EPISODE 11: Let's sit down with LEGOMASTER Moto from season 2 of FOX's LEGOMASTERS

EPISODE SUMMARY
We get the honor to sit down and chat with LEGO MASTER Moto from season 2 of LEGO MASTERS USA. Moto shares with us tidbits from the set that only cast members would ever know. We talk about what brought him to loving LEGO and he lets us inside one of his recurring nightmares!
 
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• We sit down with LEGO MASTER MOTO in this episode.
• The smell of the LEGO MASTERS set is eerie.
• MOTO has built a 7 1/2 foot tall space ship.
• Snapchat is partnering with LEGO to bring us LEGO in AR!

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Transcript

let's go like a fam, man. This is a bigday! I know I. He said that last week, but this is probably the biggest episode we've ever had in British history. Not only is it 11th official episode, but we're going to have our first special guest on, we have Modo from Lego master USA, season two, coming on and sitting down with us.

Uh, Moto is just an incredibly brilliant and, and dangerously creative man. Uh, and I'm so excited to get, to spend this time with him. And I hope you guys love that, but also we're starting a new segment, uh, on all things. Lego tech. Brought to you by our dear friend, uh, Ziggy salvation. So both of those things are coming up.

Stay tuned. Welcome to the brick talk Lego podcast. I'm your host. And this is the place where you can find all things. Lego, mark. My words. You heard it here. First. We are getting Harry Potter modular.

I'm sorry. I know people love it, but I thought it was a garbage set. Lego took a huge risk here and he paid off massively.

So  and start building

that killer in Trump, man. I love that song. I love that intro so much. All right guys. So before we hop into Ziggy and the interview with Modo, I just want to clarify, uh, my vision here as we grow this podcast into what it is becoming with those special guests and the different segments. Five short months ago, we set out, uh, to build a place online where we could, um, support.

All people from all walks of life, where we could set aside the political differences from last year's elections to, um, to set aside all the division that's been going on and just focus on a place where people from opposite sides of the table could come sit down and build Lego together. Very quickly, that blew up into a family of 521,500 people over half a million people have joined the Earl fam.

And I'm just so excited because that has given us a platform where we can really kinda, uh, showcase. A bunch of really neat a falls and what they do, what, why they love Lego, but also can introduce Lego to a lot of people, um, who maybe haven't found the therapeutic value of those amazing little plastic bricks.

And so I'm just so honored to get to be that voice. And I'm not sure how or why I was. Put in his position, but I just want to say, thank you. Thank you to everyone who has followed us on our various social media accounts. Thank you to everyone who's downloading these episodes. Uh, thank you to people like Moto, who are coming on and sharing their experience, uh, on this platform.

It's just been really cool guys. And I just want to tell you from the bottom of my heart, I love you. And I'm so grateful for you, but right now let's get into some really cool Lego news. Uh, take it away, Ziggy. Thanks mom. Greetings everyone. I'm Ziggy salvation, your voice for brick tech right here on brick talk Lego fan podcast.

This week, I wanted to tell you all about a new partnership. Labor has been with Snapchat. Snapchat has introduced an innovative way to play and build with friends and family from anywhere in the world. Connected lenses is an augmented reality lens. Where users will be able to connect and play together, allowing them to do so without having to be in the same physical space.

Very first lens. And the connected lens feature is brought to us with a partnership with Lego. This means users will be able to jump into an augmented reality together and build a Lego model. Best part is you can do it miles away and still have the same experience of building with your friends earlier.

Snap provided the demo video. It showcase some really awesome things that you'll be able to do while inside the AR users will be in their respective homes or places and be given the same model of leg floating in front of whatever they're looking there. You do many things in parts effects to it. And you can even add animations, bringing the model that you've built together to life right before your very eyes in real time.

This is definitely a remarkable move in snaps expansion for their AR lenses, which also includes the company's bland marker lens, which allows you to interact with real world famous landmarks. This new multiperson Lego lens should be available soon. We'll be able to be found in Lego, Snapchat profile. He juveniles.

Firstly, I'm trying to explain it. See when people build together and share that's this week's brick tech right here in brick talk Lego fan podcast. Ziggy's elevation reminded you stay awesome back to you Mo Hey, Zig. Thanks so much fan. That was awesome. I'm super excited about this. Um, specifically for the reason that, uh, I personally have a lot of friends in the AFL community who are not right here with me.

Ziggy's actually one of them. So the prospect of being able to sit down, uh, through the world of AR or VR and being able to, um, to, to do something like this with Ziggy or, or have Moda over and, and build a cool build. All virtually. I think that that's a really neat concept and I'm excited to see how this works, but you know what?

Let's jump into, uh, the interview with Modo. I am so excited about this guys, everybody, uh, Super super excited to welcome Moto to the podcast landscape.

Hey Modo, thank you so much for coming on the show. I am so excited to get to talk with you. How are you doing my friend? I'm good. Awesome. There's this TV show? It's fun to watch. What can I say? My mom caught up. I am all caught up and it, it has been, it's amazing. I, I, my favorite part about the show, I got to tell you my favorite part about the show is the 15 second clips of you running back and forth behind the camera episode one, there was a people mentioned that I was, um, you know, sprinting and that is the case, but we can talk about that more.

So, because definitely being fast for the pit is a, is a thing that I do. Yeah. Yeah. There's no, there's only one speed with motor is she was like, go, just go man, run. So motor B, before we get into the show, which I definitely want to get into. Why don't you tell us a little bit about you? What, how did you get started as an a fall?

How do people know you? That type of stuff? Uh, I guess people, well now people know me from the TV show, although I've never been no, one's noticed me in public, which is awesome. So I can, I can kind of keep everything on the down low and just be an ordinary dude out there. Um, I started. Being in a foal about a year, you know, five and a half years ago, it began with my son.

He received a Lego set from uncle Dan. So smaller director, uh, made his first Lego set. It was safe enough. I was worried he wasn't old enough to not be even parts and stuff worked out great. And then a short time later, I. Found the original Lego set that I would play with, with my brother in the bathtub, which is firefighter it's this vintage set, but it was in a thrift store and it was in the original box.

So when I came across that all the fields came back and from there over the next year to save them money, I would buy thrift store lots. I dumped them out and then I would restore. The sets I would research, you know, which sets were in there. And then that led to Brooklyn. Cause not all sets in thrift store, lots have other pieces.

Um, but it was a great education into all of the tech techniques and set designs that had come out from I'd say there was stuff from the early nineties all the way through 20 10, 20 11. Um, after that I was renting a room. I'd restored something like 200 sets. I was in like a beast mode having fun. And, um, my brother, once again, uh, uncle Dan said, you know, you, you made this spaceship when you were young.

Why don't you, why aren't you making your own spaceships? So I did, I sat down over two months. I made a mock, um, it was picked up on the brothers brick blog, and then I started to meet, uh, Lugs. I went to a Denver, uh, pop culture convention where one of the lugs had a huge display and it was talking to someone and then went to my first lug meeting.

And from there over the next four and a half years, I've been gradually building, um, more and more large scale mocks. Um, so now that you know, all the sets, usually you got a small art director and every once in a while, if there's an incredible settle by it, but, but for the most part now, um, You know, I build mocks and, and, uh, you know, a year ago, um, is Lego masters, us season one was out, you know, I, I had also been doing YouTube live streams and they started to come through live streams because of COVID.

And, you know, I had large models out on these live streams and, um, I met my, uh, my best friend Flynn, uh, that way. And then they introduced me to Boone. And from there, I got to know the cast. And some of the greater community outside of just the YouTube methods and, and now, you know, I'm on the TV show. So for me, excellent.

It was crazy. It was a year of just explosive. Um, I guess people getting to know my bills simply because I live in Denver. And when you live in Denver, all the major conventions are a nice, you know, 2018 hour drive, you know, nothing bad. So, you know, don't going to be going to my first major convention here in July.

Uh, I'd never been to a major convention outside of Denver, but because of COVID and everything sort of going through, um, YouTube or Instagram or, or whatever tick-tock is another one. Um, You know, it kind of leveled the field of talent in a way. All right. So let's jump into Lego masters. Well, tell me what that was like.

Well, I mean, first off is, is, is, is it finished filming? Yeah. Yeah. So it shot in, well, it didn't. So when you got on the show, we had a COVID compliance, um, production. So you, you didn't even start production for a good week. You had to self isolate for a full week before. Um, the pre-prod started up and then in a number of days, um, the production would start up.

So, so we were out in Atlanta, Georgia instead of LA this time, it was, uh, late February through early April, about seven weeks of total production time for those teams that, that made it to the end. And then, um, yeah, it was, it was a very strict range. Uh, well, I I'd have to imagine the show is, is.

Unbelievable because it was real in the sense that I was there and I was experiencing it, but I had to have a mental disconnect where it was an unreal situation. So, so there's these weird moments of reality where, um, you, you learn just the basics of things like, like where the green room is. Where's your sitting position.

Um, you know, we had the most amazing, porta-potty known to man called the portal, Lisa, that played music. Oh my gosh. And the door on the, on the, on the backside, the lock stuck and didn't work, unless you able to learn that the hard way. Um, but, but it's, so it's, it's the mundane like that combined with the fact that when the doors open for the first time, you, you know, you're, you're standing there.

And you kind of understand that things are happening and lights are starting to move and in smoke machines are starting to do their thing. And then you hear this booming will Arnett, voice kind of floating overhead. And then the doors open, you come in there and it's like, what's the best way to describe the, it, it, it it's majestic.

It is everything you'd expect to see, but to be in that space, that massive space, it's a big set. Um, and to see everything there in front of you, it's, it's an unbelievable, um, yeah, so I would say it was sort of a disconnect from reality until you're into the belts. Um, and you sort of are in the swing of it, but, but yeah, it was, uh, it was mind-blowingly great.

What's that like when w when, when you, and is it, is it Paris is how you pronounce, so, so when you're in Paris, you know, get, get your, your mini fig and you're told, you know, what your, what your explosion is. What's that 10 hours, like every single time, it's like, uh, what are we going to do? Yeah, of course.

How in the heck are we gonna do this? Um, and then they set up the clock and. When they say go, you go. And that thing, um, you know, recently in the last week, I've come up with a good name for it. I call it, I call it a clock, a source clock, a source. Is this red blinking countdown clock from. The evil, dark side of the universe that no one loves.

And it just is they're staring over you the entire time, but it is a wicked, uh, slog to quit that stuff at this scale, with that much detail in that much complexity and beauty within 10 hours. Um, yeah, the best way I've in my head been able to kind of equate it is to say, if you buy a relatively large Lego set, um, Let's say it's about 10 to 12 beds.

Okay. Right. Okay. So sit down and just time yourself, how long it takes for you to put that together. Yeah, the 10 to 12 bags. That for me, I'm a pretty fast person. Once I get going, it's still about 30 minutes. 15 minutes of bag. Yeah. Now most people, I think it'd be more like 30 minutes, maybe 45. So by the end of that, you know, if you've put eight hours into like a UCS star wars set.

Just realize that you only have two hours left, if that was the competition and you just, somebody set from instructions and it's probably a good scale, but it ain't going to complete the whole table that we're sure. Yeah. You can understand very quickly. How fast paced, competitive, competitive speed building is compared to something of the things I built, which are, you know, I'm trying to go for it.

No pop culture works with art. Those are bringing in an 80 to a hundred dollars, sometimes 200. Yeah, mostly around 80 to a hundred, sometimes 40. But even then we're talking a 10th, a quarter of the time. Now the good thing is the brick gets there. So you have all, you have unlimited pretty much in essence of limited basics.

For, for anything you want to do. Oh, interesting. So you said unlimited basics. Do they not have every piece? Is it's all, it's all new brick. Um, so there's no, there's no, there's no vintage brick or anything. That's out of production. Um, so you're not gonna find like, like biological components. Construction just generalize hero, factory bicycle, throw them all together there.

They're not in there except for the, uh, two by two, the two by two large knuckle joints. Um, so, so what you have is you have basic brick, uh, by the good Jillian's. You have amazing, uh, plate inventory, tile inventory. Uh, wedges, um, uh, some slopes. Okay. Um, but that's where it starts to get limited is when you start getting curve slopes or slopes, interesting technic, tons of motors, tons of lights.

I mean, it's, like I said, if, if it's a, if it's a way to build within the Lego system, Um, you know, they've got clips in bars in hinge types, not in some very complex models, but, but you will find that in season two, the brick pit was enhanced quite a bit. Um, talking with, uh, one of the season, one people they, well, they didn't have a lot of friendly colors.

The bright colors, they had all the basic colors. We got friendly colors, I think hopefully in honor of brick master Amy, and then there's elements that were produced over the last year that that just renewed. So we had Lego dots. We didn't have the bracelets, but we had all the dots tiles. That's awesome, which is awesome.

And you're seeing them appear in a lot of the models, which is great. If you take all the pieces out of a band, leave one behind and then tell someone, you just gutted it so they can go stock it. Oh, wow. But the reason you leave, you know, we extended it. We all promised that we would take all the pieces except for a handful.

And then if someone came along and needed seven or eight or whatever, handfuls, they would leave to the last one, um, as a courtesy, um, you always leave the last, last piece in there. So if the brick pit people know, like what, what was in that tray otherwise, right. They're just lost. They have to go look it up and it just hurts everybody.

We'd rather have people stocking it as we depleted. Um, so it's beneficial to everybody to be polite and nice and kind and warm in the early first episode. Everybody's asking everybody else where the heck they saw that piece and we're all helping each other out. Like I remember Chris crossing between Natalie and myself and I shot it out one piece and she kinda like waved in one section and she was coming to another.

And she was like something technic and I went that is ripping past each other because he, you know, he was just trying to remember where everything is and you're just an amazing quote, drawers and grab stuff. You, you and parse, you get the challenge and you decide, okay, what we're going to do is we're going to build these robots and it's going to have the family aspect from that point.

You guys sketch it out. Do you guys. I have a rough idea of what parts you want to use, or you take in a concept and go into the brick pit and go, oh, I need this piece. Or I need this piece a bit of both. Um, if I had to generalize, I'd say parse is more structural thinker. Um, he likes to sit down and talk through it and then sketch it and get a good idea before he's executing.

Um, I was more of the artistic side where I was like, you know, um, yeah, I just need a chest cavity, the gearbox, I'll start building your head, freak him out. Cause there's a lot of it's certainly when I say I'm just going to do something, but, but in the end, uh, I think it worked out some of these challenges though.

If you're talking and planning and talking and planning. You're burning down in your clock time. Yeah. But that's an extra five minutes you could have used in the last five. Uh, so robot was tough. That was a tough challenge. At first one really was rough, but, um, I'm just glad that we, we got all the motion in there and we got something on the table for them to look at.

Were you guys in trailers or did you get to have a hotel? Were you on, on location at the studio or did place that you live and reside and due to COVID protocols, you can't leave that area. So if you're a jogger, I mean, you could go outside the job, but that was about it. Um, if you had food ordered in, on your day off, Um, they would have to drop it at the front desk and then you would come down and pick it up from the lobby.

Um, so you were basically not allowed to go outside, uh, only you and your teammate were allowed to be in each other's rooms. Um, uh, we managed to have a hangout at one point very early on, but then, you know, that was about it. And we talked to each other once in a while. And do a little, get together a little micro get together in distance space.

Yeah. Um, but then there's transportation to the set. Um, the vehicles were COVID compliant with barriers. So basically teams would set either left or right. And then there's a barrier right down the middle. And the driver had a shield as well. Wow. Um, so it's kind of unusual because the only faces we understood were the, were, will the brick masters in the cast.

Yeah, cause everybody else has completely masked the entire time. You know, all the production staff had masks. Uh, we had to use masks, one layer of protection all the time, the green room. And then on set, we would go on with two layers of protection, which is the N 95 mask plus a face shield. And once the cameras are hot, then they come around to collect all the PPE and then you start to shoot and then it all comes immediately back on the minute.

Um, No cameras are not hot. So, so that aspect of it's very strange. Um, the green room was, uh, We had a better green room than the LA crew. Ours was very large and the reason was they had to be Colby compliant, six foot distance. So I think normally in really shows they just cram everybody together and you're just like piled into a space.

Sure. For us, we had an entire bay or a bay or a zone in air quotes, not a production zone, but our own like sequestered zone for talent only cast only I call it talent, whatever chest. And it was nice. You had a little table, you had a couch in a recliner. Give me one moment from the first two episodes. One moment that stands out from the first two episodes that you are, you're just eat, will always stay with you.

I'll give you three because they're the early memories. So what do you think the stage smell? I was like, oh, it's got to smell like new plastic, right? This is a question I always wanting to know right now. I know the answer. So in the very early first episode, it smelled a little bit like sawdust because they had just been finishing it up.

That makes sense. Great. So there was a lot of sawdust smelled, um, After the first hour, it smelled like nothing. It smelled like a server room. It's hard to describe. So the, the air scrubbers that they installed for COVID compliance were so intense that it eliminated every single smell from that space.

Wow. So I expected, you know, sweaty people packed together and risers to have a smell and we didn't, I expected to smell the explosive. But it would pop. And then the smoke little smoke, there was just one right up in the air was gone. So it is a scent free environment, which is, it's like a clean room. It's hard to describe unless you've ever been in one, but it's a smell.

That is the lack of smell. And it's somewhat a nerving. Yeah. It takes away one of your senses. Rich. Yeah. It's a hyper clean state. It was wild. That's one crazy observation. Another one is, um, I would spend, I probably racked up hours staring at the Lego masters doors, the yellow Greenville doors with the led strip that changes color.

And I would walk because you're there and I would walk up to it and like put my face up to the green balls and like sit there and stare at it because. I was there and a couple of wild things. Um, the production, whoever made it was in, uh, was in a real hurry. It was definitely a TV production. Cause every once in a while you'd see a little gloom drip or a little glue mark, you know, it wasn't perfect.

It wasn't like what I would think of as a museum piece. Um, no, you take a step back or two and you can't see the blue anymore. It's perfect. Um, also it was really dirty. Oh, had a lot of. And it had a lot of weird little, um, dust things would gather on it very quickly. Um, that is the nature, right? Of like, oh, well, yeah, certain stuff, but there was no one, you know, they didn't have time to have someone go through there and like sweep it off.

You know, the doors open, the doors closed. You're done. Yeah. Um, Yeah. And then pieces, Lego elements. Pieces would basically get into the set everywhere until they never had the set completely clean. After the first hour, you just be walking around and like against the wall, there'd be like this two or three random bricks like that just got missed from cleanup or something.

It was it's just like us in our houses. I was going to say that sounds like my, my bedroom. There's like no pieces. Just wound up proliferating into every nook and cranny. It's no different than that set. That's awesome. So those are, those are a couple of fun things, I think. Um, yeah, there was other things, uh, you know, one time I just laid down and stared at the ceiling and noticed something random and tote parse about it.

She thought it was really random too. I'm so grateful and grateful is the wrong word, but, well, I'm a grateful one. I realized that, you know, there are thousands, thousands of people that would have traded places with me any time. And so to know, to understand that and to have to bear that I, it just made me appreciate every moment.

Yeah. And it made every episode, a gift that I honored and I wasn't just building for myself in parse. And of course the challenge I understood that I was building for all of the FOLs and friends I've come to know that that would have traded places with me, for instance, you know, it's kind of like a. It was a honorable pursuit.

You know, it was more than just me. I just gave it my all because I understood that anybody else would have traded places and would have wanted to be there. So that's amazing. I took it to heart and I really wanted it. Um, to make it well, I bring you, I bring you these stories because they're true. Well, that's kind of, that's kind of what I meant as, as I'm grateful being someone who's hearing this story from you, that you took the time to slow down and do these things.

Because I think that's, that's the power of a moment, right? Like if we speed through everything, we're going to get through it and then have have little, little pieces that, that stay with us or we'll have the show in. Yeah. You, you have to be mindful because TV production is a hurry up and wait process.

Of course. Yeah. So, you know, you rush, rush, rush, rush, rush is cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck clock. And then, you know, they have to pause and do stuff. You know, they have to do stuff for the judging. They have to do things if the set things up and, you know, the model beauty shots are, are another process and all this stuff that if you think through in your head, there's a lot of different zones in the production and things they have to logistically do.

And it's not like a continuous thing. It was. We heard that this is one of the best, well machined, well planned well executed productions because everything was going like clockwork until it didn't. Um, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, this is something unique that, that we do. Okay. We're going to break on, on Lego.

Okay. Okay. Yeah. So what I did this morning was I had, I had some users send us some questions. Um, a lot of people are very excited about having you on the podcast. Um, the three questions we're going to kind of go rapid fire on these. So don't be afraid to hit short answers. Um, one in Lego masters. Did they allow you to use illegal build techniques?

Yes. Yes, you can use whatever connection you want. Um, And in fact, uh, you are, you are credited with NPU and the more amazing techniques you pull off the Burke masters, obviously good. Nothing gets by them. They notice it and they commend you on it. Wow. That's, that's really neat. Okay. Favorite Lego piece.

It's not a single piece, but those Mixel joints are incredible. If you force me into the combination of them. I personally, I like to answer this a different way. I have a, I have a favorite. Lego building method. Okay. And it's an entire set of pieces and it's all of those clips and Bard pieces when added together allow you to make incredible builds that no one else has ever seen before.

So the clip bar technique is not, I'm not talking hinges, I'm talking like making an entire car. Frame out of just clip and bars. And I have a picture on there. I did Tik TOK of it. Um, it's impossible to explain other than when you see it, you kind of go, oh snap. Yeah. I never realized like this was a building system within the legal system.

I know. So we'll do it so far and you know, um, I'm going to have to adopt it. I'm going to have to adopt it because I'm so interested. Oh, well, you're going to have to get on Bricklin cause it's the only way to get enough pieces. Absolutely. Um, so here, here, here's the other final question, uh, from this section is what is the largest build you personally have ever seen?

Wait, it could be one that you made you made or me seen either either, or I think I saw a giraffe at the zoo, um, and it was like, uh, the Canadian. The certified professional Lego artist guy, and I always face on his name. That thing was massive. That's cool. So, so I mean, there's, large-scale brick sculptures out there in the world.

Uh, so those would be the largest, the largest I've ever built. Once again, that seven and a half foot tall spaceship. It's it's two meters, it's seven and a half feet tall. Yeah. Decently tall guy and Phil is a monster wagon, like 6, 4, 6, 5, 6, 6. But even that thing is over his head. It's, it's crazy to see I've got a deck of cards.

Okay. His cards have 52 random questions. They are as superficial as what's your favorite type food. And as deep as you could think. Okay. Okay. First question. I'm going to, I'm going to shuffle right now. Here we go. Ready?

First question right off the top.

What is your recurring nightmare?

You know, I don't remember my dreams, but maybe three times a year. I will remember her reoccurring nightmare. And it's this twisted version of the house I grew up in and it wasn't older style house, but for some reason I find a false panel in my closet and I crawl through it. And I realize that there's an entire room that no one realized was in that house.

And inside that room, everything. Is as it was in the 1940s and there is a decrepit skeleton because the person could never get out. Whoa. That's crazy, man. You know, that's I actually, I have, I have the Muslims here because my recurring dream has to do with a panel that I found in my parent's closet. That just led to this crawlspace.

That literally was nothing. And so I always have a dream. This is so weird where I go into that crawl space and I can't get out like the door shuts behind me and there's no way out. So that's awesome. Our house had one of those blind crawl spaces in the, in the closet, but there wasn't a panel. You just walked through it.

And my brother and I used to love knowing that there was this hidden feature, my son's room has that same type of hidden feature and he loves he's made an entire player Claria out of it. Okay. Question two. Yeah. Okay. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be and why?

I've changed so many things about myself because I'm constantly learning and evolving as a person. I was not, I was, um, Very Tetra, temperamental and very hard-headed and always thought that I was the bread, this person in the room and had an incredible ego in temper when I was young. And over time, I just learned how to manage it.

And over time, especially with the Lego community and the Lego brand, I constantly strive to improve myself. So that I live my life, according to the philosophy of play. Well, I consider that the highest standard of living is if you can play well with others, it really shapes your decision-making and values and allows you to be a better person.

So whatever I would change about myself, I change. It's the nature of a person to self evolve. So at this point, I don't, I can't tell you what I would change because I'm trying to live the most valid and authentic life that I can in the best way I can. But the minute I self reflect every night and I think about things, um, you know, I take notice of it and then I work on it for a month straight because.

You can't, it's not like someone's going to come in here and they're going to be a motivational speaker and they really make you feel better. And then they leave. And within a week or two, you know, you haven't done any change. Do you have a meeting permanent or lasting change? You've maybe changed yourself for a few days and then things move on.

Yeah. Yeah. This is something that I've done with my life, where I diligently think about a mistake I've made. And then I say, I'm not going to make that again. What changes do I need to make? And then I constantly am checking myself to make sure that it doesn't come back. Or if it does, I remind myself that I'm still working on it.

And after about a month or two becomes part of your nature. It's something you have to diligently work on over time. But I can't tell you that there's something I changed today. I can tell you I've constantly evolved and changed as a person. And hopefully we all do that because I think it's important in your life.

That's that's beautiful. Uh, I had anger issues a lot as a kid. I also had ego issues a lot. Um, so I definitely identify with that. And I think that's maybe, maybe the most beautiful answer. I've heard that question. So, Ooh. Nailed it. Absolutely. Absolutely. Another, I love these questions. These are okay. This is great.

Cause you know, I'm actually, I'm going to extend this a little bit, um, because yeah, we're going, we're going post-game folks. I, so I've warned, I warned, I warned this for a man that I can take an interviewer and I can grind them to dust. And make them feel exhausted. And it's because for some reason I have a way of keeping them on the phone longer than they should.

I will say this. I will say this. Um, I don't know if the feeling is mutual, so I don't want to put it there, but I am. Quickly, starting to relate you more as a friend than Isaiah Paul. I hope so. I love it. I love it. Okay, here we go. Are you ready? This is, uh, this is actually a very timely question considering what I just said.

Okay. What do you value most in a friendship? I value my friends because. They authentically love me for who I am and are willing to stop the friendship. If it's no longer worthwhile, I recognize it. So most people in this world you'll find are genuine and kind and deserving. Um, every once in a while.

You'll find people who, for whatever reason, unintentional or intentionally are, you know, either self destructive or negative or just not confident and sure. And they can be friends because you're stronger together. Sure. And then there's very rare instances where no matter what you do, um, there's a person who is just drowning.

And their only reaction is to pull you under with them. Yeah. So as a lifeguard, you, you, in your own safety in life, you have to realize that at some point there are people who are so completely toxic, you just have to walk away. Yeah. But.

Even though that's only happened maybe three times in my life. There are thousands of people that have managed to touch and influence and meet and have, and they come and they go. When each one I think has, has shown me something insightful about myself or even better, they've mentored me and made me a better person.

I was that honestly celebrate the, the great bosses I've had. Um, I've had a couple of bad ones, but the truly great ones have given me incredible life skills that didn't just work for my work. They made me a better individual. I remember one person, you know, I had to, basically, I was overseeing a $1.2 billion budget plan for infrastructure.

At a fortune 50 company and it was my job to run that portfolio and take them through what would give them the analysis and what to watch out for sure. Um, when you are discussing these things at that level, um, you have to have, you have to know how to talk diplomatically, of course, but also honestly, But, but in such a way that it's almost like somewhat of a combination of public relations, but it's a negotiation.

Sure. I don't think I'd be able to convey or answer these questions like I did today without that background. Amazing. Right. And I don't think I'd be able to be here and hopefully give you guys a good podcast. If I couldn't. Clearly articulate my experiences just it's like, that's just one little skill I picked up.

Right. But all these skills kind of combined in, and that's how you go through your life is you're able to meet people and friends who genuinely enhance your life. Yeah, absolutely. So that's what I value is, is just the constant evolution of people. Back and forth, you know, hopefully I've touched on you or a few people here today was absolutely.

And, you know, Lego becomes a philosophy at some point, you know, there was a point in my life where I was building great mocks doing this thing, and it was a hug, but at some point in life, you have to make a decision.

Is this what I want to be really doing? Cause I was getting into thinking of being on Lego masters. I'm like, if I'm going to take a run at this thing, I need to come at it like an Olympic professional athletes, Olympic athlete, not a professional, but the highest performing amateur that's out there. And I, my take on it was I need to start building 20 hours a week for 50, 50 weeks out of the year.

You know, and run up a thousand hours a year of just Lego building and building. Yeah, absolutely. When you take something on like that, I realized that Lego was a calling when something is a calling in your life, it becomes a passion, but it also becomes something that the standard you put yourself to and.

I wouldn't have been disciplined enough or thoughtful enough, or really honest enough to take that on without the encouragement of others, but also without all the lessons that all my friends had given me over time. So this is the part of Lego that gets. Philosophical. And so your deck of cards I think is more revealing than it should be.

And that was a longer answer than the short one. Scott, you know what though? I think as, as, uh, as I'm hearing ticket, I think it's my NPR tone of voice that is low in you in. Uh, you know, I'll tell you what, as, as you're speaking, you're, you're hitting on the lifeblood of this channel. Um, and the lifeblood, I think that a lot of AFL's have in their passion for Lego.

Um, because I, and I, I, I, my, my personal audience has, has developed this saying right, come for the Lego, stay for the family. Um, And it's because Lego, when you allow it to become a, a state of mind or a mission in your life, um, I, in fact, we were releasing this, this children's book about a single blue brick who wants to be something amazing.

And he tries all these different things to be something amazing. And then he ha he realizes that he needs all these bricks around him to become something amazing. And so they all. Come together to build something amazing. That is this community that is these people. It's, it's you it's it's, you know, it's Jamie and boon.

It's the community that we really are, this, this group of people. True. True. I mean, it's a little plastic interlocking toy, right? You can't take it too seriously, but if you do. At some point, you begin to realize that all of the, all of the channels that I've seen that have become successful in and have a good following by nature and in general, Um, built up that sense of calm, calm, that sense of there's a sense of childhood, like wonder that you can persist, but also the sense of being together and having people who understand you.

Um, but then it becomes something greater. And I do like the fact that I've gotten to know so many of these positive, uh, folks who are out there and I'm celebrating all of the newer folks. Like just ran across you recently. Yeah. But also there's a lot of channels that have started in the last year that I think, you know, have really blown up because you get a sense of how positive and energetic their work they are.

Absolutely. So, yeah. Um, It's cool. Right. It's cool. And I never say goodbye. I always sign off by saying play well, probably. Well, I love it. I love it. Well, listen, it's not, it's not my logo, but I can sure as heck use it if I can. You know, I think it is all right. I think we all should. Um, Moto, it has been incredible to sit here with you and get to know you.

And I'm just so grateful for your transparency and your vulnerability. You sir are an absolutely beautiful human being. I look forward to a long and prosperous friendship with you. Awesome. Yet, I'll see you around and, um, I'll probably listen to this and wonder why saying sounds so straight. Yeah, fun. Um, and we could, uh, you know, After after a little bit of time, if you want to do a part two, uh, just give me a ring, a ding ding, and then we'll, we'll figure out what to do on it.

Another podcast guys that was Moto from season two of Lego masters, U S a and I got to say he was an absolute sweetheart of a guy. I look forward to our friendship and, um, yeah, I just want to say a huge thanks. For having him on in the show notes, you're going to find all of motos, social media accounts as well as a place where you can go by motos merge.

Um, I highly recommend it. The shirts are, are guaranteed premium and, um, he just creates some incredible content. So please go check that out. I also want to let you guys know that we have a ton of content that didn't find its way into the podcast, uh, and was left on the editing room for mostly because it is incredibly visual content.

Moto shows us some of his most impressive mocks and, uh, and a couple of keepsakes that he has from the Lego masters TV show. All of this content will be available to you, however exclusive. So we on our email list. So if you're not a part of our email list, go to the link in the show notes that says email list and sign up next Thursday, Thursday, we will be dropping the full length unedited interview with Modo, including all of his mocks and visuals that were not included in this podcast.

Huge. Shout out to XE salvation for bringing the fire on that brick tech segment. Um, I look forward to having Ziggy on the show more and more. Um, and guys one last time, thank you to Modo and thank you to you guys. This community is incredible Moda and I got to talking a lot after, um, we stopped recording that conversation just about how amazing.

The AFL community is and how grateful we both are for everyone. Who's listening to this podcast as always my friends. I love you. I cannot wait to see you next time. Let's go. .