What About Legos?

Kevin talks to Alexander Webster, a Lego enthusiast and aspiring photographer. They discuss Alexander's journey from a casual Lego trader to a successful Lego photographer with a significant social media following. 

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:02

Welcome to the Better Questions Podcast, a show where we dare to go deeper. We are opening space for more honest conversations, slow meaningful insights about the fast-moving world. Every week we pick a topic to sit down with fakers, stewards, and calendars. Not only to hear not what they already know, but to explore what they are filtered. Maybe the right question at the right time. And now, here's the host of the Better Questions Podcast, Kevin Hope.

SPEAKER_01 0:31

I'm looking at your page and I'm like, this is so cool. Like, uh, kudos, man. Like, I I I run a construction company. I'm like, that what he's doing is way cooler than anything we do.

SPEAKER_02 0:43

So God bless you. Thanks. Yeah, I appreciate you reaching out.

SPEAKER_01 0:48

Yeah, I appreciate you answering the call. I have so many Lego questions, but like, first, if I can just get the arc of Alexander. So I I got I did a little homework. What I really want to see is you have to send me a picture of your Lego room. I haven't seen your Lego room. I want to see the whole collection. I I like I won't share it with anybody, but I'm like dying to know. I'm like, that guy's got a sick room. But um just give me your arc, man. Like, so you were December, I think you launched in December 2025, but like I don't know how old you are, where were you born? I think you're I did some stalking, you're in Costa Rica. Tell me the story, man. I'm like, I'm enamored with you, by the way. You're one of my heroes. I think it's freaking rad, dude.

SPEAKER_03 1:22

Cool.

SPEAKER_02 1:23

Uh yeah, I appreciate the kind words. Um yeah, I've been born and raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. So that's a small city in Canada. Probably more like a town in comparison to the you know, the size that you'll get in the states and whatnot. But um yeah, I've been here my whole life. Uh typical to most places in Canada, you get a lot of snow. It's very cold in the winter. Um but yeah, I don't know. I've I've kind of always been into Lego, not not like to this amount, I'd say, but you know, it'd be like every year for Christmas, you'd kind of ask for a Lego set kind of deal. Um and then kind of got out of Lego when I got into uh high school or whatever. It was just like, you know, I liked it as a kid, but I'm I'm I'm pursuing other things. Like I got into competitive running, uh, which I've pursued throughout university. Uh that's kind of been a big, big thing in my life. So uh I only really got back to it when when I was just looking on Facebook Marketplace. That's like the bane of all all of financial existence right there is Facebook Marketplace. So like the yeah, the fatal the fatal blow is a couple of years ago where I was just like looking and I'm like, man, I haven't built a Lego set in a long time. Like I wonder if I'll enjoy this. And then and then I looked and I was like, well, you know, I could get it, I could get a brand new set for$60, or I could get like the same set used for$20. I'm like, well, this this is kind of nice. I could I think I could do something here. And then uh yeah, and then I just kept looking and I had keep picking up some like bundles, uh just local ones on Facebook Marketplace where I was uh finding sets that I like and then realizing that I could sell the other sets that I don't like for the same cost that I bought it for. And I was like, wow, this is this is legit. So then I just kept doing that and ended up growing just growing my collection throughout university like crazy just by just by kind of trading and and and selling. Um obviously I didn't really make any money, but I was able to grow a collection just by like doing that. So that's how I've acquired a whole bunch of sets that you know I've never had that amount of money in my life to to be able to even like have some of these. Um and then just a little bit of a.

SPEAKER_01 3:39

Do you have any ideas? Do you have any how many dollars do you how big is your like do you have ten thousand dollars worth of Legos? Hundred I have no idea.

SPEAKER_02 3:46

Uh like if you were that's yeah, it's probably between like 20 to 30,000. And that's like that's just like completely paid for of just like selling and trading.

SPEAKER_01 3:58

So that was kind of my you you'll be able to buy it and say so you could make a little bit of money to get your next set. Okay, guys. Yeah, that's before that's before you have 300,000. That's before the photography begins.

SPEAKER_02 4:08

Yeah, this is this is this is this is like the the prelude to the photography, which which like really transitioned nicely into like what I'm doing now because it it's allowed me to take photos of pretty cool sets, but uh then yeah, you were sorry, you were a Lego trader for all intents and purposes.

SPEAKER_01 4:25

You built you were a Lego trader, yeah. Yeah, yeah, from the ground up, from the ground up. Fuck stocks, the dude's buying Legos and building that worth that's uh good good on you. All right, cool. And uh just to be clear, you're a sophomore in college when you start this two years? I have no idea. Cool, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:42

I would have been I think I was in my second year of of of university uh when I started that. And then what were you studying? Uh I'm in mechanical engineering, so okay, and you're still in school? Um yeah, I'm I'm graduating this spring, so I'm uh yeah, I'm getting out and getting a little bit more time to hopefully work on uh work on other things. But uh yeah, so then a year a little over a year ago, um like my girlfriend's always been into photography, so she's got a camera and we would keep going on hikes and she'd have a camera and I'd just be like standing there and like, well, like I I should have a camera too. Like I I enjoy I think photography is cool, I'd like to learn. Um, so then you know, I went to the the classic Facebook marketplace um to look for a camera and then found a found a bundle for like relatively good price. I mean I knew I wanted a mirrorless camera, but I I didn't really care about what uh what brand or whatever, but this one just happened to exist, so so I got that, and then Lego was really just a like it was a way for me to learn photography. Um because I didn't have to go out and and shoot, you know, I didn't have to drive places, I could just set up a Lego set in my backyard and I could practice composition or whatever. Uh so that was kind of what what spurred me to do Lego photography, and then you know, pretty, pretty immediately I was able to see that people liked it, which was definitely kind of that was the surprising moment. Um and then I enjoyed it enough that I was like, alright, I guess this is what I'm doing now. And then I just rolled with it. So that's kind of how I scaled it, really. It was it was just kind of a an initial like project five was initially as opposed to just be photography. I've since like accepted that I've naturally rebranded it to Lego photography, um just because I want to hone in on the niche that I was able to develop, but uh it did fundamentally start as just like a way to learn learn the craft.

SPEAKER_01 6:47

And so, all right, there's there's so much that I I like um when you decided as because I'm like I'm so I I run a decent sized company, I got like 150 people working for me, and I've like recently fought my mom got me as a gag gift, she got me uh that car you see there, actually. This this like and I'm like mad at her because like I like F1 and I like this isn't my team, but she like got me this and like yeah, little uh I don't know what team this is, Red Bull, one of the Red Bull teams. Yeah, and like she was like uh I don't know what to get this guy for Christmas, like and whatever. And I just immediately I was like, I'm building that, and I enjoyed it, and I was like, it it like literally brought me back to being 10 years old, and I was like, I'm going effing headlong in this shit. Like, this is not I'm not gonna be so then I got that bobcat and I'm like, cool, cool. But so anyway, like as a grown man, I don't know how to tell people that, and and like people come over and they're like, oh my god, Kevin's building Legos, and I'm a little psychotic anyway, but I so enough about me. Sorry. The day you decided to buy the Lego, like, are you telling your friends? Are you hiding this in the closet? Is your girlfriend knowing like telling us? But it's easy to see now that this didn't take courage. Yeah, I'm like, you're you as a grown ass man putting Legos up on your social media. There was a courageous moment where you said, Hey, I don't walk me through that.

SPEAKER_02 8:05

Uh well, I I agree with you, and I kind of I I made sure to avoid that awkward stage by uh I said I was gonna stay anonymous until 10k. Because uh because I feel like you know, you tell someone like, oh, I take Lego photos, and they're like, oh, okay, this guy might be a little like this guy might be a little like uh You're weird. Yeah, it's weird. You're weird, you're weird. But then if you say I take Lego photos and I've got 10,000 followers, I go, oh, wait a second. Maybe maybe he's not weird.

SPEAKER_01 8:37

Maybe he's onto something. I'm I'm parking us because this gets into my theology. Um yeah, I'm gonna park, yeah. It that is such, and I just if for the listener, that is such a stupid, stupid human tendency. The man is being evaluated. If he has 10,000 followers, he can do it. It's to nobody, it's ridiculous. It's the stupidest thing. It drives me nuts because I got people anyway. I'm sorry. It's affecting my life because I can't get to people because I don't have a following. I'm like, dude, you would I you would pay a lot of money to sit in a room with me. Just answer my call, please. But anyway, sorry.

SPEAKER_02 9:09

It's it's it's uh yeah, it's just I mean, yes, it is metrics. Like typically people with like lots of followings have done things to get them that, but then also like I have not changed a single thing of what I was doing when I had a thousand followers versus now, right? Like it's it's the same stuff. So yeah, I agree with you. I agree with you on that, but that's how I yeah, let me back you up.

SPEAKER_01 9:32

I need to back, I need to back you up before you launch social because like I mean, you bought like literally, I mean, I'm you bought the first set. You're like, I'm gonna do like because it was given to me. If somebody, if you called me, if we were boys, and this is unconditional, I'm stupid too. If you had called me and we're buddies, and you're like, hey, dude, you need to get a Lego, I'd be like, shut up, Alex, shut up. What do you want? And I now I'm that guy, and I'm like, this is good. I get to tell this, and I'm gonna say this to the audience: go get a fucking Lego and sit down and build it and think about the world. It's like piece, particularly. I don't know if you're ADD, I'm ADD and it's great for me. Like, I yeah, it's it's it's therapy, but anyway, so take me to your moment is like you're on Facebook and you see the Lego set. Like, you had to hum and holler did you just send it? And then and then the next piece of this is like, are you hiding it from your girlfriend? Are you you know, like, yeah, walk about you're you're Legoing out of the closet. Take me through the journey. Sorry, I guess.

SPEAKER_02 10:26

So I got uh, I mean, there's there's like there's I think two kind of mindsets to or there's one mindset and then one kind of more situational. And the situational one is um, you know, unfortunate, my girlfriend's game on for anything, so she sees me enjoying a Lego set, she's like, let's go. This is this is this is perfect. So so that that was easy.

SPEAKER_01 10:50

Um to that one, bro. Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 10:55

Uh and then the other side of that is you know, I do have to realize that I am at least currently in my life surrounded by a bunch of other nerdiest hell mechanical engineers. So when I go to my friends and say, Yeah, dude, I got like I got like a$500 Lego set that I've been able to fully pay for, they go, bro, let's go. And then they and then they try and get in on it too. So it's definitely like I didn't have to uh as much as I like didn't have to really maneuver that, you know, I'm also on a sports team, so there's that too. Uh and then now I'm I'm pursuing kind of other other things in my life that I'm I'm working with a lot of people that certainly have no like, you know, uh like different walks of life that Lego photography would be absolutely you know right where you think the typical person would would judge it too, or buying Lego sets, like or buying kids toys. Now the way that I address that is like okay, I've got enough stuff going on in my life, like I I don't care. Like, dude, I'm I'm doing my degree, I'm doing photography, I've got you know, I'm working another part-time job here, now I've got a full-time job lined up. Like, let the man buy a freaking Lego set. Like, I don't care. Like, I really don't care if if like things are going things are going fine. And you know, if someone's like it does help when you've got a following and you can actually tell somebody who's who's like, oh, you're just you're just playing with kids' toys. I'm like, yeah, but you know, now I'm actually like whatever. I can put these crappy objective metrics on it that make people re think that it's oh okay, now I can see why it's cool, because you've got a following, but like yeah, I just like who cares? Who cares, man? Like, if you're if you're doing what you like in life, like there's plenty of other things I could do that is a whole lot worse than buying a Lego set. Yeah, like go to the bar, probably it's worth like significantly. Um what do your parents think? Are your parents like are they like proud? Well, they're definitely they're definitely happy with you know where I've been able to grow it to, and I do think that putting a couple of those like more objective metrics on it help justify the amount of effort they see me putting into it because I'm I'm actually getting results out of out of the time that I invest into it.

SPEAKER_01 13:26

Um but I have to pause, I have to pause you because in in a future life, I'm gonna be a philosopher, and I think there's a moment here that is like they're okay with it because it's productive. It it wouldn't be okay if you just loved it, right? And I I'm not condemning your parents. I no, no, I totally that's to protect you too. But it's like if the dude, like you said it, let the man buy a Lego. Like it, you know, it's almost a shame. Like, if you just did that, right? Like now, because you can monetize it, it's okay. It's like Alex just is it okay I call you Alex or you like Alex? Alex just enjoys playing with Legos, would not be sufficient to be okay. Alex enjoys playing with Legos and he's found a way to make money or get following. Now it's okay. I'm like, what? Let Alex play with his Legos. And and I think that goes for life, but like anyway, no, no, no disrespect to you. My mom, dude, I don't know what my even even though I can afford to invest the time and build them, I don't think my dad would endorse it even if it got a following. I think it would be like you're stupid. That's stupid. So I don't, I don't, I'm not picking on your parents, but it's like, what an inter that's the way we are societally, right? You gotta make money or you gotta get a following. Otherwise, it doesn't make sense.

SPEAKER_02 14:33

Right, exactly. Your hobby, your hobby is uh is taking time away. And I mean, I can kind of like I understand the perspective, um, especially with my photography, like the amount of time that I dedicate to it. But then I'm also like, you know, I don't play video games, I don't, I don't do things like like I mean, I literally go to school all day and then I go to a three hour, and then I run like 20 kilometers until I'm tired, and then I go home and then I take photos. So it's like typically people would go home and play video games, so it's like you know, I'm not I'm not like I'm not taking time out of the rest of my day to do this stuff. Um but it it is it is what I love, and then you know that they are supportive. Obviously, you can joke about it, be like, oh yeah, just going here to buy a Lego set, but it it's cool, it's part of who I am now. Like, it's it's a yeah, people know me as the Lego guy, and I have no problem with that because there's a lot of other things that I do outside of just Lego.

SPEAKER_01 15:28

Yeah, well, I'm just I'm thrilled to know you because I wanna I want to keep telling this story just because so one, I think it's innovative, I think it's creative, I think it's freaking epic. I think more men and and women alike, like more adults. I think I think Lego's missing the mark, not marketing to adults. Like, like it's like anyway, crafting all that. But but so you have this bold moment where you buy the Lego, and then you're having fun, and now you're amassing a portfolio of Legos, um, which is so awesome, by the way. But the and then you you you start with the photography, which I didn't know this. So, Project Five, you're gonna start a photography business. That's really the impetus, is you wanted to get into photography, and you just so happen to want to practice with your Legos. Okay, and and I want to I want you to talk about your dream for the business, and I want to make sure that you tell me and my little audience now that one day won't be like, how do we support the business? Um, and and then I just want to like you started taking the picture and like social media, you got to do it on social media. So, like, talk me through your tactics, the whole thing, please.

SPEAKER_02 16:30

Um Project 5, yeah, being originally uh like the original description on that page was just like a place for content and media. So I was like, okay, I want to learn how to do videography, I want to learn how to do photography. Uh I kind of made and I was I was I was um debating what to do with my page for a long time, even like up to you know 60 or 70,000 followers. I was like, do I try and transition this to like Lego and regular photography at some point? But I I think I've made I've made the call and I think it's the right one to focus this this on my niche because then you can really hone in on the audience that you've you've built around it. Like engagement is is is pretty uh hit or miss, especially with photography. Um and I don't think trying to scope out for an audience that has come to me for Lego photography and starting to share with them like other kinds of photography, they're just not gonna engage with it, and that's just not gonna help the account uh account grow. So, in terms of like where I want to see the business going and things like that, or the the the craft is like I want to grow this Lego page as big as I can. I have made the decision that you know I don't think I'll ever do this full time. I've got other jobs and like you know, I'm gonna be working at a mind site after after this, which which is exciting in and of itself for other opportunities, but um, I kind of want to treat this as like a side hobby that I can scale up. I just want to see how high I can scale up, even if it at some point it's bringing in like full-time ability. Um I want to be able to be doing other things uh with my life. And that other thing right now is like eventually I think it would be neat to try like a project six where I actually do a bit more like legit photography, um, a little bit more of the um kind of like I love I love hiking, I love going outside, I love the nature stuff. I there'd be no better dream of mine than to go on like an Antarctic expedition and just I mean my freaking mic holder right now is a Lego set with an Antarctic theme. So like I I love I love kind of the exploration and the expedition style of of life, and I'd love to have an account that's that's built off of that. I understand that that takes a lot of time and a lot of resources, and it's way harder to get into. So I I want to leverage the you know the luck that I've had in getting a a large audience with this Lego account to help me pursue the other things that I want to try to build up in the future. Um because you know, if I start a another photography account for normal photography, well, I have a page, I have a page that is the size of which people would pay to get featured on to promote their own photography. And I can just promote myself interaccounts. Like the the whole idea of this like viral marketing thing is is is pretty crazy. Like the amount of of reach you can get for zero cost to the uh to the to the owner, if you get, you know, like yeah, we can talk about just the fact that every time like a video blows up and I can just change the description to like calendar available, and I just know that it's gonna be like a payday that day because I know it's a particular area.

SPEAKER_01 19:54

Would you be willing to I bought a calendar by the way? It'd be only because it wasn't I found the calendar, I didn't get marketed the calendar, I actually was like just checking you out. I was like, Oh, I want to I want to like and uh the other thing is I think one of the things that you may not give yourself credit, like it's good. Like, I promise you, if I if I if I went and got a camera and I took pictures, like my file, I'm not, I'm not like the shit you're doing with that is like like to take it's not just unique, it's uniquely good. I mean, it's like and I I was curious what you like, it's really, really good. Like it's cool. Like it's I don't care if anybody I would fight somebody if they said it wasn't like I would literally punch them in the jugular. Like the shit is cool. And if you don't think so, something's wrong. I mean, I wouldn't really, but it's like, dude, it's good work. Like what you're doing is really cool. But um uh so um project five and six, I got, and I wanna I wanna camp on the where you going, because I find, I find, I find you like I don't know if you've studied anything about cybernetics, and there's been a lot of conversations that I'd wish I could share with you, but I haven't figured out how to post them because they're on the phone. It's we won't get into that with my buddy, but like there's this causal arrow, right? You're never independent of the market, right? So like you had a desire, and now, and but you're remaining, you're kind of remaining yourself in this, like you're not getting caught up in it, you're gonna still go get a job, and you know what you want. But I want to be very clear when you started taking pictures, what did you want to do? You didn't want to start taking Lego pictures. What is it that you is it the expeditions? You want to go be like an adventure photographer? Is is that the goal?

SPEAKER_02 21:24

Yeah, I mean, like, I can't, I shouldn't say Lego was just used as a way for me to practice, and it's like, oh, well now because people like it, I guess this is all I have to do. Like, I I I did truly love doing it, and I've actually found photos from like when I was in the eighth grade of me taking like attempts at like like proto Lego photography. Um I mean I love I love the storytelling, you know. As a kid, I always like I was like, oh I'm gonna I'm gonna make movies or whatever. Uh like I I love visualizing things and and playing them out. That's why I think it works for me with Lego photography. Because I literally just I make the movie in my head and I go, okay, well, what's the coolest shot from the scene that I've just made up? This is the shot. Great. I can recreate that with Lego, and it's not gonna cost me thousands of dollars of visual effects and like so, like that's that's the side, and I know I'm playing into that. Like Lego photography is allowing me to play into that I guess creative ability. Um so that's why I love doing it. I'm definitely not forcing myself to do this stuff. I do truly love it. Um, but yes, I did there was kind of another 50% of that, which was I would have loved for this photography to grow into something where I can uh you know post photos of a of a road trip that I went on, or like have a if my job could be traveling and taking photos of the things that I see and do the interesting like locations and and whatnot, like that's that would be the dream job. And if Lego could be the the fun side of that, or also take photos of Lego, that's great. But um I'm I'm hoping I'm not forgetting your the the main part of the question here, but it was kind of like where No, you got it.

SPEAKER_01 23:14

You you don't. I think you you did you you you rounded it out. You you would like to go take a you would like to just go live your life and document it and like be a traveling photographer more so like your the adventure of Alex Webbs, if you could somehow that would be the goal. And so if that opportunity came to you in a real way, would you take it? Or would you continue to do the engineer thing first and then get back to it later?

SPEAKER_02 23:38

I I would and and I was I was actually just talking about this uh with one of my friends not too long ago, but like I don't think opportunities are well is mutually exclusive the right word? It's like one or the other. So, like for for example, I'm gonna be working at a uh a mine site in Saskatchewan where the work is two weeks on, two weeks off. And honestly, like one of the biggest factors for me pursuing that job, and like that is the only job that I really was looking to get out of graduation, so I'm super pumped that I got it. But a huge reason as to why I got that is because a job like that's gonna allow me to well not only have the two weeks off where I can pursue a completely different um you know area of interest of mine, because I'm I'm I'm there for 14 days and I've got 14 days of vacation. Or if I take two weeks of vacation, all of a sudden I've got six weeks of opportunity to travel the world or take Lego photos. Um, but then even that, uh the mine is located in an area that people pay thousands of dollars to get chargered to to go on uh wilderness hunting trips and photography trips. So I'm gonna bring my camera out to the mine site, and all of a sudden I'm I'm working as an engineer at a site in a location where I can learn and build my craft of of nature photography while also having time to then come home and work on this like Lego stuff. Like I synergy is kind of the word that I'm using, and I really think that like having synergies across your hobbies and your jobs and other opportunities is like it just means you're always learning and you're always like advancing. If if it's not if it's not, you know, my Lego photography in in a very indirect indirect way has been practice for whatever nature photography I start later down in the line. Like I'm I'm a way better photographer now because of it. And I don't and I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 25:49

You might be one of the best, my friend. Honestly, I would I don't know that I don't I would like literally like and I have some resources. I would love to go do a photographer competition. I think you'd smoke check some people because that'd be cool. That'd be cool. I don't I don't wanna I don't wanna like look, and uh there might be an I think there I don't know why. I I do feel that this conversation is not random. Um, and I there's a lot of stuff that I have going that might be fun, um, particularly construction. But now I want to know project five, what was one, two, three, four? Can you give me those quick?

SPEAKER_02 26:20

Good question.

SPEAKER_01 26:21

If you don't want to, you don't have to.

SPEAKER_02 26:22

No, no, that's that's a great question. Uh Project one, I think I forget. Uh Project 2 was me trying to learn um. Oh yeah, project two was just trying to build some really neat uh whatever, like uh topographic sandbox that I saw at a company. But that was me my first time I ever wanted to like build something on my own. Uh project three was trying to learn uh uh kind of like mechatronics and coding, so like Arduino and learning how to move like motors and stuff, because I I thought it'd be fun to build uh you know things that move. Uh that is stalled. Project four was a uh kind of a shoe research thing that I ended up doing, which has actually turned into my engineering capstone that we're doing now for uh our our end-of-year kind of project that the goal is to maybe turn it into a product that you can market later on the line. So that's that that hasn't stalled, that's actually kind of developed into something else. Uh and then yeah, project five is photography, project six is probably also gonna be uh nature photography. I had to split those two up. And uh I've got a whole list of potential projects coming up after that because that's uh yeah, I want to do a lot of things in my life, and I think the projects are kind of the way that I categorize that. And I like to do to do good in them, so I I won't really pursue them if I don't think that I can do all right in them.

SPEAKER_01 27:56

Has anyone told you that you're brilliant? Uh well, my engineering midterms would certainly argue otherwise, but I don't oh that's a different we're gonna uh dude sometimes you're gonna be my sounding board for all my my deep theology. Um I'm a pretend philosopher right now, but school doesn't school does not reward brilliance. And I did good at school, not because I was brilliant, because I worked like an idiot. Like I just worked hard at it. So that there's no indication of that if anybody says like I'm not smart because my GPA, it's like, yeah, you're no, you're not, right? Like, you don't, that's not where brilliance is found. Um, if I can give you anything, I like and I it took me a long time, I was like 30 years old before I was like, Oh yeah, I'm special. I'm gonna use that word. Like, I'm special, I'm different. Like, don't look around the room and compare yourself to people because you're gonna get confused. Like, you're not like normal people, by the way. So that's an encouragement. It's probably weird for people to listen to, but I cherish that I get to know you, by the way. Like, I just am I love I love your mind. I think it's a very beautiful mind. Don't let it get corrupted by anything. It sounds like you're good, you're not going to. Um, I I have one last question, and then what I I want to just I have some other projects that I'm working on, and I just see a very there'll be an interesting marriage for us one day. That's weird, but you know what I'm saying. I'd love to just kind of drop them on you. My my like go to market, I want to build a custom Lego, and I want to, I don't want to do investments with like, here's my pitch deck and let's get in. I'm not doing a fucking contract, like it's gonna be different. I if you're investing in what I'm doing, like you're doing it for the right reasons, and that's not to you. I don't know where to get a custom Lego, bro. Like, I want to make the Lego look like this, and I'd like to be legit with Lego. So I would like to, I need a custom Lego and I have some other Lego ideas, business. I'd love to just park that with you. Um do you have Lego's ear? Because I really think they are messing up. Like, if if I take you and I have a conversation with Biltwit and I go to Lego and I say, I need a construction line, I'll fund half of it. I need it because like I want to send my customers my truck or their truck to Bobcat and say, hey, buy some vents for me. You know, and there's they're they're totally they're missing the market. They got like one crane and it's like thousands of dollars. I'm like, I need a$200 Bobcat. I bought one, it's from China. It came with a robot, it's really nice. I would like it to be legit. It's not legit. So do you have their ear? Can we get to them together or not?

SPEAKER_02 30:10

Not yet. Not yet. They actually, I I have not had a single interaction with the Lego company.

SPEAKER_01 30:15

I'm gonna fix that, dude. I'm gonna be your mouth. This is I get to people. I'm taking this, I'm going right up because I think they're really good people.

SPEAKER_02 30:22

If have you looked at the company, like yeah, and I've I've like I've applied to their whatever, like they've got they've got some sort of network where if you get through, like they'll start sending you uh sets as as yeah, the yeah, the affiliate of the ambassador network, which I personally think is like I mean, I'm literally just making commercials for them. So like to have access to sex. That's crazy and and and like you know, they definitely they definitely interact with like much smaller accounts. So so I I am a little curious as to like how that's gonna play out, but I've submitted my application. They said they get back to you whether you make it or you don't. So they do two rounds of evaluation per year. I think it's gonna be sometime in the spring here. Uh I'm interested to see what they say. Uh, because that would be, I mean, for me it's a win-win. Like, I don't, I don't see, you know, I don't see what the no no there's no chance that you don't get there.

SPEAKER_01 31:22

There's no chance. And if if there is, uh I'll be on my page with my hundred followers and help for you. Last question, and I want to like who's your your weapon of choice, dude. Do you not well I I'm gonna make this happen too. You should have a you should have a camera deal. Who's your camera? Are you a Nikon guy?

SPEAKER_02 31:39

Who's doing your uh I'm a right now I'm I'm Sony. Uh and again, like I like I said earlier, that really was just what whatever was was available up on my uh up on Facebook, good old Facebook marketplace there. But yeah, I shoot Sony. I've I've enjoyed them because they've got a pretty um pretty wide lens range, and then also like they are just kind of a a go-to good good camera company. So I've enjoyed their camera. Uh and then yeah, I I've enjoyed their camera, and and I really like that you can like I've got a smaller version where you can use the same lenses on it. So it's just like in terms of the environment, like the operating environment that I've been able to create, I've been pretty happy with with them. And hey, if I could ever get a deal with Sony, that'd be crazy.

SPEAKER_01 32:28

Are you open to a yeah? I was gonna say, are you open if Sony won't do it, but Nikon would, would you switch? Are you open to that? I I'm like a I'm like a that's my side. You're a brilliant engineer, I'm a shaker and a mover. So if I could get you a brand deal, would you want one? Because I think I think whoever you're taking pictures with owes you some money to be on the show.

SPEAKER_02 32:45

It's a great question. And yeah, I think I I was actually talking about that with my girlfriend because she she had an old Nikon and then bought a newer Sony because I'm shooting on Sony, so now our lenses can can kind of go uh with each other. But then I I was talking, I was like, you know, if like if I had a completely different brand reach out, like I think it'd be pretty stupid to say no.

SPEAKER_01 33:09

I'm gonna drop you some stuff, and you'll be like, this you're gonna think one of two things. This dude is incredible, or this dude is incredibly crazy. And I'm good with either. I'd like to talk about it, but we'll do both. Nothing wrong with that. Dude, it's the crazy among us that buy a Lego and then start filming it and then have 350,000, right? That's that's crazy. I need to know your favorite one. What's your favorite one? Can you send can I Instagrammed you? Can you send me your favorite? But which one is it? Because I dude, you've got like fog in the one, like the jungle scene. What's your favorite shot so far?

SPEAKER_02 33:39

Oh, okay. Well, it's gotta be uh man, this is that I'll say which one's coming right to mind, and and I feel like this is a kind of a curveball, but I it's gotta be my Wally. Like, it's the guy with the abandoned car. Like, I love wreckages.

SPEAKER_01 33:54

I was like, that's so there's so much in that.

SPEAKER_02 33:56

Yeah, sorry, go ahead. I love wreckages, as you can probably tell from all of my photos being like crap that's destroyed. Like, yeah, like yeah, on top of the nature photographer thing, if I could have a career exploring like abandoned cities and and wreckages and and like you know old shipyards and stuff, that's like that's peak. So everything you do. It was like the first taste of like doing the type of like nature photography that I want to do with a little bit of Lego in there, and I thought the photo came out really great.

SPEAKER_01 34:26

I was super happy with that. Dude, I think there's uh yeah, I think there's gonna be an interesting intersection um coming for you. So anyway, I'm I'm thrilled to know you. Thank you for like thank you for going on.

SPEAKER_00 34:37

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