57,925 --> 00:34:00,994 There was a Chinese restaurant, the pearl in summer's point where there used to be 885 00:34:00,994 --> 00:34:04,745 the summer's point circle, which is now that like right by where summer's mansion 886 00:34:04,745 --> 00:34:08,685 is, if you're going like toward towards ocean city, there was a Chinese restaurant 887 00:34:08,685 --> 00:34:11,785 there and we would throw punk shows there and it was literally like, They 888 00:34:11,785 --> 00:34:15,825 kept one room of the dining room open in case anybody wanted to sit down and eat. 889 00:34:15,855 --> 00:34:20,495 And then they just moved tables out of the main area and we just threw shows there. 890 00:34:20,495 --> 00:34:20,749 That's so funny. 891 00:34:20,749 --> 00:34:21,584 It was crazy. 892 00:34:21,804 --> 00:34:21,995 All I think 893 00:34:22,255 --> 00:34:24,285 Cory: about when I hear that is like there's a clip of a heavy 894 00:34:24,285 --> 00:34:25,544 metal band playing at a Denny's. 895 00:34:25,554 --> 00:34:25,964 Yes. 896 00:34:26,615 --> 00:34:28,584 The dude just throws like, what the fuck is up Denny's? 897 00:34:30,385 --> 00:34:32,255 Shaun: That's exactly what it was like, man. 898 00:34:32,655 --> 00:34:32,895 Yeah. 899 00:34:32,895 --> 00:34:35,335 And then there was, there was Duke Max on the boardwalk. 900 00:34:35,375 --> 00:34:36,985 There was like Grand Famage. 901 00:34:37,005 --> 00:34:38,315 There was, um. 902 00:34:39,210 --> 00:34:41,530 It escapes me now on Pennsylvania Avenue. 903 00:34:41,550 --> 00:34:43,600 It'll come back to me, but there was, there was a little club, but 904 00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:45,140 then they, they all kind of died. 905 00:34:45,180 --> 00:34:48,850 You know, it was like, it, it took a lot to get it here because Atlantic 906 00:34:48,850 --> 00:34:50,119 city was never very cultured. 907 00:34:50,119 --> 00:34:52,980 So like they stopped doing the lounges and then the nineties, 908 00:34:52,980 --> 00:34:54,250 it was kind of like a dead time. 909 00:34:54,250 --> 00:34:59,080 And then like the whole, you know, uh, punk rock thing kind of came through and 910 00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:02,740 got a little bit more popular and like the legacy of Bubba Mac and all those guys 911 00:35:02,740 --> 00:35:04,460 continue to play in the area and stuff. 912 00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:08,440 And then, yeah, there was kind of like, You know a dead zone I feel like in 913 00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:12,010 the early 2000s like it wasn't it was like more singer songwriter II kind of 914 00:35:12,010 --> 00:35:16,370 like You know a little bit of punk rock stuff here and there but like it just 915 00:35:16,370 --> 00:35:20,575 kind of like Died out, I guess, you know, and then, uh, you know, of course, 916 00:35:20,575 --> 00:35:23,700 like the beach bars and everything that was popular and stuff like that. 917 00:35:23,700 --> 00:35:24,695 I feel like summer is 918 00:35:24,695 --> 00:35:26,685 Cory: we can really count on like a summer down here. 919 00:35:26,685 --> 00:35:27,574 It's a tourist area. 920 00:35:27,575 --> 00:35:30,435 We all, if you live down here, you know how it goes for three months. 921 00:35:30,435 --> 00:35:31,655 You work, you work hard. 922 00:35:31,935 --> 00:35:32,445 Everything's open. 923 00:35:32,445 --> 00:35:33,524 Everyone's playing everywhere. 924 00:35:33,535 --> 00:35:34,975 Just money, money, tourist, tourist. 925 00:35:34,984 --> 00:35:37,805 Shaun: Yeah, I know guys who like a shout out to Ken Shiles. 926 00:35:37,855 --> 00:35:40,605 Uh, he, he'll play two, three shows a night. 927 00:35:41,035 --> 00:35:42,195 And surf twice as well. 928 00:35:42,215 --> 00:35:42,615 Yeah. 929 00:35:42,765 --> 00:35:43,135 Yeah. 930 00:35:43,135 --> 00:35:43,875 Amazing, man. 931 00:35:43,875 --> 00:35:44,765 I don't know how he does it. 932 00:35:44,765 --> 00:35:46,385 And then he'll go like build a house somewhere. 933 00:35:46,395 --> 00:35:48,125 It's like unbelievable what that guy does. 934 00:35:48,645 --> 00:35:50,605 But yeah, so it's cool to see like Anchor Rock. 935 00:35:50,605 --> 00:35:52,115 The House of Blues was a great spot. 936 00:35:52,115 --> 00:35:54,535 I love the old House of Blues where we saw Disco Biscuits. 937 00:35:54,585 --> 00:35:54,835 Oh, yeah. 938 00:35:56,145 --> 00:35:59,135 But yeah, man, and then like, it seems like now with Anchor Rock Club 939 00:35:59,145 --> 00:36:02,015 being the, the anchor of this all. 940 00:36:02,595 --> 00:36:03,714 Cory: That's a great way to put it. 941 00:36:03,714 --> 00:36:05,585 It really

is becoming that space. 942 00:36:05,585 --> 00:36:09,664 The guys at Shout Out Adam and Greg and everyone over there, like they're doing, 943 00:36:09,944 --> 00:36:11,285 they're doing something special there. 944 00:36:11,295 --> 00:36:13,634 Every show there is amazing. 945 00:36:13,635 --> 00:36:15,804 They just hired a great friend of ours, Shout Out Ali. 946 00:36:15,834 --> 00:36:16,604 He's the cook now. 947 00:36:16,855 --> 00:36:17,470 Yeah, I saw that. 948 00:36:17,470 --> 00:36:18,855 Making bomb food all the time. 949 00:36:20,490 --> 00:36:24,250 It's turning into just what we've always wanted it to be, like the place for us 950 00:36:24,260 --> 00:36:27,430 to hang out and be like, Oh, like I'll stop by anchor on a Thursday night. 951 00:36:27,430 --> 00:36:28,560 Just see what's going on. 952 00:36:28,570 --> 00:36:30,859 Like, I've never said that about any other venue. 953 00:36:30,890 --> 00:36:31,479 You know what I mean? 954 00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:32,440 Like nobody does that. 955 00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:35,080 No one just pops in to say what's up to the staff, but 956 00:36:35,430 --> 00:36:36,219 Shaun: this place we do. 957 00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:41,180 We went the Saturday after Thanksgiving for the night market and yeah, he was 958 00:36:41,180 --> 00:36:44,590 back there, but I was like, what do you, the whole place smelled amazing. 959 00:36:44,620 --> 00:36:44,969 So good. 960 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:46,250 And then I'm like, what? 961 00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:46,919 I walked over. 962 00:36:46,919 --> 00:36:48,830 I'm like, Holly, what, what are you making back there? 963 00:36:48,830 --> 00:36:51,439 And at that point he was making a gobbler for somebody. 964 00:36:51,919 --> 00:36:53,709 So he had the turkey and he asked the guy, he's like, you want 965 00:36:53,710 --> 00:36:55,059 cranberry sauce on here too? 966 00:36:55,059 --> 00:36:55,790 You want gravy? 967 00:36:55,930 --> 00:36:57,770 Like he was putting, making it for him. 968 00:36:57,780 --> 00:36:58,530 Professional as heck. 969 00:36:58,560 --> 00:36:59,350 And then, yeah. 970 00:36:59,350 --> 00:37:02,130 And then, uh, Uh, he was like, Oh yeah, I got this. 971 00:37:02,130 --> 00:37:02,620 I got this. 972 00:37:02,620 --> 00:37:03,070 I got this. 973 00:37:03,070 --> 00:37:04,670 I'm like, geez, man, this is unbelievable. 974 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:07,530 Cory: No, let me shout out to him, man. 975 00:37:07,540 --> 00:37:08,580 He, he deserves it. 976 00:37:08,599 --> 00:37:10,219 It's yeah. 977 00:37:10,219 --> 00:37:13,659 I'm just, I'm stoked to be here and be a part of whatever you want 978 00:37:13,660 --> 00:37:14,819 to call is going on right now. 979 00:37:14,900 --> 00:37:19,109 You know, the community coming back, music getting more popular, gambling, getting 980 00:37:19,109 --> 00:37:22,440 less popular, like whatever it is, I'm happy I'm here and being a part of it. 981 00:37:22,660 --> 00:37:22,910 Shaun: Yeah. 982 00:37:22,910 --> 00:37:25,750 So how do you, so you mentioned like putting together a set earlier, how do you 983 00:37:25,750 --> 00:37:27,810 put together a set for this upcoming show? 984 00:37:27,850 --> 00:37:28,259 Ooh. 985 00:37:28,259 --> 00:37:28,519 Transcribed 986 00:37:29,330 --> 00:37:30,110 Cory: That's a good one. 987 00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:37,090 Um, so the first thing I do is just listen to so much music, so much music. 988 00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:41,480 Um, at the moment I don't have any of my own tracks finished that I can play. 989 00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:46,290 So I'm listening to artists that I like, uh, pull inspiration from trying to 990 00:37:46,290 --> 00:37:49,930 find all the stuff that they have that I think would be super cool to play. 991 00:37:50,460 --> 00:37:55,545 And Then I put that all into a playlist and then I go through that playlist and 992 00:37:55,545 --> 00:37:57,395 try and find the ones that are unique. 993 00:37:57,655 --> 00:38:01,315 I don't want to play something that, this is just me at least, 994 00:38:01,325 --> 00:38:03,314 I don't want to play something you've heard three other DJs play. 995 00:38:03,325 --> 00:38:05,024 I want to play something that your mouth drops and you're 996 00:38:05,024 --> 00:38:06,075 like, what the fuck was that? 997 00:38:07,035 --> 00:38:07,645 That's what I want. 998 00:38:07,655 --> 00:38:08,294 That's my goal. 999 00:38:08,635 --> 00:38:11,544 I want you to be like, holy shit, that was, what? 1000 00:38:11,645 --> 00:38:12,245 What did you do? 1001 00:38:12,315 --> 00:38:13,015 Play that back again. 1002 00:38:13,195 --> 00:38:14,625 Yeah, that's, that's my goal. 1003 00:38:14,625 --> 00:38:18,215 I want to, I want to, you know, make some jaws hit the floor if I can. 1004 00:38:18,225 --> 00:38:19,415 That's awesome, man. 1005 00:38:19,525 --> 00:38:22,355 Or at least play some type of beat you've never heard before that. 1006 00:38:23,090 --> 00:38:26,410 You leave and you sing in your head for the next two days and it strives you to 1007 00:38:26,420 --> 00:38:30,380 go look at you can find that Who that DJ is and then you go invest in that DJ 1008 00:38:30,380 --> 00:38:33,819 and I just helped you find new music You never thought you'd know that's awesome. 1009 00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:38,220 Yeah, so that's that's what I try and do and then with me playing with 1010 00:38:38,229 --> 00:38:44,150 Dylan As far as preparing a set goes, I'll come up with combos of songs. 1011 00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:47,650 For being back to back, you normally trade off. 1012 00:38:47,660 --> 00:38:50,620 We'll just ballpark two to five songs a piece. 1013 00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:51,280 You know what I mean? 1014 00:38:51,290 --> 00:38:51,760 You just tell me, so you 1015 00:38:52,130 --> 00:38:53,319 Shaun: play one, he plays one, 1016 00:38:53,380 --> 00:38:54,550 Cory: or I'll play three. 1017 00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:55,439 He plays three. 1018 00:38:55,500 --> 00:38:55,710 Okay. 1019 00:38:55,710

--> 00:38:56,350 I gotcha thing. 1020 00:38:56,350 --> 00:38:57,040 You know what I mean? 1021 00:38:57,069 --> 00:39:02,500 So what I'll do is make groups of like, I don't know, call it like 15 or 20. 1022 00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:07,800 Combos of like three to four songs that go really well together that I know I can. 1023 00:39:07,830 --> 00:39:08,100 All right. 1024 00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:10,820 This song starts in the F minor key. 1025 00:39:11,155 --> 00:39:14,135 So if he's playing something in F minor, I can be like, cool. 1026 00:39:14,145 --> 00:39:17,805 If I'm coming in, I'll play this combo that starts in F minor and ends in, 1027 00:39:18,265 --> 00:39:22,755 you know, a major or whatever, you know, and then he'll go from there. 1028 00:39:23,445 --> 00:39:24,765 Shaun: How do you know it's in. 1029 00:39:25,115 --> 00:39:26,475 F major, F minor. 1030 00:39:26,475 --> 00:39:27,035 The software. 1031 00:39:27,035 --> 00:39:30,045 I'm not, again, I can't read music so I can't tell like 1032 00:39:30,045 --> 00:39:30,285 Cory: that. 1033 00:39:30,285 --> 00:39:31,565 And my hearing's not that good. 1034 00:39:32,935 --> 00:39:34,465 But yeah, so the software will tell me. 1035 00:39:34,645 --> 00:39:37,114 I use the Camelot wheel, so for me it's numbers. 1036 00:39:37,565 --> 00:39:40,395 Um, it'll be, you know, like it's a 3A. 1037 00:39:41,034 --> 00:39:41,615 You know what I mean? 1038 00:39:41,674 --> 00:39:43,225 Or 7A. 1039 00:39:43,225 --> 00:39:45,845 So like, and those are just, they mimic to different keys. 1040 00:39:46,735 --> 00:39:51,155 For me on like this, the way the CDJ works is if I set my flash drive to 1041 00:39:51,155 --> 00:39:56,465 represent itself in like organized by key, that means if you're playing 1042 00:39:56,465 --> 00:40:00,414 a song in, we'll just call it six a, which is, I don't remember. 1043 00:40:00,414 --> 00:40:02,025 I'm going to say the wrong key. 1044 00:40:02,025 --> 00:40:05,855 I apologize, but you know, call it G or F or G or something like that. 1045 00:40:05,855 --> 00:40:05,955 Right. 1046 00:40:06,345 --> 00:40:08,875 So if it's around a G, that means on my flash drive, 1047 00:40:08,945 --> 00:40:10,845 every song that I have in a G. 1048 00:40:11,085 --> 00:40:13,825 We'll be lined up right next to each other and we'll highlight green. 1049 00:40:14,055 --> 00:40:18,815 OK, I know all of those songs match like tone wise necessarily. 1050 00:40:18,885 --> 00:40:22,555 Maybe not the beat or the song, but I know tone wise they're right in the same area. 1051 00:40:23,065 --> 00:40:26,575 Then it's just a matter of picking and winging it, being like, Oh, all right, 1052 00:40:26,575 --> 00:40:27,705 this one, let's go with this one. 1053 00:40:27,834 --> 00:40:28,154 Yeah. 1054 00:40:28,154 --> 00:40:28,975 And then I try and bring it 1055 00:40:28,975 --> 00:40:29,894 Shaun: in and see if it works. 1056 00:40:30,074 --> 00:40:30,554 Wow. 1057 00:40:30,644 --> 00:40:32,294 And then you

mentioned that you make your own music. 1058 00:40:32,294 --> 00:40:35,837 So what's what's your creation process like for for making your 1059 00:40:35,837 --> 00:40:36,542 Cory: own tracks? 1060 00:40:36,542 --> 00:40:36,894 Foof. 1061 00:40:37,175 --> 00:40:40,895 Shaun: Uh, a lot of listening to the same loop over and over and over again. 1062 00:40:40,985 --> 00:40:43,005 Um, like DJs or any type of 1063 00:40:43,005 --> 00:40:43,405 Cory: music. 1064 00:40:43,405 --> 00:40:43,755 Like, what are you 1065 00:40:43,755 --> 00:40:44,105 Shaun: listening 1066 00:40:44,105 --> 00:40:44,195 Cory: to? 1067 00:40:44,285 --> 00:40:49,265 So for drumming, when I made tracks for like the band, I wouldn't make 1068 00:40:49,265 --> 00:40:53,324 anything until the guitarist wrote the, like the verse and the chorus. 1069 00:40:53,354 --> 00:40:54,915 And then he would just play it to me. 1070 00:40:55,145 --> 00:40:57,675 And I would just kind of like have him go over and over again. 1071 00:40:57,675 --> 00:40:59,395 And in my head just be like, okay. 1072 00:40:59,435 --> 00:41:00,865 And then just start playing something. 1073 00:41:00,875 --> 00:41:03,025 Stop, start playing something else like that kind of thing. 1074 00:41:03,095 --> 00:41:03,425 Yeah. 1075 00:41:03,454 --> 00:41:05,775 Um, for this, it's kind of a similar. 1076 00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:09,620 Mentality, the difference is I'm playing it for myself. 1077 00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:15,530 Like I, let's say you just want to start off with like a simple, you 1078 00:41:15,530 --> 00:41:19,420 know, hi hat drum kick, you know, I don't know, like boom, boom. 1079 00:41:19,990 --> 00:41:21,369 Like think of that, like, yeah. 1080 00:41:21,370 --> 00:41:24,321 You just loop that over and over and over again. 1081 00:41:24,321 --> 00:41:27,863 And then in your head, you're like, okay, what kind of melody 1082 00:41:27,863 --> 00:41:29,338 would sound cool over that? 1083 00:41:29,338 --> 00:41:31,404 Would it be like, dude, you do. 1084 00:41:33,085 --> 00:41:34,444 That probably sounded really weird, but yeah. 1085 00:41:34,444 --> 00:41:35,375 No, no, no, I understand. 1086 00:41:35,415 --> 00:41:35,565 Does that 1087 00:41:35,565 --> 00:41:35,975 Shaun: make sense? 1088 00:41:36,005 --> 00:41:39,335 Yeah, and then are you like, oh, I like this melody from this song? 1089 00:41:39,345 --> 00:41:39,645 Yep. 1090 00:41:39,834 --> 00:41:41,824 Cory: So that would, yeah, be like remixing, right? 1091 00:41:41,825 --> 00:41:44,284 You don't want to steal someone's stuff necessarily unless you're 1092 00:41:44,284 --> 00:41:45,065 going to give them credit. 1093 00:41:45,065 --> 00:41:48,535 Like, I 100 percent am going to do a remix. 1094 00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:51,580 Power Rangers theme song dub mix. 1095 00:41:51,610 --> 00:41:52,120 You know what I mean? 1096 00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:54,330 Like I'm going to flip that, like it's going to be cool. 1097 00:41:54,770 --> 00:41:56,970 But like for that,

like I'm not going to call it anything different. 1098 00:41:56,970 --> 00:42:01,530 I'm going to 100 percent be like, this is a Power Rangers Mighty Morphin in a flip, 1099 00:42:01,610 --> 00:42:07,119 you know, versus like, I could take the theme song, like the general tone of the, 1100 00:42:07,199 --> 00:42:10,030 the, the keys, switch it up a little bit. 1101 00:42:10,060 --> 00:42:12,230 It would sound similar, but wouldn't be the same thing. 1102 00:42:12,240 --> 00:42:12,560 Yeah. 1103 00:42:12,570 --> 00:42:13,180 Could do that. 1104 00:42:13,300 --> 00:42:13,680 Interesting. 1105 00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:14,810 That's always a cool way to do it. 1106 00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:17,930 Honestly, in today's day and age, it's endless, man. 1107 00:42:17,930 --> 00:42:21,350 Any possibility, any thought you have you can create today? 1108 00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:25,730 Shaun: So are you like, so you said you, do you like just do a drum beat? 1109 00:42:25,730 --> 00:42:28,580 Like can you just like have drum beats that you can play off of? 1110 00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:31,430 Cory: So you Yeah, basically like let's say, uh, I'll just use 1111 00:42:31,940 --> 00:42:33,980 Ableton 'cause that's the software I'm like the most familiar with. 1112 00:42:34,010 --> 00:42:34,160 Yeah. 1113 00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:36,410 Which is not super familiar at all compared to some, some 1114 00:42:36,410 --> 00:42:38,600 people it's, do you have. 1115 00:42:38,965 --> 00:42:40,135 Like sections. 1116 00:42:40,225 --> 00:42:41,065 Like a drum machine? 1117 00:42:41,065 --> 00:42:41,185 Yeah. 1118 00:42:41,185 --> 00:42:42,025 Literal files. 1119 00:42:42,025 --> 00:42:42,235 Yeah. 1120 00:42:42,235 --> 00:42:45,835 And you can create them and you can get them to start with like samples. 1121 00:42:46,075 --> 00:42:47,725 But then you also can create your own. 1122 00:42:47,755 --> 00:42:52,165 'cause you can like, uh, insert a midi, like a midi keyboard into Ableton 1123 00:42:52,225 --> 00:42:54,295 and play set your midi keyboard. 1124 00:42:54,295 --> 00:42:54,715 Do have. 1125 00:42:55,290 --> 00:42:56,120 drum sounds on it. 1126 00:42:56,120 --> 00:43:00,600 Let's say a hi hat on one note and then, you know, drum a snare and then 1127 00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:01,980 a bass drum or a tom or whatever. 1128 00:43:01,980 --> 00:43:04,370 And then you can literally do it with your fingers yourself if you want to. 1129 00:43:04,470 --> 00:43:04,820 Yeah. 1130 00:43:04,860 --> 00:43:06,460 Your options are endless. 1131 00:43:06,599 --> 00:43:08,740 Shaun: And so you've, you've released a bunch of music, right? 1132 00:43:08,769 --> 00:43:10,379 Cory: No, not, not on my own. 1133 00:43:10,410 --> 00:43:13,900 Back in the day with my friend, Zach, we did release two tracks back in the day. 1134 00:43:13,990 --> 00:43:14,840 I truly don't. 1135 00:43:14,860 --> 00:43:16,100 They never went on Spotify. 1136 00:43:16,140 --> 00:43:16,950 They might still be on SoundCloud. 1137 00:43:17,570 --> 00:43:19,370 I never had them on my own. 1138 00:43:19,370 --> 00:43:20,360 They were on his stairs. 1139 00:43:20,370 --> 00:43:22,959 Uh, my God, I don't even remember what it was. 1140 00:43:24,175 --> 00:43:24,685 Hard drive. 1141 00:43:24,695 --> 00:43:25,125 That's what it is. 1142 00:43:25,125 --> 00:43:26,405 Yeah, they're on his hard drive. 1143 00:43:26,465 --> 00:43:30,195 Okay, I might have them on my old computer, but that thing is juked 1144 00:43:30,985 --> 00:43:35,194 Like I could even pull pictures if I wanted but no So and I'm excited to 1145 00:43:35,204 --> 00:43:39,465 do that because I've been like Talking about doing it for a while and never 1146 00:43:39,465 --> 00:43:44,495 really have done it yet And then I just started recently me and a friend. 1147 00:43:45,315 --> 00:43:46,945 I will shout him out free throw. 1148 00:43:46,955 --> 00:43:50,255 Thank you for you legend We are working on something together. 1149 00:43:50,265 --> 00:43:52,475 He's helping me do something really cool and kind of like 1150 00:43:52,475 --> 00:43:53,815 getting my bearings back into it. 1151 00:43:53,925 --> 00:43:54,485 That's awesome. 1152 00:43:54,485 --> 00:43:57,365 Yeah, so I was just over there a few days ago, and I'm pretty stoked 1153 00:43:57,375 --> 00:43:59,395 to see, see how this one turns out. 1154 00:43:59,435 --> 00:43:59,785 Yeah. 1155 00:43:59,835 --> 00:44:03,135 So is this like stuff that you've already, like tracks you've already made so far? 1156 00:44:03,365 --> 00:44:05,684 This one specifically, I'm gonna have to tell you about 1157 00:44:05,685 --> 00:44:06,905 off mic because it's a surprise. 1158 00:44:06,935 --> 00:44:07,385 Okay, awesome. 1159 00:44:07,435 --> 00:44:10,200 Um, yeah, so then the other one, Yes. 1160 00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:13,710 The other one is something I like, I had the beat in my head for a while. 1161 00:44:13,710 --> 00:44:17,580 It's actually an old guitar riff from the band that I used to be in. 1162 00:44:17,820 --> 00:44:18,160 Oh, cool. 1163 00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:20,660 And I've been like trying to make that into something cool. 1164 00:44:20,770 --> 00:44:21,309 That's awesome. 1165 00:44:21,310 --> 00:44:21,680 Shaun: Yeah. 1166 00:44:21,929 --> 00:44:24,790 No idea how it'll turn out yet, but you've, you've written songs 1167 00:44:24,790 --> 00:44:25,839 and perform them live though. 1168 00:44:25,839 --> 00:44:27,270 You just haven't released them. 1169 00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:30,935 Cory: So as far as like, Electronically, as far as like in a band. 1170 00:44:30,975 --> 00:44:31,265 Oh yeah. 1171 00:44:31,265 --> 00:44:32,775 We've released like multiple EPs. 1172 00:44:32,805 --> 00:44:37,454 I've tracked, I don't know, 12, maybe 15 tracks as far as drum stuff's concerned. 1173 00:44:37,875 --> 00:44:40,415 But yeah, I haven't done anything electronic yet. 1174 00:44:40,545 --> 00:44:41,855 That is what's on the mission. 1175 00:44:41,905 -->

00:44:42,905 Shaun: What's more fun for you? 1176 00:44:42,905 --> 00:44:46,034 Is it more fun to like create something new or to do the remix thing? 1177 00:44:46,035 --> 00:44:47,335 Like I, I got into it. 1178 00:44:47,335 --> 00:44:50,045 Like I listened to underworld in high school. 1179 00:44:50,045 --> 00:44:54,175 I saw underworld, which was like, that was an awesome at the giant stadium. 1180 00:44:54,625 --> 00:44:56,415 Uh, it was like 90, 1181 00:44:57,425 --> 00:44:58,975 Cory: 2003. 1182 00:44:58,975 --> 00:45:00,040 I don't know why, I 1183 00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:01,318 Shaun: just thought of the Vampire movie. 1184 00:45:01,318 --> 00:45:05,275 Yeah, Underground was great, and then, um, I got into Girl Talk in college. 1185 00:45:05,345 --> 00:45:06,454 Oh, nice, alright, solid. 1186 00:45:06,484 --> 00:45:10,135 Yeah, so like the remixing thing, like I always loved that, you know, 1187 00:45:10,175 --> 00:45:13,945 I'm gonna take Elton John and Biggie and put them together, and like, you 1188 00:45:13,945 --> 00:45:15,545 know, then it just blows my mind. 1189 00:45:15,545 --> 00:45:15,825 It's the same 1190 00:45:15,825 --> 00:45:16,665 Cory: mentality that we have. 1191 00:45:16,665 --> 00:45:22,370 I'm like, I'm gonna take frickin Fisher and put it over, put, um, Frank Sinatra's 1192 00:45:22,370 --> 00:45:23,610 voice over it and see what happens. 1193 00:45:23,690 --> 00:45:24,320 Oh, that's awesome. 1194 00:45:24,350 --> 00:45:25,170 It's the same mentality. 1195 00:45:25,170 --> 00:45:27,530 Yeah, we're just like, how do I do like nowadays for me? 1196 00:45:27,530 --> 00:45:32,040 The music I really like to play is like dub like 140 dub or UKG kind of 1197 00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:37,260 baseline stuff Yeah, so right now it's like British rap and French rap over 1198 00:45:37,965 --> 00:45:40,285 Like faster house beats or break beats. 1199 00:45:40,285 --> 00:45:41,755 That's yeah, it's my bread and butter. 1200 00:45:41,755 --> 00:45:42,405 I like that right now. 1201 00:45:42,485 --> 00:45:43,115 Shaun: Oh, that's awesome. 1202 00:45:43,115 --> 00:45:43,435 Yeah. 1203 00:45:43,535 --> 00:45:43,985 That's a cool one. 1204 00:45:43,985 --> 00:45:45,035 And what are you listening to? 1205 00:45:45,035 --> 00:45:49,195 Like, what are you, uh, what are some DJs or some, uh, like I just 1206 00:45:49,195 --> 00:45:53,775 listened to an album with, uh, George Clanton, George Clanton and TV girl 1207 00:45:53,775 --> 00:45:55,705 just came out with an album weeks ago. 1208 00:45:55,705 --> 00:45:58,495 And like, that was, That was a pretty cool collaboration. 1209 00:45:58,495 --> 00:46:02,795 But like, I listened to like Tycho and like that of Bonobo, right? 1210 00:46:02,795 --> 00:46:04,445 Like all those, that whole. 1211 00:46:04,515 --> 00:46:05,115 Oh, Bonobos. 1212 00:46:05,505 --> 00:46:10,235 Cory: I've, uh, best Bonobo thing I ever saw was I saw him and Skrillex 1213 00:46:10,265 --> 00:46:12,084 go back to back at like 3 a. 1214 00:46:12,084 --> 00:46:12,454 m. 1215 00:46:12,515 --> 00:46:13,465 in Texas. 1216 00:46:13,655 --> 00:46:15,925 Don't forget why or how they were there, but it was amazing. 1217 00:46:16,145 --> 00:46:17,395 You just saw Pretty Lights, didn't you? 1218 00:46:17,415 --> 00:46:18,665 I did see Pretty Lights. 1219 00:46:18,665 --> 00:46:21,915 My brother, shout out, Alec, got tickets for my birthday, which was last week. 1220 00:46:22,525 --> 00:46:23,075 He. 1221 00:46:23,885 --> 00:46:26,465 Okay, whatever Pretty Lights did in his little hiatus, everybody 1222 00:46:26,465 --> 00:46:27,595 should go see Pretty Lights. 1223 00:46:27,995 --> 00:46:28,945 He shredded it, dude. 1224 00:46:29,105 --> 00:46:29,575 Oh, nice. 1225 00:46:29,575 --> 00:46:30,705 He dubbed everything up. 1226 00:46:30,725 --> 00:46:32,164 It was from the rip. 1227 00:46:32,174 --> 00:46:34,634 The first song, I looked at my brother and I was like, We forgot earplugs 1228 00:46:34,634 --> 00:46:36,095 and that was a very bad choice. 1229 00:46:36,955 --> 00:46:38,704 Like, everyone should wear earplugs to Pretty Lights. 1230 00:46:38,884 --> 00:46:40,095 He's getting it right now. 1231 00:46:40,145 --> 00:46:40,585 Yeah. 1232 00:46:40,745 --> 00:46:43,155 I saw him in 2014 at Firefly. 1233 00:46:43,295 --> 00:46:43,815 Yeah, dude. 1234 00:46:44,525 --> 00:46:46,950 Take that experience and Double it. 1235 00:46:47,010 --> 00:46:47,510 Oh, wow. 1236 00:46:47,720 --> 00:46:49,080 Sprinkle some steroids on it, man. 1237 00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:50,820 Shaun: He went yeah, he amped everything. 1238 00:46:50,900 --> 00:46:51,680 Oh, that's awesome. 1239 00:46:51,720 --> 00:46:55,150 Oh, yeah Yeah, it was it was girl talk pretty lights and big 1240 00:46:55,150 --> 00:46:56,520 gigantic were the three nights. 1241 00:46:56,520 --> 00:47:01,989 Cory: Yeah, which they were great It was so good that saxophone gets it 1242 00:47:02,009 --> 00:47:05,070 Shaun: Yeah, and he like jumped up on the DJ table and like played 1243 00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:07,060 up there and like it was amazing. 1244 00:47:07,070 --> 00:47:07,430 We love it 1245 00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:09,310 Cory: That's the kind of stuff we want to see you want to see someone 1246 00:47:09,330 --> 00:47:10,290 Shaun: having fun fun. 1247 00:47:10,850 --> 00:47:11,250 Cory: I'm paying. 1248 00:47:11,250 --> 00:47:12,210 I want to see you have fun. 1249 00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:14,240 And you're asking what I listened to before. 1250 00:47:14,240 --> 00:47:14,660 Like, yeah. 1251 00:47:14,660 --> 00:47:14,820 Cause 1252 00:47:14,820 --> 00:47:17,570 Shaun: like I, I gave you what I listened to, which is not like 1253 00:47:17,630 --> 00:47:19,419 probably the top of the list. 1254 00:47:19,419 --> 00:47:20,500 The funniest 1255 00:47:20,510 --> 00:47:23,560 Cory: part is like, I, I feel weird saying this, but I don't. 1256 00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:26,470 It's like, I'm a DJ who doesn't only listen to electronic music.

1257 00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:30,220 When I get in the car, it's 8 out of 10 times jam bands, most likely. 1258 00:47:30,220 --> 00:47:31,809 And the other two are reggae, maybe? 1259 00:47:31,860 --> 00:47:37,470 Like, so, as far as DJs are concerned though, like, there's a dude called EFAN. 1260 00:47:37,500 --> 00:47:38,610 So it's E F A N. 1261 00:47:39,059 --> 00:47:41,219 He's, he's, he's doing some really cool stuff right now. 1262 00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:43,700 Um, He's, he's doing really good. 1263 00:47:43,700 --> 00:47:46,630 And then, um, I'm a big Rufus DeSole fan. 1264 00:47:46,850 --> 00:47:48,180 They play some really cool stuff. 1265 00:47:48,220 --> 00:47:51,990 And then, the Desert Dwellers have always been one of my That's kind of like, 1266 00:47:51,999 --> 00:47:55,710 both of those are just more in the chill kind of category, I guess you can say. 1267 00:47:56,110 --> 00:48:00,420 Um, as far as like, the heavier stuff, I mean Subtronics always just 1268 00:48:00,420 --> 00:48:01,870 blowing minds left right and center. 1269 00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:05,090 Um, you got Chris's doing insane. 1270 00:48:05,100 --> 00:48:08,930 You got a whole bunch of people, interplanetary criminal. 1271 00:48:08,930 --> 00:48:11,150 It's just a whole bunch. 1272 00:48:11,449 --> 00:48:12,410 The list go on and on. 1273 00:48:12,489 --> 00:48:13,320 It really, really good. 1274 00:48:13,430 --> 00:48:16,439 Shaun: And how do you think like the jam band style influences your 1275 00:48:16,439 --> 00:48:18,890 DJ stuff, your electronic music? 1276 00:48:21,815 --> 00:48:26,685 Cory: I think the improv of jam bands is really what I gravitate 1277 00:48:26,735 --> 00:48:28,515 towards with electronic music. 1278 00:48:28,575 --> 00:48:34,505 I, the worst fear I think I could have being a DJ is if someone tells me I have 1279 00:48:34,505 --> 00:48:38,744 to go on the stage and play something pre recorded, they tell me I have no choice. 1280 00:48:38,744 --> 00:48:42,015 I have to go up there, stand and fake the experience I'm having. 1281 00:48:42,645 --> 00:48:43,755 I don't know how I would take that. 1282 00:48:43,765 --> 00:48:46,535 Now, granted, I'm not being offered a check that maybe someone else 1283 00:48:46,535 --> 00:48:48,885 hypothetically would have to hypothetically play a pre recorded 1284 00:48:48,885 --> 00:48:54,470 set at a hypothetical big festival, but Like, I can't, I don't know. 1285 00:48:54,500 --> 00:48:56,720 Like, that to me seems like that's where the line would be drawn. 1286 00:48:56,730 --> 00:48:57,660 I want to have fun. 1287 00:48:57,670 --> 00:49:00,340 I want to go up there and I want to put myself in some positions that I'm 1288 00:49:00,340 --> 00:49:02,610 kind of nervous and I don't really know how I'm going to get out of. 1289 00:49:02,720 --> 00:49:03,030 Yeah. 1290 00:49:03,030 --> 00:49:05,210 And I figgle, like wiggle my way out of them. 1291 00:49:05,289 --> 00:49:05,970 That's awesome, man. 1292 00:49:05,970 --> 00:49:06,320 Yeah. 1293 00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:10,380 Like that's, that to me seems fun and yes, that's definitely stressful and anxiety 1294 00:49:10,380 --> 00:49:14,689 filling but, you know, I'm a drug addict so like, what do you want out of me? 1295 00:49:14,870 --> 00:49:16,050 I gotta get my thrills somewhere. 1296 00:49:16,510 --> 00:49:17,800 Shaun: Yeah, absolutely, man. 1297 00:49:19,105 --> 00:49:20,905 So, you mentioned, uh, the Harris show. 1298 00:49:20,905 --> 00:49:23,865 Are there any other shows upcoming, or, and, uh, you have, uh, some 1299 00:49:23,875 --> 00:49:25,055 music coming out potentially? 1300 00:49:25,055 --> 00:49:26,315 Anything that you're excited about? 1301 00:49:26,325 --> 00:49:27,165 Cory: So, let me look. 1302 00:49:27,165 --> 00:49:31,225 It's gonna be a homie of theirs named Jaden, who's opening, followed by two back 1303 00:49:31,225 --> 00:49:35,435 to backs of Weekday Underground's Finest, and then the Doe twins are gonna kill it. 1304 00:49:35,775 --> 00:49:36,335 That's awesome. 1305 00:49:36,525 --> 00:49:37,834 It's really, it's gonna be a good show. 1306 00:49:37,845 --> 00:49:39,835 Super, super cheap, and a lot of fun. 1307 00:49:39,845 --> 00:49:43,805 And then, the next one that we have after that is January 9th. 1308 00:49:45,530 --> 00:49:48,180 It'll be the second Thursday kicking off the new year, right? 1309 00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:52,400 We've got Sunday double playing and free throw plan. 1310 00:49:52,410 --> 00:49:53,350 It's going to be a good time. 1311 00:49:53,500 --> 00:49:54,179 That's awesome, man. 1312 00:49:54,179 --> 00:49:54,459 Yeah. 1313 00:49:54,599 --> 00:49:55,530 New works plan. 1314 00:49:55,540 --> 00:49:56,730 It's, it's going to be fun. 1315 00:49:56,790 --> 00:49:58,580 Like it's no cover ever. 1316 00:49:58,700 --> 00:49:59,600 All we ask is. 1317 00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:01,069 There 1318 00:50:01,070 --> 00:50:01,480 Shaun: you go. 1319 00:50:01,590 --> 00:50:02,240 Awesome, man. 1320 00:50:02,470 --> 00:50:04,480 So is there anything that I didn't ask that you think I 1321 00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:05,570 should ask before I ask you? 1322 00:50:05,570 --> 00:50:08,380 I ask every guest, uh, three silly questions. 1323 00:50:08,450 --> 00:50:10,040 Uh, so anything before we get down, you know, 1324 00:50:10,319 --> 00:50:12,520 Cory: I was actually kind of jiving for some silly questions. 1325 00:50:13,350 --> 00:50:16,289 Shaun: First one is what is the first album that you ever 1326 00:50:16,299 --> 00:50:17,809 bought or received as a gift? 1327 00:50:17,950 --> 00:50:21,079 Cory: Ooh, definitely blink one 1328 00:50:25,460 --> 00:50:26,450 82. 1329 00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:31,840 Um, or, okay, it was either, Oh God, and I'm going to butcher 1330 00:50:31,850 --> 00:50:36,480 for whatever album, um, Oh God. 1331 00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:37,090 Not playing my YouTube. 1332 00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:38,260 We're going to go green day. 1333 00:50:38,560

--> 00:50:40,590 Um, dookie green day dookie. 1334 00:50:40,660 --> 00:50:41,130 Oh yeah. 1335 00:50:41,199 --> 00:50:44,030 That was the first album I probably ever received as a gift. 1336 00:50:44,050 --> 00:50:46,000 I didn't really buy albums too much. 1337 00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:46,950 I don't know why. 1338 00:50:47,339 --> 00:50:49,559 That's again, a weird little side note being a musician. 1339 00:50:49,559 --> 00:50:51,649 I never really bought like CDs too much. 1340 00:50:51,679 --> 00:50:51,999 Wow. 1341 00:50:52,029 --> 00:50:52,509 You know what I mean? 1342 00:50:52,509 --> 00:50:53,539 Like I maybe have. 1343 00:50:53,695 --> 00:50:56,665 20 tops in my collection just different generation. 1344 00:50:56,665 --> 00:51:00,015 Yeah, I guess right like I said CDs were phasing out It was then it was 1345 00:51:00,015 --> 00:51:02,315 more like lime wire and frost wire. 1346 00:51:02,315 --> 00:51:04,444 I burned through computers is what I did 1347 00:51:04,555 --> 00:51:08,755 Shaun: Oh, man, I had this I had this this software on my computer 1348 00:51:08,755 --> 00:51:11,185 in college called My tunes. 1349 00:51:11,415 --> 00:51:14,485 And what it would do is you would connect to your, so like my freshman 1350 00:51:14,485 --> 00:51:20,105 dorm, I would connect my tunes and I could see everybody's music, their 1351 00:51:20,114 --> 00:51:22,665 iTunes library on the entire network. 1352 00:51:23,065 --> 00:51:27,184 So, and you could download, and because it was intranetwork, you could download 1353 00:51:27,185 --> 00:51:31,785 songs like, like I could download an entire album and this is like 2008. 1354 00:51:32,500 --> 00:51:35,790 Probably, I would say, in 30 seconds. 1355 00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:40,270 So I had literally every Beatles, but then like when shit was, um, 1356 00:51:40,599 --> 00:51:42,910 not labeled correctly, right? 1357 00:51:42,910 --> 00:51:45,469 You'd get an album that was like, you know, it was labeled like 1358 00:51:45,780 --> 00:51:48,660 Simon and Garfunkel and ended up being like Creedence Clearwater 1359 00:51:48,739 --> 00:51:50,590 Revival or like both legends. 1360 00:51:50,620 --> 00:51:50,960 Yeah. 1361 00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:53,260 You know, it was just like, it was just weird stuff would happen where 1362 00:51:53,260 --> 00:51:56,000 you'd be like, Oh, you think you're downloading this and like, you'd 1363 00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:57,310 get it and it wouldn't be that. 1364 00:51:57,320 --> 00:52:00,385 Or you'd get like, Partial albums because somebody would just have like 1365 00:52:00,385 --> 00:52:04,295 a few songs or but you could put it all together Because if you had three songs 1366 00:52:04,325 --> 00:52:07,125 and then like the guy down the hall had the other three songs you put together 1367 00:52:07,125 --> 00:52:11,595 a whole album And you could literally just sort by you would search by artist 1368 00:52:11,785 --> 00:52:15,724 So you type in the Beatles and I would I had for

a while every single Beatles. 1369 00:52:15,754 --> 00:52:16,775 Yeah, the whole discography. 1370 00:52:16,785 --> 00:52:18,595 Yeah, that's nuts Yeah, what is it called? 1371 00:52:18,595 --> 00:52:20,085 My tunes called my tunes. 1372 00:52:20,085 --> 00:52:21,225 Yeah, it was write that down. 1373 00:52:21,235 --> 00:52:23,105 Yeah I'm sure it's not even right. 1374 00:52:23,105 --> 00:52:23,615 It's probably gone now. 1375 00:52:23,635 --> 00:52:24,175 Oh yeah. 1376 00:52:24,605 --> 00:52:25,645 All the good stuff was gone. 1377 00:52:25,805 --> 00:52:28,765 But, and it worked because on the school network, I think it was the 1378 00:52:28,765 --> 00:52:31,304 entire, I don't know if it was just the building or if it was the entire school 1379 00:52:31,305 --> 00:52:33,485 because yeah, you could get everything. 1380 00:52:33,494 --> 00:52:33,895 That's nuts. 1381 00:52:33,905 --> 00:52:34,794 That was so cool. 1382 00:52:34,864 --> 00:52:36,255 Just rob everyone's iTunes library. 1383 00:52:37,125 --> 00:52:37,145 Yeah. 1384 00:52:37,154 --> 00:52:37,474 Yup. 1385 00:52:37,750 --> 00:52:38,650 Um, and they didn't know. 1386 00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:40,130 They didn't have to have their iTunes open. 1387 00:52:40,130 --> 00:52:43,590 Yeah, as long as they had their computers on and connected to the network. 1388 00:52:43,660 --> 00:52:44,400 Ladies and gentlemen, this 1389 00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:45,035 Cory: was hacking. 1390 00:52:45,035 --> 00:52:46,650 More hacking than anything. 1391 00:52:46,890 --> 00:52:47,580 Shaun: Oh yeah. 1392 00:52:47,699 --> 00:52:48,009 Oh yeah. 1393 00:52:48,010 --> 00:52:49,289 Hacking music only over here. 1394 00:52:50,829 --> 00:52:52,690 I'm not proud if I buy my music now. 1395 00:52:52,739 --> 00:52:53,529 Oh, we always do. 1396 00:52:53,540 --> 00:52:54,170 We have to buy it now. 1397 00:52:54,455 --> 00:52:54,845 Yeah. 1398 00:52:54,875 --> 00:52:55,295 Have to buy. 1399 00:52:55,295 --> 00:52:55,715 Cory: Hey, look. 1400 00:52:55,715 --> 00:52:58,205 I'll happily admit as well, my days in Texas, there may have been a 1401 00:52:58,205 --> 00:52:59,615 few SoundCloud rips that I played. 1402 00:52:59,615 --> 00:53:00,245 I'm not a 1403 00:53:00,245 --> 00:53:01,775 Shaun: golden saint over here myself. 1404 00:53:02,885 --> 00:53:04,025 , and buy the merch too. 1405 00:53:04,085 --> 00:53:04,415 Yeah. 1406 00:53:04,415 --> 00:53:05,495 It's always, always buy the merch. 1407 00:53:05,495 --> 00:53:07,250 I always try to get like a pin or a poster or something. 1408 00:53:07,250 --> 00:53:07,490 Something. 1409 00:53:07,490 --> 00:53:07,730 Yeah. 1410 00:53:07,730 --> 00:53:07,930 Right. 1411 00:53:08,015 --> 00:53:08,525 Something or 1412 00:53:08,525 --> 00:53:09,755 Cory: donate a little something, whatever. 1413 00:53:09,755 --> 00:53:10,265 Exactly. 1414 00:53:10,295 --> 00:53:10,565 Right. 1415 00:53:11,075 --> 00:53:13,195 Shaun: Uh, second question is, what was the first concert 1416 00:53:13,195

--> 00:53:13,855 Cory: that you ever saw? 1417 00:53:14,145 --> 00:53:15,805 So this one I have an immediate answer to. 1418 00:53:15,805 --> 00:53:18,355 Shout out to my wonderful, beautiful mother, Kelly. 1419 00:53:18,425 --> 00:53:20,595 It was the Whalers, the original Whalers. 1420 00:53:20,624 --> 00:53:21,065 Oh wow. 1421 00:53:21,065 --> 00:53:21,815 I was 11 years old. 1422 00:53:21,865 --> 00:53:22,225 Wow. 1423 00:53:22,445 --> 00:53:26,295 She took me, it was at a place called the, oh my god, the Surf Club 1424 00:53:26,315 --> 00:53:29,059 or the Beach Surf Club in Ortley. 1425 00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:31,170 Um, I don't even remember. 1426 00:53:31,170 --> 00:53:33,930 It was like, they held like teen nightclubs there, honestly. 1427 00:53:33,930 --> 00:53:34,860 I don't even remember the place. 1428 00:53:34,970 --> 00:53:36,360 So, but yeah, we went there. 1429 00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:37,690 It was like an outdoor bar area. 1430 00:53:37,700 --> 00:53:39,790 And that was, that made my love. 1431 00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:41,100 So for my dad, it was the dad. 1432 00:53:41,100 --> 00:53:42,379 For my mom, it was reggae. 1433 00:53:42,470 --> 00:53:44,680 She grew up transferring the Caribbean islands. 1434 00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:46,979 My grandfather was in the Marines and got moved around a lot. 1435 00:53:47,829 --> 00:53:49,829 And reggae to her just held a special place. 1436 00:53:49,850 --> 00:53:54,330 So those two to me blessed my, uh, or bred my musical taste. 1437 00:53:54,390 --> 00:53:54,970 That's awesome. 1438 00:53:54,970 --> 00:53:55,200 Yeah. 1439 00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:56,120 So shout out mom. 1440 00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:58,445 That was, Still to this day, one of my top three favorite concerts. 1441 00:53:58,455 --> 00:53:58,835 Wow. 1442 00:53:58,865 --> 00:54:00,305 And I barely remember it because I was 11. 1443 00:54:01,185 --> 00:54:01,915 That's awesome. 1444 00:54:01,965 --> 00:54:02,635 That's awesome. 1445 00:54:02,645 --> 00:54:03,885 Just a cool answer to say. 1446 00:54:03,915 --> 00:54:04,674 I get excited about it. 1447 00:54:04,674 --> 00:54:07,194 I'm like, my mom took me to see the Wailers 1448 00:54:07,235 --> 00:54:08,525 Shaun: Yeah, that's really cool. 1449 00:54:08,525 --> 00:54:09,084 Let's go, mom. 1450 00:54:09,094 --> 00:54:10,094 Yeah, absolutely. 1451 00:54:10,445 --> 00:54:11,614 That's a good mom right there. 1452 00:54:11,625 --> 00:54:11,674 That's a 1453 00:54:11,674 --> 00:54:12,114 Cory: great mom. 1454 00:54:13,615 --> 00:54:17,215 Shaun: Last question is, what is your favorite soundtrack or score from a movie? 1455 00:54:17,390 --> 00:54:19,780 And musicals don't count, so it's gotta be like, fucking musicals. 1456 00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:23,404 I mean, you said it, not me, I was just thinking it. 1457 00:54:23,404 --> 00:54:24,909 I'll own that one all day. 1458 00:54:24,910 --> 00:54:27,400 I just can't get, I just, like, I don't want to go on a musical ramp. 1459 00:54:27,920 -->

00:54:29,170 It just doesn't make sense in my brain. 1460 00:54:29,170 --> 00:54:30,780 This could be a whole 1461 00:54:30,780 --> 00:54:31,747 Cory: podcast of musicals. 1462 00:54:31,747 --> 00:54:34,539 Whoever made High School Musical popular, I want to put you down. 1463 00:54:34,550 --> 00:54:36,290 I just, I just can't follow the plot. 1464 00:54:36,290 --> 00:54:37,737 There is no plot! 1465 00:54:37,737 --> 00:54:38,099 My 1466 00:54:38,099 --> 00:54:39,439 Shaun: brain just doesn't work that way. 1467 00:54:39,479 --> 00:54:40,009 Their plot is to 1468 00:54:40,009 --> 00:54:41,309 Cory: create opportunities to sing. 1469 00:54:41,405 --> 00:54:44,625 I think it was, I think it was the who's Tommy that broke it for me. 1470 00:54:44,625 --> 00:54:45,175 I don't know. 1471 00:54:45,625 --> 00:54:46,895 I mean, look, Greece is legendary. 1472 00:54:46,895 --> 00:54:47,445 That's about it. 1473 00:54:49,865 --> 00:54:50,145 All right. 1474 00:54:50,175 --> 00:54:51,885 What my favorite soundtrack is. 1475 00:54:51,935 --> 00:54:52,555 Oh man. 1476 00:54:52,655 --> 00:54:56,944 I think just because of what it means, I would do the Tron 1477 00:54:56,944 --> 00:54:58,244 soundtrack that Daft Punk did. 1478 00:54:58,515 --> 00:54:59,085 Oh yeah. 1479 00:54:59,085 --> 00:55:01,705 That one's just like they, from start to finish, I think it hit. 1480 00:55:01,795 --> 00:55:05,705 Every point of the movie that was perfect as well as like, Daft Punk's are just 1481 00:55:05,705 --> 00:55:07,295 absolute legends in their own right. 1482 00:55:07,305 --> 00:55:08,415 40 years they've been doing this. 1483 00:55:08,415 --> 00:55:12,565 Like it's, I think that one just like, as far as like, um, a soundtrack 1484 00:55:12,575 --> 00:55:15,515 you could listen to outside of the movie plus with the movie. 1485 00:55:15,515 --> 00:55:16,504 I think that was pretty on par. 1486 00:55:16,625 --> 00:55:16,815 Shaun: Yeah. 1487 00:55:16,815 --> 00:55:19,945 That random access memories that came out, like not that long, 1488 00:55:19,985 --> 00:55:21,335 what seems like not that long ago. 1489 00:55:21,335 --> 00:55:22,125 20 years ago. 1490 00:55:22,125 --> 00:55:24,075 It was a while ago. 1491 00:55:24,485 --> 00:55:27,955 That start to finish that album is like so good. 1492 00:55:28,085 --> 00:55:28,475 Cory: Yeah. 1493 00:55:28,475 --> 00:55:31,485 And then if you want to go just straight album, like obviously dark side of 1494 00:55:31,485 --> 00:55:33,125 the moon, just start to finish it. 1495 00:55:33,134 --> 00:55:33,574 Yeah. 1496 00:55:33,595 --> 00:55:34,105 You can't. 1497 00:55:34,145 --> 00:55:34,415 Yeah. 1498 00:55:34,485 --> 00:55:35,435 Like that one's up there. 1499 00:55:35,435 --> 00:55:38,474 And then like, even for me, Grateful Dead albums, like for 1500 00:55:38,485 --> 00:55:39,794 me, it wasn't even the albums. 1501 00:55:39,825 --> 00:55:42,724 It was all about the live shows as any Deadhead will really tell you. 1502 00:55:42,725 --> 00:55:46,525 So it's not for me, for the Dead, it would be like the early seventies. 1503 00:55:46,545 --> 00:55:49,875 And then like, Late 70s early 80s errors. 1504 00:55:50,225 --> 00:55:52,765 That was just I listened to those kind of shows all day. 1505 00:55:52,785 --> 00:55:55,665 The Europe show is 73 Yes, 72. 1506 00:55:55,905 --> 00:55:56,595 Nice. 1507 00:55:56,845 --> 00:55:57,745 That's awesome, man. 1508 00:55:57,955 --> 00:55:58,675 That'd be my jam. 1509 00:55:58,855 --> 00:56:02,904 Shaun: Oh Cory Nysan captain cork Where can they find you on the old interweb? 1510 00:56:02,905 --> 00:56:03,599 So 1511 00:56:03,599 --> 00:56:09,380 Cory: it would be I guess both Instagrams would be cork in the sand Um, if you type 1512 00:56:09,390 --> 00:56:11,090 that in on Instagram, it'll pop right up. 1513 00:56:11,130 --> 00:56:15,140 And then for the DJ one, it's Captain double underscore Cork, C 1514 00:56:15,140 --> 00:56:18,989 O R K, and then of course I got to pitch to Weekday Underground, type 1515 00:56:18,990 --> 00:56:20,340 in Weekday Underground as well. 1516 00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:23,280 That's a, it's our collective, it's our community, it's what we're doing. 1517 00:56:23,699 --> 00:56:24,660 We specifically made it. 1518 00:56:24,700 --> 00:56:26,350 We don't want it to be the one man show. 1519 00:56:26,530 --> 00:56:28,360 It's, it's, it's a vibe that we're trying to bring. 1520 00:56:28,460 --> 00:56:29,280 That's awesome, man. 1521 00:56:29,280 --> 00:56:30,240 So that's the goal with us. 1522 00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:32,400 Shaun: Definitely keeping the vibe going in Atlantic City 1523 00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:33,700 and uh, stepping it up a notch. 1524 00:56:33,700 --> 00:56:33,720 We're 1525 00:56:33,720 --> 00:56:34,160 Cory: trying to. 1526 00:56:34,160 --> 00:56:36,180 Next year, next year we got some cool things planned. 1527 00:56:36,180 --> 00:56:38,900 So I hope, you know, you plan on visiting Atlantic City soon. 1528 00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:39,770 Come out, check it out. 1529 00:56:39,830 --> 00:56:40,460 I can't wait. 1530 00:56:40,520 --> 00:56:41,240 I can't wait, man. 1531 00:56:41,270 --> 00:56:42,450 Shaun: Corey, thank you so much, man. 1532 00:56:42,530 --> 00:56:43,050 Thank you, Shaun. 1533 00:56:43,050 --> 00:56:43,780 I appreciate it, brother. 1534 00:57:01,815 --> 00:57:03,360 I don't think anyone wants to hear about it. 1535 00:57:03,870 --> 00:57:05,010 Football slash soccer. 1536 00:57:09,110 --> 00:57:10,940 Oh man, I'm stoked. 1537 00:57:11,120 --> 00:57:14,720 I'm in the parking lot of a seven 11 in El Cajon, California. 1538 00:57:26,185 --> 00:57:27,920 Man, these are great questions. 1539 00:57:29,525 --> 00:57:34,400 , I think I, I, I think the an, the answers, the answers are probably better.