Funny And Embarrassing Moments As DJs! - Ep #24

Ever wondered what happens when the DJ accidentally hits play during wedding vows? Brace yourself for some laugh-out-loud stories and moments of pure chaos from our time behind the decks. This episode features Ilia sharing a cringe-worthy yet heartwarming mishap during a wedding ceremony, teaching us the invaluable lesson of rolling with the punches. Plus, we recount a harrowing adventure to a gig where we nearly ran out of gas in the middle of nowhere, spotlighting the unpredictable and adventurous life of a DJ.

But it’s not all fun and games; our journey has its share of drama. Dive into a tale of betrayal and redemption as I reveal how a colleague's sneaky move to steal my gigs led to a fiery fallout. Years later, that same individual returned seeking help, and my response might surprise you. We also explore the dynamics of working with large DJ companies versus running a smaller operation, and how illness has thrown a wrench in our plans, affecting our recording schedule and team’s morale.

And of course, no DJ story compilation would be complete without recounting some wild wedding dance floor disasters. From elderly guests fainting to unexpected ambulance visits, we’ve seen it all. We also discuss a stressful payment dispute with a renowned makeup brand due to a miscommunication over equipment, reminding us all of the importance of crystal-clear communication. Tune in for a rollercoaster of stories that showcase the highs, lows, and downright unexpected moments of being a DJ.

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Transcript

Ilia: 0:18

welcome back to another episode of the clever dj with ilia and Nino.

Nino: 0:22

Welcome back, guys. Episode number 24. Number 24. Yes sir.

Ilia: 0:30

Okay, so last episode we announced that our YouTube channels, tiktok, all our social medias, our website everything is going live. Uh, you know, everything's gonna get up to date in the month of june and uh, starting from july, everything's gonna be synchronous, everything's gonna be released at the same time. Uh, you and you'll be following. You'll be able to follow the podcast in a much more interesting way. Um, yeah, today's episode is kind of weird and funny.

Nino: 1:05

Yes, okay, I'm gonna be talking about my stories as a dj weird, funny, embarrassing moments that I've uh encountered and uh you're in some of them too, right?

Ilia: 1:18

yeah, all right, and a lot of this was written actually, the whole thing was written without my knowledge. I'm really looking forward to hear what this is okay, the first, the first one.

Nino: 1:28

Now you you actually brought this up in in the previous episode. Oh, I love this. You actually bring it up all the time and um, it's very embarrassing for me because we were literally doing a, a ceremony, right, and um, it was outside on a, on a patio and um, they're already doing their vows, right, yeah, and he's like oh, I love you, I love you forever.

Nino: 1:54

Oh, yeah, I love you too and then, and then, all of a sudden, I was, and then everybody just looked at me, looked at me. I was like, oh, your face, you went so pale, bro, you know, you know, spun the. Uh, yeah, I spun it back. I didn't know, I didn't have the volume down, it was all the way up still, so I spun it back. I was like, oh, my god, what am I doing? But it was too late by then. And it wasn't just like it was, it was. I was shocked. I was like, oh, did I just do that?

Ilia: 2:27

and the crowd responded immediately with an approval of like it. Just, the bride and the groom were like, just like they weren't living. They were actually laughing. They loved it. You're laughing, but that was thanks to your diligence to keeping them happy throughout, um, the first portion of the night. Yeah, what did you do with uh? What was it? Uh? Was it within houston?

Nino: 2:52

oh, yeah, yeah yeah, with a song, how you like. You stopped it and everyone's.

Ilia: 2:56

You know they're waiting for the moment to start singing and I so.

Nino: 3:00

So before the drop goes, I stop it, and then everybody's waiting for it, but I wouldn't play it. I'd let them react and like what's going on, and then I'd play it and I so they, you know they love it I have the video of that too.

Ilia: 3:16

When they're like there we go, there we go. You, just you build such a rapport with them. Yeah, I know, it's the things you do, the little things, right the little details, it makes a big difference and they're already kind of like your buddy buddies with them before they even came out to the dance floor.

Nino: 3:31

Yeah, yeah so, yeah, it's, it's. It's important to to have that rapport with your clients and just, you know, be happy, have a good time with everybody. Everybody's there to have a great time, so I was, you know, having a great time, and everybody, everybody's there to have a great time, so I was having a great time.

Ilia: 3:46

And you were there too.

Nino: 3:47

I was having a great time you witnessed all this stuff too right.

Ilia: 3:51

Was that the one we were driving to, and we almost ran out of gas. You know what? That's the next point.

Nino: 3:57

That's the next point I was getting at. Oh wait, I didn't even read it, okay. So way, I even read it, okay. So this is literally on our way there. So he comes to my house and, uh, we, we drive together and me knowing my car, I'm like, okay, I think I have like a a quarter tank of gas. I'm like, okay, we have two and a half hours drive right up north. And I'm like, oh, okay, there's gonna be gas stations around.

Nino: 4:22

So I'm, there are no gas stations on the way to muscogee I just realized that, like on, when you're, when you're in um, like very rural areas where, like um those areas, there are no gas stations at all, and sometimes there's a gas station on google maps but there's no gas station in in reality.

Nino: 4:41

But you know what I did, you know what I did pass by like a few before on our way there. When we got, before we got into the like the foresty areas, right, I was like no, we're still good, we're still good. And if you know your car, you know your car, right. So I'm still driving, driving. I'm like okay, we're still okay. I think we have like another 20, 20 kilometers on this, okay. And then like okay, I asked you, hey, when's, where's the next uh gas station? And then we're looking and I'm quiet, we don't, we don't see any, any, any uh cars, it's just like a one, one road and then trees. I'm like, okay, wait, hey, hey, where's the next gas?

Ilia: 5:25

station. I'm quiet, I'm not responding because I'm like you're checking, you're checking.

Nino: 5:29

I don't know what to tell you because it's.

Ilia: 5:30

It was like 45 minutes or something like that, or half an hour, bro, bro, because it was about your light was about to turn on it was about to turn on. It was like you were like 20 kilometers left or something.

Nino: 5:43

Oh yeah, bro, did you? Do you remember how, how, how, um nervous I was getting?

Ilia: 5:48

yes, so the funny part was okay. To me it was funny. One of the funniest parts was the fact that I think you literally set a record how far you could have driven with a car saying you have zero kilometers left. So everyone knows once you like been driving for a few years and you've been in that situation when it says zero, it's not really zero yeah, there's still a a little bit of uh gas there. Yeah, probably like 20 kilometers, something like that, where it depends on the car yeah yeah, do you remember how many we drove?

Ilia: 6:22

it was way more than 20 we were driving for 40 or something.

Nino: 6:25

Yeah, 40 40 kilometers.

Ilia: 6:28

I bet that another like kilometer, your car would have stopped in the middle remember when we found the whole video like like I was actually, so I still need to edit that video.

Nino: 6:37

Oh my god, that was, you can't get around to it. Yeah, that was terrible, man. I was like saying, you know, we need to get to this and we were kind of late to the wedding too, right. So I was like, um, are we gonna make it? It was such a good wedding, it was such. That was the one where I did the spin back. Right, yeah, the same wedding, right.

Ilia: 6:57

But aren't they your um? Aren't you on the preferred preferred vendor list there? I didn't.

Nino: 7:02

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I hope you still are after the story. I still am, I still am, but that was pretty bad man. I'm never going to do that again. Like just a pointer for DJs that are going in very what areas are those?

Ilia: 7:18

Here in Canada, when you drive north of I'm not going to say the name of the city, a lot of them wouldn't know, but when you're about an hour north of, uh, downtown toronto, maybe two hours north of downtown toronto, fuel up yeah, yeah, you need to, you definitely need to. So, yeah, yeah, I when you're leaving the suburbs and you're going to like countryside. That's yeah, that's what you're going to like countryside, that's what you're talking about.

Nino: 7:43

Yes, Countryside is dangerous.

Ilia: 7:46

Like you won't. And the thing is there's no excuse, there's no, there's nothing you can do unless somebody can come out. And even if you know you have someone who's going to like extend a favor and be like yo, you know I'm going to, I'm going to come and give you some gas, yeah.

Nino: 8:08

Let's wait for an hour or two before he gets there.

Ilia: 8:09

That's what I was thinking I'm like, oh my gosh, if we stop right here, I have to call like caa to get, get me gas.

Nino: 8:12

And then bring me to the actual like uh, I actually should, and then bring it back I'm like, oh my god, this is gonna be a trip.

Ilia: 8:14

I worked for caa as a tow truck driver. I was driving flatbed years and years ago. Um, just trying to educate myself on, like, how to be a man and know more about cars and stuff.

Nino: 8:25

Right, I just threw myself into the that, that field, yeah, and um, we don't respond quickly oh, I'm sure you don't, especially when you're out there like in the middle of nowhere, right, yeah?

Ilia: 8:38

sometimes we did not respond quickly back then. Um, you try, sometimes you just can't. Yeah right, and you'd be waiting for a long time, yeah, so yeah, it's not ideal man.

Nino: 8:50

So if, before you guys go to the countryside, if you guys, like I, have a two, three hour drive, make sure to gas up, because I I learned the hard way barely made it, literally barely memories.

Ilia: 9:04

I wish we knew how much actually. I asked you uh, what's your tank size? I didn't know, and I think back then you told me, and we calculated you had like zero point, something like liters left.

Nino: 9:15

Bro, we don't do gallons, I was running on fumes for really, and then we had a full full. The back was full of gear too, so, so we were heavier.

Ilia: 9:23

A very, very heavy load kind of wedding. I think we had less than three or four kilometers left, not even five. Yeah, yeah. A couple miles guys A couple miles, not even joking.

Nino: 9:35

Barely made it. We were ready to push the car.

Ilia: 9:38

Yeah, literally. I mean you would be pushing the car. I'm not pushing the car on the backside of your car ever again after you dropped. Is this here too, when you almost decapitated?

Nino: 9:54

no, no, no not decapitated when you almost got rid of my um of of my foot so we're on the way home from, uh, from one of those long drives, um, and then, uh, I think you wanted to get a charger from my bag. A charger from my bag from, yes, so from the trunk. We had to open up the trunk and, um, I think my one of my speakers it was a qsc k12 was like hanging off and hanging off like by a thread, so he opened it and then it just literally dropped on his foot like square, like on a corner, the edge right it fell on your foot, it was the edge or or like the the side of the speaker, and it wasn't like you know slowly.

Ilia: 10:35

It just dropped, like free falling, yeah from the uh what's what kind car you have? Uh, the highlander, so from the trunk, and I think it was even on something, so it was even higher. Yeah, yeah, and just boom, just dropped, just dropped on his foot, like, and it took me about five seconds to react because I'm like, did I just lose my foot? Yeah, I crush it yeah, yeah, that was.

Nino: 10:56

That was pretty bad. I was like, oh, you were in pain for a while, I thought you were gonna.

Ilia: 11:00

I had to leave you there on the side of the road yeah, that's that's what he was thinking, instead of actually helping me out. Surprisingly, it wasn't actually as bad as it should have been. We don't know, I have a bionic foot or something. Yeah, a friend of mine actually drove over my foot once and he thought I was uh pranking him, saying that, oh, you're on my foot, like, and he's just looking at me and laughing. But he's, he didn't know. No, it wasn't like a chevy cruiser or something. And uh, he's laughing. I'm like you're actually on my foot and I was wearing dress shoes. And he comes out. He's like, oh, I'm like you're actually on my foot and I was wearing dress shoes. And he comes out. He's like, oh, shoot, I am on your foot.

Ilia: 11:34

And he starts laughing like he's just stressed out and he's laughing.

Nino: 11:37

So he just left it on.

Ilia: 11:39

For like a good 30 seconds, like I don't know, just my feet are special.

Nino: 11:44

Special. You're special, thank you. Your mommy says so, my mom says so. Next one. Next one Another story that I have, another one. I think I already mentioned this in the previous episode. I think I got you to do it, yeah, and it got me really like riled up because it just gets to me, because one of my guys that I usually get for this store opening and I usually do this store opening I've done it for a long time. We're gonna refrain from uh, saying the name of the actual store but yeah, basically big one, big.

Nino: 12:21

It was time for like a price hike, so I gave them a new price and then we kind of fell. It kind of fell through so I was like, okay, I'm not gonna work with you guys anymore. We decided we're not gonna work with each other, right. So I told all my guys that, okay, if they contact you, don't work with them. Okay, I told every single one and they're like that's your account.

Ilia: 12:46

Yeah, yeah, you built it exactly over how many months or years?

Nino: 12:50

a years, years. So I worked with them for probably seven years. Every seven years the the first opening actually store.

Ilia: 12:59

Uh, I saw a photo of you, actually like yes, yes, yes, and I'm like, oh man, you're much younger, so that was years ago.

Nino: 13:08

It was a long, long time ago, man, but I I started with them.

Ilia: 13:11

The first store, yeah.

Nino: 13:13

It was time to just move on, right. So I told all my employees don't take anything, because we're done. We're done with this. So I find out, maybe a couple of weeks later, that from a friend who knows that I usually what was that? Was that your tooth, tooth? No, it's like one of the candy, like my mints.

Ilia: 13:37

Okay, right, so, uh, yeah so please don't edit it out. And I was waiting. I was waiting to see is is the candy gonna fall out of your mouth? Because I can see how, like you're trying to like nonchalantly keep it in uh to anyone who's uh listening to us instead of watching the uh video, uh podcast. Nina was really trying to hide uh the lozenge.

Nino: 14:01

He was like uh, yeah accidentally fell out of my mouth. This guy watched it well, okay all right okay, moving on, moving on.

Nino: 14:10

Okay. So I'm not talking about, okay, don't don't do it. So I, um, I found out from a friend, um, who start over, start over, I'm just joking, what are you talking about? So I found out from a friend that, um, who knows that I do that these, uh, openings these gigs, right. So I find out that, oh, you don't do the these gigs anymore, uh, but there's a dj here. I was like, really, send me, send me, send me the picture or his business card. So she, she asked him for a business card and then I I saw it and she took a picture.

Nino: 14:47

I was like this this guy this guy is one of my guys. I'm like what a snake, what a guy. So I was like I call him up like a couple of days after. I'm like why, man? And he kind of knew already too. So he was like guilty, guilty, like oh, I, you know, I just wanted to make money.

Ilia: 15:11

Make money. Yeah, I knew, yeah, I just wanted to make money.

Nino: 15:12

Make money, yeah, I knew, yeah, I just I just went off on him and it was like how could you do this?

Ilia: 15:19

And you don't get angry easily. Yeah, in the two plus years I've known you, yeah.

Nino: 15:26

You don't show your emotions. I was wearing all like everything, the whole alphabet. I was wearing everything Adam, him and yeah, I said, no, that's it, you're done, I'm not getting any more, any more gigs. So, yeah, I backstabbing exactly, exactly. He messed up. He messed up totally. But you know what, after years, years later, he contacted me and asked me for help. He's crawling back on his knees, hands and knees to, to ask me for more nino has, uh, such a big djing business here.

Ilia: 16:04

Um, that, for a person who doesn't own a huge company with, you know, like those companies that are already all over canada and also crossing to the us for, for, like, a person with a with a small business, technically like with like, uh, yeah, still sold proprietorship, you know oh, it's a corporation.

Ilia: 16:24

It is well, yeah, well, I'm just saying, like you know, like there's like I don't even know how to call it, but the ones were like Megan Boyz or what was the other one. There's just these Soul Power, the ones who are just really huge. Yeah Right, you're one level below them, I believe, and you're doing it by yourself. And that guy knew that you have so many connections, so much access to so many gigs and why would you burn yourself like that?

Nino: 16:54

I don't know man, some people are just desperate that way. But yeah, whatever it's, it's done.

Ilia: 17:03

It just. It makes no sense to me.

Ilia: 17:07

Everybody's different and to actually come back to you after that. I would never the gall right, the gall, the nerve I was like I would never If I screwed someone over like that. First of all I would never. That's not my personality. But even if I wanted to, logically knowing the type of business you have and like the kind of mafia connections you have in this industry, I wouldn't be stupid enough to pull something like that. So the fact that some people just don't think you get one gig and then you burn yourself out of hundreds of other gigs, yeah, exactly.

Nino: 17:44

Well, in the end I was still laughing because he came back on his hands and knees back to me. I was like, okay, I'll think about it, but now I get gigs from him once in a while now.

Ilia: 17:53

So, even though your company is pretty huge in terms of the access you have to certain venues and you have, you know, over a dozen DJs working for you, the bigger ones, like the one I just mentioned, there's a big one here, megan Boyz, very successful. They don't just do DJs, they do like they have different acts, right? Do you think if he did that to them, if he somehow breached a contract and they did not sue him or anything, do you think they would take him back? No, A company like that? No, not at all. But you did, you helped him out.

Nino: 18:31

I'm nice like that yeah, no dance, it was, it's no, they wouldn't have they would. They would have done the same thing for sure.

Ilia: 18:41

There's no way yeah, so they wouldn't have done the same thing. You said you took him back, you helped. No, you didn't take him back, you helped him out, you, you, you gave him gigs, yeah.

Nino: 18:51

Yeah, because he was kind of new to the country, I kind of knew he was going to come back to me, because he didn't really have he was truly desperate eh Connections. Yeah, yeah, I understood, but I didn't understand because he kind of didn't know the ways here in Canada. So, yeah, okay, well all right, what's?

Ilia: 19:11

Oh, wow, does this you okay? Yes, I'm good.

Nino: 19:16

Sorry, I'm. I'm under the weather right now.

Ilia: 19:17

So a couple episodes ago, if you remember, I think it was episode 22 or 21. Uh, I was saying how, hey, there's going to be some ambient noises cause, you know, I'm uh under the weather and Nino came in and he's recording anyway. Uh, I think I got my girlfriend sick and I think I got Nino sick. Only, you guys got way more sick than I was. Like, you have like extra, like symptoms. I don't even know if that was me, because I did not have that. I had like a bit more than just a cold. I don't know what's happened to your throat, but yeah, I think it says that you had someone faint on you were you that good?

Nino: 19:55

this is like two, three, three years ago I did another wedding and basically I started to do the DJ, the dance, the dancing, and then some grandma literally was dancing so hard. I think it was like an aunt, like, maybe, like. And then some grandma literally was dancing so hard I think it was like an aunt, maybe like 75 or something.

Nino: 20:19

So, she was elderly, I think she was the aunt of the bride, so she was dancing really, really hard. I think she had a little too much to drink, too 75. Literally she collapsed and fainted. And did you see that happen? I actually didn't. I didn't see it happen, but I heard somebody actually one of the bridesmaids came up to me and stopped the music. The ads collapsed. So I was like, oh, okay, so I stopped it and then we had to wait for the ambulance to come and they had to, you know, take care of her, attend to her and make sure she's okay. So we were like, okay, okay, so at least she was. And then she got, they brought her to the hospital to wheeled her out, and then she was okay, right. So the wedding continued. The wedding did continue. It was this was like maybe like an hour into dancing. So she was, she was pretty, was pretty, pretty drunk, right. So I have that effect on dance floor.

Ilia: 21:15

So one of the weddings I was at, um which I was djing, actually, uh, I was, uh remember the spot where I used to work, uh, as a waiter and then a bartender. Um, I did a wedding there with another DJ. I was supporting him and the the grandmother had to have a hospital, had to have an ambulance called for her because she tripped on the grass where the ceremony was taking place and she couldn't even get to the, to the, to the part, to the dancing part, and we waited at least an hour, hour and a half for the ambulance ambulance to arrive. Then they couldn't open the. Then they couldn't open the um, what is it called? Like the the stretcher, yeah, it wouldn't open, and the like it wouldn't like. You know, like the wheels won't, won't like just like.

Ilia: 22:21

Luckily, one of the like wedding party, like one of the parents or someone, was a paramedic, yeah, and you went and helped them out so he's also a paramedic and you helped them out and they wheeled her out of there and the wedding continued, but it was like at least an hour and a half to two hour ordeal. Funny enough and I'm not going to mention the name of the place I told them while I was a part of catering staff there, while, while while I was bartending bartending there for a couple of shifts, I told them somebody's gonna sue you guys because you have so many holes in your grass, so many like little pits, and, like you know, I like I would like roll my ankle sometimes and get really pissed because I'm holding a bunch of like trays and stuff. Yeah, it's dangerous and sure enough it happened right. I told them that time and time again. They weren't listening to me yeah, yeah, there we go.

Nino: 23:12

So there you go.

Ilia: 23:13

Yeah, it happens man that was not even like her fault. No, your your uh grandma story. Or like aunt story, like she was, just like she was, slosh boozing? Yeah, she was boozing, but this one just like didn't see the like where she was, like where she was stepping, and it wasn't her fault yeah, yeah, my god, well, I got, and then, and the next one I have is the same same deal.

Nino: 23:37

It was another person fainted another person fainted, another one. This is, yeah, another one. This is my effect on dance floor, right, I get them really riled up so stuff happens right. So you should come with a disclaimer.

Nino: 23:49

Literally, I should, right, but this time it was the father of the bride. This was just last year. Was he older too? Of course he was the father of the bride, so he's probably like close to 70s as well, right, but he also drank a little bit, but this time he literally it was only 10 minutes into dancing, so it was only like 9.30. So, literally, and he dropped right at like after 10 minutes. And then he I think he hit his head on the ground. So everybody was like, oh, and then, once again, somebody told me to turn off the music. So I turned it off, right, and then the bride was hysterical. She's crying because of course she's so close with her dad, right, and it's her dad.

Ilia: 24:37

So they get to do the first dance and everything. Yeah, they did.

Nino: 24:42

They did her dad. So they had to do the first dance and everything. Yeah, they did, they did right, but but obviously, of course, at least they got to do that, yeah, yeah. But at the same time she was just hysterical, going crazy. She ran out of the room. She came back she's just checking her dad. Then she ran out, just crying, crying. Everybody felt bad, right, and um, so I stopped and we just waited until the ambulance came. So the ambulance made sure that he was okay, he wheeled him out and he was okay, but the actual wedding didn't continue, wait. So they brought him back and they just no, no, no. They brought him to the hospital and then that was that. Nobody wanted to dance. But why did he fall? Why did he trip? He was just, he was dancing way too hard and he was drunk too as well. Wow, so that's my effect, man. It's the Nino effect. You did the Nino effect.

Ilia: 25:34

Definitely come with a disclaimer brother.

Nino: 25:36

Yeah, so that's what happened. Literally, they stopped the party at literally like 9.40. The bride was like hysterical, she was crying all night and nobody wanted to party anymore because it was the bride's father. Now, if it was someone else, like someone, like a guest, if someone else, it's sad to say but we probably would have continued with the night. But because it was the bride's father's, you know he.

Ilia: 26:05

And you never know people's health conditions and stuff. Maybe he was dealing with something, so maybe there was a lot more than meets the eye. Right, exactly, exactly. But yeah, that's what happened. There's so many gigs that you do, you'll have a lot of stories.

Nino: 26:17

Yeah, but you know what?

Ilia: 26:21

I'm actually redoing their wedding.

Nino: 26:22

I was gonna ask you because I'm doing their dance floor again, because I felt bad, because I'm so happy they're doing it.

Ilia: 26:26

I'm so happy for them. Yeah, you did tell me something I was gonna ask and I'm not charging them.

Nino: 26:31

You know, because you know right on, man, right on, you know, yeah, right on. So I'm doing that for them. So, yeah, you know it's nice to give back right. And I and I felt kind of like it wasn't, like I wasn't fulfilled that night because I didn't get to rock the party yet and it was only 10 minutes, I was just getting started literally.

Ilia: 26:51

So, oh well, Do you think you should say something like hey, mr So-and-so, don't drink too much tonight.

Nino: 26:57

You know what I actually said Because I brought it up to the bride and said you know what I actually said because I I brought it up to the the bride and said you know what I'm gonna? I I'm, we gotta do it again. I'm gonna do it for free. Just get a venue and whatever. It doesn't have to be an expensive uh hall, it can be just like a community center or someone's backyard or house, and I'll do it for free, right, but this time can you get some? Maybe someone to watch over your dad, or maybe like sit down, or someone, someone to just watch him so he doesn't go off, and it's like what did they get?

Ilia: 27:25

they get like a big venue again, or they actually did get a big venue.

Nino: 27:29

I guess I haven't. I haven't done it yet it's. It's in like a couple of months still. You'll probably need to come with you july. You'll need some help. Yeah, oh, okay, I'll let you know.

Ilia: 27:38

It's been a while since I came on a wedding or like any gig with you. I know, I know, right, wow, it's been a while. It's been a while it's been hard for you. You miss it. You miss it. You do you miss it it's fun.

Nino: 27:52

It was fun. Yeah, of course, of course it's fun. Man, we're just, we're just playing around, right, but yeah, that's, that's that. Um, this one time I uh didn't get paid for a gig.

Ilia: 28:05

How do you? I'm sorry that I'm stopping you. It's one big paragraph. How are you seeing? Like what? Where are the like?

Nino: 28:14

sorry it's down here. I already went through everything. Oh okay, so I already know.

Ilia: 28:19

I already know right, so is that the? Okay, I can't even say the name, but I know which one you're talking about yes, it's a, it's a makeup brand.

Nino: 28:25

It's a big one in here in canada. If I say the name, you guys will know they have stores everywhere, multiple stores, and um, they get me all the time they got. They got me as much as the other one would get me and I didn't start with them, but they got me good for a good like three, four years so, and I've been doing all of their close relationship yes, very, very, very close right and um, they were having a special event, but these people were coming from montreal now, right, so they didn't know me personally.

Ilia: 28:57

We're in toronto, in the suburbs, so we're talking about a couple hour drive yeah, so I I was in contact with them More than a couple hours.

Nino: 29:04

The actual company recommended me, so they contacted me straight, these people from Montreal, and then they told me what they need exactly Because they have like a special artist that's doing like makeup on people. So they need certain things and whatever I need to be set up yeah, yeah, yeah.

Nino: 29:30

So it was a. It was a big artist that was doing like a, um, like a showcase or something for for the crowd, right and um, I, I, right, and I thought we got mixed Things, got mixed up in the details and I thought, ok, wireless microphone, you guys need my wireless microphone, right, but they actually meant a headset microphone like a wireless handheld. Yeah, without no hands.

Ilia: 29:59

Just like our headphones with the mic.

Nino: 30:00

Yeah, exactly so they were looking for that and I totally misunderstood. They didn't really specify, but that's what they wanted, right? So on the day of Sorry, sorry, sorry, whose fault was it? I guess it was my fault for not Double checking that you understand. Double checking that I understood it, but that's, they did not explain they did not explain it very, very well, but putting two and two together, if they were putting makeup on someone, I guess yeah I did.

Ilia: 30:34

You're really trying to see how it was your fault, but it could have been a bit more. It could have been a little bit more like, like if they told you it's not a wireless mic, we need our hands been a little bit more like like if they told you it's not a wireless mic, we need our hands to be free. Yeah, if they said something like that, you would know right I would know to use a headset microphone.

Nino: 30:49

I didn't. They didn't say that they just need a wireless it's our responsibility to always double check.

Ilia: 30:55

Right, yeah yeah.

Nino: 30:56

So I end up doing the gig and the way they did it. I was actually freaking out on the day of and I was looking for a headset microphone on the day of. I was trying to find a Long and McQuaid really close by or a Best Buy, but I couldn't find one. I'm surprised that a place like that was not near Long and McQuaid, really close by or a best buy, but I couldn't find one.

Ilia: 31:22

I'm surprised that a place like that was not near Long McQuaid.

Nino: 31:26

It was downtown, the middle of downtown, so it was. There's Long McQuaids there.

Ilia: 31:30

There are, but you did not have enough time, because driving there a short distance takes a long time, literally, I start in like 20 minutes.

Nino: 31:41

Oh, there's no way, there's no way, and I wouldn't even be able to drive for sure. I was thinking of walking this, anything walking this? You knew me back then. Well, yeah, you would go get it, I'd help you out, right?

Ilia: 31:56

But it was literally too late For a symbolic fee.

Nino: 31:58

So what they did, what they did, they um, they got someone to hold the microphone at for the, for the actual person doing the um the show, right, so they didn't have to do it with their hands. So so I thought everything was was okay because they made it work right. We did the gig, I, I killed it, people were dancing in the store and everything. So after a few, uh, like the next day, of course, they haven't paid me and so I asked, I, I emailed them and asked them for for my payment, and they're like no, I don't think we're gonna pay you. I was like what? We're not gonna pay you because you didn't, you didn't fulfill your obligation. We needed a headset, mic and it was so inconvenient because you didn't bring it.

Ilia: 32:52

Like but everything else was on point. Yeah, it was, it was, it was great and, like you've had a long relationship.

Nino: 33:00

But this is another company. It's the same company, but a different group. Oh, okay, okay okay.

Ilia: 33:08

Because it's a huge chain.

Nino: 33:09

Yeah, yeah. So they were from Montreal and they were supposed to pay me the next day, but they didn't. So, yeah, did you stop working with all of them after this? No, the actual company is still, didn't you?

Ilia: 33:21

recently have an event with them like a few months ago.

Nino: 33:24

Yes, yes, yes they still, they still get me uh once in a while. But, um, yeah, it kind of did tarnish our, uh, my reputation with them a little bit. But uh, yeah, I didn't get paid for that. So, yeah, it was, it was, it was tough, I, I didn't even I couldn't even come after them right, like I could have technically. But is it even better to save face and yeah, and kind of not not make it worse.

Nino: 33:50

That's noble, that situation, because because, like, the customer is always right and they're gonna be like fighting me over it, like, yeah, he didn't provide this and I'm like it's gonna cost you more to fight it it is.

Ilia: 33:59

It's gonna tarnish your reputation even more right exactly, exactly, so I just left it alone.

Nino: 34:04

I'm like, no, there's no way, so I just left alone. I didn't get paid, that's that's, that's my thing.

Ilia: 34:10

And then you know, I know you have a couple other gigs, at least one more gig where you didn't get paid and all that stuff.

Nino: 34:15

But I know there's one very particularly interesting story okay, yes, yes, this is the one I wanted to get to so we'll talk about the other ones.

Nino: 34:24

Maybe another episode, but like but this one, I know now I did. I did a wedding at this venue that I do weddings all the time, right, and uh, at this wedding in particular, I was uh videotaping for my vlog. I have a youtube channel, by the way uh, shameless plug but um, it's called dj nine's world. But, um, yeah, um, yes, I was, I was videotaping it and I asked the actual bride and groom if it was okay and they were like, yeah, sure, why not? So, because I was uh djing the the dance portion. This lady, this pretty pretty, uh young lady, comes to me and says, hi, are you recording this? I'm like, yeah, why? Because, um, can I look at the footage? I'm like, why, why would you even think? It made me think like, wow, you're busy and I'm busy, I'm djing, like people are dancing, the dance floor is full, right. So, um, I looked back on that and the next day I was like, I checked the footage and then apparently there was this couple teasing that girl, like she had a short skirt right, so they were like lifting her, her skirt up and apparently she didn't have any undergarments.

Nino: 35:56

So, um, there was one moment where the the guy took her over her shoulder, over his shoulder, over his shoulder, and then the girl actually pulled up is her skirt, and then I, I caught it on camera, and then that, I guess that's why she was were you guys working together? No, so I caught it on camera, so I guess that's what she was like, uh, harping about, right. So I was like, oh my gosh, she wasn't wearing it. She knew exactly. But when you go, when you go, commander, you take the risk. Hey, hey, what can you do, right? So, yeah, those and it happens sometimes they teach when people find out stuff like that they tease you the whole night, right, it was.

Nino: 36:42

It's funny that I caught it on camera, but it's very, very embarrassing for her. I did, uh, post the blog, uh, the actual vlog, and I did censor her face so they wouldn't know, not just the face from the waist up, you, you wouldn't be able to know it was her. But, yes, the, the skirt thing, I did censor that as well. Oops, yeah, so, yeah, I witnessed that. So, yeah, a couple of things that I, I went through and there's probably gonna be a lot more, I'm sure, and, of course, you two men, you're gonna go through a lot of things I, I, I have a couple things here and there, but nothing that major.

Ilia: 37:27

I'm trying to think right now, like is there anything? And all I'm getting in my head is I'm just like I, I don't remember. I, I had certain moments which were like either annoying or like are you kidding me? Moments, nothing this insane, except you know what I did tell you about the, the older grandmother you know, falling and she broke something. She actually broke something. It wasn't my personally, like my wedding, that I was doing by myself, but it was one of my events, I was being paid for it and everything. So, yeah, I guess that's it that I was doing by myself, but it was one of my events, I was being paid for it and everything. Um, so, yeah, I guess that's it. That's it. Well, thank you very much.

Nino: 38:09

Uh, thanks for listening to my stories. But we'll get. We'll have more in the future.

Ilia: 38:13

Yeah, and thanks for joining another episode of the Clever DJ. See you guys in the next one.

Nino: 38:17

See you guys next Wednesday See you then.