Flying Sparks Garage InTheHangar Ep20

The best thing about Oshkosh is hanging out with your pilot friends really looking at airplanes that you maybe dream of owning someday and just visiting Wow, so that's our conclusion: it's the show. It's awesome and cool, but actually it's maybe the other people, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. I think the show is really cool and attracts people who aren't aviators, but once you've been there a few times, the most interesting thing is meeting those friends every year and hanging out together and talking about airplanes and there are miles of airplanes. , so you can walk up and down the streets and there are people who have their tent set up under the wing of their plane and there We know how to camp and it's the sweetest thing to connect with people and hear their stories.

We met a handful of people, including people who had followed us in our car, who we were excited to meet, and who had also flown in. on a plane, a lot of fans, yes, on the coral and that was really surprising and now I have become friends, of course, because not only cars bring you together, but also planes. It's amazing to me how these two industries intersect, yes, aviation. wonderful, okay, now that they are on TV, they have a very popular YouTube channel for fans to get to know them. Yes, you know you're very transparent, but what's something that maybe your fans would be surprised to know about you?

Well, if you have something on your mind, so I'll touch on two things, okay, one thing I'm sure you don't know is that I actually started a YouTube channel at home and 15 years ago, probably long before Emily I got into these things and I was doing diesel conversions on jeeps and that didn't last long. I didn't stay there and you still find it. I don't know if you can or not, you see subscribers and end up 37 yes, if it can be found. I'll be sure it will happen tomorrow, that's one thing and then you know I was a musician too.

I've been traveling and playing music for nine years. I was actually in a Christian rock band. Oh, I had a great time with that was the bassist because I've done. that to change keyboards in cities, the church is about 10 years behind, no, my mom was a beautiful employee, not just in the back like Emily's, she basically takes Emily's hair and puts it on exactly right. I didn't think about that, yes, mine was already fine. I need to put up a picture of Emily, okay, your fans don't know that well, so I mentioned this before on a YouTube episode we did, but it's not something I talk about often, but it's really something that's been done to me by whoever. am. today I left school in third grade, yes, so my parents were quite hippies and when my mom, especially when she sent my sister and me to public school, she was the opposite of the moms who said to get these things out of our house, You know?

She was very sad about it and she got a job in the school library to be close to us and I vividly remember going and asking the teacher if I could go to the bathroom, you know, go to the bathroom, but stopping and giving her a hug. to my mom and I would get in trouble and she would get in trouble and it was just a weird dynamic of we don't belong here, they don't understand us, you know? So after the Christmas holidays, my mom was like, "We're not going." So we homeschooled and that was something absolutely amazing to me because she and dad really focused on the person behind the knowledge, so it wasn't so much, but the book notes didn't, they didn't focus on the intelligence of the books to pass the exams. and being at a certain grade level, they focused on the ability to ask questions and find something you're passionate about and find a mentor and follow through with what motivates you, don't worry so much about just knowing what you are.

I'm going to forget that I saw so many friends in school who would just prepare for exams and remember things just to get through a class and then forget it because it didn't have any real-world application, so I didn't learn much. In those things I didn't learn a lot of history and a lot of algebra, but on the other hand, when I met Aaron, he was in the shop building engines and when I was fifteen years old I built my first engine and that was huge for me, I didn't know anyone. no girl building engines and that's where real world science became real to me so I learned in a really alternative way and it was really amazing and I still use that underlying.

The core of a foundation that I learned from not having a traditional education was more about the soul and spirit of the person, not necessarily putting information into their head that they're not going to use, you know, that's a pretty big thing that I don't do. . I don't talk much but it's something that is very near and dear to my heart and I use it every day that's amazing yeah I really appreciate you coming on the show and what we really have to do is fly to the 210 and it needs Yes, especially if you are doing a lot of cross country.

I know that, sir, you will be able to spell well. I mean, I take the controls from time to time, when we're straight and level and he can, you know, have a sit down and come back, I love it, I love it, so I'll do it, so we'll go to the 210 at some point, let's go super cool, that would be amazing, so thank you all for watching and if you get a chance, go see Erin. and Emily's channel is Flying Sparks Garage. We also have a link posted in our description and also check out her new show on Motor Trend Live Ranch, so share and subscribe to this channel and we'll see you next time. in the hangar you