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The Killafornia Dreaming Podcast

#322 The Tale of Richard "The Sky King" Russell & His Barrel Roll of a Lifetime [Vacation Series]

The Killafornia Dreaming Podcast

Roseanne

Podcast, Justice System, True Crime, Non-fiction, Killers, Law Enforcement, Discussion, Mystery, Crime, California, News, Criminal, Murder

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

A little after 7:30 p.m. on August 10, 2018, 28 year old Richard "Beebo" Russell was a couple hours into his work shift as a ground service agent for Horizon Air at the Seattle-Tacoma Airport when he inexplicably got into an airplane tug, moved an Alaskan Airline Bombardier Q400 from where it was parked for the night onto a runway, he turned and lined it up as if it were getting ready to take off...and he jumped on board by himself, started the plane and took off on what would be the most sig...

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0:00.0

Hello, Dreamers, and welcome to this latest installment of California Dreaming.

0:05.1

I do have some new things in the works, so I'm going to start with that.

0:09.8

If you live in Las Vegas or the surrounding areas, you could potentially be listening to this

0:14.9

very episode on KSHP, Las Vegas Talk Radio.

0:19.2

You can find that at 1071 FM and 1400 a.m. If you've been listening to

0:24.6

my show regularly and recently, then you know that I became a small business owner here in Las Vegas.

0:31.3

I purchased Costa Oil, 10-minute oil changes over there on the east side of town on Flamingo and Boulder

0:37.2

Highway. That prompted me to join

0:39.8

the vagus chamber and to try and promote our brand and to network with other small businesses and one of the

0:46.4

people i met at the first chamber event that i attended was a woman named star who gave me her card

0:53.1

and that's how i connected with KSHP.

0:57.7

I think we're still kind of ironing out the details but we basically cut a mutually beneficial deal.

1:04.8

The station will give out five free oil changes each month to their listeners and in return

1:10.1

they will run ad spots for my oil shop.

1:13.6

So as I got to talking more about the radio station and their platform was being explained to me,

1:20.6

I was speaking to Mark about all this over the phone, he was saying that they could potentially

1:26.0

use some content for their overnight listeners,

1:28.7

and I was like, I just might be able to help you.

1:31.7

That's literally what I created California Dreaming to be, something quiet yet interesting to listen to while you doze off.

1:39.6

And here we are.

1:41.4

As I'm writing and recording this, I have yet to have anything played on the air

1:46.4

officially. This is going to be kind of a test run. I'm going to record this and send it over. And if all

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