1 00:00:00,609 --> 00:00:03,170 (drums bang) 2 00:00:03,170 --> 00:00:05,245 - All right Hawk, let's hunt 'em down. 3 00:00:05,245 --> 00:00:10,162 (drums bang) (Rover whirs) 4 00:00:13,761 --> 00:00:14,987 (machine beeps) 5 00:00:14,987 --> 00:00:15,913 (machine whirs) Oh. 6 00:00:15,913 --> 00:00:17,460 (man laughs) 7 00:00:17,460 --> 00:00:18,621 You made this? 8 00:00:18,621 --> 00:00:20,210 (bells chime) 9 00:00:20,210 --> 00:00:21,800 - Damn right! 10 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:23,300 My name is Lance Corporal Malik Pew, 11 00:00:23,300 --> 00:00:27,210 2831, satellite repair, United States Marine Corp. 12 00:00:27,210 --> 00:00:28,630 I fix satellites. 13 00:00:28,630 --> 00:00:31,160 Not satellites in space, but the ones we use to communicate 14 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:32,230 with the ones in space. 15 00:00:32,230 --> 00:00:34,370 And, when they try to mess with my work horse, 16 00:00:34,370 --> 00:00:35,330 I got to get it back together. 17 00:00:35,330 --> 00:00:36,720 So, every now and then, 18 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:38,373 sometimes I had an operator error 19 00:00:38,373 --> 00:00:41,440 or, you know, they just getting kind of old. 20 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:43,300 Sometimes, you know, there's fittings loose, 21 00:00:43,300 --> 00:00:45,900 or we got just one of our components is messed up. 22 00:00:45,900 --> 00:00:48,273 And I got to identify which one it is. 23 00:00:48,273 --> 00:00:49,106 (men chatter) 24 00:00:49,106 --> 00:00:50,830 I was going to try go to college to be an electrician. 25 00:00:50,830 --> 00:00:52,320 After trying that for about a semester, 26 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:54,390 it just, it wasn't the right place. 27 00:00:54,390 --> 00:00:56,480 I didn't even walk into the Marine Corp office first, 28 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:57,910 I walked into the Air Force, 29 00:00:57,910 --> 00:00:59,853 but the Marines still managed to get me. 30 00:00:59,853 --> 00:01:01,591 They just had a better atmosphere in there 31 00:01:01,591 --> 00:01:03,040 and I felt like that was the place 32 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:04,036 for me when I got in there. 33 00:01:04,036 --> 00:01:06,786 (parts clanging) 34 00:01:10,170 --> 00:01:11,670 I grew up on an Air Force base 35 00:01:11,670 --> 00:01:13,890 cause my dad was in the military. 36 00:01:13,890 --> 00:01:15,330 With that, you move around a lot 37 00:01:15,330 --> 00:01:17,870 and it's kinda hard to make friends sometimes 38 00:01:17,870 --> 00:01:20,770 cause everybody's always leaving no matter what you do. 39 00:01:20,770 --> 00:01:22,560 I only went to high school for two years. 40 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:24,830 I was homeschooled for a portion of it. 41 00:01:24,830 --> 00:01:25,790 I didn't really get the chance 42 00:01:25,790 --> 00:01:27,140 to develop some of the social skills 43 00:01:27,140 --> 00:01:29,190 that a lot of kids get when they're in school. 44 00:01:29,190 --> 00:01:31,930 So it was kind of lonely doing that. 45 00:01:31,930 --> 00:01:33,760 And I, I feel like they gave a lot of drive 46 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:38,290 to me wanting to build some sort of robotic companion. 47 00:01:38,290 --> 00:01:39,850 Senior year, I ended up making 48 00:01:39,850 --> 00:01:42,760 like a whole set of armor for a costume contest 49 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:44,580 that had lights, a sound system, 50 00:01:44,580 --> 00:01:45,500 and all kinds of other things. 51 00:01:45,500 --> 00:01:47,600 And then I made a portable X-Box. 52 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:48,570 And I built a Rover. 53 00:01:48,570 --> 00:01:50,240 I have a little camera system on it. 54 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:52,580 Those things help people get to know me that way 55 00:01:52,580 --> 00:01:55,480 and really opened up that companionship thing 56 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:57,229 I was looking for in the first place. 57 00:01:57,229 --> 00:01:59,040 I would love to have things 58 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:01,080 that I make just help bridge gaps for people. 59 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:03,663 (upbeat music)