I remember flying in the first day and just in awe of the destruction from a weight.

My first image was how high the wave went up the mountain because it just tore everything out.

As we were getting rid of land on helicopter, I realized it's the foundation of a house that's not here anymore that somebody was wanted to put at each other.

We're fighting people.

Hey everyone, Jello here.

Before we get to this week's interview, I just want to acknowledge that some of you have said since our 2023 pivot to video,

the show seems a little more sterile and that you missed the bantering and the announcements and the listener questions that we brought back on the most recent episode with Ken Katz and BamBam on first flights.

I just want to take a moment here to acknowledge that and to tell you that I'm going to try to bring that back to these numbered episodes that have a YouTube equivalent,

even if it's only on the audio version and even if it's just me bantering or letting you know what's going on in my life or answering listener questions or whatever the case may be.

On that note, I did have some listener questions that I answered on email recently.

One was from Joey about why the AIM-54 Phoenix get adapted to the F-18 when the F-14 went away and I was very gentle,

but I basically told Joey that it came down to, in my opinion, money, weight and need.

But at any rate, we might bring back the listener hotline and you can continue to email the show at questions at fighterpodcast.com.

And I'll keep you up to date on what's happening with my family and other job.

But I want to acknowledge that you, the listeners, kind of run the show and I'm still having fun with it as I work on my memoirs.

And of course, if we're going to do this little bantering, then you have to put up with my promotions of various things like our website that we are revamping and will be new and refreshed soon.

And we'll have a lot of shop options for cool merch and books as well as our Patreon page, which for the around 400 of you that are on there,

you know it's a best kept secret where we have a lot of this kind of stuff all the time and other cool content and inside information on the show.

So if you've been enjoying the show and you'd like to pay it back a little bit, head on over to patreon.com, P-A-T-R-E-O-N,

search for the fighter pilot podcast and consider signing up because we have a lot of fun and it's not just a function of the tier that you select for the things you get these days.

We have these milestone perks so when you cross a certain giving them out, I'm going to send you something.

So just a few minutes here to announce that that's what we're looking to do on these numbered episodes, even just the audio version.

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