We are live. We are doing kind of a fun pod today hanging out with my nephew, Riley.

I wanted you guys to kind of maybe get to know him a little bit. And then also he composed a bunch of questions that he thought maybe you guys might have.

Also, just kind of behind the scenes at Elk Shape, give you guys kind of a look under the hood.

For me, at the time of this recording we are i just got off the phone literally with the the gal from the surgery center

like telling me not to take any ed medication in the next 48 hours i thought that was funny uh don't drink

any water past midnight starting tomorrow and asking me if I was on any meds or this, that if I had flu or. Anyway, so surgery's going down Wednesday. This is Riley James. Riley, I was 23 when you were born into this world at Holy Family. And I remember being there.

And it's crazy that you're already almost 19 in like four days.

Yeah.

And that and it's like I'm still younger than you were when I was born, which is pretty

crazy.

Thanks.

Thanks for saying that.

You're welcome.

Recently, you're switching crazy. Thanks. Thanks for saying that. You're welcome. Recently, you're switching gears.

So pilot, that's kind of like the end goal.

You have 400 hours of flying time at age 18.

That's me.

That's ridiculous.

I've been working at it for a while, that's for sure.

And got really lucky to make some good connections in the industry. Aviation is really similar to hunting in that you just have that network of people that are super helpful. Now you've got your salty people too who are kind of assholes, but you've got a really good environment and network of people who are willing to help and all of that. So I was

fortunate to get pretty far and I'm pretty lucky and blessed. Commercial pilot maybe?

Commercial but not airlines. So I want to be doing like the private jet, corporate flying.

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