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Good morning, the tech podcast.

I'm here on behalf of Richard Jacobs this morning with a special guest Kurt Gardner, a indie

video game trailer maker. So Kurt, thank you so much for joining me today.

How is the weather where you are?

I saw where you were calling you from.

Yeah, we just had a massive blizzard over Christmas.

So we're kind of snowed in.

We're waiting for the snow clouds to come down the street and get it out.

Well, all right. Well, hey, now that's a great ideal setting to play video games, right?

It is, yeah. Works in perfectly with today.

So I want to get into a little bit about what it is that you do, Kurt,

what drove you into this particular industry over, you know possibly

possibly some others.

Just getting a little bit of background on you, who are you?

Yeah, so it's a weird story.

So basically like, I can give you a certain version of I guess it and it's I used to work in the visual effects industry and so I worked on about 25 different Hollywood movies sort of like B to see grade stuff that most people probably haven't seen or got really bad like rotten tomato

scores.

But there was like a visual effects studio in Winnipeg and I spent a good chunk of my sort of career

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