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• Speaker 2: They say motivation is something you want. Discipline is something you need. Obsession is something you have to have. I'm gonna show you what I wanted, how I got it, and how I was obsessed to get there. Alright, another week of Forget the Noise podcast. This is gonna be an awesome episode. I'm super stoked about this. It's a special one because I am gonna have my son Aiden, aka Stooge, if you know us, on the podcast. ⁓ it's gonna be a great episode. We had Cash on a while ago, but she's involved in my nitty-gritty, like day day life. Like Aiden, he has a front row seat to the whole thing, but he isn't in the mosh pit. See what I did there? Yeah, I did. I didn't see that. Yeah, so we have a big thing with going to concerts together. We love the mosh pit. And another cool thing about this episode is I feel like as adults and business owners and parents, we have a duty to teach the next generation and set a standard with them. So I'm gonna use the word generation a lot. Doesn't make me old, okay? Just because we're a different generation, 23 years apart, but that's it. And we gotta be conscious when someone's watching us. And we are influencing someone younger all the time. So I want to see from their perspective of what we're doing as adults, as parents, as business owners, as influencers, mentor, whatever you want to call it. Like, are we helping them? Are we screwing them up? So I want to get some insight, perspective on that. this episode's gonna go to everyone. It's gonna go to parents, it's gonna go to new fathers, it's gonna go to fathers thinking of starting their business. To let their kids know what they're gonna go through because I think an open communication dialect is awesome, especially with a kid. I feel like we have that. So we're gonna jump into certain things about my son too. We're gonna talk about who he is, why he thinks he's been molded that way, his hobbies, he's got a whole list of them. He juggles a lot. So, how does he manage that? Because I feel like we're kind of on the same wavelength there with that. We're gonna talk about life with me and my chaos. and how he sees it as my son. We're gonna talk about what he's learned. We're gonna talk about maybe some insight of what he's learned watching me. And then on top of that, the struggles struggles and worries of youngsters. That was a long intro. So we're gonna dive right into talking to Aiden here. And so just give yourself a little intro. Don't be nervous. Speaker 1: I'm ⁓ Aiden Casino Cappuccini or on Instagram Aiden underscore casino and I'm a sponsored drummer for two different bands. Speaker 2: You're gonna mention you're my son? Speaker 1: And AJ's son, yeah. A A C Custom Junior. Speaker 2: See this like the struggle of the young generation. Alright, so we'll leave that as the intro. There's something I heard, and I love this quote, and I always want to kind of say it to you, but I don't think I've ever got the chance to say it to you. Yeah. Like there was never the situation for it. It's a father is the only man that will ever want you to do better than him. And I think that's so relevant because, like, as men, we have this like ego, and we want to like. always drive forward or do better than the other guy or we're competitive and stuff like that. But when it comes to your father, it's literally like you're the only man in the world I want doing better than I do. Everyone else like I cheer for them, I clap for them. But there's a little bit of sense of competition. That's where the alpha male comes in. It's kinda like, well, I'm happy for him. Yeah. You know, I'm glad that he's got where he is, but I can do that too. Do you feel that way? Speaker 1: I do feel that way. Like, I see with you it's always go, go, go. I wake up in the morning for school, you're already out and doing stuff. You got your day started. You sent me a text when you left the house. You're at the gym. I wake up, check Instagram, your sauna talk's already up. I see you're at the office already. Like it's always go, go, go with you. And I feel like even when I'm at home, I wake up to an empty house, I feel like I'm the slacker. Like I feel like I gotta get up and start working, or I'm gonna fall behind, or I'm gonna every morning when I wake up and the house is empty, I'm like, they're already working, I gotta I gotta get on that. I gotta get to school. I gotta go to work or on the weekend I gotta get up, like practice, homework, stuff like that. Like I just gotta be busy all the time. I feel like seeing you work all the time and have all stuff on your plate all the time. Like our family schedule is jam packed of just you most of the time and a little bit of like mom and then there's like Sophia's cheer every week. But I feel like it's always you working and you're going and out of town or out of the house at work or at the gym or your sauna talks. Like you're always doing something. And I feel like I have to replicate that in a way. Speaker 2: I love how that influences you to like thrive. Like I it's this weird balance where I'm like, I want my kids to see that I'm doing a lot and I'm pushing and I'm thriving, but I never want them to feel like they're chasing me. But is there ever a time where there's something in inside you that drives you to be like, hold on, like you know screw him, I'm gonna I'm gonna do what he does. Like is there ever a something inside you that kinda drives you to like wanna do more or push more when you're watching what I'm doing day to day? Speaker 1: Yeah. Like it does drive me seeing you because like I know that you had like no start, you had no helping hand at the start of this, you had no mentor to kinda guide you. You completely did this on your own. Like just you. No outside help, no outside materials, just that like drive to start something or create something out of nothing. And I feel like I've always felt that drive. Or like that competition sort of alpha male analogy you use. Like I think of it as in my drumming, I see there's a kid out there of the eight billion plus people in the world. And he started the exact same way as me. He had no outside help or materials. He no outs like exterior like experience in drumming. And he could be one of the best drummers in the world and nobody would know about him just because he doesn't put himself out there. And I feel like there's no excuse why I can't do that either. Or like why I can't be good if not better than him, you know what I mean? Speaker 2: I I love that. And like I think it's natural and it's good. It's like natural selection to have that bit of competition. And I feel like when I was growing up, that was like all over the place. Like it was like just chest beating all the time. Maybe it was the males I was hanging out with or anything. Do you find that in your generation now it's either slowed down a little bit or do you feel like there's still a lot of like competition between Males. And I hate putting it like that, but it's just it's our natural instinct to be competitive. It's our natural instinct to gather and hunt and like it's just who we are, right? So do you feel like that's kinda like as a generation changes, there's a little bit less of that because I feel like I see less of that as I bring on like young employees and stuff like that. Speaker 1: I feel like yeah, there is like a drive in like the younger people or like the people that I hang around and like people my age. There's definitely a drive, but it's less of like a I can do better than you. It's more of a keeping up with each other. Like if you see one of your friends do something new, I wanna learn how to do that, I wanna do that too. So it's kind of not like being better than them. Well, I mean, some it's different in every person. Like I personally try and be better than everyone else, not in like a I wanna be better than you sort of way. It's just like I wanna improve myself. Like I there's no reason why I can't do that too. Do you know what I mean? It's like a Speaker 2: I live by that, right? Like if you can do it, I I can do it, right? Like and it's so cool hearing that from someone that's older because like it's almost like fulfilling knowing like our next generation, when I get older I need someone to take care of me, like you guys are lining up to do that. Yeah. Now as a younger like I've had a lot of females on here and they're just like killers. They're just like all snipers. I don't think I've had one female guest that hasn't like completely killed it. But as a young male, how are you feeling? pressures of succeeding and pushing forward and like drive. Speaker 1: I find it's the same with everyone. Like I've equally compare myself to everybody. Like there's females that are way better than me at drumming or when I was growing up playing sports, there was always females in my league that were better than me at the sport. I don't compare myself just to like specific people, it's everybody. If they are doing better than me at something, there's no reason why I can't be just as good if not better. Speaker 2: I love that. all right, so this is a longer quote. ⁓ we're gonna jump into kind of a little bit with you being raised by me working in a regular job and then jumping into entrepreneurship and how the transition's been with you, what you've seen, like it's no hold bars, full like wide open book here. You can say anything you want. We're not censoring anything. children of entrepreneurs. Don't just watch your parents work. They watch them build, fail, pivot, and wake up the next day to try again. It's the ultimate masterclass in resilience. Thoughts? Speaker 1: I like that because I'm trying think. Like I like that because it like creates like a subconscious like kind of like pressure in you to replicate that. And I feel like it's just it goes with a lot of things. Like you learn a lot from your parents subconsciously, you pick up a lot of habits. Like I find I get short tempered sometimes because I feel like you've gotten short tempered sometimes because of the business. Yeah. Or like if you're ever stressed out and you snap at me real quick, I feel like I pick up on that a lot when I'm stressed out or when I'm working or always busy. But it's other things too, like the drive, like I said, when I wake up, you're already out of the house doing something, working at whatever you're working towards. And I feel like I pick up on that a little bit. Like two years ago I would sleep in till like one PM, play video games all day, go out with my friends. And then once I started working and getting into like higher education and closer to ending high school, I was picking up on waking up earlier, doing work even though I didn't want to. It's more of that I have to do this now compared to I don't wanna do it so I won't. I feel like I Speaker 2: I'm gonna touch on that a little bit later. Speaker 1: I have that drive to do stuff that I don't want to do that I didn't have before. And I feel like I picked up Speaker 2: When I called you, right? I'm like, hey buddy you up? You're like, Yep, I've already been up. Yeah, already working. I'm already on you know online school. I'm like, hol. Speaker 1: I got home at like two in the morning last night from the show and I was up at like eight to work 'cause I knew I had my online school and the podcast and work later tonight. It's a busy day. ⁓ Speaker 2: That's great, that's a jam day. ⁓ so you've seen wins and losses. So just putting your perspective of like how I've navigated exposing you to that. Yeah. Because you there's ups and downs in business, there's ebb and flows, there's everything. Like, how do you feel like you've been exposed to that as my son on a day-to-day basis? Like do you feel like that pressure's put on you, do you feel like that pressure gets kind of ripple effect onto you or do you feel like it's just kinda like, I don't care, he runs his own business, that's his problem. Like how do you feel about that as a whole Speaker 1: It's kinda like fifty fifty, honestly. Like there's been times in my every like day to day life, like less important life, there'll be times where like dad there's this concert we should go to and you're like, business hasn't been doing too well, wait till next week, we'll see how it goes then. Or there'll be times where the business does really well and you just take us out to the movies or dinner randomly, you just treat us to something nice, which is really cool. But like on the day to day life, there's nothing like changing really. It's more of just I hear you and mom talking about the business in the kitchen or before bed when I'm going to bed and it's always like remarks, but it's never something that affects me personally other than like the bills. Speaker 2: What are some wins you've seen with me running my own business? Speaker 1: a lot. You've become more like at home. When you had like your job before entrepreneurship and the business, you were out at work and it was against your will to like you couldn't just be home. At least with your business, you have the option to be home and you work from home some of the time, which is nice to have you like around. Yep. And with it's also nice to have you in town. Like if I'm out at lunch with my friends, I can see I see your truck driving around all the time or even just on the weekends or in the summer. I just see you out around in town. A you work with a lot Speaker 2: I'm always watching you. Don't do bad drugs. I'm always watching you, okay? Speaker 1: Don't don't do the bad ones. Yeah. but no, even like people at my school, like your dad renovated this, your dad renovated my bathroom, your dad did my kitchen, or like, I work with your dad, like I'll just have random people that I've never seen in my life before come up to me. I know your dad. It's like you're a celebrity in town. Like I can't go anywhere without, ⁓ you're AJ's son, I know AJ, I know your dad, I work with Speaker 2: Pause there. Can we make like a sound bite of that? Like you're a celebrity in town? Continue. Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't know, it's like it affects me a lot, but not in like a bad way. It's kinda cool that everyone knows my dad. And then there'll be people that go over to Sophia and be like, You're AJ's daughter, you're Aiden's son or sister. Yeah. Or like I've even had people come up to me, You're Casha's son. I've worked with your mom before and stuff like that. It's really weird to have like my whole family out and about. Even Sophia, she's a really popular girl for her age. She knows everyone her age, even even my age. And I had people come up to me, You're Aiden's or Sophia you're Sophia's brother. It's like nice to have my whole family out there. And like everyone knows them, you know what I mean? Speaker 2: What are some losses you've noticed? Speaker 1: A lot of people will come up to me and like ask me like, is your dad hiring or like ⁓ they'll ask me like what like they'll ask me questions about your business. What's it like living with him? Like they want to get like the inside personal, like personal level of like connection. Like they were like, what's he like as a person, not as a boss or as an employee like employer or stuff like that. They wanna know like what's he like as a dad? Because a lot of people see you as the big scary boss man at work, but like Speaker 2: Pig scary bossman. Speaker 1: Yeah, I've had that word before. I've heard that word before, yeah. Speaker 2: That status. Big scary boss, man. That's crazy. Speaker 1: No, I always have to like belittle you a little bit. Like he's he's a sh he's a sweetheart. Speaker 2: So sweet, see? I'm gonna cry on this episode. Talk highly of me. You've like called me a sweetheart. but with constantly either being exposed to it, being questioned about it, being asked about it, do you feel like it's kind of callous to you now where you're kind of just like, yeah, whatever, that's my dad, or yeah, whatever, that's my mom. Like you getting used to it, or is it always like, ⁓ another talk conversation? Like, is it casting a shadow on it? Speaker 1: It kinda comes as like common sense, but it like really hit me the other day that like some people don't see you the way I do 'cause I've always just thought of you, that's my dad. Yeah. And then once I started getting more personal like more in touch with your business and actually working, like seeing you work from like an outside perspective and not just like a ⁓ I'm at my dad's work or like bring your son to work day sort of thing. Yeah. Like actually seeing you work and being your own person, it's really made me think like he is like a hard working guy, like He really does like a lot more than I thought. 'Cause when I was like eight years old I never understood what running a business was like. But now that I'm like older and I'm looking at my friends starting their own business and wanting to do what you do, there's a lot more that goes into it than I thought. And it's really cool to see like all the stuff that goes on that I never appreciated before. Speaker 2: So that was a lot taken. You like threw a lot at me. That was awesome. That was really good. He actually came into this completely blind. I didn't give him one show note. I didn't give him one question, nothing. I came in, he's like, What are we talking about, Mike? Who you are, what your hobbies are, you know, what you like to do, how do you like having dad as a business owner and that was it? So he's you're doing good, bud. You're doing I know, right? We might have to have a co host thing here. Speaker 1: Yeah. I've been practicing. No, I didn't. Signature move. Speaker 2: It makes me proud that you're learning a lot. And it makes me proud that you're absorbing it and that you're starting to like look back at it. Like you've learned that I run my own business, and then a few years later you look back at it and say, okay, but what is running a business? And there's and I knew we were gonna touch on that topic, so I found this quote that the beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take that away from you. So like you always have that. So do you feel like this information that you're learning, the experiences you're having, kinda either set you up for yes I want to or no, I don't want to touch that with running your own business. Speaker 1: Yeah. Speaker 2: Does that make sense? It's kind of like see me go through it and you learning about it now and then kinda like looking at it from the business owner's son to stepping out and saying, ⁓ this is an actual like business thing he runs Like do you feel like it scared you one way or the other? Speaker 1: Definitely has. Like, there's a lot of lessons I've learned that I could have learnt on my own, but it just saves me the time. It's like something a teacher couldn't teach you. It's something you have to learn on your own and you have to overcome on your own to understand how to do it. And I feel like I've skipped a lot of those lessons, which save me a lot of time in anything I do really, where there's like there's lessons that you've learned starting your own business that you've just passed on to me that I never had to experience. Yeah. Speaker 2: I think I said this on every single episode. I've literally said it where you want to know what's on top of a mountain, ask someone on the way down. I think we're like episode six now or five or something like that. I think I've said it on every single episode. what's the best thing you've learned from watching me and your mother? Speaker 1: Best thing I've learnt. Speaker 2: Business wise. Speaker 1: Business wise is probably to like make a business that you would enjoy running. Like if you started a business in something that you hated, like seeing you run an entrepreneurship business, I know how much you like entrepreneurship and renovations and all that stuff. Like you're enjoying what you do. like being your own boss. Like it's something you want to do. You wake up in the morning, you w like you want to w like get it done. It's something you enjoy doing. If it's something that you really hated, you wouldn't have the as much of a drive compared to something that you like. Speaker 2: So you pack your head up with like see me busy all the time, you said you wake up in the morning and say, ⁓ I better get my ass in gear today, this and that, and then learning that part of it, like, do you find it motivates you? Speaker 1: It does very much. It motivates me a lot. Speaker 2: In all aspects or just in like certain things? Like do you do you find it as a whole? It's kinda like 'cause I know the way I am. So it's like if something motivates me, it's like, ooh, this is the flavor of the month. So I I really get motivated to do this. Like, do you find it motivates you in school, drumming, hanging out with your friends, working, or does it just motivate you that time in just school? Like is there something that it gears you more towards? Speaker 1: It motivates me a lot in everything. Like I take bits and pieces of things that I see you doing into every bit. So it's not like this motivates just one thing. It's kinda like you as a whole, I'll take parts of things you like I've seen you do or things you've told me or things that I've like seen secondhand and I like apply it like at work if I like if I really don't wanna work. Like I know I think of the times I've seen you sick as you've ever been, like dead on the couch so that the flu and you've still gone to work. Like 'cause you don't have a choice and I thought like, well, I there's no reason why I can't do that too. If he did it, I mean surely I'll be okay. Or like at school, if there's like if I'm really busy, I have like eight assignments due at midnight and it's like ten PM and I just got home from work, then I would think like, well my dad would probably get it done. So I have to do it too. Like I have to compete. It feels like I have to compete with what you would do. I think like what would he do? And then I have to try and do that and sometimes better. Like I try and one up. Speaker 2: And that's what setting a standard, I think, is. And that's what I was getting to at the beginning of the podcast is like we have a responsibility. Now, it's a hard line to walk where I never want, like, for instance, Aiden to feel like he has to compete with me. But I do want him to have that pressure of like get your ass in gear and do what you say you're gonna do. And it's a hard line to walk. It is because some days I don't want him to feel like I'm overshadowing him or I'm putting too much pressure on him, but like pressure is what makes a diamond. So if you want be a diamond, you gotta have to go under pressure. It's just it's part of the exchange in anything. So it's like a weird spot as a father from my perspective, saying, How many times have I like given you shit? Where am I eight and you have to do this now? Like you're like, well, I half an hour. I go, I don't care. That'll give you if you do it in 10 minutes, that gives you 20 minutes more for the next task ahead. And there's days where I'm like, I feel bad putting that pressure on you because I don't want you to feel like I'm like constantly breathing down your neck. But like the episode I had with mom. Like I'm learning a lot of stuff where you're like, you're actually absorbing this. Yeah. Like you're actually taking it in. So while you're taking all that in and it's growing you as a person and molding you and building like positive habits where that just I just had to shut up and do it. Like what are some like negatives you're kind of taking? Like what are some turnoffs from like you see me, it's like, okay, he gets up at four fifteen, he goes to the gym, he's at He does his son of talk, he's at the office, he's worked for two hours, I'm getting out of bed now, I've ever got a mask a year. Like that's a positive motivation. But then what are some turnoffs that you're like, seriously? Like Speaker 1: When I was younger, I always thought you were very hard on me. Like you would always do like my friends would never do as much as you made me do, which I like. Like now that I'm older, I appreciate that because you've pushed me to do a lot more and I wouldn't have had half the stuff I would have done if you didn't push me that far. But when I was younger, I would despise it. I you would have me up at 7 a.m. on a weekend to move dirt to the backyard and help you out with stuff, which I really didn't want to do, but it's kind of molded me. Speaker 2: Very clear you did not like Speaker 1: ⁓ yeah, I definitely I let you know. But I feel like that's pushed me now. Like it didn't at the time it didn't feel like it was very much. It was just a task I didn't want to do. But now that it like I'm older, I feel like those little tasks you had me doing growing up. Speaker 2: I don't want to. Speaker 1: kinda gave me that mindset where I don't have a choice. I have to do it. And now that I'm older, I don't have you waking me up at 7 a.m. saying, you gotta do this, you gotta go, you gotta get up. Like there's stuff to do today. And I feel like I kinda push myself to do that now because the thought of you pushing like waking me up all those years ago has kind of molded into my brain that like I don't have a choice. It needs to get done. Might as well do it now. There's no point in waiting around. It's just gonna hurt me worse. Speaker 2: I I do notice that with you law, especially like after a show, when you get home at one in the morning you're unloading equipment. I'm like, I'm surprised you're just not leaving in the car overnight. Like, you know. So we're gonna give you your turn. So you get to like have a little monologue here. So I want you to pitch yourself as like the master sensei. And you know all your friends are gonna tune into this episode. So your friends are listening right now, or tonight at dinner, their mom or dad say, Hey, I'm gonna start my own business. Speaker 1: ⁓ yeah. All my friends watched it. Speaker 2: What would you tell your friends to prepare for with the experience? Because I feel like now you've gone through like the ringer. You've done through the dad quit his job, started a business, mom quit her job, started a business, the business had ups and downs, the business had pain points. Now the business is kind of thriving. So you've done the life cycle. So what would you tell your friends? Let's say between ten years old up to eighteen, in that pocket, right? Because I feel like you're kinda in that pocket going through it. What would you tell them to prepare for? What would you tell them to like, hey, FYI, this is gonna suck or this is gonna be great? I Speaker 1: n I wouldn't even tell them to prepare. I would tell them you can't prepare. Like what you're like starting a business or starting something new, you don't know what's gonna happen. You could like blow up in the first week of starting your business or your business could fail. Like you never know what will happen. Like there's no guarantee for tomorrow. You have to kind of just drive yourself to keep it going. It's kind of like keeping it alive, if that makes sense. Like there's no helping hand to keep you going. You have to kind of build that yourself and you can't really prepare for what's gonna happen or like sure you can teach your like you can take tips on like how to run a business or what works and what doesn't, but at the end of the day there's no promise that's gonna work. There's no elements that will guarantee success. You have to build that yourself. Speaker 2: You literally just answer that question exactly like your mom. Like it was like identical. I think I'm gonna go back to like episode two like read it. And I'm I think she was like word for word, almost like for the exact same like kind of answer based on the same kind of question. Alright, now we're gonna dive into either you're gonna gain a lot of friends or you're gonna lose a lot of friends. Here we go. What do you love about your generation? And generation, I'm not being old. I'm just saying- I'm old though. I'm not old, okay? Like I'm not old. I'm just saying we have a Speaker 1: ⁓ boy. Speaker 2: little bit of an age gap. You know, like our strength. Yeah. I'm a lot stronger than you, right? Like coolness, I'm a lot cooler than you. Like not saying you're uncool, I'm just saying like I'm just in a different cool category. Speaker 1: What I love about my generation, they're like I feel like they're like really fun. Like they always have stuff to do. Even though we live in like a boring town, all my friends complain there's nothing to do here. They always find something to do. We're always out doing something any day of the week. I'll check my phone every morning, yo, let's go do this. Let's go to this abandoned warehouse or this river out of town. Let's go swim. Or like they always have something to do when they're given nothing to do in this town. Like I'm not crapping on the town. I'm not crapping on the town. I'm not saying there's nothing for teenagers to do for six Speaker 2: Your age group there really isn't much Speaker 1: Other than like bowling, but my friends are broke, they don't have jobs. So like we can't really go bowling, so we kinda we have to kinda be creative. And I fight I feel like they're so creative with well, because when you're given nothing to do and you're given that boredom, it creates like creativity and like a drive to do something. And I feel like you kinda have to take something away in order to create something, if that makes sense. That's that's deep. You hear that? That was wow. Speaker 2: ⁓ that's the That's it. We're done for the episode. That is amazing. Speaker 1: Take away everything like to ent entertain them. They're gonna c creative on what to do. And sure that can create some bad habits or they can get out and do some illegal stuff, but like most of the people I hang around, they're like getting creative with it, like, let's go climb a building. Like worst they do we get the cops called on them. Yeah. I'm not saying I do this, I'm just saying like from experience. Or like Speaker 2: Like you have to get out there and do stuff, right? Like you you are gonna do stuff. Speaker 1: Especially now that we got our licenses and we can drive ourselves places. Like just go to a different town and do something. Or like legit my friend has texted me, Let's go to Guelph for the day. I said, Let's do what? Auto Like creative. Speaker 2: Waste gas, right? Yeah. And that's bad for gas money. Speaker 1: That's that's my signature move. You just do that all the time. Speaker 2: ⁓ how do you see your generation changing the world? I feel like my age group. Yeah. See how I said that? Age group. Speaker 1: No, your generation. Speaker 2: We had a very strong go to post-secondary school, get a regular job, and just contribute to society. But I feel like doors have opened for your generation. So how do you see yourselves like kind of changing the world or the workforce or adulthood? Like that whole like when you guys get older, how do you guys see having how do you see yourselves having impact? Speaker 1: Okay, everyone thinks our generation my generation is lazy because we just sit on our phones all day. But like I've seen so many people create so much with like technology nowadays that you guys might have not had. And like like with AI, for example, there's so much being created with it and there's so much like new technology that's coming out. that will definitely like change the world. I don't know for better or for worse, but it's definitely a huge change because now we have automated like systems, like in factories there's automated like packaging and create like buildings, stuff like that. And in construction now there's like think of it a hundred years ago they were building stuff by hand. Now they have excavators and cranes and all these machines. Like and it's just gonna go bigger and crazier from there. Like now we have AI and self automated like things. feel like it's gonna this generation's gonna create a lot of really I don't know if it's gonna be like more helpful or less helpful Yeah. Like but I feel like it's gonna be a lot different than what I'm used to right now and what I was used to five years ago. Speaker 2: Yeah. What do you hate about your generation? Speaker 1: Like, my generation, I hate how like I find with some people there's no drive to do stuff. Like I find when I'm with my friends and say one of them is like, let's go somewhere and they're like, I don't have money. And I'm like, well, what are you doing about having no money? Well, I guess I'm just not gonna buy anything. There's no drive to get money. Like it's I know it's such a small p like first world problem. Like we're going to the gas station, let's buy a drink. I can't buy a drink. I feel like every time we go, it's always the I don't have money. Like if you don't want to spend your money, sure, but like I feel like there should be a drive to like get a job at that point. Because if you see all your friends going or even now since we have like our license, if we're going to like a trampoline park or we wanna go out to the movies now that we can get ourselves there. Like there's like some they're just gonna sit out of that fun day because they don't have money. I just have the drive because I feel like Speaker 2: So why do you have the drive? Speaker 1: I don't wanna miss out on that and I don't wanna be left behind because of a struggle that's like my fault. Like if I was struggling like the money thing is just an example, like say we want to go play bla like play basketball and one of them's like, ⁓ I'm not that good at basketball, so I'll stay home. Like you shouldn't miss out on a day of fun or like hanging out with the guys just because you're not good at basketball. You know what I mean? Like if there's like you're lacking something, therefore you shouldn't go or you don't belong there. Like that's not right. You should have the like even if you don't have to become a professional NBA level basketball player to come play hoops with the guys. Like still I feel like there should be some drive to be included and like get out there and do it. Speaker 2: I really like that. I never thought of it. Speaker 1: Like it's such a small problem in my world, but like or in the world, but it's still like something to think about. 'Cause that will eventually mold into future problems when you're those all those like laziness problems get rooted from when you're younger, I find. Speaker 2: Okay, this week on Forget the Noise Podcast hosted by Aiden Capuchidi. Speaker 1: I'm not pointing fingers at saying my friends do this. I'm just saying I see Speaker 2: I I get it. And you know you're opening a lot of doors for people because people are gonna re like watch this and say, you know what? Yeah, like people outside are watching me not do something more because like you've been driven. Yeah. Like I know mom and I kinda pushed you to get a job early. We're doing the same thing with Sophia. Like I don't even think she's legal to get a job yet. Or like just go just go hand out resumes. Well I can't even have a job yet. I might just do it. Like so you you do the repetition, you get The part that sucks over with. They're like having to go talk to someone you don't know and kinda like put yourself out there. Like we're trying to push her to do that like we did with you. Yeah. And now you had a job from fifteen Speaker 1: Fifteen? Fifteen. Fifteen. Fourteen. Four I was hired fourteen and I didn't work plus fifteen. Yeah. Speaker 2: And then let's talk about that experience because you banked a lot of money. Like you literally banked more money than some adults have. And you bought your own car. And you woke up Christmas with a bow on it. But that was no, remember that? So I don't know. I didn't tie it on properly. ⁓ well, I tied it on then drove down the street with it, so it was kinda bad idea. ⁓ So like what were the feelings when you had to save money and you had to be in the position where you're talking about with like Speaker 1: The boat fell off. Looks like I got a new driveway. The boat was sitting on the driveway. Speaker 2: Some people you know where it's kinda like, I have no money, even though you do have money. Like what's that feeling? Speaker 1: It's a terrible feeling. I hate it so much. Like there'll be times where I'll go out to dinner and one of my friends can't eat because he doesn't have money and like there's those times where he still comes out and hangs out with us. So like there shouldn't be one guy not eating. So I'll sometimes yeah, I'll buy my friends food or Speaker 2: I'm talking about you when you were saving money. You were saving money like crazy for your car. Speaker 1: There'll be times where like I'll pay like eat all of it. It goes for all of us. All my friends will spot each other meals or a drink at the gas station. But there will be times where they'll ask me, Can you buy me a drink? And I could buy myself a drink, but I don't buy anyone a drink. I don't even buy anything for myself. And that was the hardest. For over like a year. We would go to the mall, we would go to shoppers, we'd go to the gas station, we'd go to everywhere, and I would never buy anything. But it was part of it. Like buying that car made it all worth it. But for the year and a half I didn't s I didn't spend over fifty dollars a week. Like I would spend 20 bucks max for like lunch one day and that was it for like in a year and a half. I would never buy myself like I'd never go to the mall and buy clothes. Well I went to the mall and bought clothes like one time, but that was with Christmas money. Yeah. But I w I would never go buy myself clothes. I would never buy myself like a game I wanted. I would never buy myself a new like thing for my anything band related. I wouldn't buy myself new drumsticks. Like I would purely wait until it wouldn't affect my car savings. Like if I got money on Christmas or my birthday, Then sure I would get myself whatever I needed, but it was never what I wanted. I never bought what I wanted because all I wanted was that car. Speaker 2: How good did it feel now when you got the car? And not only when you got the car, it was now the aftermath of having that car every day parked in the driveway and being able to just go as you want. That's a hard lesson to tell people, right? Like that delayed gratification. People are like, It sucks, suck it it sucks missing out. But look at you now. Now you're probably the only one out of most of your friends with a newer car, with like, you know Speaker 1: It's so worth it. Speaker 2: gas tank full with like y you know what I mean? It's kinda like yeah, explain that feeling. Like I I can't Speaker 1: And I would tell them, I bought it with my money. And then They they just wouldn't believe me. I've had people like tell me ⁓ you're lying to me. And buying that car was like the best feeling in the world because that's all I wanted for so long. Since I got my G1, all I wanted was my own car. Yeah. Like and and I didn't want to like cheap out on a bad like a cheaper car either, because like the goal was to have this car last me till way after university. So like six plus years. Yeah. So I wanted to get something nicer. And I also just wanted to treat myself because like if I'm gonna save a lot of money, I might as well get a nicer car instead of cheaping out and saving money for like six months. And getting just a beat down like 2008, like I don't know. But I feel like it was so hard to save money, but it just made the car so much more worth it. It made it so much more appreciative. And I've had my parents, like my friends tell me, Didn't your dad offer to sell you his car, or didn't your dad offer to get you a car? And I said, like, probably, but I said no anyways. I would have wanted to buy my own car. Yeah. And out of all like anyone I've most people I've talked to, I've said, like, even if someone offered me a free brand new car, I wouldn't take it. I want to buy my That feeling of buying the car and knowing that was my money was the best feeling in the world. Speaker 2: You've always been a hard worker. You've always like I think two years you've missed two shifts. One because you were hurt. Speaker 1: One 'cause I tore my lads, yeah. Tore my lad at the gym. Yeah. I couldn't work. Yeah. And then I just went to work the day after. I called in six. Speaker 2: And then ⁓ yeah you tore your lad of the gym. Lifting too heavy. Trying to keep up with dad. Trying to keep up he was trying to keep up with me. and then yeah, you had one sick day where you're like dying, which I didn't want to be around you. And then But what are you finding in like the workforce? Because you're there at every shift you get scheduled, you pick up extra shifts. Yeah. How do you see the workforce? Like eighteen under. I'm not talking about like adults, like eighteen under. Speaker 1: For example. It's not bad, like It's not bad. Like, there's a lot of kids that are a lot more driven than they would look. Like, there's kids that I'm like, well, my co-workers I'm friends with. If I knew them outside of work, I would have never guessed they were as hardworking at work. Like I have one of my coworkers working two jobs and she's my age. And I never would have thought that because on top of that, she plays a sport and goes to school. And I never would have like it's hanging out with her outside of work, I never would have guessed she's that hardworking. And I'm assuming it's the same reason that like I feel like I push myself so hard. Like I only work one job and I pick up shifts. I can, I try and get a lot of hours and if I don't get a lot of hours. I'm also in three bands, yes, so that affects my hours a bit. But I feel like if someone met me outside of work or like hung out with me, I am not like what you would think. Like I when I hang out with my friends, I sound like I'm very lazy and I don't wanna work. Speaker 2: Reband. Speaker 1: But like sh cause sure I complain to my friends, I'm like, I really don't want to go into work today and they're like, just call them sick and I'm like, No, I can't. Yeah. So like I sure I complain, but I get it done anyways. And that's also just me hanging out with my friends. Like if you were to talk to me on like a professional basis, I'd be like, I don't have a choice, I have to work. Speaker 2: So balancing work, school, the band and everything, and now we're starting to look at universities. Like we had a lot of pressure to go post secondary. Yeah. How do you guys feel with post secondary education? You know how I feel on it. Yeah. But I have next to no education. I got bare minimums and that's kinda it. How do you feel like you guys are with like pressure of going to post secondary and do you th you feel like there's more options? Do you feel like you have to? Do you feel like it's kinda one of those like ⁓ no one really kind of thinks into it. It's just kinda like we just go through the motions. How do you feel about post secondary? Speaker 1: I feel like it's definitely a big step, but I know that there's like a lot of people I know that are going into other options. And I feel like there's a lot more options than just post-secondary now. Like I believe that when you were younger, post-secondary like the option, like you had to do this. I feel like now there's so many other post-secondary options than just college or university. Like I feel like they've broadened that like like ch like part in your life so much to like there's so many different things you can do than just settling down in a university for a degree. Like I feel like there's jobs you can just jump straight into. There's you can start your own business. Like I feel like these weren't options or as open options when you were younger. Like there's co-ops, workplace, apprenticeships, like there's so many things that I never knew about because when I was younger I feel like it wasn't as big of a thing. Yeah. And I feel like post secondary is more of like a I feel like with these broader decisions and like things that kids can do, I feel like it creates a drive in people. Like it makes it sound like they want to do that. It gives them a choice. It changes their mindset. Yeah, when you give them a choice and you give them something they want to do, it gives them drive. Like they wouldn't just sit around and wait for what they want. They're gonna want to get it. Speaker 2: It changes their mindset. So let's r let's get into mindset. You know me, it's a huge part of my day-to-day. Like it's like my life revolves around my mindset. If I'm like in a negative mindset, I do something to reset it. Yeah. I have time to myself, I time block. Are there whispers in people 18 under a belt mindset? Like this is a Speaker 1: There's so many kids that will like are into motivation and like they like Like I've had friends put like put me on like, yo, this guy David Goggins, you should check him out, he's really motivational, he's inspi inspiring. And I'd be like, well, obviously I know him 'cause of you. Yeah. But like there's so many kids that are still into that. And so many people think this like my generation and kids my age are like they don't they're not into that. They don't care to work hard. But there's so many kids that like, even my friends, like I would think of them like they don't really care to be motivational or to work hard at things. And they would it like catch me off guard. They would like surprise me with that. Like there's so many people my age that drive themselves and you would never guess. Like it's very I don't know the word, but like it catches you off guard. Speaker 2: Once your mind stretches to a new idea, it never shrinks shrinks back to its original dimensions. Yeah. Do you find kids I hate saying kids, because you guys are like young adults. Yeah. Are thinking too small or too big? Because I find it's one or the other. I think either they feel like they can't do it and it's impossible and it's not made for them, or it's I'm entitled to the world. Gimme, gimme, gimme. And it should be an easy ride. I feel like there's no medium, but I don't talk to anything anyone eighteen under on a day to day basis unless it's like you or your sister's friends. Yeah. Which really are my only friends, but like what do you find is a split between small minded, like larger than life? Speaker 1: Yeah. I couldn't think of a single like big-minded gimme gimme like entitled to the world person my age. Like everyone I know, even just people that I know of, they're very like, I could like I don't think I could do that. And then they do it and they like surprise themselves. Like I feel like everybody I know has done that. Like nobody exp thinks they're better than what they really are. They all belittle themselves and think, I'm not that good, I couldn't do that, that's too hard for me, and they get it done anyways. Speaker 2: So how's this a pick me up, I guess, movement amongst younger adults? Like if you see your friend down and out, like I'm at the point now where like I like cheering people on. Yeah. So if I see someone down and out, I'm like, hey, pick it up, let's go. And T Dog just looked up because he thought I was doing a mic check. That's like an international signal for like if you're ever working with videographer, go. And they'll look up, like, hey, we're doing mic check. Like, I swear to God, it's like Yeah, so like do you find you and your friends or colleagues are colleagues, it's so weird, picking each other up? Because it took me a while. Like, I'm 40 now, and like I'd say in the ma past maybe three years, I've only got that mindset then to start cheering people on and picking them up before it was like competition, competition, competition. Like, but you were saying you guys don't really compete with each other. you guys kinda just like, hey, I wanna do that too. So like, where do you find Today's day and age, with that between each other when you see someone's down and out or not pushing themselves. You said some people are unmotivated, they don't want to get a job. Like is there a pick me up or like a, hey, let's get your ass in gear kind of mentality, or is it just kinda like, not my clown, not my circus? Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of people like push each other and they are very inspiring. Like if I have friends that started their own business and everybody they know, even people they don't that don't like them, cheer them on, like this is this is cool, keep it going, or they even give them pointers like, like I've tried this before, do this instead. Like there's pe like despite their personal relationships, if they see a bigger goal at hand, they will help them out. Like they will never put someone's future down or put someone's goals down because they don't like the kid. Like Speaker 2: Can you speak into the camera and say that? Because I feel like there's so much of that shit out there right now that people are there to tear each other down, rip on each other, shit on each other, like and we literally have people that are not even legally adults picking each other up. Like that that's a problem in society. When I'm 40 and I'm seeing in my environment, people not picking each other up, people not cheering themselves on, people not wishing the best for each other. And people eighteen and under are doing it, like us as adults need to do a better job. And I don't know if that's just a generational shift. I don't know if that's us just being molded different, but like we need to make a change. Like we really need to make a change. And I love that you guys are doing that. But I don't feel like everyone is like that. Like you are like just do it. Like we talked about that early in the episode. Because you are I know you feel like you wake up in the morning, the house might be empty, or everyone's already on the go, but you are in three bands. You do maintain a job. You do have good grades in school, you don't miss any days, like and then you socialize with friends. And then you're out at family events too. So like Is there just a button you press when you wake up? It's kinda like, okay, just gotta do it, or is there like a motivation, or is there like something that pushes you to do it? Like me, it's you, your sister, and your mom. Sounds corny, but it's like I'm like, I wanna create opportunities for my kids. Even if I don't die rich on a yacht with millions of dollars, if I spend my every like every last cent to the point where like I'm Broke when I die. And you guys have every opportunity to either start your own business, venture off, go do something. I'm happy with that. Does that make sense? And it sounds corny, but like with mom, like running her own business. I'm building my dream. I don't want to send her to work to build some other guy's dream. I want her helping me build mine or building her own. Yeah. But with you, like what is your why? Like, is it just natural where it's kinda like I gotta do this, or is it like Is there something that pushes you to get to that point? And I don't mean to ramble on, but I I I I don't know how to explain Speaker 1: Explain it. I know what you mean. So when you think of people's qualities, think you think of it like a job application. They could do this, they can do this, they've done this before, right? Yeah. I think of it as what can't they do? Like this person, ⁓ they're not that good at this, or like I look at what they can improve on, or like I look at myself on what I can improve on. I think of it as, well, I'm not that good at this, I can't do this, and I would like to be better at this. And that's what pushes me. I wake up, that's what I gotta do first. Because Retains as strong as its weakest link. If you're the if you're really like in drumming, I am not the fastest drummer in the world. I am nowhere near it. But to make up for it, all of music is counted on four beats, or 90% of music on the radio is in four beats. I think it well, in my thought process, if I'm not the best at playing fast or being flashy, let's take another element of music, like the four beats, for example, in all of music, you count one, two, three, four. All of music changes when you add beats and take away beats. If you make four's an even number, so you can you can nod your head to the music, you can feel the beat a lot better. If you start taking away beats and making it odd numbers like five beats, seven beats, nine beats, then it starts getting trippy, then it starts getting technical. And that's where I'll look at drummers online and I'll see them play three million beats per minute or something really fast and really mind-blowing. But I'll think, can they break down the music and change it is the question. And that's why I drive to do that stuff when I drum. I make it technical and confusing. Because that's what I'm good at and that's what I think that a lot of drummers can't do. So when I look at other drummers or I look at my friends that are musicians, I think, sure, they can play fast, but can they break down the music and like technically analyze it and stuff like that? Or even just a day-to-day life. If I look at someone, like they're not the best at waking up early. And I think I'm not the best at waking up early. So like why not improve on that? Wake up early every day. Speaker 2: 415. It's because I picked a handful of people that I want to like, and I'm like average time is 4 30. I'm getting up at 4 15, 15 minutes early. So do a little back mus back story on you playing music. Yeah. So you start out with a ukulele. Yeah, I remember when we were camping with Sarah. There's a little she had a ukulele. Isn't that ukulele? Same thing, right? Speaker 1: Did I? I don't remember that. No, that was like a little tiny baby guitar. Basically same I don't know, same Speaker 2: And then you say you want an acoustic guitar. Yep. So we borrowed one, and then you wanted your own, so we bought that. And then you got into the electric guitar. And then we went through four, five, nine, twelve, eleven strings or whatever it was. So we went through a bunch of other guitars for that. And then we got into the bass. And then you got into the keyboard. And then you wanted to start a band. And there's a battle of the band starting. But the drummer. you had no drummer and the Battle of the Bands was on like a Friday or something like that. Yep. And you learn how to play the drums on a Tuesday. Three days before, and he just learned how to play the drums. So when he's getting into the whole dissecting music and all that stuff, like it's another beast. It's like a whole nother thing. Like I hear it all the time at the house, but like I I am proud of you. Like you you've done a killer job. and that's cool how you look at Speaker 1: Yeah, that was it. Speaker 2: Other people. Like there's no like very black and white like can and can't. It's like he can, but and he like dissect it that much more. Yeah. Like can he dissect music? Speaker 1: Yeah. When I say like they can't do that, I don't mean it in a put them down sort of way. I look at like people who are really good at what they do and they think like, well, where would they be if they couldn't like if Michael Jordan couldn't shoot threes? Yeah. I don't know if he can, but you know what I mean? Yeah. Where would he be if he couldn't shoot threes? Yeah. Not nearly as good as he is today. That's what I look at it as. Yeah. I wanna be like I wanna be the best I can, so I have to look at what I'm bad at. Speaker 2: That's into minor details where it's like you have the Kobe Bryant and it's like he can dribble, but how many dribbles can you do in a minute and how intricate can he do with it? Like he would do little things with his thumb and his pinky that would spin the ball a certain way. Like that's really breaking it down. That's what the great greats do. They break it down to such small steps that no one else can fathom the actual whole process anymore. Exactly. It's that intricate. Okay, so we're gonna have the fun part of the podcast. Okay. Okay. your friend groups are made up of all shapes and sizes. Yeah. You have influence from like sporty kids, the musical, the arts kids, the I guess regular kids, like neighbor, know what I mean? Like you have friends Speaker 1: I have like h I have like three different friend groups. Yeah. All totally different people. Speaker 2: Exactly. How do you cancel with the noise? Like you have so many different influences on you. Like how do you just say, No, I'm Aiden, I wanna hang out with them and I wanna hang out with them because when I went to school, it was clicky. Speaker 1: Yeah. Speaker 2: And you kinda just like float anywhere you want. So like how do you forget the noise of everyone talking about like, you know, you're with the jock kids and like, ⁓ look at those kids sitting in the corner playing guitar, or the kids playing guitar saying like ⁓ they'll never have like a talent of being able to create music. Like it there's a lot of noise. There is. Speaker 1: There is, yeah. When I first started drumming, I had people coming up to me, you would never be able to drum, or you'll never make it playing this style or metal music. Switch to this music, you'll do so much better. I've had mom come up to me still today. She comes up to me, you'd be so much better if you played this. Now she's like my biggest supporter, besides like you. Yeah. But like back then, like when I first started, the idea of playing metal music and playing drums for metal music was like it's such a like genre most people don't like. Surely it won't be popular if people don't like the music. We like it. Which I mean look at our shirt. Yeah. We like it. Same concert too. Yeah. I even plan this. I know. But ⁓ I even at school I've had people come up to me like in the halls or at lunch or in classes and be like, why do you do it if you know it's not gonna be popular? And I'd be like, you can't tell me what's gonna be popular. You can't tell me what I'm gonna do. Like it would make me like it'd make my blood boil when people come up to me and tell me why I can't do it. Or them telling me why I can't or why it won't work. And it would make me so mad. I've even had like a music teacher who's come up to me. This isn't gonna work. Like when my first started guitar lessons, I was so in love with the instrument, I wanted to do two hour lessons instead of one. And he told me, no, you're gonna get stressed out, it's too much learning, you can't handle it. And even today I still think about that. Like who are you to tell me I can't handle that or I can't push myself hard. Speaker 2: That's crazy. I didn't know but that I didn't know that about you. Speaker 1: Well, and the best part is now that I'm sponsored and I'm doing kind of well with my drumming, I have people the same people coming up to me, You're really good, keep up keep it up. Like weren't you telling me to like I wouldn't be here if you Speaker 2: The definition of the must be nice. Because no one remembers the long hours and the headaches you put in and the effort you're willing to put in to get it there. Like that's someone that doesn't have the hungry mindset where they're just like I because people can't accept Speaker 1: Yeah. Speaker 2: Or believe things they can't picture themselves doing. Does that make sense? Yeah. So that music teacher might have not pictured himself playing guitar for two hours or he ki couldn't play guitar for two hours. So he puts that result on you. Because if this is realistic for me and these are my expectations, this is what it is for everyone else in the world. It's like ⁓ like me working. People are like, Why do you never put your phone down? Why do you never clock out? I'm like, I like Speaker 1: Yeah. Speaker 2: The hustle. Yeah. I like the go, go, go, right? Just because you don't like it and you can't picture yourself doing it doesn't mean it's fits for me. Does that make sense? And y you need to remember that as you like continue to grow and you know achieve more, is that people are gonna put those parameters on you when they can't picture themselves in that situation. Yeah. So if you want to drum for six hours straight, someone's gonna say, That's too much for you. No, it's too much for you. Speaker 1: Yeah. It's worse when they know they can do it and they tell you it's too much for me. Like if they're like if I have like a teacher, like a music teacher that plays music all day every day and I wanna practice for like five hours and he's like, No, that's too much for you. But I know he can do it, why are you to tell me I can't do it be because I know you can do it, why can't I? Speaker 2: I can do it. That's that's that's capping the ceiling on people too, right? Speaker 1: Like when they know they can do it and they just cap the ceiling for someone else just because, that's what really makes my blood boil. Because why would you take that away from someone or get plant that seed in their mind that they can't do it or it's too much for them? Speaker 2: But that's what differ di differentiates you from other people is that you've learned to turn off the noise. Yeah. And that's what I love that you touched on that because that's the definition of the question I just asked you. So we're gonna do you know what? We're gonna give you the floor. Is there anything else you wanna touch on? Or Living with Me is Okay, yeah, go. Go. Speaker 1: Living with you. Yeah. I wanna l I wanna let the people know. Like living with you is is fun because like there's always so much going on and you're so energetic and like with me and Maddie and Sophia, you're very playful with us. Like you always wanna go even when you're not doing business related stuff, you always wanna be doing something. Yeah. You always wanna ⁓ like go out, like, kids let's go to the movies, kids let's go get dinner, kids let's go do this. Or like when we're feeling really like when we're all free, we're like, Dad, let's go or AJ or JJ, let's go out and do the movies or something, let's go do something. It's really fun like that because I feel like if I had like a dad that just like worked all day or would get home from work, I'm tired. Then I feel it wouldn't be like I wouldn't have that I feel like I wouldn't be as energetic of a person as I am. And like I feel like it's very nice to have someone at home that's energetic like me. And I know I'm got it from you, but it's nice to have someone similar to me all the time around. It's so like chaotic in a good way, I like it. Yeah. Speaker 2: This is really emotional. Emotional. Alright, we're gonna go two more questions. Okay. One. Okay. And these always stun people. Speaker 1: I'm ready. Ready? Yeah. Speaker 2: What do you want to be asked? You have the world watching you. And some one reporter stands up and asks you one question because there's an answer you want to give everyone about it. What's a question you want to get asked? Speaker 1: Yeah. Does my age ever like rid me of opportunities? Like I'm a drummer and I play in a lot of bars. But since I'm sixteen, like I want people to ask me, like, I've always been waiting for the question, like, are you ever too young to do something? Are you ever too young to perform or play somewhere? That's like the question I l would kill to be asked by just a random person. Speaker 2: That's a cool one. Like setting a boundary on someone or setting like expectations or parameters on someone where it's kinda like, well, because you're only sixteen you can't do this, or because you're only twenty you can't do this, or you know, or it could be vice versa. Yeah. You know what I Like, you know, because you're forty you can't keep up with the eighteen year olds. It could it could work in reverse too, right? That is a really cool question. Last one, what would you name this episode? Speaker 1: Like I would just love to go into ⁓ Something to do with like me or his son. Like, I don't know what to name it, but name it. Like Speaker 2: You have to name it. That's Speaker 1: a look into the cappuccitis. Speaker 2: ⁓ I look into the cap keys. That's a that's a good spin. I like it. Okay. ⁓ all right, so we're gonna give you a sec, social plugs, because I know you really wanna do that because you wanna plug your band, you want to plug yourself, you wanna plug your drumming website. What's your website? Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. What is my website Aiden Casino something? Look at the code. ⁓ Aidencasino.com I think. My Instagram is Aiden underscore casino and then two of my bands, Loose Jaw Band, I think it is on Instagram and Whiskey Jack Band on Instagram. Those are the three. Speaker 2: Yeah, right. And do you have any shows coming up? It's by And we're doing some content planning and this episode is literally gonna drop like three days before your birthday. So happy birthday. Well happy early Speaker 1: Really? Thank you. First birthday I've gotten. Speaker 2: yeah, I think we're like three or four days off. I think it drops on the eighteenth. So Yeah, so it'll be cool to drop it around then. Besides that, it was awesome having you on the podcast. That was ac that actually turned out a lot better than I thought. I thought it's either he was gonna completely knock me or completely stunt me, or I was gonna stump him, but I think it was pretty fluid. It was a great episode of Forget the Noise podcast once again. Aiden Cappuccini, aka Stooge, if you know us. Speaker 1: Katie, can't wait. Thanks for having me. It was fun. Speaker 2: That's an inside joke. yeah, that's just a lesson for any parents out there that are raising kids, the younger generation, doesn't matter if you're a business owner or not, like you do influence them. I learned that today, and I'm like with this kid all the time. And I go to his shows, we hang out at home. And there's things I learned today that I didn't think rolled over to him. I didn't think it rubbed off on him. I really Just thought they were just lost words I've said over and over a thousand times. So maybe grab your kid and sit down and talk to them. That would be a great idea because you'll learn a lot from your kid, especially around this age. We got two of them, 17 and 15. And it's a fun stage, and they're becoming young adults, and everything you did before that molded them, and now you get to see kind of the final product. But if you never sit down and talk to them and spend the time with them. You never get to know what you helped create. So take some time with your kids. Hopefully this episode was good. Again, Aiden, thank you for coming on. That was really cool. That was a lot of fun. Yeah. Signing off, forget the noise.