Mike Ritland

No, she's culinary. Culinary. Yeah, I picked that up from my dad as well. So my dad... Yeah, so he was in the Navy as a corpsman for a while. I think it was like four years, submarine stuff. But medicine, both my parents in medicine, were in medicine, and they did a lot of DIY stuff. So they built their house from the ground up, designed it from the ground up. So I was in that...

that kind of raw materials environment like the house never actually fully got completed which is actually kind of cool because it's constant like tools raw materials around growing up i thought that was an amazing experience uh dude i remember uh shoveling out the uh the house because it snowed before we got the roof on no kidding yeah it was pretty cool i was i was pretty young at that time but it was still like you know impacting like oh look you just you

that kind of raw materials environment like the house never actually fully got completed which is actually kind of cool because it's constant like tools raw materials around growing up i thought that was an amazing experience uh dude i remember uh shoveling out the uh the house because it snowed before we got the roof on no kidding yeah it was pretty cool i was i was pretty young at that time but it was still like you know impacting like oh look you just you

that kind of raw materials environment like the house never actually fully got completed which is actually kind of cool because it's constant like tools raw materials around growing up i thought that was an amazing experience uh dude i remember uh shoveling out the uh the house because it snowed before we got the roof on no kidding yeah it was pretty cool i was i was pretty young at that time but it was still like you know impacting like oh look you just you

You can just do stuff, right? That wasn't their profession, but they just picked it up, learned it, how to design it, built nearly everything. I think they didn't do the masonry for the basement because, yeah, the trusses. And then they were rushed with the weather to get the drywall up. So they paid for that. Everything else they did by hand. Wow. Wow. Pretty cool. But culinary, right?

You can just do stuff, right? That wasn't their profession, but they just picked it up, learned it, how to design it, built nearly everything. I think they didn't do the masonry for the basement because, yeah, the trusses. And then they were rushed with the weather to get the drywall up. So they paid for that. Everything else they did by hand. Wow. Wow. Pretty cool. But culinary, right?

You can just do stuff, right? That wasn't their profession, but they just picked it up, learned it, how to design it, built nearly everything. I think they didn't do the masonry for the basement because, yeah, the trusses. And then they were rushed with the weather to get the drywall up. So they paid for that. Everything else they did by hand. Wow. Wow. Pretty cool. But culinary, right?

That's going back there. Yeah, he's really into – he was really into just cooking and really, really good at it. Both of my parents were doing barbecue competitions for a while as well. They're just – Jack of all trades. Yeah, just get into it and go. And I think that was a pretty good learning experience.

That's going back there. Yeah, he's really into – he was really into just cooking and really, really good at it. Both of my parents were doing barbecue competitions for a while as well. They're just – Jack of all trades. Yeah, just get into it and go. And I think that was a pretty good learning experience.

That's going back there. Yeah, he's really into – he was really into just cooking and really, really good at it. Both of my parents were doing barbecue competitions for a while as well. They're just – Jack of all trades. Yeah, just get into it and go. And I think that was a pretty good learning experience.

And obviously that had an impact on my sister, who got into culinary as well and did some great stuff there. I didn't pick that skill up. So what were you into as a kid? Oh, God. Definitely electronics type stuff. So it just depends on the stage. Video games first. Lots of video games.

And obviously that had an impact on my sister, who got into culinary as well and did some great stuff there. I didn't pick that skill up. So what were you into as a kid? Oh, God. Definitely electronics type stuff. So it just depends on the stage. Video games first. Lots of video games.

And obviously that had an impact on my sister, who got into culinary as well and did some great stuff there. I didn't pick that skill up. So what were you into as a kid? Oh, God. Definitely electronics type stuff. So it just depends on the stage. Video games first. Lots of video games.

I guess it was over time. So there was the console stuff like Nintendo, et cetera. So let's go all the way back. So Atari, and this is kind of like the first hardware hack actually. My dad, so if you remember the Atari joysticks, it's a joystick and a single button, right? That's the whole controller. And we were playing the game Tank, right?

I guess it was over time. So there was the console stuff like Nintendo, et cetera. So let's go all the way back. So Atari, and this is kind of like the first hardware hack actually. My dad, so if you remember the Atari joysticks, it's a joystick and a single button, right? That's the whole controller. And we were playing the game Tank, right?

I guess it was over time. So there was the console stuff like Nintendo, et cetera. So let's go all the way back. So Atari, and this is kind of like the first hardware hack actually. My dad, so if you remember the Atari joysticks, it's a joystick and a single button, right? That's the whole controller. And we were playing the game Tank, right?

You just move around like you're in a tank and you fire at stuff, right? My dad took some speaker wire, a tongue depressor medicine, right? And ran a button probably from Radio Shack and just taped it to a stick to the tongue depressor, ran the wires off and soldered it to the controller so that I could have access to my own little like button when I was like four or something.

You just move around like you're in a tank and you fire at stuff, right? My dad took some speaker wire, a tongue depressor medicine, right? And ran a button probably from Radio Shack and just taped it to a stick to the tongue depressor, ran the wires off and soldered it to the controller so that I could have access to my own little like button when I was like four or something.

You just move around like you're in a tank and you fire at stuff, right? My dad took some speaker wire, a tongue depressor medicine, right? And ran a button probably from Radio Shack and just taped it to a stick to the tongue depressor, ran the wires off and soldered it to the controller so that I could have access to my own little like button when I was like four or something.

So I could fire the tank while he steered it around, right? I thought that was pretty cool, and it kind of stuck with me, right? Like, you just modify stuff, like, hack at stuff. So very simple, but, you know, that was the first video game, first hardware hack, right, that I was kind of exposed to. And, yeah, spent lots of time on, like, Nintendo, Super Nintendo. Then I got into Quake.