Trae (Trey) Stephens

At his wedding, there was like this entire contingent of like Japanese anime people that like in the industry that were like Palmer, like...

zealots.

And they showed up with custom vinyl figurines of him and his wife.

I mean, it was like, he's like this weird celebrity in the anime scene.

Super, super fun.

Could not be a quirkier and yet smarter person.

He's just the perfect combination.

I mean, right now he is so focused on Soldier Born Compute, like building the helmet, that I think it's consuming like all of his creative energy.

It's, you know, it's the perfect thing for him.

It's, you know, seven years into Andril, he finally gets to return to his roots and work on the thing, you know, giving our soldiers superpowers.

And it has to just be the most fun for him of anything that we've done.

That is pretty cool, man.

That is pretty cool.

Well, yeah.

The day I showed up, I think I had expected that there was going to be some James Bond moment.

I'm going to sit down, and I'm going to have this supercomputer, and someone's going to throw me the keys to an Aston Martin.

That's what I thought.

And a laser watch and things like that.

And I sat down, and I had Windows 98 and a CRT monitor.

And I was in a cube with two other people who didn't actually work.