Top Gun made me join the navy (Ft. Eric Ballew)

I feel the need. The need for a podcast about Top Gun! Navy vet and fellow Production Sound Mixer Eric Ballew joins us to talk about Top Gun's influence on his own enlistment, as well as the honor of mixing parts of Top Gun: Maverick. Is Top Gun just a ski school for adrenaline junkies? What does it take to capture sound in a moving plane? And, why does the Navy fly planes, anyway? Find out on a all-new hypersonic Is This Still Good?!

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