Ep. 085, Ancient History

Underserved

Andrew Gelina

Society & Culture, Technology

5.0 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

I have known Ben Hodson for over 20 years, and when he came in to record we went over most of those years and back a few more in Episode #085 of Underserved. The first part of our conversation is this regular episode entitled "Ancient History." We start with Ben's step-grandfather cultivating Ben's curiosity and love of experimentation/iteration to find solutions. This theme would follow Ben through his career, from hardware stores to online job boards to smart speakers. We continue the conversation (including our overlapping Monster years) in the bonus episode entitled, "Modern History."

Ben on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-hodson-560b75/

Link to a nice article on my Step grandfather. https://www.nae.edu/29182/Mr-Frederick-J-Hooven

Article about a paper he wrote about the disappearance of Amelia Earhart https://earharttruth.wordpress.com/tag/the-hooven-report/

Amazon book about my Step grandfather https://www.amazon.com/Planes-Trains-Automobiles-More-Inventions/dp/1735599921/ref=nodl_?dplnkId=5a95d530-e2f6-4ffe-a857-7dfd861b344b

Some videos of drag racing the Firehawk. https://youtu.be/F0UGXlQ41Cg

High school slasher film starring me as the psycho in the raincoat.. https://youtu.be/vAOUriJnNRQ

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone to episode number 85 of Underserved.
0:05.0	Today with me in studio is Ben Hodson,
0:08.0	Principal Database Architect at Sonos, let's get started.
0:12.0	Welcome to this week's edition of Underserved,
0:16.0	the podcast for the rest of the tech industry.
0:20.0	Where we focus on stories of tech industry leaders,
0:23.0	their insights, and their lessons learned.
0:26.0	And now your host, Andrew Jalina.
0:33.0	Ben, thank you so much for joining us today on Underserved.
0:37.0	Thank you very much, Andrew. It's great to see you again.
0:39.0	It's been way too long.
0:41.0	It certainly has.
0:42.0	So way back when 1970s, you go to Dartmouth College
0:47.0	to visit your step-grandfather.
0:49.0	How does he introduce you to computers?
0:51.0	So my step-grandfather was a really, really, really interesting guy
0:54.0	who I was extremely lucky to know.
0:56.0	He had been an inventor since I don't know when.
0:59.0	The stories of the things that he'd done.
1:01.0	He knew the Wright brothers.
1:03.0	He conversed with Amelia Earhart.
1:05.0	He, you know, had done all these crazy things.
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