Question: Tell me about your background
Stephen Wilson Jr.: Yeah, well I moved to Nashville to be a scientist. I studied microbiology and chemistry and then worked in micro labs and food science labs and played in indie bands at the same time. I was like an indie rocker kid, but also wearing a lab coat by day and indie rock clubs by night. And I was a bit of a weirdo amongst the scientific community and I’m. I’m a bit of a weirdo amongst the music community, so… Yeah, so that was. That was my first kind of big profession, because I went to school for five years and got a degree. But science was something I was always fascinated with as a young kid. I was out in the woods. I had all these notebooks of science notebooks that I created myself and filled out myself. It was real sad. My dad was really worried. That’s why he got me a guitar for my 16th birthday. I was a real quiet kid and doing that, and we were boxers. So I grew up in boxing gyms, and the only sport I was really ever good at was boxing. Like team sports, I liked, but I didn’t love them. And I hated letting other people down. And with boxing, you just let yourself down, and I didn’t mind that at all. And so that was a… That was a sport for me because it was just one on one. So I fought my first fight when I was seven years old and fought through my childhood and then did all the Golden Glove stuff when I in college. Yeah, it gets a lot crazier when you start fighting men, when you’re a man, too, and you start fightin’ men. When you’re young boy, it’s intense, but it’s kind of hilarious to watch seven-year-olds go out there and beat the hell out of each other. But when they’re 17, it is a totally different story. And it’s, yeah, it was one of the greatest things my dad ever did for me was teach me how to box, teach me on a fight, because that. He set a bar so high for me from a pressure cookers standpoint. So yeah, like he, if the pressure cooker is set to 11, like he showed me how that I could withstand 11. And then some maybe other high pressure moments become closer to eights and nines and helps you kind of keep everything in perspective. So that’s why, you know, even in and out of the ring, it’s such an effective tool for your mind. Imagination.

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