September 27, 2024 • 31 mins
ICYMI: Hour Three of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – An in-depth conversation with Pacific Airshow® Executive Director Kevin Elliott, who joins the program with a preview of the nation’s largest airshow, now in its 8th year, the Pacific Airshow® Huntington Beach, (Friday, October 4 through Sunday, October 6) featuring “heart-pumping aerobatic demonstrations by the world’s finest display teams, signing sessions with your favorite Airshow performers, and on-sand entertainment with beach bars, music and much more…PLUS – Thoughts on a woman’s intimate relationship with a Boeing 737 - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's Later with Mo Kelly. We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. Pacific air Show is the nation's largest air
show by attendance, annually attracting more than three million people
to Huntington Beach. It's now in its eighth year. The
three day Spectacle in the Sky takes place Friday October
fourth through Sunday October sixth, with daily action from ten
(00:27):
thirty am to four thirty pm each day, including family
friendly activities down on the sand. Kevin Elliott is executive
director for Pacific Air Show, and he joins me now
to give us a preview and at some point help
us give away a family four pack to attend. Kevin,
good evening, and thank you for coming on.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Hey, thanks for having me. It's another exciting year. We're
here in our eighth year at Pacific Air Show. I
can't believe it.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Look at me.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
I was sixteen when this all started, so I can't
believe this has all happened to me in just eight
short years. And people won't believe it. But now we're
really excited. It's going to be another great year. It
looks like beautiful weather and I appreciate you having me on.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
I have been in previous years.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
It's hard to describe the enormity, the majesty of the event.
I was awestruck by the military and civilian aircraft. What
else is essential in explaining just how great this event is.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Well, you know, it's a really special event. You have
to really attend it to understand. But it's a family
friendly event. I think that's what makes it so great.
Not only is it patriotic and community focus, but it's family.
It's not only the families that attend, but the military families,
the veterans like it means so much to so many people.
And in a world where there's you know, obviously much
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to disagree about, I think everybody agrees that coming to
the air show and looking up and just watching these
amazing machines and these pilots sort of following their dreams.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Right. They say aviation as a power.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Powerful metaphor for you know, following your dream, achieving your potential.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
I think that's what inspires people when they come down
to the beach.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Plus, you know it's at the beach, it's on one
of the most beautiful sandy beaches in southern California, and
so a day at the beach with family is already good.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
When you add all the magic.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Of the airplanes and the military and everything else, it
just puts it over the top.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Now we know we got the US Air Force, US
Navy Marine Corps along with Orange County Soccer Club, La Rugby,
Anaheim Ducks will be all bringing their skills. You know,
there's a lot going on just beyond what we see
in the air. Tell me about that as well. You
said family friendly activities. Let's get into that absolutely.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
So you know, our goal is to continue to diversify
the event.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
And elevate the on ground experience.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
You know, people say, you know, why do I purchase
a ticket when I can look up and see the airplanes? Right,
But you wouldn't watch a concert from outside the venue,
and you shouldn't watch the air show from outside either, Right.
So you're inside, you're in the commentary. You know, the
kids are there. There's plenty to see and do. As
you mentioned, all of the particular partners that are going
to be activating will have unbelievable military displays, simulators, all
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kinds of things. To touch and feel. In addition to that,
we'll of course have the everybody's favorite Maverick and Iceman
will be down there in the ticketed venue taking photos
and signing autographs.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Wait wait, wait, wait, Maverick and Iceman, is that like
an oblique top gun reference?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
It may be it.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Maybe you know it is if you have these unbelievable
maverickanized men or the hit of the Hint of the show,
if you haven't met them yet, they are unbelievably uncanny
to the actual characters, and so we love having them
down there and obviously a big crowd crowd hit this
year inside the venue as well, we are going to
have the world's first temporary landing area on the sand
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at an air show. So we're actually gonna be landing
STOLE aircraft, which stands for short Takeoff and Landing right
at show center. So if you're down there in the venue,
you're gonna see these aircraft. They're actually gonna be based
on the air on the sand. They'll take off, they're
gonna do their demonstration, come back and land, and then
the kids will be able to sit in the aircraft
take pictures. So we're trying to bring more of that
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action down to the beach and really make it not
just about what happens in the air, but also the
experience of being in the venue.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
You talked about how it's a family friendly event, and
I remember when I was a child growing up, I
was in love, still in love with the SR seventy
one Blackbird and what it represented not only for our country,
but also just aviation in general. There hasn't been at
least publicly disclosed a faster airplane. We probably got something better,
but we're not going to know about it. But what
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is it about This is more philosophical question. What is
it about kids and aircraft? Well, it's a great question.
So I myself grew up wanting to be a Blue
Angel pilot. Interestingly, right, So I grew up building and
flying remote control airplanes, and I was always obsessed with
flying and being a part.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
That's what I did my whole career. You know, my
whole childhood was building. My mom used to say my
name was plane brain, and I would just be gluing
my fingers together in the garage. But essentially, you know,
I think it's just there's something exciting about seeing airplanes fly,
like people are amazed that things fly. In fact, that's
something that we brief in every one of our pilot briefings.
You get all the best pilots from around the world,
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and you have our air boss, Wayne Boggs, who's a
bit of the celebrity himself, stand up in front of
them and say no one has to push because people
are amazed at damn things fly anyway. And I think
there's just some magic about it. And I know it
struck me as a child, having built my career in
the event's business, and this event, you know, popping up
in twenty sixteen was the reason I reached out to
get involved and subsequently have become very deeply involved in
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it because we believe in what it means for the community,
for the youth, for the families, and for the military
families who, by the way, you know, most of them
work all year long, traveling around from city to city
every week to put on these displays for the American people,
and Huntington Beach is the place where they bring their
families right and they actually take a bit of R
and R and spend time with their families. So we're
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very proud that this community that Southern California gets to
host so many of those great families.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
In Huntington Beach. Let's talk about it.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
It's one thing to see it on TV. It's one
thing to hear about it, but it's another thing to
experience it. It is one of the most beautiful cities,
not only in California, I would say, in the country.
How did Huntington Beach become part of this specifically?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Well, I can.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
The air show actually came to town in twenty sixteen.
I just went to it as a spectator originally, and
I happened to found my company here in two thousand
and seven. I'm born and raised Huntington Beach forty years
old now, so I've been here for almost forty one years,
I guess, and I thought this is amazing.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
You know.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I grew up building in flying remote control airplanes, as
I mentioned, and I saw an opportunity to potentially volunteer
my skill set, which was an event production, with something
that I was passionate about, which was aviation, and that's
how I got involved with the air show. But Huntington
Beach is a very unique venue in that it's got,
you know, over seven miles of completely you know Sandy Beach,
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tons of parking infrastructure. You know, you get at a
Newport Beach and they have homes on the beach, right,
Huntington Beach is very rare and that you don't see
that much undisturbed coastline, and that's very important to the
fabric of the city. So it actually allows us the
potential to do amazing things here. And I think, you know,
the air show is one of those things that the
city is very proud to host. I think the residents
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are proud. It brings in the type of crowd that
we all can be proud to bring into our city
and it just serves the right purposes.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
My guest right now is Kevin Elliott, who is executive
director for Pacific Air Show, which is coming up on Friday,
October fourth, and it runs through Sunday, October sixth in
Huntington Beach with daily action from ten thirty am to
four thirty pm.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
We'll be back in just a moment.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
With also your opportunity to win a family four pack
to Pacific Air Show, So don't go anywhere. It's later
with mo Kelly kf I AM six forty Live Everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
You're listening to Later with Kelly on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
And we're right in the middle of a conversation about
Pacific air Show, which is coming up soon. It starts
Friday October fourth through Sunday October sixth with Jaily Action
from ten thirty am to four to thirty pm in
Huntington Beach.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
It's a fantastic event.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
And Kevin Elliott, who is the executive director, joins me
right now to talk about it. And Kevin, let's pick
up our conversation. You have a love of aircraft. I
have a love of aircraft dating back to our childhood.
Let's drill down on some of these majestic flying machines
that we've talked about which should be on display.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Yeah, it's going to be an unbelievable lineup.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
I say it every year, and I feel like every
year we try to up ourselves. Right, It's hard to
one up yourself every year when you're you know, producing a.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Lineup like Pacific Airship.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
But what we love about it is the diversity of
the lineup, right, the military, the civilians, the jets, all
the diversity of aircraft and you know, pilots that make
it up is really what makes it special. Also the
cadence because it's a remote show and it's over water,
we're not dealing with any of the landings and takeoffs
that you have at your typical runway. So it's less
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than sixty seconds between acts, and so the pace of
the show is unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
But getting into it, we've got.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
The US Air Force Thunderbirds coming back for their seventh
appearance at the Pacific Air Show. Obviously always a crowd favorite.
A couple of the high points. This will be the
final performance of the United States Air Force A ten
Thunderbolt two Demonstration team, and so that's pretty significant because
after this year, the Air Force is hanging.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Up that aircraft.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
So, like you mentioned, with the SR seventy one being retired,
the A ten is about to meet its sin and
it's an unbelievable display. So we're really honored to have
that final display here in Honeyton Beach.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
As I mentioned, we'll have the stole.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Planes landing on the beach, and in addition to that,
an unbelievable makeup of jets.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
We've got T thirty eight's, we've got T.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Thirty three's, we've got a micro jet F eighteens, B
twenty five, MB, twenty two Osprey helicopters C one thirties.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Where do I stop? Seven fifty sevens.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
We'll have Jeff Bourbon this year flying an extra three
thirty SC Folks might remember him from flying the YAQ
one ten.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
We'll have F thirty five C from the Navy.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
We'll have four F fifteen's coming from the Louisiana Air
National Guard. They call themselves the Bayou Militia, some new
stuff from scaled composites. We'll have some jump teams with
the so COMPAA commandos, and on and on and on.
But the highlights definitely the Thunderbirds, the F twenty two
Raptor Demo and the A ten Thunderbolt two is going
to be unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
So come down.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
You'll have, you know, plenty of aircraft to see over
the course of five five and a half hours F.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Twenty two Raptor Demo. I think I need to be
there for that. And although this may only be across
one week in October fourth through October six and Huntington Beach,
correct me if I'm wrong. The planning and execution lead
up to an event like this is probably year round,
is it not.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Absolutely so, we have I'd like to say that the
best team in the world when it comes to doing this.
It's a group of unbelievable professionals and they're even better
human beings. But it's a really a two year planning cycle.
So believe it or not, we're actually already planning twenty
twenty six is event twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
We already kind of know how that's going to go.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
And so, you know, it's a long range effort to
produce these shows, to run the largest air show in
the world in one of the most complicated airspaces in
the world right here in southern California, you know, and
to deal with what happens not only on the beach,
but what happens in the water, and then all of
the stuff that happens in the air, with all of
the engagement with every agency that you might imagine, is
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no small planning task. And so Pacific Air Show is
a very difficult event to plan.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
But we've got a great team of professionals.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
I'm really proud to represent that team.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
You touched upon something I definitely wanted to talk about.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
How you have this air show you're not really far
from Ontario Airport, You're not really far from Lax and
the airspace and just the difficulties of trying to manage
all that within a certain amount of time. Talk to
me as best you can about the complexities which you're
involved in that.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Well, it's it is very complex airspace. We have an
air operations director who interestingly was for many many years
the operations manager at Long Beach Airport, so he when
he originally came up with the idea of this, was
very familiar with a lot of the folks in Southern
California reference the airspace and so, and they obviously respected him,
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so when this idea was originally brought forward, they didn't
immediately throw him out of the room, but there was
a lot of people that didn't believe it could happen.
But through you know, everybody's love of aviation, Frankly and
our Southern California Traycon partners who managed the airspace, the
Federal Aviation Administration, the City of Huntington be each the
co operation of the Joint Forces Training Base Los Salamidos,
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and the Army Airfield, Orange County Airport, Long Beach Airport,
I mean, so many stakeholders are involved in this to
make it a success, and just to opin a bit more.
You know, we're building basically if you could imagine a
cylinder that was from show center that was five nautical
miles in radius all the way to sixteen thousand feet
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in the air. We're taking control of that airspace to
give a safe environment where there's no other aircraft's flying.
And so that does involve the rerouting of some commercial
traffic around that space, which all of the agencies and
partners worked diligently on urine, and you're out to make
it sort of transparent to all of the commercial operations
that are going on and to make it a safe
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environment for us to put this on for the public.
So it's a great planning exercise, and I have to
say first class across the way with all of the
agencies that are involved. Every single person works hard to
get to yes all year long.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
You got me excited. I'm sure you've gotten our listeners excited.
I think now's the time for us to give away
a four pack of passes to one day at Pacific
Air Show, which is running October fourth through Sunday, October sixth,
to be clear, this is for one specific day, not
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all three days. But Kevin, I think you're gonna be
able to help us out with this. I need you
to give me a number between one and ten.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
All right.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
I think we're gonna have to go because it is
the final performance of the US Air Force A ten
thunderbolt to demo. We're gonna have to go with ten,
and no one ever picks ten on one to ten,
So we're going ten, though.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
You're not wrong. No one ever picks ten, but it's
going to be ten tonight. So caller ten, give us
a call at eight hundred five to zero one KFI
eight hundred five to zero, one five three four.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
If you are caller ten.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
A family four pack for one day of Pacific Air Show.
Be it Friday the fourth, Saturday the fifth, or Sun
the six, they will be yours family four pack for
one day of Pacific Air Show. Caller ten, eight hundred
five to zero one KFI eight hundred five to two
zero one five three four. Kevin Elliott, I want to
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thank you for coming on and giving us not only
the history but some perspective about how wonderful this event.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Has been and will be.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
What families can expect appreciation for our military families, how
they've contributed to this and also the logistics contained. Kevin,
thank you so much, and I'm quite sure we will
be enjoying it right alongside with you.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Well, you'll be working, but we'll be enjoying it.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Thanks for having me, Moo. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
It's Later with Moe Kelly KFI AM six forty. We
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Speaker 1 (15:45):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (15:52):
Kelly, We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And I
think we have a winner. Carol in Lehabra, congratulateations. You
will be going out to the Pacific Air Show. You
and three of your friends, family members and Tuala. I
couldn't quite hear all the call, but she seemed very
very excited, very excited.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
She was exceptionally excited. She is a fan of the show.
She has never won anything before. She is just a
regular listener. Carol Jost and Lehabor, congratulations Foush. She loves
your little laugh, she said. Foosh just has the cutest
little laughing.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
I love.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Oh man, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
As I was listening to Tuala get on to make
a turn here. As I was listening to Tuala talk
to Carol and get her winter information, we had TV's
on in the studio as they always do, and I
was watching what was happening in Florida with Hurricane Helene.
And I was listening to Mark Ronna with this news report.
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And we often talk about how you know there's been
this increase in earthquakes here, Well, we don't get out
of bed before at least a five on the richer scale.
But part of the reason why I love California and
will continue to live in California despite all of its warts,
and I'm not going to deny that California has its issues,
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despite that it is more expensive than just about any
other state in which to live. Part of the reason
why I do prefer to stay in California is for
the weather. When I say the weather, I'm not talking
about seventy five degrees outside in December, although that is nice.
I'm talking about I don't have any concern of any hurricane.
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And you have Hurricane Helene, which is just now hitting
land as windspeeds up to one hundred and forty miles
an hour. A million people right now without power, without power,
and it's going to get worse unfortunately before it gets better,
and there will be another hurricane season next year. There
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may even be another hurricane before this hurricane season is over.
Those are the conscious decisions that I have. And as
much as we joke about earthquakes, no one has been
dying in them. Knock on wood. No one has been
dying in them for quite some time. I can't tell
you specifically, but outside of the North rich earthquake in
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ninety four, which is literally thirty years ago now, I
don't know of another earthquake in recent times in which
anyone has perished, and I hope that we keep that
same record. But that's part of the reason why I
prefer California over any other place. There will be people
who will die because of just the cold this winter
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in the Midwest, just the cold, garden variety snow winter season.
People will die because of that. There will be people
who will unfortunately perish in tornadoes this year, every single year.
I would much rather take my chances with earthquakes. And
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I'm not saying that all that could I mean that
could all change tomorrow. But as of right down from
what I know, what I've lived through, what I've seen,
and even though science is such that they can predict hurricanes,
it doesn't mean that I ever want to be in
the path of one. It doesn't mean that I ever
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want to deal with the possibility or the likelihood of
having a hurricane pass through my state and destroying everything
that I hold deer. And that is a concern that
people in that portion of the Gulf and the eastern
portion of the United States have to deal with every
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single year.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
Living in Erie, Pennsylvania, it was absolutely beautiful watching the
seasons change. That is something to see. Watch the trees
go from green to yellow and gold and the leaves fall,
and watching all that happen, it was beautiful. Lightning, bugs,
beavers and all that loved it. The very first winter,
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when that snow came and they said we closed down
the schools, the roads, everything, batten down the hatches, I said, hmm,
I don't think this is for us, telling the family,
I don't think this is for us, But you know,
they said, well, you know, the snow will melt. When
that first tornado came close to coming through, exactly where
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we lived, and we had to go in our garage
and get in the car and it the sound you
there's nothing you've ever experienced us like the sound of
a tender going through the area and not even kidding,
lampfall in our I just went through and you would
have thought death was coming for you. And at that
point we literally called the property or and said, hey,
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we are packing our bags, we are leaving. This is
not for us. We are going back to California with
the earthquakes that we love.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
I'm looking at CNN and they're showing a guy in
his basically his house with five feet of water and
like a kayak. That's not something I ever want to
deal with. That's not something I'd ever want to even
risk putting my family through. And if there's a way
that I can avoid it by staying in California, because
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the likelihood of a hurricane hitting California is a lot
less than my aunt, excuse me, Florida or South Carolina, Mississippi.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Then yeah, that's what it's going to be for me.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
And so obviously praying for everyone in the southeastern portion
of the United States, but Hurricane Heleen might be the
strongest hurricane to hit America's coast in they're saying maybe
in the past one hundred years, and it hasn't fully
hit ground yet, and already a million people are without power.
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And regardless of what the hurricane does when it hits land,
you still have those people who are in the dark,
without power, without help. Presumably who are you know, in
harm's way in more ways than one beyond just a hurricane.
And you know, this is a really, really dangerous moment
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for that portion of the country.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
I don't know how people look.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Look, people my friends in the East Coast will say,
I don't know how you deal with earthquakes. Well, I
can deal with it because the predictable unpredictability of earthquakes
I can wrap my mind around.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
I can't wrap my mind around a tornado. I just can't.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
You have, let's say, a minute or two minute warning
before a tornado make touchdown P one to P five.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
You just don't know.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Look, you may have a weak warning for a hurricane,
but still a lot of they've already had a few
people die in Florida and Georgia already. Yeah, more than
anyone who's died in an earthquake. And I'm not saying
that any level of death is acceptable, but I can
say that people aren't dying again knock on wood due
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to earthquakes.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
Beyond the death this that we're looking at on TV.
Imagine you're at Chateau Le mo and you go downstairs
and you cannot go down stairs because it's just water.
This individual is literally in a kayak and it's not
just the water in the house, it's all outside because
you can see the door is open and water's just
coming in.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
It's rising.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yeah, how does that person get back to normality? How
does that person make sure that everyone is family in
close proximity?
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Is I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
You know, a smart ass can say, well you should
have left town, okay, right, but you know you've left everything.
What are you coming back to if at all? Yeah,
it's Later with mo Kelly. Well, check in with George
Norri in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Okay, if I am six forty close to coast am
with George Norri and he joins me right now on
the line.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
So what's coming up tonight?
Speaker 8 (24:38):
What's going on tonight, Mowa, in addition to news of
the day, we're going to talk about how the mind
can create miracles and later on a little bit of
old black magic on coast to coast.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
All right, I just need to know how soon before
I can start like levitating objects around my house.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
With my mind.
Speaker 8 (24:56):
I understand, you do that now?
Speaker 5 (24:58):
No, no, no, no, no, I'm close. I can make it wobble.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I could make some things fall off the table, but
that's about it.
Speaker 8 (25:04):
You make yourself fall off.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
To me, it felt like everyone's gaying up on me
around here.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
In your buddy, George, You're lucky.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
I love you. Bye.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
And before we get out of here, I have to
tell you about this story. For nearly ten years, a
German woman named Michelle Kopkey maintained, according to this, a
sexual relationship with a Boeing seven point thirty seven plane
out which she affectionately named Shatzi or shots or something
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like that.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
Who knows, meaningful? Careful?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Well, I'm just saying it's schatz. Anyone want to translate?
According to this, it means darling in German.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
Oh, oh okay.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
The relationship, started in twenty fourteen, was part of a
phenomenon known as object ophelia, where individuals develop romantic or
sexual attachments to inanimate objects. Well, let me just ask
this question, how can it be a relationship? Relationship says
to me or suggests that there are two involved parties.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Can a plane consent?
Speaker 2 (26:18):
You beat me there, I mean, because the plane is
just not movment. It's just kind of just laying there.
I mean, you know they're been a way. Maybe a
cargo plane can consent. I mean, what do you do
after sex? Do you make it a sandwich? Do you
take a shower together?
Speaker 7 (26:39):
I mean, look, you can definitely get it a drink
from the mini bar.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
Well, but think about it this way.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
There's no like real acknowledgment of whether it was good
or not for the plane. We've all had those moments
where he's like wondering. You're like, well did she like it?
And there's absolutely no feedback none. You're going to town.
Whose plane is it? Say my plane? Say my plane?
Speaker 7 (27:06):
If you want to feel bigger, go with Assessma.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
It's not the size, it's the motion of the propeller. Yeah, yeah,
oh okay, this is how it all began.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Getting back to the story, Copkey first encountered shots at
Berlin Tago Airport and was immediately captivated by the plane's wings,
winglets on the first sight and thrusters. Her feelings for
the aircraft grew so intense that she dreamed of marrying it. Quote,
I sleep with my darling every night. Intimacy is part
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of our relationship, Kapki said. During the relationship, for years,
she cherished her bond with the plane, keeping various components
of it as keepsakes, you know, like an armrest.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
Here's the breakup.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
And I don't know how you can break up with
someone because there was not any explicit agreement that they
were in an exclusive relationship.
Speaker 7 (28:03):
But probably easier if it's a Boeing plane. The breakup,
oh Mark, but he earned it.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
After nine years, Copy recently announced that her relationship with
the plane had ended.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
The plane the plane.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Despite the breakup, she explained that they remain on good terms. Well,
I would like to hear this from the from the plane.
I've been through some breakups and my exes. They would
probably tell the story one way, and I would tell
it very differently.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
I would want to hear from the plane.
Speaker 7 (28:40):
Well, at a certain point, everybody's thrusters start to become dissatisfying.
Survey says, you just need to try some different thrusters.
Every now and then, she says, we're still friends.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
The end of the of this unique relationship marked a
new chapter in her life, and she's moved on to
new interests.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
Boats, perhaps friends. Trains have strong engines, nice es, big
black engines.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
Can we break early? Oh?
Speaker 7 (29:25):
You got plenty of time, so one time, we don't
have to. I know, we don't have to take your time.
Get into it. Okay, go deep.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Here the new interests Since the breakup, Copkey has shifted
her focus from aviation to the Middle Ages, even adopting
a new passion for collecting Knight's armor. I now love
wearing knights armor, she said, explaining her new interest in
medieval history and artifacts. She sold off many of her
Plaine souvenirs to make room for her new collection, indicating
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a significant life change.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
Can you put the plane souvenirs in the dishwalk? Sure? First?
What do you do with those? I don't know, Maybe
some hand sanitize with me. You know, it's white, white,
and down. Okay, it's time to go. I can't do
this anymore. I can't do this. Look, you got a
lot of time. I can just break early. This. This
is very unique.
Speaker 7 (30:16):
And you know we must understand objectiphilia and it is
a real condition.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
It is.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
It's as real as your fear of bees. People get
it on with cars. I'm not kidding. Yes, I wish
I were kidding. And jd Vance hit a sofa. Oh
well look at the time, Oh but I'm out of bound.
You do a bullet show but to far right? Well,
was it one of those sofa beds that you pull
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out or just a like a quote love seat.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
I mean he's pulling out. I mean he's pulling out,
you know, pulling out the seat early. I know.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
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Are we gonna make them have to win? Yeah, they
gotta win. You're out, You're the captain. We're not dragging anybody,
are we good? This is serious. That's a good question.
We might have to think about that, Mark, What say you.
Everybody's a winner if they make it true.
Speaker 7 (31:29):
Moh okay, that's also Yeah, that's pretty tough to get in.
But Taala is the gatekeeper.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
Yeah, so he's.
Speaker 7 (31:37):
Gonna be the one to to. You'll decide who gets
to play them for tomorrow.
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's Later with Mo Kelly. We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. Pacific air Show is the nation's largest air
show by attendance, annually attracting more than three million people
to Huntington Beach. It's now in its eighth year. The
three day Spectacle in the Sky takes place Friday October
fourth through Sunday October sixth, with daily action from ten
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thirty am to four thirty pm each day, including family
friendly activities down on the sand. Kevin Elliott is executive
director for Pacific Air Show, and he joins me now
to give us a preview and at some point help
us give away a family four pack to attend. Kevin,
good evening, and thank you for coming on.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Hey, thanks for having me. It's another exciting year. We're
here in our eighth year at Pacific Air Show. I
can't believe it.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Look at me.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
I was sixteen when this all started, so I can't
believe this has all happened to me in just eight
short years. And people won't believe it. But now we're
really excited. It's going to be another great year. It
looks like beautiful weather and I appreciate you having me on.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
I have been in previous years.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
It's hard to describe the enormity, the majesty of the event.
I was awestruck by the military and civilian aircraft. What
else is essential in explaining just how great this event is.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Well, you know, it's a really special event. You have
to really attend it to understand. But it's a family
friendly event. I think that's what makes it so great.
Not only is it patriotic and community focus, but it's family.
It's not only the families that attend, but the military families,
the veterans like it means so much to so many people.
And in a world where there's you know, obviously much
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to disagree about, I think everybody agrees that coming to
the air show and looking up and just watching these
amazing machines and these pilots sort of following their dreams.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Right. They say aviation as a power.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Powerful metaphor for you know, following your dream, achieving your potential.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
I think that's what inspires people when they come down
to the beach.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Plus, you know it's at the beach, it's on one
of the most beautiful sandy beaches in southern California, and
so a day at the beach with family is already good.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
When you add all the magic.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Of the airplanes and the military and everything else, it
just puts it over the top.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Now we know we got the US Air Force, US
Navy Marine Corps along with Orange County Soccer Club, La Rugby,
Anaheim Ducks will be all bringing their skills. You know,
there's a lot going on just beyond what we see
in the air. Tell me about that as well. You
said family friendly activities. Let's get into that absolutely.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
So you know, our goal is to continue to diversify
the event.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
And elevate the on ground experience.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
You know, people say, you know, why do I purchase
a ticket when I can look up and see the airplanes? Right,
But you wouldn't watch a concert from outside the venue,
and you shouldn't watch the air show from outside either, Right.
So you're inside, you're in the commentary. You know, the
kids are there. There's plenty to see and do. As
you mentioned, all of the particular partners that are going
to be activating will have unbelievable military displays, simulators, all
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kinds of things. To touch and feel. In addition to that,
we'll of course have the everybody's favorite Maverick and Iceman
will be down there in the ticketed venue taking photos
and signing autographs.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Wait wait, wait, wait, Maverick and Iceman, is that like
an oblique top gun reference?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
It may be it.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Maybe you know it is if you have these unbelievable
maverickanized men or the hit of the Hint of the show,
if you haven't met them yet, they are unbelievably uncanny
to the actual characters, and so we love having them
down there and obviously a big crowd crowd hit this
year inside the venue as well, we are going to
have the world's first temporary landing area on the sand
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at an air show. So we're actually gonna be landing
STOLE aircraft, which stands for short Takeoff and Landing right
at show center. So if you're down there in the venue,
you're gonna see these aircraft. They're actually gonna be based
on the air on the sand. They'll take off, they're
gonna do their demonstration, come back and land, and then
the kids will be able to sit in the aircraft
take pictures. So we're trying to bring more of that
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action down to the beach and really make it not
just about what happens in the air, but also the
experience of being in the venue.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
You talked about how it's a family friendly event, and
I remember when I was a child growing up, I
was in love, still in love with the SR seventy
one Blackbird and what it represented not only for our country,
but also just aviation in general. There hasn't been at
least publicly disclosed a faster airplane. We probably got something better,
but we're not going to know about it. But what
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is it about This is more philosophical question. What is
it about kids and aircraft? Well, it's a great question.
So I myself grew up wanting to be a Blue
Angel pilot. Interestingly, right, So I grew up building and
flying remote control airplanes, and I was always obsessed with
flying and being a part.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
That's what I did my whole career. You know, my
whole childhood was building. My mom used to say my
name was plane brain, and I would just be gluing
my fingers together in the garage. But essentially, you know,
I think it's just there's something exciting about seeing airplanes fly,
like people are amazed that things fly. In fact, that's
something that we brief in every one of our pilot briefings.
You get all the best pilots from around the world,
(05:09):
and you have our air boss, Wayne Boggs, who's a
bit of the celebrity himself, stand up in front of
them and say no one has to push because people
are amazed at damn things fly anyway. And I think
there's just some magic about it. And I know it
struck me as a child, having built my career in
the event's business, and this event, you know, popping up
in twenty sixteen was the reason I reached out to
get involved and subsequently have become very deeply involved in
(05:32):
it because we believe in what it means for the community,
for the youth, for the families, and for the military
families who, by the way, you know, most of them
work all year long, traveling around from city to city
every week to put on these displays for the American people,
and Huntington Beach is the place where they bring their
families right and they actually take a bit of R
and R and spend time with their families. So we're
(05:54):
very proud that this community that Southern California gets to
host so many of those great families.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
In Huntington Beach. Let's talk about it.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
It's one thing to see it on TV. It's one
thing to hear about it, but it's another thing to
experience it. It is one of the most beautiful cities,
not only in California, I would say, in the country.
How did Huntington Beach become part of this specifically?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Well, I can.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
The air show actually came to town in twenty sixteen.
I just went to it as a spectator originally, and
I happened to found my company here in two thousand
and seven. I'm born and raised Huntington Beach forty years
old now, so I've been here for almost forty one years,
I guess, and I thought this is amazing.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
You know.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I grew up building in flying remote control airplanes, as
I mentioned, and I saw an opportunity to potentially volunteer
my skill set, which was an event production, with something
that I was passionate about, which was aviation, and that's
how I got involved with the air show. But Huntington
Beach is a very unique venue in that it's got,
you know, over seven miles of completely you know Sandy Beach,
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tons of parking infrastructure. You know, you get at a
Newport Beach and they have homes on the beach, right,
Huntington Beach is very rare and that you don't see
that much undisturbed coastline, and that's very important to the
fabric of the city. So it actually allows us the
potential to do amazing things here. And I think, you know,
the air show is one of those things that the
city is very proud to host. I think the residents
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are proud. It brings in the type of crowd that
we all can be proud to bring into our city
and it just serves the right purposes.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
My guest right now is Kevin Elliott, who is executive
director for Pacific Air Show, which is coming up on Friday,
October fourth, and it runs through Sunday, October sixth in
Huntington Beach with daily action from ten thirty am to
four thirty pm.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
We'll be back in just a moment.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
With also your opportunity to win a family four pack
to Pacific Air Show, So don't go anywhere. It's later
with mo Kelly kf I AM six forty Live Everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
You're listening to Later with Kelly on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
And we're right in the middle of a conversation about
Pacific air Show, which is coming up soon. It starts
Friday October fourth through Sunday October sixth with Jaily Action
from ten thirty am to four to thirty pm in
Huntington Beach.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
It's a fantastic event.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
And Kevin Elliott, who is the executive director, joins me
right now to talk about it. And Kevin, let's pick
up our conversation. You have a love of aircraft. I
have a love of aircraft dating back to our childhood.
Let's drill down on some of these majestic flying machines
that we've talked about which should be on display.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Yeah, it's going to be an unbelievable lineup.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
I say it every year, and I feel like every
year we try to up ourselves. Right, It's hard to
one up yourself every year when you're you know, producing a.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Lineup like Pacific Airship.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
But what we love about it is the diversity of
the lineup, right, the military, the civilians, the jets, all
the diversity of aircraft and you know, pilots that make
it up is really what makes it special. Also the
cadence because it's a remote show and it's over water,
we're not dealing with any of the landings and takeoffs
that you have at your typical runway. So it's less
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than sixty seconds between acts, and so the pace of
the show is unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
But getting into it, we've got.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
The US Air Force Thunderbirds coming back for their seventh
appearance at the Pacific Air Show. Obviously always a crowd favorite.
A couple of the high points. This will be the
final performance of the United States Air Force A ten
Thunderbolt two Demonstration team, and so that's pretty significant because
after this year, the Air Force is hanging.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Up that aircraft.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
So, like you mentioned, with the SR seventy one being retired,
the A ten is about to meet its sin and
it's an unbelievable display. So we're really honored to have
that final display here in Honeyton Beach.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
As I mentioned, we'll have the stole.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Planes landing on the beach, and in addition to that,
an unbelievable makeup of jets.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
We've got T thirty eight's, we've got T.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Thirty three's, we've got a micro jet F eighteens, B
twenty five, MB, twenty two Osprey helicopters C one thirties.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Where do I stop? Seven fifty sevens.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
We'll have Jeff Bourbon this year flying an extra three
thirty SC Folks might remember him from flying the YAQ
one ten.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
We'll have F thirty five C from the Navy.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
We'll have four F fifteen's coming from the Louisiana Air
National Guard. They call themselves the Bayou Militia, some new
stuff from scaled composites. We'll have some jump teams with
the so COMPAA commandos, and on and on and on.
But the highlights definitely the Thunderbirds, the F twenty two
Raptor Demo and the A ten Thunderbolt two is going
to be unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
So come down.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
You'll have, you know, plenty of aircraft to see over
the course of five five and a half hours F.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Twenty two Raptor Demo. I think I need to be
there for that. And although this may only be across
one week in October fourth through October six and Huntington Beach,
correct me if I'm wrong. The planning and execution lead
up to an event like this is probably year round,
is it not.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Absolutely so, we have I'd like to say that the
best team in the world when it comes to doing this.
It's a group of unbelievable professionals and they're even better
human beings. But it's a really a two year planning cycle.
So believe it or not, we're actually already planning twenty
twenty six is event twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
We already kind of know how that's going to go.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
And so, you know, it's a long range effort to
produce these shows, to run the largest air show in
the world in one of the most complicated airspaces in
the world right here in southern California, you know, and
to deal with what happens not only on the beach,
but what happens in the water, and then all of
the stuff that happens in the air, with all of
the engagement with every agency that you might imagine, is
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no small planning task. And so Pacific Air Show is
a very difficult event to plan.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
But we've got a great team of professionals.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
I'm really proud to represent that team.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
You touched upon something I definitely wanted to talk about.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
How you have this air show you're not really far
from Ontario Airport, You're not really far from Lax and
the airspace and just the difficulties of trying to manage
all that within a certain amount of time. Talk to
me as best you can about the complexities which you're
involved in that.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Well, it's it is very complex airspace. We have an
air operations director who interestingly was for many many years
the operations manager at Long Beach Airport, so he when
he originally came up with the idea of this, was
very familiar with a lot of the folks in Southern
California reference the airspace and so, and they obviously respected him,
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so when this idea was originally brought forward, they didn't
immediately throw him out of the room, but there was
a lot of people that didn't believe it could happen.
But through you know, everybody's love of aviation, Frankly and
our Southern California Traycon partners who managed the airspace, the
Federal Aviation Administration, the City of Huntington be each the
co operation of the Joint Forces Training Base Los Salamidos,
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and the Army Airfield, Orange County Airport, Long Beach Airport,
I mean, so many stakeholders are involved in this to
make it a success, and just to opin a bit more.
You know, we're building basically if you could imagine a
cylinder that was from show center that was five nautical
miles in radius all the way to sixteen thousand feet
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in the air. We're taking control of that airspace to
give a safe environment where there's no other aircraft's flying.
And so that does involve the rerouting of some commercial
traffic around that space, which all of the agencies and
partners worked diligently on urine, and you're out to make
it sort of transparent to all of the commercial operations
that are going on and to make it a safe
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environment for us to put this on for the public.
So it's a great planning exercise, and I have to
say first class across the way with all of the
agencies that are involved. Every single person works hard to
get to yes all year long.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
You got me excited. I'm sure you've gotten our listeners excited.
I think now's the time for us to give away
a four pack of passes to one day at Pacific
Air Show, which is running October fourth through Sunday, October sixth,
to be clear, this is for one specific day, not
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all three days. But Kevin, I think you're gonna be
able to help us out with this. I need you
to give me a number between one and ten.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
All right.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
I think we're gonna have to go because it is
the final performance of the US Air Force A ten
thunderbolt to demo. We're gonna have to go with ten,
and no one ever picks ten on one to ten,
So we're going ten, though.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
You're not wrong. No one ever picks ten, but it's
going to be ten tonight. So caller ten, give us
a call at eight hundred five to zero one KFI
eight hundred five to zero, one five three four.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
If you are caller ten.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
A family four pack for one day of Pacific Air Show.
Be it Friday the fourth, Saturday the fifth, or Sun
the six, they will be yours family four pack for
one day of Pacific Air Show. Caller ten, eight hundred
five to zero one KFI eight hundred five to two
zero one five three four. Kevin Elliott, I want to
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thank you for coming on and giving us not only
the history but some perspective about how wonderful this event.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Has been and will be.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
What families can expect appreciation for our military families, how
they've contributed to this and also the logistics contained. Kevin,
thank you so much, and I'm quite sure we will
be enjoying it right alongside with you.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Well, you'll be working, but we'll be enjoying it.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Thanks for having me, Moo. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
It's Later with Moe Kelly KFI AM six forty. We
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Speaker 1 (15:45):
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Kelly, We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And I
think we have a winner. Carol in Lehabra, congratulateations. You
will be going out to the Pacific Air Show. You
and three of your friends, family members and Tuala. I
couldn't quite hear all the call, but she seemed very
very excited, very excited.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
She was exceptionally excited. She is a fan of the show.
She has never won anything before. She is just a
regular listener. Carol Jost and Lehabor, congratulations Foush. She loves
your little laugh, she said. Foosh just has the cutest
little laughing.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
I love.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Oh man, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
As I was listening to Tuala get on to make
a turn here. As I was listening to Tuala talk
to Carol and get her winter information, we had TV's
on in the studio as they always do, and I
was watching what was happening in Florida with Hurricane Helene.
And I was listening to Mark Ronna with this news report.
(17:01):
And we often talk about how you know there's been
this increase in earthquakes here, Well, we don't get out
of bed before at least a five on the richer scale.
But part of the reason why I love California and
will continue to live in California despite all of its warts,
and I'm not going to deny that California has its issues,
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despite that it is more expensive than just about any
other state in which to live. Part of the reason
why I do prefer to stay in California is for
the weather. When I say the weather, I'm not talking
about seventy five degrees outside in December, although that is nice.
I'm talking about I don't have any concern of any hurricane.
(17:46):
And you have Hurricane Helene, which is just now hitting
land as windspeeds up to one hundred and forty miles
an hour. A million people right now without power, without power,
and it's going to get worse unfortunately before it gets better,
and there will be another hurricane season next year. There
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may even be another hurricane before this hurricane season is over.
Those are the conscious decisions that I have. And as
much as we joke about earthquakes, no one has been
dying in them. Knock on wood. No one has been
dying in them for quite some time. I can't tell
you specifically, but outside of the North rich earthquake in
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ninety four, which is literally thirty years ago now, I
don't know of another earthquake in recent times in which
anyone has perished, and I hope that we keep that
same record. But that's part of the reason why I
prefer California over any other place. There will be people
who will die because of just the cold this winter
(18:53):
in the Midwest, just the cold, garden variety snow winter season.
People will die because of that. There will be people
who will unfortunately perish in tornadoes this year, every single year.
I would much rather take my chances with earthquakes. And
(19:13):
I'm not saying that all that could I mean that
could all change tomorrow. But as of right down from
what I know, what I've lived through, what I've seen,
and even though science is such that they can predict hurricanes,
it doesn't mean that I ever want to be in
the path of one. It doesn't mean that I ever
(19:34):
want to deal with the possibility or the likelihood of
having a hurricane pass through my state and destroying everything
that I hold deer. And that is a concern that
people in that portion of the Gulf and the eastern
portion of the United States have to deal with every
(19:57):
single year.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
Living in Erie, Pennsylvania, it was absolutely beautiful watching the
seasons change. That is something to see. Watch the trees
go from green to yellow and gold and the leaves fall,
and watching all that happen, it was beautiful. Lightning, bugs,
beavers and all that loved it. The very first winter,
(20:24):
when that snow came and they said we closed down
the schools, the roads, everything, batten down the hatches, I said, hmm,
I don't think this is for us, telling the family,
I don't think this is for us, But you know,
they said, well, you know, the snow will melt. When
that first tornado came close to coming through, exactly where
(20:45):
we lived, and we had to go in our garage
and get in the car and it the sound you
there's nothing you've ever experienced us like the sound of
a tender going through the area and not even kidding,
lampfall in our I just went through and you would
have thought death was coming for you. And at that
point we literally called the property or and said, hey,
(21:09):
we are packing our bags, we are leaving. This is
not for us. We are going back to California with
the earthquakes that we love.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
I'm looking at CNN and they're showing a guy in
his basically his house with five feet of water and
like a kayak. That's not something I ever want to
deal with. That's not something I'd ever want to even
risk putting my family through. And if there's a way
that I can avoid it by staying in California, because
(21:38):
the likelihood of a hurricane hitting California is a lot
less than my aunt, excuse me, Florida or South Carolina, Mississippi.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Then yeah, that's what it's going to be for me.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
And so obviously praying for everyone in the southeastern portion
of the United States, but Hurricane Heleen might be the
strongest hurricane to hit America's coast in they're saying maybe
in the past one hundred years, and it hasn't fully
hit ground yet, and already a million people are without power.
(22:14):
And regardless of what the hurricane does when it hits land,
you still have those people who are in the dark,
without power, without help. Presumably who are you know, in
harm's way in more ways than one beyond just a hurricane.
And you know, this is a really, really dangerous moment
(22:34):
for that portion of the country.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
I don't know how people look.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Look, people my friends in the East Coast will say,
I don't know how you deal with earthquakes. Well, I
can deal with it because the predictable unpredictability of earthquakes
I can wrap my mind around.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
I can't wrap my mind around a tornado. I just can't.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
You have, let's say, a minute or two minute warning
before a tornado make touchdown P one to P five.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
You just don't know.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Look, you may have a weak warning for a hurricane,
but still a lot of they've already had a few
people die in Florida and Georgia already. Yeah, more than
anyone who's died in an earthquake. And I'm not saying
that any level of death is acceptable, but I can
say that people aren't dying again knock on wood due
(23:27):
to earthquakes.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
Beyond the death this that we're looking at on TV.
Imagine you're at Chateau Le mo and you go downstairs
and you cannot go down stairs because it's just water.
This individual is literally in a kayak and it's not
just the water in the house, it's all outside because
you can see the door is open and water's just
coming in.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
It's rising.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yeah, how does that person get back to normality? How
does that person make sure that everyone is family in
close proximity?
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Is I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
You know, a smart ass can say, well you should
have left town, okay, right, but you know you've left everything.
What are you coming back to if at all? Yeah,
it's Later with mo Kelly. Well, check in with George
Norri in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Okay, if I am six forty close to coast am
with George Norri and he joins me right now on
the line.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
So what's coming up tonight?
Speaker 8 (24:38):
What's going on tonight, Mowa, in addition to news of
the day, we're going to talk about how the mind
can create miracles and later on a little bit of
old black magic on coast to coast.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
All right, I just need to know how soon before
I can start like levitating objects around my house.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
With my mind.
Speaker 8 (24:56):
I understand, you do that now?
Speaker 5 (24:58):
No, no, no, no, no, I'm close. I can make it wobble.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I could make some things fall off the table, but
that's about it.
Speaker 8 (25:04):
You make yourself fall off.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
To me, it felt like everyone's gaying up on me
around here.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
In your buddy, George, You're lucky.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
I love you. Bye.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
And before we get out of here, I have to
tell you about this story. For nearly ten years, a
German woman named Michelle Kopkey maintained, according to this, a
sexual relationship with a Boeing seven point thirty seven plane
out which she affectionately named Shatzi or shots or something
(25:41):
like that.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
Who knows, meaningful? Careful?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Well, I'm just saying it's schatz. Anyone want to translate?
According to this, it means darling in German.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
Oh, oh okay.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
The relationship, started in twenty fourteen, was part of a
phenomenon known as object ophelia, where individuals develop romantic or
sexual attachments to inanimate objects. Well, let me just ask
this question, how can it be a relationship? Relationship says
to me or suggests that there are two involved parties.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Can a plane consent?
Speaker 2 (26:18):
You beat me there, I mean, because the plane is
just not movment. It's just kind of just laying there.
I mean, you know they're been a way. Maybe a
cargo plane can consent. I mean, what do you do
after sex? Do you make it a sandwich? Do you
take a shower together?
Speaker 7 (26:39):
I mean, look, you can definitely get it a drink
from the mini bar.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
Well, but think about it this way.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
There's no like real acknowledgment of whether it was good
or not for the plane. We've all had those moments
where he's like wondering. You're like, well did she like it?
And there's absolutely no feedback none. You're going to town.
Whose plane is it? Say my plane? Say my plane?
Speaker 7 (27:06):
If you want to feel bigger, go with Assessma.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
It's not the size, it's the motion of the propeller. Yeah, yeah,
oh okay, this is how it all began.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Getting back to the story, Copkey first encountered shots at
Berlin Tago Airport and was immediately captivated by the plane's wings,
winglets on the first sight and thrusters. Her feelings for
the aircraft grew so intense that she dreamed of marrying it. Quote,
I sleep with my darling every night. Intimacy is part
(27:43):
of our relationship, Kapki said. During the relationship, for years,
she cherished her bond with the plane, keeping various components
of it as keepsakes, you know, like an armrest.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
Here's the breakup.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
And I don't know how you can break up with
someone because there was not any explicit agreement that they
were in an exclusive relationship.
Speaker 7 (28:03):
But probably easier if it's a Boeing plane. The breakup,
oh Mark, but he earned it.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
After nine years, Copy recently announced that her relationship with
the plane had ended.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
The plane the plane.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Despite the breakup, she explained that they remain on good terms. Well,
I would like to hear this from the from the plane.
I've been through some breakups and my exes. They would
probably tell the story one way, and I would tell
it very differently.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
I would want to hear from the plane.
Speaker 7 (28:40):
Well, at a certain point, everybody's thrusters start to become dissatisfying.
Survey says, you just need to try some different thrusters.
Every now and then, she says, we're still friends.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
The end of the of this unique relationship marked a
new chapter in her life, and she's moved on to
new interests.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
Boats, perhaps friends. Trains have strong engines, nice es, big
black engines.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
Can we break early? Oh?
Speaker 7 (29:25):
You got plenty of time, so one time, we don't
have to. I know, we don't have to take your time.
Get into it. Okay, go deep.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Here the new interests Since the breakup, Copkey has shifted
her focus from aviation to the Middle Ages, even adopting
a new passion for collecting Knight's armor. I now love
wearing knights armor, she said, explaining her new interest in
medieval history and artifacts. She sold off many of her
Plaine souvenirs to make room for her new collection, indicating
(29:55):
a significant life change.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
Can you put the plane souvenirs in the dishwalk? Sure? First?
What do you do with those? I don't know, Maybe
some hand sanitize with me. You know, it's white, white,
and down. Okay, it's time to go. I can't do
this anymore. I can't do this. Look, you got a
lot of time. I can just break early. This. This
is very unique.
Speaker 7 (30:16):
And you know we must understand objectiphilia and it is
a real condition.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
It is.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
It's as real as your fear of bees. People get
it on with cars. I'm not kidding. Yes, I wish
I were kidding. And jd Vance hit a sofa. Oh
well look at the time, Oh but I'm out of bound.
You do a bullet show but to far right? Well,
was it one of those sofa beds that you pull
(30:42):
out or just a like a quote love seat.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
I mean he's pulling out. I mean he's pulling out,
you know, pulling out the seat early. I know.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Tomorrow night on the show, whill be giving away passes
If you still like us to come to our live
in studio show of Later with Mo Kelly on October thirtieth,
our pre holiday Halloween soiree, So tomorrow night, name that
movie cult classic giving away passes. All you gotta do
(31:12):
is make sure you name the title of the movie.
Are we gonna make them have to win? Yeah, they
gotta win. You're out, You're the captain. We're not dragging anybody,
are we good? This is serious. That's a good question.
We might have to think about that, Mark, What say you.
Everybody's a winner if they make it true.
Speaker 7 (31:29):
Moh okay, that's also Yeah, that's pretty tough to get in.
But Taala is the gatekeeper.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
Yeah, so he's.
Speaker 7 (31:37):
Gonna be the one to to. You'll decide who gets
to play them for tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Yes, Planes, trains and automobiles, A boy, the boy.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
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Speaker 4 (31:49):
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