Motivation Local S2 Ep08 Season FinaleKyle Hodgman and Kaleb Motz”Punk Rock, Branding, and a New Flag for Medicine Hat”EPISODE SUMMARYTo close out Season 2, Corey sits down with two of Medicine Hat’s most creatively restless minds for the liveliest conversation of the season. Kyle Hodgman is a solopreneur and founder of Middle Name Creative Agency; Kaleb Motz is COO of Imagine Everything. They met on the first day of the Art and Design program at Medicine Hat College, bonded over band shirts, and spent the next five years in a punk band called The Social Threat, touring in a van that kept breaking down, playing shows they had no business playing, and learning most of what they know about business, craft, and collaboration from the experience.That DIY ethos never really left. The conversation moves through how both of them landed in Medicine Hat and chose to stay, the skills the band quietly built that still show up in their work today, and what Kyle has been developing ever since he watched a Roman Mars TED Talk about municipal flag design and couldn’t stop thinking about it: a new flag for Medicine Hat. Not an official submission. Not a committee process. A slow, subversive release into the community – stickers, shirts, lawn flags – to see if it takes root on its own.Three horizontal bands (blue sky, green valley, orange coulees and brick) with two zigzagging lines creating a symbol of interconnection and shelter. The whole design philosophy is right there in the episode: simple on the surface, sophisticated underneath, and open enough for the community to inject its own meaning. By the time you’re hearing this, it’s already out there somewhere in the city. Whether it flies is up to Medicine Hat.