Hey, everybody. Welcome to another episode of the Afterburn podcast. I'm Flash McFay here to host with

an incredibly important guest to me, honored to have Lorenzo Harris on with us today.

Lorenzo was my very first operational A-10 weapons officer, somebody that I've looked up to for a very

long time. A lot of the things that I do as a patch and as a weapons officer in my other life,

it's really because of him, both probably good or bad.

Maybe he can talk about some of that stuff throughout this.

But Lorenzo, dude, thank you so much for your time and coming on.

We're going to talk about a lot of stuff today and I'm really looking forward to it.

Absolutely, brother. I'm happy to be here. I've been watching from the sidelines with you guys doing your podcast. I was waiting for the call and it finally came through. I was going to say I don't think

anyone's waiting for the call. Rain talks about it. can't believe people actually watch this stuff, but they do.

So there you go.

All right, so let's just dive right in.

Growing up, you've grown up in North Pole, Alaska, great family and stuff like that.

Love you guys to meet pretty much everybody in your family.

But what got you into flying?

From young Lorenzo to Colorado State or anything like that,

kind of what got you into it became your passion,

or why did you become a pilot?

Yeah, for sure, man.

It's interesting. You know, I meet a lot of people in aviation world and whether that's at Delta Airlines or in the Air Force, whatever happens to be, and you ask them their story,

and they're like, oh dude, I knew that I wanted to fly since I was like three years old.

I looked up to the sky and I saw the airplane and they're like, and like I just knew. For me it was not the case. I had a I had zero idea that a dude

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