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Hello, I'm Brandon Martini, a commercial pilot and flight instructor.

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And I'm Carson Vasquez.

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I'm a private pilot.

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And you're listening to the Aviation Mentors podcast sponsored by Stratus Financial.

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So buckle up because the aviation mentors are taking off.

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Welcome back everybody to the aviation mentors podcast.

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Thanks for listening today.

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We are so sorry that we've missed out on releasing all our episodes during Oshkosh, but we have

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been absolutely slammed in the Stratis Financial booth and looking around and visiting with

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people and meeting our clients.

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And it's been a lot of fun.

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Plus we've had some storms to deal with and the kids tent is now in pieces this morning

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even.

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So it's been an interesting week, but it's been a fun one and an interesting one at that.

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And I'm excited that we're finally getting to record Carson.

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It's been a long time coming for recording.

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Every day I've been waking up excited to talk about it.

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Every day something interesting has been going on.

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Just to give you guys a rundown, Brandon's been visiting schools and getting to talk

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to everybody.

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And I've been in the booth getting to meet all of our fans and actually got my first

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picture with the fan and that was probably one of the most exciting parts so far.

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If you want a picture with me or an autograph if even.

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Right Brandon?

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Somebody actually asked for his autograph and whoever that was, thank you very much.

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He's putting it all on my face.

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Oh, it made my day.

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But we are going to have a meet and greet.

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It's going to be what the 29th?

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Yeah, it's going to be on Saturday.

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I'm hoping we get this episode out by then.

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But if not, everybody who's going to come out, thanks for coming.

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But Brandon's been walking around seeing schools and I've been in the booth every day.

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And being in the booth might sound like the less exciting part, but I've gotten to stay

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in the nice cool AC and get to talk to brand new schools and customers for Stratus and

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get to see a lot of people.

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It's been really, really fun.

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Absolutely.

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By the way, there's like a media area and a bunch of other places that Carson's been

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going to and I've been outside the whole time sweating my butt off during the day.

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And he stays in these nice air conditioned buildings and meets with schools and in luxury.

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So good for you Carson.

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It has been in luxury.

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My new rainbows haven't had too many miles on them, but Brandon's already flowing through

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a pair.

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Absolutely.

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And by the way, you guys hopefully are going to hear this airplane noise.

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There is American flag, some other type of flag that's getting towed by these parachuters.

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And there is actually an airplane doing circles around somebody in a parachute that just jumped

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out of an airplane.

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So I can't believe how terrifying that would be.

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Taking a parachute.

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There's that airplane noise for you.

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Taking that parachute all the way around.

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I mean, how would you feel if you were up there Carson?

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Yo, I would not like someone flying at me if I was jumping out of an airplane.

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Please do not fly out, fly straight at me.

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It definitely looks like something that Red Bull should be doing, but I'm surprised it's

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not Red Bull.

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So back to what we've kind of had to experience.

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When we first got here, I couldn't believe it, but our booth almost did not show up.

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So we came by and the booth was supposed to get shipped out and it was supposed to arrive

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by like Wednesday.

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And they said it was going to arrive actually by Friday, which was the last day for our

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stuff to arrive last Friday.

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And apparently at 12 noon, the guy came over here and tried to drop off all of our entire

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booth, which included all of our camping supplies for 10 people.

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And he decided he didn't want to wait 10 minutes and he took off.

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So we had to pull some magic.

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And luckily I have a very huge LinkedIn family and I messaged every single person that worked

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for that shipping company.

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And somebody reached back out to me on a Saturday morning and Carson and I took a little two

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hour detour to Milwaukee and met with you.

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You haul truck in a U-Haul truck and that luckily there were some available because

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most of the U-Haul trucks are not available at Oshkosh because everybody runs them all

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It was a fun sidetrack to the beginning of our Oshkosh adventure.

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And just like we told you guys when we're preparing for this that they do call it slosh

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cost for a reason.

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And it was raining like crazy last few days.

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We've had some crazy storms.

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Thunder and lightnings that I've never seen or heard anywhere in California at least.

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I mean the winds were 40 mile an hour gusts.

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The kids tent ended up getting flooded the other night.

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So they came and slept in the trailer.

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And then last night we had 50 mile an hour gusts, tornado warnings and all sorts of fun

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stuff and you're right.

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There's some people with slosh cost t-shirts around here by the way, because this year

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is a little wet and rainy and stormy.

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We're supposed to have another storm tonight.

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Today we're recording it's on Friday of the show.

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So I'm hoping the rain subsides a little bit.

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I need to stop stepping in all this mud.

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Yeah.

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But we earned those slosh cost t-shirts.

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We earned them for sure after this trip.

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But we've also done quite a few cool things in the last couple of days.

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We've gotten a few different parties.

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Brandon, why are you telling about this?

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Yeah, absolutely.

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We went over to the Piper Pilatus party and they had an awesome spread of food.

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They also had probably the best band I've ever heard in Oshkosh.

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They were a cover band, but they just did phenomenally well.

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We only could stay for a little bit because we had quite a few other places to meet and

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friends to go see because this is really the aviation meetup of the year.

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There's a lot of people I see here once a year and there's only so much time we get

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to spend with them.

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So I think this is my eighth or ninth Oshkosh in a row without missing, but I'm actually

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staying here the longest this year.

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So hopefully I get to see all my friends, but I know a few already came in the beginning

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of the week and have already taken off, unfortunately.

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So I haven't got to see everybody, but I sure do try.

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And Carson, how's your second Oshkosh treating you?

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Treating me really well, actually.

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It was the first one that I've worked and last year was my first time ever at Oshkosh.

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And I made a friend named Cam and last night ran into him and it was crazy.

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It was the first experience I had of seeing someone once a year at Oshkosh.

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And just Oshkosh where everyone comes together.

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It's a good community and you finally get to experience it that one time a year.

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Absolutely.

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And Carson still needs to fly into here to get the full Oshkosh experience.

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It hasn't quite happened yet.

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One day, not today, not tomorrow, but one day, Carson.

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You know what I did get to fly for the first time?

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I finally got to fly it.

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What was that, Brandon?

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C5 Galaxy.

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That's pretty cool.

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Well, if you guys just got confused there, I was not flying.

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I got to fly an icon.

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That was pretty cool, huh?

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Oh, Carson got to fly the icon.

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Luckily, Brandon has an icon and we made a phone call and Carson got to take his first

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seaplane ride and land in the water.

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How was that, Carson?

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It was an amazing experience.

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So I got to take off and I got to, you know, the first time I've ever flown a seaplane.

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So first time he did the landing and we're just sitting there on the little lake and

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he said, hey, do you want to take off?

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And so he just told me how to do it.

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And I got to take off and then we took it around the pond for a little bit and said,

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hey, you want to land this thing in water?

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I was like, I don't think I can.

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And he said, no, it's easy.

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Just like land on a runway, except it's going to splash a little bit.

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And sure enough, it was the weirdest experience flying at the water on purpose and then landing

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in it on purpose.

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Or porpoise, I guess is a good pun.

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But it was a really amazing experience getting to fly that ICON and something I've been

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looking forward to for a long time, especially since Brand's never taken me up.

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But well, unfortunately, our weight and balance is off.

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That's why we can never fly it.

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But luckily ICON's got some pretty small guys that and gals that work there.

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And he was able to go up with one of them, which was fantastic.

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So but after he went up, I got my opportunity.

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ICON is a new four bladed propeller.

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They put out a press release earlier this week.

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I think it looks terribly ugly on the airplane, and I think most people think the same thing.

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But I'll tell you this.

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It adds some performance to it.

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It gets up and goes a little faster.

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It sounds a lot, a lot quieter, which is like a big thing for me.

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So I might purchase that prop and put it on my airplane just because it's so much quieter.

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I mean, that's the biggest deal for me.

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That's not even something I thought about was how quiet that plane was.

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Absolutely.

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And then luckily, the same sales rep who sold me the plane, he and I got to fly it together.

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And I don't know if we ever actually flew together before, but he didn't care.

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You know, I'm an icon owner and I've got a ton of hours in the icon.

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So he just said, you want to take the controls?

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I said, yeah, just let me fly the plane, please.

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Because at home, the waves are normally too big and I can't go land in the water.

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But luckily, he flies around the US and he knows all the spots, especially in Southern

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California.

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He gave me three spots where I can get pretty clean water so I can go land and go putt putt

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around inside the LA basin area.

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So when I get home, I'm going to go check out those spots as soon as I get back, because

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that just sounds like a blast to me.

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And maybe it'll make me want to keep the airplane a lot longer because I can actually use it

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for what I want to use it for.

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But he let me do whatever I wanted in that airplane we were doing.

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I don't know how many splashing goes I did.

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I think I did 10 or 12.

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It was ridiculous.

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And by the way, they are called splash and go.

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It's a real term.

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I thought you were just making that up.

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No, it's a real term.

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It's called a splash and goes and there's no touching goes.

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So I got to do a bunch of splash and goes.

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I got to do a lot of step taxing and I just had a lot of fun with the airplane, which

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I haven't got to do because it was in maintenance for a while.

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And I only flew the icon like a week before we came out here.

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It's been three months, actually.

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So I was pretty excited to go fly again, even though it wasn't mine this time.

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But speaking of fun things that we got to do, we got to see the night air show.

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And that was the first time for a lot of people that came with us.

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And that was probably one of the coolest things they've ever seen.

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Definitely the coolest thing I've seen.

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I think they won't even figure with that big surprise at the end, the wall of fire, the

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wall of fire.

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Now we can we don't have to keep the surprise from everybody anymore because now you've

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all have seen it.

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At least you could have been watching the air show live on EA's website, which has been

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pretty phenomenal.

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But I have to say that is the only air show that I actually watch still.

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I'll watch.

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I'll watch some some different air shows such as the Blue Angels or the Thunderbirds, the

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Snowbirds or something like that.

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I'll watch those types of shows every once in a while just because they're so precise,

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especially the Blue Angels.

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But I don't watch normal air shows anymore.

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I've I've worked in this industry for 10 years almost now, and I've gone to a lot of air

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shows.

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So I've seen most of the acts and they're just not as interesting to me anymore.

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I'd rather go like learn how to do it myself.

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Right.

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There's something about the night air show when you see airplanes with fireworks flying

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off of them and then airplanes flying through fireworks, that just seems very unnatural.

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So that's why I like it so much.

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It's all pitch black.

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And like, that's just not something you would imagine someone doing at night is flying and

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shooting fireworks off just pitch black dark.

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Definitely not.

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I mean, they obviously they can see the ground.

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There's a lot of lights coming around on the ground, but it's a pretty, pretty dark place.

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And then they have smoke on sometimes and sometimes it's hazy and it's probably a very

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difficult thing to do.

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But the best part about that night air show, in my opinion, is EA's firework display.

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They are literally world class.

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I think the firework display is way better than even Fourth of July displays back home.

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Now, granted, I live in California.

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Our displays aren't that great anyways.

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But the fireworks play here is just world class.

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Phenomenal.

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They've got a great finale to it.

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They had three walls of fire.

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Normally, they just have one wall fire at the total end.

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They had three walls of fire.

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And one of them, I think, didn't go off in time, but they still they still lit it off

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like 10 minutes after the show.

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And everyone's like, oh, no, I can't believe how surprised I was.

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And it's this weird thing, which is getting a whole bunch of heat from across the runway.

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You would never believe that balls of fire from, I don't know, under my words.

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Yeah, at least at least maybe a mile away could feel that hot.

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So I can just imagine how hot it was for the people semi close to it.

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They were lighting them off.

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I mean, it was brutal.

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That is my favorite part of us.

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Oh, I've got a lot of favorite parts of Oshkosh.

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But for air shows, air show side, the night air show is the one thing I never miss.

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And this is my first year actually staying for the entire show.

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I normally leave on Thursday or Friday, either usually because of storms or I want to get

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back to get to work, usually on Sunday or Monday or something like that.

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Or my son needs to be somewhere on the beginning of the next week.

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So I've never actually stayed all the way to the end.

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And this time we're staying all the way to the end.

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It's midday Friday, like we said, and there's another night air show on Saturday night.

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And I am looking so forward to it.

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We get to go hang out with all of our best friends again and and watch those fireworks.

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I can't wait.

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We can see it from a pretty cool place this time, right?

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We're not just walking up to the runway.

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Exactly.

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Oh, by the way, you know where Carson found the perfect spot for us?

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And then he texted me and said, will this spot work for you, Brandon?

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He got he got a spot right next to an albatross.

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I was like, this is a very nice spot.

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So I've got like pictures of fireworks going off behind an albatross, which hopefully we'll

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get some of those posted.

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I think there I don't think it has the albatross and I think it has like a beach beach 18 or

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or something.

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But Stratus Financial actually posts on the Facebook page one of the videos that I took

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of the fireworks and part of the explosion.

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So if you want to see that, you can watch that video on I think it's on our Facebook

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or Stratus's Facebook, Stratus's LinkedIn and a few other things, too.

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So and I'll actually I'll post those in a little bit so everybody will be able to see

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them.

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So by the time this goes live, you'll be able to see some of those videos.

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They were just phenomenal.

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We had a blast.

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Yeah, no pun intended on the blast part either.

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But that was one of the coolest displays that you're ever going to see.

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I'm just too quick with the puns, Brandon.

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That's fine.

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You're a punny guy.

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I am.

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Thank you very much.

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Well, thanks, everyone, for listening today.

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We will have a few more episodes that are going to come in quick succession probably

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next week.

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So after after this one, we're going to be talking to some different aircraft manufacturers.

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We're going to go up and talk to some of Stratus partner schools.

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And we're really going to show you guys what Oshkosh is about over the next couple of days.

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We finally have most of the week behind us.

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Most of the hard work has been done.

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So now we can relax and have a little bit of fun and record some some awesome episodes

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for all of you all.

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So hopefully see you soon and come on by and visit us.

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Thanks, guys.

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We'll see you later.

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And remember, if you want to reach out to us, you can find us at Carson at AviationMentors.com

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or Brandon and AviationMentors.com.

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