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. Yeah,
to play it really loud.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
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 1 (00:24):
As a matter of fact, 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
(00:45):
going to have Tory 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 3 (01:00):
Are at this point, I mean, ninth year together.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I know, were you coming for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I definitely am for sure.
Speaker 4 (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 3 (01:20):
We're just so excited.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I was just going to 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 3 (01:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (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 3 (01:40):
But there was nothing like this when I was a kid.
Speaker 4 (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
(02:03):
to showcase all kinds of technology and it's gonna be great.
So it's really this case, this cart that's going by
here full of faircage.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yes, 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 3 (02:21):
Well, you know it's We've honestly got an amazing lineup.
Speaker 4 (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 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. But we're I'm
most looking forward to the RAF Falcons all the way
(02:44):
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. 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
(03:06):
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 3 (03:14):
You want to come down.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
They're like, yeah, we had guys yesterday fly down all
the way from Washington just to be able to participate.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
At the show today.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
So it's going to be a great, great weekend, and
it was a great camaraderie.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
In the pilot brief this 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 3 (03:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
I mean, our air boss kept saying like, this is
better than ninety five percent of the show's 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. And I have
to say, 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
(04:03):
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, 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 that much more special next year.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (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 3 (04:27):
That's a good point.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
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
(04:49):
are here on site, you know, both 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 twe
you're talking about the V 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.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
And 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 3 (05:23):
But we reached out to a few.
Speaker 4 (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 3 (05:38):
The book at it.
Speaker 4 (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 was she came ready to go.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
How much sleep have you had in the past week.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I've done reasonably well.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
It'd say most of my lack of sleep is probably
caused by my my children.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
You know that I got my son two and a
half jets jet.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
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 to throw them on? And then
my daughter, she's eighteen months and her name's Goldie.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
And so maybe we'll wait a year for Goldie.
Speaker 3 (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. So 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 happen.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
And so but it happened on the Gold Coast during
the Gold Coast Airshow.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
So my gosh, that so cool.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Because 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 show's director Kevin Elliott welcomes a new baby girl.
Her name is Goldie, named after the Gold Coast where
(07:03):
she was concealed.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
During the last year's air show. And she goes, she
joins her brother Jet, you wouldn't want to know where
he was concerned.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
So I showed this to my wife and she's like,
are you kidding me right now? Like D list celebrities
in Australia, that is so.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Funny, Oh my gosh. And how many people tried to
make babies at the air show.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yeah, exactly. It's like a new thing.
Speaker 4 (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 the whole name.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
You can mash them together.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yeah, the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Pacific Airshow 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, beginning of
last month, the city said, hey, keep coming, tell us
about the plans for the future.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (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.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I mean, frankly, it's not just Huntington Beach.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
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.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
The overall economic benefit.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
To this region is an excess of one hundred and
twenty million dollars in overall economic benefit with over seventy
million dollars in direct spend into the economy.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
So we need you.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Contrast that to like the US Open or the NCAA
Final Four or the World Series of Baseball.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
We're right up there.
Speaker 4 (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 3 (08:44):
What other event is so family friendly?
Speaker 4 (08:46):
So yeah, the city of Huntington Beach said, we want
you to come back, and we want you to be.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Here for the foreseeable future.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
So we signed a twenty five year deal of its
initial ten year term with multiple five year options to extend.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
So that's great because, as you guys know.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
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 with what we're doing. And we have a
great relationship 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 2 (09:22):
Yes, thanks for making the weather work.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Yeah, well we ordered it up last year. We just
said if possible, Yeah, thank.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
God it's me Kevin rolled the dice and it worked
out this yea.
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. 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 today.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Gave a good weather bring and everyone's like yeah, But
then if.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
They give a bad weather brief literally Wayne Boggs are
us will look at him and go, well, you might
as well not even shown up.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Yeah, thanks a lot, Yeah, what's your problem.
Speaker 3 (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 3 (10:11):
Thank you guys.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Right, Gary Shannon, we're live today in Huntington Beach for
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Speaker 7 (11:12):
Gary, I went to air traffic control school, which includes
pilot ground school.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
It didn't work out. Evidently I'm a colored wine.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
But I just got to say, in my learned opinion,
you are definitely a fighter jet pilot.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Oh, thank you for that. I appreciate it. I'm not
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Based on what is learned opinion?
Speaker 2 (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 7 (11:47):
This is Jim Jim your show. I love you as
much as I can. And Gary has been by the office.
Great guy. Always loved Shannon's personality, but when she mentioned
the Chicago twenty eleven, I fell in love all over and.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Enjoy Thank you.
Speaker 2 (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 Achicado twenty eleven.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I accept that. I like that you're an admirement 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, I did have my my hand on
the on the control stick, on the yoke, but if they.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Wasn't completely yours, was it was?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
He showed me a borrowed yoke. 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 gonna have to have
like maybe a talk.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Remember where you were? 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. 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. Now, I don't know
if he had any pull in that, of course, if
they had asked him for a recommendation and he said
(13:43):
probably not a great.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Idea trash to the thunderbirds.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
But I did fly with the thunderbirds and it was amazing.
We flew out way out over the desert, taken off
from Los al and just headed north. But before we
landed back at Los aal Amidos, 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
(14:07):
already sitting on the beach. From that perspective, you see
a million 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 2 (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 2 (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 2 (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 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.
We're just chewing side like two pigs at the trough.
(15:26):
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 to Actually.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yeah, we're 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 5 (15:44):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
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 contrack 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
(16:16):
blast mode, a lot of hoses off that boat. They
are putting on quite the display of water into the air.
Speaker 2 (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
the water with the water, it is impressive. It's very impressive.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
We don't get to see that every day. 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. But today's going to be a pretty
great show.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Byron Waller joined mean 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 on, Yeah you do.
Speaker 9 (17:11):
It's good to meet.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
So tell me where you're from. Tell me your story.
Speaker 8 (17:14):
Yeah, 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, no matter how by
their dreams are.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Oh, hospital bed?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
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
(18:17):
So then a couple of years later, with my school
we went to the raft based embly 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 (18:32):
Yeah, they're huge, honestly, And then that was kind of
the start of it where just inflicted that passion on me.
Speaker 9 (18:39):
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? I mean, you
get the chance to kind of go wherever you want
to go.
Speaker 8 (18:49):
Exactly every since you once you shut the door of
the plane or the kind of py or whatever you shut,
it's just freedom.
Speaker 9 (18:56):
Like the whole outside world is gone.
Speaker 8 (18:59):
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 3 (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 kind of diagnosed.
Speaker 9 (19:45):
At the end of your.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Mom's here, Ginny, And what's that is that?
Speaker 9 (19:50):
On?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (19:51):
That on?
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Yeah? Okay, what's it like seeing him with his dream?
Speaker 6 (19:55):
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. He's energized, he's in remission, he's lifting above anything
that medically was thrown at him and probably we 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.
(20:30):
That took 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 world.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
The world, the entire world.
Speaker 9 (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 trip, making it all happen,
just sorting out everything from the visas to the overflight permits, everything,
just making sure the trip flows smoothly, getting the aircraft right.
So we found a sling. When we're at Avlona Air Show,
a few people recommended a sling sling for the trip,
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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 kept doing more and more stuff
and then it kind of formed into one trip and
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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. And then it's so calm in the
last week. Yeah, so it was it was a relief
to get to the 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 heard miss 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 how I don't know how many gallons
it is, I know the leaders and stuff, but yeah,
it's about seventy gallons of fuel. And then that just
gives us that extra extra range, so we can get
from Monterey to Hawaii in one one run.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
So that's ideal.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
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, it
would have been your 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.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Yeah, so cool. Do you ever get bored? 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 8 (23:40):
Yeah, I've met a few people who are pretty amazed.
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 6 (24:02):
Emma Irma, she 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 he landed in the Grand Canyon, Wow
and back. And this lady she hasn't been out of
her environment for a very long time, and she's so
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inspired that she did that, and that on its own
has made this world trip worth It's changing.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
I mean, that's one life that you've changed, so many
more you haven't even heard about.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Yeah, 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 to Thanks for having your first.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Doll whip or is this something you've had before?
Speaker 1 (24:54):
It is beautiful.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
We love it, we enjoy it, and Jenny, thank you
for coming by again. Gary and Shannon, we're live today
in Huntington Beach for a Pacific air show. We will
continue from the beach here in just a moment.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
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 5 (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 2 (25:35):
The rare chance at a foul ball, but there's a chance.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Okay, I'm just saying, yeah, yeah, I don't want a
foul ball here today, Probably not. I like the precision
movements we are the right term.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Uh, the aerobatics. Yeah, is what you're talking.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
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? What has that?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Do 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 moving snaps to level. Yes, okay.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
They just started the Pacific Air Show, the debut of
Anthony Oceanooga 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.
Sounds like you would that's something that you would enjoy
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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 2 (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.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
The fact 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, know'll 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.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Him this freedom, don't you kid? It was hilarious.
Speaker 2 (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 2 (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.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
That is an incredible I don't like to see helicopters
do flips.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Well, they're not really supposed to be.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
It 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 2 (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 2 (28:07):
I've seen it on Airwolf, But what's air Wolf?
Speaker 5 (28:10):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (28:10):
He just did a three a barrel turn a barrel roll?
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Is that? Right?
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Look at me, I'm picking up the terminology.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Can be by the end of this you might be
doing the play by play 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 manually, 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 helicopters. So this is my.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Goodness, it 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 2 (29:08):
I doubt it? Aaron Fitzgerald.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
That sounds irish.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Uh 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. The
one five is the helicopter.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
That he's flying, the world's only aerobatic 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 2 (29:53):
How does it? How does he fit those into the
does he the pilot seat of the helicopter? 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 head set off?
Speaker 2 (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 put
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 2 (30:48):
Series of movies. Look at a trio of movies. You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Well, you give a trio.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
It's going to be a trio of trios.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Right 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 2 (31:13):
We're losing you. Oh, we are live today at the
Pacific Air Show on Huntington Beachy.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
There's kids. We should get them into space Horse yeng
and there.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
That's why I'm wearing it today to introduce it to
the child.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
There's like fifty five hundred kids here. What a perfect
advertising opportunity for Space Horse.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Pacific Airshow USA. Dot com is where you go to
get Rachie.
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 2 (31:41):
I looked right at it too. I know I looked
right and you made and 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.
We'll be back. You've been listening to The Gary and
(32:01):
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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. Yeah,
to play it really loud.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
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 1 (00:24):
As a matter of fact, 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
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going to have Tory 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 3 (01:00):
Are at this point, I mean, ninth year together.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I know, were you coming for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I definitely am for sure.
Speaker 4 (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 3 (01:20):
We're just so excited.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I was just going to 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 3 (01:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (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 3 (01:40):
But there was nothing like this when I was a kid.
Speaker 4 (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 gonna be great.
So it's really this case, this cart that's going by
here full of faircage.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yes, 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 3 (02:21):
Well, you know it's We've honestly got an amazing lineup.
Speaker 4 (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 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. But we're I'm
most looking forward to the RAF Falcons all the way
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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. 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
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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 3 (03:14):
You want to come down.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
They're like, yeah, we had guys yesterday fly down all
the way from Washington just to be able to participate.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
At the show today.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
So it's going to be a great, great weekend, and
it was a great camaraderie.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
In the pilot brief this 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 3 (03:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
I mean, our air boss kept saying like, this is
better than ninety five percent of the show's 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. And I have
to say, 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
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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, 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 that much more special next year.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (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 3 (04:27):
That's a good point.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
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
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are here on site, you know, both 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 twe
you're talking about the V 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.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
And 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 3 (05:23):
But we reached out to a few.
Speaker 4 (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 3 (05:38):
The book at it.
Speaker 4 (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 was she came ready to go.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
How much sleep have you had in the past week.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I've done reasonably well.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
It'd say most of my lack of sleep is probably
caused by my my children.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
You know that I got my son two and a
half jets jet.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
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 to throw them on? And then
my daughter, she's eighteen months and her name's Goldie.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
And so maybe we'll wait a year for Goldie.
Speaker 3 (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. So 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 happen.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
And so but it happened on the Gold Coast during
the Gold Coast Airshow.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
So my gosh, that so cool.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Because 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 show's director Kevin Elliott welcomes a new baby girl.
Her name is Goldie, named after the Gold Coast where
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she was concealed.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
During the last year's air show. And she goes, she
joins her brother Jet, you wouldn't want to know where
he was concerned.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
So I showed this to my wife and she's like,
are you kidding me right now? Like D list celebrities
in Australia, that is so.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Funny, Oh my gosh. And how many people tried to
make babies at the air show.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yeah, exactly. It's like a new thing.
Speaker 4 (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 the whole name.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
You can mash them together.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yeah, the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Pacific Airshow 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, beginning of
last month, the city said, hey, keep coming, tell us
about the plans for the future.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (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.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I mean, frankly, it's not just Huntington Beach.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
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.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
The overall economic benefit.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
To this region is an excess of one hundred and
twenty million dollars in overall economic benefit with over seventy
million dollars in direct spend into the economy.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
So we need you.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Contrast that to like the US Open or the NCAA
Final Four or the World Series of Baseball.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
We're right up there.
Speaker 4 (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 3 (08:44):
What other event is so family friendly?
Speaker 4 (08:46):
So yeah, the city of Huntington Beach said, we want
you to come back, and we want you to be.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Here for the foreseeable future.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
So we signed a twenty five year deal of its
initial ten year term with multiple five year options to extend.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
So that's great because, as you guys know.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
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 with what we're doing. And we have a
great relationship 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 2 (09:22):
Yes, thanks for making the weather work.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Yeah, well we ordered it up last year. We just
said if possible, Yeah, thank.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
God it's me Kevin rolled the dice and it worked
out this yea.
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. 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 today.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Gave a good weather bring and everyone's like yeah, But
then if.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
They give a bad weather brief literally Wayne Boggs are
us will look at him and go, well, you might
as well not even shown up.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Yeah, thanks a lot, Yeah, what's your problem.
Speaker 3 (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 3 (10:11):
Thank you guys.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Right, Gary Shannon, we're live today in Huntington Beach for
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Speaker 7 (11:12):
Gary, I went to air traffic control school, which includes
pilot ground school.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
It didn't work out. Evidently I'm a colored wine.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
But I just got to say, in my learned opinion,
you are definitely a fighter jet pilot.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Oh, thank you for that. I appreciate it. I'm not
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Based on what is learned opinion?
Speaker 2 (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 7 (11:47):
This is Jim Jim your show. I love you as
much as I can. And Gary has been by the office.
Great guy. Always loved Shannon's personality, but when she mentioned
the Chicago twenty eleven, I fell in love all over and.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Enjoy Thank you.
Speaker 2 (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 Achicado twenty eleven.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I accept that. I like that you're an admirement 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, I did have my my hand on
the on the control stick, on the yoke, but if they.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Wasn't completely yours, was it was?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
He showed me a borrowed yoke. 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 gonna have to have
like maybe a talk.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Remember where you were? 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. 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. Now, I don't know
if he had any pull in that, of course, if
they had asked him for a recommendation and he said
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probably not a great.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Idea trash to the thunderbirds.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
But I did fly with the thunderbirds and it was amazing.
We flew out way out over the desert, taken off
from Los al and just headed north. But before we
landed back at Los aal Amidos, 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
(14:07):
already sitting on the beach. From that perspective, you see
a million 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 2 (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 2 (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 2 (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 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.
We're just chewing side like two pigs at the trough.
(15:26):
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 to Actually.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yeah, we're 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 5 (15:44):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
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 contrack 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
(16:16):
blast mode, a lot of hoses off that boat. They
are putting on quite the display of water into the air.
Speaker 2 (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
the water with the water, it is impressive. It's very impressive.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
We don't get to see that every day. 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. But today's going to be a pretty
great show.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Byron Waller joined mean 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 on, Yeah you do.
Speaker 9 (17:11):
It's good to meet.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
So tell me where you're from. Tell me your story.
Speaker 8 (17:14):
Yeah, 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, no matter how by
their dreams are.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Oh, hospital bed?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
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
(18:17):
So then a couple of years later, with my school
we went to the raft based embly 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 (18:32):
Yeah, they're huge, honestly, And then that was kind of
the start of it where just inflicted that passion on me.
Speaker 9 (18:39):
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? I mean, you
get the chance to kind of go wherever you want
to go.
Speaker 8 (18:49):
Exactly every since you once you shut the door of
the plane or the kind of py or whatever you shut,
it's just freedom.
Speaker 9 (18:56):
Like the whole outside world is gone.
Speaker 8 (18:59):
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 3 (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 kind of diagnosed.
Speaker 9 (19:45):
At the end of your.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Mom's here, Ginny, And what's that is that?
Speaker 9 (19:50):
On?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (19:51):
That on?
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Yeah? Okay, what's it like seeing him with his dream?
Speaker 6 (19:55):
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. He's energized, he's in remission, he's lifting above anything
that medically was thrown at him and probably we 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.
(20:30):
That took 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 world.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
The world, the entire world.
Speaker 9 (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 trip, making it all happen,
just sorting out everything from the visas to the overflight permits, everything,
just making sure the trip flows smoothly, getting the aircraft right.
So we found a sling. When we're at Avlona Air Show,
a few people recommended a sling sling for the trip,
(21:11):
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 kept doing more and more stuff
and then it kind of formed into one trip and
(21:33):
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. And then it's so calm in the
last week. Yeah, so it was it was a relief
to get to the 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 heard miss 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 how I don't know how many gallons
it is, I know the leaders and stuff, but yeah,
it's about seventy gallons of fuel. And then that just
gives us that extra extra range, so we can get
from Monterey to Hawaii in one one run.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
So that's ideal.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
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, it
would have been your 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
(23:09):
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,
(23:32):
like every country nowhere is the same.
Speaker 9 (23:34):
Honestly.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Yeah, so cool. Do you ever get bored? 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 8 (23:40):
Yeah, I've met a few people who are pretty amazed.
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 6 (24:02):
Emma Irma, she 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 he landed in the Grand Canyon, Wow
and back. And this lady she hasn't been out of
her environment for a very long time, and she's so
(24:25):
inspired that she did that, and that on its own
has made this world trip worth It's changing.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
I mean, that's one life that you've changed, so many
more you haven't even heard about.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Yeah, 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 to Thanks for having your first.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Doll whip or is this something you've had before?
Speaker 1 (24:54):
It is beautiful.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
We love it, we enjoy it, and Jenny, thank you
for coming by again. Gary and Shannon, we're live today
in Huntington Beach for a Pacific air show. We will
continue from the beach here in just a moment.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
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 5 (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 2 (25:35):
The rare chance at a foul ball, but there's a chance.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Okay, I'm just saying, yeah, yeah, I don't want a
foul ball here today, Probably not. I like the precision
movements we are the right term.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Uh, the aerobatics. Yeah, is what you're talking.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
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? What has that?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Do 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 moving snaps to level. Yes, okay.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
They just started the Pacific Air Show, the debut of
Anthony Oceanooga 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.
Sounds like you would that's something that you would enjoy
(26:28):
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 2 (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.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
The fact 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, know'll 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.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Him this freedom, don't you kid? It was hilarious.
Speaker 2 (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 2 (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.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
That is an incredible I don't like to see helicopters
do flips.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Well, they're not really supposed to be.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
It 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 2 (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 2 (28:07):
I've seen it on Airwolf, But what's air Wolf?
Speaker 5 (28:10):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (28:10):
He just did a three a barrel turn a barrel roll?
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Is that? Right?
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Look at me, I'm picking up the terminology.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Can be by the end of this you might be
doing the play by play 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 manually, 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 helicopters. So this is my.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Goodness, it 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 2 (29:08):
I doubt it? Aaron Fitzgerald.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
That sounds irish.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Uh 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. The
one five is the helicopter.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
That he's flying, the world's only aerobatic 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 2 (29:53):
How does it? How does he fit those into the
does he the pilot seat of the helicopter? 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 head set off?
Speaker 2 (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 put
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 2 (30:48):
Series of movies. Look at a trio of movies. You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Well, you give a trio.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
It's going to be a trio of trios.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Right 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 2 (31:13):
We're losing you. Oh, we are live today at the
Pacific Air Show on Huntington Beachy.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
There's kids. We should get them into space Horse yeng
and there.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
That's why I'm wearing it today to introduce it to
the child.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
There's like fifty five hundred kids here. What a perfect
advertising opportunity for Space Horse.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Pacific Airshow USA. Dot com is where you go to
get Rachie.
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 2 (31:41):
I looked right at it too. I know I looked
right and you made and 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.
We'll be back. You've been listening to The Gary and
(32:01):
Shannon Show. You can always hear us live on KFI
AM six forty nine am to one pm every Monday
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The heart was always off-limits to surgeons. Cutting into it spelled instant death for the patient. That is, until a ragtag group of doctors scattered across the Midwest and Texas decided to throw out the rule book. Working in makeshift laboratories and home garages, using medical devices made from scavenged machine parts and beer tubes, these men and women invented the field of open heart surgery. Odds are, someone you know is alive because of them. So why has history left them behind? Presented by Chris Pine, CARDIAC COWBOYS tells the gripping true story behind the birth of heart surgery, and the young, Greatest Generation doctors who made it happen. For years, they competed and feuded, racing to be the first, the best, and the most prolific. Some appeared on the cover of Time Magazine, operated on kings and advised presidents. Others ended up disgraced, penniless, and convicted of felonies. Together, they ignited a revolution in medicine, and changed the world.
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.