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Hello and welcome to a special new episode series, I should say,
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that I haven't done yet. And this is not including Mike.
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So all you Mike stans out there, I'm so sorry, Mike will not be on this, but that's okay.
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Uncle Dad has it covered. And I am with a very special guest starting a new
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monthly show called Uncle Dad's Mix and Mingle.
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What the show basically is, I want to celebrate local DJ culture from all across
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the Bay Area, from all walks of life celebrating the art of DJing,
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whether it's on vinyl, whether it's computer-based, it doesn't matter.
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DJing is DJing, and I will always stand by that.
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So without further ado, let's give it up for our guests, the one,
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the only, the magnificent, Laser Tears.
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Thank you. Thanks for having me.
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Yeah. So, you know, you told me off mic that this is your first DJ-based interview.
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What's that like? like it's great because i've never done one before so i'm
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excited and you said there's a game involved so i'm excited to see what that's
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about yeah do you like games,
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Depends on the game.
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Smart answer. That's a smart answer. I like that. But before we get into that,
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our audience should get to know who you are.
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And if you can, just give us an introduction about you, your background,
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and how you got started into the DJing scene.
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Yeah, I go by DJ Laser Tears. I'm from the Bay Area.
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And DJing is actually pretty new for me. I've been doing it for about a year.
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I joined this collective called Ladies First DJ Collective.
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Based in San Jose. So I did like intensive workshop, eight week program with them.
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And there's actually a few pretty up and coming DJs in the Bay Area that came out of that scene.
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It's taught by Cutso, who's a pretty well known local DJ and Soulmates,
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which is Charlie and Mike, they're a couple out here.
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And then, yeah, there's DJ Tara and DJ Darling Cool,
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who are kind of new djs that are
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up and coming in the bay area that i see at a lot of shows
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or i see their names on a lot of flyers so those two
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djs are just some of many djs but
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i personally spent many years in
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the punk scene in oakland and i used to go to gilman as an angry 20 year old
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as you all were right yeah i would mosh and all that fun stuff and i just always
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loved music my dad started I started playing Bjork and Kate Bush when I was
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a little girl and Yoko Ono.
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So I had some very obscure female role models growing up.
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Those are some fun role models.
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I mean, Yoko Ono would be 50-50, but regardless, everything else, yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah, I've always liked the very eccentric female performers.
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I like to be very performative when I'm DJing. I really love costume.
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I'm a B-girl. I breakdance. I've been doing that for five years and,
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I just really want to do more shows where I combine DJing with breaking.
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I had my crew, Dead Rabbits, Galaxy Con, where we met. And they're a B-boy crew.
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Well, I'm a B-girl, but we all break and compete.
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Actually, we've been to Texas and Los Angeles.
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So we do compete on a national level. I haven't made it very far.
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That's okay. Not as far as Ray Gunn has, but that's another passion.
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Passion well we're definitely going to talk about that at the end
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don't worry oh no it's a sore subject in my community
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yes but we'll get to her for sure
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but we'll get to that i think we're gonna get me crucified here
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it's okay it's okay you're an uncle
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dad you know i've been crucified come on
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now in a good way so let's
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talk about uh the signature sorry sorry let's talk about musical influences
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now every good dj has that musical influence now you mentioned some but in the
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world world of djing right it is more of like a dance type vibe right so who
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are some of your dance i guess not dance i should say but more of your mainstream
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djs that have influenced your style.
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Mainstream that's like okay so mainstream is peggy goo mainstream i feel like
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she is more so than like the local route right yeah exactly you're right okay
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i get what you're Yeah, so Peggy Gu, definitely.
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There's another Korean DJ that I really love. I actually saw her at 1015 Folsom.
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It was awesome. Her name is Park Hyojin.
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But she, she like, you know, has a really strong Korean accent.
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She DJs and she just is very like, provocative things while she's DJing.
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It's like, whoa, you look like a schoolgirl.
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What's going on? I love her performance when I saw her. I saw DJ Shadow.
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I love, I'm very influenced by Burial.
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He's like one of those DJs that didn't show his face for years and kind of started
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like a cult following, I guess.
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Yeah. What's your thoughts on that? The idea of a DJ not showing their face.
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To me, that became very prominent in the mid 2000, 2010-ish era,
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you know, due to like people like Deadmau5, Gazette and a bunch of other great big EDM DJs.
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I know it's been around obviously since Daft Punk obviously but I'm curious
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like what is your thoughts on that do you think that's a good thing do you think
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that's a bad thing what do you think that falls in.
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I like that because like, you know, people can want to have privacy in their
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lives for whatever reason, or maybe it's not even that they want privacy.
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Maybe they just don't think that their face represents how they want their music to sound.
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But I think that's cool. I mean, it's part of their act, right?
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Or I would like to, maybe they're just a super professional person and in their
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personal life and they don't want to be seen as DJ.
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Sure. sure yeah but i also think you're making millions performing at edc like come on.
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That's true yeah i get what you're saying well there's
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like horse girl she like doesn't you
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don't know what she looks like she has the face of a horse and she refuses to
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show her face her real face and i think it's cool yeah so you know one of the
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things that i find that seems to be kind of becoming a in thing and i don't
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mean this negatively but it does seem that cosplaying or
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really the con scene and DJing are kind of colliding together right now.
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Now I've been doing conventions since I was 16 and now I'm 35.
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So like I've seen the growth of everything.
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And what's insane to me is how it's changing so much.
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And you see these, this DJ culture kind of infiltrating the con culture.
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Now that's not a bad thing. Absolutely not.
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But I wonder, and in your opinion, since that's how I was introduced to you
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is, do you think like, Like, do you think that is going to be kind of the future
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of, not necessarily dance, but how we continue the spread of DJing?
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Within the cosplay scene?
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Well, within the con scene, in the con scene particularly.
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I really don't know, because I've only done two cons. I did Fanime and GalaxyCon. Awesome. And I...
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They're kind of tough. The crowd isn't always there because there's so many things going on.
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With Fanime, there's Park Con going on outside, which is like the rebellion to Fanime. Yep.
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I don't know if you've been. I have been. I've lived in San Antonio for about
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seven years now, so I've been able to experience that quite a bit.
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I'm curious, too, when we talk about you and your style, what is your style?
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What is the laser to your style? style that's also what i'm
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still trying to figure out because i love so many genres
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i guess my style is like kind of
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unpredictable like you don't know what's gonna happen next is
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my style okay do you like
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do you like that that feeling of being unpredictable i think that's actually
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something we don't see that often anymore in djing to be honest like i think
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especially like with the newer upcoming djs i feel like there is kind of like
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a set motion and one of the things that really attracted me to your music style
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was that there are two things actually that really impressed me when I was watching you.
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One, I liked how you kept making it fun.
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And when it kept going to a specific direction, it changed.
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And that really impressed me. The second thing that I really appreciated was
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that your connection with the audience.
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I thought that was a hard thing to do when you're up and coming, for sure.
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And I really felt that you did a good job of doing your best to be involved
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with the audience and getting them involved.
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Now, granted, I know you You said you had your B-Boy crew, and that's great. That's awesome.
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But that also creates an experience, right? And I think that's an experience
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that you're not seeing in DJing, especially at conventions.
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Again, I've done a lot of conventions, and I can tell you this.
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That was probably my first time I've seen B-Boying represented at a convention.
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So that's, to me, it was a huge win for you and your collective,
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I would say. Oh, thank you. Yeah.
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I think, do you find that being a challenge creating an experience,
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or are you just still trying to figure that out?
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Yeah, I'm still so new. I'm still trying to figure everything out.
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I really like the performance aspect of things.
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I mean, my long term goal is actually to make my own music and perform to my
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own music and have my crew perform in my music.
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Gotcha. Yeah, I would love that.
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So you know we talked about creative processes you know one
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of the things i think it's interesting about your creative process do you is it
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fair to say that your creative process is two steps in the sense that it's not
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just a dj set but it's also you cosplay when you dj is that every time or not
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usual i actually have only cosplayed for conventions but i would like i would
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like to do more i would i love costumes so it would be cool to be known for
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that there are times when i've like,
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Felt like if I show up in costume, the other DJs will be like,
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what the heck? We didn't talk about that.
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And then you look them dead in the eye and you say, and?
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Yeah, you're right. Yeah.
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I mean, I feel like most people would love it and they would want to be part of that. I hope.
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I think so. I think also like, cause you, it's all about when you do these kinds
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of things, right? It's all about current experiences and you need to create a way that's relatable.
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Yeah. You know, I can tell you this too.
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I used to work in the promoting scene as well a long time ago,
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and one of the common things that I saw was that your audience was always the
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same because we weren't taking chances.
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And because you weren't taking chances, you weren't getting anybody different.
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And people don't realize, a lot of people love to dance, even if they're super nerds.
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And what we have to do, if you find a way to represent that,
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represent them, whatever it may be, you will get more of an audience and more
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of an audience interaction than people realize.
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So I think when you did it, you know, seeing you cosplay, if I remember correctly,
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you did Cyberpunk Edgerunners, correct? Or no, no, no, no, you did it.
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I did Cyberpunk and Stay Valentine.
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Yeah, yeah. Yeah. You know, and those are great things to dress as, right?
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Like, you know, if I could do it, believe me, I would totally do it. You can.
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Yeah, I should. I should be the first podcaster, journalist,
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cosplayer. There we go. Exactly.
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So, you know, I do have more questions, but honestly, I think these questions
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are going to kind of be further down your career.
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And I can't wait for that. And when you do blow up and you do big things,
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please know I will be right there to celebrate that with you. Thank you.
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Ah, there's no hope. Do it or not. I truly believe you've got that. And I can tell you this.
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I was with a friend of mine who's not really into the con world or really the DJing world.
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That simple aspect of your set and connecting it to different genres of music affected him in a way.
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And this is a true story where he went home and was like, dude,
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I want to learn more about DJing. I want to learn more about convention.
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And he was so involved in it because of your set. That is 100% true.
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Wow. Wow. That's awesome.
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That really makes my day. You know how these moments affect people.
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But without further ado, you brought us a mix. We're going to listen to that.
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It's going to be a lot of fun. Can you kind of tell us a little bit about the mix or no?
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Yeah, I can. So the mix, I wanted to make something that really represented
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something dancey, but also has, you know, my aced, like, goth punk language in it.
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And I wanted to like dedicate this mix to a singer that just passed away.
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She was in the band Crazy P.
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And she was an amazing like vocalist, performance person.
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And the band does like really good like funk house disco music, if you're into that.
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And I was listening to her music for so many years when I would drive like back
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and forth between San Jose and Oakland.
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And I never like really put a face on this woman until she died,
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which is like ironic when that happens. But yeah, the first song that starts out is her vocals.
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And then it goes into Boy Harsher, which is like a super popular,
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I would say like dark wave goth scene band right now.
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And then it goes into like a house mix, different genres.
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But yeah, it's all over the place. I wanted to get something that was really emotional, but dancey.
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Because I think that's what I want, like my music to portray.
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So yeah. I love that. Well, we will check in after about 20 minutes.
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It's about a 20-minute set, so let's come back.
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And when we come back, we'll play a quick game, and then we'll wrap up.
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And believe me, I hope you're ready because this game is going to be full of
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surprises because that's what I do here at Uncle Dad. I love surprising people.
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So we'll be right back with our very first mix ever from... Yay!
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That's awesome. Yes, you're the first one to kick this off. So everybody,
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have a good time. We'll be right back after this beautiful mix.
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You're listening to Laser Tears. Laser Tears.
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oh That's all you gotta do.
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And I reach out and I know that I'm out of here Let's go.
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And I reach out And I reach out And I reach out,
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Baby, and you Put your love in a heart Surround me Surround me Baby,
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and you Thank you.
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We'll be right back.
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Music.
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Thank you.
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Music.
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All right. So what you heard was those lovely, lovely sounds,
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not crafted, but curated by the very lovely Lazer Tears. Now, let me ask you this.
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Are you satisfied with that mix? Is there anything you would change, do you think?
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So like the second half of the mix like i would have changed some of it yeah.
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I'm really bad at i'm really bad at deadlines i mean
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not that like you gave me a deadline but like and i
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know there's a deadline i'm like i'm gonna mess around till
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it's perfect and of course that never happens you know
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the problem honest with you all those artists man
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you know whether it's podcasting art physical art digital
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art whatever it is we all i feel like
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we all struggle with deadline so don't worry yeah like
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the resistance kicks in exactly exactly so we're
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gonna play a little quick game to wrap and what we're gonna play
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is so one of the things if you and for those who listen to the main show uncle
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dad talks hosted by myself and just mike you'll know that me and mike are very
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big into 90s r&b now do you like 90s r&b of course who doesn't i mean you'd
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be surprised how many hate hate letters i got no i haven't got years but i've
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gotten people to say I don't really care for it, but that's fine.
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But we're going to play a game where I'm just going to literally read you the
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title and you have to name the artist correctly.
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Oh no, the truth comes out. If you can name, if you can earn a total of five
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points, I'm going to pick a random listener and they will win a prize,
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especially from the Uncle Dad vault.
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What do you think? Oh man, I hope I win.
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All right. Are we ready to do this? Yeah. I'm scared.
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I'll see I feel like I need to start easy let's do an easy one okay,
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Oh my gosh. Watch me like not get it. So you're not going to hear song number one.
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Who is the artist that sings one in a million?
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Oh, Aaliyah. Okay. See, easy. One boy. There you go.
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I'm sweating here. Here we go. Here we go.
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Song number two. What army artist sings the 1997 classic on and on.
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Eric Abadu. Oh, okay.
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See you were so worried and now you're doing all right i'm like which on and
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on there's a but i gave us a year that's why all right here we go here we go the 1993,
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the joint i've got all the ladies down who sang knocking the boots oh Oh,
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I don't even know how that song goes.
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What's funny is... Can you sing it? Can I sing it? I don't know.
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I'll give you a hint. It starts with a letter.
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It starts with a letter? That's my hint. That's literally a letter blank.
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Yeah, I don't know. I'm sorry. All right. That was H-Town.
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One hit wonder. Oh, okay. I'm going to listen to that. Yeah,
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you should. It's a great song.
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All right so you're at three points so far but that's okay here's another chance,
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okay a little bit of a deep cup if you can know this one i'll give you some
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credit 1998 dance classic swing my way 1998 i know kamaya does swing my way.
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Or but i think she might as well 1998 is she no yeah,
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Yeah, I don't know who does that. I guess I don't. That is a dance classic, dance hip-hop classic.
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KP and Envy.
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You need that in your mix, just so you know. Yeah. Okay, I do need that.
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All right. I will give you one last chance to earn two points for your listener, okay?
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Sorry, listeners. You have one last chance.
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And really, you should know this one. if you don't know this one to win the
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game and literally a legendary 90s r&b song arguably one of the biggest songs
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of the 90s oh my gosh you're killing me i'm gonna miss it and you're gonna,
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from a very okay then you can be emo and be a dj right that's that's how this works yes,
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motown philly yeah i don't know that song you're kidding me please tell me you're.
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Maybe i've heard it you see mike's face in the back that's you how i feel right now,
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yeah i don't know it i'm sorry sorry audience that's boys to men oh dang okay
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i just don't know the name then i am sorry listener and the listener that would
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have won let's see i'm gonna pull their name up real fast because i had it here
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oh my gosh don't do that Well, yeah, I have to.
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That's okay. Hey, you know what? That's okay. Sometimes you win some,
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sometimes you lose some.
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So before we go, before we wrap this up, first off, thank you so much for that
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20-minute mix. That was absolutely such a blast to listen to you.
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And I hope our audience loved it too.
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If they did love it, where can they learn more about you? Where can they connect
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with you? And what are your next events coming up?
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Yeah. Thanks for asking.
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I'm on Linktree. everything on my social
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media is under laser tears so that's laser tears l-a-s-e-r-t-e-a-r-z all one
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word you can find me on twitch I stream regularly I'm on the weekends and tonight
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I'll be streaming at 11 some gigs coming up.
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In October. Yeah. It's on my page.
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Okay. Yeah. But I'll be DJing at Zanzibar in Oakland, October.
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And I'll be at Golden Lion in Chinatown, San Francisco, October 5th with DJ Danny Lowe.
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If you like dancing, I'll be doing like a pop-up battle in San Jose.
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But all the dates will be on my website. Okay. I'm trying to do more conventions,
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but I haven't heard back yet.
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Well, you know what? Without further ado, Laser Tears, thank you so much for
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taking the time, hanging out, being a part of the first inaugural episode of
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Uncle Dad's Mix and Mingle.
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Here on this show, we are on this network. We love to celebrate all walks of life.
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It doesn't matter if you're male, you're female, you're black,
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you're white, Mexican, Cambodian, in between. It doesn't matter who you are.
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All I have to say is let's go out there and make art because without art, we cannot live.
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Art is what we need to be human so please i love i love that you're making art
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and people who listen please get out there and make some art and i'll see you all next month for more,
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mix and mingle thank you guys thank you.
