Shawn Ryan

Like, you bring, like, Krispy Kreme donuts to the FAA.

It's perishable, you know.

And you start making friends.

And then you see all these people who are, you know, building kit planes.

And then you're like, damn, it's hard to get into school these days.

Like, can you do some sort of trick to get into either, like, there's, like, selective high school, IMSA, where I went, or MIT.

And...

Yeah.

And then I always just trusted my, like, I thought my dad knew everything because he was really like kind of a jack of all trades fixing things around the house.

So when he is like over my shoulder or like teaching me how to do some things and I'm just going and riveting things together, I'm like, this is great.

I know if he says it's fine, it's fine.

Like, and it was cool because basically before the, it turned into this set of mentors suggesting, oh, you could do this thing, like whatever.

It was just that much effort put into like school projects.

So I had like, like, I think whenever like people were like first burning DVDs, we'd have like a room in our house.

So one of the bedrooms, they painted chroma key blue that I would go and like reenact little scenes from my history projects.

And like,

No kidding.

We filmed and put inside some Doctor Who episode or something like that.

So we basically were just trying to do an A-plus star on every little school project, which is a bit of a waste of time, but just a funny little effort.

And then to translate that into something where then the narrative was like, okay, you're going to take flight lessons.