Welcome to the Truth in His Heart. I am your host, Rob Lee, and these are my conversations bridging arts, culture, and community. Thank you so much for joining us. Today, I have a returning guest just in time for a black music month, and we're gonna go a bit deeper. We're gonna talk about black music.
Rob Lee:We're gonna talk about club music. We're gonna talk about Baltimore. My guest is known for her electrifying DJ sets where she's played in Baltimore and DC's best venues as well as toured internationally, bringing Baltimore club music to new audiences. She's an ambassador for Baltimore club music and, overall, our sonic identity here in Charm City. Her sets have been described as life changing.
Rob Lee:Please welcome Ducky Dynamo. Welcome to the podcast. Hey.
Ducky Dynamo:Hi, everyone. Thanks for having me back.
Rob Lee:100%. You're you're like, you know, what what do they say, like, you know, early adopter? You wanna ground floor of this illustrious podcast or shout out to you. And as yeah. Totally.
Rob Lee:And, as is tradition, a a recent tradition, thank you for wearing your glasses. Whenever someone wears their glasses, I gotta point it out.
Ducky Dynamo:Yo. We pay money to see, so listen. Y'all gotta see it.
Rob Lee:So it's been, you know, it's been a it's been a bit. It's been what? Almost, what, 4 years. You're, like, getting 3
Ducky Dynamo:or 4 years known? Yeah. Was that before pandemic? Like, right before pandemic?
Rob Lee:Right before because we were in person.
Ducky Dynamo:That's right.
Rob Lee:Yeah. We were at, big info. Yep. And I gotta ask you the wonderful question of what your favorite curse word is. So, yeah, delightful.
Rob Lee:So and I'm sure it's the same curse word. But be before we get to the the sort of deeper questions, I'd like to go backwards and, you know, give you the space and the opportunity to introduce yourself in your own words because I think, you know, authenticity is what we're doing here. And I gotta follow-up to that, but I at least wanna give you the space to introduce yourself.
Ducky Dynamo:Okay. Well, thank you. Thank you. I am Ducky Dynamo as known in these Baltimore streets. I am 1st and foremost, I consider it.
Ducky Dynamo:I'll I'll rank it out. 1st and foremost, I'm a DJ. If you do know of me, it's probably because I was sitting down DJing somewhere playing some good old club music or anything that makes you dance somewhere again in these Baltimore streets. Beyond that though, that's like the that's like the hook to get you into me. And then you figure out what you know what the hell else do I do?
Ducky Dynamo:I'm a curator. And I've recently adopted the term culturist, because I do in firm and all those other girthy type of sounding words for, black artistry in Baltimore, primarily Baltimore club music. And I've become enamored with investigating what that art is, what it means to us in the city, what it means to us is being black in the city. And, you know, how deep that goes beyond just the catchy beat, you know, that we all grew up with. And you know what it means for us.
Ducky Dynamo:And I ride on that every day. Good.
Rob Lee:Yeah. Thank you. I mean, that's, it's very important. We're definitely gonna dive deeper in there, but I I I'd be remiss if I didn't ask. Do you have a favorite music memory?
Rob Lee:Like, when you think back, like, when I think of club music, right, I
Ducky Dynamo:Yes.
Rob Lee:I think of what I, you know, Lafayette projects back in the day, my dad, like, yo. What is that noise? I'm like, yo. This bop. This bops.
Rob Lee:What is this? And They like in the nineties. You know what I mean?
Ducky Dynamo:No. They never liked it, did they? But they did. They did a little bit, especially when they got to see everybody start dancing to it. And then all of a sudden, if you know how to do the spongebob, you know, and you cook out do that dance, you know how to do.
Ducky Dynamo:Yeah. You know? So my favorite musical moment, club music related, that like a memory I have is probably I'm trying to pick a specific 1. I don't have a specific 1. What I do have is a sort of nebulous answer.
Ducky Dynamo:Sure. And my favorite club music memories do have to go with those nights at the docks. I have sporadic memories of the Friday nights that I spent in a row for a year or 2 straight, you know, just being in that environment. And this is the the the time that I'm thinking of, this is back, like, 2, 007, 2008. Yeah.
Ducky Dynamo:I'm, like, 19, 20 years old. You know? 20, 21 years old. So I'm first kind of getting into really what the nightlife of Baltimore looks like and how it feels. And, you know, I was into all these promotional groups and we were running, you know, different to different parties every damn near every night of the week.
Ducky Dynamo:And it was just that vitality that was there. It's all soundtrack to club music. So those memories, you know what I mean? And, like, those experiences, I don't have 1 specific 1. Yep.
Ducky Dynamo:It's just that vibe. You know, it's like that is my favorite shit of the club music. And it's like my favorite what I always pull back to, like, why do you like this? It's like, no. That that feeling, those times, that moment in the docs, in the chamber, you know, listening to, you know, a nasty DJ or super DJ, you know, playing those things at 3 in the morning, and we're shaking off to Blackstar, you know, and seeing everybody do the slide to the left routines and just like that.
Ducky Dynamo:So it's not 1 moment. It's just the moment down there.
Rob Lee:Yeah. It it captures the scene and, you know, sort of, you know I I guess, how we define moments is important. Like, you you set a stage. You had a time component there, so 1 could argue that that is the moment. You know, the the moment's longer
Ducky Dynamo:than a minute, you know. You can't wait.
Rob Lee:Longer than a minute. Period. You know what I mean? So and and thank you because you're, you know, you're you're in this you're in this ambassador role, this archivist role, like, you know, you're 1 of those faces, 1 of those prominent faces related to, you know, Baltimore club music and really putting and standing on that bold letters versus what other people might try to call it. And and we'll definitely get into that a little bit later, you know, trying to change it for something else.
Rob Lee:Oh, it's a regional thing. It's like, no. No. This is this is ours. So in, you know, in your time being more and more immersed in the scene, you know Okay.
Rob Lee:Being around is is you you touched on earlier with, like, sort of the nightlife component and and being a, I guess, a patron would be a word to being more of a person that's contributing to the culture in that that bigger way of being, you know, a person using and archiving at all. How do you see, like, the, you know, the last, you know, let's say, 5, 10, however many years, do you see, like, the role of, like, Baltimore club music, you know, playing into the landscape of black music today, specifically here in Baltimore, here in this region? Role of Baltimore club music? Where does it fit in the larger conversation around black music?
Ducky Dynamo:So in the larger conversation about alright. Let me try not deviate, but I can give you this metaphor. In speaking about Baltimore period, when it comes to culture period, I always said, like, you know, I like to joke that Baltimore is, like, not Maryland. We know that Baltimore is its own thing. And it is 1 of the only, I forgot the specific number, but 1 of the only actual independent states in the cities in the whole country.
Ducky Dynamo:Right? So it kinda stands alone. And I was like, if you were to liken it to its own country, to me, it seems like Baltimore really is like a little Africa in the sense where it is there. It is rich with resources. It has this shit going on inside of it that ain't necessarily right.
Ducky Dynamo:It's grimy, but everybody comes and picks from it because it is so full of resource. Every the whole world will come pick this, pick that, pick this, pick that. And poor little Africa, poor Baltimore, you know, however you wanna, like I said, carry that metaphor is left with what?
Rob Lee:Right.
Ducky Dynamo:They speak on it. You know, like, oh, yeah. Shout out to Baltimore. Shout out to the motherland. But we don't really necessarily give back.
Ducky Dynamo:We don't really necessarily truly pay homage like it's a passing point type of thing.
Rob Lee:Sure.
Ducky Dynamo:So I say all that to say, when you when I when when when I when you look at it from that lens, in my opinion, that's where it's like, so what does it speak on for black music? Because and black music culture because black culture period has always been mined upon and picked apart, gentrified, you know, all of those good things that we know that, you know, the Eurocentric meltdown does. Sure. And then fuck the Eurocentric, the American at this point in time. You know, system has treated black culture.
Ducky Dynamo:Baltimore club music to me and Baltimore hip hop in general, because it's not even necessarily just club music, but, you know, again, that's my ministry. Oh, I speak from it. It's the same situation. If you look at the history of club music, samples have been getting, you know, taken from us the whole 30 years. So if you look at the last 5 years and look at kinda like this wave that's been taking over reason, like, it finally looks like club music hit the hit hit his you know, people know it.
Ducky Dynamo:It's getting recognized, all that good stuff. You look at, like, it's break like, take the, you know, the Beyonce influence with, you know, that 1 album. And then shortly after that came Drake with, you know, his whatever. And and every couple after that, it was more and more frequent.
Rob Lee:You
Ducky Dynamo:had the baby making a track. You had, you know, such and such to make a track. You hear that beat. You hear that sound. And that was to the point where you're not surprised when an artist puts out his song now over this past year and you hear a familiar break.
Rob Lee:Yeah.
Ducky Dynamo:You know, you hear that same kick and you're like, wait. That's club music. Right. So it just seems like 1 of those things where what I'm looking at is what's gonna happen after the wave. Because our reality has been here forever.
Ducky Dynamo:If you know what club music is, you've known what it is. These artists and these mainstream industry type of lilts, they've always known what club music was. It's it's not a secret. It's just right now, it's what's popping. It hit.
Ducky Dynamo:You know? So it's like, what I'm looking at, what I'm concerned about is what happens after that wave peaks. All waves do peak, and that's not a bad thing. That's fine. But it's like, will have we done enough work?
Ducky Dynamo:Yeah. And have the people really latched on the way it looks like they truly have? Because, you know, across the board, all of us are seeing more or less success. We did through bookings or making music or anything like that. People are seeking our sound.
Rob Lee:Right.
Ducky Dynamo:So it's like, is it enough to, after that wave, still have the attention? Or is the bubble truly going to burst and then solidify all of the, you know, doom and gloom of, you know, what people consider what's going on with club music at coming out of the downfall and all this. You know, it's considered like this renaissance now.
Rob Lee:Yeah. You know,
Ducky Dynamo:it's like, is it gonna stick or not? Because the thing is at this entire time, the work on the ground never stopped.
Rob Lee:Yeah.
Ducky Dynamo:You know what I mean? So it's like just looking at the impact, it to me, it just seems like a familiar story. You know? Small cultures get picked up and amplified for the moment all the time. But what happens after that?
Ducky Dynamo:So I don't know.
Rob Lee:No. No. No. I think it's a it's a good point. And, you know, there's sort of this and I've been kinda playing with this and diving back into some of these these books I've been reading about sort of art and culture and how it turns into to commerce, and we kinda cherry pick, find it, and polish it, and make it something that's kinda not what it is.
Rob Lee:And, you know, I what you were describing there made me think of an interview I did, actually at Big, where we did our interview. I did 1 with with Scotty b. I bring all of the guys there for those interview. That's that's and I I remember him in a very Baltimore way. He was like, yeah.
Rob Lee:You know, this used to be this over here. You know, we're in station north of where you just reminisce it. And it made me think, you you know, especially with what's happening in that area, like, you know, sort of the real estate component, the sort of venues being open and kinda not open, and the intentional blighting, if you will, there.
Ducky Dynamo:And that's exactly what it feels like, by the way.
Rob Lee:IIIIIII I'm interested.
Ducky Dynamo:You feel me, like, in not to cut you off, but that's what a lot of in trying to advocate for this, that's what a lot of people play bent about.
Rob Lee:Yeah.
Ducky Dynamo:Or, you know, because it's like, nah. You're victimizing yourself. You're, you know, and it's like, no. If you really look at this situation, how could it be anything but not?
Rob Lee:Yeah. I mean, in in places that I I'm I'm not a club guy. Right? But Yeah. You know, that sort of area, that would be sort of my entry point to it.
Rob Lee:And the most times that I've gone and and I've shake my ass, and I'm not an ass shaker, but the most times that I've shake my has been in that
Ducky Dynamo:footprint. Region. Exactly.
Rob Lee:We're talking over the course of 15 years.
Ducky Dynamo:Right.
Rob Lee:And and it's not really been in the last 7 because of the the simple point that a lot of those places and those venues over there has closed. And I think when you start cutting out pieces of what the the culture is, that preservation component starts to dissipate, and it starts to go away. And then that conversation of, well, that's really Jersey Club. Well, that's really so that's really that because places that were the Beatles of it are gone.
Ducky Dynamo:That's literally the link for me. And this is where this intentionality comes into play and why it feels like we're battling something when instead we should just be celebrating it. Because it goes like this. Like you just mentioned, and this is strictly from Ducky's point of view and Ducky's lab of numbers, like making up whatever, you know, she come up with. So this isn't law.
Ducky Dynamo:This isn't true facts. Like, all that. This is just how I see it. Right? Yep.
Ducky Dynamo:You mentioned last 15 years, that's what what station has been. You know, kinda like, that's what it right. That makes perfect sense. And you said basically kinda like the last, what, like, 7 ish, 6 or 7 ish. Not so much.
Ducky Dynamo:And certainly since after COVID was it never ever the same again. Right? But look at the areas in Baltimore that are.
Rob Lee:Right.
Ducky Dynamo:You know, you look at over by the casino until their recent, you know, numbers. And again, that's another art district, you know, entertainment district. They birthed more or less, not more or less, but indirectly off of the heels of the closing of the dots because that was involved. And, again, you look at timing timing. That's all it shows me.
Ducky Dynamo:Around the same time, Station North starts falling off and losing venues, and all these other venues start closing in areas that are not for nothing. A good majority occupied by the black artistic community. Mhmm. Maybe, but definitely in there. But you see the casinos that, doing whatever.
Ducky Dynamo:And you see power plant has never been interrupted in the entire time power plant has existed. But you don't you don't see that in there. You don't see us in there. You know? Not as frequently.
Ducky Dynamo:You know? So it's like, when you look at all that and then bring in what you just lilted on for a second, like, the old this Jersey club thing now. You know? We're fighting it's like that's why it feels like a war because while at home, we're fighting for our own treading water recognition, treading water support, treading water, you know, platform to be us. At the same time, you have other regions kind of and I'm not I'm not I'm not gonna do the whole Jersey versus Baltimore thing because that's not what I'm talking about.
Ducky Dynamo:Because this what I'm talking about actually kinda isn't necessarily their fault.
Rob Lee:Right. Yes.
Ducky Dynamo:Because it is a perception thing. But, you know, we can we can go that that's another that's a ducking down a little different conversation. But for the sense you know, for the sake of this, it's like it's identity threat.
Rob Lee:Right.
Ducky Dynamo:We're we're we're trying to establish something at home while at the same time, our literal, you know, sonic identity is being called other stuff, you know, termed as other stuff in regions that do not have our story. Regions that do not did not create what we do. And we can do the, oh, it all sounds the same to, you know, your average consumer ear if you want. But, again, we're artists. We know the deal.
Rob Lee:Right. Right. So
Ducky Dynamo:it's like, when you start to step on that, it does become serious. It's an erasure thing. And in a city that's black population, like, based on what I just heard from the last census numbers, we're actually shrinking. Yeah. You know, like, the last ones came up, we're down to 60% black now.
Ducky Dynamo:Last check, it was, like, 64 or 66 or something. So we done fallen, you know, like, a pretty decent amount of black population within the city.
Rob Lee:Right.
Ducky Dynamo:So it's like you have big pieces of, what I consider big pieces of black culture from Baltimore getting kinda scooted or, you know, out and around and pooh poohed away. You have people kinda alluding to its nonexistence because it is getting called other stuff or, you know, it's not getting named that while at the same time again, you do have the city. What makes it seem like, again, that intentionality thing makes it seem like they are giving more lingo lane and resource and platform and support to certain things, but not these things, not us. It's like, what what y'all doing?
Rob Lee:Yeah. You know what I mean? It's like all
Ducky Dynamo:of that I just said. You put it on the board. I'm just kinda like, what is it saying? What does this mean? And what what are you what are you speaking to us as the demographic and the culture?
Ducky Dynamo:And by that, I do mean those who are the entrepreneurial art artists. You know, those of us who are the creatives. And, again, those funneled by the black community that makes up the majority of this this city. What are you telling
Rob Lee:us? Well, if it's this. Right? And and and this comes out of, you know, recently diving back into this, the death of the artist book. They're talking about the different hubs.
Rob Lee:Right? Now this book is is from 2020. Mhmm. He's talking about it. Again, written 20 20.
Rob Lee:He's, like, yeah, you know, people don't start going to the secondary hubs, the Baltimores, the Detroits, because they're easier to get into. So we're in that 4 to 5 year period because I'm assuming this book was written probably in 2019. Right?
Ducky Dynamo:Right.
Rob Lee:So you start looking at it, and it's like, well, we're seeing those chickens come home to roost. And 1 of the things that he touches on in it is that you you have sort of, you know, the quote unquote undesirables. I'm not saying that, I'm just saying that's the way that
Ducky Dynamo:That's how it oh, yeah. I I was
Rob Lee:in here. Presented. And it's just like, oh, you know, we have the queer community, the black community, the brown community, the artists, you know, all of the sketchier people or whatever they may use, and then it's cleaned up, but then it's nice. But those contributions, the areas that were made cool were made by those same quote unquote sketchy individuals.
Ducky Dynamo:And now they need it.
Rob Lee:Once they're priced out, we put in some lofts, we put in a bike lane, and then we get out all of the blacks and all of the people who actually made the place cool, and now we we kinda subtly talk about it. We might bring in an artist who feels authentic and have them contribute to it. It's a rebrand. It's a shuffle. And
Ducky Dynamo:And then they benefit off of that because then what they do is create grants and programs specifically for us to come back in and then they support and they show what we're doing to uplift again on those terms like you said though. Yeah. And then it's it's it's tax deductible so it all comes back.
Rob Lee:And we and we won't we won't do this thing, like and it's not calling out any specific district or anything like that, but it's it's speaking to this. You know, I do this. I've been told to my face actually at a grant conversation about a grant I've won, and it was a pretty substantial award. Yeah. What you do is not art.
Rob Lee:What you do doesn't really matter. And I was like
Ducky Dynamo:Oh, that's a big
Rob Lee:I couldn't ring you. I am an East Baltimore guy. Don't let this don't let these teeth confuse you. I was
Ducky Dynamo:like, what you doing?
Rob Lee:But but I think it's 1 of the things, and there's no shots to, like, visual artists, but it's like the folks that are throwing out funding, they would quickly do something that feels big and splashy. Let's do a mural, but it won't do something that's around, like, programming. If it would like, hey. Let's get in the best Baltimore club music DJs and have some equivalent of a battle, have some equivalent of a showcase, have something, and let's just cut off all of Station North, block party style, this is out there. We do these half measures.
Rob Lee:That's that's kind of what we do. At least that's what I think. I don't know anything. I just gotta just do interviews. But then we have folks such as yourself who, you know because I remember your previous life of yours, you were doing something completely different.
Rob Lee:It had the clouds and stuff involved. Now it's just like you you're the big DJ person. You're the DJ. You're the archivist. You're the person that's really trying to preserve this this culture here, And I wanna touch on 1 of the efforts that I recently came across, and I see that you're you're pushing forward to to as far as this preservation, specifically in Station North, specifically in sort of the nightclub culture.
Rob Lee:So can you tell us a bit about this effort?
Ducky Dynamo:Okay. So what's going on right now is down to Station North, there is a venue that's been there for a 1000000000 years, I suppose. And it's gone through many names, but most recently you would know it as Trips or Gatsby's right there on the corner of Lafayette and Charles Street. Before it was that you would know it as club choices.
Rob Lee:Yeah.
Ducky Dynamo:It's been a mainstay, you know, in nightlife in Baltimore club and in Baltimore house and in a lot of black nightlife hubs. You know, the LGBT community, the you know, see in there, and it's up for auction. Randomly random to me, at least. It was about 2 weeks ago. I was hanging out on Facebook like we all do before we go to sleep, And randomly saw a friend share a post from someone else who happened to see just on a auction site that this property was up for sale.
Rob Lee:Yeah.
Ducky Dynamo:And when I saw it, I had an internal fit. It drove me crazy because it was like, holy shit. It's another yet another place.
Rob Lee:Mhmm.
Ducky Dynamo:You know, we done lost the hammer jacks. We done lost the docks. We done lost the lost, you know, those like, these places that were fixtures or mainstays or, you know, primary locations in Baltimore club hit music history are gone. And it's like, that was, like, the last 1.
Rob Lee:Yeah.
Ducky Dynamo:So I just had, like, a, you know, a moment. It was like, this is ridiculous. Like, somebody gotta buy it. Somebody we should buy some somebody should buy this. Somebody should try to buy this.
Ducky Dynamo:And I made a status, you know, kinda like I shared it. And I was kinda like, look. I will start to GoFundMe right now. What's up? I wasn't playing, but I was playing.
Ducky Dynamo:You know? Because it's 1 of those things, like, this seems ridiculous. Like, you know, there's so much money. And by the time I woke up the next morning, there were enough people in the status, like, no. Seriously, if we all got together, somebody could do this.
Ducky Dynamo:You know, this is feasible. And I kinda started you know, it was just like, oh, okay. Something in me clicked. And it was just like, let's let's go. The reason why this is important and I'm standing on it and overwhelmed by the response from it, you know, but the response to me is proven the point I'm about to make is so I don't so much care if Ducky gets to own the club.
Ducky Dynamo:Right. My concern is that somebody who is within the black artistic community is who owns that property.
Rob Lee:Right.
Ducky Dynamo:Because we don't own shit.
Rob Lee:Right.
Ducky Dynamo:You know, there's not a lot going in. If I'm if I'm not again, if I speak incorrectly, I apologize. I'm just a girl. But, you know, I'm pretty sure that was the last black owned establishment in the region, you know, in the in the area as far as nightlife.
Rob Lee:Yeah.
Ducky Dynamo:And it's like, we we can't let this happen. Ownership is so important. And my thing became a even if okay. So let me dial back. So it's like, alright.
Ducky Dynamo:Let me just start this GoFundMe. The the amount is that ridiculous $500, 000 because that is what the website indicated the minimum bid for the property is. That's wild. So I know full well that that's not enough to get the property, number 1. Number 2, the the the auction's in 6 days.
Rob Lee:Right.
Ducky Dynamo:So it was like, by the time anybody saw the post, it was under 3 weeks, you know, before that was gonna happen anyway. So I know it's, again, equally ridiculous. We expected half of half a middle in 3 weeks, but what's happened is because of how I ran my mouth about it and because of how many people have now seen it, it's brung the it's it's brought the discussion up. And that was my point. This is a demonstrative thing.
Ducky Dynamo:I'm gonna go, you know, do it. We're gonna pop up, but I'm on some I just wanna find out who the owners are. And at the least with the money that's been donated, you know, turn that into something. And at least be like, can we be, you know, some sort of sit at the table, or or have some sort of say in what becomes of this property? Because what the fuck?
Ducky Dynamo:You know, it's like, I really just can't even if it in my in my dream is that even if the property was bought, you know, we don't have to turn the the place is huge. It's 3 floors. You know? It was open to learn from some of the recent staff of the establishment. It was open as recent as April, you know, just a couple of months ago, you know, and they used that first floor and it's like, we can fix that and keep it a club, but everything above it, I just see dreams of the resources it could be.
Ducky Dynamo:Because I was in there. I'm like, these could be studios. These could be co working spaces. These could be, you know, you know, any of the type of things in places that we in that block in in that community, especially in the station or Sweden kinda don't have. Yeah.
Ducky Dynamo:I'm like, no. Let's turn that into a museum. Make the 2nd floor be there. Something that's functional, but and not just going to get preyed upon in that same way where developers come, scoop up a quick Baltimore property, do what they do, you know, try to make a little market or whatever or cafe or something, and then in a year, it's gone. And it's like, what did you what did you do?
Rob Lee:And that's and that's 1 of the things, that, you know, as a person that, you know, this podcast was was born in in Station North. I I talk about that my my, billboard Station North intentionally put there, and a lot of the creative connections, artistic connections, and all of that stuff is through those streets. And then see these things sort of shifting and that identity changing there. And, you know, as I kind of play with when I have real conversations with people, these are real conversations, but they're sort of all me conversations. I'm playing about I'm only a boy.
Rob Lee:Yeah. But it it's it's sort of this thing where if you wanted it to happen, it would happen. And I'm talking about bigging and both of us. I'm talking about there, I'm sure, are preservationist grants. I'm sure there are some attention with people who have more money, more resources, more know how, the machinations of how things go.
Rob Lee:And your point about it can be multiple uses. You can have office space if you need that there. Correct. Because we we have this glut of the sort of business stuff, so we can have that there. We have these different pieces there.
Rob Lee:But I start hearing and because of the nature of what I do, but then behind the scenes and all of that stuff, you start hearing these different things from different venues that all in this area. They do different things. Right. And they're they're all in a in a spot. And, you know, your notion around, like, yeah, you know, we get rid of this, turn us down in some goofy cafe, and we try to we we we have a record of something that's stupid on the door to say art history.
Rob Lee:No 1 wants that. Yeah. You know, when I look at the pictures, I'm like, is it something cool? Is it gonna be something cool? That's the thing I ask for all the time.
Ducky Dynamo:It and it just seems like such a disservice because the way I see it, I'm like, okay. So to be frank, it's it's a dinosaur of establishment. If you're gonna be real, nightclubs don't so much do what they do anymore in America. Like, period. Again, after the pandemic, we didn't really snap
Rob Lee:back. Yeah.
Ducky Dynamo:So the idea of a club, you know, or anything like that is, it's 1 of those things that it's kind of dated out.
Rob Lee:Yeah.
Ducky Dynamo:So that's why I'm like, we can keep that going, but getting creative with that space in 2024 with the demographic I'm speaking to and, you know, pretend to be, you know, putting on for and doing all this for, it's like there's ways to work stuff out.
Rob Lee:Yeah.
Ducky Dynamo:And like you said, it is 1 of those if you wanted to, you would.
Rob Lee:It's it's a vision thing. Right? Where, you know, III find in in we we were talking a little bit of before we got started in this sort of area, you know, some people have just nothing but ideas, and, you know, they they kinda get stuck when you can't see 1 of them through or even, oh, this is the reason not. It's like, I know this is goofy. Like, before Mhmm.
Rob Lee:Got on, I I had an interview with a chef. I I was talking. He's like, never be a chef. That was essentially the day. He's like, yo, being a chef is wild.
Rob Lee:He's like, you're never gonna win. You can you can make, like, 3%, you know, what you put in, And it it's a it's a wild proposition, but it's sometimes gone for those whimsy things. Even being an artist, Right?
Ducky Dynamo:That that number should the faith that you have to have.
Rob Lee:Right. You know? Sometimes it's just like, woah. And and it's and it's I think a thing that I had a conversation with a politician, and we were talking about it might not be whatever the thing we were discussing, it might not be the most fiscally, like, viable thing, but it might be the right thing culturally.
Ducky Dynamo:And and
Rob Lee:that's usually the
Ducky Dynamo:Yeah. And that's always the big battle, it feels like. Because at the end of the day, the stuff that will do the capitalist thing we need is usually something that's soulless.
Rob Lee:Right.
Ducky Dynamo:And it's like the thing that you go ahead and you do put you know, again, like, you what we were talking about earlier a little bit, you know, those undesirables, you know, and those things that they don't want to necessarily uplift. Yeah. It's always the stuff. It's always the people that they come back to for content, that they come back to to help them move forward in some kind of way. And that's why, you know, it's like, no.
Ducky Dynamo:Like, you're you're after a point in time when you do make certain points and you do advocate for certain stuff, when you hear no's, you know, it's like, okay. What's really going on here? Because like I said, when you put it on the board, it no longer makes sense unless you have some sort of motive. The interesting thing is, since putting forth this venture, I've learned so much in the past week and a half. Yeah.
Ducky Dynamo:It's been crazy because and that's what I mean by overwhelmed with the support. And that's what I mean by, okay, Vosoda support. So far, I think we have I haven't I don't like, email every day at the end of the day. Like, this is how much money, you know, somebody gave you. I think it's, like, a little under $1200.
Ducky Dynamo:Right? And I'm like, that is the most incredible little thing to me because this is literally just people, like, no, ducky. You should run this because yeah. And you hear what I'm talking about. And the interesting information that's all floated in my inbox from people who work at big organizations.
Ducky Dynamo:I'm talking about places that have funded some of the creation of the venues that exist still. And, you know, things that are like, those grants and those behind the scenes things that you were mentioning are sitting there like, wait. What are you doing? Wait. What are you talking about?
Ducky Dynamo:And these places that actually do have these resources are now listening to this story and are now looking at this situation like, wait. Maybe maybe we could figure out how to fund this. Wait. Maybe we could figure out how to be involved. Wait.
Ducky Dynamo:You know, what are you doing? And it's like, wait. You know, like, I was I wasn't playing. But no. Like, really?
Ducky Dynamo:Like, are you serious? Because this is what I'm talking about. And it's like, this has just demonstrated the the possibility of the reality of the should I be talking, basically. It's like, no. Wait.
Ducky Dynamo:We're not wrong. All these sentiments that we're sharing, we're not wrong. We're often gaslighting the thing you were wrong. Again, you know, talking about, you know, the victimization of, you know, that and, like, oh, well, you guys just don't do that and all that stuff. We've heard, you know, tons of excuses.
Ducky Dynamo:Yeah. But it's like, with this situation, it's just like, because of who's responded Yeah. You know, and who's interested in the thing, it's like, oh, wait. We could really if it's not the let's buy this club, it's that there's something in this conversation that feels like it's could be about to happen in the right direction of what I'm talking about. And that's what's important to me.
Ducky Dynamo:And that's why it's like, oh, no. I already won. Because there's enough people who have who are seeing this and like, okay. No. We need to support you're right.
Ducky Dynamo:The preservation of you're right. These artists. You're right. These people.
Rob Lee:Mhmm. You
Ducky Dynamo:know? And this is kinda like just the vehicle of it to me.
Rob Lee:This this is the the last thing I'll say before I ask a few more questions. You can get into this sort of rapid fire thing. III made this point. Right? And again, you know, Real Life Rob, podcast Rob, they're they're very similar, but, you know Yeah.
Rob Lee:And I I remember last year, I had feelings. I don't have feelings often. I had feelings last year.
Ducky Dynamo:They pop out every now and then, you know.
Rob Lee:Yeah. They pop out. I'm showing it. But it's it's this thing where, you know, I've worked for the Orioles. Well, I'm Uh-huh.
Rob Lee:Worked there for all of undergrad. And, you know, I was really proud to see multiple people that were interviewed on a podcast, kinda getting their due last year when Baltimore act like even the Orioles act like they were in Baltimore. Right? Yeah. And they had the city connect, all of that stuff.
Rob Lee:And I and I remember on Friday nights, they were playing club music. I was like, club music is playing at Oreo Park. I went there this season. Seems like that's gone. It seems like it was AA1 off, and that's sort of my thing.
Rob Lee:It's just, like, what really caught my attention with your approach and how you're going about it, you're like, you know, look, I'm I'm gonna do this. I I know that it's gonna be an upward battle uphill battle the whole thing, but it's just like, well, let's have this conversation. Right. Let's let's have some attention in this particular area because there are so many places who put out these well meaning quotes about being connected to the community and preservation and so on. Alright.
Rob Lee:When are you donating?
Ducky Dynamo:Yeah. Like, what's up? How would you how have you, you know
Rob Lee:Or is that discretionary?
Ducky Dynamo:It's like, what's yeah. What's the what's the qualification? You know, like, what what what's it what's it mean? Like, what do what do we have to do, you know, to see that type of thing across the board for everybody? Somebody asked me in another interview recently about this.
Ducky Dynamo:They were, like, more or less how do you how do you I I gotta paraphrase overly because I don't know and remember the exact beautiful words he used. But, essentially, it was like how you had a boss to do this.
Rob Lee:Right.
Ducky Dynamo:You know, he was like the audacity. That's what thank you.
Rob Lee:The goal.
Ducky Dynamo:I had to say some corny, you know, crash shit before the the good word came out. But the audacity was like, he wasn't saying, like, a bad way, like, how dare you? But he was like, no. Really? Like, for you to do this, that takes, you know, a lot.
Ducky Dynamo:You know? Yeah. Yeah. For you to be so bold, basically, to step out and do that. Like how and why?
Ducky Dynamo:Like, where'd you get that from? Cause I'm throw myself out there type of person. I am a more behind the scenes, you know, like but it was just 1 of those things that it was like, what I've got into understanding when it comes to any type of advocacy, and when you're speaking for anybody else or when you see progress that's not being met, my little tenure in little government around here when I was working with the Green Party, you know, and and be on the steering committee and seeing how those platforms go. It is 1 of those things where you gotta some somebody just has to do it.
Rob Lee:Right.
Ducky Dynamo:Literally, somebody just has to do it. And it doesn't take a lot. It just has to be done. That first step is the first step, but somebody has to do it. And kinda once the idea is out there, time is of the essence.
Ducky Dynamo:That was the other thing. It was like, I could be very easily could have, you know, looking back hindsight, spent the time to do full research on my network and be like, oh, you know, blah blah blah. But again, this auction was coming up in, you know, x amount of time. So it was like, if you wanna use that as the vehicle, like I was saying, to push this message, time is at the essence. Sure.
Ducky Dynamo:You know? So it was just like, okay. I guess I gotta do it. You know? It was like
Rob Lee:Then there's no way
Ducky Dynamo:free to take over this project if anybody feels they are better suited than me to do it. Or they're like, no, ducky, you owe me no sense. Go spend some music out of here. Okay. Hey.
Ducky Dynamo:You know, if you want to take on this tag, I just wanna see that it's done.
Rob Lee:You have to shut up and DJ.
Ducky Dynamo:But people, you know, people wow. I didn't people went to said people have said some crazy shit to me, bro. So, you know, so it's like, you know, especially when you are doing something that, you know, was threatening, like, a status quo, you know, type of thing. I understand. You know, I've again, thousands of memes on stuff like that that has informed us of the type of path, you know, that doing this type of thing is, but I don't see how it's not worth it.
Rob Lee:And
Ducky Dynamo:like I said, because I don't have the I'm not putting, myself into a thing. Like, this isn't about a brand. This isn't about a because I wanna get booked more or anything like that. It's literally this is Megan, not Ducky. This is Megan, you know, coming and saying, I believe in this for the city, and I see this work.
Ducky Dynamo:So, again, as long as there's progress made Yeah. Megan is ducky would like to see it get done, though.
Rob Lee:Yes.
Ducky Dynamo:So that's why it's like, I'll continue to be allowed and continue to be a jerk and continue to be like, yeah. But what about club music? What about, you know, the station or the art arts kids? Like, what about what about all this?
Rob Lee:Yeah. I mean, there's been a lot that's been been taken in that area. I don't need to know all of the details. I just need I just know that it's it's not there, and Right. And that's
Ducky Dynamo:because that's all that matters.
Rob Lee:Yeah. It's it's these few moments that, you know, it's these few moments that it's almost like, let's clean up because company's coming over, and and and I'll I'll say this, like, you I think it was maybe a message from, or a caption or something from a couple years ago, and it was sort of this conversation around legitimately making, you know, Baltimore club music or official music and whatever.
Ducky Dynamo:Yes. That whole thing that was on once. No, ma'am.
Rob Lee:And I know that was a thing. Right? And, you know, this also gives credence to that argument, but I'll say this, when you go to these quote unquote black cities or parts of black cities that don't really get associated with being black, like I think of DC. Okay. When you think of music, you're thinking of Go Go.
Rob Lee:It's not a question. It's their thing. When you think of New Orleans, what's the what's the music that comes to mind?
Ducky Dynamo:Bounce.
Rob Lee:Or jazz? Or or if if
Ducky Dynamo:I said belts.
Rob Lee:With ass shaking. I'll go, like Oh, god.
Ducky Dynamo:I said belts, but I I don't know what to do. Now That's a bad insight. See, I got you're gonna get me in trouble making my bad terrible jokes. But, the real first answer that came to my mind, and only because you're funny and cool is why I can say this on your program, was Fiesta Rice Music. Because
Rob Lee:that is what's It is.
Ducky Dynamo:That is what, me and mine call the music that comes on when the Popeye's commercial comes on.
Rob Lee:Yo. It's just the right
Ducky Dynamo:music and it's like, no, that's that New Orleans. But no. As DJs, it's balanced. It's that's all I think in this for is big freedom.
Rob Lee:Yeah. It's okay. It but it it is. It's it's part of their identity and specific with New Orleans. It's never really been and some might say it.
Rob Lee:I've gone there a lot. I like that place a lot.
Ducky Dynamo:Jealous. I can't wait to go. I wanna go 1 day so bad and I Times. I got to. I'm I'm it's on the list.
Ducky Dynamo:Like, as soon as possible, I'm trying to go down there.
Rob Lee:It's a possibility I will be Robar Delacroix. I will be moving. We will see we'll see what happens. But to the to the to the point of it, it's sort of when that conversation about what the identity is of New Orleans, it's pretty set. Yeah.
Rob Lee:It might vary have a little bit of a variance, but it's pretty set. Whereas at times here, you you know, when we are trying to be this city and we're trying to be that city, and we have people who are empowered and are making, you know, those pushes or kind of stirring that drink, I I think when we start losing pieces of it, whether it be venues, whether it be sort of our names or the the city's names not being associated with a genre that's contributing to popular music and culture, you know, I'm still not over Charm City Kings. I was, like, why is McMillan this?
Ducky Dynamo:So listen. So look. Let me tell you. Let me yo. Alright.
Ducky Dynamo:To speak to your point specifically, I have a small PowerPoint presentation on that too because I'm on this. The small PowerPoint presentation goes like this. It's maybe like a slide or 2. I don't know. Depending on how good of it.
Ducky Dynamo:You know?
Rob Lee:You got it.
Ducky Dynamo:Maker you are. Baltimore has literally been in the public eye forever in American media, in America mainstream. You look at again, like, if we consider, like, every city a little country and it's, like, look at what, like, your chief export is, our chief export is simply nothing but entertainment. We produce Olympians. We produce, you know, red ridiculous like, filmmakers, writers, you know, club music, you know, I I could go down again.
Ducky Dynamo:I'm a little rusty on a PowerPoint presentation, but it's just 1 of those things. You take the wire, for example. Sure. You know, what a big thing that was to American culture.
Rob Lee:Yeah.
Ducky Dynamo:You go back before that. You have the corner. You have homicide. You have you know, it's like we we go back and back. America has been trained to watch Baltimore since modern entertainment, basically.
Ducky Dynamo:The world has been trained to watch Baltimore, you know, in all these little secret little teeny tiny ways. I used to use the example of Scarface. What's your name in Scarface? The girl, the main character girl. Oh, yeah.
Ducky Dynamo:She's from Baltimore.
Rob Lee:She's She is. Yeah. Michelle Whitey character. Yeah. Yeah.
Ducky Dynamo:But yeah. She's like, I'm from Baltimore. Like, what's a Baltimore? You know, it is like, right. This entire time, the world has been trained to look at Baltimore.
Ducky Dynamo:So when you do that and you consider our demographic, you consider again our chief exports, you know, the things we produce, we look. Cisco and the song came out of here. Like, stop playing with Baltimore's name when it comes to the stuff and the talent and the culture, the culture, the American culture that has been birthed from this city. You know, when you look at that and then you do look at again, bring it down to current demographics, you see that this is a black city. Ben, 1 of the first, you know, original black cities in this country.
Ducky Dynamo:And you see that and you bring to the point that you said about the identity. And it's like, what are we trying to be? It's like, why are you you know people are looking at it, and you know that's what matters.
Rob Lee:Right.
Ducky Dynamo:This is what America's been trained to do. Watch what the hell Baltimore is doing. What is this face you're trying to put on Baltimore?
Rob Lee:Yeah.
Ducky Dynamo:You look at how and, yeah, I wanna point fingers to get anybody too angry at me. But look at, for example, our radio.
Rob Lee:Mhmm.
Ducky Dynamo:Look at our darling 9 2 q. You go back and look back every 5 years, every 10 years, and just not even getting specific, just look at the programming and how less and less of a local thing it's become and more syndicated. And that's not I don't even have to say 9 to 2. That's a lot of radio stations, especially in our urban environments, have turned more syndicated.
Rob Lee:Right.
Ducky Dynamo:Less local. Less local music playing. Less local DJs. Less this. Less that.
Ducky Dynamo:And so, again, it brings back that intentionality we were talking about earlier. It's, like, what are y'all doing?
Rob Lee:Because it's it's it's money and that, you know, so this is the formula. How can we make it homogen homogenistic? And we we lose that sort of uniqueness, like
Ducky Dynamo:That's not fair.
Rob Lee:It it 100%, it's not.
Ducky Dynamo:And that's exactly that symbol uniqueness you're talking about is the very same thing that brings people here.
Rob Lee:Right. That's So
Ducky Dynamo:that's like it's this weird fucked up chicken and the egg. Like, what you want to destroy and squelch the very thing that brings people here, but yet you're changing the image of the thing that brings people here for something that's easy money that ultimately ends up coming back to emulate the original thing that you it's like, can we just skip all that shit and y'all just pay us?
Rob Lee:I I was I was gonna This is what I'm living with.
Ducky Dynamo:What are we doing?
Rob Lee:I will say this before we move into, like, sort of the rapid fire portion because I definitely wanna hit you with those. Yes. There have been a lot of mister and missus me too podcast since this 1 started off. Right. And, you know, I feel that I feel that's sort of, oh, okay.
Rob Lee:Cool.
Ducky Dynamo:I see.
Rob Lee:Yeah. You know, you do that little thing. I was like, okay, cool. And when I I talk to these different folks and this is maybe a microcosm, it might be broader than purely music because I've been called a culture guy, you know, by some I've been called the voice by some folks. And
Ducky Dynamo:That's bad. You are, though.
Rob Lee:I you know, I call it, you know, say, okay. Cool. I'm just a guy that does a podcast the way I look at it and, you know, but it is 1 of these things where it's like this isn't cool until the right voice is doing it. Mhmm. And that's sort of the thing and then I see all these sort of, hey, you know, I wanna do this and I'm interested in this and then the sort of outlets, right?
Rob Lee:Right. Those are the ones that are very interesting, they can't get to a certain person that looks like me or you, right? And they're like, hey, so Rob, since you're in media, I was like, oh, now you know who I am.
Ducky Dynamo:Oh, right. Oh, hey, my resume. You did read it, it, did you?
Rob Lee:Yeah. And, you know, I unless you knew those, I make those requests for interviews, and suddenly because you can't get to x artists because they don't do interviews, but I somehow Mhmm. But you know,
Ducky Dynamo:you know, the about circuit.
Rob Lee:Yeah. How can we, you know, maybe collaborate and just how can what's the thing?
Ducky Dynamo:That's built.
Rob Lee:But look. That and it's the, like You
Ducky Dynamo:all go architects out here. I said, how can we take
Rob Lee:advantage of you? Like, how can we exploit you? That's what I was looking for.
Ducky Dynamo:Right. There's that, hey.
Rob Lee:This is a passive robbery. That's what it feels like. Mhmm. But, yeah, III think it's, you know, big questions, and I think what I'll pin it with is I think we're both looking towards the same thing. Yeah.
Rob Lee:Having
Ducky Dynamo:And it feels like it's soon.
Rob Lee:Yeah.
Ducky Dynamo:You know, that's 1 of the things that this recent experience, and we'll see how next week turns around and how, you know, somebody was like, enjoy the roller coaster you're on because you about to go who knows where. The energy around it, and again, with Everest like yours in this podcast, period. And looking at the growth of it, it's like we've done enough. I I do believe we've done enough kicking up dust and, you know, making making enough noise that people are like so certain things I think are finally starting to turn around because it has slipped into, again, more pedestrian, if you wanna use that term, eyes. You know?
Ducky Dynamo:So it's like, I feel like we're on the brink of a good thing, finally.
Rob Lee:I'm I'm
Ducky Dynamo:Just a little bit, but it's like, uh-uh.
Rob Lee:I I'm I'm hopeful, and I and I think with the efforts that you're you're putting forth and that, you know, that's that was immediately as soon as I saw it, that's why I reached out to you immediately. And I was like, let's let's whatever I can do from this platform, I was, like, it hits, you know, different places, and maybe someone will listen to this interview and be, like, no, that that makes a lot of sense that we're in this lane of cultural preservation, specifically black cultural preservation. I don't need a Netflix series. I don't need this or that. I need support.
Ducky Dynamo:Let's bring it home.
Rob Lee:Yeah. 100%. And, so with that, and we'll go into the shameless plugs in a moment, but I gotta ask you 3 to 4 rapid fire questions.
Ducky Dynamo:Let's do it. I think I'm ready.
Rob Lee:You know how these go. You know, you don't wanna overthink it. So when when you mentioned the Scarface thing, right, I was just like, yo, somebody need to sample that immediately. So for you, when you think of Baltimore club music, what is the what is the sample that comes to mind for you? Like, what is that first sample?
Rob Lee:You're like, man, I love SpongeBob. You know what?
Ducky Dynamo:You know what? Okay. See me, like, I don't know how to answer that question, but I'm a answer that question. You say sample, what comes to mind first? Like, if I'm thinking is it's like if the alien came, what's club music?
Rob Lee:Yes.
Ducky Dynamo:Play example.
Rob Lee:Yeah. The
Ducky Dynamo:first thing that always comes to mind is the, Bernie Mac's hay.
Rob Lee:Nice. You know
Ducky Dynamo:what I'm talking about? You know what I'm talking about? Just for some reason, I don't know why, but that's like the default.
Rob Lee:Hey. Yeah. Yeah.
Ducky Dynamo:That's always stuck that sample because it speaks to the time where everybody was sampling, like, movies and comedians and stuff, and and saw those sound bites. It's like, that's it. I think that's the thing. Like
Rob Lee:And that feels fun. That's that it feels fun. It it feels like it's accessible. It feels fun. I mean
Ducky Dynamo:Right. Everybody heard it. So everybody, like, immediately will be like, what is that? I know what that is. And then now you can dance to it.
Rob Lee:Right.
Ducky Dynamo:You know? So it's like it it it does the whole thing.
Rob Lee:So and so thank you for that 1. And and this 1 this 1 is in a a similar vein. It's it's progression here. Right? So, you know, seeing in the background, obviously multiple venues in Baltimore, DMV, and internationally, right?
Rob Lee:So do you have in your repertoire, right? Well, what does that go to track? What is that joint that you like? All right. Scraze a little bit.
Rob Lee:Let me let me hit him with this. See, I like that the cogs are going right now. I like that.
Ducky Dynamo:It depends. You wanna know what's crazy? Alright. Now that I think about it, it depends on the room. Right?
Ducky Dynamo:If there is, yep. Alright. No. I'm a go in the middle. It's pork and swift.
Rob Lee:Okay.
Ducky Dynamo:That song is the song that I know that I can play as long as it's been as long as it's been since 2008. That song has existed. For some reason, outside of fact, there's a perfect club song. I can walk into any room of club music and play that song. Any room of people, because people who, of course, are familiar, they're familiar.
Ducky Dynamo:So the hair part job, the hair case with, they immediately know. And it and that's good to you know, that's back to that era of club music where the sound kinda like broke for everybody. Because we loved it, but it also is the time when it did start slipping away into, you know, the other hands and the other ears across the country who fell in love with it.
Rob Lee:Yeah.
Ducky Dynamo:So yeah. Nope. That's my answer.
Rob Lee:Okay. Okay. This is the last 1 for you. Okay. And I think I have a sense of it, and I'm thinking of a place.
Rob Lee:I'm not thinking of a venue specifically.
Ducky Dynamo:Okay.
Rob Lee:If you could DJ anywhere in the world, where would it be? The world. Might be a trick question. Might be a trick question.
Ducky Dynamo:Damn. You know what? That is a trick question because I had to think about what year we're in for a second. So the quick answer is Brazil. I I miss Brazil.
Ducky Dynamo:I think, you know, since you remember past life, I mean, you might remember, I spent some time in Brazil a little bit. That was fun. And I feel like bringing I know for a fact this sound down there, drive them crazy. They love it. So I'll get my passport again when somebody goes ahead and makes that book a happen.
Ducky Dynamo:But you wanna know what the where isn't aware like a place anymore because the Internet exists. It's a platform. I don't know which platform. It might be a boiler room. It might be a Sareto, but something that will reach literally everybody.
Ducky Dynamo:So it's not a place because, no, it's a, you know, it's a website. You see what I mean?
Rob Lee:Yeah.
Ducky Dynamo:That's probably it. I just wanna get to I would, in this day and age, probably if I had to pick a place to go, it would be that. Like, the airwaves.
Rob Lee:Love it. That makes so much sense, because it's it's bringing Baltimore club music and this ministry of yours worldwide.
Ducky Dynamo:Yes. Let's spread as far as possible.
Rob Lee:So that's kinda it. I mean, we we we we definitely hammered the Baltimore thing, and I'm I'm really about that. And, you know, there are 2 things I wanna do to to sort of close out here, close the book Mhmm. This chapter. I feel like there's gonna be a part 3 and a part 4 of us just getting back.
Rob Lee:Like, keep money. Truth in the mouth.
Ducky Dynamo:That's the way.
Rob Lee:So 1, I wanna thank you for coming back on. This has been truly a treat. And 2, I wanna invite and encourage you to share with the listeners all the information, the website, social media, the the GoFundMe, all of it. Please, the floor is yours.
Ducky Dynamo:Okay. The floor is mine. I'll take it. Alright. So my friends, the 1 thing that we did not mention this whole podcast, and that is okay, sort of, because I exist and you will follow me and find me, is the illustrious Baltimore Club Music Day.
Ducky Dynamo:In case you didn't know, we do have a holiday. It is June 17th. It was created last year. Mayor Brandon Skye said so. I was just with him, it was last night at the, at, the international placemaking conference situation happening.
Ducky Dynamo:He was over there. He says, what's up? And those about, you know, he's like, did you buy choices yet? No, ma'am, Brandon. I did not.
Ducky Dynamo:You know I didn't. But what's up with your donation? He's like, how much is it? Oh, you know what? I'm like, come on.
Ducky Dynamo:But anyway, bottom of my club music day does exist. So look out this month for literally all the club music events that you can find. We're trying to hype that up and make it a real tradition because it's a real freaking holiday. Written into the city charter, so why not? Right?
Rob Lee:Right.
Ducky Dynamo:So coming up, next week again, it is the auction for this property on Wednesday, June 12th. So if any of you are in air shot or this happens to air before then and wanna pop up, definitely do that because we're we're trying to, you know, kinda show up in force, you know, the show. Like, nah, there's a community here that, you know, cares about this property. To find me in the information, I am ducky dynamo on all of them social media platforms. Same name everywhere to keep it easy for you.
Ducky Dynamo:To keep it easy for you, that is where I would like to direct you to find the GoFundMe link because I don't know the URL, and it's too hard to find. But if you find any of my social medias or literally search, I think it's called preserve help Ducky Dynamo preserve Baltimore club culture. That's what like the GoFundMe is called. Yeah. If you want to tap into that and wanna donate or at least just read the story, and share it, I'd I'm forever grateful, you know, just for the thought.
Ducky Dynamo:Just to even a retweet or share the link somewhere or a like goes so far, and it's showing me how far it can go. Other than that, we're having a big ass cookout on June 15th for Baltimore Club Music Day. Again, that information is on my page. Come through, get a hot dog and to stop. The week after that is Afram.
Ducky Dynamo:I'll be having the Afram after party at, the crown. So come through and shake off and, you know, be a frame it ties yourself in in that establishment, whatever's needed. And I think that's all the plugs I have. So, again, find me on social media at duckydynamo, Facebook, formerly known as Twitter, SoundCloud, Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube. I never got into Pinterest because they'd never a 1000 years ago when Pinterest first popped up, you had to get, like, invited to it.
Ducky Dynamo:And they never they never approved my thing and sent me a good invite. And I was real offended by this back in, like, 2, 009. So I was like, I carry grudges. I'm sorry.
Rob Lee:Hold on to grudges.
Ducky Dynamo:No. Like, I'm I'm sorry. I'm like, no. Fuck that whole black woman because I just wanted to pin stuff about, like, ferrets or whatever. I don't even remember what's going on at the time.
Rob Lee:I mean, I keep I keep the list. I call it my burn list. I have a little card of, like, now you're on the list now. Like, you know,
Ducky Dynamo:you should.
Rob Lee:Weird. You all. Because we
Ducky Dynamo:don't forget. We don't forget.
Rob Lee:We don't forget. I'm an aerosol.
Ducky Dynamo:But, yes, that's all the that's all the plugging I have to do, I think. I appreciate it.
Rob Lee:And there you have it, folks. I wanna again thank the wonderful, the amazing Ducky Dynamo for coming on to the podcast and for for all of her work around, like, preserving Baltimore club music. And I'm Rob Lee saying that there's art, culture, and community in and around your neck of the woods. You've just got to look for it.
