The Tomorrow War A Talk With Major Josh "Cabo" Gunderson

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how are you today sir i'm doing really well how about yourself i'm doing great thanks i'm allison with FlickDirect um and we are here to talk about the tomorrow war which i just saw yesterday have you seen it i have not seen the movie in its entirety i've seen the uh like the scenes where they have that 22 which were incredible and the work the production crew did was awesome but i haven't seen it entirely yet in its entirety yet so we're looking forward to staying with the team oh that'll be nice i'm sure um did you have to do anything differently or how did you switch things around from what you would normally do for filming we use pretty much everything we we do in the demonstration so we travel the team as a total of 14 people and we travel every year to about 25 locations doing air shows so we took a lot of the same stuff we do in air shows and just either did it did it in small segments or repeated the same maneuver over and over again so they could catch the shot they were looking for uh but overall it was you know nothing that we nothing different than we normally execute it just was you know tailored to what they were looking for for the shots and for the the shots inside the cockpit which i know is you know normally not allowed um did you feel uncomfortable with that at all were you okay with it did they tell you you can do this you can't do this no it was it's totally fine so this is the first time that we've ever uh released gopro footage from inside the f22 for for a hollywood film but we we still release the footage uh we've been doing it for the past two years or so with uh gopro cameras and we release it on our you know instagram facebook twitter uh youtube channels for the f22 demo team and uh so people people have seen that but it's never been you know seen on so large scale like it would be in a hollywood movie so that's really cool we have a lot of procedures in place in terms of where we mount the camera the angles and all that stuff so we just kind of stuck to our procedures that we use uh to ensure the safety of the aircraft and security of the aircraft uh without sacrificing you know the movie and trying to get them as much content as possible since you talked about you know filming over and over and over again how long was this process was it a few hours was it a day was it multiple days yeah it took about two days so we spent uh we spent one day shooting all the ground stuff and and we were there for an air show as well so it wasn't like we're just there to do this specifically so we had a lot of other things we're doing uh at the same time we probably spent about 10 to 12 hours uh on one day doing ground stuff so taxiing around having a team of our you know amazing maintainers launching us out and doing like you know basically simulating like they'd be launching a staff for a combat mission um so we spent a day doing that and then we also spent a day of an afternoon essentially just flying uh up and down the beach and getting the shots they wanted which is really cool very nice yeah there were some fantastic shots i have to say so it was really impressive uh for you and all your experiences not just this one what has been your favorite and what has been the most terrifying experiences in internet in the air force or flying or am i okay any all whatever you want to talk about yeah i would say the you know probably the most uh rewarding or the most uh memorable event for me flying airplanes was just you know any any chance i can i can get to a place where my family can see me fly so um we were in our show in lakeland florida this past year and a lot of my family had never seen me fly so i was able to bring him out to the show and it was the first time you know it's just it's funny because they think it's a joke you know like oh you fly his airplane tree dude you know actually got to see me fly um so any anytime they can see me flying i can show them what i do for a living is really cool like we talked about with the cameras it's hard to show everything that i do for a living because of security reasons and all those things so when they can see you know a little piece of what i do for a living it's cool and they enjoy it it's a lot of fun so getting to share that with them is really cool um and i'd say probably the most terrifying was uh you know like any any catastrophic you know airplane malfunction obviously is not great so i've had i've had a couple of those and uh the good thing is you have amazing training and um and the instructors that teach you as you grow up and learn the aircraft you rely upon that training and that experience and gets you through those scenarios but uh you know people always ask they hey do the airplanes break like yeah they break you know they're you know you're you're tired of camry versus your f1 race car completely different machines this this airplane is kind of like your f1 race car where it's incredibly high performance but it's it's obviously we're pushing it to the limits all the time and is this your favorite aircraft to fly i think in terms of military aircraft it is um i started flying f-15 it's my terms of fighting aircraft first and then i went to the f-22 back in 2014 and the reason i like this airplane so much is that this is the airplane i deployed to the middle east and actually employed uh you know spent a lot of time doing combat sorties and supporting our you know fellow americans and fellow you know uh partner nations on the ground so that to me is always going to be a time that i look at and look back upon fondly because it was very impactful for me as a person and also had an impact a profound impact on you know on the people on the ground as well so very thankful for that and for that reason i think this airplane will always have kind of a place in my heart for you know probably the best airplane that i've flown so when you were back in the air force academy you know in a cadet did you ever think you would become a movie star i i mean i don't i don't think i'm a movie star honestly you know i think that uh i kind of look at it as the you know the team uh the team is what makes this whole thing happen so we had some some shots of the ground crew launching us out and those are the same people we travel with so i couldn't do any of this stuff that i do without them they're incredible humans and i guess i get the privilege of traveling with them uh throughout the years uh to air shows it's awesome and um you know i think just the seams of the movie are a direct reflection of of the teamwork that goes into putting these airplanes in the sky so me flying is a direct result of them working on the airplanes and yeah i get to fly them it's it's a really cool glitzy aspect of it uh but it's just a representation of the hard work they put in have any of them like jokingly ripped you a little bit about you know your your movie star your movie uh role here uh some of the people that i call friends i guess give me a hard time but it's to be expected you know that's what happened if they don't give me a hard time they're not real friends right exactly that's what i tell people all the time if i didn't like you i wouldn't make fun of you anyway um i enjoyed the movie quite a bit and i loved the scenes um both in the cockpit and what we were able to see with your your stunt work and everything so thank you so much thank you for your service your continued service and i hope you get to see the movie soon because it was enjoyable awesome thanks so much i appreciate it thank you for your time take care bye [Music] you