Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.

Future Technologies are poised to transform our lives for better or worse for the focus of this podcast.

Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.

We're just around the corner.

From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.

Good morning, the tech podcast.

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

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 from.

Yeah, we just had a massive blizzard over Christmas, so we're kind of snowed in.

We're waiting for the snowplows to come down the street and get us out.

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

It is, yeah.

Works imperfectly 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 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,

and I used to work in the visual effects industry, and so I worked on about 25 different

Hollywood movies, sort of like B to C grade stuff that most people probably haven't seen

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