Ryan Bodenheimer

They can't, the people around you don't want to think that you're seeing things while you're flying, right?

I essentially got into a mini dogfight with the UAP and I'll never forget it.

Like this.

It's moving like this.

So there's nothing aerodynamic about this thing.

It reminded me of, like, Mario Brothers.

Like, hey, go through here to go to the next level.

Like, that's what it seemed like to me.

Yeah, well, George, Jeremy, thanks for having me.

It's really, really good to be here today.

George, sounds like the Thunderbirds need to charge you a royalty for that view of their takeoffs every day, man.

That's awesome.

Yeah, so I started in the Air Force, went to pilot training in Texas, got the F-15E Strike Eagle.

uh dream jet you know twin engine uh twin cockpit jets basically you know the the top gun jet for the air force uh two people in that thing very combat capable so all the beeps and squeaks all the like different technologies that you could ever ask for they literally update that thing every month uh with the newest technologies that the air force has so dream jet

Did that for eight years or so, a little bit less than eight years.

And I ended up deploying to Afghanistan during that time, did 70 combat missions, 300 combat hours over there.

That would have been 2011 through 2012.

And then I came back and I didn't think life could get any cooler.

And I threw my name in the hat for the Thunderbirds.

And yeah, just wild, a very rare chance to get selected for that mission.