what is up everybody mark on the mic here mr ryan muckinhern across for me and also across for me

first time podcast guest special guest mr mike bookout from our product development team

and this is a new product alert but mike before we get to the meat of this podcast,

and because you are a first-time guest,

we're going to have you talk a little bit about who you are, your background,

and what you're doing here at Vortex.

Sounds good.

Yeah, Mike Bookout.

I've been in NPD for coming on four years now.

Started my career with pneumatic

tools, designing them, testing them, moved over to aviation, commercial aviation, then got

into the cycling industry and then kind of went back to aviation, general aviation for a little

bit, and now I'm here.

We talked about aerospace.

We can say that right. It sounds cooler than aviation. Yeah, bit, and now I'm here. We talked about aerospace. We can say that right.

It sounds cooler than aviation.

Yeah, yeah, well, aerospace, airplanes, done some space stuff.

Dabbles in the space stuff.

Just that, you know.

Low orbit.

Short term, short term.

Here's the thing.

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