Well, all right again, welcome back to the active self-protection podcast.

I am yet again your host, Mike Williver, and with any luck at all, I remain your favorite.

Former Fed with us today is our owner and founder, John Korea, and our CMO and and all around training app guy, Neil Weidner.

Stephanie could not be here. She is busy doing, I would say, family stuff. Is that safe to say,

Neil? I think that's a fair assessment. Yes. There's always family stuff to do. As long as

Cody is around, there is stuff to do. We'll just leave it at that.

He is a full-time job and then some. Indeed. If you ever been to our conference and met Cody, you're missing out. So hopefully, uh, let's talk about the conference. Actually, we'll open with that. That wasn't that long ago. The Act of Self Protection Conference, national conference every year is in September. And so far has been either in Phoenix or Kansas, Manhattan, Kansas,

and has done very, very well to support the Flint Hills Foster Teen Kent, which is a very worthy cause. So which one of you guys wants to discuss the conference and how it went real quick?

I mean, I'll start. I think it was the best conference we've ever had. We had record attendance.

The instructors this year were really,

really incredible. For anybody who hasn't been, the whole thing is a fundraiser. You literally

don't pay active self-protection a penny to come to the conference. You make a donation to the charity.

And for the last five years, we've done the Flint Hills Foster team camps. Hope that continues

indefinitely. We're excited for them.

And, you know, we raised $120,000 overall this year, just a little over that. And so what a cool

thing, man. All the instructors donate their time. The corporate donors cover their travel expenses so that every penny that people give,

whether it's in the auction, whether it's in the raffle, whether it's for their attending,

goes to support the kids. And so, I mean, I don't know what you think, Neil, but I think the

culture is just, it's very different. I go to other conferences and I love them. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying like, oh, look at us. We're special. You know, like we're better than everyone. I just, the culture is different. And if you haven't been, it's hard to kind of put that lightning in a bottle. It really isn't. You know, and, um, and I'll say it. I i think it's special it's special to us uh because

because of what we're doing and and and why it's so different in that um and i love going to other

conferences don't give me wrong i i'm the same as you i mean those are fun uh they're good people

putting them on there they bring in good instructors and and all of that uh but i think the

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