They're incredible what they do a lot of them are getting shot and killed so being able to protect us troops on the ground

Hear the stress in their voice be able to show up take out the threat and then to hear them sound more relaxed in the radio

And know you got them out of a tough situation still is the highlight of my group

Hello and welcome to the fighter pilot podcast. I'm your host Vincent Ayello call sign Jello and joining me today in the circle air group studios here at

Gillespie Field in San Diego, California is former U.S. Air Force F-16 turned F-35 pilot and

YouTube sensation hazardly hazard to welcome to the show jello. Thanks for having me on. It's a pleasure

I call you a sensation because you have way more subscribers than I do and really cool videos

So we'll get to that, but I'm a fan though. I've been a fan since 2018 when you released the first couple episodes

So I've been watching a lot of learned a lot especially about legacy aircraft

So thanks for what you do. Okay, we can cut because we're done here

But you reminded me I guess at one point I came on your show and I have to admit I'd been on so many different shows

I sort of forgot but sort of remembered but all right, Gillespie wasn't that good of an interview

But I learned a lot especially about naval aviation. So that's coming on. Well, that's that's what's important

Well, let's get to who you are what you're doing and all that. Let's start at the beginning

Where are you from and what inspired you to become a military aviator?

Yeah, so I grew up kind of all over the U.S

My dad was a scientist in the Department of Energy

So we bounced around a lot of it was kind of like being a military family

So we lived in Livermore, California, Livermore national labs out there

Live in DC and then really settled in Los Alamos, New Mexico

So that's the home of the Manhattan Project pretty much by design in the middle of nowhere

So they wanted a place during World War II that was inaccessible by the the Germans or Japanese

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