WEBVTT - LIVE FROM THE BEACH + GARY’S THUNDERBIRD FLASHBACK 0:00:00.700 --> 0:00:03.110 This is Gary and Shannon, and you're listening to KFI 0:00:03.210 --> 0:00:06.130 AM 640, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand on 0:00:06.150 --> 0:00:07.270 the iHeartRadio app. 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:13.240 They're putting up shades so that we don't spontaneously combust. 0:00:13.630 --> 0:00:15.590 We're pretty white for these conditions. 0:00:15.670 --> 0:00:17.630 Well, I got my banana boat ready to go. We're 0:00:17.650 --> 0:00:20.209 live today on Huntington Beach, as a matter of fact, 0:00:20.230 --> 0:00:21.290 for the Pacific Air Show. 0:00:21.510 --> 0:00:23.630 We're right at one of the entrances here for the 0:00:23.650 --> 0:00:24.009 Pacific Air Show. 0:00:24.030 --> 0:00:25.090 Yeah, this is Gate B, I believe. 0:00:25.290 --> 0:00:28.330 So we can actually harass people as they're walking in. 0:00:28.370 --> 0:00:28.950 Well, that's a good idea. 0:00:28.970 --> 0:00:30.010 Which is always a treat. 0:00:30.190 --> 0:00:30.410 Yeah. 0:00:31.100 --> 0:00:31.840 Always a treat. 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:35.300 My goodness, that was a fun football game last night. 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:36.080 Did you catch any of that? 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:38.670 So I want to say something about this football game. 0:00:38.890 --> 0:00:41.450 I want to say something about Aaron Rodgers. He comes 0:00:41.530 --> 0:00:44.010 on the screen, and my wife knows enough about football 0:00:44.050 --> 0:00:46.989 to go, that guy looks old. How old is he? 0:00:47.050 --> 0:00:48.530 You don't have to know about football to know he 0:00:48.570 --> 0:00:49.620 looks old, but yeah. 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:52.360 I mean, she recognizes him and knows that he's been 0:00:52.380 --> 0:00:54.550 around for a long time. So I say, well, I 0:00:54.590 --> 0:00:58.530 think he's 40. They say, like, literally seconds later. The 0:00:58.550 --> 0:01:02.430 42-year-old star quarterback. And he just looked towards the end 0:01:02.470 --> 0:01:04.150 of the game. One of the drives is they're trying 0:01:04.190 --> 0:01:06.010 to score a touchdown to tie the game at least. 0:01:07.610 --> 0:01:10.750 He looks bored out of his mind. It didn't seem 0:01:10.890 --> 0:01:12.640 excited at all. And later I know he got in 0:01:12.890 --> 0:01:15.640 a fight with his coach. He's not bored. He can 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:17.120 just dissect a defense. 0:01:17.300 --> 0:01:20.690 So his heart rate doesn't rise above 40. 0:01:20.690 --> 0:01:21.170 A hundred. 0:01:21.190 --> 0:01:25.560 Remember when Phillip Rivers came back and he was at 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:28.560 the helm for the Colts? And he just looked like 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:32.360 he was having a Saturday afternoon at the line of scrimmage. Hey, 0:01:32.380 --> 0:01:35.000 get that guy pointing over there, letting this guy move 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:36.360 in this guy to his left, to his right. 0:01:37.250 --> 0:01:39.630 When you're a quarterback with that amount. 0:01:39.590 --> 0:01:42.490 Of experience, and we don't see it that much anymore 0:01:43.230 --> 0:01:45.470 because they throw these guys into the flames right away. 0:01:45.490 --> 0:01:48.010 Got it. But Aaron Rodgers is 43. He's been doing 0:01:48.030 --> 0:01:51.080 it a long time. He doesn't get excited. He doesn't, 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:53.480 I don't think, feel the adrenaline. Maybe there in the 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:55.800 fourth quarter with 15 seconds on the clock or whatever, 0:01:56.180 --> 0:01:58.060 you get a little bit of it. But he was 0:01:58.100 --> 0:02:01.290 in that huddle directing like he had done this a 0:02:01.330 --> 0:02:04.130 million times because he's done this a million times. 0:02:04.590 --> 0:02:06.150 My favorite call of the night. 0:02:06.190 --> 0:02:09.250 Well, I loved, first of all, that Aaron Rodgers is 0:02:09.330 --> 0:02:10.630 swearing at Mike McCarthy. 0:02:10.690 --> 0:02:12.730 And what a gem. The fact that we lost out 0:02:12.790 --> 0:02:14.560 on McCarthy for a year is a travesty. 0:02:14.590 --> 0:02:16.320 He would never have done that to Mike Tomlin. 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:18.840 No, but seeing Mike McCarthy, that's what a head coach 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:21.540 should look like. Get out of here, Matt LaFleur and 0:02:21.580 --> 0:02:23.780 Kyle Shanahan and Sean McVay with your hair. 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:26.519 Give me Mike McCarthy every Sunday. 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:29.720 You know, like that's my head coach anyway. So he's 0:02:29.750 --> 0:02:32.990 Aaron Rodgers yelling at him, put in the F in play. 0:02:33.389 --> 0:02:35.650 And Mike McCarthy's yelling back. Oh, you're an F and 0:02:35.770 --> 0:02:38.410 a hole. And it was all caught on film and 0:02:38.470 --> 0:02:40.590 it was great. But my favorite part of the game 0:02:41.090 --> 0:02:45.850 was what happened on Sunday. When you saw the Washington 0:02:45.940 --> 0:02:50.000 commanders pull two guards for a quarterback sneak with 38 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:53.400 year old case Keenum, who looks 49, right? You're like, 0:02:54.220 --> 0:02:55.959 in what world are you going to pull the guards 0:02:56.020 --> 0:02:58.180 and quarterback sneak with a Case Keenum who hasn't played 0:02:58.220 --> 0:02:58.800 in three years? 0:02:59.180 --> 0:02:59.840 And it worked. 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:03.020 And last night, when they're inside the five, and I'm like, 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:05.160 they're going to do it too. 0:03:05.660 --> 0:03:06.440 And they did it. 0:03:06.970 --> 0:03:10.029 And Aaron Rodgers with the quarterback sneak at 43 years old. 0:03:10.430 --> 0:03:12.650 I mean, what we're seeing in terms of backup and 0:03:12.830 --> 0:03:16.530 old people behind center this season is just cinema. 0:03:16.570 --> 0:03:19.269 That's the way it should be. That's the better story. 0:03:19.450 --> 0:03:21.470 I mean, it's great to have a star quarterback come 0:03:21.570 --> 0:03:23.850 in and, you know, lead your team and blah. Everybody 0:03:23.870 --> 0:03:25.269 knows what Patrick Mahomes looks like. 0:03:25.310 --> 0:03:25.470 Right. 0:03:25.590 --> 0:03:28.930 Everybody knows that. But then to see these guys, you're right. 0:03:28.970 --> 0:03:31.050 These older guys are a case Keenum or a second 0:03:31.070 --> 0:03:34.700 string quarterback forced into service and actually succeed is a 0:03:34.750 --> 0:03:36.160 better story. So good. 0:03:36.970 --> 0:03:40.340 And the Mike Tomlin with his 10 years on Minecraft 0:03:40.780 --> 0:03:44.180 is the meme that continues to give us the. 0:03:44.140 --> 0:03:47.120 Greatest laughs every morning. Did you know that before the 0:03:47.180 --> 0:03:49.240 last couple of days? I mean, that was such a weird, 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:50.640 funny thing for him. 0:03:50.660 --> 0:03:52.300 I heard at the beginning of the week that he 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:54.700 had been spending in his downtime that he liked to 0:03:54.740 --> 0:03:55.900 build his Minecraft city. 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:57.640 That's what he did for stress relief. 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:01.420 And so it built up all this excitement and this anticipation. 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:04.000 And they actually set a reveal, like it was LeBron 0:04:04.030 --> 0:04:04.710 and the decision. 0:04:05.380 --> 0:04:07.570 And there were more people to watch that reveal. I 0:04:07.610 --> 0:04:08.990 believe I saw live. 0:04:08.690 --> 0:04:12.670 There were 4.8 million people, which is two times the 0:04:12.730 --> 0:04:15.710 amount of people who watched the Steelers, his former team, 0:04:15.750 --> 0:04:17.210 play the previous Sunday. 0:04:17.610 --> 0:04:20.310 People were anxious. And I think people were excited to 0:04:20.350 --> 0:04:20.909 see it because. 0:04:21.190 --> 0:04:24.130 There is this mystic quality about a head coach in 0:04:24.170 --> 0:04:24.650 the NFL. 0:04:24.770 --> 0:04:25.930 What's that guy really like? 0:04:25.970 --> 0:04:26.150 Right. 0:04:26.330 --> 0:04:28.620 What's he like when he takes off the headset? What's 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:30.700 he like at home? Which is why I've said I 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:32.880 think he's one of the greatest. I mean, just a 0:04:32.940 --> 0:04:36.880 few weeks into his first season as a commentator. I 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:39.760 think he's one of the best because of the mystery. 0:04:40.170 --> 0:04:42.590 I'll sit and watch him talk to other head coaches. 0:04:42.650 --> 0:04:45.690 The interview that he did with John Harbaugh, he is 0:04:46.430 --> 0:04:50.110 that mystery of what that personality is outside of the 0:04:50.130 --> 0:04:52.650 head coaching role and outside of the, you know, headsets 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:54.250 is fascinating to me. 0:04:54.260 --> 0:04:54.380 Yeah. 0:04:54.700 --> 0:04:57.440 Well, in the fact that he gives zero F's still, 0:04:57.680 --> 0:04:58.779 still not a one. 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:00.070 You know, where all the F's ended up. 0:05:00.580 --> 0:05:01.240 In that city. 0:05:01.300 --> 0:05:05.750 Here at the Pacific Air Show. Oh. The F-22s. The F-35s. 0:05:05.830 --> 0:05:06.210 You're good. 0:05:06.310 --> 0:05:06.529 The F-16s. 0:05:06.570 --> 0:05:08.300 So clever. They're all going to be here. 0:05:08.390 --> 0:05:08.820 So clever. 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:09.800 There's a bunch of Cs. 0:05:09.820 --> 0:05:10.720 Oh. A bunch of. 0:05:11.490 --> 0:05:13.630 Like this. I think it's a big C's. I don't 0:05:13.650 --> 0:05:15.870 know if the C's 22, I think, but there are 0:05:15.910 --> 0:05:17.779 tickets that are still available. If you go to Pacific 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:21.480 Air Show USA dot com slash tickets, it's going on 0:05:21.660 --> 0:05:26.160 all weekend. In fact, the first few displays will start 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:28.990 to see, I think, about 10 o'clock, 1030 today. And 0:05:29.050 --> 0:05:31.230 by the way, first time we've been out here that 0:05:31.270 --> 0:05:35.350 I can remember where it's crystal clear. To start the day, 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:37.490 which means it's going to be a great weather day, 0:05:37.570 --> 0:05:38.370 great air show day. 0:05:38.390 --> 0:05:41.070 There was a thick layer of fog over Huntington Beach 0:05:41.110 --> 0:05:43.590 about 7 a.m., and it was quick to burn off 0:05:43.690 --> 0:05:44.970 because it knew that there were going to be a 0:05:44.970 --> 0:05:45.390 lot of Fs. 0:05:45.410 --> 0:05:46.989 A lot of Fs given today. 0:05:47.010 --> 0:05:47.570 All the Fs. 0:05:47.850 --> 0:05:50.349 And we needed to have them. You know what I mean? 0:05:50.970 --> 0:05:52.880 We, I believe, are going to be talking with a 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:55.960 member of my former team, the Air Force Thunderbirds, coming 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:58.020 up a little bit later. We have some guests from 0:05:58.060 --> 0:06:00.099 the air show itself, and we're going to have some 0:06:00.140 --> 0:06:00.960 fun out here at the air show. 0:06:00.980 --> 0:06:04.510 God bless our team who put up An umbrella. 0:06:04.630 --> 0:06:05.029 For you. 0:06:05.430 --> 0:06:08.930 Because things were going a little melanoma in here. 0:06:09.870 --> 0:06:12.300 I could hear the cancer. I could hear it growing. 0:06:12.540 --> 0:06:14.140 I could hear the cancer's plans. 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:16.500 My wife would like to know. We do have some 0:06:16.540 --> 0:06:19.920 Banana Boat Sport 50 that I'll be reapplying every commercial break. 0:06:19.940 --> 0:06:21.630 I asked you already twice about it. 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:21.920 Yes. 0:06:22.060 --> 0:06:22.940 Yeah. It's already on. 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:23.440 Don't worry. 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:23.800 All right. 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:26.240 Gary and Shannon today live at Huntington Beach. We'll be 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:27.480 out here for the Pacific Air Show. 0:06:28.940 --> 0:06:32.540 You're listening to Gary and Shannon On Demand from KFI 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:34.960 AM 640. 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:37.680 This year, it is going to be a stunner. I 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:40.300 was talking to our buddy Captain Mace who stopped by. 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:42.640 He said, remember the year with the oil slick? 0:06:42.690 --> 0:06:43.430 That was awful. 0:06:43.730 --> 0:06:45.469 This is the antithesis of that. 0:06:45.529 --> 0:06:47.630 This is going to be a gorgeous day. People are 0:06:47.670 --> 0:06:50.990 already out here with their umbrellas and their blankets. There's 0:06:51.110 --> 0:06:54.349 no line right now at the gate. There is parking 0:06:54.430 --> 0:06:57.620 several lots around here in Huntington Beach already. Also in 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:01.400 Huntington Beach is the Lion Air Museum, and Mark Foster 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:02.180 is the president. 0:07:02.540 --> 0:07:05.260 And Mark, we've talked to you before. We love museums. 0:07:05.460 --> 0:07:09.229 We love air history, aviation history. 0:07:09.350 --> 0:07:11.830 Air's been around a long time. Listen, air is important 0:07:11.850 --> 0:07:12.850 for all of us. Air is important. 0:07:12.890 --> 0:07:13.090 Isn't it? 0:07:13.090 --> 0:07:14.350 Yeah, we love air history. 0:07:14.750 --> 0:07:16.690 But we want to welcome you back to our show. 0:07:16.750 --> 0:07:17.970 Well, thanks. It's great to be here. 0:07:18.350 --> 0:07:20.030 This is our favorite thing to do each year for 0:07:20.450 --> 0:07:23.810 Lion Air Museum. We've been part of the show every 0:07:23.860 --> 0:07:28.140 year for 10 years. So the show started in 2016, 0:07:28.140 --> 0:07:30.800 and we were there for the first one. And, of course, 0:07:30.820 --> 0:07:33.380 they took 2020 off, but this is the 10th one. 0:07:34.780 --> 0:07:37.480 And we're real excited to be a part of it, 0:07:37.500 --> 0:07:40.350 a major sponsor, and not only just a sponsor, but, 0:07:40.430 --> 0:07:44.750 you know, we perform with our B-25 Mitchell bomber. We also, 0:07:44.910 --> 0:07:49.010 at Lion Air Museum, host all the small, the civilian acts. 0:07:49.750 --> 0:07:53.190 They all base out of our facility for the week. 0:07:53.690 --> 0:07:55.590 And so anybody who's out and about who can't get 0:07:55.630 --> 0:07:57.430 to the beach quite yet, they can swing by Lion 0:07:57.470 --> 0:07:59.190 Air Museum. And there's a pretty good chance they can 0:07:59.210 --> 0:08:01.030 just walk up to any of the performers because they're 0:08:01.070 --> 0:08:03.170 all hanging out in the hangar in between the flying. 0:08:03.190 --> 0:08:03.770 Oh, that's really cool. 0:08:03.810 --> 0:08:05.290 And so it's a pretty good place to be when 0:08:05.310 --> 0:08:07.570 you can't be at the beach. You can swing by there. 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:08.890 So it's a good place to be. 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.500 Where did your love of aviation, of all things air, 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:15.800 where did that begin? Probably around birth, I mean, the 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:17.560 air part. How long's the show? 0:08:18.270 --> 0:08:21.450 So I really, I didn't grow up around airplanes. It 0:08:21.490 --> 0:08:22.970 wasn't until I was in high school. I was kind 0:08:22.990 --> 0:08:25.630 of a motorcycle car guy like we all are as kids. 0:08:25.770 --> 0:08:29.160 And I had a friend. guy named Bill Barkley, who, um, 0:08:29.580 --> 0:08:31.160 he kept telling me, you got to come out to 0:08:31.180 --> 0:08:33.300 this museum that was out in Chino. And, and so 0:08:33.380 --> 0:08:35.080 one day I hopped on my motorcycle, went out there 0:08:35.100 --> 0:08:37.630 and I just instantly fell in love with the airplanes. 0:08:37.750 --> 0:08:40.950 I mean, I drove, rode my bike home, motorcycle home, 0:08:41.170 --> 0:08:43.630 and I just started looking through encyclopedias and I couldn't 0:08:43.650 --> 0:08:45.969 get enough airplanes. And, you know, that was back in 0:08:45.990 --> 0:08:48.670 the mid eighties. And, uh, You know, here we are, 0:08:48.730 --> 0:08:51.010 what's that, 40-something years later or whatever. 0:08:51.030 --> 0:08:54.070 I just pictured you as Tom Cruise in Top Gun 0:08:54.190 --> 0:08:56.790 on your motorcycle driving along the coast. 0:08:56.550 --> 0:08:58.079 To the museum. 0:08:58.100 --> 0:09:01.260 Yeah, they actually, I was the inspiration for that scene. 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:01.660 You were, yes. 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:02.160 You know what? 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:04.680 There's been something I've been working in my head. 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:07.439 Like, there's something with Mark and Top Gun, and there's 0:09:07.460 --> 0:09:08.179 got to be a connection. 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:14.199 Tell us more about the inclusion, what Lion Air Museum is. 0:09:15.150 --> 0:09:16.470 craft we'll see out there today. 0:09:16.490 --> 0:09:16.730 Yeah. 0:09:16.750 --> 0:09:18.790 So we're going to have a B-25 Mitchell bomber, which 0:09:18.890 --> 0:09:22.830 is a World War II medium altitude, medium size bomber, 0:09:23.730 --> 0:09:27.220 probably most famous by something called the Doolittle Raid. And 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:30.660 that's back in 1942. So the Japanese had just attacked 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:33.980 Pearl Harbor in 41, December 41. And by 42, you know, 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:36.040 we were pretty dejected over the whole thing. And so 0:09:36.100 --> 0:09:37.860 we needed to kind of show that we could get 0:09:37.940 --> 0:09:42.500 to their mainland and so we loaded um it was 0:09:42.500 --> 0:09:44.620 16 b-25 mitchell bombers that were never meant to fly 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:46.830 off of an aircraft carrier put them on the carrier 0:09:47.309 --> 0:09:48.750 and sent them out there i feel like. 0:09:48.650 --> 0:09:50.970 I saw this in the in the major motion picture. 0:09:50.690 --> 0:09:53.089 It was harbor yeah it was yeah it was a 0:09:53.090 --> 0:09:57.170 real moment of like hell yeah yeah yeah alec baldwin 0:09:57.210 --> 0:10:01.439 played uh jimmy do a little yeah so So that B-25, 0:10:01.500 --> 0:10:03.360 of course, it wasn't one of those. Those are all gone, 0:10:03.420 --> 0:10:06.720 but that B-25 is a representation of that. 0:10:06.740 --> 0:10:07.440 That's so cool. 0:10:07.460 --> 0:10:09.119 We're just really happy to have it. 0:10:09.220 --> 0:10:09.620 I love that. 0:10:09.700 --> 0:10:11.900 Now, tell me about the P-51 Mustang. 0:10:11.980 --> 0:10:15.589 Yeah, so we just got a P-51, a related entity 0:10:15.620 --> 0:10:18.400 to the museum, was gracious enough to put a P-51 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:20.880 in our facility, and so we've got it. And the 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:23.359 neat thing about this P-51, which won't be here at 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:26.280 the beach today, this weekend, but it is on display 0:10:26.300 --> 0:10:30.020 at the museum and will be flying locally in the future, 0:10:30.740 --> 0:10:34.400 that P-51 is an actual combat veteran from World War II. 0:10:34.670 --> 0:10:37.870 A lot of P-51s are out there flying, like 150-something 0:10:37.910 --> 0:10:40.650 of them, and they're pieced together, or they were stateside airplanes. 0:10:40.690 --> 0:10:43.210 They weren't combat veterans. This one actually went to Europe, 0:10:43.510 --> 0:10:47.150 and in 1945 it escorted B-17s to Berlin. It did 0:10:47.190 --> 0:10:49.540 all the stuff that you know p51s did in that 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:51.800 time period and uh it's got a great history you 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:54.270 got period pictures and all that that's all on display. 0:10:53.950 --> 0:10:55.750 You fan of the tv shows and the movies and 0:10:55.790 --> 0:10:57.849 everything as well i mean or does any of it 0:10:57.929 --> 0:11:00.130 catch your eye and you go that never happened yeah 0:11:00.150 --> 0:11:01.590 i can't that plane never. 0:11:01.490 --> 0:11:03.449 Flew at that time that's a great that's a great 0:11:03.490 --> 0:11:06.010 question because i know when when i'm watching something i 0:11:06.030 --> 0:11:07.829 always just put myself in i just want to be 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:09.820 entertained yeah So I'm not going to sit there and 0:11:09.860 --> 0:11:12.260 try to prove to everybody that I know more than whoever. 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:16.540 It's Hollywood. They're broadcasting, so they're broadly speaking to. 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:17.420 A broad audience. 0:11:17.470 --> 0:11:18.070 Yes. 0:11:18.390 --> 0:11:19.170 Dumbing it down. 0:11:19.210 --> 0:11:22.250 Yeah, dumb it down. That's great. So all those things. 0:11:22.270 --> 0:11:24.609 I mean, Baa Baa Black Sheep TV series back then. 0:11:24.650 --> 0:11:25.950 I mean, I was watching that as a kid. And 0:11:25.990 --> 0:11:28.840 then you look at the Top Gun, both of them. 0:11:29.300 --> 0:11:31.560 I'll tell you, Maverick, the way they did that, that 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:34.200 was fantastic. They did a great job putting that together. 0:11:34.500 --> 0:11:37.500 Was it realistic in certain areas? No, but who cares? 0:11:37.820 --> 0:11:40.020 Let's just have fun and enjoy the ride. It was 0:11:40.070 --> 0:11:41.350 to be fun. I guess they're working on another one. 0:11:41.370 --> 0:11:42.390 Good stuff. 0:11:42.490 --> 0:11:46.030 What is it with guys who like motorcycles and planes, though? 0:11:46.630 --> 0:11:48.069 They go hand in hand, don't they? 0:11:48.090 --> 0:11:48.850 That's a good question. 0:11:48.910 --> 0:11:49.210 I don't know. 0:11:49.230 --> 0:11:51.270 I think we're all just kind of like... It's the 0:11:51.309 --> 0:11:55.290 mechanical geek in us. For motorcycles, I love them because 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:58.700 they're like artwork. A car sometimes, and I love cars too, 0:11:58.740 --> 0:12:01.720 of course, but the hoods hide all the beauty, right? 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:03.380 You got to open the hood and then see the engine. 0:12:03.420 --> 0:12:05.080 On a motorcycle, you just walk up and there's the engine. 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:08.500 I think a lot of gearheads get into motorcycles because 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:09.220 they're obtainable. 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:09.460 Yeah. 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:11.270 You know, when you're a kid, you can ride one 0:12:11.309 --> 0:12:13.010 when you have a permit and you don't even have 0:12:13.050 --> 0:12:13.890 your driver's license. 0:12:13.950 --> 0:12:14.210 Yeah. 0:12:14.230 --> 0:12:15.170 Yeah, that's true. 0:12:15.290 --> 0:12:16.790 And then you can— You get hooked early. 0:12:16.830 --> 0:12:17.610 Yeah, you get hooked early. 0:12:17.650 --> 0:12:19.670 And it's a love that starts— yeah, that's true. 0:12:19.750 --> 0:12:21.250 So that's kind of where it comes from. And, you know, 0:12:21.330 --> 0:12:23.300 at Lion Air Museum at John Wayne Airport, you know, 0:12:23.860 --> 0:12:25.880 even though we're an aviation museum, we do have cars 0:12:25.940 --> 0:12:28.840 and motorcycles on display there as well. Yeah, clearly go 0:12:28.860 --> 0:12:30.060 hand in hand for those. 0:12:30.460 --> 0:12:34.510 What's the craziest aircraft that you've been in? Um— Well, 0:12:34.530 --> 0:12:36.109 craziest or most fun. 0:12:36.130 --> 0:12:39.230 Yeah, so I had the great honor and privilege for 0:12:39.270 --> 0:12:41.490 many years to get to fly in some local air shows. 0:12:41.830 --> 0:12:45.610 I flew P-51 Mustang and the Corsair and the SBD Dauntless. 0:12:45.690 --> 0:12:48.450 And I know Judy over here is watching from the 0:12:48.470 --> 0:12:50.670 beach here, but she's ridden in the back of the SBD. 0:12:51.290 --> 0:12:52.860 It was one of her favorites. And that was the 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:54.979 dive bomber that was used in the Battle of Midway 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.120 in World War II. The one that we were flying 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:01.740 together for many years was actually the only flying one 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:05.240 in the world of that type at that time. So 0:13:05.260 --> 0:13:07.240 very special. And then like right now at Lion Air 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:10.020 Museum at John Wayne Airport, we have a TBM Avenger 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:13.620 that's visiting. Greg Collier, who flies the T-33 every year 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:15.040 at the air show. I think he's been here all 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:19.160 the years too. He also brought a TBM Avenger, which 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:22.439 is a torpedo bomber. It's the same type of aircraft 0:13:22.500 --> 0:13:27.450 that President George Bush 41, the first George Bush, he 0:13:27.470 --> 0:13:29.330 flew those in World War II and actually shot down 0:13:29.370 --> 0:13:31.790 in one. And they've got that. And that will be 0:13:31.809 --> 0:13:33.510 on the beach. It will be flying with the B-25 today. 0:13:35.309 --> 0:13:38.290 You'll be making multiple passes. And so B-25 and then 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:40.680 the TBM Avenger. But watch for that. They're both powered 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:44.319 by these great 1,700 horsepower 14-cylinder radial engines. 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:44.720 Wow. 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:47.120 And they just burn a bunch of fuel. I mean, 0:13:47.140 --> 0:13:49.479 you know, like the B-25 is burning like two and 0:13:49.500 --> 0:13:51.819 a half gallons a minute. you know just a cruise 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:54.250 power and uh you know so you're figuring like 20 0:13:54.250 --> 0:13:56.230 bucks a minute just kind of going you know it's 0:13:56.250 --> 0:13:58.689 just you know that's that's what they were built to 0:13:58.730 --> 0:14:01.290 do back power yeah it's the power so excited so. 0:14:01.190 --> 0:14:03.910 The museum itself lion air museum is there at john 0:14:03.980 --> 0:14:06.059 wayne yep yep it's right on john wayne airport we're 0:14:06.100 --> 0:14:08.400 midfield uh if you get on baker street which everybody 0:14:08.420 --> 0:14:09.400 knows baker street around. 0:14:09.260 --> 0:14:11.559 This area and you just head east and dead ends 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:14.270 into our parking lot and uh It's seven days a week, 0:14:14.610 --> 0:14:18.350 and General William Lyon, he flew missions in World War 0:14:18.370 --> 0:14:20.229 II and in Korea. He was a home builder in 0:14:20.250 --> 0:14:23.780 the area, and he founded the museum. He's gone now. 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:27.600 He passed in 2020 at age 97, but he's left 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:31.240 us this great legacy to carry on, and you've got 0:14:31.260 --> 0:14:33.640 to come see it. Not only that, but we've got 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:36.630 one docent who is there. He's there on Tuesdays, I believe, 0:14:36.650 --> 0:14:38.990 Tuesday mornings. And sometimes Saturdays. 0:14:39.190 --> 0:14:41.890 He's 100 years old. He'll be 101 in November. 0:14:42.030 --> 0:14:42.790 And he's there. 0:14:42.990 --> 0:14:45.030 Was the founder able to see the air show before 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:47.140 he passed, like in 2016? 0:14:47.140 --> 0:14:47.980 Yeah. 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:50.740 He did not come to the show. I don't think 0:14:50.780 --> 0:14:52.100 he came to the show. Did he come to the 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:54.320 show in 2016? Yeah. Yeah, I can't remember if he came, 0:14:54.380 --> 0:14:57.220 but he was there at the airport watching. Because it's 0:14:57.260 --> 0:14:58.640 like a little bit of a show just coming and 0:14:58.660 --> 0:15:00.359 going from all the performers at the airport. You did 0:15:00.380 --> 0:15:00.760 mention that. 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:02.680 The civilian guys, a lot of the smaller ones are 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:04.580 there at Lion. 0:15:04.780 --> 0:15:05.040 And then. 0:15:05.780 --> 0:15:07.540 The military, they're out of Los Alamitos. 0:15:07.570 --> 0:15:10.420 Is that right? Yeah, Los Alamitos. So you'll hear a 0:15:10.450 --> 0:15:12.710 lot of that locally, too. They're the loud ones. 0:15:12.950 --> 0:15:15.830 Favorite part about air show day, regardless of whether you're 0:15:15.870 --> 0:15:18.070 there to watch it or you're just in the neighborhood, 0:15:18.290 --> 0:15:20.450 is you just see the greatest airplanes in the world. 0:15:20.470 --> 0:15:22.150 I know. They're just flying over your neighborhood. 0:15:22.550 --> 0:15:24.110 Yeah, this is the best. I've been to a lot 0:15:24.130 --> 0:15:26.550 of air shows around the country and actually around the world. 0:15:26.790 --> 0:15:29.590 I've participated in some in Japan and other places. And 0:15:29.770 --> 0:15:32.250 this is really the best. You're on the beach, and 0:15:32.510 --> 0:15:36.310 you've got the greatest performers, you know, Kevin Elliott and 0:15:36.350 --> 0:15:38.390 Code 4. They do such a great job at getting 0:15:38.430 --> 0:15:40.729 all these people. And I think the military wants to 0:15:40.770 --> 0:15:42.210 be a part of this one because they know it's 0:15:42.250 --> 0:15:42.850 very special. 0:15:43.110 --> 0:15:43.370 Yeah. 0:15:43.890 --> 0:15:46.150