Recycling 3D Print Scraps, Printing Devil Fruit, AI 3D Modeling, Military - MTM #27 Armour3dprints

In this episode of Meet the Makers, Blake from Armor3DPrints sits down to discuss his journey into 3D printing, starting from his college days to making viral TikTok videos and running a successful 3D printing business. Blake delves into his favorite projects, like Majora's mask, and offers insights into the technical aspects of different 3D printers and materials, including resin and FDM printing. Additionally, Blake shares his incredible military career, from watching drone footage in the Air Force to working with artificial intelligence for the Army. This episode provides a comprehensive look into Blake's multifaceted life and expertise in the world of 3D printing.
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Blake from Armor3DPrints
00:13 Blake's Journey into 3D Printing
01:44 Current 3D Printer Setup
02:28 FDM vs. Resin Printing
03:23 Exploring Resin Printers
06:41 The World of Devil Fruits
09:21 Collaborating with 3D Model Artists
18:43 The Art of Miniature Painting
28:26 3D Printing and New Hobbies
28:42 The Polystruder: A Game-Changer for Recycling
29:57 Challenges and Triumphs with the Polystruder
37:02 Future Projects and AI Innovations
41:12 A Journey Through Military and AI Careers
48:41 Reflections on College, Military, and Housing
54:19 Conclusion and Where to Find Me

Transcript

riverside_blake_& kate _ aug 3, 2024 001_misfit_printing's s 
[00:00:00] Welcome back to Meet the Makers. Another 3D printer here that we have with us today, Blake from Armor3DPrince. 
And Blake, thank you so much for coming out here today and talking to us about what you make. Yeah, I appreciate you guys inviting me. Of course. So I will kick you off with the same question that we always start with, which is just talk us through how you got into 3D printing and just making things in general.
Yeah. I went to college back in 2010 and I was in engineering school. So that was when 3D printers were first becoming a thing. And I built my first one in 2010 with my professor. And then didn't touch 3D printing until 2017, I was in the military, and I just bought an Ender 3, and started printing from there, and really didn't get big until2020 I had my first viral video on TikTok, and it exploded into what it is now, I feel like a lot of military guys, they get that first check and they go out and either buy a car or something, So I guess the 3d printer isn't that crazy. And isn't that terrible way to spend your money, especially for, it's blossomed [00:01:00] into something that you've done for all these years.
But no it's cool hearing that. And it's funny that like you were saying, back in 2010, when they were first 3d printers coming onto the scene at the time I'd still been in high school and I remember they had 3d printers and I was like, man, that's such a dumb class.
So I would never take a class about that. And now here. We both are as 3d printers. So it's always funny to be like the way that something earlier on in your life can transform into something that becomes much larger. Yeah. I think the first one was like rep rap and the professor was like, what do you guys think this machine does?
And I was like, it makes itself. And then he was like, actually, yes. He said it prints its own parts so you can make more printers. And I was like, okay, that's actually really cool. And I love building stuff. It was just learning that stuff. I never got deep into the whole G code thing.
I was more into the hardware of it. for you. You started off with building that 

machine, but. 
What printers do you have that you run nowadays in your setup? So now I have three BambooLab X1 Carbons over on my wall. That's my main three babies that I run. But behind me I've got The, I think it's a CR 60. It's the [00:02:00] treadmill one. I actually haven't run it yet.
I just haven't had time. I got that while I was deployed. And it just has been sitting here. But other than that, actually you can't, oh, it's just off screen. I also run a Haygears Reflex. Ultracraft, that's what, Ultracraft Reflex. And that's my really, that's my nice resin printer. That's something I'm always curious about. I don't have the opportunity to talk to as many people who do resin printing and for people who listen, who like are on different sides of it. Can, I guess I'll start and can you real quick, just like talk us through like the general difference between resin and FDM for those who aren't familiar.
Yeah. So FDM it's a, it's like fused plastic does layers. It's pretty basic, plastic goes through, comes out the hot end, melts it down, and then spits it out line by line. Resin printing is different in that you're using a almost like the same kind of resin that they use for nails and stuff.
And it uses a black light or usually it's a black light that then shoots an image of each sliced layer at a time. so it builds it upside down. So [00:03:00] with a regular like bed slinger, it's slowly building and the bed moves down. With a resin printer, it dips into a vat of resin, lifts up and then dips back down, cures, lifts up.
So yeah, it's faster usually than an FDM printer. It all, but it also depends on like your orientation. Yeah. So if it's like straight up and down, obviously it's going to be more layers. I'm so unfamiliar with even what exists out there in the world of resin. I know you said that's like your big boy machine that you have over there.
is that, maybe something that people would consider comparable to the X1 carbon of the resin side I would definitely say so. it's the bamboo labs, the X1 carbon equivalent. It's actually about the same price. They're about 1, 200.
it's super user friendly. That's why I like it. I'm not sponsored by Haygears or anything. They talked to me at one point cause they had some questions, but really I have a bunch of starter ones too. They're actually right there on my floor. I've got some Anycubic photons.

And that's the one I always, whenever anybody is like in my discord asking me about, what printers should I get especially in resin, I always say, just get yourself an [00:04:00] Anycubic normally people are trying to print like D and D figures and it's the right build size and they're usually real cheap, so you can get them for a couple hundred bucks. 
I always say because I think there's still a huge population of people out there who they think of 3d printing and a lot of us on, tiktok or on social media. I feel like we're talking about bamboo lab printers or other printers that can be like a little bit pricier, but no there's still not a great machines out there that definitely are really solid.
And like for, again, like I'm so unfamiliar with the resin side, but like for those more entry level machines do you find thatIt's more maintenance and more upkeep? Or is it just lower resolution? What does that difference look like for resin?
Yeah so typically when you're paying a lot for a resin printer, you're usually actually just buying build volume. So your cheaper machines are going to be smaller. I know a lot of people like because they actually use resin printing when making jewelry. So I have a friend who made earrings and so she would resin print out a little earring and she only needed a tiny little build plate.
But really when you pay more, you're going to start getting a little bit better quality as well. And it's not so much like it is [00:05:00] resolution. Cause right. The screen that's shining the photons up can be higher quality. It can be a 4k screen or like an 8k screen like your television.
So yeah, obviously the higher the resolution of that screen, then the better detail you're going to get in your little resin print. But yeah, really, the best I've seen is like the 4k stuff. After that, you're starting to pay for I think this one, it like heats the resin and it has like a pulsing thing that helps it release from the FEP film.
 It is significantly more intense. And if you get up into the 3, 000 printers, those ones will straight up clean themselves. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah. So that's real nice. I don't pay for that , they do like dentistry with it. I feel like on the resin side, you get into a lot more of those specialty applications. Like you said, like jewelry making and dentistry, which I know every time that I go to a dentist or anywhere that I suspect they might have a 3D printer. I'm always peeking around the corner and yeah, my dentist contracts out for 3D printing.

Like the, I don't necessarily think it's dentures. I'm pretty [00:06:00] sure it's just mold. So they can make dentures, but I've been considering, you just have to have a very special resin for that. That my printer cannot do. You have to get the form labs and stuff to get those, but Yeah, that's, I mean If anyone wants to make a business, that's pretty huge doing contracting work. 
that's the other thing I always imagine you think of this dentist who, they have a very specialized career, and then I just think of all the goofy makers out there, like 3D printers on the internet, and the same person just like tinkering away in between making, dragons and Other things like casting up medical applications.
Yeah, you're making like the little squiggly serpents and stuff, but you're also making very detailed teeth. So yeah, fun back and forth there. Now for you, like the thing that I am, whenever I see your content always comes to mind for me are all the devil fruit that you make. And a reoccurring trend for me is that.
I historically am like so out of touch with pop culture. I don't watch a ton of TV. I don't watch a ton of movies. So I'm actually not familiar with where these like devil fruit originate [00:07:00] from, but I'm I'm always so invested in the different ones that you have. And maybe you can just tell us a little bit more about the origins of how you got started making so many of these.
Yeah. Yeah. I'm a huge nerd. my sleeves are all video games and comic books 
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and stuff. One of my favorite, actually, I think it was the first anime I ever started back in college was One Piece. They made a 
live action version on Netflix and made it so popular. I think that's part of the reason why some of my devil fruit videos get so popular is because so many people got into it, basically it's an anime about a boy who wants to be a pirate.
And it's a world where 90 percent of it is made of water. But if you eat one of these devil fruits, you get superpowers, but you drown as, as soon as you touch water. And so being a pirate with a devil fruit, it's the lesser of two evils or so. And i, what I did is I looked for the gum fruit, which is like the main one.
And I printed it on my any cubic Cobra. Which was like, at that time to me, the high end printer for it was like a 200 printer. And all of a sudden that video got 

like a million views [00:08:00] and I was like, and people were like, Hey, can I buy them? And I was like and that's where you get into that is it okay to sell? 
Somebody else's art. And yeah, for me that is a hard no because my dad used to be an artist and people would steal his work all the time. I was like, I'm not going to sell physical products of this 3d model this guy made unless I get permission. And so I reached out to his name is red Bushido over on Colts 3d.
And he's a guy from Spain. 3d modeling is not even his full time job. Really? And he's incredibly talented. And I hit him up and I was like, Hey man, people really want me to sell physical versions of this. Could I sell the physical ones?
And at first he was like, no, he said, honestly, like this is just, but if you want, I can't stop you. And I was like, unless I have your express permission, I'm not going to. After talking to him for a little while, eventually he kinda came around, and we've been working together ever since.
Anytime I see a new Devil Fruit come up, I send it to him, and then he, spits it out within a day or so, but he's also really into One [00:09:00] Piece, that's actually where every single Devil Fruit that I've made, he's 3D modeled it based off of the official art. And yeah, it's just back to the original question.
It's a really popular anime that has millions of fans. when people talk about the big three, they're usually talking about like Naruto, One Piece and Dragon Ball. So it's in the running for top anime. Do always hear you mention Red Bushido in your videos and it's cool. Kind of hearing the evolution of that relationship that you have.
Cause you know, when I think about people who sell 3d prints, I think For a lot of people, the natural way to get into it, it seems is the path of least resistance, which, is like going the route of selling your traditional dragons or flexi factory or going like the cinder wing subscriptions, things like that.
And I always sayI think if you can carve out a more specific niche where you're selling something that like every other 3d printer isn't selling, I feel like it's just it's a little more work to get started, but like a maybe easier path once you're going down that path.
you mentioned that your father had been an artist. You had that moral basis to say hey, like I'm not gonna sell somebody else's art. Like I want to, Get his 

blessings. In terms of Going down [00:10:00] that process. Was it just a matter of reaching out via email and trying to foster that relationship? 
Or like for people who are looking to, maybe they find a final on calls. They're just like this is my genre. How would you recommend people's try to foster relationships like that? Yeah. So first I, I never intended to sell anything. It was like, it just so many people asked and then it, but it's really what's built up my whole I would never have owned a Bamboo Labs without that I'm actually, I would rather get out of selling stuff and just, I like building, I like making my little Mando helmets and my, my CS go stuff. But yeah, so if somebody though, wants to reach out to people on Colts 3D, there is no like direct messaging system.
You can only leave comments on their profile. And those are very public, so I've noticed people were leaving them for red over there but usually if somebody has, especially an artist, if they have a presence on MyMiniFactory or Kultz or something like that usually they've got an Instagram.
And Instagram, you can just DM people and then it'll usually send them a notification that somebody is trying to reach out and if they don't answer you, then they [00:11:00] don't answer you. I also reached out to, there's these guys, they're called Printed Obsession. And they're probably the most popular, like resin miniatures that are out there.
They have I want to say 20, 000 people subscribe to them on Patreon. And I just reached out and I said, Hey, I'm printing your minis. Is it cool if I tag you guys in it? And they're like, yeah, of course. Also here's all of our minis like for free. They gave me a whole bunch of their premium files.
They were like, yeah, don't sell them. But they're like, we'd appreciate if you make videos. Really, tag the people in it, everyone's super excited about the exposure just to see that somebody is printing their art and how it turns out that can get the conversation started.
And then you'd be like, Hey, do you mind if I sell this on my Etsy? Yeah, no, I agree. I think it's a good way to approach it because I have found over the years I know for me, like when I had first gotten into 3d printing I was like the opposite of you. I got into 3d printing thinking that I was going to sell stuff.
And then I ended up being like, I don't want to sell this, but I love it so much that this is just like my new hobby. But I remember in the beginning, I was 

really nervous about this idea of reaching [00:12:00] out to designers and approaching them and trying to figure out the best way to foster that relationship. 
And exactly like you were saying, I found over time that I would actually have a lot of different people who made models reach out and ask would I do videos with their stuff in it? And I think just my experience of all the people that I've. Met over the years to design files.
I think just like really nice people. And I think a lot of them like you said, if you're willing to make like videos or content or stuff like that. can be a really mutually beneficial relationship. So obviously, of course, always, get permission and make sure that you're going about things the right way.
If you want to approach song, but I definitely think that starting there to foster that relationship can definitely be a good. and the other thing is, people don't like being like, I guess paid an exposure, if you will. That's a huge thing that like really annoys me is whenever someone's Hey, if you 3d print me.
Every devil fruit you make I'll put it on my Instagram. And I was like, I don't care. I can do that. Put it on my Instagram and they're like, but my thing is if they're selling a premium file, just buy it don't ask people for [00:13:00] free stuff, like just fucking buy the file and then make it and then show them that you know how to make it.
And then they would typically reach out and be like, oh, this person is a professional. And we want to see what they can do. Stop asking for free stuff, man. It's so annoying. Over the years of having like different small businesses I think like the world of influencers has created an interesting dynamic where.
Yeah I guess it does as somebody who makes content and is on that side of it, it does always surprise me, like, how many people will approach and exactly like you said ask for free stuff for exposure, and I think a lot of times even for people who 3D model, it might not seem like there's hard costs, but if you spend a lot of time 3D modeling, It's, it takes so much talent and so much dedication to get to the point where you can make that advance of a model where even if your software isn't like a super hard cost, just the hours that go into it, it's a crazy amount of talent.
Hundreds on software and tutorials like blender bros. I spent a solid month just doing one of their hard [00:14:00] surface modeling courses. I can make 

inorganic objects. So like I could, take that drill that you see right there. I could model that pretty easily, but if you want to model somebody's face, that takes actual artistic talent that I don't have, yeah, I've done 3d modeling. 
I'm doing it now. I can only do hard surface objects and I use my iPad. I follow, I think his name isWong art? We follow each other and I've been talking to him about nomad sculpt. he got me into that, That guy's also super talented. I think he makes quite a few tutorials as well, Yeah, no, the world of 3D modeling, that's mad talent that it takes to really I wish I had the attention span to just sit down and learn that stuff, but I'm just an ADHD guy who, doesn't have that skill, maybe one day you can have a good session sitting down doing 3D modeling and watching the rest of your anime for hours and hours. Maybe, yeah. I don't know. I only watch it now when I work out, so I just, I turn it on while I'm walking on the treadmill. That's a good way to do it.
I even for me, like working out is a difficult thing to stick to. So props to you for that one. But, coming [00:15:00] back to the devil fruit. So I will say for me, like when I see yours I don't know what it's called, but there's a spiky, it like looks spiky and electric. And every time I see that one, it just it satisfies my brain.
Yeah, I think you have them nearby. You talking about this one? No, okay, I'm sorry. Oh, this is a spiky one with lightning bolts. This one. Yes. That's the one. Time I see this thing, there's two things that come to my mind and it's funny that you say it's difficult because for one, out of all of them, it's the one that would be the most enticing to me if I saw it in nature to eat. But conversely, it looks like it would be incredibly difficult to print.
So what was the process for this? Oh yeah. So this was a monster. So Red came out with this and like, whenever he makes a model, I try to cut the bottom so that it can sit flat on my shelf, but I saw this abomination. I was like, Red, what are you doing, man? how do I cut this flat?
There's no, everything on this is I'm hurting myself just holding this thing, but sorry to pick the worst one to make you hold that camera. Let's see. I don't know if you [00:16:00] can, you probably can't see it in my, Oh, there it is. You see that seam right there? Oh, okay. Yeah. Right here. So what I did and there's no way you could see it.
So I tried to do a flat cut so that I could have two flat sides to print on and then just stick them together, that's the secret for Some of my other more circular models I'll just cut it in half and glue it together. But this one, anywhere you put 

a straight plane through, you'd cut a lightning bolt, like this and you'd cut it and have a floating piece. 
And so I was like what do I do? And I had to like, Draw out my plane and I cut a little V. I was just going, it was horrible. And I printed it once and I will never make a HD remake of this one. Because it's done, but yeah, that one, it was just, it was a lot of blender work. So yeah, that took me quite a few hours to try to get done.
The good news is your hard work did not go to waste because everybody who hears that, I see it on the shelf and my eyes instantly drawn to that one. But it's a good one. Yeah, for sure. do you have [00:17:00] a favorite and then maybe you have like more context than I do of like maybe what these fruits represent, but do you have one if you saw one out in nature that you would be drawn to consuming?
So the problem is I already know what their powers are, so it's like to me, the prettiest one is, I have one that looks like a flower. it's pink with a little yellow thing in the middle, and I like that one the most because I know what it takes to create it from a 3D printing perspective, I know that I have to, print this thing in this white specific polysonic PLA, and then I have to hand airbrush every little pink dot on there, and I try to make it fade into the white, So that's my favorite as far as looks go.
The ones I'd be like. This guy. Okay. It looks juicy and delicious. Yes. Yeah. This one, it looks tasty. It hits all of those, Tide Pod vibes where you just want to eat it. But that one alsogives you the power to, it's called like the Op fruit, and the guy is a skilled surgeon and he can Basically, like he creates like a zone around him and [00:18:00] anybody that enters it, he could remove their head and stick it on their back and they're still alive.
And yeah, like there's multiple times that he'll just cut people into multiple body parts and then they're still alive. They just can't do anything. And so I was like, yeah that's the one I want. And he can like teleport. It's crazy. So yeah, this, that would be the one I would eat 
For sure. Interesting. Yeah I feel like to fully have the full perspective of what these would really mean for me. I think I feel like I'd have to still watch the series, but it's interesting to hear You talk about your process for 1 of the devil fruits, like airbrushing it and, really like spending the time to make it look exactly how you want it.

There was a video you had made a while back and I forget what the exact file that you were working on at the time was, but I believe, and hopefully you'll know what I'm talking about. You had said that it was a miniature that you were working. I believe you said that it was taking you maybe like a month of post processing, just like from a painting standpoint, do you maybe know what model I'm talking about? 
I have a feeling, cause there's only a couple that I have painted. And wanted to post process, and I'm still not done with it, which is crazy.I've got some [00:19:00] of the pieces of it because it's still not done. And I also started a new job since that video came out. I'm the director of AI integration for the army. Oh, cool. Yeah I've been busy with that, and I haven't had time to paint, and I've also got severe carpal tunnel, so it's hard to do little paintings.
Yeah this character is called Kaido. He has a resin printed. Yeah. This is definitely what I was referring to. Yeah. The post processing is what you're asking about. I personally, I love to paint my models, but like me painting my models is.
Yeah. It's I'll tell you, it's not a month long process. It is a month long process actually, because I procrastinate for so long, but not because I don't do very intricate painting, but I've seen, from different props that you've done and just like different things that you've done in general, like you're very good.
Your artistry is very good on these and I guess my question was when I heard you talking about you had this plan and you thought it was going to take you a long time to do it. When you're working on something that intricate and that detailed, Where do you even [00:20:00] start?
In terms of laying down colors, where do you even start with something like that? Yeah typically the problem is with painting, so I used to paint a lot of D& D miniatures back when I played more D& D and had more time. But with those it was tough, because I just had to figure out a color palette.
my the guy that does all my tattoos me and him are really good friends. He owns a shop over in Raleigh. And he showed me basically the new color wheel. And so he was able to help me figure out what colors go together But for models like thisalready I know all the colors of this character, andalso comes with a dragon.
So this was actually the part that was gonna take a long time. Yeah, so I already 

know what colors I need. And there's a video where I showed all of the paints I already have, and I just try to find my base colors first. So for him it's like a type of teal, I know I'm gonna need a brown, and I know I need like skin tones. 
And so I do my real big colors first, but I also try to pick the like the shadowier, darker types, because for me, [00:21:00] it's easier to go in with highlights than it is to come in and do undertones. A lot of people like to do like dark washes, which fill in shadows, but for some reason whenever I do dark washes, it just looks dirty.
It looks like I just smeared dirt on their face. So I usually like to go in with a darker one and then I take a highlight brush and then I highlight. The paint brushes that I use for these are like, it's three little tiny hairs on the end of a stick. So yeah, that's why it takes me so long is cause I'm just sitting there, like going like this and trying to get his little eyeballs and stuff, 
Yeah, the real problem with the post processing, the reason why it takes so long is because when you resin print so the normal support material starts fat and then it gets thinner into a cone, if you're using tree supports, and the inside's hollow. With resin prints, it is they're like long sticks that then go at a sharp angle and then touch a little tiny point.
Okay. And that's just to prevent things from floating in the air. So typically, whenever you have them, you get like little pockmarks. Or you get little pimples that stick [00:22:00] out from where you broke the support off and it cured and you didn't quite have it fully there.
So you just gotta take these little tiny sanding sticks and you just gotta file off every tiny little niblet. And it's pretty difficult on his little mustache, because it's just floating out there and you don't want to break it because resin is also very fragile until it's fully cured.
But yeah, my process is just get up a reference image and just pick four main colors and start laying down paint. and then go in with highlights. But I know there's plenty of people that people can follow for that I think Ninjon and Miniac. I watched those guys and they do some crazy paintings.
Yeah, this whole video is just me complaining about things that I would love to sit down and spend time to do, but that was something maybe about a year ago. I started watching a lot of videos about miniatures and man, the guys and girls who are like really good at that are like really talented people.

And I think like my brain, when I first got into 3d printing and again, like I was starting off with really basic stuff. I thought because it was already a 3d model, I was like it's going to be easier. You already have your basis for where things go. 
[00:23:00] And then I did my first couple of models and I was like, Oh, they're flat looking. And then that's when I really started like diving into that content. I was like, man, this is like a whole Other thing you can really dedicate yourself to. And it's really impressive to me.
Like people who are, yeah, the guys that do like the Warhammer mini, so that was what kind of led into me getting into the whole Warhammer community. I don't play Warhammer cause you gotta have 3, 000 to build an army or whatever, but Like watching those guys paint those minis and they do, they like draw the little dirt coming off of it's like shoulder pauldron.
And I was like, dude, they're like, yeah, this guy got into battle, so I'm going to flick some red so he has blood on his face. And I was like, the techniques that they're doing are just crazy. So I usually go to like my local I got a shop up in the, main town and I'll go in there and I just look at their paints.
And they've got some crazy stuff called contrasts, which is the paints that just glaze over and just tint it, but don't take away your details somehow. I don't know how it works. It's magic. Growing up, and I'm sure for you it sounds like, with your dad being an [00:24:00] artist, I'm sure you probably always had supplies and stuff like that in the house.
My mom was, I won't say she was an artist, but she's very crafty. And we always had acrylic paints. And that like the paints that I was familiar with. That's where I started with my 3D prints. then the world opened up to me of contrast paints and washes and things like that, that I had never experimented with before.
I've seen in your videosyou have pots, like the Citadel paints and some other brands I'm not familiar with. Like for people looking, maybe getting into that side of things, do you have any recommendations of where to start or maybe products that you really enjoy 
Yeah. Anybody that wants to get into mini paintings, the easiest stuff to come by, especially if you have a hobby shop would be Citadel. Really like their stuff. It is a little pricier. The one I really want to try out is Monument Hobbies. I think they're a bit of a newer brand, but they sell you like basically they don't sell you 

the bullshit. 
Like you don't need. 50 different shades of brown. You can just get three shades of brown and then mix it with black or white to get whatever tone you need. And that's the vibe that I get from monument. They also have sets for like you want to paint [00:25:00] humanoids. 
Here's all the creatures colors. That's the one I go with. You can also buy, I think Vallejo is on Amazon. I bought their like 120 pack, which is what is most of the stuff that you see on my shelf. But yeah, really even just going to Hobby Lobby and getting yourself like folk art or whatever that stuff is pretty cool.
Yeah, just fine. I use it now. I do a lot of airbrushing as well. So my dad was an airbrush artist. Oh, okay. And so I'm not very good with an airbrush, but I know how to make it shoot and work. and so yeah, Citadel sells airbrush paint. So I use that and then I think the other ones like create X or something like that.
It's just stuff. I get a hobby. Lobby. Yeah. Yeah. No, that's okay. Here we go again. But yeah, airbrushing was something I also recently dipped my toes into. And that was a whole other thing I started out and I had done some research online and I am like watering down a freeze, different like thinners or water, alcoholic, my, my acrylic paints.
And then I bought purpose built like airbrush paints for the first time. These are nice. Like these are really well, this is like skim [00:26:00] milk. Yeah, it's so thin. Yeah, for sure. So yeah, that's, it's just it's crazy how many different like. Individual skills within like a category of painting.
what kind of airbrush did you get? Just I started first started off. It was literally just like a handheld battery operated one. Which was, yeah, it wasn't good. It was like, it was literally like a handheld air compressor. It was like all built in one. I have a very small office at the time.
So I literally had no space for anything. So at the time it was like, honestly, the perfect little thing to get introduced to it. Since then I've upgraded just whatever there's so many brands that like sell it, like drop ship the same thing, but like the general one that you'll see on Amazon, maybe you'll know what I'm talking about.
So I upgraded to that and I don't even remember. Like a different airbrush on 

that setup, but for me again, like I'm a professional artist. It gets the job done for what I do it for. But yeah, it's, I guess you have any airbrush recommendations. 
My dad's always been a big fan of Iwata. that's the standard. I picked my Iwata up at [00:27:00] Hobby Lobby. they just had it in a little glass case. I think it was a hundred bucks. But you do got to have a compressor. And then you got to have the correct tube because the one that comes with the airbrush needs to fit into another tube.
Like it doesn't go straight into the compressor. Okay, gotcha. And so yeah, Iwata is my favorite. And you can just get the gravity fed. People get those like siphon ones that go on the bottom. Don't do that unless you're like a pro. I mean for even hearing you say that I is like a recommendation for a hundred dollars for that airbrush I've seen them go up to like multiple hundred dollars.
So it seems to get something that's gonna serve you well it's a decent price point I think my dad has like a $1,300 I that he uses. Like he's still, 'cause he's retired from the military and so he's just. Airbrushing for fun. He'll airbrush do a supposedly he's doing a picture of my daughter.
Yeah, that'll be really nice. That's cool. That's super cool. But yeah, no, it's like I said, it's a whole other again, obviously for your dad, it's been like a whole But yeah, it is crazy how you can get so delved into the different areas. So there's so [00:28:00] many hobbies here that we have, but it's like, they're all, something, it's so funny.
Cause my wife always complained. She's Blake, you got another hobby. And I'm like, no, I was like, it's all adjacent in some way to 3d printing. I was like, I'm really into playing dungeons and dragons. That's adjacent to 3d printing because I 3d print D and D models. And it's I'm also into painting.
Painting and stuff. And it's I paint my 3d prints. And yeah, it all comes back to 3d printing being the core. I always say like 3d printing is a hobby that can intersect with almost everything for all the files that are out there and everything that exists, but my 3d printer has for better or for worse gotten me into a lot of additional hobbies and definitely have spent a lot of additional money on different things since then.
3d print your own, RC cars now. the sky's the limit, but thinking of other things you can get into, something that I saw that you have that if there's any machine 

that I've ever seen that I've been jealous of, you have this Industrial shredder for processing plastic pieces and yeah, I've, it like [00:29:00] weird flex, but there's literally never been anything that I've seen somebody have that I've been so jealous of. 
Can you tell us a little bit more about this machine? the polystruder is what it's called. this whole thing, became a business, the business of armored prints. my whole thing was I wanted to make nerd collectibles that were cheaper for people.
I didn't want to make a whole huge profit on things. I just want it. And so one of the ways that I was going to save. Was by taking my supports, or any failed prints, and then re turning it back into 3D printer filament. 
If people send me their shreds, or whatever, and then for ten bucks, I can send you a spool. So you send me two kilograms of stuff, I'll send you back one kilogram for ten dollars.
and I was like how do I do that? And like the setup for it, I think was 20, 000, like minimum. And I was like, I could get like a small business loan. I was like, but I don't really want to do that. I'm still like, I'm a millennial I don't want to go that into debt.
And then I saw this company Polystruder [00:30:00] was coming out with a, so you say it's industrial, it is not, it is considered a desktop shredder. Cause I started with like the, I think it's called the Sun Joe. The tree shredder? Yeah it's in my attic right now.
Same. And it just shot plastic. It exploded out of the trash bag I put in the bottom. And I was like, this is dangerous. Even with iPro, I didn't feel safe. And so I was like, what's going on? Like, how do I even fix this? I was like, do I have to invent the technology? And then, like I said, I found this company polystruder.
I want to say they're based out of California. And they were like, we're going to make this shredder, but it's not going to be ready for a whole two years. And so I like put in my pre order, it was like 2, 000. Yeah. And they sent it to me. I had just gotten it relatively recently and I will say great shredder.
The thing is perfect. I want to do a full review on it. I don't know how it's worth 

2, 000. Yeah. Cause they're like, we use shred AI. And I [00:31:00] was like, I literally work in AI. Like I'm not an engineer. I don't build the stuff, but I don't know what model you could possibly be using to help with shredding. 
Just doesn't make any sense. Yeah. I had to reach out to them because actually I have the piece right here. So this. Is the shredder piece. The shredder goes between all these little, this comb and I don't know if you see how thick that steel is, but I've got these two bent teeth right here.
Jeez. I'm a 3d Prince. So that's what I thought. So I hit them up and I took, cause I had to take this whole thing apart and part of it is 3d printed. And so I'm like, how is, again, I still have yet to figure out how it's like a lot of their parts are 3d printed. And so I was like, Hey, I don't know what's going on with these teeth.
I was like, they bent, I can't bend them back, tried with like pliers and stuff. And then they were like you must've stuck something in there that didn't belong. And then I was like, I have only stuck. PLA, [00:32:00] like I haven't even done any of the other stuff. And then they were like, nah, it's gotta be something else.
And they're like, it only costs. 25 for a new comb. And I was like, okay I guess that's fine. And they're like, we'll actually cover it for you. Since we, we saw your video, they saw my video and they were like, we see that you like the product and we'll send this to you for free.
After they said that. I had looked over into my little bucket of things. I don't even see it near me right now, but I found a a metal file that had fallen into the shredder. Okay. Yeah. I assume it was in my bucket of shreds, and I just scooped it and dumped it in there without checking and it, so I showed it to him.
I was like, Hey guys. I was like, I'm so dumb. I was like, I am so sorry. I will pay for the, please pass me your PayPal. I will send you the money for that new piece. So they sent me the new comb. I got it set up, but now I'm having like, it says it's having thermal runway or runaway.
Yeah. And so I'm like, it has some sensor in it that checks to make sure it's not getting [00:33:00] too hot. And Yeah, it's not working anymore. So I have to email them back to figure out what's wrong. Cause I've checked everything, but it's a really cool shredder for sure. It is unfortunately only the first step they're coming out with the full line of where it's gonna, melt all those shreds down 

and it's going to run, it has to run over This air thing that'll also cool it and get it in check to make sure that it's the correct, 0. 
75 millimeter and then it'll spool it. Oh, okay, cool. They haven't made all those pieces yet, but it says coming soon. Yeah, so I'm hoping to eventually get that full setup and then, I don't know, maybe one day, if I ever have 20, 000 I'll buy the, real boy one, Cause I think using recycled plastic would be pretty cool. Yeah, no, I agree. I always save all my 3d scraps and I have the Sun Joe, which I have gone through every, like a stupid amount of appliances trying to find like something that would be able to process my 3d prints and get [00:34:00] it into a fine finished product.
So as soon as I saw your video on that, I was instantly intrigued. And like you've said, it's at 2, 000. It's a little more than I want to pay for something than that. it's a tough pill to swallow, but it really interests me. I think if they could lower that price point down a little bit, it would be very enticing for me.
I feel like if they could bring it down to a thousand dollars, it would be a much more manageable pill to swallow. But 2000 is just the only problem is once you, the next step is 6, 000. And it's because they, I guess like they've got to have a lot of torque and they go real slow.
And so that thing processes I want to say it's like a kilogram and a half an hour. but it gets through it. that big giant trash bucket that I had is about half the size and I've had to stop doing it because I just, yeah, I've got to figure out this problem, but yeah, knock down that price, man, I think that They'd be selling them.
Yeah, for sure. I think if [00:35:00] they can lower down the price, they can put my name on the wait list for it because as soon as I saw it, like I said, there's a, I think there is a big need for the market and especially it's such a common topic that I talked to people about on here about how, this idea that at some point, every home is going to have a 3d printer.
And I still think we're a ways. Away from that, but as it becomes more commonplace, like if there could be an affordable version of a machine like that, that allowed you to exactly like you're hoping for, recycle your scraps and just turn it back into more filament. I think that's again, just like another 1 of those things that gets us like a little closer to it being something that, it's like a full solution and a home for manufacturing stuff, which is yeah, the probably and it's like one of the more annoying comments. I get it actually just 

happened relatively recently. So it's going to keep happening now that I've said it, but is when people are like Oh, you're just like promoting plastic waste and Oh, you're like, someone said, what is it? 
They're like, Oh, you're just printing a bunch of bullshit. Yeah. And I was like I could just [00:36:00] buy this bullshit. I was like, I'm making it myself and I was like, you clearly don't know anybody that collects things. Yeah. We just have bullshit. Yeah. I know.
 It's always the person who has no ideas whatsoever, who has the most opinions about how you're living your life One guy was like, yeah, you're just contributing more plastic to the ocean. And I was like, I literally keep my stuff in a garbage can in my room.
I was like, none of this makes it into the trash can. And yeah you can't like, you can't, but if I can make this little recycling business, then I'll be like, ha, I gotcha. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No more microplastics. No more microplastics. Yeah, if I hit a dollar for every person who told me that I was single handedly killing all the sea turtles and destroying the earth, I It's your it's just your fault.
Yeah, it's exclusively my fault, and at that point, I would have enough dollars to buy one of those shredders, yeah, definitely no corporations, Nobody else. It's you. Just the 3D printers out there 
I love talking to other 3D printers [00:37:00] about this topic and that we're on the same page here. So you obviously like you have your devil fruits, you, have been getting domino helmets. I know you do a lot of other 3D printed props, things like that. Do you have any, Projects that you have started or are in the back of your mind that you've really been hoping to get into anything crazy on the radar for you project wise So I actually have been, making a video on it right now.
I am in the process of making a Majora's mask from the legend of Zelda. So I'm in the process of painting it. I'm only doing half of it so that I can show in the video and stuff. Okay. But that's the current project I'm on. this has been like in. My mind I've brought it up with some of my co workers 
they are all software engineers that build AI and I know Nico from Nico industries was building something similar where he's trying to feed 2d images into an AI model that can [00:38:00] then spit out a 3d model What I'm hoping is to create a large language model.

So something like chat GPT where you could tell it what you're looking for. So you'd say I want to make a model of Sonic and then it could query the internet. And see what Sonic looks like and then spit you out a 3d model. And you could say, I want it to do a heroic pose. And then it can give you like, okay, here's a same thing, but in this pose and yeah, I thought that would be a really cool thing. 
the problem is it takes a lot of GPUs and processing power to run AI models. Fiscally, it's not exactly feasible. I'd have to have a subscription service, but it's something that I'm trying to work on. unfortunately I work for the government.
The people, the engineers I work with are government civilians and I'm a contractor, so yeah. So I can't exactly leverage them like that, but I think it'd be cool. Yeah, no, that's when Nico was just coming out with [00:39:00] what he was working on he had been on the podcast around that time and I was talking to him about it and I was super excited.
And that what you're describing, like a model where you could, instead of taking it. Take an image prop, take a text prompt and I love to play around with the AI, but I'm certainly not on your level of it, of where the technology is at, but I always wonder, like, how far away we are from getting somewhere
You can get from like text to 3d model and the timeframe that we're getting from like text to images right now. Cause you know, I've probably been maybe about for I'll call it a year and a half that like I've been interested, in playing around with the different models. And even just in the time that I've gotten into it, 
it's amazing to see how far along the images have come of just a year ago, what it was popping out and how goofy some of the stuff it would generate was compared to nowadays for you being in that field, I imagine you probably see some crazy stuff around the developments.
So being in the field, like I said, I'm not an engineer, but I've seen where we're not at things like, open AIs, [00:40:00] chat GPT and stuff is like real pretty to look at, but it's not it doesn't have very many applications. So the making 3d models out of an AI model would not be difficult.
there's already multiple technologies do exist, but it's just not something people care about. companies like red hat or Google or Amazon. These are companies that we work with but they don't care about, they're like, why 

would we need a 3d model? 
They're like, we can just pay a guy or why do we need something that could spit out 3d models? No, they're making, software for. Targeting SA 2 sites, which are missile sites. They're making software for detecting radio frequencies. they're trying to harvest big data.
they're like, Hey, we have these hundreds of thousands of IP addresses that are just it's more than that. We have millions of IP addresses that are flooding our network. we want to figure out which ones are nefarious. a person can't do it, but an AI model could.
that's the kind of stuff that they care about, that they're throwing millions of dollars at. They don't really care about 3D models. They don't care about developing [00:41:00] the best way to develop and articulate a dragon. They're like, hey, how do we do this cool dino?
Yeah. it makes sense. For sure. Yeah, we have the most downloads on thangs. Yeah, yeah, for sure. If you don't mind me asking again, it's not that new, but it is a newer field where Certainly when I was in school 10 years ago, like nobody was saying like, Hey, get into AI as a career.
Like, how did you kind of transition into that? Yeah. So me and my wife joke about this all the time. I just keep looking into. success things, all of it was super, super lucky. I failed out of college back when I ended up, between 2010 to 2013.
I failed outta multiple colleges trying to be an engineer and then a nurse and stuff. And then ended up just joining the Air Force. I. studied for my ASVAB. If anybody is thinking about joining the military, study. Nobody knows that you're allowed to do that. And I did really well.
And so I got picked to be a geospatial intelligence analyst. It's just a [00:42:00] guy. Like predators and reaper drones. I was the guy that watched the video. And I'd be like, I see one adult male with a weapon. He's pointing it at some kids. He's probably a bad guy.
it's a lot more technical than that, but that's basically like what I would do. And then they'd be like, okay, yeah. That's definitely a bad guy. Make him gone. And then so I did that for four and a half years, and then I broke my back trying to 

be a cool guy doing special forces stuff, and then They medically discharged me and then when that happened, I picked up a job. 
have you ever heard of JSOC before? No, don't think I'm familiar. it's a Joint Special Operations Command. So if you've ever seen a Call of Duty game. You're usually playing as a member of SEAL Team 6. Who is Jayce? Who is a member of, yeah. It's like an organization that helps run those other organizations.
And I just happened to get picked up. To be a contractor with them, basically doing the same thing, just looking at Predator and Reaper drones. And then AI started slowly making its way into our stuff using, it's called computer [00:43:00] vision. And so what it would do is it would look at our FMV feed, and then it would see an adult male walking across, and then it would draw a square around him and go, adult male.
And then I was like, Oh, cool. Thanks, computer. I already knew that, but that's my job, but they were trying to automate that process. And I was like, super resistant to it. And then last November before that I got there in October, I think. I got deployed to Syria with some very special forces people.
We were at a FOB, or a Forward Operating Base. So we're just in the middle of, a very hot area like one time we went up to like smoke cigars and all of a sudden I started hearing like snaps and I was like, what's happening? And they're like, we're being shot at. We need to go downstairs.
And while we were there, I think one day we got blown up 25 times. There was a time where if you look back in the news. Iraq and Syria were taking a bunch of one way drones, just quadcopters with bombs on them, I was really scared.
I texted my wife and I was like, [00:44:00] Hey, I can't tell you what's going on, but I love you. And if this is the last you hear from me, I love you and my daughter so much. at one pointI tore my shoulder carrying a stinger missile up to the roof.
Cause we were like, In some shit, and I was very scared. I feel like in some shit is almost putting it lightly in this situation, but yeah. It was not great. It was like, I think I was awake for 28 hours or something like that. Just trying to make sure. Cause there rangers there like army rangers and then like these other special forces group.

And I was attached to the special forces group and we were like, I was like, what are we going to do if we start getting stuff like blown up? They're like, we're getting into this unmarked car, which is going to drive, we're going to get back to the border. And I was like, all right. 
And while that I like, as soon as that the next day, I was like, fuck this job. I was like, I hate this job. I will not do the same more. I was like, I'm. I was, I'm 32, 31, [00:45:00] 32. I can't remember. I think I'm 32. I was like, I am 32. I will not do this anymore. I was like, I'm too old. My knees hurt. Everything hurts.
And I just shot out my resume all over LinkedIn There's a thing called clearance jobs and it's for people who have security clearances where they can look at jobs. And I got hit up by this guy. He's Hey, do you want to do AI? And I was like, sure. whatever, I'll do whatever.
I didn't think at this point, I'll do whatever you want. And then he's okay, cool. do you think you could teach yourself Python? And I was like, I know C from when I was in school. I think I could teach myself Python. And he's cool, take this course.
You have a month. Pass it, and we can talk. And so I did it in three days. I did the course as fast as I could and I called him back. I was like, Hey, I passed. And then he got me an interview. And during that interview, we started getting blown up again while I was on this video interview.
And they're asking me questions. I go, Hey guys, I'm very busy. And I put on like a flak [00:46:00] vest and I put a helmet on and I was like, I have to go. I was like, can we please finish this interview later? And they're like, God, okay. And they called me the next day and they offered me the job.
I was like, please, yeah. Yeah. I was like, I'll do anything. And then It was like a week later. Now To just interrupt you real quick on that. Now, like the people interviewing you, was this like I guess were they like, civilian people or were this like a military position?
Yeah. These are still army. So we call them green suitors. So that's like regular military. Then there's civilians, which they work for the military, but they are civilians still. So they can have beards like they don't follow military rules, but they're still paid by the government and they get retirement.

That's basically like the big thing. And then there's contractors, which is what I am. And so I was talking to military civilian. They're usually the equivalent of officers. And so I was talking to military civilians who had no military experience. Okay, because I, I was going to say I've been interviewing people a lot recently and I'm just like playing out the scenario in my head of like crazy things that have happened in my interview and just like imagining that situation [00:47:00] you on the interview of that, that had to be crazy. 
They also saw me and I'm in like a white brick room with like fluorescent lights and I'm just like junky bed. I have a carpet up on the wall and there's dust everywhere. And I'm like, I'm deployed. And they said they like, yeah, you can, you have the job.
I put in my two weeks while I was in country. Still, with my other job and I remember I got back, I had to, so I had to take a helicopter from Syria to Iraq. And while I was in Iraq, we took a one way drone, so the way, just a quick heads up on IEDs, the way one way drones work is when they fly in the nose hits the ground and it crumples it and that's how they blew up.
There has to be enough nose pressure for it to blow up. This one, the wing clipped a flagpole. And so there wasn't enough nose cone pressure, so it didn't blow up and it was 20 feet away from my bed. God, it didn't blow up. And I was leaving the country in 24 hours and I was like, Oh [00:48:00] buddy, I was like, I almost died in the last 24 hours of my deployment and I got back and then I fell into this AI job.
And so really it's what I am is the liaison between military and engineers. So like I explained the military stuff for engineers and I explained the engineer stuff for the military. Okay. So it's pretty nice. Remote. That's great. That's one of the, compared to your previous role, one of the, one of the money, great things.
Oh, one of the huge highlights. Yeah. Yeah. Don't catch as many stray bullets over in North Carolina. Yeah. Maybe your wife's mad at you, but yeah. A lot of farmers, a lot of farmers out here. Yeah. You never know. Now to back up on that story just a little bit, if you don't mind. So you talk about you're going through this process, you're in college and it sounds like it's not going well. And, you're like, in the engineering side, then I think you said you went you tried nursing maybe for a little bit. And then you were like, this is not me. I had a very similar path I started in pre med, and then I was like, okay, [00:49:00] no nursing.

And then I finally finished you know what, let's just do psychology and just close this out. But I don't want to say don't go to college because there are. People who that is the right path. I think it is something like just, I don't think college has developed with society as much as maybe as it could have in the sense that there is so much information out there on the internet. 
And not that I want my doctor to be learning from YouTube, but I think a lot of roles out there that you maybe don't need to go to college for. And don't know that's always presented to people, I guess for you and like your experience, do you have any thoughts on that?
And then like a step further that It's not part of my story, but like for you, like having military experience, like going that path, is that, I know you've had a treacherous journey with that, but is that an option that like you think you would recommend for people who are younger out there?
 So I do have a degree. I got it two years ago. if somebody is looking to work for the government in some way. It doesn't matter what it's in. My degree is in counterintelligence. I got it online. From American Public University System. I don't know if you remember when you were going [00:50:00] to college, did they have, was there a difference between nationally accredited and regionally accredited?
I think so. Yeah. Yeah. So it used to be, if you like university of Phoenix online is nationally accredited and university of Southern Florida is regionally accredited, so it's better to be regionally credited. During Donald Trump's administration he got rid of that. So now everybody is regionally accredited.
so now the government does not care where you get your degree from which is why it's just a piece of paper. What they usually care about is what can you bring to the table? What kind of experiences do you have? The reason why they liked me is because I am one of the more outgoing intelligence analysts.
Normally when you talk to those guys, they don't look at you. So I had that going for me. The other thing is, oh I have a clearance. That is a huge factor for anybody who's trying to get into the workforce. Cause I know a lot of people. Like that I went to high school with they don't own a home.
They probably, I've had friends who were just like, I can't own it. I literally cannot. [00:51:00] Yeah, it's tough. And so For me, the military was a last like I didn't grow up in a great home. And so I was like, this is my last chance, a deal I 

have to join. And so I happened to join into a thing where getting a top secret clearance costs about 400, 000 if you wanted to just get one right out. 
The military just pays for that. And so I've got this, thing that's worth 400, 000, that companies know they don't want to pay for that. And since I already come with it, I am now already viewed as being worth at least half a million dollars on top of whatever they want to pay me.
 if you're gonna join, try to get Intel because Intel, you usually won't deploy. if joining is your last effort, like you needed to get something you need. Cause it's free health care. there's a lot of real good benefits, but it sucks.
Really sucks. I was in the air force. I still work for the army, but. I don't like how enlisted people get treated. So yeah [00:52:00] yeah. It's I, I have a ton of respect for anybody who goes down that path I think for a lot of people out there, in this state, buying a house for a lot of people, our age is out of the question.
And I think just with everything that's happening with inflation and just everything across the boardit's a tough time out there for young people. And I always say I'm. Thankful to be the age that I am when I was, and I can't imagine being an 18-year-old that's fresh out into the world right now and having to navigatestudent loan debt stuff.
It costs everything. Yeah. I got lucky thatI. Managed to purchase a house in 2019, right before COVID. Once the pandemic hit yeah, housing prices have gotten insane. I would not have been able to afford the house that I own.
So it's crazy. a lot of my friends will buy homes and then rent them out to people and they're like, no, like we're doing good. And I'm like, no, you are a part of the problem. You are part of the reason why people can't own homes. And I'm looking at trying to get, we're trying to move toward Raleigh so that I can put my daughter in a better school system.
[00:53:00] And dude, you gotta have like houses out there, like seven, 800, 000. And I'm just like, I don't make that much. No, it really is crazy out there. with the timing of right before COVIDwe just recently bought our first home. I'm going to be moving in a month.
So exciting. Yeah, it is. It's very exciting. But when we were looking over the last 

couple of months, it's like actually painful a little bit looking at what the prices were in 2019 versus now, cause it was like a different world out there. But yeah, I hope that's something that at some point, I don't even know how, but I hope at some point we can see some kind of correction in the market 
I think with the house we were looking at getting over in Raleigh, it was going to be a 7 percent like interest rate, which is insane because I got our house at 2%. That's which again was another benefit of the military, right? everyone. I know who got into a house back then.
It's, it's always hard to justify moving out. Just yeah, straight from the industry. It's But that is another, good thing about the, you get, it's called a VA home loan. You don't have to put any money down. you just got to do the cash to close.
they get rid [00:54:00] of all the closing costs it's I don't know I like I said I don't really like the military, but there's a lot of perks. You just got to be willing to maybe die a heavy cost to pay for sure. you're like, oh you want to pay for my college, but I might die Yeah.
Yeah. With that note, I feel like we've dived through so many different topics today. I feel like we could dive through a million more, but I won't keep you over time today. I do really appreciate you sitting down with us and just talking through. So many of the different talents that you have and hobbies and machines.
And just a little bit more about your story is very interestingfor people who want to follow along on your journey of all the different things that you are working on and all the different things that you have going on, where can people find you on the internet?
Yeah. Tik TOK and YouTube, I am armored prince. It's a R M O U R 3d. And then prints, and I think Instagram's armored. prints. But yeah, follow me there and we can just get stuff done. I appreciate you having me on and letting me tell my story. This has been fun because, [00:55:00] yeah, I don't really, I only really talk about 3D printing, but, telling my whole background, it's a little bit more fun.
Hey, that's the whole reason I love this podcast is it's short form nowadays. I feel like you never get those full stories out of kind of people's, life. And we could have sat here and talked to you for another couple hours, but I won't 

keep you for the full night. But thank you again so much for talking us through everything. 
All the links will be down below of all the places to access you. And with that side, this has been Media Makers