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Lemonada.

A couple goes from crashed drone to a soaring side hustle.

This is, in fact, a sky-high success story of a six-figure drone coaching business that begins

after a man crashes a drone into a parked car in New York City.

Got to look out for those.

Drones are everywhere these days.

A lot of them crash.

I think we had a story once of a drone hospital where drones go to get repaired after they

inevitably crash because their users make a mistake. Well, this year we're going to bring you

some remixes of our best stories over the years, especially the early years, which was a very

long time ago, 2017, 2018, bringing you some of the greatest hits, some of my favorite stories. This was actually

originally in episode 500, and now we're on episode 3,140. Now, of course, each time we record

an episode, we record it new. So we go back and look at everything. Sometimes we have some updates. So if you do happen to have an incredible memory, and you heard this back on day 500, more than 2,600 days ago. In fact, well, you're going to hear something new. So in today's story, this guy, Alan Perlman, I actually know Alan, he's a pretty cool guy.

He's built a number of businesses.

And this one, I think, I don't know if this was his biggest invest, but certainly one of the most interesting and unusual.

Just as people were learning about drones and buying drones and crashing them, of course, he decides to make a change from an affiliate marketing business where he was reviewing different drones, earning some commissions from Amazon, et cetera, into, well, that's what you're

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