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[2736.22 --> 2740.22] And didn't notice that you could buy shirts and happen to see this. |
[2740.22 --> 2741.22] There we go. |
[2741.22 --> 2742.22] Best ad spot ever. |
[2742.22 --> 2743.22] Yeah. |
[2743.22 --> 2744.22] What was I going to say next? |
[2744.22 --> 2749.22] One thing that I wanted to get through and I think we might have time is because I always |
[2749.22 --> 2754.22] find this quite interesting and we'll again, actually we'll switch it. |
[2754.22 --> 2756.22] We'll go from this way over. |
[2756.22 --> 2760.22] What got you into computers and technology in general? |
[2760.22 --> 2761.22] My dad. |
[2761.22 --> 2765.22] My dad, after the military he was a project manager and he was one of the first, I don't |
[2765.22 --> 2772.22] want to say pioneers, but he was a VP, a senior VP for a company that was building mainframes |
[2772.22 --> 2776.22] and doing, you know, crazy old school tape drive backups and stuff. |
[2776.22 --> 2779.22] And he basically talked to the company and was like, guys, we need to get off the mainframe |
[2779.22 --> 2785.22] and we need to get into computer project management, computer based stuff, PC stuff. |
[2785.22 --> 2787.22] And this was back in like 79, 80. |
[2787.22 --> 2790.22] And they didn't listen to him. |
[2790.22 --> 2793.22] And of course that company went belly up because they were one of the leaders in the mainframe |
[2793.22 --> 2795.22] and then everyone was getting off the mainframe. |
[2795.22 --> 2800.22] And, but he, so when, when that happened, he ended up going to business for himself writing |
[2800.22 --> 2802.22] project management software. |
[2802.22 --> 2806.22] And from my earliest memories, I was always on his lap while he was on the computer doing |
[2806.22 --> 2807.22] his thing. |
[2807.22 --> 2810.22] And he had no, that he said the best thing he ever did for me was when I would try and touch |
[2810.22 --> 2813.22] the computer, he never was like, no, no, no, don't touch, don't touch. |
[2813.22 --> 2817.22] He was always like, he would save his work and just be like, have fun, just type away and mash |
[2817.22 --> 2818.22] on the keyboard. |
[2818.22 --> 2820.22] So he never once told me I couldn't touch anything. |
[2820.22 --> 2821.22] Right. |
[2821.22 --> 2827.22] So I've always done that with my kids and it's kind of gone, you know, three generations |
[2827.22 --> 2828.22] or two generations at this point now. |
[2828.22 --> 2832.22] And my youngest daughter now is she's three and a half and showing interest in the computer, |
[2832.22 --> 2833.22] which is, I think it's fantastic. |
[2833.22 --> 2834.22] Sure. |
[2834.22 --> 2840.22] Um, so yeah, it was, it was just my dad and that was just life was computers and as long |
[2840.22 --> 2841.22] as I can remember. |
[2841.22 --> 2843.22] So that simple. |
[2843.22 --> 2847.22] I think I've told my story a million times, so I'll, I'll do a very brief version of it. |
[2847.22 --> 2851.22] Uh, but I, I just wanted to play Diablo and the computer stopped working. |
[2851.22 --> 2852.22] So I learned how to fix it. |
[2852.22 --> 2853.22] So I could keep playing Diablo. |
[2853.22 --> 2856.22] Um, and it's gone from there. |
[2856.22 --> 2859.22] Uh, there's, there's longer versions, but you've probably heard a million times. |
[2859.22 --> 2863.22] It's, I don't really, I mean, I don't really know where to start. |
[2863.22 --> 2866.22] There was, uh, I find yours kind of interesting cause you were like super in the middle of nowhere, |
[2866.22 --> 2867.22] right? |
[2867.22 --> 2868.22] Yeah. |
[2868.22 --> 2869.22] I was, I was super in the middle. |
[2869.22 --> 2874.22] The, the, the first event really that led to that was, uh, there was this old guy and, |
[2874.22 --> 2878.22] uh, well, I was sort of bored in school and they're trying to figure out how to do deal |
[2878.22 --> 2881.22] with that because it was like kindergarten or first grade or something. |
[2881.22 --> 2885.22] And there was an old guy visiting from the Stevens Institute and he's like, |
[2885.22 --> 2886.22] all right, let's figure this out. |
[2886.22 --> 2892.22] So we set up an Apple two to with like a wooden break to measure your reaction time. |
[2892.22 --> 2896.22] When like you hit the thing, it would, there was like a basic program that would run and |
[2896.22 --> 2899.22] tell you what your reaction time was for like a breaking in a car. |
[2899.22 --> 2904.22] And so he walked me through soldering wires into something inside the Apple two and then |
[2904.22 --> 2906.22] writing a program on the Apple two and doing all the stuff. |
[2906.22 --> 2908.22] And it was like, I have to learn more. |
[2908.22 --> 2909.22] And so you were in kindergarten and grade one. |
[2909.22 --> 2910.22] I was very young. |
[2910.22 --> 2911.22] Yeah. |
[2911.22 --> 2912.22] That's quite an impressive project. |
[2912.22 --> 2913.22] Cause I like took everything apart. |
[2913.22 --> 2918.22] I got in trouble for taking apart like the TV in school, which is what led to that. |
[2918.22 --> 2919.22] Okay. |
[2919.22 --> 2927.22] I needed a machine to work on some sessions in logic pro and the studio that I was working |
[2927.22 --> 2928.22] at it closed down. |
[2928.22 --> 2932.22] So I bought a Mac book because I was broke used on eBay and it can't arrive broken. |
[2932.22 --> 2933.22] I got a discount on it. |
[2933.22 --> 2936.22] So I bought the screen that I needed to fix it. |
[2936.22 --> 2938.22] And then when I didn't need it anymore, I sold it. |
[2938.22 --> 2940.22] And I realized I made a profit of two or $300. |
[2940.22 --> 2941.22] So I thought, let me do this again. |
[2941.22 --> 2944.22] So I was buying and reselling them for a month or two. |
[2944.22 --> 2947.22] Then I wanted to, I started offering the services to other people. |
[2947.22 --> 2951.22] I didn't think it was economically viable, but then I realized the part is 80 to $90 and |
[2951.22 --> 2954.22] Apple charges 1200 at the time to replace the entire screen assembly. |
[2954.22 --> 2956.22] So I just kept doing that over and over again. |
[2956.22 --> 2959.22] People started bringing liquid damage ones eventually. |
[2959.22 --> 2962.22] So I started sending them off to a company in China that would fix them. |
[2962.22 --> 2964.22] They were doing worse and worse job as time went on. |
[2964.22 --> 2969.22] So I figured if I've been working on recording studio equipment and consoles component level, |
[2969.22 --> 2971.22] let me see if I can figure out how to do this. |
[2971.22 --> 2976.22] So after a lot of, I think a few years of painfully messing around and failing a lot and recording |
[2976.22 --> 2980.22] a lot of it for YouTube, I got decent enough at it that I could offer it to regular customers. |
[2980.22 --> 2981.22] That was that. |
[2981.22 --> 2986.22] I think the YouTube thing started from making a video because reseller ratings was trying |
[2986.22 --> 2988.22] to up the rate by about a thousand percent. |
[2988.22 --> 2992.22] So I did a video on their process that got 120,000 views that I thought would get 10. |
[2992.22 --> 2993.22] And that was that. |
[2993.22 --> 2994.22] Cool. |
[2994.22 --> 2999.22] And you've mentioned audio stuff a few times this WAN show. |
[2999.22 --> 3002.22] So what was your involvement in the music industry? |
[3002.22 --> 3006.22] I worked at Avatar, I went to Avatar Studios and I said that I would, I remember saying |
[3006.22 --> 3011.22] something like I would rather wash the toilets here than work at any other place for money. |
[3011.22 --> 3016.22] And I remember I showed up for my interview and the guy asked what is this thing that I had in my pocket |
[3016.22 --> 3020.22] and it was a C-Moy headphone amplifier that I put together myself and stuff that I bought on eBay. |
[3020.22 --> 3021.22] And he said you're hired. |
[3021.22 --> 3023.22] I think that was Roy Hendrickson that hired me. |
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