Patreon-Exclusive Fireside Chat (May, 2018): The Renaissance Man (Patreon)

In 2004, I was lucky enough to meet Mark Ryan Sallee. At the time, Mark Ryan was an associate-level editor at IGN, and he and I quickly became friends. When I was an intern at IGN in 2004, he let me sleep on the floor of his studio apartment, and he was the person who hired me at IGN full time when I graduated college in 2007. We've been close for a long time, and so I wanted to invite him on the show to not only talk about our past, but to talk about Mark Ryan specifically. He's a modern-day renaissance man with a bunch of varied interests -- from tech and MMA to photography and motorcycles -- and our conversation touches on all of that (plus more). I suspect you'll find Mark Ryan as fascinating and endearing as I do.