Where did it come from?
Such a, I know, right?
There's probably multiple places.
Okay, I'm gonna go all the way back to when I was about 10.
And I don't know why I remember this,
but I was obsessed with successful musicians
when I discovered music.
This is gonna go way before your time,
but I was a 70s music kid.
Okay, so there was this group called The Carpenters,
and it was this whole, I sort of,
and I became obsessed with their success.
And I don't know, it was like, I mean, her voice,
there's all that, you know, the sound at the time
and everything, I just remember falling in love
with that sound, falling in love with music.
But behind the curtain, I was like, okay,
how are they getting their music into the world?
Like, I was obsessed with how it was happening.
And it's a little bit like today's world
is fascinated with Taylor Swift.
Like, how did that happen?
Right, I mean, she started doing okay,
and then, you know, she's, and then all of a sudden,
boom, right, it just reaches a level.
And so this phenomenon of reach and impact
I became fascinated by.
And some people say,
well, that's just about becoming famous.
I said, no, it's actually about the impact from the fame.
And if anybody's doing it well right now,
and I think in the musical or the entertainment business,
Taylor Swift, as we all are aware of,
is playing the impact and inspiration and, you know,
music game at a level that's beyond our wildest imaginations.
And then she gives back $100,000 to the drivers.
And we all know it's all planned, beautiful,
but it's all impact oriented.
So that's a long answer, but I remember thinking,
I don't remember, like in my teens,
I was like, how are they having that impact?
How is that impact happening?
How is that voice getting into my living room in 1973?
So it was literally about the speakers,
about the record, where I bought it, how did it get made?
I became obsessed with turning something that doesn't exist
into something that I can experience.
How does that happen?
And then Steve Jobs came along in my life
and changed the game for me completely.
And I've never turned back.
I'm an Apple freak.
Be a little bit of that guy.
That man obviously, you know, put it on its head.
Yeah.
You know, and as we all know,
we're all now in the expansion of his, by the way,
consciousness of, I believe I can make something
out of nothing that's never been invented before.
Right?
I mean, he literally like this iPhone thing.
Like, how does that, how does, like,
I mean, I remember him being interviewed and he goes,
I don't want any tools.
The tool is the finger.
Go figure it out.
It's literally the conversation he had with the engineers.
Figure this out.
And there was technology being made on
when you touch this thing and we all know.
Now that's remarkable to take some dream of something that,
you know, what came to him?
Like it comes like a download.
I want this to be in the world.
How do I make it real?
I became obsessed with that conversation, still am.