September 16, 2025 • 30 mins
Michel Lalonde – Professional DJ, Sound.wav Rentals | Episode 35 | Sudbury Interviews | September 16, 2025 | Host: Dani Star (Canadian Idol, Season 5) | Find us on Sudztown and join the conversation | If you would like to be a guest on theshow, please reach out | Listen on: Sudztown | YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | iHeart Radio | Pocket Casts | Amazon Music | Audacy | Audible | Listen Notes | Overcast | RSS Feed| Website: https://sudztown.com/show/
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Hi everyone, welcome to Sudbury Interviews.
Today we have Mitch Lallone or Michelle Lallone.
He's a professional DJ, has beendoing that since 2014 and the
business name is Soundwave Rentals.
I actually met Mitch a few timesat gigs that we were both a part
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of and he's just a really great guy and I'm really happy to have
him on the show today. Before we begin, you can find us
on Sudstown and join the conversation.
If you would like to be a guest on the show, please reach out.
Hey, Mitch, how you doing? I'm doing quite well.
How are you? Well, thanks for coming on
today. What you been up to?
Well, between raising a 14 monthold and a nine year old daughter
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tomorrow and just essentially working hard at the DJ business
lately, which just kept me, I got to say, quite occupied.
Summer busy. Oh, absolutely.
Yeah. I've got to say, probably this
year, one of our busiest summers, we've had, oddly
enough, spaced out in a strange way where our July ended up
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being the slowest, but our August the busiest we've ever
had. So everything finds a way to
balance itself out. But it did give me the
opportunity to actually have a few Saturdays off, which is
unheard of in the last decade. So how, how did you start out
with? Did you always know you wanted
to be a DJ? Or was it, you know, a fluke?
Total fluke. I actually hated D JS.
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I always I, I isn't that great. Isn't that fantastic?
Hilarious. It's, it's, it's kind of a, a
very strange trajectory of how Igot from musician to now.
So when I was in high school, I started, well, actually I guess
it would have been middle school.
I started drum lessons at about the age of 1112, joined at the
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Bistro at Collage Notre Dam whenI was in high school.
I was part of the first group back in 2006 and that show has
been running consistently ever since.
Great and met some great people while performing and then
continued on with some of those people, one of them being my
best friend Pat Wright after high school.
So through my call or my university years I guess you
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could call it, when I was 22 started feeling some aches and
pains which I know way too youngto start feeling that but got
diagnosed with tendonitis and mymy shoulders and my elbows.
So naturally as a 22 year old who's being told by his doctor,
hey you should quit that repetitive motion it's only
going to cause more pain. I ignored him for a couple of
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more years and kept pursuing drumming with a few different
groups and then also join the Dodgeball league because again,
you're 22 and you're not really thinking straight about your
future with that. Then unfortunately just got to a
point till I was about 2324, I realized my body is just not
keeping up with this. But I love music so much I still
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want to stay connected. I thought, you know, this will
go away after some time, I just need to give myself some rest.
Meanwhile, I had all this PA gear at home that I had
accumulated over the years because I was the only guy in my
band that apparently had a car and also had all the PA gear
that we needed. So instead of selling everything
off and getting rid of it, I created sound wave rentals as a
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way to rent out my equipment, work as a sound guy, which I did
for a couple of years. A Cousin Vinny's and Hammer, and
just wanted to stay close to thescene and close to music.
So that's how the company was created.
The DJ ING part, oddly enough, came just to fill in a need as I
was renting my equipment out to a few DJs and a few different
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events and realizing that I feltlike I could do a slightly
better job than what some of these DJs were offering.
Now I've I've known some great DJs in town that that have done
amazing work over the years, butsome of these people were.
Imagine having YouTube commercials playing in the
middle of your song, or a DJ who's so intoxicated by the end
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of an event he cannot find the exit to the venue and finding
out they were getting paid 3 or 4 times more.
So I realized there's an opportunity here for me to
maximize a little bit more money, so I aligned myself with
the Canadian Professional Disc Jockey Association.
At the time, our local chapter was ran by Cheryl and Dennis
Savoie, who owned and operated Red's DJ Service, which was one
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of the premier DJ services in town.
So I shadowed them and then got my Canadian Professional Disc
Jockey Association license, started working my own weddings
and events in, I guess you'd saythe summer of 2015.
And then from there everything kind of ballooned and and blew
up. So consistently, year over year,
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I was getting busier and busier and busier.
Finally in 2023, June of 2023 infact, I quit working any full
time job and I've launched myself completely into sound
wave rentals. So over 11 years I've worked
over well, actually I just finished my 232nd wedding this
past Saturday. I've deejayed over 350 events.
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So we're talking birthday parties, staff parties.
I used to DJ in between the setsof bands when I was still
working, sound like Cousin Vinnie's.
And that's how I got my chops and started practicing with
that. So yeah.
And and with that has come a stellar 5 star reputation with
over 205 star reviews now and the quite a number of awards
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from the most recent ones being the Quality Business Awards.
I've been three best rated since2019.
I've been nominated twice, both in 2025 and in 2023 as a small
enterprise finalists for the Business Excellence Awards.
And yeah, and I've won the Community Votes awards too over
the years. So all that to say, it started
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as, yeah, that idea of I don't really like DJs because I was a
performing musician. And you know, we, we know how
hard it is out there for performing musicians to get a
name for themselves and try to get the, the gigs and the
bookings and trying to make a little bit of a living at it and
enjoy what we're doing to basically immersing myself in
that world and having it as my career now.
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Did you say that somebody was using YouTube at a wedding for a
DJ and there was commercials coming on?
Thankfully it wasn't a wedding. It was, it was a university type
event. The wedding though, I, I had
worked one wedding where somebody was supposed to be
keeping an eye on the music and there was about 10 seconds of
silence in between each song. So you can imagine that if you
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have a full dance floor under dancing to, let's say, Uptown
Funk, and you've got a good groove and everybody's having a
good time, and then all of a sudden the song just stops.
Well, 10 seconds is forever whenit when it comes to dead air.
Absolutely, and especially if you have a party atmosphere and
vibe. So it is.
So again, it's, I kind of just look at these different
experiences because I was just hired on as a sound and lighting
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guy and, and invited to stick around because a lot of times I
knew the organizers or I had friends that were there and I
just wanted to keep an eye on everything to make sure
everything was running well. And I just, I kept telling
myself I have a good music knowledge.
I've worked for KISS and Q 92 now since 2012, though I'm a
behind the scenes guy, event coordinator, I believe is still
the OR yeah, I forget the exact name of my job title.
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It's changed a few times over the years, but I essentially
work events for, for the for theradio station.
So you'll see me sometimes pop up in the community here and
there. And, and, and it's kind of that
I, I grew up loving music, knowing music as a performer.
And I just felt, I feel like I have something good that I can
give to this. And with my business and
background, having been the manager for my parents when they
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own Snap Fitness out in the valley, I just felt putting all
those skills together, I should be able to have a nice polished
finished product. And again, when I started this,
it was just, hey, this is the cash on the side.
This is just something I'm goingto get to enjoy on the weekends,
a little bit of extra money. I never could have imagined it
would have blown up to what I have as a company today.
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Do you think the the kids of today know what DJ stands for or
even what a disk is? There might be a few of them,
but again, as a father of a nineyear old I I will say that most
kids may not I I I feel like some will know what ACD is at
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this point. VHS less a track and it starts
getting rougher and rougher as you kind of go by.
But that again, being said, it'slike you try to explain an iPod
today to somebody who didn't, who's always grown up with an
iPhone. I don't think they necessarily
will always comprehend, wait a minute, you didn't have
everything at the touch of a button.
And, and I mean, I'm a child product of the of the 90s,
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right? So we, we were part of that
generation that went from havingminimal technology to kind of
everything at her fingertips as well.
Which as a DJI mean, I, I, I cannot lie and say in some ways
it's gotten easier to be a DJ and in a lot of ways it's gotten
high harder because everybody expects you to have everything
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at your fingertips. So if you say, Hey, I don't have
a song and they go, well, wait, wait a minute, how do you not
have that song? Our song banks are about 60,000
plus songs constantly adding newmusic.
But there's 1,000,000 new songs released in North America a year
alone. So if you multiply that over 70
years of music and then add everywhere else in the world,
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60,000 songs seems like a drop in the bucket.
Yeah. And then if you're in the middle
of the Bush, like I've been at sometimes weddings on Manitoulin
Island with a single is very, very weak.
You sometimes find your climbinga a tree with your cell phone
and the laptop. On the other hand, just trying
to get that single. So you could try to get a couple
of songs you need for the event coming on.
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But again, you learn over the years to make sure you're pre
prepared for everything before you even have to to get to that
point. So do you think that we're
we're, we're lucky that the wordDJ was invented when it was?
Because what do you think would be the name of what you do if we
didn't have the word DJ? Spotify, I think is is kind of
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the way that it would probably replace it at this point.
No, I, I guess, yeah, it's, it'sa very intriguing question
because I don't know what would replace it really at this, at
this point. It might just be music person.
It might just be, it might be something so very, very generic
that it would just be like, hey,that guy who plays music on his
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computer on his on, on his laptop or on, on his controller.
At this point. I, I, I guess, yeah, the term DJ
coming at the time it did was, was a good thing.
But to say I I can't really fathom what would replace that
term at this point. How about sound waiver?
Oh. That'd be nice.
Yeah. I mean, then that would just
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help with my business name even more so, right?
Because I still get a lot of being sound wave rentals being
written with a dot WAV, which issupposed to represent a WAV
file. I often will get calls saying
I'm looking for sound WAV rentals, which has always given
me a bit of a chuckle over the years and a lot of people saying
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I don't quite understand what itstands for.
And it's really, the idea came from Patrick Wright as I was
trying to come up with business names and saying, well, wave
file, that sounds pretty cool. And I'm like, awesome, I like
that. That's why the logo looks like a
wave file, that that's why everything's kind of composed
around it. And the rentals part, oddly
enough, although I primarily offer DJ services these days,
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and conference and event services and fundraiser and
community event services, the the rentals part of my business
is actually quite diminished over the years compared to what
it used to be before. You're a really great
communicator, I have to say thank you.
So tell us about your political journey, because did you not run
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for office at one point a few years ago?
I did so in 2018. I ran as councillor for Ward 5
which compromises of Blizzard Valley, Valkaran, McRae Heights
and there's a small section of New Sudbury.
I guess you could call it the North End, which I'm trying to
remember if it went right to Edido Street and I'm going to
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include that Cambrian Heights. So it was a fairly large area
that election there. Gee, I would have been 22 years
old. And considering a 22 year old
running into a political election is, is something of an
accomplishment itself because a lot of people would think, OK,
you're, you're fairly young to be doing this, which, which I
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was. And with having a 2 year old at
the time at home and we were in the process of moving and
renovating house, it was, it wasquite the ordeal to do it.
But with doing that, I, I did, Iwould say extremely well.
I, I walked away with 12143 votes, which was 34.53% of the
votes. Unfortunately not enough to win.
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Robert Kerwin, who was the incumbent, continued to be the
counsellor at that time. But I kind of felt like I had
some unfinished business after that election and, and felt
like, well, maybe there's a few things I could have done better
and maybe I could have done something a little bit more.
I with the second run, I actually ran in Ward 6, which is
Hammer and Valtteris, and that time I ran against it.
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I knew that Piata and we were five people vying for that seat.
I still came in second place, 11113 votes, 25.24% of the votes
on that time, again losing to the incumbent.
But that being said, I learned so much during that time with
the second run, I really felt like I gave everything I got.
We literally knocked on every single house in the ward vying
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for votes. I was up at the Joe Lake area
and that and I still remember this last house I knocked at.
They answered the door and they said hello and I said, hi, my
name is Bishet. And home presented myself for
for City Council and he went, you drove all the way up here
and I said, well, Sir, do you vote?
He said, yes, I do. And I said, well, that's the
reason I'm here. I'm trying to get every single
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vote. And just because you live at the
furthest northeast part of Hanmer and of the ward, I'm
still vying for everybody's vote.
And your vote says as everybody else.
So, yeah, so it was, it was definitely a very humbling
experience because you know, you're going in and of course
you want to win. But the whole part of the
trajectory is, is being, it's such an amazing part of being
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part of democracy and just seeing how people will vote and,
and hoping that your message will resonate with people.
But you don't take it to heart too much when you don't win.
The biggest lesson I took was I put myself out there.
The people made their choice, you back the winner.
After that, you try again another day and, and I know well
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now as we get closer to the 2026election, I often get asked,
well, hey, are you going to run again?
And, and I get that from constituents.
I get that from Ward 5, from Ward 6.
I get it from other areas in town as well.
I get it from a few counsellors that will remain nameless for
the time being. And you know, we'll see what the
future has to hold. Of course, having a 14 month old
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at home, my wife will be returning to work shortly.
You know, so priorities have shifted a little bit and are a
little different than what they were in my younger years.
But I, I look forward to still continuing to engage in the
political process in our community, giving back in any
way that I can. And you know, maybe one day or
not in in in the so distant future, you might see my name
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pop up to run for mayor as well.So in in our beginning
conversation before we hit record, you mentioned being an
extrovert. So can you tell us a little bit
about that and the difference between an extrovert and an
introvert? Yeah, well, basically an
extrovert to me would would be somebody that's just always
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outgoing, kind of always on, always looking to to
communicate, to always look and have engaging conversations with
people, always wanting to be outthere and in the community out
and about. And kind of those people at the
party that you know that will make you laugh and never seem to
really quiet down too much and and tend to gravitate around a
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lot of people. That's that way I would say was
more towards me. The introvert people usually in,
in my experience are people thatare great, but smaller groups
and one-on-one. They like their time at home.
They like their time away from the big crowds and, and the
people as well. And, and I mean, in the career
path that I've chosen, being a DJ and, and, and seeing a lot of
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the events I'm, I'm at as well. But you have to be an extrovert.
You have to put yourself out there.
You have to be kind of an open book.
You have to be able to adapt to different circumstances with
different people and engage withthem as well.
So I think that's kind of attributed a bit to my successes
in business and personal life aswell.
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Just I've, I've been out there so much in the community, but I
enjoy it. I enjoy people, I enjoy
interactions. I I love learning, I love
engaging and love conversing with as many people as I
possibly can. Do you think it aligns somewhat
with the yin and Yang like the two halves of the whole?
100% see my wife I would say is more of an introvert and she
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would she would agree with me. It's kind of a if you send her
out to the grocery store to Costco and she says I'm going
out to do this task and I'll be done in an hour.
She gets it done in an hour. Myself on the other hand, I tell
her I'll be back in an hour. 4 hours later I come back.
I still brought the milk home, but I kind of disappeared off
the face of the planet. And that's because I've run into
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past clients, friends, family, other people I've engaged with
in the community. And sometimes it's just I'm
having a random conversation with the person at the checkout
line that's behind me and we're sharing a moment and or sharing
a joke or something along those lines.
That's the one thing that she actually enjoyed about the COVID
time because, you know, being inthe entertainment industry and,
and at the time I was in workingat the gym as well.
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I found myself at home laid off from three jobs at 30 years old,
'cause I just celebrated my birthday 2 days before that
first lockdown. And, but my wife loves sending
me to the grocery store because she knew, OK, well, you're going
to go there, you're going to do everything you need to do and
you're going to come right back home.
And you can't stop the talking to anybody because everybody's
wearing masks and you don't recognize anybody and they don't
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recognize you. So she, she enjoyed more of that
time, I could say then, you know, now we're back as, as the
world has normalized itself again.
Yeah, now I I find myself being stopped a little bit more in
public and, and, and that's perfectly fine by me too, though
like I said, I enjoy engaging with people and, and conversing
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and, and putting myself out there as well.
So what do you think would happen if you married a person
like yourself rather than an introvert?
Oh, that is good question. I don't think it would balance
out too well. I, I, I find, I, I find for
myself, it's, it's, it's nice being with an introvert because
it find it, it finds a way to ground you.
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So instead of always being on and go, go, go and, and doing
this and doing that, it's nice to just come home and relax and
enjoy family time and, and enjoythose moments together.
So I find in, you know, to the yin and Yang analogy, it's made
us more complete. And I've been with my wife for a
while. We've been married for eight
years, together for 11 at this point.
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And we actually met when we werein first grade when we were
kids. So, you know, it's been a long
trajectory to be at the point ofwhere we are now.
And I, I can't imagine being with anybody else than her.
But I can also imagine if it was2 introverts or two extroverts,
I should say, together, it probably wouldn't drive too much
because you just, you'd constantly be on.
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And I feel like that might be tiring.
But again, that's for myself. Everybody's a little different.
If you found your person, you find a way to make it work.
What's one thing that you feel would make Sudbury greater?
Oh, that is a That is a loaded and deep question.
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I got to reflect on that actually a little bit.
This. This might be the quietest
somebody's ever gotten me to be.We've got some dead air.
Got some, got some. It's it's got some dead air,
Yeah. But it's OK in this case, Mitch,
Yeah. Like it's yeah, no, no, it's,
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it's a definitely, it's an interesting question.
I, I think it, you know, it kindof would go, I have to say
sometimes it's a reality that we're all fighting the same
battles and we're all kind of going through life in our own
ways, but we all have kind of the same end goal in a, in a
time where politics has really divided people.
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You know, we often hear, especially in the States, the
left against the right, just sitting there and, and had
conversing like like just normalconversations between one
another, more discussions between one another, more
understanding that, hey, wait a minute, we're all facing the
same thing. We just might have a slightly
different ways of addressing andtackling the problem and think
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that the solutions might be found in a different way, but
it's kind of coming back together in ways that we used to
do. But, you know, even just a few
years ago and, and just remembering that, you know, on
this, this big sphere known as Earth, we're all fighting the
same battles each day. And instead of fighting and
individualistically we're we're so much better if we come
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together as a people and tackle it head on.
Good answer. It's something I, I, I've
reflected a lot upon because especially, and again, right
when you, you're asked, you know, what do you feel like
running again? Do you think you're going to run
again? There's so much hostility in the
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world today that my message, andthat's a message that I've had
in the last two elections as well, has been we need to come
together as a people. It doesn't matter if you support
the NDP, that Liberals, Conservatives, the Black
Quebecois or the Green Party, Everybody has their own opinions
and ideas. But unless we sit there and we
discuss it, unless we actually take time to understand one
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another, our viewpoints and discuss what we're going
through, we're never going to find solutions.
And if we can never find solutions, we're never going to
be able to advance and move forward from the situations that
we're in now. And we know Sudbury, like other
cities across Canada, there's a lot of struggling.
There's a lot of there's a lot of hurt.
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Homelessness has been a big issue.
We have an opioid epidemic that's still affecting us.
There's a mental health crisis. There's a housing crisis.
People are struggling. We're seeing unemployment at its
highest rates. But in those times of what might
seem like despair and sorrow, weneed to look at that light.
We need to look to one another and we'll be able to find
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solutions and we'll be able to find a greener path going
forward. How do you feel about the cost
of living, the high rents and food prices and gas and all of
that? It's, it's quite terrifying
because I, I think of myself, you know, I'm 35 years old.
I'm one of those very fortunate people where, you know, we're,
we're driving older vehicles, but they're paid off.
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And you know, I happen to be mortgage free, work my butt off
to get to this point. But we, we've locked and said,
oh, well, maybe one day, you know, it'd be nice to move.
Maybe we'd get a, a slightly different place in the different
area of town. And even though we've spent this
time establishing ourselves, it is still so very difficult to
get to the next step. So I think of all my friends, I
think of family members, I thinkof other members in the
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community where I go, well, if you didn't have that leg up, if
you don't have, you know, that that cushion to fall back on, I
don't know how people are able to do it.
And I think of single mothers, single fathers and that as well,
if you're trying to do that withkids, your car breaks down.
There's so much pressure put on on everybody right now to
survive that if it, it does feellike something needs to break.
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You know, we, the housing bubblethat we've been living in the
last few years where houses thatwould have been 200 and $250,000
prior to COVID have now doubled in rates.
And but the fact that we're not building enough new homes at a
fast enough rate. But even if we do build those
new homes, there are prices thatare quite unaffordable for most
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people. So it's, it's, I find it's a
cumulative of years of unfortunately not proper
planning to ensure that we'd be able to keep up with demand of
what we have that's kind of led to this.
But now that we're in the middleof the problem has to give and
our leaders are both, you know, locally, federally, provincially
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need to step up and find solutions that are going to help
resolve some of these problems because there is a division of,
of, of policies and, and practices, right?
The municipal level can only do so much where the province has
to step in and the federal government therefore as well, we
need to step in and, and take some of those responsibilities.
The city can't run the deficit. We are not allowed to run the
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deficit as a municipality, but the province and federal
government can run deficits. So that's why we're seeing some
of the struggles that we see on the local level where it would
be nice if the municipality could throw more money at the
problem. Lack of a better word or fun
solutions, but that money needs to come from somewhere and with
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tax, our tax base not exactly expanding in the way that they
wanted to and losing the tax revenue.
Like for example, some of the mines because they've shut down
their operations, because they've vacated or cleared out
some of their above ground buildings, they're not having to
pay as much taxes as what they did before.
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So the city is stuck trying to find either cutting in services
or, or what they're offering or bringing up taxes, as we've
noticed in the last few years tobe able to make up for that lost
revenue. So it's, it's unfortunately,
it's not the greatest of situations.
Again, cost of living. We've seen it in the grocery
stores and that as well. Things keep climbing higher and
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higher. I mean, hamburger meat last I
checked was about 17 bucks a kilo for medium ground beef at
local independent grocers, whichis a huge increase from the 990
that I still have in my freezer at the moment from the last sale
I picked up about four months ago.
So I can just imagine how difficult that's making it for
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for a lot of people to get by with.
Wow, it really. Went up that much, it went
there, yeah. And I mean, I, I, I'm, I'm very
much one of those very savvy shoppers and constantly checking
Flyers and stuff. And, and don't get me wrong,
it's, there are places you can go and still get some deals.
If you, if you happen to have the Costco membership, there's
some options that you can get there that are a little bit
cheaper. But it, it is quite significant
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that the cost of living has goneup.
I think of what my wife and I make as an income is comparative
to what my parents made as an income.
But the quality of living, our buying power is so much lower
than what theirs was. And I mean, my parents retired
in 2019. And in retirement, I mean, just
to help them survive because they, they were lucky enough to
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retire at a young age. My parents now work for me.
So I mean, it's a bonus for me because I get to expand my
business and my operations. But it's also a testament that
even with proper planning, with a pension, with saving up for
RSPS, it's still difficult for people to get by, which which is
not something that I think anybody would have anticipated
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as they were planning towards that too.
Wow. Yeah, that's, that's a really
good point. A lot of good points.
I feel that you would be a really effective politician.
Thank you. Yeah, I mean, it's not.
My world, right? I don't understand it at all.
But you're a good communicator. You seem to have common sense
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and everything. And yeah, again.
Right, it's a it's a big thing and it's thankfully because I
worked at the city as well for three years.
So after I left Snap Fitness after my parents had sold and
retired in 2019, I stayed on until about the end of 2020.
And then I I was employed for the city for a little under
three years, took a leave of absence, though, during my
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election run, I feel like it's important to note.
So there was no funny business happening in the background.
I did everything by the book, but it was something that a very
eye opening as to what city policies were like procedures,
why we do certain things the waythat we do.
Because I've worked in library services, I've worked at the
citizen service center at Tom Davis Square, I worked at in
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children's services, I worked atthe clerk's department, which
are the people that work the City Council meetings among
other tasks. And then, yeah, so it was kind
of A and then in my last year I was working with 311.
So which is a job I can compare to all the complaints and the
inquiries that you would have from the general public like a
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counselor would get, but none ofthe glory of being a city
counselor and having your name attached to it.
But it was very eye opening and trying to understand everything
with the city and how different departments work and operate
because we would filter all those calls as they came through
through the city. Sudbury interviews everyone.
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That's our episode for today. This was Michelle Lalone, Mitch
Lalone. He's a professional DJ.
And I want to thank you for youryour time, first of all, and
your great perspective and pointof view.
And this this half hour flew by for me super fast, very
interesting and thanks for your time.
Is there anything else you'd like to add before we end it, if
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anybody is? Needing ADJMC services.
Salmon Lighting for any kind of events from weddings, school
dances, Proms, conferences, birthday parties, and I.
I've even done a celebration of life or two.
Just visit nitadj.ca. Sounds good.
Thanks, Mitch. Take care.
Thank you. Bye.
Hi everyone, welcome to Sudbury Interviews.
Today we have Mitch Lallone or Michelle Lallone.
He's a professional DJ, has beendoing that since 2014 and the
business name is Soundwave Rentals.
I actually met Mitch a few timesat gigs that we were both a part
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of and he's just a really great guy and I'm really happy to have
him on the show today. Before we begin, you can find us
on Sudstown and join the conversation.
If you would like to be a guest on the show, please reach out.
Hey, Mitch, how you doing? I'm doing quite well.
How are you? Well, thanks for coming on
today. What you been up to?
Well, between raising a 14 monthold and a nine year old daughter
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tomorrow and just essentially working hard at the DJ business
lately, which just kept me, I got to say, quite occupied.
Summer busy. Oh, absolutely.
Yeah. I've got to say, probably this
year, one of our busiest summers, we've had, oddly
enough, spaced out in a strange way where our July ended up
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being the slowest, but our August the busiest we've ever
had. So everything finds a way to
balance itself out. But it did give me the
opportunity to actually have a few Saturdays off, which is
unheard of in the last decade. So how, how did you start out
with? Did you always know you wanted
to be a DJ? Or was it, you know, a fluke?
Total fluke. I actually hated D JS.
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I always I, I isn't that great. Isn't that fantastic?
Hilarious. It's, it's, it's kind of a, a
very strange trajectory of how Igot from musician to now.
So when I was in high school, I started, well, actually I guess
it would have been middle school.
I started drum lessons at about the age of 1112, joined at the
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Bistro at Collage Notre Dam whenI was in high school.
I was part of the first group back in 2006 and that show has
been running consistently ever since.
Great and met some great people while performing and then
continued on with some of those people, one of them being my
best friend Pat Wright after high school.
So through my call or my university years I guess you
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could call it, when I was 22 started feeling some aches and
pains which I know way too youngto start feeling that but got
diagnosed with tendonitis and mymy shoulders and my elbows.
So naturally as a 22 year old who's being told by his doctor,
hey you should quit that repetitive motion it's only
going to cause more pain. I ignored him for a couple of
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more years and kept pursuing drumming with a few different
groups and then also join the Dodgeball league because again,
you're 22 and you're not really thinking straight about your
future with that. Then unfortunately just got to a
point till I was about 2324, I realized my body is just not
keeping up with this. But I love music so much I still
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want to stay connected. I thought, you know, this will
go away after some time, I just need to give myself some rest.
Meanwhile, I had all this PA gear at home that I had
accumulated over the years because I was the only guy in my
band that apparently had a car and also had all the PA gear
that we needed. So instead of selling everything
off and getting rid of it, I created sound wave rentals as a
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way to rent out my equipment, work as a sound guy, which I did
for a couple of years. A Cousin Vinny's and Hammer, and
just wanted to stay close to thescene and close to music.
So that's how the company was created.
The DJ ING part, oddly enough, came just to fill in a need as I
was renting my equipment out to a few DJs and a few different
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events and realizing that I feltlike I could do a slightly
better job than what some of these DJs were offering.
Now I've I've known some great DJs in town that that have done
amazing work over the years, butsome of these people were.
Imagine having YouTube commercials playing in the
middle of your song, or a DJ who's so intoxicated by the end
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of an event he cannot find the exit to the venue and finding
out they were getting paid 3 or 4 times more.
So I realized there's an opportunity here for me to
maximize a little bit more money, so I aligned myself with
the Canadian Professional Disc Jockey Association.
At the time, our local chapter was ran by Cheryl and Dennis
Savoie, who owned and operated Red's DJ Service, which was one
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of the premier DJ services in town.
So I shadowed them and then got my Canadian Professional Disc
Jockey Association license, started working my own weddings
and events in, I guess you'd saythe summer of 2015.
And then from there everything kind of ballooned and and blew
up. So consistently, year over year,
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I was getting busier and busier and busier.
Finally in 2023, June of 2023 infact, I quit working any full
time job and I've launched myself completely into sound
wave rentals. So over 11 years I've worked
over well, actually I just finished my 232nd wedding this
past Saturday. I've deejayed over 350 events.
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So we're talking birthday parties, staff parties.
I used to DJ in between the setsof bands when I was still
working, sound like Cousin Vinnie's.
And that's how I got my chops and started practicing with
that. So yeah.
And and with that has come a stellar 5 star reputation with
over 205 star reviews now and the quite a number of awards
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from the most recent ones being the Quality Business Awards.
I've been three best rated since2019.
I've been nominated twice, both in 2025 and in 2023 as a small
enterprise finalists for the Business Excellence Awards.
And yeah, and I've won the Community Votes awards too over
the years. So all that to say, it started
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as, yeah, that idea of I don't really like DJs because I was a
performing musician. And you know, we, we know how
hard it is out there for performing musicians to get a
name for themselves and try to get the, the gigs and the
bookings and trying to make a little bit of a living at it and
enjoy what we're doing to basically immersing myself in
that world and having it as my career now.
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Did you say that somebody was using YouTube at a wedding for a
DJ and there was commercials coming on?
Thankfully it wasn't a wedding. It was, it was a university type
event. The wedding though, I, I had
worked one wedding where somebody was supposed to be
keeping an eye on the music and there was about 10 seconds of
silence in between each song. So you can imagine that if you
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have a full dance floor under dancing to, let's say, Uptown
Funk, and you've got a good groove and everybody's having a
good time, and then all of a sudden the song just stops.
Well, 10 seconds is forever whenit when it comes to dead air.
Absolutely, and especially if you have a party atmosphere and
vibe. So it is.
So again, it's, I kind of just look at these different
experiences because I was just hired on as a sound and lighting
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guy and, and invited to stick around because a lot of times I
knew the organizers or I had friends that were there and I
just wanted to keep an eye on everything to make sure
everything was running well. And I just, I kept telling
myself I have a good music knowledge.
I've worked for KISS and Q 92 now since 2012, though I'm a
behind the scenes guy, event coordinator, I believe is still
the OR yeah, I forget the exact name of my job title.
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It's changed a few times over the years, but I essentially
work events for, for the for theradio station.
So you'll see me sometimes pop up in the community here and
there. And, and, and it's kind of that
I, I grew up loving music, knowing music as a performer.
And I just felt, I feel like I have something good that I can
give to this. And with my business and
background, having been the manager for my parents when they
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own Snap Fitness out in the valley, I just felt putting all
those skills together, I should be able to have a nice polished
finished product. And again, when I started this,
it was just, hey, this is the cash on the side.
This is just something I'm goingto get to enjoy on the weekends,
a little bit of extra money. I never could have imagined it
would have blown up to what I have as a company today.
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Do you think the the kids of today know what DJ stands for or
even what a disk is? There might be a few of them,
but again, as a father of a nineyear old I I will say that most
kids may not I I I feel like some will know what ACD is at
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this point. VHS less a track and it starts
getting rougher and rougher as you kind of go by.
But that again, being said, it'slike you try to explain an iPod
today to somebody who didn't, who's always grown up with an
iPhone. I don't think they necessarily
will always comprehend, wait a minute, you didn't have
everything at the touch of a button.
And, and I mean, I'm a child product of the of the 90s,
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right? So we, we were part of that
generation that went from havingminimal technology to kind of
everything at her fingertips as well.
Which as a DJI mean, I, I, I cannot lie and say in some ways
it's gotten easier to be a DJ and in a lot of ways it's gotten
high harder because everybody expects you to have everything
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at your fingertips. So if you say, Hey, I don't have
a song and they go, well, wait, wait a minute, how do you not
have that song? Our song banks are about 60,000
plus songs constantly adding newmusic.
But there's 1,000,000 new songs released in North America a year
alone. So if you multiply that over 70
years of music and then add everywhere else in the world,
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60,000 songs seems like a drop in the bucket.
Yeah. And then if you're in the middle
of the Bush, like I've been at sometimes weddings on Manitoulin
Island with a single is very, very weak.
You sometimes find your climbinga a tree with your cell phone
and the laptop. On the other hand, just trying
to get that single. So you could try to get a couple
of songs you need for the event coming on.
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But again, you learn over the years to make sure you're pre
prepared for everything before you even have to to get to that
point. So do you think that we're
we're, we're lucky that the wordDJ was invented when it was?
Because what do you think would be the name of what you do if we
didn't have the word DJ? Spotify, I think is is kind of
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the way that it would probably replace it at this point.
No, I, I guess, yeah, it's, it'sa very intriguing question
because I don't know what would replace it really at this, at
this point. It might just be music person.
It might just be, it might be something so very, very generic
that it would just be like, hey,that guy who plays music on his
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computer on his on, on his laptop or on, on his controller.
At this point. I, I, I guess, yeah, the term DJ
coming at the time it did was, was a good thing.
But to say I I can't really fathom what would replace that
term at this point. How about sound waiver?
Oh. That'd be nice.
Yeah. I mean, then that would just
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help with my business name even more so, right?
Because I still get a lot of being sound wave rentals being
written with a dot WAV, which issupposed to represent a WAV
file. I often will get calls saying
I'm looking for sound WAV rentals, which has always given
me a bit of a chuckle over the years and a lot of people saying
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I don't quite understand what itstands for.
And it's really, the idea came from Patrick Wright as I was
trying to come up with business names and saying, well, wave
file, that sounds pretty cool. And I'm like, awesome, I like
that. That's why the logo looks like a
wave file, that that's why everything's kind of composed
around it. And the rentals part, oddly
enough, although I primarily offer DJ services these days,
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and conference and event services and fundraiser and
community event services, the the rentals part of my business
is actually quite diminished over the years compared to what
it used to be before. You're a really great
communicator, I have to say thank you.
So tell us about your political journey, because did you not run
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for office at one point a few years ago?
I did so in 2018. I ran as councillor for Ward 5
which compromises of Blizzard Valley, Valkaran, McRae Heights
and there's a small section of New Sudbury.
I guess you could call it the North End, which I'm trying to
remember if it went right to Edido Street and I'm going to
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include that Cambrian Heights. So it was a fairly large area
that election there. Gee, I would have been 22 years
old. And considering a 22 year old
running into a political election is, is something of an
accomplishment itself because a lot of people would think, OK,
you're, you're fairly young to be doing this, which, which I
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was. And with having a 2 year old at
the time at home and we were in the process of moving and
renovating house, it was, it wasquite the ordeal to do it.
But with doing that, I, I did, Iwould say extremely well.
I, I walked away with 12143 votes, which was 34.53% of the
votes. Unfortunately not enough to win.
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Robert Kerwin, who was the incumbent, continued to be the
counsellor at that time. But I kind of felt like I had
some unfinished business after that election and, and felt
like, well, maybe there's a few things I could have done better
and maybe I could have done something a little bit more.
I with the second run, I actually ran in Ward 6, which is
Hammer and Valtteris, and that time I ran against it.
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I knew that Piata and we were five people vying for that seat.
I still came in second place, 11113 votes, 25.24% of the votes
on that time, again losing to the incumbent.
But that being said, I learned so much during that time with
the second run, I really felt like I gave everything I got.
We literally knocked on every single house in the ward vying
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for votes. I was up at the Joe Lake area
and that and I still remember this last house I knocked at.
They answered the door and they said hello and I said, hi, my
name is Bishet. And home presented myself for
for City Council and he went, you drove all the way up here
and I said, well, Sir, do you vote?
He said, yes, I do. And I said, well, that's the
reason I'm here. I'm trying to get every single
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vote. And just because you live at the
furthest northeast part of Hanmer and of the ward, I'm
still vying for everybody's vote.
And your vote says as everybody else.
So, yeah, so it was, it was definitely a very humbling
experience because you know, you're going in and of course
you want to win. But the whole part of the
trajectory is, is being, it's such an amazing part of being
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part of democracy and just seeing how people will vote and,
and hoping that your message will resonate with people.
But you don't take it to heart too much when you don't win.
The biggest lesson I took was I put myself out there.
The people made their choice, you back the winner.
After that, you try again another day and, and I know well
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now as we get closer to the 2026election, I often get asked,
well, hey, are you going to run again?
And, and I get that from constituents.
I get that from Ward 5, from Ward 6.
I get it from other areas in town as well.
I get it from a few counsellors that will remain nameless for
the time being. And you know, we'll see what the
future has to hold. Of course, having a 14 month old
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at home, my wife will be returning to work shortly.
You know, so priorities have shifted a little bit and are a
little different than what they were in my younger years.
But I, I look forward to still continuing to engage in the
political process in our community, giving back in any
way that I can. And you know, maybe one day or
not in in in the so distant future, you might see my name
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pop up to run for mayor as well.So in in our beginning
conversation before we hit record, you mentioned being an
extrovert. So can you tell us a little bit
about that and the difference between an extrovert and an
introvert? Yeah, well, basically an
extrovert to me would would be somebody that's just always
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outgoing, kind of always on, always looking to to
communicate, to always look and have engaging conversations with
people, always wanting to be outthere and in the community out
and about. And kind of those people at the
party that you know that will make you laugh and never seem to
really quiet down too much and and tend to gravitate around a
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lot of people. That's that way I would say was
more towards me. The introvert people usually in,
in my experience are people thatare great, but smaller groups
and one-on-one. They like their time at home.
They like their time away from the big crowds and, and the
people as well. And, and I mean, in the career
path that I've chosen, being a DJ and, and, and seeing a lot of
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the events I'm, I'm at as well. But you have to be an extrovert.
You have to put yourself out there.
You have to be kind of an open book.
You have to be able to adapt to different circumstances with
different people and engage withthem as well.
So I think that's kind of attributed a bit to my successes
in business and personal life aswell.
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Just I've, I've been out there so much in the community, but I
enjoy it. I enjoy people, I enjoy
interactions. I I love learning, I love
engaging and love conversing with as many people as I
possibly can. Do you think it aligns somewhat
with the yin and Yang like the two halves of the whole?
100% see my wife I would say is more of an introvert and she
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would she would agree with me. It's kind of a if you send her
out to the grocery store to Costco and she says I'm going
out to do this task and I'll be done in an hour.
She gets it done in an hour. Myself on the other hand, I tell
her I'll be back in an hour. 4 hours later I come back.
I still brought the milk home, but I kind of disappeared off
the face of the planet. And that's because I've run into
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past clients, friends, family, other people I've engaged with
in the community. And sometimes it's just I'm
having a random conversation with the person at the checkout
line that's behind me and we're sharing a moment and or sharing
a joke or something along those lines.
That's the one thing that she actually enjoyed about the COVID
time because, you know, being inthe entertainment industry and,
and at the time I was in workingat the gym as well.
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I found myself at home laid off from three jobs at 30 years old,
'cause I just celebrated my birthday 2 days before that
first lockdown. And, but my wife loves sending
me to the grocery store because she knew, OK, well, you're going
to go there, you're going to do everything you need to do and
you're going to come right back home.
And you can't stop the talking to anybody because everybody's
wearing masks and you don't recognize anybody and they don't
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recognize you. So she, she enjoyed more of that
time, I could say then, you know, now we're back as, as the
world has normalized itself again.
Yeah, now I I find myself being stopped a little bit more in
public and, and, and that's perfectly fine by me too, though
like I said, I enjoy engaging with people and, and conversing
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and, and putting myself out there as well.
So what do you think would happen if you married a person
like yourself rather than an introvert?
Oh, that is good question. I don't think it would balance
out too well. I, I, I find, I, I find for
myself, it's, it's, it's nice being with an introvert because
it find it, it finds a way to ground you.
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So instead of always being on and go, go, go and, and doing
this and doing that, it's nice to just come home and relax and
enjoy family time and, and enjoythose moments together.
So I find in, you know, to the yin and Yang analogy, it's made
us more complete. And I've been with my wife for a
while. We've been married for eight
years, together for 11 at this point.
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And we actually met when we werein first grade when we were
kids. So, you know, it's been a long
trajectory to be at the point ofwhere we are now.
And I, I can't imagine being with anybody else than her.
But I can also imagine if it was2 introverts or two extroverts,
I should say, together, it probably wouldn't drive too much
because you just, you'd constantly be on.
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And I feel like that might be tiring.
But again, that's for myself. Everybody's a little different.
If you found your person, you find a way to make it work.
What's one thing that you feel would make Sudbury greater?
Oh, that is a That is a loaded and deep question.
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I got to reflect on that actually a little bit.
This. This might be the quietest
somebody's ever gotten me to be.We've got some dead air.
Got some, got some. It's it's got some dead air,
Yeah. But it's OK in this case, Mitch,
Yeah. Like it's yeah, no, no, it's,
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it's a definitely, it's an interesting question.
I, I think it, you know, it kindof would go, I have to say
sometimes it's a reality that we're all fighting the same
battles and we're all kind of going through life in our own
ways, but we all have kind of the same end goal in a, in a
time where politics has really divided people.
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You know, we often hear, especially in the States, the
left against the right, just sitting there and, and had
conversing like like just normalconversations between one
another, more discussions between one another, more
understanding that, hey, wait a minute, we're all facing the
same thing. We just might have a slightly
different ways of addressing andtackling the problem and think
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that the solutions might be found in a different way, but
it's kind of coming back together in ways that we used to
do. But, you know, even just a few
years ago and, and just remembering that, you know, on
this, this big sphere known as Earth, we're all fighting the
same battles each day. And instead of fighting and
individualistically we're we're so much better if we come
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together as a people and tackle it head on.
Good answer. It's something I, I, I've
reflected a lot upon because especially, and again, right
when you, you're asked, you know, what do you feel like
running again? Do you think you're going to run
again? There's so much hostility in the
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world today that my message, andthat's a message that I've had
in the last two elections as well, has been we need to come
together as a people. It doesn't matter if you support
the NDP, that Liberals, Conservatives, the Black
Quebecois or the Green Party, Everybody has their own opinions
and ideas. But unless we sit there and we
discuss it, unless we actually take time to understand one
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another, our viewpoints and discuss what we're going
through, we're never going to find solutions.
And if we can never find solutions, we're never going to
be able to advance and move forward from the situations that
we're in now. And we know Sudbury, like other
cities across Canada, there's a lot of struggling.
There's a lot of there's a lot of hurt.
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Homelessness has been a big issue.
We have an opioid epidemic that's still affecting us.
There's a mental health crisis. There's a housing crisis.
People are struggling. We're seeing unemployment at its
highest rates. But in those times of what might
seem like despair and sorrow, weneed to look at that light.
We need to look to one another and we'll be able to find
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solutions and we'll be able to find a greener path going
forward. How do you feel about the cost
of living, the high rents and food prices and gas and all of
that? It's, it's quite terrifying
because I, I think of myself, you know, I'm 35 years old.
I'm one of those very fortunate people where, you know, we're,
we're driving older vehicles, but they're paid off.
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And you know, I happen to be mortgage free, work my butt off
to get to this point. But we, we've locked and said,
oh, well, maybe one day, you know, it'd be nice to move.
Maybe we'd get a, a slightly different place in the different
area of town. And even though we've spent this
time establishing ourselves, it is still so very difficult to
get to the next step. So I think of all my friends, I
think of family members, I thinkof other members in the
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community where I go, well, if you didn't have that leg up, if
you don't have, you know, that that cushion to fall back on, I
don't know how people are able to do it.
And I think of single mothers, single fathers and that as well,
if you're trying to do that withkids, your car breaks down.
There's so much pressure put on on everybody right now to
survive that if it, it does feellike something needs to break.
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You know, we, the housing bubblethat we've been living in the
last few years where houses thatwould have been 200 and $250,000
prior to COVID have now doubled in rates.
And but the fact that we're not building enough new homes at a
fast enough rate. But even if we do build those
new homes, there are prices thatare quite unaffordable for most
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people. So it's, it's, I find it's a
cumulative of years of unfortunately not proper
planning to ensure that we'd be able to keep up with demand of
what we have that's kind of led to this.
But now that we're in the middleof the problem has to give and
our leaders are both, you know, locally, federally, provincially
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need to step up and find solutions that are going to help
resolve some of these problems because there is a division of,
of, of policies and, and practices, right?
The municipal level can only do so much where the province has
to step in and the federal government therefore as well, we
need to step in and, and take some of those responsibilities.
The city can't run the deficit. We are not allowed to run the
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deficit as a municipality, but the province and federal
government can run deficits. So that's why we're seeing some
of the struggles that we see on the local level where it would
be nice if the municipality could throw more money at the
problem. Lack of a better word or fun
solutions, but that money needs to come from somewhere and with
(25:44):
tax, our tax base not exactly expanding in the way that they
wanted to and losing the tax revenue.
Like for example, some of the mines because they've shut down
their operations, because they've vacated or cleared out
some of their above ground buildings, they're not having to
pay as much taxes as what they did before.
(26:05):
So the city is stuck trying to find either cutting in services
or, or what they're offering or bringing up taxes, as we've
noticed in the last few years tobe able to make up for that lost
revenue. So it's, it's unfortunately,
it's not the greatest of situations.
Again, cost of living. We've seen it in the grocery
stores and that as well. Things keep climbing higher and
(26:27):
higher. I mean, hamburger meat last I
checked was about 17 bucks a kilo for medium ground beef at
local independent grocers, whichis a huge increase from the 990
that I still have in my freezer at the moment from the last sale
I picked up about four months ago.
So I can just imagine how difficult that's making it for
(26:48):
for a lot of people to get by with.
Wow, it really. Went up that much, it went
there, yeah. And I mean, I, I, I'm, I'm very
much one of those very savvy shoppers and constantly checking
Flyers and stuff. And, and don't get me wrong,
it's, there are places you can go and still get some deals.
If you, if you happen to have the Costco membership, there's
some options that you can get there that are a little bit
cheaper. But it, it is quite significant
(27:11):
that the cost of living has goneup.
I think of what my wife and I make as an income is comparative
to what my parents made as an income.
But the quality of living, our buying power is so much lower
than what theirs was. And I mean, my parents retired
in 2019. And in retirement, I mean, just
to help them survive because they, they were lucky enough to
(27:32):
retire at a young age. My parents now work for me.
So I mean, it's a bonus for me because I get to expand my
business and my operations. But it's also a testament that
even with proper planning, with a pension, with saving up for
RSPS, it's still difficult for people to get by, which which is
not something that I think anybody would have anticipated
(27:54):
as they were planning towards that too.
Wow. Yeah, that's, that's a really
good point. A lot of good points.
I feel that you would be a really effective politician.
Thank you. Yeah, I mean, it's not.
My world, right? I don't understand it at all.
But you're a good communicator. You seem to have common sense
(28:14):
and everything. And yeah, again.
Right, it's a it's a big thing and it's thankfully because I
worked at the city as well for three years.
So after I left Snap Fitness after my parents had sold and
retired in 2019, I stayed on until about the end of 2020.
And then I I was employed for the city for a little under
three years, took a leave of absence, though, during my
(28:37):
election run, I feel like it's important to note.
So there was no funny business happening in the background.
I did everything by the book, but it was something that a very
eye opening as to what city policies were like procedures,
why we do certain things the waythat we do.
Because I've worked in library services, I've worked at the
citizen service center at Tom Davis Square, I worked at in
(28:58):
children's services, I worked atthe clerk's department, which
are the people that work the City Council meetings among
other tasks. And then, yeah, so it was kind
of A and then in my last year I was working with 311.
So which is a job I can compare to all the complaints and the
inquiries that you would have from the general public like a
(29:19):
counselor would get, but none ofthe glory of being a city
counselor and having your name attached to it.
But it was very eye opening and trying to understand everything
with the city and how different departments work and operate
because we would filter all those calls as they came through
through the city. Sudbury interviews everyone.
(29:39):
That's our episode for today. This was Michelle Lalone, Mitch
Lalone. He's a professional DJ.
And I want to thank you for youryour time, first of all, and
your great perspective and pointof view.
And this this half hour flew by for me super fast, very
interesting and thanks for your time.
Is there anything else you'd like to add before we end it, if
(30:02):
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dances, Proms, conferences, birthday parties, and I.
I've even done a celebration of life or two.
Just visit nitadj.ca. Sounds good.
Thanks, Mitch. Take care.
Thank you. Bye.
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