Lots of things.
As a little boy, I used to wear these epaulettes with gold stars on them that my grandmother made for me to wear in a school play, kind of like this. I would go around telling my friends and teachers that I was a 4 star general and that I earned my stars in ‘Nam. I have no idea where I got all that, but I think that’s how I became so interested in military history these days.
I was also raised on horror movies. The first movie I remember seeing in theaters was Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight and I remember playing Nightmare on Elm Street on my kindergarten playground. (I was always Freddy). I’m really into horror and ghosts and spooky kitsch and things like that, so that’s where that came from.
I was also really into rocks and bugs and critters and science as a kid, which I think transferred over to my adult liking for geology, taxidermy, entomology, and outdoorsmanship.