Whether it's music or fashion or fine art, whatever, I'm just trying something and I'm losing track of time

because I'm just enjoying the process of learning and I think that that's why I've found success.

Alright, no jumper, who is podcasting the world and today we find ourselves in the presence of the one and only

Trouble Andrew. How you doing my friend? I'm doing great. Very excited to be here. Obviously we're not in our usual studio.

We decided to come check out the art space and everything. Just you know, I figured we should add a visual aid to

remind everybody exactly how this fucking brainy year's works. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, welcome. Glad you made it.

Happy to be here, yeah. So can we start with the early days? Because you have a pretty crazy story that led up to how you got here today.

But tell us a little bit about your childhood. Sure. I grew up in Nova Scotia, like out in the country.

I think, you know, my window to art and everything that I learned about was through skateboarding and I was lucky to, my mom would like always have

like an older dude like Rentner Room or whatever at the house and just randomly like those few guys that were there

where like punk rock guys that skated and just were always bringing me home like dead Kennedy's tapes are taking me to the skate contest up in the city or

and that really I think just gave me a viewpoint like just a new way to look at the world. I think skateboarding really

there's no kind of right way to do it or wrong way to do it and there's so much like art and culture that's just attached to it.

So I was really lucky in that way and my mom worked at the ski hill like it was literally like a ski hill. It was maybe like 300 vertical feet and it was right down the street.

So like she was there selling tickets. So like after school I would pull up and snowboard every day and the winters because like winters were rough and you couldn't really skate.

So around what is it you start to get introduced to this and was there a lot of like culture going on in that area? Do you feel like you just got super lucky?

No I got super lucky because it was like kind of in the middle of nowhere in a sense like it was we were on kind of a back road and there wasn't like a skate park.

There wasn't really like a scene unless you went into the city and it was like still very small. Then I was about maybe like 10 or 11 when that started happening.

So I started skating when I was maybe eight and started snowboarding when I was about 10.

Right so you got introduced like punk and skateboard and kind of all as one cohesive thing. It wasn't like separate things that you got into.

Yeah not at all. It was it was all one thing and just watching like the skate videos or the snowboard videos. I was like learning about music that I would never knew about you know from being where I'm from the you know country on the radio.

So I was learning about like bad brains and black flag and like a bunch of underground bands too like McRat and sub society and a bunch of stuff that really influenced me like to this day you know like all of those videos I was kind of seeing the world through those videos like seeing the city seeing like mountains and all this stuff that really drew me and was like a magnet to like find that in my life later on.

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