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JuJu Smith-Schuster on Free Agency, Steelers Fans, and More, Plus Former Fighter Pilot Glenn Gonzales on Jet It | The Lefkoe Show

The Lefkoe Show

Bleacher Report

Football, Sports

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

33%, nowhere else in the podcasting world will you get two back-to-back interviews more different than these two, but we found both to be equally illuminating and fascinating! 

First, we've got young wide receiver stud JuJu Smith-Schuster of the Pittsburgh Steelers, talking about everything from Charmin toilet paper to why he took (significantly) less money to return to the Steelers after a divisional rival offered him quite the hefty sum. 

And then, we've got former college basketball standout turned US Air Force fighter pilot turned entrepreneur Glenn Gonzales, who regales us with his fascinating journey to founding a new company that provides shockingly affordable private jet rides to his clients. 

It's the NFL offseason, 33%, and we will always strive to find new, interesting, off-the-beaten-path guests that we all can learn from. Hope you all enjoy!

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0:00.0

What is up? What is good? How you living? How you doing? How you feeling?

0:03.0

I got a call from my really good friend Matthew Barry and he said, hey, I got this guy

0:08.0

that I think you'd like to talk to you. He was going to go and get me in Zalus and I said, time out.

0:12.0

Is this the dude that you wrote about that flies the jets? It was like a Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force?

0:17.0

He said, yeah, I read your article. He goes, I think you two would get along. You should talk to him. I said, bring him on, baby.

0:24.0

And here we are, Mr. Glenn Gonzalez was rereading about you today. You've had a journey where you went to the Air Force dedicated so much of your life, flew the fastest, the most incredible planes that exist.

0:39.0

Got into kind of private jets, looked around and said, I don't see any people of color owning anything in this industry.

0:47.0

Jumped in full force started off with what one plane and two employees? Yeah, one airplane to employees. And then now where are you guys at?

0:57.0

We're up to 10 airplanes. We're in two countries. We'll have our third country here in a month.

1:03.0

Well, these continents, I should say North America, Canada and Europe.

1:08.0

We're our businesses established in India as well as in Singapore and things are growing quickly. We're super excited about the opportunity before us.

1:17.0

You played college ball, basketball. And I feel like a lot you love sports. Like I can tell like it's like pumping through your veins. Like you even made a face right there.

1:28.0

Well, you know what? I want to start here. I do a show with Wade and Shaq. And recently we were talking about I said, what's the thing that you never get back from being a professional athlete?

1:41.0

And Wade said, there's a moment when you leave the tunnel. And there's like 25,000 people and they all go nuts just by seeing you. And he goes, you can chase that, but you'll never get that back.

1:54.0

Yeah. What is it about flying a fighter plane that you just don't get back? I just want to start there at the peak level of flying.

2:03.0

Oh, man. Well, you know, flying flying fighters is an exhilarating experience. It is you are the professional athletes of the sky.

2:13.0

There's no one around the world that performs at a higher level. If you've seen the movie Avatar and you notice how the characters intertwine their tails with the dragons.

2:24.0

Well, when you're flying a fighter, you're connecting your G suit to the airplane. And the airplane responds as you're pulling more Gs. And so you're one in one intertwined with the airplane.

2:37.0

And you know, pulling 9G's flying above the speed of sound. And we call, you know, some of that visual maneuvering, we call it the sport of kings.

2:46.0

It's only a very small few people who have the opportunity to compete at that level and that adrenaline, that rush, that mental physical, emotional feeling that everything that comes with it, it's all tied in at once.

3:01.0

You train hard every day, just like the professional athletes, just like Shaq walking off the court with 25,000 fans screaming for them.

3:10.0

It's the exact same experience, just you don't have the fans cheering for you.

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