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The Watercooler

Aaron Fechter | Inventor, Creative Engineering Inc.

The Watercooler

Watercooler Podcast

Comedy

4.3857 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2015

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Aaron Fechter invented the Whac-A-Mole and the animatronic band, The Rock-afire Explosion. On this episode of R?sum?, Aaron talks about a few of his incredible inventions and how he survives such a cutthroat industry. Aaron also discusses what keeps him motivated to continue working on his ideas, especially when things don't necessarily go his way. For more with Aaron, visit EngineeringCreative.com Host: Chris Laxamana ChrisLaxamana.com Support The Show: Hold your next meeting online by visiting GoToMeeting.com and clicking the 'Try it Free' button to have your first meeting up and running in minutes. You also get a free 30-day trial. Purchase the 'Resume Podcast Theme' song on iTunes and Amazon. And if you enjoy the show, please leave a rating and review on iTunes.

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0:00.0

This is Corolla Digital. The And thank you so much for tuning in a resume. I'm your host Chris Lock Somana and this is the show where we talk

0:35.2

about the interesting career paths of interesting people and today well before we get

0:42.4

started I just want to have a couple announcements, please continue going to Chrisloxamana.com and writing in.

0:48.0

I read everything you write and I'm trying to get back to everybody and the reason I'm saying that is because Diane from

0:53.8

Washington recently wrote in asking if I can well just giving a guest

0:59.3

suggestion and ask if I could have someone in particular on the show.

1:02.6

She asked if I could have a man named Aaron Fector,

1:04.7

an engineer on the show.

1:06.5

And I read the email and I looked into it.

1:08.9

I thought he had a really great story.

1:10.2

So today I welcome Aaron Fector to the program.

1:13.0

Aaron, welcome to the show.

1:14.0

Thank you very much, Chris. It's nice to be here.

1:16.0

So Aaron is an engineer for creative engineering.

1:20.0

You would probably know them best as he created the animatronics in at

1:27.1

showbiz pizza the rock of fire explosion. Also he's credited for creating Wackamole, is that right?

1:35.0

Yes, it is.

1:36.0

Yeah, the video game Wackamole with the moles coming out of the holes and you have the foam hammer that you're hitting

1:42.0

in every arcade that I grew up in.

1:45.4

But Aaron, so I looked in your story, it's really interesting.

1:48.2

So what I want to do is just take it from the beginning and let's just talk about you becoming an engineer and creating creative

1:54.9

engineering your business.

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