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The Modern Maker Podcast

EP. 015 | BEN GOES ROGUE

The Modern Maker Podcast

Michael Montgomery

Arts, Visual Arts

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

On this weekend show Ben sits down with Jamison Rants (AKA The Rogue Engineer) to talk about making, and all sorts of other fun stuff. This was recorded on location at an event, so the audio quality is a little worse than normal - but that shouldn't stop you from enjoying! The Rogue Engineer - https://rogueengineer.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Modern Maker Podcast for Saturday, April 29th.

0:09.1

On this episode, Ben sits down for a one-on-one interview with Jameson, aka the Rogue Engineer, to talk about

0:15.2

making, business models, building your own home, and my personal favorite subject, Chris

0:21.0

Salimony. So without any further ado, let's just go ahead and jump right in.

0:24.6

Take it away, Ben. All right, welcome to our interview section for the weekend show and I'm here today with

0:30.8

Jameson, Rants, also known as Rogue Engineer.

0:35.0

Rogue Engineer, yeah, thanks for having me.

0:37.0

So, we'll start with that.

0:39.0

Why, what's up with the name, man?

0:41.0

So, I've got a, I came from an engineering background. I went to

0:45.6

school for aerospace engineering and then I worked for a little while at golf

0:51.2

stream as a flight test mechanical designer.

0:55.0

But when I, I guess the name came from it because I was kind of spinning off or trying to provide information that not an engineer should not do, like the

1:07.6

inner details of how to knock off or build this furniture that is super expensive.

1:13.8

We're just trying to, you know, the rogue engineer gets out.

1:17.4

Yeah, it's funny, whenever you're like rogue engineer,

1:19.2

I always think of like an action movie where it is like a rogue Russian scientist is like creating some sort of nuclear

1:24.7

weapon to destroy it.

1:25.7

It's funny because I had a Google alert set up for a while and it for a rogue engineer and I was

1:30.5

I was getting alert for like random stuff like engineers going off the charts and done something again.

1:37.6

It's funny with like sort of starting these kinds of like small media businesses and stuff like no matter how well planned out you are there's always these things

1:46.4

that you didn't think of you're like oh crap like now I'm associated with that

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