Today on the podcast, I'm joined by Jordan Criss, a longtime friend and guest. In many ways, we caught up after not talking for a couple of weeks. As always, it's a lot of fun to dive into everything we're thinking about, interested in, or just the goings-on in life.

Topics include storytelling in video games, VFX in films, photorealistic image enhancement, and more!

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

As is normal in our family, or at least seems more normal. My family has thispropensityy to collect something, whatever it may be. Brandon’s big thing is retro gaming consoles, from the first generations of Atari and Sega, but what is closest to his heart is the PlayStation.