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🗓️ 27 October 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Today Dan is joined by Fighter Pilot Ryan "Neo" Bodenheimer.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's go. |
| 0:11.6 | Welcome to Citizen. |
| 0:12.4 | We got a special guest today, Ryan Neo, Bodenheimer. |
| 0:17.4 | Did you used to have long hair like Keanu Reeves? |
| 0:19.2 | Is that where you got your call sign? |
| 0:40.6 | So pretty much, they were going to name me Brody. Oh God. Yeah, yeah. That was like it was between Neo and Brody. Sure. And my dad's a fighter pilot as well. And his call sign was Bodie. And he was kind of known in the community. So they were like, all right, we're not going to do that to you. We're not going to make everybody confuse you with your dad. But yeah, they said I walked into the |
| 0:40.4 | first fighter squadron and I was like, hey, how's it going? Hey, how's it going? And they're like, dude. And I was just excited. I was just happy to be there. You know, I was 23 year old hair on fire becoming a fighter pilot so I apparently I came across like Brody in point break. |
| 0:53.7 | Look it could be worse you know way |
| 0:57.3 | worse I knew a guy named call sign balls oh my god yeah well that's something um yeah I mean you could |
| 1:07.3 | have there's a lot of Patrick Swazy characters you could be named after |
| 1:11.3 | that aren't necessarily bad |
| 1:12.7 | um could be a lot worse |
| 1:14.8 | like Dalton although Dalton wouldn't make a great call sign |
| 1:17.5 | but it would be pretty fucking funny |
| 1:18.7 | oh Patrick Swayze |
| 1:22.8 | what a legend man yeah yeah RIP |
| 1:24.7 | where did you grow up |
| 1:26.3 | a military brat so grew up all around the world |
| 1:30.5 | mainly Colorado Springs that's already at high school and then I went to Boulder for a |
| 1:36.5 | college did RTC there but yeah I called Colorado Springs home but yeah I mean I grew up in |
| 1:41.0 | Alaska Japan Korea Alabama Idaho know, did the whole |
| 1:46.6 | military brat thing, lived in 12 different places, moved to 12 different times. |
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