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ALL of the workflow. So, the more you can experience those sorts of real-life experiences, the better you can understand how to document them, and that's what we're trying to portray in our work. I often work with sound designers who come out to record with us and it's fun to see how much they enjoy it and try to make time for it. I think in some cases, it's also really an eye opener to see how much prep and planning it takes in addition to how hard the work can be. Things don't always go exactly as planned, so it helps to be well prepared and ready to improvise. CM: So, let's circle back to what piqued your interest in storytelling, and how that connected to your passion for sound. JPF: In the little town of Kentfield where I grew up, you know, it was a real small community. And so, you had the hardware store, and you had a stationary store, and you had a library, fire department and grocery store, and not much else. The store owners knew most of us kids by name. The local junior college, College of Marin, was located there, and everything was kind of built around that. One of my favorite things was to go to the tiny library and I would get biographies to read. I read a ton of sports and war stories and in a funny full-circle story, one of the books that I read was about Jimmy Doolittle's raid on Japan following the Pearl Harbor attack. Doolittle and his unit took a group B-25 Bombers and for the first time, took off from an aircraft carrier to bomb Japan, which was also the first time Japan realized that "uh oh, you know we might be in trouble Recording snowmobile at Mountain High Resort for Inception (2010). Photo by Andrew Bock. Recording the Transformers Ride motion simulator at Universal Studios with Ai-Ling Lee and Milly Latrou. First Man (2018). John recording stunt rider Stanton Barrett in Red Rock Canyon, Cantil, CA. 140 M PS E . O R G