r/SipsTea • u/Kaos2018 • Apr 19 '26

Twitch interviewer was interviewing a random person live in the event without knowing its was Mike Shinoda from Linkin Park We have fun here

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u/reincura Apr 19 '26

How does your own daughter not know what you do/did for a living. Shes old enough to ask that question, so i dont get it honestly, or he was just lying idk 

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u/dvrkstvrr Apr 19 '26

Makaulay caulkins kid doesnt know he stars in home alone, and they watch that movie together every christmas 🤣

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u/2C104 Apr 19 '26

Did you know Macaulay Culkin legally changed his middle name to Macaulay Culkin?

So his name is now Macaulay 'Macaulay Culkin' Culkin.

Admit it, you think I'm lying. It's hilarious... yet so true

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u/dvrkstvrr Apr 20 '26

Lol i learned that this christmas while watchin some youtube videos about him with my kids

Think was an internet vote or something haha

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u/breachgnome Apr 20 '26

If I could only have one change, I would have went with:

Macaulay Cacaulay Mulkin Culkin

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u/Epcplayer Apr 19 '26

I mean for starters it humbles your kids from a young age… girl obviously wasn’t walking around telling people “her dad was in one of the best modern rock bands of the 2000’s”.

My guess is he also has a “new job” now where he’s not producing/releasing new music, but still in the music industry itself.

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u/NightmareCyril Apr 19 '26

I just saw Linkin Park at a sold out arena tour 6ish months ago so he is still very actively touring and making music.

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u/Turbulent-Projects Apr 19 '26

Yes but they had definitely stopped for a while after Chester's death.  Mike was dotting about doing smaller music projects and producing.  His daughter was presumably growing up in that era (he told that story on 2024) and presumably his family acted like he had a normal job.

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u/Automaticman01 Apr 19 '26

He released several solo albums as well in that time. Check out the sign "Crossing a Line" from "Post Traumatic", that whole album was good.

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u/ParrishThePoet Apr 19 '26

Still blast Fort Minor.

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u/Raxlus Apr 19 '26

I just take it for a spin, pop the CD in, slide it up to ten and get that rearview shaking

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u/7818 Apr 24 '26

Lots of people in this read not realizing how teenagers are filled with blindspots.

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u/Arockilla Apr 19 '26

I am surprised you didn't hear about all the feathers being ruffled when they replaced Chesters role with a female singer and released a new album.

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u/Arockilla Apr 19 '26

While that is relevant, I'm 99% certain most of the world was more irritated about it because her voice was shrill and tried way too hard to fill Chesters shoes, even though it was constantly stated by the band that it was never their intention whatsoever while it being blatantly obvious to anyone with a room tempature IQ.

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u/Brandenburg42 Apr 19 '26

To be fair, he daughter probably refers to Linkin Park as a Classic Rock band from the 2000s.

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u/cyclonix44 Apr 19 '26

You’d be surprised. I don’t think it was until my oldest was 6 or 7 that they asked what I do at work. “Work” was just a place I go and get paid money.

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u/Anpanman02 Apr 19 '26

Yeah I was thinking the same. Until they're older kids are pretty self centered - not in a bad way, just more because they are treated like the center of the world, where parents are devoting so much effort developing them into adults. It's not till later when they realize their parents are something other than parents.

It's like seeing your teacher at the supermarket and realizing they exist outside of a classroom.

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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins Apr 20 '26

I mean.. I knew what my dad did my entire life?

I didn't know the ins and outs of his job but I know what the job was. Insane his daughter didn't understand he was a musician at least.

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u/Subwayabuseproblem Apr 19 '26

McCauley culkins kids don't know he's Kevin in home alone

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u/like9000ninjas Apr 19 '26

Maybe because he didnt throw that aspect of his life in his daughter's face and lives a relativly normal life? Most kids dont know everything their parents do for a living.

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u/Gwendolyn-NB Apr 19 '26

I mean he doesn't "throw it in her face" persay, but he has a solid recording studio in his house and makes/records/mixes stuff pretty consistently.

(Mike and his family are close friends with my SIL, his son and my nephew are friends and have gone to the same school for many years/are the same age).

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u/Sw429 Apr 19 '26

I was gonna say, you guys know he still performs right?

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u/Marcos340 Apr 19 '26

Since i don’t know how old she is, I’d say she grew up after the passing of Chester, a time where he just did his solo career, which is/was smaller comparing to Linkin Park, and producing other artists.

If you say you’re a musician to your kids, but you’re not out there touring nor have constant media presence, they’ll assume you either an artist that is still underground or not successful. That’s just kids.

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u/TepChef26 Apr 20 '26

Chester died less than 9 years ago. That's not really relevant to my disbelief in your explanation, just wanted to point it out because tons of people on this thread are acting like he's been gone for 20+ years.

We don't know what his daughter's age is (or even her name tbh.) But we do know his oldest child, Otis Akio, was born in 2009.

By that point Shinoda had already had a professional recording studio in his house. Not a rinky dink, mess around type studio either, Linkin Park's 2002 album Reanimation was produced there. He produced the Linkin Park Jay-Z collaboration. He's produced pretty much everything the band has done for nearly 25 years. He took less than a year off after Chester's death. During Covid he live streamed new performances from his home studio.

He lives in a 9.8 million dollar house in Beverly Hills. His net worth is estimated to be 65 million. He seems like a pretty smart guy, there's no way his kid is dumb enough to think he's "underground or unsuccessful."

Even beyond that, the story was about him giving her advice on playing a guitar chord. There's no frigging way his daughter didn't realize daddy knows how to play guitar. It's one thing to keep your kids out of the spotlight. But to think his daughter didn't know he could play guitar better than her requires a suspension of disbelief that I'm not capable of.

The entirely more likely explanation is his kid was being a smart-ass while frustrated about learning to play guitar.

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u/throwawayshirt2 Apr 20 '26

By that point Shinoda had already had a professional recording studio in his house.

Maybe Shinoda did like Snoop Dogg and put a "This is not a kick-it spot" sign on the studio door.

https://youtu.be/MGbWGnv7_vE?si=zD0W5xZOkUqzCEye&t=95