Life of a DJ, Touring with Jason Aldean & Working in Vegas for 10 Years I Dee Jay Silver DSH #376

What do you think separated you from all the other DJs?

I tell everybody I live in the best of both worlds.

I tour the biggest country artists in the world.

Miami is not the same as Vegas.

Atlantic City is not the same as Nashville.

You know, just got to respect the city.

Give them what they want, but you're going to take back and give what you want to give as well.

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Ladies and gentlemen, we're here with a DJ legend, DJ Silver.

How's it going, my man?

Good, man.

Thank you for having me today.

Glad to be in Vegas.

Yeah, you're performing tonight, right?

Yes, sir.

At Zook, I'm opening for Zid tonight.

You ever do some stuff with him before?

Yeah, every time I play in Vegas, I usually open for him.

Oh, nice.

He's the best.

He's great.

And you're also big energy.

Nice.

You're also on tour right now, too, right?

So we just finished my last tour with Aldean, Jason Aldean.

That's now.

So I'm just now picking up all the club dates and making up in Vegas, Atlantic City, Miami, Boston.

Yeah.

Do you like going on tour more or do you like the residencies more?

You know, it's but, you know, I like the tour because it's easier travel.

We just get in the bus and wake up the next day, but who doesn't love headlining nightclubs?

You know?

Yeah, that's true.

Oh, so you're in a bus.

You're not flying.

On the country tours, we bus Wednesday through Sunday usually, unless we're in California for two weeks or, you know, over 12 or 13 hours when we fly on.

Gotcha.

Okay.

So they must be some comfortable buses on.

Yeah.

When I first got in the business, all I ever wanted to do was play my music and get my bus.

Now I got the bill for the bus, and and now I just want to play music.

Oh, man, that bill must be fat.

That's too much.

How long have you been at this?

So I've been professional DJ for about 24 years.

Dang.

Yeah.

Wow.

And back then, was it...

Was it as hype as it is now or was it like kind of weird to be a DJ?

No, no, it was always kind of cool.

You know, just like every DJ, you start because you're picking up girls, you know?

Yeah.

And then it kind of realized you can either turn it into a business or you can go sell real estate or something, you know?

Yeah.

So it's like, I just kind of, you know, it's all I've ever done.

Okay.

Cause I know some people look down on it.

You know what I mean?

They just don't know.

Yeah.

I still to this day, they're like, what are you going to do after DJing?

I was like, retire.

What are you going to do?

I'm going to buy an island.

I was like, I'm not doing anything.

But I think you're in a position where you're at the top of the DJ game.

I feel like there's a lot of DJs that are, you know, barely getting by.

Well, I just, every DJ starts like that.

I think that's how you almost prove your chops.

You have to, you know, you have to have two or three sets of income in order to make it.

Right.

Oh, so you were working at first.

I mean,

I always had a side hustle, so to speak.

Got it.

I had a DJing my side hustle until it was was the full hustle.

Got it.

So after how many years did it become the full hustle?

Probably four or five years in, I realized I could just do nothing but this.

So pretty early.

Uh-huh.

Nice.

But I always, but it's just, it's playing 300 days a year, it's being gone 250 days a year from the house.

So you're trying to sacrifice.

Yeah.

So you had to give up some friends, some family, time.

Yeah, but you create a road family.

You pull into Vegas and you got your Vegas guys.

You go into San Francisco.

You go into, you know, Dallas, you know, Miami, wherever.

You got a crew that rolls with you.

That's cool.

What do you think separated you from all the other DJs?

you know I just think I had my own style whether I knew I did or not I just stayed true to who I was and sometimes it worked sometimes it didn't but you know and I just felt like I never pigeonholed myself I could I could walk in any room and do anything and whereas some guys like I'm a hip-hop DJ I'm a house DJ I was like I'm a DJ let's just go you know okay so you'll do different types of music absolutely yeah nice yeah you have to I feel yeah because now you're doing country but you can also do right so I tell everybody I live the best of both worlds I live I tour the biggest country artists in the world you know I have for 13 years, but I play the biggest nightclubs in the world at night.

Interesting.

And what type of research goes into making your set?

Well, just you, I mean, you got to respect that city.

You got to know what you're getting into.

Miami is not the same as Vegas.

Atlantic City is not the same as Nashville.

And you just, you know, just got to respect the city.

Give them what they want, but you're going to take back and give what you want to give as well.

So you have a different track for each city.

I try to have like a staple of songs I know is going to go off,

but I always try to introduce more music.

And I feel like the music industry changes so fast like hits are there for me like weeks these days sometimes not even that long yeah sometimes days sometimes you know i'll say i'll take two weeks off yeah by the time i go to you know to play the songs not even number one yet it's overplayed that's crazy so you're constantly like changing and evolving every day of my life i do something with music nice yeah and did your parents support you getting into this I mean, they thought it was crazy when I got out of college, I had a job, and

I took a vacation, never went back.

Wow.

So you just left?

Yeah.

Without telling them?

I just did.

I hate it.

I was miserable.

And it wasn't like you made a decent living, but it was your quality of life just sucked, you know?

Wow.

And this was in Nashville at the time?

That was actually in Arkansas.

Arkansas.

So you grew up there?

I'm from Texas.

I'm a gypsy.

But yeah.

My parents live in Arkansas.

And I got a job in their hometown.

It was like the job in that little town.

Terrible.

Not much goes on there, right?

Terrible.

Yeah, you probably felt like an outlier.

No,

I had bigger aspirations than to do this for 30 years.

Yeah.

What was the the job?

I was a trucking manager.

I routed trucks all over the southeast.

Oh, wow.

It was miserable.

It's as bad as it sounds.

Is that what your parents did?

No, my parents were both school teachers and truck drivers.

Okay.

So you grew up very modest lifestyle, small town.

Yeah, absolutely.

You know, a couple hundred people graduating class small.

Dang, yeah.

My class had 820 just in my class.

Man, there wasn't that many people in school.

My school had like 3,000 in high school.

That's crazy.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So what do you think caused those bigger aspirations?

Were you watching certain people online?

I just wanted more than the average.

I felt like

anybody could get here, but I wanted to be here.

Right.

And it's just,

why split a pot with 200 people when I can make my own pot to the right?

And I've kind of always lived by that.

You know, we can play L.A.

and New York and Chicago every night,

but I'll go to Tulsa.

I'll go to Oklahoma City.

We'll go to Little Rock.

Yeah.

Those cities got money too.

Is there any particular cities you really look forward to?

Yeah.

Boston is great, but it's going to kill you.

Cleveland, Ohio.

Really?

Is the low-key biggest turn-up in America?

Wow, that's so random.

I wouldn't think that.

There's a place called Ford Nightclub in Cleveland.

It's a nightclub day club.

It's only open in the summer.

Best party in America.

What makes it so good?

Those people, I don't know if they've just been cooped up so long for the cold weather or they just turn up.

It is cold there in the winter.

Yeah, we're placing the first quarter tour for my group Roadhouse.

Yeah.

First thing I did, I said, Dante, I got a date.

I need a date in Cleveland.

Wow.

That's fascinating.

Yeah, I went there in the winter for like the summer all-star game.

Oh, God hates those people in the winter.

It's terrible.

You went to the All-Star Game in there?

Yeah, I busted, bro.

There was ice everywhere.

We ain't made for that.

Yeah, nah.

How do you pick like the cities?

Is there like data that goes into it?

You know, I know where I'm comfortable.

I know where long enough, I've been in Dune long enough where I know I have a fan base in this city.

I know what date this club pops off.

Oh, wow.

So you know like the best hot times for each club.

Yeah, absolutely.

And you know, I don't care who you are, what you do.

People are creatures of habit.

If they go to whatever nightclub on Saturday, they're not going on Tuesday because somebody's there.

Right.

You go the day they're there.

Yeah, I don't know anyone that goes out on Tuesday.

Just add to it.

I wish I didn't.

I was out this Tuesday.

Yeah.

So how many days a week are you performing?

I'm doing 16 shows in the next 10 days.

Holy crap.

But I play a day.

Yeah.

I play usually three, four days a week.

Oh, my gosh.

So you're doing one day, one night sometimes.

Absolutely.

And you're not tired?

I didn't say that.

I've been tired for 20 years.

How do you stay locked in for that long?

Once you start doing it, it's just you can't wait to do it.

Yeah.

But it's like the downtime is what gets me.

So I try not to have any downtime.

Oh, you try not to have downtime?

So I have, you know, several businesses I run or own and operate.

And so I just said it's just going to fill the gaps in.

Interesting.

Yeah.

You and Aoki be traveling.

Steve is a beast, man.

Every day.

Yeah.

Is he married, though?

Does he have kids?

I don't know.

I don't think so.

He's never talked about it, at least, but I know his house.

He's an inspiration for sure.

Yeah.

Was he someone you looked up to?

Absolutely.

I mean, you can't help it.

I mean, it's undeniable what that guy's done.

I mean, he has action figures.

He has clothes.

None of the clothes fit me, by the way.

Because they're the Asian sizes.

That's right.

I mean, I didn't know I need a seven triple X for put a t-shirt on.

Yeah, I remember ordering from China.

I had to order three sizes up.

That's what I'm saying.

I just ordered X and I was like,

okay, I got your stuff.

It looked like my four-year-old daughter could wear it.

Yeah.

That's funny.

Have you met him yet?

In airports in passing.

We were sitting next to each other in a couple flights.

And

he would play a nightclub.

I was usually there the night before.

Oh, nice.

So we were never.

We haven't been to Thanksgiving dinner yet, you know?

Yeah.

You'll get there.

Did you have a mentor along the way?

I had a couple guys I really looked up to and kind of showed me the way and

kind of took pieces of here, there, and what they did.

Who are you?

How did you get and kind of develop who I am and where I wanted to be.

Yeah, that's cool.

And are you mentoring anyone right now?

I mean, not like on a full time, but there's a ton of, you know,

I don't say like younger DJs that are just, what's your advice?

What's this?

And I was like, just figure out who you are.

Yeah.

But, you know,

I always try to answer phone calls or DMs or when somebody messages me because I know what it's like to just like, man, I really want to reach out to Diplo tonight.

Yeah.

You know, it's just like, oh man, I don't want to bother Diplo, you know?

And I was like, dude, reach out.

Let's die.

Yeah, that guy's been out of for a minute.

He's here tonight, too.

Yeah.

You've been doing Vegas just 10 years here, right?

Presidency?

At least, yeah.

That's crazy.

How have you seen the Vegas game evolve over the years?

You know, Vegas is, it's not what Vegas used to be, but Vegas is always home.

I think, and this is just my opinion.

I feel like during people got used to going to Florida.

Instead of Vegas.

Miami, right?

Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah.

And they realize it's, you know, but Vegas is always, you know, a city that I just, we were driving down the strip strip last night.

I haven't, when's the last time you drove down the strip?

I mean, ever, right?

Yeah.

We just roll down the strip and I just roll out on the windows and it's like, dude, this is great.

I love the city, you know?

Yeah, you kind of just take it for granted.

That's right.

And I just, there's a, you know, Vegas always has a special place.

It'll always be home to me.

And I still have a 702 phone number.

Nice.

This is, you know, if my wife had moved to Vegas, my life would be a lot easier.

Yeah.

But she doesn't want to.

Oh, so she's in Nashville?

Uh-huh.

Right.

So we split time Nashville in Florida.

Wow.

So what's that like dating like distance at a distance?

I mean, she can't wait for me to leave, man.

Oh, yeah.

We've been married almost nine years.

She's like, do anything else.

Wow.

I guess when you get to that point, you know each other so well.

That's it.

But it's something to be said about having a cheerleader, having a best friend.

Yeah.

So she's been there pretty much from the start.

Yeah, not from the start.

Not from the very start.

Yeah.

Well, she got there.

It was still in third gear.

You know what I mean?

It was good, though.

Did she meet you on set?

No, I actually met in a parking lot in Detroit, Michigan.

Really?

Yeah.

That's super random.

She worked for Cadillac, and I was out with Aldean and Luke Bryan.

Nice.

And we ran into each other in LA and Miami, then Vegas of all places.

And we just kind of started hanging out, talking to you.

Wild.

How'd you build a relationship with Al Dean?

Well, I met him at Taboo at the MGM.

I was playing.

He came in, and his agent was my agent now, or ended up being that way.

And I just kind of hit it off.

Nice.

You've done a great job, I think, at just putting yourself in the right situations.

I think you have to.

And networking.

Just open your mind and don't know a stranger.

Yeah.

I feel like certain DJs kind of don't get out of their setup.

A lot of people are introverts.

Yeah, they do.

I'm from Texas.

I'm not.

Yeah.

would you say most DJs are introverts?

I think a lot of DJs get in their head, or they want to be famous more than they want to be good.

Or

they care more about Instagram than they do longevity.

I just think everybody's different.

I wanted more than just

a weekend out of it.

Yeah.

What role has social media played in your career?

You know, it's funny.

Once you figure out the algorithms of social media, like, well, it might work for you doesn't work for me or vice versa.

You know, I'll get paid to post and I was like, I'm telling you right now, I can put a static post up and get X amount, but I can put a story up and get 10 times the amount.

Really?

Yeah.

On stories?

It's so backwards.

Well, I'm the opposite.

Yeah, my wife's the exact opposite, too.

But stories are just, I get the bigger interaction on it.

Interesting.

Yeah.

When I do videos, it outperforms everything by far.

Right.

No, like you hit the reels of stuff.

It definitely.

But, you know, I have a

full full-time people, a few full-time people that work for me, one of which is a media designer.

So he does all my, his name is Ray.

He does all my social media stories reels.

And I can see, I can see the response when I give him something other than just a club flyer or a tour poster.

We just add music and flash.

Yeah, yeah.

I've heard from DJ E-Rock, he said social media really changed the game for certain DJs because it got their name out there more.

And Mark, with, you know, you can target, like if I know I'm going to, I don't know, say Charleston, South Carolina, I can geo-target.

within 100 miles of Charleston and just lay it on thick and try to build in.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

in it.

If you don't use social media, if you don't use the tools of social media, the scheduled posts, the targeting, the ad marketing, you're missing out.

You're missing out.

I run targeted ads for all my events.

It gets me hundreds of people there.

That's it.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

What's the most or the biggest crowd you've performed for?

Probably 80,000, 90,000.

Holy.

I did not expect that, man.

That's insane.

And what's the difference there between just like a regular club?

Well, the, I mean, obviously, you, you walk out to Finaway Park and there's 75,000, 65,000, 70,000 people there.

It's one of those, holy hell, what are you doing?

Are you doing it?

Super nervous?

No, not really.

I mean, honestly, I tell you, I'm married with two kids, man.

I travel and my business partners, we're always talking.

But when I play, that is the only time in my life I control everything that happens.

Right.

You're in control.

So I guess if you're confident, you're not going to be nervous at all.

So you never were nervous at first, though?

No, I didn't say I wasn't nervous.

I just.

Once you built the.

Yeah, it's just

nerves will win if you let it.

You just got to get out of your head a little bit.

That's how I felt with podcasting and speaking on stages.

Yeah, first few times I was a bit nervous, but now you got a gift, man.

It's easy now.

Yeah, it's natural.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You mentioned you do some business ventures outside of this stuff.

What are you working on there?

So I have a jewelry line with Happy Jewelers out of Full Ocean, California.

I am part owner of Blackout Artists at the booking agency.

You know, we have clothing lines.

We have, you know, touring.

I have clubs.

Something stuck to me when I was younger that average millionaire has seven forms of income.

Right.

So I want to have as many as I can get a hold of.

And we invest a lot in the different businesses and real estate.

Nice.

So we're always trying to stay ahead of the curve a little bit, do something.

That's cool.

Play for the long play and not for next Tuesday.

I like that way of thinking because a lot of athletes and artists are just so focused on what they're doing and they're not.

Well, you can make all the money in the world today, but if you don't have it next week, it's all about consistency.

It's all about laws of average.

Right.

You can make 15 grand today, and if you don't have another dollar coming in until February, what good does that do?

Exactly.

You know, do 10 grand a day for 30 days and tell me what wins.

Yeah, absolutely.

And how long do DJs last?

Like, I know with athletes, they retire in their mid-30s.

I mean, what is Tiesto?

60?

I mean, I'm not even trying to be funny.

The guy's been on top of the world for 30 years.

Yeah.

So there's no like athletic peak for DJs.

No, I mean, I hope not anyway.

I guess because you're my prime.

I'm not sure.

Yeah, you don't need to be athletic.

I just think you got to just got to somehow complete,

figure out how to reinvent yourself, how to stay relevant, how to, you know, because now a DJ can just pick up a flash drive and he's a DJ.

And it's, you know,

I think there's something to be said about,

you know, the hustle, the grind, the work you put in that's going to make you stand out.

But there's a lot more that goes into it than just putting music on, right?

You know, production, setup, knowledge, how to read a room.

Yeah.

I mean, that dance floor can be packed, but if the bar is empty, you're terrible at your job.

Really?

Absolutely.

Okay, so your goal is to get people drawn.

They're not spending money on the dance floor.

Right.

You want a busy dance floor, but you want the bottles flying, you want the bars ringing, you want the cocktail waitresses making money.

Yeah, wow, it's a team, it's a science, you know.

No, it's fascinating to me because, yeah, people just think it's easy, they just show up and put on some music.

But some people can, you know,

I'm not there yet, yeah.

No, but that's the thing with podcasting, too.

They only see the podcast, but there's research, there's getting the guests, there's like a bunch of other stuff.

It's a hustle of what makes you different from the guy recording two doors down.

Yeah.

Out of those business ventures you mentioned earlier, which ones are you most passionate about?

I love Blackout Artists because

it's a DJs DJ agency.

You know, booking DJs for what you know you're worth instead of,

you know, just, you know, major agencies will book you for, say, 10 grand and give you six.

Right.

We're going to book you for what you, what it's worth and put the, put it, put everybody up, put everybody on.

Right.

And, you know, it's cool.

Jewelry Lion's cool because I designed it all to see it come to fruition.

Is that one right there?

That's one of them.

Oh, that's dope.

Thank you.

And I don't know.

It's just everything I do, I do almost overdo.

And so I so you have like a, are you a workaholic basically?

Absolutely.

Do you think that's manageable?

Like you could keep doing it?

Yeah, absolutely.

I just think boredom is not my friend.

Time off is not for me.

Yeah.

I realized I took two weeks off after for Thanksgiving.

And I was like, I realize I'm not good at doing nothing.

You know, I just.

I relate, man.

I start going crazy.

Like when I'm on vacation for a week, the last couple of days, I'm like, I want to be home.

Somebody's doing something I could be be doing yeah i feel but then when you're ready to work everybody's off and i'm like dude pick yourself that's how i feel on the weekends i'm like why is no one else working yeah trying to guess it makes you different though yeah nah for real i mean it's a healthy addiction i'd say yeah

in my business it's like most people are off mondays i'm like mondays yeah oh because we work friday saturday sundays no monday is like the week starts

Let's set priorities.

We'll set the west coast starts at this time, East Coast starts at this time.

Yeah.

Just kind of funnel it in and get a cycle moving, you know?

Absolutely.

If you throw out 10 calls, you land two.

There you go.

You know.

So you're just working seven days a week?

Oh, constantly.

Yeah.

Nice.

And your wife's cool with that.

Yeah.

And I was working in there in the lobby waiting on you.

Yeah, my bad.

We were five minutes late.

That was good.

I'm not mad at it.

Yeah.

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Yeah, it's about boundaries.

I think my fiancé and I used to fight over it, but we've established some boundaries.

Yeah, it's like my wife is just like, when I got married, I said, I want you to be you, and I want you to succeed.

And do, you know, I never want you to lose who you are.

Nice.

And it's kind of the same thing with me.

That's cool, man.

You guys got kids yet?

Two.

I have a four-year-old daughter and a six-and a seven-year-old son.

Congrats, man.

It's the best thing.

Yeah, I can't wait for that.

Wake and Davis.

It's the best thing in my life.

Wake in Davis.

That's her name?

Wake's my boy, and Davis is my daughter.

Nice.

I'm going to go back to prison.

It's going to be great.

Prison?

I'm kidding.

I'm not there yet.

You just judge out of me.

Y'all see that?

Why do you guys choose Nashville?

My wife likes Nashville.

I've got a record deal and the buses leave out of Nashville.

Everything's based out of Nashville.

Okay.

I've never been out there.

I got to check it out.

Nashville is amazing.

Yeah.

Nashville on a Wednesday is Vegas on a Saturday.

Interesting.

Now, how's the food?

Because Vegas is popping with food.

Nashville is the same.

Really?

Everybody's coming into Nashville.

Okay, I got to check it out.

Because I've heard Vegas is the best in the country.

Now, now, I won't argue that with you.

It's, you know, it's like everybody trying to be the second best to Michael Jordan.

Yeah.

That's how I feel about Vegas.

For sure.

What was it like meeting Kid Rock?

I've known him for years.

He's a great guy.

Yeah.

He's a, I mean, he's, he's, he's an alpha.

There's no doubt about it.

Yeah, he went out of Bud Light, right?

Yeah.

That's Kid Rock.

Yeah, that was funny.

That was actually how I found out about him.

Really?

Yeah.

I didn't know.

Everything he's done, that's how you found out about him.

I know, right?

I'm such a, I don't know.

What's the word, millennial?

No, I just think mine ought to be your lane, you know.

But

I was in a cab last night, and this guy was playing Egyptian music, and I was like, dude, this is great.

I have no idea what the is happening right now.

This is great.

I'm a fan of cultures, man.

That's it.

I know.

And he's up in the front, just clapping his hands, and I was like, God, he's in the spirit.

Let's just roll.

No, I'm all about that stuff.

I know people are closed off to certain cultures.

I feel bad for you if you are.

Yeah.

Whenever I go somewhere or travel somewhere, I'm so excited for the food to learn about their culture.

Suck it in.

I don't know how many times I'm going to get this opportunity.

Yeah.

Like I'm pumped to go to New Orleans.

I've never been there.

Really?

They have New Orleans is known for like it's

grilled oysters.

Yeah.

I love oysters.

Oh man.

I have tons of recommendations for you.

Okay.

What's just going here?

I'm just going to go for fun.

Yeah.

Go to the dirty French quarter.

You got to do it all, man.

Okay.

It's great.

I've haven't eaten much southern food, to be honest.

Yeah.

So I got to check it out.

What do you consider southern?

I'm from the south.

Okay.

Well, I was just thinking like fried stuff, I guess.

Oh, yeah.

They fried it in Vegas.

I had some for dinner today.

Yeah.

As you can tell.

Yeah, right.

What's your favorite type of cuisine?

You can obviously tell by my body, I'm not really picky.

I like, I don't know, Mexican food probably is my favorite.

Mexican, I'll come back to you.

I did not expect that.

Yeah, so that's what we grew up on.

Interesting.

Yeah, I've never heard someone say Mexican as their favorite.

And my wife hates it, so we never get to go.

So anytime she's not, me and the boys, we're at a Mexican restaurant sipping margaritas for sure.

I do like eating in Mexico, man.

Yeah.

It's a quick quick flight from here.

Cabo?

Cabo.

There's just one by the shore that's amazing.

I forget the name.

It's a drink.

Ensenada.

Yep.

Yep.

Oh my gosh.

The fish tacos there.

My wife is in Putamita right now.

Nice.

Yeah.

What's she doing there?

Vacation.

You let her go on vacation?

I let her.

Wait till you get married, tell your wife, I'm going to let you.

Okay.

I got to get to your level then because those are conversations we have in advance.

Man, it's

the minute they lose sight of who they are, that's when the trouble starts.

Okay.

Like my wife's a boss boss, and she's my best friend, but we're each other's cheerleaders, you know?

I love that.

So you could just book travel, like, don't tell them?

No, no, I mean, we talk.

I mean, it's not like

sneaking off to Paris tomorrow.

It's just like we have two kids, and we have to.

But you just give them a heads up.

Yeah, well, they know my schedule is a year out.

Damn, you're booked for a year right now.

Yeah.

And so she's like, you know, we've had this.

They do a family trip every year at this time.

Wow.

They do.

And I'm always in Vegas for the NFR.

But, yeah.

That's cool.

What are you doing for the NFR?

So I play 10 straight days for Doghouse and at Zook at Resorts World.

Wow.

That is insane, man.

It's like a bender.

It's straight bender.

Then, like I said, we got me and Kid Rock at the House of Blues.

Then I play the Golden Knights game on the 12th.

Jeez.

Play a party for the Major League Baseball on the 16th.

Then we got the UFC fight.

Then we have at night.

Wow.

And your network is causing all of this.

Like, these are huge venues.

Like, I'm super impressed.

Good people, find good people, and like-minded people attract.

Yeah, because there's like tens of thousands of DJs, but they're giving you these.

In this city.

Yeah, in this city, for real.

Yeah.

I'll play at Zook tonight, and there'll be 50 DJs in there staring at me.

Really?

Yeah.

Oh, that's how it works?

Yeah, it's just, it's, everybody comes in from all over the world to see Vegas.

I've never been there.

Yeah, I should come tonight.

Right.

Man, I might have to.

See if your girl will let you.

Yeah, I know.

Well, Brad's always there, and I'm like, how do you stay up till 2 a.m.?

But you're probably doing the same with me.

You're going to have to do me every night.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So you're literally sleeping at like 3, 4 a.m.

every day?

If, yeah.

Jeez.

And I'm still on central time.

So, I mean, I wake up at 6.30 in the morning.

What?

Yeah.

Because I get up up every day to take my kids to school when I'm home.

Wow.

Yeah.

So you're sleeping like three hours a day.

If that.

But power daps are cute.

Key in Las Vegas.

I do like naps, but they're tricky because if you sleep a little too long, you wake up more pissed.

You missed the day.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I don't know how to time them.

How long are your naps?

Buddy, I don't judge God.

If he needs me to sleep an hour, I'd go over.

Oh, you don't set an alarm.

I know.

I'm not.

Every time I set an alarm, I wake up like five minutes before the alarm.

Because my mind's like, dude, I oversleep.

Oh, man.

Dude, dude booked out for a year so your whole life is just planned majority of it yeah i never thought about that way for sure interesting yeah i try not to do that like with the pod i'm booked out three months but i kind of like to have a month off every now and then teach me your ways man take a month off i don't see you taking a month off well no not just from filming i mean i gotcha yeah i have six months of episodes just waiting just waiting to go right gotcha yeah we film 10 to 15 a week yeah that's it stay ahead of it for sure who of uh you mentioned tucker was a friend of yours right tucker Carlson's great, man.

Yeah, how did you get acquainted with him?

I just through like, you know,

yeah, what's the thing in Phoenix we do the convention to Phoenix every December.

Um, I just went totally blank on it.

Never been on that.

Yeah, for

Fox News, and you know, run, and we have the same circle of people.

Yeah.

Yeah.

When he got kicked off of Fox, what was that like?

Were you talking to him about it?

No, no, I'm not.

Yeah, I don't talk to him like every day, but he was like.

Same circle of people.

Man, I knew there was bigger things for him.

They had a leash on him.

Yeah.

And he's look, what did you sign like a $100 million deal to do something?

Yeah, I think he just raised a bunch of money.

Yeah.

He was like the Joe Rogan of Fox.

For real.

They were holding him back.

And he was still pulling crazy numbers even despite that leash.

And now he's just...

Mask off.

Let's go.

Yeah, he's an animal.

What type of podcasts or shows do you watch right now?

So, you know, I just finished Squid Games.

That is good.

Amazing.

I finished it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I actually one episode off.

Oh, I'm not going to spoil it then.

Okay.

That's savage, man.

Yeah.

And I don't know.

I'm a reality TV junkie.

When I'm with mindless TV, like below deck or like banner pump rules or something.

It's because I know all these people.

It is cool.

That's Boy Island.

You know, I never watched that.

You didn't watch that one?

Yeah.

Survivor.

Survivor.

I like Survivor.

I like Jersey Shore.

You can't miss the Jersey Shore.

Oh, I'm from Jersey.

Yeah.

Amazing Race.

Amazing Race was good.

I saw a poll.

They said the most attractive people in America come from Jersey.

I'm like, really?

They have never been to Harris Casino.

There's some ugly people out there.

You ever feel bad about yourself?

You just spend a week in Harris Casino during Thanksgiving.

I wonder how they conducted that study because that doesn't sound bad.

They were asking everybody from Hoboken to Jersey.

It's the only place they took the damn hat pole from.

I didn't get asked.

That's interesting.

If you had to go on any reality TV show, which one would you pick?

Man, I probably wouldn't, to be honest with you.

Yeah?

Yeah.

I feel like the squid game one would be pretty fun.

Savage.

Yeah.

That guy eliminating his mom.

Yeah, did I just, if I ruined that for anyone, I apologize.

No, this won't end for a while.

But you see the true just

vulgarity of a human being.

It's 5 million, man.

Yeah.

It's 5 million.

I mean, those people just, like when they brought in that cheeseburger, because they won that, instead of sharing it, that chick reached over and grabbed her in.

She took the whole thing.

Yeah, you'd find her in a dumpster.

But no, I just binge-washed.

I didn't expect to, I did not like the original squeeze game.

It was okay.

It was just

the whole trying to watch and listen and the mouse going different ways.

Oh, the language.

I just need whatever language you're talking, I need to learn it because this sucks.

This one was better, in my opinion.

It was great.

It was more relatable.

And I think they did a great job of casting that show.

Very good job.

Because there were a lot of A-type personalities, a lot of very weak humans.

Yeah.

Like that one guy just broke down crying because he had to make a decision.

Oh, yeah.

That dude was jokes.

Yeah.

His mama hugged him too much.

He's got a cat.

He went to private school.

Something.

Still got one.

Yeah.

4-3-2, everyone hated, but I liked him.

He was alpha.

I'm mad at it the one lady i didn't like um i don't remember the number but she was always trying to be she ran it like a prison

she's definitely american was she black uh-huh had dreads yeah yeah yeah i know who you're talking about just couldn't stand her when she gets on start talking i just fast forward yeah they made her a villain yeah they definitely like made certain people yeah she she played into that though yeah no they did a great job with i wonder if they pre-programmed said listen you're gonna be an when you go on here they must have right yeah when i've done tv shows they'll give me like cue cards or like be nice to this guy.

Dude, yeah, I was actually disappointed because I had a chef on the show and he said most of those cooking shows are rigged.

Oh, all of them are rigged.

So I was like, damn, I used to genuinely watch those.

Like, cheering.

And you're sitting on the end of your seat.

Yeah.

I'm like, wow.

I hope that cake's fluffy.

It's all predetermined.

Like, I can't even watch them anymore knowing that.

That's a shame, man.

They should make some just authentic shows.

I think they used to, and I think they realized it didn't sell because nobody in your life argues that much.

And if you argue that much with one person, you cut them out of your life.

Yeah.

The Kardashians be arguing every episode.

Real housewives.

Yeah.

I stopped watching that one.

Yeah.

That's brutal.

They have one in every city now, right?

I'm sure.

My wife's all in.

She'll sit down and get a glass of wine and watch housewives.

And I was like, that's my cue to go to the studio.

Nah, I'm losing brain cells at that point.

I just don't even know what's happening.

Yeah.

Do you watch any movies still?

Yeah, I try to.

I can't tell you the last movie I watched, but, you know.

Yeah, some of them are just too programmed for me.

I just can't do it.

You know,

I take my kid to movies because he's all in like Pixars and stuff.

But even those kids' movies now,

some of the messaging.

Oh, it's such

man.

I should not have to explain, and it's going to get deep for a second, to my four-year-old what a non-binary rabbit is.

Fing rabbit dog.

Just, it's a kid.

Let it be.

You know.

Yeah.

Didn't they announce like 25% of the cast is going to be gay or LGBT?

Then you got to explain to your four-year-old what gay LGBTQ is instead of like, that's just a cool person.

Go be friends with that person.

Yeah.

And it's just like, I'm all for whatever.

Just leave your kids alone, man.

That's what I'm saying.

Because when we were growing up watching stuff, it wasn't light though.

I mean, if you want to bang a light socket, bang a light socket, just

let the kids forget who they are.

For real.

Without the pressure, you know?

No, it's super crazy.

And that awkward conversation.

Like, oh, God, here we are.

You know?

Yeah.

No, even books now.

That's facts.

Yeah.

Like, my kids, my seven-year-olds into comics.

And it's cool.

When I was growing up, dad would give me a Marvel comic or something.

Wouldn't worry about it.

With this, I have to go through to make sure it's

little Cindy's not pissing in a litter box you know what i mean it's just crazy let let kids be kids yeah are you worried about sending them to public school eventually they don't go to public school oh they don't no they uh so during the

you know we had we you had it way worse than we did uh but uh there's a group of teachers that didn't believe in the shots or the mask or the critical race theory and they quit and started their own school oh wow so our kids go there nice where is that in uh nashville oh that's cool man so there's a lot of little private schools pop up like that yeah respect i don't think after what i went through and how how much worse it's gotten, I would send my kids to public school.

No, no, no shot.

I mean, it was just wild west.

And it's like, you know, when we grow up compared to them, it's just two different worlds.

Way different.

And, and, you know, there's a, there's a Republican senator,

Governor Lee, who's running for governor of Tennessee.

He's, he's putting a bill out for

$7,500 per child for private school.

Wow.

And it's genius.

So he's giving the families $7,500?

Oh, that's cool.

Do you need my address, bro?

Let's go.

Yeah.

It's not cheap, but it's worth it.

I mean, you get, they limit the schools.

They limit the people, huh?

They vet the people that come into the classroom.

Yeah.

And you don't have to worry about the.

Yeah, it's worth the peace of mind and the networking is probably even better.

And shoving a mask on a two-year-old, stop.

Yeah.

I mean, that magical mask is not going to clear that.

Nah, hell no.

Were they wearing masks in Nashville during?

I mean,

it depends what part of Nashville.

We didn't.

Every time somebody judged me for not having a mask on, I was like, when's the last time you watched that?

They were strict on it here, man.

I know.

I was out here.

We could have walked through a casino.

They put a mask on.

Listen, I'm all about, listen, you know, let's figure it out.

But they're going to look back on this point in time and like, you're a bunch of fools.

Oh, they're already starting.

Absolute bunch of idiots.

Yeah, it's already starting.

They've done studies on the effectiveness of masks.

And it's...

Yeah, they, you know, just, I was going through this and my kid was four.

And they're like, put this jab in your kid, but we'll give you a case study in July of 2027.

You, dude.

Look at the studies now.

No, it's looking terrible.

Yeah.

I'm 17 and I was a conspiracy theorist.

I just let you know right now.

A lot of these conspiracies are

called truth sometimes.

But it's just like you prove to me how that is not going to alter

the DNA of my child or the or the immune system of my child that is not fully developed.

But throw it in there.

We'll see what happens.

Terrible.

And the schools are making kids get it.

That's right.

Our pediatrician told us we had to find another pediatrician because we wouldn't put the jab in the kid.

Wow.

He got paid off.

She did.

Yeah.

And I was like, fine.

Yeah.

Anyone, I have taken 10,000,

you know, and you know, I'm one of God's chosen.

I've never had it.

Never.

Never had it.

Damn.

And we were out every day.

I never, we never stopped.

I got it four times.

Really?

Yeah.

First one sucked, dude.

I got it at Dan Blazarian's house.

Everyone at the party got it.

I feel like that's the least of five things you could have probably got a dick.

That's a merciful God.

You only got that's true.

Yeah, if you're not peeing sideways, you didn't do that really.

Yeah.

No, I got super sick at his house.

We were all sick for two weeks.

This was before.

Before daddy had it pretty hard, too.

We went to...

Went to Nap and we flew back private.

Everybody on the plane got it, but me and Jason.

Wow.

So you're just built different, man.

Yeah.

i think because you're out so much you're just exposed system is up there yeah we're planes every day yeah you know it's like you want to wear that wear it you want to jab jab you want your purple be purple i don't give a just don't force me yeah because you're yeah just be a good person you have to you have the right to choose how you live and i and i i i insist you do that yeah don't judge me for doing it you know absolutely well silver it's been fun man where can people find out more about you so uh instagram dj silver one d e j y silver one and it's got all the links to everything Oh, yeah, thanks for coming on, man.

Appreciate you, man.

Thanks for pleasing.

Thanks.

Thanks for watching, guys.

See you tomorrow.