Brandon Wenzel on Childhood Interests, Retro Gaming and Collections

Technology

Mar 14

Today, joining me on the podcast is Brandon Wenzel. Brandon is my cousin, as you could probably guess, just by the title of the podcast. Honestly, this was a treat of a podcast for me. So Brandon is a couple of years older than me, but we all had very similar shared interests growing up.

As is normal in our family, or at least seems to be more normal. Wenzel's have this proclivity to collect something, whatever it may be. So for Brandon, his big thing is retro gaming consoles, so that can be really old councils from the first generations of Atari and Sega, but really his what does closest to his heart is the PlayStation.

In this conversation, I knew we had had many things to talk about, but this was a treat to understand what it was like for Brandon to grow up, being a little bit older than me and how technology has evolved for him and why he is so attached to video games in the way that he is. Outside of that, we touched on a few other things that he really enjoys, with the love of food and talking about martial arts toward the end of this conversation.

In all, this conversation was something for me that I really enjoy being able to do. It's finding something people are passionate about and try to unpack why they find it fun for whatever reason it is.

We did a really good job talking about why certain things are just intrinsically meaningful to us. At the very least, when you're listening to this conversation, I hope what are the things that you do because you love doing it. And have you ever been able to tell someone about that thing and don't be afraid to share those because it's through those things that you really care about that people see who you truly are

And so with that, everyone, please enjoy this wide-ranging conversation with my cousin, Brandon Wenzel.

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