October 3, 2025 • 32 mins
Gary and Shannon talk wih the Pacific Air Show Director Kevin Elliott and 15 year old Australian pilot Byron Waller who has been flying around Australia to raise awareness for Crohn's Disease.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
A little hint behind the scenes, all I did was
I told Elmer to look up air show music.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Yeah, to play it really loud. Right.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
We are live today at Huntington Beach for this weekend's
Pacific Air Show, which kicks off gosh, just about thirty
minutes from now.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
As a matter of fact.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Well, this is a government shutdown situation this weekend, but
don't worry about it is still going to be a
massive show here at the Pacific Air Show. It is
the ninth year here in Huntington Beach, and you're gonna
have the Canadian Force of Snowbirds. You're gonna have the
Royal Air Force Falcons. You're gonna have the Red Bull
bo one oh five, you are going to have Tory
(00:47):
Ward It we just talked to flying the subsonic microjet.
No shortage of things to see here. Kevin joins us now,
Kevin Elliott. He runs this whole show, and it's nice
to see you again. I feel like we're old for we.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Are at this point, I mean, ninth year together.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I know we are you coming for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 4 (01:05):
I definitely am for sure.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
No, thank you guys for being here and thanks for
being such great supporters. It's a beautiful day, nice to
see the sun, and you know it's going to be
an amazing year. We've got i mean, thousands and thousands
of school aged kids here coming for free for our
first students with Altitude Day.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
We're just so excited.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I was just gonna say, this is an amazing I
made the comment during the news break there that I
didn't ever go to an air show for a field
trip at elementary school, right, What a great, great opportunity
for these kids.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
So, I mean I grew up obviously in Huntington Beach
here and going to Boeing and the sky where they
built the sky Lab right up in Huntington Street for
field trips.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
But there was nothing like this when I was a kid.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
So, you know, our team really wanted to extend the goodwill,
you know, and get the enthusiasm going, get these kids
inspired about you know, potential future and careers and in
aviation and all the related careers the science, technology, engineering math.
So this area that you're sitting in, we're calling the
next gen stem lab and essentially this will be built
out over the next coming years with brands that want
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to showcase all kinds of technology, and it's.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Gonna be great. It's really this case, this cart that's
going by here full of yes.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
So you put us with all the children. That was
an error. You don't make a lot of them, but
that was an error. What are you most excited to
see today, Kevin.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Well, you know it's We've honestly got an amazing lineup.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
I know, obviously the big topic of the hour is
the unfortunate government shutdown, but you know, Pacific Air Show
just has such an abundance of assets. Anyway, I remember
a couple of years ago we were broadcasting down here
at Peer Plaza and we could barely speak because of
the loud jets. So this will be good for you
guys because people will be able to hear.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
But we're I'm most looking.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Forward to the RAF Falcons all the way from the UK,
I mean the most, the most incredible parachute team in
the world. We've got a B twenty nine, the DOC,
which is the one of only two flying B twenty
nine s in the world. Obviously, the Canadian Forces, Snowbirds
are headlining. We've but we've just got a really cool collection.
(03:01):
And I will say that we put the kind of
the word out to some of our local friends that
ordinarily maybe I wouldn't say don't make the cut because
they're great, but you know, we just have so much
stuff that we can't do an eight hour air show, right,
And so we said, hey, this might be your year.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
You want to come down.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
They're like, yeah, we had guys yesterday fly down all
the way from Washington just.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
To be able to participate in the show today.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
So it's going to be a great, great weekend, and
it was a great camaraderie.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
In the pilot brief this.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Morning, I was just saying, I was just looking through
the rundown for the show today, and even with the
government shutdown that we were talking about in the American
military assets, I can't make it. That's still a massive,
massive show that is planned today.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
I mean, our air boss kept saying like, this is
better than ninety five percent of the shows out there.
I said, I know, but the people have come to
expect a certain standard from Pacific Air Show, which is
to be the best in the country.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
And I have to say.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
I mean, unfortunately, in spite of it all, we still
will be the best in the country, particularly this weekend,
so you know, and we have I think inside of
our paid area we have nearly twenty thousand gets out
on a Friday. It's absolutely going to be a gangbuster weekend.
And I think I also you know, some people said,
if you're booking a ticket strictly to see the Thunderbirds,
you know, maybe we have a difference of opinion. Of course,
(04:11):
I'm disappointed they're not here, but Pacific Air Show is
about the whole of the experience and it's really a
metaphor for spending time with family and just having a
great data and.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
It'll make the Thunderbirds out much more special next year.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
And by the way, the Thunderbirds will still be here,
you just won't be able to tell who they are
because they'll be in board shorts and T shirts.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
That's a good point.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
So yeah, they all informed me that, they said, hey,
we really wish we could be there, but we're still
going to be there. Just so you know, that's bringing
their families down. So if we were hanging out, for example,
you know, everybody says you got to get the F
twenty two, you got to get the F twenty two.
And it's like, well, you know, if I ruled the world,
we'd have the F twenty two every year. But both,
you know, the F twenty two former and current F
twenty two demopilot are here on site, you know, both
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hanging out because this is where they want to be
in spite of the fact that whether or not they're
allowed to perform or not.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
And it's funny. I mean, there are some of these
older military airplanes. We were talking about, the B twent
you're talking about the B seventeen, the T six, all
of these there are privately owned old military aircraft that
are going to be involved in the show. There aren't
a lot of used F twenty twos that are out
there on the open market for people to just pick
up and buy and.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Exactly now, there are some pretty impressive jets out there,
and obviously, you know, those are fewer and far between
because they cost a lot of money to operate and maintain.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
But we reached out to a few.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Friends at pretty high level, and you know, unfortunately none
of those guys were necessarily able to come. But to
your point, yes, we have the Line Air Museum, whi's
a great partner of ours that are based over here
at Orange County. They've got a tremendous collection of airplanes
and they're throwing.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
The book at it.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
They also play host to all of our civilian performers,
so we're definitely not at a loss for things to see.
Emma McDonald all the way from Australia, she flew all
the way over here. It was actually kind of cool
because as she flew over, by the time she got
here she was already inverted and so that worked out
so she was she came ready to go.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
How much sleep have you had in the past week.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
I've done reasonably well.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
It'd say most of my lack of sleep is probably
caused by my my children.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
You know that I got my son two and.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
A half jets jet is your son's day stopping? So cool?
I would love to have jet on. Is he going
to be here today?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Oh, he's here somewhere.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
You got to throw them on.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
And then my daughter she's eighteen months and her name's Goldie,
and so maybe we'll wait a year for Goldie.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Yeah, yeah, we got Well, she's pretty.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Did your wife pick out those amazing names.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Yeah, I think we kind of did it.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Goldie just sort of happened, you know, so maybe this
is Tami, but we we you know, Jet, we had
to do IVF and then Goldie would just have wow
naturally and so but it happened on the Gold Coast
during the Gold Coast Airshow.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
So, my gosh, that so cool because.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
So you can tell your audience. Your audience can appreciate
a good joke. So so when she was born, I
sent the picture to our friends in Australia. Well, one
of our friends is our pr person there, and so
she decided to send the picture of my wife holding
the baby to the news. And so the news says
specific air Shows director Kevin Elliott welcomes a new baby girl.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Her name is Goldie, named after the Gold Coast where
she was concealed during the last year's air show.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
And she goes, she joins her brother Jet, you wouldn't
want to know where.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
He was concerned.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
So I show I showed this to my wife and
she's like, are you kidding me right now?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
D list celebrities in Australia. That is so funny, Oh
my gosh. And how many people tried to make babies
at the air show.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Yeah, exactly. It's like a new thing.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
So now everybody is, you know, coming up with names
from my children, you know, so it'll be pretty good.
So maybe you know, I think Gary and Shannon, depending
on if it's a boy or a girl.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Shut the door on that.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
You did the whole name. You can just mash them together.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Yeah, the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Pacific air Show USA dot com is where people can
find information including tickets, et cetera for the rest of
the weekend going on. And I just last month, the
beginning of last month, the city said, hey, keep coming,
tell us about the plans for the future.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Absolutely, So the city of Huntington Beach has been great.
I mean they recognize what this means. It generates a
tremendous amount of economic benefit to Southern California. I mean, frankly,
it's not just Huntington Beach. It's Low Salamidos and Coasta
Mesa and Santa Ana and Fountain Valley and all of
the surrounding cities. You know, they all come to play,
and we were putting up pilots throughout southern California. The
overall economic benefit to this region is an excess of
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one hundred and twenty million dollars in overall economic benefit
with over seventy million dollars in direct spend into the economy.
So you contrast that to like the US Open or
the NCAA Final Four or the World Series of Baseball.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
We're right up there.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
And the beautiful thing is is that a lot of
those cities host those events what once a decade. They're
lucky where Huntington Beach in southern California gets to host
this amazing event every single year and we love the
fact that it's so family friendly.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
What other event is so family friendly?
Speaker 5 (08:46):
So yeah, the city of Huntington Beach said, we want
you to come back, and we want you to be.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Here for the foreseeable future.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
So we signed a twenty five year deal its initial
ten year term with multiple five year options to extend.
So that's great because, as you guys know, having been
here for nine years now, we have some stability, some predictability,
and we can go and build this event long term.
And then you know our five year permit with the
California Coastal Commission, which is you know a lot of
work behind the scenes to make sure that everybody's happy
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with what we're doing, and we have a great relationship.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
With them too, So sky's the limit.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Very cool, Such a pleasure, Kevin, always nice to catch
up with you and graduations A beautiful baby.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Yes, thanks for making the weather work.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Yeah, well we ordered it up last year. Yeah, we
just said if possible.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Yeah, thank god it's me Kevin.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Rolled the dice and it worked out this.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
I know it's going to be great. I think tomorrow
we'll have a little bit of an offshore flow.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
We get the weather, you know, in the morning when
we do the pilots briefing, we get the Weather Service,
the National Weather Service person that usually comes in and
gives the briefing. So it's actually kind of a funny
moment because they're like, we know, where's my Weather Service
person that they come down and everybody's like giving them
the stink eye, you know, like, okay, you better say
something good, right and then today gave a good weather
bring and everyone's like, but then if they give a
(09:56):
bad weather brief literally Wayne bogs Are, us will look
at him and go, well, you might as well not
even shown up.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Yeah, thanks a lot, Yeah, what's your problem?
Speaker 4 (10:06):
So at least we have somebody to blame.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Kevin Elliott, Director of Pacific Air Show, thanks for stopping
by again.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Thank you guys.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Right, Gary Shannon, we're live today in Huntingson Beach for
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Speaker 7 (11:12):
I went to air traffic control school, which includes pilot
ground school.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
It didn't work out. Evidently I'm colored wine.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
But I just got to say, in my learned opinion,
you are definitely a fighter jet pilot.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Oh, thank you for that. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I'm not I'm sorry. Based on what is learned opinion?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Based on looks?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Is this when you look at somebody and you go,
that's a receiver, or that's a cornerback, or that's a linebacker.
Is that what it is?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Or you guess that guy's wait today like a Carnival Barker.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yeah, I did feel a little bit like I put
him in the circus.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
This is Jim.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
I dim your show. I love you as much as
I can. And Gary has been by the office. Great guy.
I always loved Shannon's personality, but when she mentioned the
Chicago twenty eleven, I fell in love all over and.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Enjoyed the show.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
I didn't know you were in the market.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
But well, I mean, I'm an admirer. I don't know
what I would know what I'm doing with a Chicago
twenty eleven.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I accept that I like that, you're an admirerment and
you know your own limits.
Speaker 8 (12:17):
I do.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
It's like the way you admire fighter.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Jets interesting because I've been in one. That does not
make you. Yes, yes, I did have my my hand
on the.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
On the control stick, on the yoke.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
But if they joke wasn't completely yours, was it was?
Speaker 3 (12:40):
He showed a borrowed yoke.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Oh yes, I'm not saying. And I didn't take off,
nor did.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I land feel dirty saying that.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
But I also didn't throw up, right, I consider that
if you threw up, we were.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Gonna have to have like maybe a talk, you know
what I mean?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Remember where you were?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
So it was to fill everybody in a few years ago,
I actually flew with the Air Force Thunderbirds the day
of the first day of the show, which was Friday.
So Friday morning, I drove out to losal with the
producer Nick at the time and boarded one of the
F sixteens and flew in the back seat with their
their only tandem airplane.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
And to understand the true glory of the story, talk
about what your father in law well did so.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
My wife's father was a naval aviator and flew for
the Blue Angels for two years, right, so for me
to fly.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
I had applied to fly with the Blue Angels the
year before and they were like, we don't want you,
and they said no.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Now, I don't know if he had any pull in
that course, if they had asked him for a recommendation
and he said probably not a great.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Idea, trash to the thunderbirds.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
But I did fly with the Thunderbirds and it was amazing.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
We flew out way out over the desert, taken off
from Los ala and just headed north. But before we
landed back at Los Alamados, we flew right across here,
right in front of it, everybody along the beach, and
it was we're sitting here so I mean even right now,
we can see a couple thousand people right that are
already sitting on the beach.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
From that perspective, you see a million.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
People, I mean you from all the way up the
very tip of the beach to the north of us,
all the way down south.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yeah, it was what a great experience.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
It was pretty amazing.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
That's wonderful. I want to give a shout out to
Habit who is here.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
We I didn't know I was that hungry, not know I.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Was that hungry, but the Habit Burger does that. We
smelled it. It was here, and you and I acted
like we haven't seen food in about six to eight years.
We ate those burgers so quickly. It was I'd say
it was embarrassing, but I think it was American. It
was the American thing to do to see a Habit
Burger and devour it within four to six seconds.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
I'm not I'm not ashamed of it.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I'm not you know, I'm not even I kind of
stand up, I stand by.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
It's actually it is a little probably disconcerting for anybody
who walks by in front of us.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
It was.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
It was definitely not good for any passer by to
see feed time. It was like watching a cattle. Uh
what a cattle eat? Hey? Yes, okay, it was like that.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
We're just chewing side.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
It was like two pigs at the trough. But we
don't know these people.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Well, nobody slowed down, which is probably best because if
they had slowed down, they would see how Actually, yeah, we're.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Gross, But thank you to the Habit appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
When we come back. More from Pacific Air Show. We're
live today in Huntington Beach.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Live in Huntington Beach for the Pacific Air Showed the
ninth year, and they will be here for quite some time.
As we mentioned, signed a big contray with the city
and festivities are just getting kicked off. We've had the
national anthem. We've got the La County Orange County fireboat
out here and the hoses, the hoses are in full
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blast mode, a lot of hoses off that boat. They
are putting on quite the display of water into the air.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
What do you want me to say, I don't know,
but I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
I mean, that's what's happening. It's a firefighting boat and
fighting the water with water. It is impressive. It's very impressive.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
We don't get to see that every day.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Again, we're live on the beach here because in a
few moments we're going to start seeing some of the
participants take to the skies in what has turned out
to be an absolutely beautiful day here at the beach,
just a few clouds in the sky. Last year was
really tough to see anything because the cloud cover stayed
for most of the day.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
But today's going to be a pretty great show.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Byron Waller joined us. He is a pilot here today
and here's a surprise Byron is fifteen. Welcome. Nice to
be cha. Oh, let's get this on here. There you go.
Now you're Ron, Yeah you do.
Speaker 9 (17:11):
It's good to me.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
So tell me where you're from. Tell me your story.
Speaker 10 (17:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
So I'm from Brisbane, Australia and my story is basically
from being in a hospital bed to being able to
show kids that they can achieve their dreams and flying
around the world is what I'm currently doing at the moment.
So currently flying around the world showing kids that they
can achieve their dreams and no matter how toy their
dreams are.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Oh, hospital bed, when did Yeah, let's start with that.
What's going on with the hospital bed?
Speaker 8 (17:36):
So from about three weeks old to fourteen years old,
I was in and out of hospital quite frequently. So
then I had to find a way to make it
and take the good out of that and show other
people that they can achieve their dreams and show them
that there's nothing that can limit them from what they
want to do.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Really, when did you find that you loved planes? All
things planes?
Speaker 8 (17:56):
Probably when I was really young, I first went up
in the with Scoutsustralia, went up in the back of
a Cessna one seven two, did a we went up
and then did a discovery kind of like a flight
where we went up in the back of a plane
and then we went around local Brisbane areas from Road
Cliff and then from there I discovered that might be
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so then a couple of years later with my school
we went to the raft based Emblo Rual Australian Air
Force BACE and we went in the back of a
C seventeen, which is the Globemaster.
Speaker 9 (18:30):
That was pretty fun.
Speaker 8 (18:31):
Yeah, they're huge, honestly, and then that was kind of
the start of it where just inflicted that passion on me.
Since then, really, yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Do you think of it as a Do you think
of it as like a freedom liberty?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
I mean, you get the chance to kind of go
wherever you want.
Speaker 8 (18:49):
To go exactly every since you Once you shut the
door of the plane or the kindopy or whatever you shut,
it's just freedom. Like the whole outside world is gone.
It's just what's in the cockpit and what you see
because you can't hear anything down on the ground when
you're in the eggs.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
So yeah, I would imagine that being in the hospital
for so much of your life, it's kind of like
you feel almost powerless. And then when you're a pilot,
like you have all the power. It's a way of
kind of like taking back your power.
Speaker 9 (19:18):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
It gives you a sense of being able to control something,
especially when you're stuck in such uncontrollable situation. It gives
you a sense of control.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Really.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Yeah, that's very cool.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Talk about the diagnosis that you finally got. You finally
were told that you have Crohn's disease.
Speaker 8 (19:36):
So yeah, the final diagnosis was Crone's disease, and it
is all under like full management at the moment, So
that was what ended up being finally trying of diagnosed
at the end of your.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Mom's here, Jinny, And what's that is that? On? Uh?
Speaker 4 (19:51):
That on?
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (19:52):
What's it like seeing him with his.
Speaker 10 (19:54):
Dream It's quite extraordinary. Like when he was just talking then,
I was getting a bit emotional because I picture what
he's talking about, him quite limp, lifeless and powerless, and the.
Speaker 9 (20:08):
Complete opposite is happening.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Now.
Speaker 10 (20:09):
He's energized, he's in remission, he's lifting above anything. That
medically was thrown at him and probably, you know, just
a few flying lessons might have been extraordinary on its own.
But then he flew around Australia to give back to
the hospital last year at fourteen years old. That took
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him three weeks. And then this year he's and I
can't even believe I'm saying this, My son is flying
around the.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
World, the world, the entire world.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Yeah, it's just amazing.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
We'll explain that process. How do you plan this, who's
going with you? What does it look like each day?
Speaker 9 (20:47):
So like the planning is a lot of work.
Speaker 8 (20:50):
It's the last I think about twelve months we've been
flat out planning for this troop, making it all happen,
just sorting out everything from the visas to the over
flight permitits everything, just making sure the trip flows smoothly,
getting the aircraft right.
Speaker 9 (21:06):
So we found a sling.
Speaker 8 (21:07):
When we're at Avlon Air Show, a few people recommended
a sling sling for the trip, so then we didn't
know what is the sling. So then we went to
the sling tent at Avalon Air Show and then we
discovered the sling tear size. So we had a chat
with them, and then we decided on to use a
sling tear side for the trip and that kind of
got the trip together and then we from there we
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kept doing more and more stuff and then it kind
of formed into one trip and then on the day
of the takeoff, we're like, feels like something's missing because
there's so much stuff that you put in there.
Speaker 9 (21:38):
And then it's so calm in the last week.
Speaker 8 (21:41):
Yeah, so it was it was a relief to get
to little last week of it though, where everything was
just coming along together really well.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Yeah, a thousand nautical miles, it says, is it's max range,
So there's some math that has to go into I
mean there's spots I'm sure along that trip that are
a lot. I mean that would stretch that. So do
you get nerve it all about that or.
Speaker 9 (22:01):
Well, we do get nervous.
Speaker 8 (22:02):
But the thing is we've also got an extended range
field tank in the back. So we've got a bladder
bladder tank, which is just an expendable tank we put
in the back seats instead of the back seats, and
then that just expands and we can get about another seventy.
Speaker 9 (22:16):
Something gallons of fuel.
Speaker 8 (22:18):
I don't know, I don't know how many gallons it is,
I know the leaders and stuff, but yeah, it's about
seventy gallons of fuel.
Speaker 9 (22:24):
And then that just gives us that extra extra.
Speaker 8 (22:26):
Range so we can get from Monterey to Hawaii in
one one run.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
So that's ideal. Not a lot of places to stop.
Speaker 8 (22:35):
No, all, you've got that cruise ship down there, that
cruise ship there.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Right, yeah, yeah, exactly. Have there been any highlight? What
have been your highlights so far? Places or people or.
Speaker 8 (22:47):
I think the highlight has been meeting people from different
cultures and communities, like Sri Lanka, India, just meeting all
those different people who are there and just seeing their
culture and how different it is, but also how unique
it is, Like through the Middle East, through Asia, through
Sri Lanka. It was just amazing to see how people
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you go there and then they treat you like family.
Just anywhere in the world you go, they've got their
own ways of treating you, and like it's just the
culture is so deep in those places. And then also
just like going through like the beautiful, stunning scenery everywhere,
like there's something different everywhere because a lot of people
always like stay in their one area, but once you
sort of leave that area, there's something different and basically everywhere,
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like every country nowhere is the same.
Speaker 9 (23:34):
Honestly, Yeah, that's so cool.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Do you get bored?
Speaker 6 (23:36):
No?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Do you get to meet kids that are your same
age that are amazed by what you're doing.
Speaker 9 (23:40):
Yeah, I've met a few people who are pretty amazed.
Speaker 8 (23:42):
And I've also met some people who are able to
do something out of this and hearing my story and
decided to take up their own feet in their own
way and just show them that they are not limited
to what their illness is and that they can do
whatever they want, no matter how big their dream is.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Emma Irma.
Speaker 10 (24:05):
He met Irma, this lady who's losing her lung capacity,
and she found out about Byron. So she got in
her car and she drove four hours to meet him.
As as he landed in the Grand Canyon, Wow and back.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
And this lady, she.
Speaker 10 (24:21):
Hasn't been out of her environment for a very long time,
and she's just inspired that she did that, and that
on its own has made this.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
World trip worth It's changing, I mean, And that's one
life that you've changed. So many more you haven't even
heard about.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
You can follow Byron's trip, by the way on Instagram
teen pilot down Under with all of it. I mean
there's a whole section just on the airplane itself, but
all the different trips and places that you've been. So
it's very inspiring. Thanks for coming by today.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Thanks to meet you.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
To Thanks for having this your first doll whip or
is this something you've had before?
Speaker 9 (24:54):
It is beautiful.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
We love it.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
We'll enjoy it, Jenny, thank you for coming by again.
Gary and Shannon, we're live today in Huntington Beach for
a Pacific air show.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
We will continue from the beach here in just a moment.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
A six.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
There's like a bunch of food trucks and stuff over
to our right. To our left is like the sweets.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
We're like at reserve level at Dodger Stadium with war
with all the people, but a great view. Yeah, you know,
you're getting the real experience of the air show already.
It's begun.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
The rare chance at a foul ball, but there's a chance. Okay,
I'm just.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Saying, yeah, yeah, I don't want a foul ball here today,
Probably not. I like the precision movements are the right term.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Uh, the aerobatics, Yeah, is what you're talking like when
there's a plane it's in a turn and all of
a sudden and it's it's it's even even what does
that mean?
Speaker 1 (25:59):
What has that?
Speaker 3 (26:00):
You say that level? The wings are level?
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Yeah, but it's like a it's it's just like a quick.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Movement snaps to level. Yes, okay.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
They just started the Pacific Air Show, the debut of
Anthony Oceanuga and the Pitts S One. He is a
mechanical engineer turned aerobatic professional. Ah, so I guess he was.
He was a rookie at the US National Aerobatic Championship.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Sounds like you would.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
That's something that you would enjoy if you like those
wings snapping to level.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
I do like the wings snapping to level. I just
want to point out something that I don't want to
gloss over and I don't want to let it fly
by without being noticed.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Yeah, go on, I think I know where you're going
with you really, I go ahead.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
I'll be astonished if you know where I'm going with this.
So we talked about the government shut down and the fact.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
That then I don't know where you're going with this.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
The American military will not be here, you know, the
the Air Force thunderbirds that we usually delight in. But
you know it will make it even more special. Next year,
like I said, you will get the Canadian force of snowbirds,
You'll get the UK Royal Air Force falcons and the like.
We had an Australian pilot on and the first two
words out of your mouth, Gary Hoffman were do you
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like the liberty and the freedom? And I was like, okay, okay,
I just I see what's going on here. You just
had start with America. You just had to beat him
over that. With America.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
I wasn't constitution shaming him country shaving.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
This freedom, don't you kid? It was hilarious.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Oh look at that the Red Bull helicopter. It just
did a loop right in front of us.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Goodness.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
I guess you don't see that very often do.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
It reminds me of the zipper ride at the County Fair.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Aaron Fitzgerald is piloting that thing. That is an incredible I.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Don't like to see helicopters do flips.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Well, they're not really supposed to see it.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Seems really counterproductive, counterintuitive that stresses me out. That is
a stressful aerobatic move for me to watch a helicopter
do that. Because you've never seen a helicopter do that.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I don't think i've seen one in real life.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I've never seen a helicopter do a flip.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
I've seen it on air Wolf. But what's air wolf?
Speaker 6 (28:10):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (28:10):
He just did a barrel turn a barrel roll?
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Look at me, I'm picking up the terminology going to.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Be by the end of this you might be doing
the play by play that I'm that jolly.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
We do have a volleyball net in front of us
with some children playing volleyball. I think we should take
that over at some point you could play volleyball.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Right, Yeah, that net is pretty low.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Oh, I'm just saying it's if you're looking for some
sort of regular regulation net.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
That's not it.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Heck, that helicopter doing those massive rolls upside down. Isn't
there a rule that says you shouldn't do that? Does
it say that the instructor manual when you get into
pilot a helicopter, don't roll this thing.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
That might be the first thing they tell you is
the pilot of a helicopter, so this is, my goodness.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Was totally vertical and then rolls over, my gosh, right
over the Pacific. It's incredible, folks. He's not a Canadian,
is he?
Speaker 3 (29:08):
I doubt it. Aaron Fitzgerald.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
That sounds Irish.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
An Army veteran. Of course, he's in stunt pilot.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
He is a bat. Look at that man.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
He's been flying stunt helicopters for TV shows and movies,
et cetera. My god, and he's part of what they
now refer to as the Red Bull Air Force.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
The one five is the helicopter.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
That he's flying, the world's only Arabatic certified helicopter. That's
why we we didn't know that this thing could happen.
We what else do we know about Aaron Fitzgerald?
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Just that he's an Army vet eighty five hundred flight hours.
I don't know how much of that was upside down.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
But huge bowling balls.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
How does it?
Speaker 2 (29:54):
How does he fit those into the Does he the
pilot seat of the helicopter?
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Oh, I have a surprise. I totally forgot I was
going to give you this surprise.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
It's a surprise, Okay, I will do the play by play.
I just kind of googled Aaron Fitzgerald Fitzgerald because I'm
trying to figure out what his deal is, what shows
he's been. He grew up in Wait for It, when Achi?
When Acchi is somewhere in the Midwest or is it Canada? Washington? Sorry,
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see what happens when you take your your head set off?
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Didn't you live there at one point? This is my surprise.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
You're wearing your Space shirt.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
I didn't realize it until this morning when I I
just picked a black T shirt, but it was my Space.
You're welcome, I'm here. I'm here to promote the movie.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
What a nice gift, you guys.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Series of movies. Look at a trio of movies. You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Well, you get a trio. It's going to a trio
of trios, right like about ten. Well, there's there's gonna
be You're absolutely right, there's gonna be a trio of trios.
But there's also gonna be the bonus film, which is
like Tokyo Drift, okay, which is going to center upon
a topic we haven't decided run just quite yet, all right,
but you know there's gonna be origin stories.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
We're losing you.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
We are live today at the Pacific Air Show on
Huntington Beach.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Hey, there's kids. We should get them into space Horse
yeng and there.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
That's why I'm wearing it today to introduce it to
the chill.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
There's like fifty five hundred kids here. What a perfect
advertising opportunity for Space Horse.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Pacific Airshow USA. Dot com is where you go to
get Richie.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
I'm gonna need you to dress up as mister bumber Puss. Okay,
he actually would be a look at him licking his paw.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
I looked right at it too. I know I looked
right and you made and.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
I made a little bit of a beachside swamp. Watch
when we come back. Gary Shannon live today in Huntington
Beach for the Pacific Air Show.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
We'll be back. You've been listening to The Gary and
Shannon Show.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
A little hint behind the scenes, all I did was
I told Elmer to look up air show music.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Yeah, to play it really loud. Right.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
We are live today at Huntington Beach for this weekend's
Pacific Air Show, which kicks off gosh, just about thirty
minutes from now.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
As a matter of fact.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Well, this is a government shutdown situation this weekend, but
don't worry about it is still going to be a
massive show here at the Pacific Air Show. It is
the ninth year here in Huntington Beach, and you're gonna
have the Canadian Force of Snowbirds. You're gonna have the
Royal Air Force Falcons. You're gonna have the Red Bull
bo one oh five, you are going to have Tory
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Ward It we just talked to flying the subsonic microjet.
No shortage of things to see here. Kevin joins us now,
Kevin Elliott. He runs this whole show, and it's nice
to see you again. I feel like we're old for we.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Are at this point, I mean, ninth year together.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I know we are you coming for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 4 (01:05):
I definitely am for sure.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
No, thank you guys for being here and thanks for
being such great supporters. It's a beautiful day, nice to
see the sun, and you know it's going to be
an amazing year. We've got i mean, thousands and thousands
of school aged kids here coming for free for our
first students with Altitude Day.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
We're just so excited.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I was just gonna say, this is an amazing I
made the comment during the news break there that I
didn't ever go to an air show for a field
trip at elementary school, right, What a great, great opportunity
for these kids.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
So, I mean I grew up obviously in Huntington Beach
here and going to Boeing and the sky where they
built the sky Lab right up in Huntington Street for
field trips.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
But there was nothing like this when I was a kid.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
So, you know, our team really wanted to extend the goodwill,
you know, and get the enthusiasm going, get these kids
inspired about you know, potential future and careers and in
aviation and all the related careers the science, technology, engineering math.
So this area that you're sitting in, we're calling the
next gen stem lab and essentially this will be built
out over the next coming years with brands that want
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to showcase all kinds of technology, and it's.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Gonna be great. It's really this case, this cart that's
going by here full of yes.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
So you put us with all the children. That was
an error. You don't make a lot of them, but
that was an error. What are you most excited to
see today, Kevin.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Well, you know it's We've honestly got an amazing lineup.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
I know, obviously the big topic of the hour is
the unfortunate government shutdown, but you know, Pacific Air Show
just has such an abundance of assets. Anyway, I remember
a couple of years ago we were broadcasting down here
at Peer Plaza and we could barely speak because of
the loud jets. So this will be good for you
guys because people will be able to hear.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
But we're I'm most looking.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Forward to the RAF Falcons all the way from the UK,
I mean the most, the most incredible parachute team in
the world. We've got a B twenty nine, the DOC,
which is the one of only two flying B twenty
nine s in the world. Obviously, the Canadian Forces, Snowbirds
are headlining. We've but we've just got a really cool collection.
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And I will say that we put the kind of
the word out to some of our local friends that
ordinarily maybe I wouldn't say don't make the cut because
they're great, but you know, we just have so much
stuff that we can't do an eight hour air show, right,
And so we said, hey, this might be your year.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
You want to come down.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
They're like, yeah, we had guys yesterday fly down all
the way from Washington just.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
To be able to participate in the show today.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
So it's going to be a great, great weekend, and
it was a great camaraderie.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
In the pilot brief this.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Morning, I was just saying, I was just looking through
the rundown for the show today, and even with the
government shutdown that we were talking about in the American
military assets, I can't make it. That's still a massive,
massive show that is planned today.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
I mean, our air boss kept saying like, this is
better than ninety five percent of the shows out there.
I said, I know, but the people have come to
expect a certain standard from Pacific Air Show, which is
to be the best in the country.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
And I have to say.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
I mean, unfortunately, in spite of it all, we still
will be the best in the country, particularly this weekend,
so you know, and we have I think inside of
our paid area we have nearly twenty thousand gets out
on a Friday. It's absolutely going to be a gangbuster weekend.
And I think I also you know, some people said,
if you're booking a ticket strictly to see the Thunderbirds,
you know, maybe we have a difference of opinion. Of course,
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I'm disappointed they're not here, but Pacific Air Show is
about the whole of the experience and it's really a
metaphor for spending time with family and just having a
great data and.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
It'll make the Thunderbirds out much more special next year.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
And by the way, the Thunderbirds will still be here,
you just won't be able to tell who they are
because they'll be in board shorts and T shirts.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
That's a good point.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
So yeah, they all informed me that, they said, hey,
we really wish we could be there, but we're still
going to be there. Just so you know, that's bringing
their families down. So if we were hanging out, for example,
you know, everybody says you got to get the F
twenty two, you got to get the F twenty two.
And it's like, well, you know, if I ruled the world,
we'd have the F twenty two every year. But both,
you know, the F twenty two former and current F
twenty two demopilot are here on site, you know, both
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hanging out because this is where they want to be
in spite of the fact that whether or not they're
allowed to perform or not.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
And it's funny. I mean, there are some of these
older military airplanes. We were talking about, the B twent
you're talking about the B seventeen, the T six, all
of these there are privately owned old military aircraft that
are going to be involved in the show. There aren't
a lot of used F twenty twos that are out
there on the open market for people to just pick
up and buy and.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Exactly now, there are some pretty impressive jets out there,
and obviously, you know, those are fewer and far between
because they cost a lot of money to operate and maintain.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
But we reached out to a few.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Friends at pretty high level, and you know, unfortunately none
of those guys were necessarily able to come. But to
your point, yes, we have the Line Air Museum, whi's
a great partner of ours that are based over here
at Orange County. They've got a tremendous collection of airplanes
and they're throwing.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
The book at it.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
They also play host to all of our civilian performers,
so we're definitely not at a loss for things to see.
Emma McDonald all the way from Australia, she flew all
the way over here. It was actually kind of cool
because as she flew over, by the time she got
here she was already inverted and so that worked out
so she was she came ready to go.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
How much sleep have you had in the past week.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
I've done reasonably well.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
It'd say most of my lack of sleep is probably
caused by my my children.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
You know that I got my son two and.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
A half jets jet is your son's day stopping? So cool?
I would love to have jet on. Is he going
to be here today?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Oh, he's here somewhere.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
You got to throw them on.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
And then my daughter she's eighteen months and her name's Goldie,
and so maybe we'll wait a year for Goldie.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Yeah, yeah, we got Well, she's pretty.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Did your wife pick out those amazing names.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Yeah, I think we kind of did it.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Goldie just sort of happened, you know, so maybe this
is Tami, but we we you know, Jet, we had
to do IVF and then Goldie would just have wow
naturally and so but it happened on the Gold Coast
during the Gold Coast Airshow.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
So, my gosh, that so cool because.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
So you can tell your audience. Your audience can appreciate
a good joke. So so when she was born, I
sent the picture to our friends in Australia. Well, one
of our friends is our pr person there, and so
she decided to send the picture of my wife holding
the baby to the news. And so the news says
specific air Shows director Kevin Elliott welcomes a new baby girl.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Her name is Goldie, named after the Gold Coast where
she was concealed during the last year's air show.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
And she goes, she joins her brother Jet, you wouldn't
want to know where.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
He was concerned.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
So I show I showed this to my wife and
she's like, are you kidding me right now?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
D list celebrities in Australia. That is so funny, Oh
my gosh. And how many people tried to make babies
at the air show.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Yeah, exactly. It's like a new thing.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
So now everybody is, you know, coming up with names
from my children, you know, so it'll be pretty good.
So maybe you know, I think Gary and Shannon, depending
on if it's a boy or a girl.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Shut the door on that.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
You did the whole name. You can just mash them together.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Yeah, the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Pacific air Show USA dot com is where people can
find information including tickets, et cetera for the rest of
the weekend going on. And I just last month, the
beginning of last month, the city said, hey, keep coming,
tell us about the plans for the future.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Absolutely, So the city of Huntington Beach has been great.
I mean they recognize what this means. It generates a
tremendous amount of economic benefit to Southern California. I mean, frankly,
it's not just Huntington Beach. It's Low Salamidos and Coasta
Mesa and Santa Ana and Fountain Valley and all of
the surrounding cities. You know, they all come to play,
and we were putting up pilots throughout southern California. The
overall economic benefit to this region is an excess of
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one hundred and twenty million dollars in overall economic benefit
with over seventy million dollars in direct spend into the economy.
So you contrast that to like the US Open or
the NCAA Final Four or the World Series of Baseball.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
We're right up there.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
And the beautiful thing is is that a lot of
those cities host those events what once a decade. They're
lucky where Huntington Beach in southern California gets to host
this amazing event every single year and we love the
fact that it's so family friendly.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
What other event is so family friendly?
Speaker 5 (08:46):
So yeah, the city of Huntington Beach said, we want
you to come back, and we want you to be.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Here for the foreseeable future.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
So we signed a twenty five year deal its initial
ten year term with multiple five year options to extend.
So that's great because, as you guys know, having been
here for nine years now, we have some stability, some predictability,
and we can go and build this event long term.
And then you know our five year permit with the
California Coastal Commission, which is you know a lot of
work behind the scenes to make sure that everybody's happy
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with what we're doing, and we have a great relationship.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
With them too, So sky's the limit.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Very cool, Such a pleasure, Kevin, always nice to catch
up with you and graduations A beautiful baby.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Yes, thanks for making the weather work.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Yeah, well we ordered it up last year. Yeah, we
just said if possible.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Yeah, thank god it's me Kevin.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Rolled the dice and it worked out this.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
I know it's going to be great. I think tomorrow
we'll have a little bit of an offshore flow.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
We get the weather, you know, in the morning when
we do the pilots briefing, we get the Weather Service,
the National Weather Service person that usually comes in and
gives the briefing. So it's actually kind of a funny
moment because they're like, we know, where's my Weather Service
person that they come down and everybody's like giving them
the stink eye, you know, like, okay, you better say
something good, right and then today gave a good weather
bring and everyone's like, but then if they give a
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bad weather brief literally Wayne bogs Are, us will look
at him and go, well, you might as well not
even shown up.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Yeah, thanks a lot, Yeah, what's your problem?
Speaker 4 (10:06):
So at least we have somebody to blame.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Kevin Elliott, Director of Pacific Air Show, thanks for stopping
by again.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Thank you guys.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Right, Gary Shannon, we're live today in Huntingson Beach for
the Pacific Air Show.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
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Speaker 7 (11:12):
I went to air traffic control school, which includes pilot
ground school.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
It didn't work out. Evidently I'm colored wine.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
But I just got to say, in my learned opinion,
you are definitely a fighter jet pilot.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Oh, thank you for that. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I'm not I'm sorry. Based on what is learned opinion?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Based on looks?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Is this when you look at somebody and you go,
that's a receiver, or that's a cornerback, or that's a linebacker.
Is that what it is?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Or you guess that guy's wait today like a Carnival Barker.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yeah, I did feel a little bit like I put
him in the circus.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
This is Jim.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
I dim your show. I love you as much as
I can. And Gary has been by the office. Great guy.
I always loved Shannon's personality, but when she mentioned the
Chicago twenty eleven, I fell in love all over and.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Enjoyed the show.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
I didn't know you were in the market.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
But well, I mean, I'm an admirer. I don't know
what I would know what I'm doing with a Chicago
twenty eleven.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I accept that I like that, you're an admirerment and
you know your own limits.
Speaker 8 (12:17):
I do.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
It's like the way you admire fighter.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Jets interesting because I've been in one. That does not
make you. Yes, yes, I did have my my hand
on the.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
On the control stick, on the yoke.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
But if they joke wasn't completely yours, was it was?
Speaker 3 (12:40):
He showed a borrowed yoke.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Oh yes, I'm not saying. And I didn't take off,
nor did.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I land feel dirty saying that.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
But I also didn't throw up, right, I consider that
if you threw up, we were.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Gonna have to have like maybe a talk, you know
what I mean?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Remember where you were?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
So it was to fill everybody in a few years ago,
I actually flew with the Air Force Thunderbirds the day
of the first day of the show, which was Friday.
So Friday morning, I drove out to losal with the
producer Nick at the time and boarded one of the
F sixteens and flew in the back seat with their
their only tandem airplane.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
And to understand the true glory of the story, talk
about what your father in law well did so.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
My wife's father was a naval aviator and flew for
the Blue Angels for two years, right, so for me
to fly.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
I had applied to fly with the Blue Angels the
year before and they were like, we don't want you,
and they said no.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Now, I don't know if he had any pull in
that course, if they had asked him for a recommendation
and he said probably not a great.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Idea, trash to the thunderbirds.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
But I did fly with the Thunderbirds and it was amazing.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
We flew out way out over the desert, taken off
from Los ala and just headed north. But before we
landed back at Los Alamados, we flew right across here,
right in front of it, everybody along the beach, and
it was we're sitting here so I mean even right now,
we can see a couple thousand people right that are
already sitting on the beach.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
From that perspective, you see a million.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
People, I mean you from all the way up the
very tip of the beach to the north of us,
all the way down south.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yeah, it was what a great experience.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
It was pretty amazing.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
That's wonderful. I want to give a shout out to
Habit who is here.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
We I didn't know I was that hungry, not know I.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Was that hungry, but the Habit Burger does that. We
smelled it. It was here, and you and I acted
like we haven't seen food in about six to eight years.
We ate those burgers so quickly. It was I'd say
it was embarrassing, but I think it was American. It
was the American thing to do to see a Habit
Burger and devour it within four to six seconds.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
I'm not I'm not ashamed of it.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I'm not you know, I'm not even I kind of
stand up, I stand by.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
It's actually it is a little probably disconcerting for anybody
who walks by in front of us.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
It was.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
It was definitely not good for any passer by to
see feed time. It was like watching a cattle. Uh
what a cattle eat? Hey? Yes, okay, it was like that.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
We're just chewing side.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
It was like two pigs at the trough. But we
don't know these people.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Well, nobody slowed down, which is probably best because if
they had slowed down, they would see how Actually, yeah, we're.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Gross, But thank you to the Habit appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
When we come back. More from Pacific Air Show. We're
live today in Huntington Beach.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Live in Huntington Beach for the Pacific Air Showed the
ninth year, and they will be here for quite some time.
As we mentioned, signed a big contray with the city
and festivities are just getting kicked off. We've had the
national anthem. We've got the La County Orange County fireboat
out here and the hoses, the hoses are in full
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blast mode, a lot of hoses off that boat. They
are putting on quite the display of water into the air.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
What do you want me to say, I don't know,
but I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
I mean, that's what's happening. It's a firefighting boat and
fighting the water with water. It is impressive. It's very impressive.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
We don't get to see that every day.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Again, we're live on the beach here because in a
few moments we're going to start seeing some of the
participants take to the skies in what has turned out
to be an absolutely beautiful day here at the beach,
just a few clouds in the sky. Last year was
really tough to see anything because the cloud cover stayed
for most of the day.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
But today's going to be a pretty great show.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Byron Waller joined us. He is a pilot here today
and here's a surprise Byron is fifteen. Welcome. Nice to
be cha. Oh, let's get this on here. There you go.
Now you're Ron, Yeah you do.
Speaker 9 (17:11):
It's good to me.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
So tell me where you're from. Tell me your story.
Speaker 10 (17:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
So I'm from Brisbane, Australia and my story is basically
from being in a hospital bed to being able to
show kids that they can achieve their dreams and flying
around the world is what I'm currently doing at the moment.
So currently flying around the world showing kids that they
can achieve their dreams and no matter how toy their
dreams are.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Oh, hospital bed, when did Yeah, let's start with that.
What's going on with the hospital bed?
Speaker 8 (17:36):
So from about three weeks old to fourteen years old,
I was in and out of hospital quite frequently. So
then I had to find a way to make it
and take the good out of that and show other
people that they can achieve their dreams and show them
that there's nothing that can limit them from what they
want to do.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Really, when did you find that you loved planes? All
things planes?
Speaker 8 (17:56):
Probably when I was really young, I first went up
in the with Scoutsustralia, went up in the back of
a Cessna one seven two, did a we went up
and then did a discovery kind of like a flight
where we went up in the back of a plane
and then we went around local Brisbane areas from Road
Cliff and then from there I discovered that might be
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so then a couple of years later with my school
we went to the raft based Emblo Rual Australian Air
Force BACE and we went in the back of a
C seventeen, which is the Globemaster.
Speaker 9 (18:30):
That was pretty fun.
Speaker 8 (18:31):
Yeah, they're huge, honestly, and then that was kind of
the start of it where just inflicted that passion on me.
Since then, really, yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Do you think of it as a Do you think
of it as like a freedom liberty?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
I mean, you get the chance to kind of go
wherever you want.
Speaker 8 (18:49):
To go exactly every since you Once you shut the
door of the plane or the kindopy or whatever you shut,
it's just freedom. Like the whole outside world is gone.
It's just what's in the cockpit and what you see
because you can't hear anything down on the ground when
you're in the eggs.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
So yeah, I would imagine that being in the hospital
for so much of your life, it's kind of like
you feel almost powerless. And then when you're a pilot,
like you have all the power. It's a way of
kind of like taking back your power.
Speaker 9 (19:18):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
It gives you a sense of being able to control something,
especially when you're stuck in such uncontrollable situation. It gives
you a sense of control.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Really.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Yeah, that's very cool.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Talk about the diagnosis that you finally got. You finally
were told that you have Crohn's disease.
Speaker 8 (19:36):
So yeah, the final diagnosis was Crone's disease, and it
is all under like full management at the moment, So
that was what ended up being finally trying of diagnosed
at the end of your.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Mom's here, Jinny, And what's that is that? On? Uh?
Speaker 4 (19:51):
That on?
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (19:52):
What's it like seeing him with his.
Speaker 10 (19:54):
Dream It's quite extraordinary. Like when he was just talking then,
I was getting a bit emotional because I picture what
he's talking about, him quite limp, lifeless and powerless, and the.
Speaker 9 (20:08):
Complete opposite is happening.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Now.
Speaker 10 (20:09):
He's energized, he's in remission, he's lifting above anything. That
medically was thrown at him and probably, you know, just
a few flying lessons might have been extraordinary on its own.
But then he flew around Australia to give back to
the hospital last year at fourteen years old. That took
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him three weeks. And then this year he's and I
can't even believe I'm saying this, My son is flying
around the.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
World, the world, the entire world.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Yeah, it's just amazing.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
We'll explain that process. How do you plan this, who's
going with you? What does it look like each day?
Speaker 9 (20:47):
So like the planning is a lot of work.
Speaker 8 (20:50):
It's the last I think about twelve months we've been
flat out planning for this troop, making it all happen,
just sorting out everything from the visas to the over
flight permitits everything, just making sure the trip flows smoothly,
getting the aircraft right.
Speaker 9 (21:06):
So we found a sling.
Speaker 8 (21:07):
When we're at Avlon Air Show, a few people recommended
a sling sling for the trip, so then we didn't
know what is the sling. So then we went to
the sling tent at Avalon Air Show and then we
discovered the sling tear size. So we had a chat
with them, and then we decided on to use a
sling tear side for the trip and that kind of
got the trip together and then we from there we
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kept doing more and more stuff and then it kind
of formed into one trip and then on the day
of the takeoff, we're like, feels like something's missing because
there's so much stuff that you put in there.
Speaker 9 (21:38):
And then it's so calm in the last week.
Speaker 8 (21:41):
Yeah, so it was it was a relief to get
to little last week of it though, where everything was
just coming along together really well.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Yeah, a thousand nautical miles, it says, is it's max range,
So there's some math that has to go into I
mean there's spots I'm sure along that trip that are
a lot. I mean that would stretch that. So do
you get nerve it all about that or.
Speaker 9 (22:01):
Well, we do get nervous.
Speaker 8 (22:02):
But the thing is we've also got an extended range
field tank in the back. So we've got a bladder
bladder tank, which is just an expendable tank we put
in the back seats instead of the back seats, and
then that just expands and we can get about another seventy.
Speaker 9 (22:16):
Something gallons of fuel.
Speaker 8 (22:18):
I don't know, I don't know how many gallons it is,
I know the leaders and stuff, but yeah, it's about
seventy gallons of fuel.
Speaker 9 (22:24):
And then that just gives us that extra extra.
Speaker 8 (22:26):
Range so we can get from Monterey to Hawaii in
one one run.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
So that's ideal. Not a lot of places to stop.
Speaker 8 (22:35):
No, all, you've got that cruise ship down there, that
cruise ship there.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Right, yeah, yeah, exactly. Have there been any highlight? What
have been your highlights so far? Places or people or.
Speaker 8 (22:47):
I think the highlight has been meeting people from different
cultures and communities, like Sri Lanka, India, just meeting all
those different people who are there and just seeing their
culture and how different it is, but also how unique
it is, Like through the Middle East, through Asia, through
Sri Lanka. It was just amazing to see how people
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you go there and then they treat you like family.
Just anywhere in the world you go, they've got their
own ways of treating you, and like it's just the
culture is so deep in those places. And then also
just like going through like the beautiful, stunning scenery everywhere,
like there's something different everywhere because a lot of people
always like stay in their one area, but once you
sort of leave that area, there's something different and basically everywhere,
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like every country nowhere is the same.
Speaker 9 (23:34):
Honestly, Yeah, that's so cool.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Do you get bored?
Speaker 6 (23:36):
No?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Do you get to meet kids that are your same
age that are amazed by what you're doing.
Speaker 9 (23:40):
Yeah, I've met a few people who are pretty amazed.
Speaker 8 (23:42):
And I've also met some people who are able to
do something out of this and hearing my story and
decided to take up their own feet in their own
way and just show them that they are not limited
to what their illness is and that they can do
whatever they want, no matter how big their dream is.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Emma Irma.
Speaker 10 (24:05):
He met Irma, this lady who's losing her lung capacity,
and she found out about Byron. So she got in
her car and she drove four hours to meet him.
As as he landed in the Grand Canyon, Wow and back.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
And this lady, she.
Speaker 10 (24:21):
Hasn't been out of her environment for a very long time,
and she's just inspired that she did that, and that
on its own has made this.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
World trip worth It's changing, I mean, And that's one
life that you've changed. So many more you haven't even
heard about.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
You can follow Byron's trip, by the way on Instagram
teen pilot down Under with all of it. I mean
there's a whole section just on the airplane itself, but
all the different trips and places that you've been. So
it's very inspiring. Thanks for coming by today.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Thanks to meet you.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
To Thanks for having this your first doll whip or
is this something you've had before?
Speaker 9 (24:54):
It is beautiful.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
We love it.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
We'll enjoy it, Jenny, thank you for coming by again.
Gary and Shannon, we're live today in Huntington Beach for
a Pacific air show.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
We will continue from the beach here in just a moment.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
A six.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
There's like a bunch of food trucks and stuff over
to our right. To our left is like the sweets.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
We're like at reserve level at Dodger Stadium with war
with all the people, but a great view. Yeah, you know,
you're getting the real experience of the air show already.
It's begun.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
The rare chance at a foul ball, but there's a chance. Okay,
I'm just.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Saying, yeah, yeah, I don't want a foul ball here today,
Probably not. I like the precision movements are the right term.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Uh, the aerobatics, Yeah, is what you're talking like when
there's a plane it's in a turn and all of
a sudden and it's it's it's even even what does
that mean?
Speaker 1 (25:59):
What has that?
Speaker 3 (26:00):
You say that level? The wings are level?
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Yeah, but it's like a it's it's just like a quick.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Movement snaps to level. Yes, okay.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
They just started the Pacific Air Show, the debut of
Anthony Oceanuga and the Pitts S One. He is a
mechanical engineer turned aerobatic professional. Ah, so I guess he was.
He was a rookie at the US National Aerobatic Championship.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Sounds like you would.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
That's something that you would enjoy if you like those
wings snapping to level.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
I do like the wings snapping to level. I just
want to point out something that I don't want to
gloss over and I don't want to let it fly
by without being noticed.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Yeah, go on, I think I know where you're going
with you really, I go ahead.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
I'll be astonished if you know where I'm going with this.
So we talked about the government shut down and the fact.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
That then I don't know where you're going with this.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
The American military will not be here, you know, the
the Air Force thunderbirds that we usually delight in. But
you know it will make it even more special. Next year,
like I said, you will get the Canadian force of snowbirds,
You'll get the UK Royal Air Force falcons and the like.
We had an Australian pilot on and the first two
words out of your mouth, Gary Hoffman were do you
(27:13):
like the liberty and the freedom? And I was like, okay, okay,
I just I see what's going on here. You just
had start with America. You just had to beat him
over that. With America.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
I wasn't constitution shaming him country shaving.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
This freedom, don't you kid? It was hilarious.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Oh look at that the Red Bull helicopter. It just
did a loop right in front of us.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Goodness.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
I guess you don't see that very often do.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
It reminds me of the zipper ride at the County Fair.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Aaron Fitzgerald is piloting that thing. That is an incredible I.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Don't like to see helicopters do flips.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Well, they're not really supposed to see it.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Seems really counterproductive, counterintuitive that stresses me out. That is
a stressful aerobatic move for me to watch a helicopter
do that. Because you've never seen a helicopter do that.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I don't think i've seen one in real life.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I've never seen a helicopter do a flip.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
I've seen it on air Wolf. But what's air wolf?
Speaker 6 (28:10):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (28:10):
He just did a barrel turn a barrel roll?
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Look at me, I'm picking up the terminology going to.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Be by the end of this you might be doing
the play by play that I'm that jolly.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
We do have a volleyball net in front of us
with some children playing volleyball. I think we should take
that over at some point you could play volleyball.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Right, Yeah, that net is pretty low.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Oh, I'm just saying it's if you're looking for some
sort of regular regulation net.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
That's not it.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Heck, that helicopter doing those massive rolls upside down. Isn't
there a rule that says you shouldn't do that? Does
it say that the instructor manual when you get into
pilot a helicopter, don't roll this thing.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
That might be the first thing they tell you is
the pilot of a helicopter, so this is, my goodness.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Was totally vertical and then rolls over, my gosh, right
over the Pacific. It's incredible, folks. He's not a Canadian,
is he?
Speaker 3 (29:08):
I doubt it. Aaron Fitzgerald.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
That sounds Irish.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
An Army veteran. Of course, he's in stunt pilot.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
He is a bat. Look at that man.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
He's been flying stunt helicopters for TV shows and movies,
et cetera. My god, and he's part of what they
now refer to as the Red Bull Air Force.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
The one five is the helicopter.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
That he's flying, the world's only Arabatic certified helicopter. That's
why we we didn't know that this thing could happen.
We what else do we know about Aaron Fitzgerald?
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Just that he's an Army vet eighty five hundred flight hours.
I don't know how much of that was upside down.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
But huge bowling balls.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
How does it?
Speaker 2 (29:54):
How does he fit those into the Does he the
pilot seat of the helicopter?
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Oh, I have a surprise. I totally forgot I was
going to give you this surprise.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
It's a surprise, Okay, I will do the play by play.
I just kind of googled Aaron Fitzgerald Fitzgerald because I'm
trying to figure out what his deal is, what shows
he's been. He grew up in Wait for It, when Achi?
When Acchi is somewhere in the Midwest or is it Canada? Washington? Sorry,
(30:28):
see what happens when you take your your head set off?
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Didn't you live there at one point? This is my surprise.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
You're wearing your Space shirt.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
I didn't realize it until this morning when I I
just picked a black T shirt, but it was my Space.
You're welcome, I'm here. I'm here to promote the movie.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
What a nice gift, you guys.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Series of movies. Look at a trio of movies. You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Well, you get a trio. It's going to a trio
of trios, right like about ten. Well, there's there's gonna
be You're absolutely right, there's gonna be a trio of trios.
But there's also gonna be the bonus film, which is
like Tokyo Drift, okay, which is going to center upon
a topic we haven't decided run just quite yet, all right,
but you know there's gonna be origin stories.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
We're losing you.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
We are live today at the Pacific Air Show on
Huntington Beach.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Hey, there's kids. We should get them into space Horse
yeng and there.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
That's why I'm wearing it today to introduce it to
the chill.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
There's like fifty five hundred kids here. What a perfect
advertising opportunity for Space Horse.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Pacific Airshow USA. Dot com is where you go to
get Richie.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
I'm gonna need you to dress up as mister bumber Puss. Okay,
he actually would be a look at him licking his paw.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
I looked right at it too. I know I looked
right and you made and.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
I made a little bit of a beachside swamp. Watch
when we come back. Gary Shannon live today in Huntington
Beach for the Pacific Air Show.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
We'll be back. You've been listening to The Gary and
Shannon Show.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
You can always hear us live on KFI AM six
forty nine am to one pm every Monday through Friday,
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