My daughter said, "do whatever you want, it's your birthday"

All right, I believe we're live. I see five waiting. Gonna be operating this alone today because I'm here with myself. As I mentioned in the email I put out to everybody, it's my birthday. I'm gonna. There we go. I see you going live. All right, I'm gonna walk over here to the hog's wall, because I want to start with this over here that we are so proud of, in case you don't know who we are. And you just happened onto our video because I mentioned a birthday. Who knows? I'm Kenny Keller, creator of helicopter school, and I wanted to go live today on my birthday, just have some fun. And I want to talk about the helicopter online ground school wall of fame. First off, because everybody's got a story, right? We've all had struggles throughout life, most of us. Everybody's going through something, right? One of my favorite movies, phenomenon, and the character says, everybody's going through something, George, right? Everybody always is. And life is like, you know, you're always on a wave. Things could be good, things could be bad. But you know what? Don't worry, because it won't last. You know, when the times are good, times are good. You enjoy it. Ride the wave. When times are rough, you know it's going to get better. You just muddle through, right? So it is my birthday today, and I was at home with my daughter, and I'm like. I got up just drinking coffee, and I was just like, you know what? It's my birthday. What do I really want to do? I want to go live. I want to talk to everybody. I want to Talk to our YouTube people, our helicopter, Highland Ground School. My daughter's like, dad, it's your birthday. Do whatever you want, right? Cause Saturdays and Sundays, I try not to come into the airport and do much because I like to spend time with her. She's 16 years old, and one of these days, we'll be moving on, right? But, you know, we've had a lot of discussions in the last few days. Younger generation, like my daughter, you know, she's kind of a little upset by things going on in the world. And I'm like, gloria, you know what? I understand you're in the younger generation. Those of us in the older generation, we've been through ups and downs, right? And we've been through 9, 11. And we've been through the, I don't know, the bad economic times in 2008 when everything tanked. That's when it went. One of the times in my life that things went sour. Three big times. I've had the, you know, been down in there in the dumps. But you know what? For me, eight years ago, was down in the dumps and I brought it all back with Helicopter Lane ground school. And it started as a dream. So March 1, 2012, launched this thing called helicopter Online ground school. And at that time, you know, it's a great story now, but back then, yes, I was broke, I was in desperation. I hated life, I hated myself. Oh, my God, it was horrible. But you know what? I got through it. And just like life, there's so many stories up here and I'd love to stand here and read you everybody's name. And I keep saying, one of these days I'm going to do that. But I think as I was reading names, I'd lose half the viewers, right? That would be here. But everybody has a story, right? And I just think it's awesome. And what we've done in eight years is awesome. And like I said, we couldn't have done it without you. We couldn't have done it without you. The members, everybody that's up here. And so many of these people we've met. Either we've had email communications or phone or text, or I've met you at Heli Expo or when I've been out traveling, I've met with members and went and had pizza and had a beer, had a coke, whatever. So the Hogswall of fame is a lot more than just pictures on the wall. A majority of these people, we know you. We know so many people firsthand and God, some of them have been with us since the beginning, right? Jenny, if you're watching, Jenny bought the first day, March 1, 2012. I saw her this year at Heli Expo 2020, and she brought me to tears. Right? It's just overwhelming when you meet someone who's been with you the whole time, right? And she's still working on her rating eight years later, right? And God, we've had people with one guy 27 years since he'd failed his private pilot, still had the pink slip, joins ground school, freshens up his knowledge, goes, gets with an instructor and goes back 27 years later and passes the private pilot. How powerful is that, right? The guy emailed me, Kenny, Kenny, I'm so excited. And told me how he, you know, he had that Pink slip from 27 years ago. He took it into the checkride and the examiner's like, wow, this gotta be like a record. And he did excellent. And he got through the ground. He got through the flight, he got the license 27 freaking years later. Right. So many stories like that. I could go on and on and on. The trials, the tribulations, the things people have been through to go for their dream, get to where they want to be. Absolutely amazing. All right, as I mentioned, I'm running cameras myself, so I hope I was on the right camera. Looks like it was. Ooh, I see a bunch of people in here, so let me switch cameras. And you know what? This is laid back for fun today. So I'm going to go ahead and see if I can catch up on comments, see who we got here. So I'm going to look away from the camera for just a minute. I put up on the big screen since Heather's not here helping me. So. James Irby, happy birthday from California. Awesome. Thank you. Love California. Love going there anytime I can. Paul, happy birthday. Paul's here almost every single time we go live. Thank you, Paul. Paul's won three gifts in the last two weeks between and T shirts. Roger, happy birthday. Thank you, Roger. Fox Deuce. Happy birthday. Thank you, Dave Faulkner. Happy birthday, Kenny. You have a great idea, a great deal to celebrate and be thankful for. Dave has been here to our studios. Dave is a helicopter land ground school member. He was here last year as we were setting this up. Dave, when you come back this summer, you're going to be blown away, man. At the new studio. You saw the beginning stages when we moved here in April and you're going to like it even better. I just hope you get here while the instrument is still here this time around so we can. So I can take you up in the instrument. Another. Another story, right? Another great story right there with the instrument. Let me get back to everybody that's here just because I really appreciate it. Jim. Happy birthday, Kenny. Thank you, Gary Hill. May God bless you on your birthday. Have a great day. Thank you. Thank you, Gary. I appreciate that very much. The being real today. The best. The last day for the KK50 deal. Yes, today is. It expires tonight at midnight and I believe that is PAC time. I will tell you this tonight when I get ready to go call it quits for the night, I'm going to take down all the verbiage you see on the site. So either if you're going to do it by 3am or by midnight EST. Three, that'd be. God, what time would that be? Midnight EST will be three. You know what I'm saying? It'll be 3am EST, midnight Pacific time. So you'll need the code or down below. There's links in the description box on YouTube, direct links to all the cells. If you came to this link on our site, it's in a blog post. Look above because they're up there too. So you don't even need the code. Those links will be there, but they do expire midnight Pacific time, I think. Specific. I can't be sure. I think it is. Anyway, those links will be up above or down below if you're on YouTube. So yes, today is it. And Heather already asked me, so we said, hey, can I get it at the end of the month? No, sorry, I'm going to cut this one off because 50% off is 50% off. That's. It's a great freaking deal. We've had it going for two weeks. There'll be other future discounts and things, but 50 isn't. We've only the first time we've ever done it. So, you know, I got to kind of reserve A54 special events like this one. Eight years online. Right. All right, cool. Let me catch up. Clarence. Thanks, Clarence. Saw Clarence at Heli Expo. It was nice meeting you, man. Clarence is almost always here in live events. We appreciate you. And yes, Clarence, I always mention our Robinson R22. Robinson R44 and instrumentations to helicopter under ground school due to Clarence always saying, kenny, you don't. You don't push those enough. And sometimes I'm a bad businessman. Right. S Digital. Happy birthday, Kenny. I just bought the unlimited membership. My annual was about to expire next week. Great meeting you finally. Heli Expo. Awesome. Yes. Sarah Carter. Happy birthday in the uk. Nice. Uk. I love how we connect people around the world. I freaking love it. It's so cool. And connecting with everybody is great and fun, but it's always fun when you hear the uk, Australia, Italy, Ireland, all the people that log in from around the world. How freaking cool. That's one thing I love about this job that I have. I love this business and I freaking love what I do. And that's why I wanted to go live today on my birthday and talk to everybody. Because I just. I like going live and I love talking to everybody. I freaking love it. And we're going to make sure you understand that, you know, the world's going to be okay and we're going to be okay, and we're all going to be okay. And we'll talk more about that in a minute. Kev Rod. Happy birthday. Thanks. Arrow Work Productions. Happy birthday. Blue skies. Yes. Thank you. Robert Hammer. Happy birthday, Kenny. From South Texas. Southe Texas. You're a good man and a great motivator. Thank you, Bob. I appreciate it. And I do my best to motivate people because we all need it from time to time, right? Chris McKinney. Happy birthday. Awesome. Clarence. Thanks. Big Kenny. Much love and respect. You too. Clarence Feli. Hello. From Mexico, Gustavo. Awesome. Thank you. Cool. Looks like that catches me up there. 29 people watching. Awesome. And I put an email out to everyone. Members, non members, people are just on our list. So I want to talk about what's going on in the world today. And what I want to say is if you look for me on Facebook right now, you won't find me. Only because yesterday I wanted to come in and do something live. And I got sucked in yesterday to reading comments from people. Right. And everybody wants to give their opinions. Right. And everybody in the world has an opinion. Okay. I've been watching the events like anybody else. I'm a, you know, I guess you want to say, optimistic person. Always try to be. I haven't been scared. I think things are going to run its course. I don't think it's going to get as bad as what some people think. Only thing I will say kind of political is I think if you're one of those toilet paper hoarders, shame on you. I do not get. God, let me get this off this chest. I do not get the toilet paper hoarding. I do not get it. I think it's freaking insane anyway. I think it's without being political by any means. I think it's science. I think the more that we kind of back things down for a little bit, avoid big social gatherings, I think a lot of things that we're doing are the right thing. I think if you look at science, the way we're going to beat this thing and beat it quickly is a lot of things that they're putting in effect now. Right? And then we all know we've been hearing about the things that we should do and the washing the hands and, you know, distancing ourselves from people, and it's kind of a pain in the butt. Right. I get it. But it's only going to be a couple weeks. It's only going to be a month or two. We're going to freaking get through this. And I know everybody else is saying, keep calm. You know, I had to tell myself to keep calm. And what I want to talk about yesterday was I just got sucked in by reading these posts on Facebook. And I'm admitting that I got Sucked into it yesterday, and I let it ruin my whole entire day. I mean, and I'm on there trying to state my opinions and state facts, you know, and then at a certain point, I'm just like, you know, what it is, what it is. People are who they are and they're going to say the things that they want to do. And most of us can't change anybody's mind on anything. Right? I truly believe we're doing the right things. And by all of us being smart and being calm and, you know, just being smart for a little while, I think we're all going to be just fine. You know, my heart goes out to anybody that has been affected by what's going on, and it is terrible. But you know what? We live on a raging planet and we deal with viruses and we deal with hurricanes and we deal with tornadoes and we deal with, you know, tidal waves. And a person can let any one of these things that come up overwhelm us. And I think it's key to just, you know, really is about being calm. And this is going to be an opportunity for a lot of people that, you know, some people live in certain parts of the world where maybe you're not even really going to be affected, and that's great. And then another spot in the world, you might be confined right now or you might be stuck indoors because of the location that you're at. So it depends on where you are in the world. Right. It affects every single person differently. So I can't speak for everyone and every place. You know, I just think the more we do now, the more preventative stuff we do, the better off as a global community, the better off we're going to be. Like I said, my heart goes out to anybody, of course, that's already been affected. Friends, family, people, you know, but hopefully it's not going to get too horrible. Let me catch up some comments. It's not a job, it's a way of life. That's right. This is happy birthday from Honolulu. Yes, COVID 19 affecting the helicopter industry, is it? You know, I haven't heard much. I haven't really. There's so much. Like, I was talking about Facebook. I really haven't seen much. I've seen a few helicopter operators post comments like, hey, for our customers during this time, we're going to take extra precautions to make sure our helicopters are cleaned even more than normal and we're going to use safe practices. I've seen a few of those posts, but that's really all I know. Because the media and the Facebook that I just got sick of was just so clamored with toilet paper, you know, it's toilet paper, toilet paper, toilet paper. And a few toilet paper jokes are funny. But after a little bit, I'm like, oh, my God, enough with the toilet paper jokes. Jesus, people, get a life. So, again, that's part of my problem. Yesterday, and I'm admitting it. Got me freaking down, right? And today I got up with a different attitude. I got some good night. I sleep last night. I didn't go out, and my friends are texting me, hey, you going out for your birthday? Are you going drinking? And I'm like, nope, stay home with my daughter. You know, safe practice. Stay home, avoid large crowds. Get up today and feel good, not feel hungover, because I went out and party for my birthday. You know, I can find plenty of other times to go party. And I thought, this weekend's about me and my daughter and being smart and being, you know, feeling good today because I knew deep down I wanted to come in. What do I want to do on my birthday? I'd like to go fly, and I may do that yet. And I thought about going to flying and doing a video, but then I'd have to come back and edit it. And I was at home drinking coffee. I'm just like, you know what? I want to go live. I want to go talk to everybody. I just. I had to get this off my chest. I wanted to state my opinion again without really being anything to do with politics. I just think we got to be smart. The smarter we are, the more preventive measures we take, the calmer we can all remain, the better off we're all going to be. Does toilet paper have some sort of superpowers? I don't know. God, I'm so sick of that. Okay? I haven't seen a clearance that I haven't seen affect general aviation in my area. That's good. Let me talk about that. And I'm going to throw in something while we're talking about it. Last night, I had a discussion with Brian Rutledge, who is our operations manager. And many of you hear about Brian from time to time because I bring him up. Brian's been kind of my watchdog. My personal friend gave him the title operations manager a few years ago. And Brian watches from the outside and has been. And I'm gonna go ahead and blurt out what I've been alluding to that I haven't told anybody really about yet. A lot of you probably knew it was Coming. But Brian Rutledge, who has held our position as operations manager, basically part time because he flies full time in California for an aviation unit. Okay. And not only is he in charge of the helicopters, he's also in charge of the fixed wing side. Okay. So Brian's a 30 year aviator, been with the sheriff's department for 25 years. And I'm excited to announce I didn't ask Brian if I could tell it yet, but I mean, there's no use. Not everybody knows his work. He's got four days left. Guess what Brian's going to do when he retires in four days. Full time helicopter on ground school. Okay, let me give you the backstory. Brian contacted me back in 2013, back when times for me were tough. You know, the world is tough right now. 2013, it was really tough for me. I literally am literally living with my sister, driving my sister's car. She was unemployed and she's giving me gas money to get to the airport. That's how bad it was at 213. Okay. So this is why I say we all go through good and bad times right now. And right now, to me, this isn't for me. Things are still good, right? And the state of Hogs is good. A beauty of being an online business. And I'll get more of that in a minute. So Brian contacted me back in 2013, found one of my blogs or found me on Facebook or somewhere and called me up and he was, you know, experienced aviator, but wanted to do a cfi. And they wanted him to take over the. He was already flying for the aviation unit, but they wanted to take over the lead instructor job because the guy had been doing it for many, many years, was retiring and he said, you know, would you help me online with your getting my cfi? And we did a lot of one on one stuff. And he bought my course, you know, and it was important back then, right? 2013, Brian bought my unlimited course at the time, my lifetime course. It was like, whoo. You know, anytime somebody joined, wow, right? Hey, I can put food on the table, I can put gas in the tank, I can go pay a couple bills, right? And so Brian, I helped him get through the cfi and he actually, Brian, is the most detailed oriented mother trucker you've ever seen. And we were Skyping and he was teaching me some lessons right as he was getting ready for the cfi and he taught me one. And I'm trying to remember what it was. What was it anyways? It was, you know, do it was involving the aerodynamics of the rotor system. And so I'm sitting there in my old little office back then, and Brian starts teaching me this. And I'm talking about detail. I mean, detail. Things I'd never heard, right? And I'm sitting there and I'm just listening, and I'm listening, and I'm listening. He goes. He dives in deep, right? And finally, at some point, I don't remember how long it went, but he was like, am I doing okay? And I'm like, oh, you're doing okay, Brian. I go, this is awesome. I go, but, man, where are you getting some of this stuff, right? He dug in so freaking deep. That's why Brian and I make a good mix, right? Because I'm like the basic guy, and I like to keep things basic, and I like to keep them simple. Brian's the guy that likes. I want to know why, when, how. I want to know every single freaking detail about everything, okay? So between the two of us, I think we're going to make a really good mix, right? And so anyway, he gets through his cfi and we remain friends. Occasional text message, occasional talk on the phone. But what Brian just started doing, ever since 2013, anytime I put out a new video in the course, he would watch it. Anytime I put out a new video on YouTube, he would watch it. And so he just by nature, became like, my watchdog. And I can remember about five years ago, one day, I made this video, and I was kind of on a rant that day, and I had been dealing with some problem students, and I had a couple instructors who were, at the time, were giving me fits over some certain things, and I'm like, ah. I put my foot down. I made some videos. And the videos were about reading Hobbs meters and the way we do billing. And it was kind of a rant, right? And I put it in ground school. And Brian calls me up. He's like, dude, you might have been a little overboard on that, you know? And I'm like, what? You know, overboard? And he was right. And I went in, edited it, and I cut it down. I kept the good parts of it. So what? And the reason I'm telling you this story is that's what Brian was kind of doing all along, right? So I. I would just call him my watchdog. Somewhere along in the past seven, eight years, we just decided that he was going to become what we'll call operations manager. And he said, at some point, remember me, because I'm going to retire. And Brian helped me with the Aerodynamic videos that we have inside the course now that he did with the guys from Odyssey Aeronautics. I sent Brian just a few pieces of equipment, gave him some ideas. He went out and shot all that video and then sent it back to me. And I did all the editing. And anyway, make a long story short, Brian is going to work for helicopter line ground school full time. He's got four more days. He's planning on coming out the end of this month if travel doesn't get restricted. And he said yesterday he goes, hey, you know, they might restrict some airline travel. And I went. And he kind of went, ugh. And I go, well, yeah, if they do, we're an online business. If he can't come, the end of March will have him come whenever he can. Okay? The beauty of an online business is we get to operate as we always have, okay? And I've seen all these companies, I get the emails just like all of you get them from Macy's and your credit bureau. And every single company is putting out a statement, a COVID 19 statement about our statement, our policy, blah, blah, blah. Good news for us is we're an online business, so it's not really going to affect our operations because we're at a gated airport, our hangar is only locked. We do have ground member ground school members occasionally stop by to visit, but we don't have foot traffic. So luckily that I have an online business and we are an online business that enables us just to keep doing what we do, you know, and I feel bad for anybody who has a brick and mortar business that may have to shut down. I still think we'll get through it fairly quickly and I think everything's going to be fine. But so for my state of the Union HOGS address or my HOG statement, I don't think I'm going to email because people in general can kind of figure it out. But helicopter land ground school is strong, always has been. And the beauty of helicopter online ground school is the fact that a person can log in from any device anytime, anywhere in the world. Now, even with the new app, it's even easier. So you have the traditional site or our new app that duplicates matches the hog site. So if your desktop laptop, you just continue on. If you're going to do it with your smartphone or your tablet, you download the app and you can download the app right from inside the helicopter under ground school site. You look at the top of the page and there's a blue bar that says download the app. That's how you download the App. So the state of helicopter ground school is awesome. I told Brian, you know, with everything going on, I knew he wouldn't be too worried. But I said, hey, just so you know, we'll continue on as planning is, of course, and if he, if he can't come here the end of the month, we'll do it as soon as he can. But the idea was Brian's already, you know, a part of what we do and has been for quite some time. But him taking on the role as full time operations manager is exciting for me because most of you know, Heather's here with me at least usually four days a week. And Heather helps me talk to new customers, new members, helps ship books, helps ship shirts, all kinds of things that Heather helps me with on a weekly basis. But when you think about it, now that we have four courses, private commercial, cfi, instrument, I don't know how many hundreds of videos there are. There's 120, might even be more now in just the private pilot alone. So if you could imagine for a minute, if I'm trying to manage four entire courses, monitor content, build new content, it's not that I can't do it, but it's quite an overwhelming task and I do my best to answer people in a timely fashion. Heather answers what she can answer and I answer what I can answer on a time limited basis. But times I get overwhelmed, right. And that's why I don't do a lot of one on one stuff anymore. People are like, well, hey, can I, you know, are you offering one on one online or can I come there? And I don't turn members down, but we do say to come here and do ground or to fly, you have to be an online ground school member. And when they want to come fly, I encourage them, say, look, I'd rather you go through the whole, if you're going to work, let's say you're working on a private pilot, go through every single video first and I want to check the tracking and make sure you've went through it all, because I'm going to tell you nothing face to face. This is not in the course. My whole livelihood, my 20 years of experience, well, it's a lifetime of experience that goes in to the private pilot course. So when you get here face to face, I'm not going to tell you anything different. So we like to have people already versed most time they've already been working on the maneuvers, they've already got most of the requirements done and they usually come when I help people Usually that are struggling somewhere else. If you've watched the videos, you know, we have people that come in that come from another place in the country because they just either they were having trouble with the ground or they're having trouble with the flag or lining up an examiner or all the normal problems that people have is the reason why a lot of them come here. Because I've been doing it a long time and I got a couple of good examiners that are almost always available and it's just been a kind of my niche. Right. I'm able to finish people up. I was at this airport actually 10 years ago and the guy at that time called me Kenny the finisher. I've never really used that, but that's just what I kind of, I've gotten good at helping somebody who struggled somewhere else. Right. So anyway, back to the Brian thing. That's why Brian and I work well together because I just think it's going to be we're going to offer some services. We don't have the exact number worked out but for example, every single new ground school member is going to get a consultation with Brian and that's something I would love to do and it'd be nice if I could have done it. But if you can imagine with everything else I'm trying to do, given part of my day to every brand new member, there'd be times where that's all I would do all week long. And I'm not whining or complaining, I'm just telling the story of how Brian is going to be an essential part of moving ground school forward because I'll keep doing what I do, Heather keeps doing what she does. Brian is going to be in charge of managing content. And Brian already has an email. It's@brianhelicopterground.com and we may go to a support email so depending on who needs to help you. And we're going to look at that. But Brian's going to take over managing the site going through, he's going to go through every single course. Private. We're going to start with private first. Right. Because private is your basis of everything that you do throughout your career. Always goes back to what we learned as a private pilot. And Brian and I have agreed that number one priority for helicopter online ground school is going through private pilot and making sure private pilot can be the best that it can be. And it's already really good. And the last time I sat started watch looking through it, I was pretty darn proud of it. But I know there's things that need updated and then there's a lot of older videos I'd love to redo and for me to take on sitting down and evaluating every tire course, trying to rebuild every single course, create the new content. It's almost not feasible for just me and Heather and to keep daily things going. And so Brian's job will be not only is every single new ground school member, when they sign up, will get a consultation with Brian, phone call if they want it, if they're willing to give up their phone number, you know, let's just say maybe the number will be 20 minutes, maybe it'll be a half an hour. I don't know the number. But once we get Brian started, we get him acclimated, we're going to make those decisions on how much time a new member will get. Because a lot of times somebody just needs that little push right where they want to talk to somebody outside of their flight school or outside of their instructor to be able to kind of be honest and talk about maybe some of the struggles that they're having. And not only will he be there to help you through those struggles, it's also so that he can find out where you're at, you know, what exactly what have you been doing so far? What do you have left to do? What areas are you struggling in? And I think people are going to really, really, really enjoy that. People are going to, they're going to get that something that we're going to offer as becoming a member. Right. In the past I've done what I could when I can do it, but this will be something that's available to every single new member. It will set up a scheduling deal so that Brian can have it available. You just click a button, click a time and a day, enter your phone number. He knows when he's available, you can sign up and then you get a call from Brian. And I think that's going to be huge. Not only that, but also with Brian helping me, excuse me. Going through the courses and going, okay, Kenny, I like that video. It's solid. We're going to keep it. Next video, when did you make that? Nine years ago, you know, or hey, there was something updated in that video that has changed. It needs change. Alright, so we're going to go through starting with Private Pilot and make private pilot a 1 priority, new members priority, Private Pilot priority. Go in through there. And Brian's, he said, I don't, he said, I might watch every single videos I go through. I might watch it two or Three times. And I'll make a determination. If it has enough, should we leave it? Do we just need to make an edit to it or do we just need to shoot a brand new video? And another exciting part of that is the speed of what we can do now compared to when I built this thing right back in the day, Brian would push me for a new video and I'd go like, Brian, I just spent 12 hours, built that video and you want me to redo it? You know, that was tough in the beginning or back in the old day when the equipment I had and the speed I had of things and the technology that I had made it very difficult. A 10 minute video. I might spend 12 hours on a 10 minute video. And now, just like today, I left home, coming in the door, I got here, I wanted to go live at 2:30. I walked in at 2:16 and by just after 2:30, I had the lights on, I had everything set, had the furnace going, two computers turned on, all the live stuff ready, boom. So as I've experienced and gained experience over the years and especially copy with Kenny, you know, that was 297 days. And people go, man, I wish you'd have kept that going. I stopped it because I wanted to focus on the daily business of ground school. I love doing coffee with Kenny. It was a blast. But that 297 days, what it did for me was it made. It just increased my skills. It increased my skills with my cameras, increased my skills with editing. Because for 297 days, every day I'd come up with a different video. And now I come up with an idea. Where was I going to shoot it? At home, on the porch in here with the helicopter driving down the road. So it was 297 days of every day, different topic, different video, trying to break it up, trying not to be in the same place every day. And once I came back in here, started doing stuff, it's like, man, I just got so much faster with my equipment, so much faster. So I told Brian the phone, I go, when you want to rebuild something now it doesn't hurt like the old days when I'm like, oh, Brian, I spent 12 hours on that damn video and you don't like it? You want me to redo it now? Oh, hey, I can just go in and quickly edit that. Or at this point in my career of the eight years of doing this, I've told Brian it's easier now just to reshoot something brand new. You know, when you go back and try to fix an older video, it's almost easier. It's just easier for me now to go, you know what, I still have that PowerPoint, let's bring that up, let's freshen it up, make sure the verbiage is still good, see if anything's changed. Boom, camera's on, roll through it, make the change we need, Boom, upload the video and we're done. And I'm just saying, just I'm telling you that as members and or future members, that's how you know, moving the ground school forward, having Brian to talk to members, having Brian help me with the site when he's managing it and going through and going, here's what we're focusing on, Kenny. Out of these 120 videos, here's 15 that we have to get done in the next month or two. Let's focus on these 15 videos, let's get those updated. Then that, then we've got that course really solid where we want it and then maybe fine tuning even go to others. And I had somebody who emailed me yesterday, well, hey, I don't know if you read the comments or not underneath the videos. And I'm like, you know what? We read every single comment, we read every single comment on YouTube, we read every single comment within the site, we read every single email and we try to respond to every single one. Once in a while does one slip, maybe. But because someone has suggested something or caught something doesn't mean I can just fix it on the spot, right? So be assured, Brian's already got notes and he's been taking notes for a long time, gearing up to go full time with helicopterland ground school. So not only does he only have his own notes, we have the emails, we do check the comments. So all of your feedback, it doesn't go unnoticed. Trust us. We see it, we read it, things get noted. And when we say we're going to fix that, we're going to upgrade that, we are. And before the speed that I could do it was just different, right? So once Brian's full time, the speed that we're going to be able to make updates, create new content, I mean the courses are pretty solid, but they're going to get better. The courses are great, they're going to get even better. And I told Brian in the last couple months as we were talking about him going full time, I said, you know, here's what I want. He's like, what do you want? What do you want to do with helicopter on land, ground school? And what do you want to do when I start full time, what is really the number one thing? What do you want? And I said, I can answer that very simply. Brian, right before he asked me that question, I just read an article about a gentleman who I trained in helicopters. He has a super successful business. And I mean, unbelievable. He started 30 years ago, one little truck selling some stuff out of the back of his. Actually his van, right? Thirty years later, he has this unbelievable company. And I mean, unbelievable company. And I read an article about his company. I mean, I already knew the company, but I read an article like Forbes magazine or something where they were interviewing his company, not even him direct, one of the people that works for him, and they said, what is your success? Where do you believe your success comes from? And they said, hands down, number one, without a doubt, our business success comes from customer service. That's it, 100% hands down. When they approach the company, whether it's through email or phone, they get their first question answered, they get a follow up email. If they purchase a product, they get a phone call, your product is on the way, their product ships, they get another email or phone call, their product arrives, they get a phone call or an email, hey, we're checking on your order. We're making sure that you got your order, we're making sure that you're satisfied. And what I told Heather and what I admitted to Brian is the customer service we've given you with just me and Heather in the last couple years has been the best we can really do. And when we try really, really hard, Brian bringing him in gives us the opportunity to take that customer service beyond where it's ever been. And with Brian's skill level and his attention to detail. 30 years in aviation. I've been in aviation a little over 20 years. I'm a CFI in helicopters with an instrument rating and a fixed wing. Add on, Brian's versed in both airplanes and helicopters, right? He's been out actively flying them and teaching in them. And Brian brings a cool aspect, something that I didn't know all along. I've told everybody the private and commercial is pretty much the same. Commercial is private on steroids. Couple different maneuvers or a couple things added maybe to the commercial, but there's not that much that changes. And when fixed wing people approach me and say, well, you know, they always expect it to be a little bit different, and they don't understand why I tell them the difference. And Brian alerted me to the fact that he said, kenny, when you're talking fixed wing, the private and Commercial checkrides are very different. There's a lot of different things that happen on the fixed wing commercial that you don't do at the private fixed wing. And I'm like, really? And he goes, yes. He goes. So Brian's seen it from a different point of view. Boom. There's one thing that he was able to where he could give me insight because of his airplane training. We are helicopter first, foremost, number one. That's what we've always had, but it's what we always will be. We're not trying to move into the fixed wing world. Would never even think about it. We are helicopter specific. That's what we are. That's the way we've always been. But Brian coming in as the CFI airplanes and teaching and overseeing employees in that arena, if you want to call, just brings a whole, I'll give it to you this way. We're at Heli Expo and we're at work. We're talking to the Whirly Girls and it's me and Brian and Taz and Rolanda and Heather and Taz's wife. And we're talking to the Whirly Girls, a couple of them. And it was the past, present, Whirly Girls. And we're just talking about what's going on with hogs. And I'm introducing Brian, introducing Taz. And there was a couple of them standing there like, God, you guys are building like a super team. And I'm like, yeah, you're right. I go, it is kind of a super team bringing Brian on board when he retires. Taz, who's already on board, the best he can be. 2018 Flight Instructor of the Year, Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force that recently moved up to Inspector General, fixed wing CFI helicopter, CFI TAs who does our instrument videos and is working on weather videos for the current site. I'm like, yeah, I'm surrounding myself with some badass people. Right? A super team. Yeah, I like that. Right. That's the strength. And everybody brings their different thing to the table. I like to do what I do. I already know what I like. I like getting in a helicopter like that, a 1983 instrument F28F. And I like go out and beating the pattern and I like doing autos and I like doing quick stops and I like perfecting that pick up and set down. That's what I like. Right. As far as, you know, iPads and foreflight and all that stuff. Yeah, that's all great, but I just, I'm a go around beat the pattern kind of guy. That's what I like to do. Brian's like, oh man, you know, he's because of being in the aviation, out and flying in law enforcement. He's on top of, you know, iPads and foreflight and every single app out there. Brian brings that to the table. And then Taz brings another hold different, you know, skill set. Coming to ground school too. And he's got a couple years to go yet in the Air Force. And I've openly said, who knows, maybe a couple years down the road when you retire, Tess, maybe you maybe be a full time spot for here for you too. So that's the big news that I've been hinting and implying that was coming up. Is Brian going to work for us full time? If you're watching Brian there, cat's out of the bag. That's what's happening. I've been alluding to it. And you know, we have a team of instructors that help us off and on and I've had other employees along the way, but not, not to the level or the experience of what I'm bringing in now. And it's just flippin amazing. I'm so freaking excited about the future. I still love coming to work every single day. I love going live. I love doing this. Like right now I came in, did all this, turned all this stuff on, boom. And how long have I been talking? God, I don't know, non stop, barely even coughed or sputtered. It's just I love doing this and I love coming to freaking work. And that's why I came in on my birthday, so I could go live. Talk about a little bit about what's going on in the world. Tell you what's going to be happening with ground school. Talk about the big celebration. We'll talk about the specials going on here in just a minute. Let me catch up and see. I've been trying to stay on track with what I wanted to say. Okay, so there's, let's see. I'm going to pick up where we left off. Not a whole lot. Helicopters are immune to COVID 19. Yes, sure. Heck yeah. Dave Buckner. Like all things, this too shall pass. Like any critical incident, we should stay focused and stay committed to your routine. That's exactly right, Dave. I love that. This too shall pass. You saying that reminds me of my good friend Dr. Nick who owns this helicopter right here. Nick and I. He was one of my very first students back in 2001 and to this day, one of my best friends of all time. And Whenever I get to see Nick. Well, for many years, when I would get to see Nick, about once a year, he would usually have something that he would tell me that his father had recently told him, right? And unfortunately, a few years ago, his dad passed away. And every time I would see Nick, I'd be like, what was the last thing your dad told you? And I remember this. Two shall pass was one that his dad had told him years ago. And he told me clear back when I was working in early 2000s. And, you know, Nick would always give me advice coming from his dad. And the last thing that his dad said to him before he passed away is what I used when I opened up today, standing over there by the helicopter, I said, well, you know, Nick, what was the last great thing from your dad? And he said, right before he died, he said, whatever it is you're going through, good or bad, it won't last. And I've repeated that story many times. And some people get it and some people don't. I find it comforting. And what his dad was trying to say to him at 84 years old was, you know, when times are good, they're good. You ride the wave and you enjoy it. And when times are bad, you know, so on the good times, know that it's. There's going to be. Some things are going to come along and kick you in the ass in life, and it always does, right? And then things are going to go down for a while. But when you're down at the bottom, you just have to go, you know what? It's going to get better day by day, baby steps. Things will get better. And that's how your life is going to work. Many people already know that if you're in a younger generation, you might be facing things for the first time that you haven't been through before. But I love that Dave said that because I think about those little quotes from his dad all the time. They were so smart. And I love that whatever it is you're going through, good or bad, it won't last. Times are good, you ride the wave. Times are bad, you know, it's going to get better, and you just keep moving and you just keep putting your best foot forward every single day. And I think, you know, my failures have helped me build helicopter and land ground school, and that's what helps make it a success. It's helping all of you, right? Everybody has a struggle, and we all, we. Either you learn from your struggles and you move on, or you just lay in the gutter and Let life kick you in the ass. I mean, it's that simple. And I bring all that to helicopter hunting ground school, and that's why I'm so damn proud of it. So I Love that, Dave. Mr. Reed, do you like the Schweitzer 269? Yes. Great little helicopter. Great trainer. Been used forever. Yes, I like The Schweitzer. Chris McKinney. Congratulations, Brian. Upcoming retirement. Coming up on my first year of being retired for 32 years in law enforcement. Awesome. Making Hobbs even better. With your experience winning. Yes. Kris. I'm so excited about Brian coming full time. I can't even. I can't even tell you. And we've been talking about it for years, you know, and it's finally coming to where it's really happening. It's a done deal. He's hired. I'm just waiting for his last day. And he says, okay, today's my first day. It's going to happen within before the end of the month. Like I said, if travel doesn't get restricted, Brian will be here that like March 31st through April 3rd. So that beginning week of April, Brian is going to be here with us. I'm bringing him out. He already knows the business somewhat, but he doesn't really know what Heather and I do other than what I tell him we do. Right. So I'm going to bring him here to Indiana so he can come in and spend at least three full days. First day, be travel day, get him in here, get him comfortable. Rolling. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, we can be in here each day. And I plan to go live while Brian's here. We do want to shoot some video. We're going to go out and I'm going to introduce him to the instrument, which I'm really excited about because he's never flown an instrument, heard me talk about him, and once I transition him over, get him comfortable flying it, which it won't take long because any experienced flyer in a helicopter can pick this up quick. You can pick up the instrument fast. So what's going to be fun for me is once I get Brian tuned in with the instrument, I can go, hey, let's go shoot some videos. And I'm going to run a camera. Right. Heather does a great job. And Heather does the best she can do at my direction. It's hard for me to fly, do everything I want to do, say what I want to say, and at the same time tell exactly Heather what it is I'm trying to shoot. So some of you have seen the other day, I did A video where I had the panel, and people are always asking for that. Well, I want to see the panel. I want to see the panel. The panel's just always been hard for me to shoot, But I have these new stabilizers now. So that day, Heather was off sick, so I mounted it in between the seats and did the best I could do. But one of the things that we're going to start doing is doing some more actual cockpit footage and using the stabilizer where I can actually show more of the instrument panel, because I know people want to see that. And we're talking about certain things like, you know, 30 and 300 and, you know, the numbers. On a normal approach, we're going to do a lot more of that. And I'm looking forward to doing some of that when Brian is here, because I can be the camera guy, right? I got somebody flying I can trust, and I can be letting him fly and talk, or I can even talk, too, but then I can really get those shots that I want to get. And we've got a lot of things planned when he gets here. And like I said, if travel gets restricted, I said, no big deal, we're not in business. We'll face time and just go through things. But the idea is we'll get him here as soon as we can so he can really see, you know, Brian sees the tip of the iceberg, like many of you do, like our members see, right? You see what's sticking out of the water, okay? There's a whole lot more. That iceberg usually way bigger under the water than what you see sticking up here. There's a whole lot down here, right? So by having Brian here with us, he's never been to our studios. I've only met Brian two or three times in my life now. Friends for years, texting, phone calls and all that. But heli expo twice. And then Gloria and I visited Brian this summer in California. So he's excited to come see our studio and our equipment. But it's going to be very important of the part of the process for Brian to get to come in and see the backside, see what Heather does, see what computers we have, how our network works, what I do inside ground school in the backside, the things that people don't see. Not that he'll do a lot of that, but he'll see what I'm doing on the backside, so that'll help make his job more effective. When he knows what Heather does, he knows what I do, and he can see firsthand where I need the most Help, you know, picking the things that he can do that are going to better suit him to free me up to do what I want to do is huge for us. Huge for us. And I'm going to tell you this. Brian likes to talk. And Brian's a talker. And when I first introduced, I said, would you be willing to talk to every single new member? He said, absolutely, I'll talk to every single one of them. Brian loves talking on the phone. I'm not a fan of talking on the phone. That's just me. I like talking to somebody face to face. I don't really mind doing like Skype or FaceTime, but there's just some not talking on the phone. I just, I just despise it. I hate it. I hate talking on the phone. There, I got that out of the way. I just admitted it. I don't like talking on the phone. I'm much more effective building videos, shooting video, working on, you know, content, ideas. That's my strong suit. Brian likes to talk. He's going to be available for you. So I don't know if I didn't finish anything up there, but let me go back over here, Chris. Okay. Got him on 30 years experience. CBD. Happy birthday. Happy birthday, Hogs. Thank you. CBD. Danny Stewart. Happy birthday, Danny. Danny, you're here all the time. Thank you for joining us on many of our live events. Daniel, you're here all the time. Hello, everyone. Happy birthday. Kenny. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Jim Brack. Happy birthday. Awesome. Robert Hammer. Exciting news. Looking forward. Kenneth Murray. Hope. Happy birthday to KK and hugs Keith Murray. Will all the upcoming experience. Maybe R66 will be introduced. Maybe I don't have one available to me. So, you know, we might be able to do some stuff on maybe the manual or something, but I don't have an R66 available. Who knows what the future might bring. I just saw where they built what their 1000th R66. Right. So there's a lot of things that we want to implement and getting Brian going will be helpful to do new projects. And let me put it to you this way. A couple years ago, we were building and building and building and we were building the instrument, we were doing this and we were doing that. And at one time, Brian, I'm talking to Brian on the phone and at that time, I was over with the three of us that were working at the time, right? And over the phone one night, Brian's like, you know what you need to do? You need to stop building Freaking new courses, you know, and at the time I'm like, ah, what are you talking about? I had to get this instrument course up, blah, blah, blah. But he was right. You know, you can build courses, build courses, build courses, but if you just keep building something new all the time, then you're not doing maybe the best with what you currently have. And in the last year my, my thought process has been through, watching the people I've learned from is look at what is most important. Look, look what's most important to your customers in your business. And some of the other things we were doing we kind of had to put to the side, like, well, I'll give you an example, here's a great one. The CFI renewal thing, I got five or six thousand dollars invested in that so far. And the guy that we were working with and old timer and super picky and we were just like going, we were building it, we got partway through it. But there's a point where you go, you know what, here's what we've spent, here's what we're going to make. And we got other things going on in the background. So it's like there was a point where I even talked to Brian about it. I go, you know, for right now, we're going to halt that. We're just going to stop. We've got the work put into it. It got moved to the side, but we just stopped, right? Because how much money are you going to throw into something that's. And how important is it? Not saying we won't finish it at some point, but taking care of current members and taking care of the private content in the instrument and the commercial. And CFI is really more important than introducing a CFI refresher course because there's plenty of them out there. They're not helicopter specific, but we got frustrated because we wanted a helicopter specific and they kept going. Well, you got to have this much, you got to have all this fixed wing stuff in there anyway. You make decisions the best you can to help move your business forward, right? So moving helicopter on ground school, school forward at eight years to me is about number one customer service. And I'd rather call it member service. Right. I don't really like calling members customers. However, you are a customer and we're, you know, we're providing you a service, but we like to, I prefer to say members. We want the experience to be even better. We want, hands down people to say, you know what, they got good training and these guys will take care of you. And we do take care of you and we do the best we can. Just like with our 100%, 100% money back, ironclad guarantee we've had in place for eight years. We never argue and we take care of people. And anytime somebody has a problem, we always do our best to take care of it. And Heather's, you know, with me long enough. Now that Heather knows what she can and can't do, a lot of times she can take care of a problem herself and go, you know what? I'm okay. I know Kenny would say, just refund you on that. Or let's, oh, you want an upgrade? Okay, you've paid this much. We'll figure something out. Or you have a problem, something with the course, we'll work it out. We will always find a way to make somebody happy. We don't want people going away ticked off. We want people to leave whenever they're done with the course. If you're just saying you're on a monthly plan and you want to leave for a little while or you just, you got to the point where you don't need it, great. We want you to leave as friends. We want to part as friends. If you refund. We want to part as friends. If you take the 24 hour trial and decide. Eh, not really what I was looking for. Okay, remove your credit card. We part as friends. We always want that opportunity for you to come back. I know, in my lifetime. Well, for example, when I was flying ems, I had, I did it for five years total. The thing I don't talk about usually, I was in it for two and a half years. I left to go run my own business, helicopter. Eight months later, things weren't going so great. A mechanic calls me up who was a friend of mine, and he's like, hey, the same company needed a pilot at another base in the same area, but just a different base. We're hurting. I bet they'd take you back. We really would like you to come up here. I make one phone call to the company and they're like, oh, yeah? Well, you left on good terms before. You like to come back. Sure, as long as you went back to that company within one year. You went back as though you never left. So you don't want to burn bridges, right? I did it with an EMS company, left for, say, eight months. Times weren't. Business wasn't going so well. The helicopter payments were harder than I thought. Buddy calls me up, says, hey, we're needing a pilot. I'm pretty sure they'd love to have you. One phone call. Check your file. Yeah, looks good. You want the job? It's yours. And I went back to work for another two and a half years. Went from the BK117 to EC135. So you know, pilots are always moving on to somewhere. Everybody's moving on to their next level. And in our business we want, we understand people are moving on, things change. That's why it's set up the way that it is. Anything else new Rotor head? Hi, Canadian team. Happy birthday. Always good and fun watching your videos and nice to see how you found and lived in your passion and mission of teaching with hogs. I do man. Friggin love it. Absolutely love it. All right, so let's get to the meat. Hey, the sale ends tonight. 50% off. KK50. That's the deal. And you can get that off monthly. We've never done this before. Well, we might have last sale, we might have done like, we might have done this. But this person, we've offered 50. Let's use a private pilot. For example, if you want to do the monthly, the first month you get that half off. So that comes up to like 29.50, is that right? Is my math right? So any monthly membership, the first 24 hours doesn't cost you anything. You have 24 hours to check out the course and if you decide it's not right for you, you remove your credit card from Settings or end your subscription and PayPal and you get billed nothing. If you decide to keep it the first month, you'll be billed half and then after that month it goes to the normal 49amonth. Same thing on the commercial instrument or CFI. So you can get 50% off the first month of the monthly. And if all you want is for 30 days, then you're good. You can just unsubscribe before the other 30 days. You won't be billed again or you can keep it. It's a beautiful thing because it also has that 30 day money back guarantee. Then there's the unlimited package that we brought back for this cell. One note, we stopped selling one year courses. It will never sell those again though most of us people have. Some people wanted to keep it after a year, but too many people, oh, I didn't realize I was going to get billed on a yearly membership, an annual membership. Well, if you're on the yearly plan, you didn't realize that. You know, let us know if you want to unsubscribe because we'll do it for you or go to unsubscribe yourself. We don't want people getting pissed off when they get billed a year later, right? So that's one area where, even though that's an income for the business, I thought, you know what, let's do the right thing. Let's just. We're not going to offer one year anymore because then that way we don't have people mad when they get billed a year later, right? Monthly is monthly. It is what it is. Keep as long as you like. Cancel anytime. That's it. Pretty easy. The yearly, we don't offer it anymore. If you're not on an annual plan and you want to keep it, you can keep it. We're just not offering it to the public and that. And that's done. That will never happen again. However, we did stop selling the unlimited, except we have brought unlimited back during sell time. Like this. Unlimited means, example private pilot. Unlimited means it does not expire. You don't pay monthly, you don't pay annually, you don't pay yearly. It's a one time fee and you're done. We're offering that until midnight tonight on private, on commercial, which includes private, or on cfi, which includes private and includes commercial. All combined instrument courses standalone. That's unlimited as well. 50% off and you don't even need the code. You can go above the video if you're on our blog post or below the video if you're on YouTube and the links are down below. And then there's the professional pilot. That's all for private pilot, commercial pilot, certified flight instructor, instrument rating, all four courses, they do not expire. That is 50% off. Again, there's a link either above or below this video. You don't even need the code. You just go to a click on the link and same thing for the unlimited takes you right to the checkout page. It shows you list price and it shows you half off. You just enter your info, your credit card info and you sign up and that again has 30 day money back. No hassle, guarantee that we stand behind 100%. No hassle. So that's all the courses, right? So for the monthly you just need the code KK50 and you can simply get there by helicopterground.com. it's above or below this video or you can type it in your browser. Whatever you grab that first 24 hours, you won't be billed, decide it's not right for you, unsubscribe before the end of that 24 hours, you'd be Building nothing. Then keep it month to month as long as you like. Cancel any time, Clarence. It will be awesome to have Brian love, love his videos. Brian's Brian. We'll see. Hopefully he's willing to get in front of the camera if you have seen him. Brian did a live event with us on imc and you know what? I should. Or it was inadvertent imc. I should dig that up. We got to replay that. Maybe we'll do that next week. Just to introduce people to Brian. We brought him in live through our software and had him present inadvertent IMC for us because he teaches inadvertent IMC for his aviation unit. Of course, lead guy needs to make sure his pilots need to understand how to avoid inadvertent IMC and what to do if you get into it. I'll dig that up. I'm glad you. I'm glad you sparked that thought there, Clarence. I'll roll that next week. We'll bring that up so people can see it. It gives you a little introduction to Brian and who he is. And again, not only a super detailed individual, you know, one of my really good friends and we became friends first. And what I got to tell you about Brian is he freaking loves to teach. He just freaking loves it and that's why it's such a good match. And the thing that we talk about amongst ourselves that we don't really say out loud to most of you, but I'll say it now, most people are going for their dream, right? And they have their future ahead of them. Brian and I have been doing it long enough that Brian's got to fly some really cool stuff. We're talking, you know, Eurocopters, UEs. He's flown some neat stuff. So have I. BK117, EC135 Jet Ranger. You know, we've had opportunities to fly the more complicated aircraft and the expensive aircraft, right? I've flown a six million dollar aircraft. Yeah, it's fun and it's cool. With that being said, we love to teach and we're at that point in our career where it doesn't matter whether I'm flying a 1983 instrument or a twin engine BK117, their helicopter is a helicopter. Right? At our point in our lives, we love to teach. That's our thing. And Brian feels the same way. We're not trying to move up the ladder like many of you are moving up the ladder to get to go do those opportunities. And that's great. I did them that five years I had an EMS was awesome, right? It was a five years. I got to live the dream that many people are chasing right now. And I learned a lot. I learned so much. I learned about 135 operations, twin engine helicopters. There's so much to learn and there was so much good in that five years that it was an invaluable experience that I'm using still today to teach. But now, at my point, I would never say never, right? I had no desire to go back to ems, none whatsoever. I've been there, I've done that. I like doing what I'm doing right now. And when Brian, you know, he's got a few more days left, he said, in the past, oh man, you know, I admire, I want to do what you do. And I always go, baloney. I want to do what you're doing, right? He's like, I've been doing it long enough. You know, it ain't no big deal because that was my dream. Law enforcement, right? But I think any job becomes a job after a while. But HOGS is the thing that I've, you know, aviation I've been at a little over 20 years, but Hogs is the number one thing I've probably stuck with the longest as far as a business I owned or God, even last eight years in any job. I don't think I've ever lasted eight years in a job. I've had several different opportunities. But anyway, doesn't matter. So I think I answered. Go off on so many tangents. So congratulations to Brian, retired last May. Federal law enforcement career to an end. Aviation dream now begins. There you go. Awesome. Skibby50. Happy birthday, Keith Murray, if you have a package now and it hasn't expired, how would you upgrade the new unlimited package? Just email me and I'll get it taken care of for you. Just email me kennyelcopterground.com and we'll work something out. It's too hard to try to discuss all that live when we got people watching. I should just try to wrap things up. What else I want to talk about. So that's it. That's it. Anybody got any questions? Bring up a question. I got the big screen right there. I can see what it is. My daughter's at home. I probably should get the hell out of here. How long have I been online? I don't even know. Feels like. I don't know. I guess I want to wrap it up with. I can't thank everybody enough. We couldn't be here without you. Helicopter on the ground school members or viewers on YouTube, even if you're not a member. You know, I've met a lot of people that say, hey, thanks for your videos. I'm not a paid member, but I watch your YouTube and I comment, well, thank you. Right? I mean, not everybody I meet is ever going to be a member of my ground school. I have friends that watch my videos that go, I don't even care about helicopters, but I just watch to see what you're doing, you know, and some people find it interesting. Even though they have no real desire to maybe learn to go fly, they still want to learn about helicopters. So it doesn't mean that, you know, what I'm trying to say is we appreciate everybody, right? We appreciate everybody on YouTube that makes a comment, gives us a thumbs up, subscribes, clicks the bell. People that join our ground school for long term, short term, we couldn't do it without you. And my own story is amazing, but I did it with you. I did it with all of you that watch and come back and make comments. Dave Faulkner, have a wonderful afternoon. Kenny. Look forward to seeing you this summer. Keep motivation coming. Inspire folks to move forward. That's right. Dave again had blast. Dave was here last summer. Dave is one of our ground school members, flies out in California. And Dave, next time I'm in California, hopefully you can take me flying out there. And then hopefully you can fly when you're here home with me or back here this summer. All right, I guess I'll wrap it up. I just gotta say thanks, everybody. KK50 up. As the code ends tonight, you can go above or below this video for the unlimited packages or that big professional pilot package. Any questions last minute? Kennyelicoperground.com youm can't. You can email Heather, but she won't be back till tomorrow. So anything yet today, and I'll do my best to get them answered yet today before they end. So I'm gonna wrap it up. Thank you all. What else can I say? Keep it pointing to the wind. Good advice. Always good advice. Oh, I don't have to walk away. I can end it right here. See you all later. Peace out.