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Speaker: [00:00:00] Hey, what's up everybody? Gene Ty back at you with another episode of the All Access Podcast now from Dent Repair Now. I guess at what point do I stop saying now from Dent, dent Repair now and it's just from Dent Repair now anyways, we're still in the transition. Doesn't matter. Um, it is Monday. I told you guys new episodes on Monday.
Uh, however, you probably are noticing that it was not sitting in your podcast player when he woke up this morning, and it wasn't that 7:00 AM YouTube premiere, uh, that I like to do. It snowed here this weekend. I had every intention of, uh, coming in yesterday and recording the podcast. However, mother Nature decided, uh, that that's not gonna happen and you're gonna clean snow all day.
So I think we ended up with close to. Six, eight inches. Uh, did my [00:01:00] driveway a couple of times. Had to do help my father-in-law with his driveway, pack all that up. Go to my mom's house, do her driveway, uh, fix the snowblower. It was a day. Uh, and when I sat down. From being inside or from being outside all day.
Uh, I needed a nap. This, this old guy was cold and tired, uh, and it was nap time. So instead of recording this show yesterday, uh, I took a nap and it was much needed. Uh, and then last night, um, it was family time. Uh, it was, uh, gingerbread day. So we started this. Uh, a few years ago with an exchange student.
Uh, and then we brought it back with the kids as they get a little bit older. And we did custom gingerbread houses, which by the way is a live competition on our Facebook, on my personal Facebook, uh, gene Fetty. [00:02:00] Dent repair now, or the access or anything. Um, if we are friends on Facebook, head over to my Facebook feed.
Uh, find the post that I shared from Melissa. Check out all of the great, uh, gingerbreads that we built and vote on your favorite. And I promise I will not tell you which one is mine. Uh, anyways. Yeah, go check it out. Go vote. Uh, if we are friends on Facebook, um. Love to see what you guys think. So this episode is not gonna be a real long episode.
Uh, and I apologize if there's banging in the background. Uh, even though everybody that I've talked to that listens says, when I'm sweating these sounds, uh, nobody else can hear 'em, uh, because they try to keep the mic pretty dialed down. Uh, but they are beaten on a couple of panels back in the shop, and I hear customers coming through the door.
So hopefully it's not too annoying. I'll try to just talk over it. Uh, and we'll go from there. This episode, [00:03:00] I want to talk about training and the different types of training that are out there and what's available. Um, and, and sort of put my 2 cents in. Uh, I keep seeing, and maybe it's because it's the off season, uh, maybe it's because the beginner's group feed shows up in my feed all the time.
I'm seeing a lot of. Negativity, maybe a little extra negativity, uh, towards training, towards beginner training, uh, towards online training. I want to give you my 2 cents or maybe 5 cents since we don't do pennies anymore, on, on training, uh, styles and types. Uh, and I'd love your feedback on what kind of training works best for you.
What kind of training did you have to get into the business? Uh, what trainings have you attended, uh, since you've been in the business to help you become a better tech? [00:04:00] I'm just curious. So. Let me start by saying there is no perfect training. There is no best perfect training for everybody. I think the most crucial thing that anybody looking for, any kind of training in this space, uh, can or should look for.
Is connecting with your instructor, connecting with your mentor, finding an instructor or teacher that teaches how you learn. Um, I know I have a very particular learning style. Uh, I also have a very particular teaching style, uh, that isn't necessarily for everybody. Uh, I see some of these other guys, so I see, um, Jesse Haw.
And [00:05:00] Dean with Legacy Dent. They are both, I would call it down the rabbit hole, um, of super, super technical knowledge they want to, uh, talk about and maybe more so Dean than Jesse. Uh, both good instructors by the way. Uh, understanding how the medal works. Almost, at least from reading the posts down to a molecular level and how it displaces, um, very.
I would almost call it like an engineer or an engineering style approach. My brain shuts down when, when I start going, when somebody wants to start going deep like that. It just doesn't work for me. However, I've talked to several of Dean's students, uh, and man, they love his [00:06:00] teaching style. They love what he shows them and how he shows it to them, and that is fantastic.
Uh, find an instructor. That teaches you how you learn or even better find an instructor that can change or modify their teaching style to your learning style. I would call maybe that the, the, that's what's gonna make the most amazing teacher, I think is, is that teacher who's not stuck in one way and, and can and can show things.
So types of training. Right. Let's, let's start with the top. I would think that the best possible kind of training, whether you're talking about like beginner PDR, or learning loophole repair, or ad advanced training, or semi advanced training, or full on like Bryce Kelly training in person hands on with you, the student on a car, has [00:07:00] to be the best asterisk, provided you're with a good instructor.
Because I've also had students come back in here that had gone for different trainings and that were quote unquote one-on-one or in person. Um, but there wasn't much teaching that went on and it was like, there's a dent. Here's how you push it, fix it. See you later. I gotta go do stuff that's not tra teaching, that's not training.
So right with that asterisk, as long as you are working with. An instructor that can teach you and will teach you and is hands on and over your shoulder gotta be the best. Right? Um, next up would still be depending on what you're trying to learn, right? If we're gonna talk some more advanced skills, pun intended, maybe, uh, would be or could [00:08:00] be a seminar like.
PDR College's Advanced Skills Seminar, or, um, like Jonathan, you know, from a couple of weeks ago, I think their training is kicking off tomorrow. I think it's Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. I just got a picture of Danny and John, uh, sitting together in Belgium. So, uh, maybe they're not teaching yet, but tomorrow.
Right. Small group, um, with instructors showing one-on-one. I'm not sure what they'll have hands-on. Uh, but like advanced skills seminar this year they had five or six stations where you weren't just spoken at or spoken to, uh, right. You actually got to work with instructors and do a little bit of one-on-one, um, and, and put that into play.
Yeah. Then of course there are seminars where you, there is no hands on and it all is all completely spoken to you, shown, shown to you. Um, then small groups. [00:09:00] Right. Not necessarily one-on-one, but one instructor to a handful of technicians. Uh, or a couple, you know, like level up like we've done here in the past two tech or two instructors to a handful of technicians where you're getting that one-on-one.
Um, but it sort of comes at a savings, right? Because you're not paying for all that instructor's time, right? You're spreading that out amongst people. Those all have their ups and downs, their pluses and minuses. Again, finding that right instructor for you with what you're trying to learn, where you're trying to go, has to be the absolute key.
So one-on-one training and you know, again, asterisk, good one-on-one training with a good instructor is going to be your best to when you're trying to learn this trade or improve your skillset. Right? Let's you know, we're not talking just to beginners, we're talking to like a, uh. [00:10:00] Somebody coming to me for an advanced, uh, level up style course, uh, or, you know, gonna Bryce Kelly or, or beginner, like you've never learned before, one-on-one is going to be downside.
The most expensive upside, the fastest way to success, um, whether you're learning PDR. From scratch or you are learning smashes or you're learning technically difficult repairs. All of this comes with nuance, right? You can all understand that that learning, PDR or growing in PDR, uh, comes down to nuances, uh, that, that are as we talk later, right?
In online or on your own training. Um. There are nuances that matter that are just incredibly difficult to see or show any way other than in [00:11:00] person and over the shoulder. Um, but again, it comes at a cost. It's not scalable as a trainer. Uh, it's not scalable to be one-on-one and work with only one person at a time.
Uh, it's doable. It's a model. It can, you can make money doing it, but you can't. Um. You're not gonna scale, you're never gonna get rich doing that.
Even somebody like Bryce, uh, you know, bringing in one-on-one, uh, I've talked to a bunch of his students and I've heard nothing but absolutely amazing things, uh, about Bryce's training as I would expect. I really wouldn't expect anything less, uh, from such an amazing technician and an amazing person.
Right. It's just a super, super dude. Um. When you're there, you've got hands on, you're watching him work like you are in the thick of it and there are real cars coming through the door, uh, that he's working on and teaching on and showing you. [00:12:00] Uh, it really is something to see and something to do. Um,
he's gotta be the best one-on-one smash trainer around. Right. Or really maybe even the best smashed terrain or around even some of these other guys who are, are incredible technicians, uh, don't have the teaching, uh, background that Bryce has. Uh, so right. Bryce would be amazing there. When we shift and shift away from advanced training, uh, and we start to talk about beginner training, in my opinion, I think your best bet if you want to.
Set yourself up for the most, uh, or the best chance of, uh, success. Set yourself up for, um, speed. Right? And, and we'll take a little side note here in a second, one-on-one long term. [00:13:00] Multi-week, uh, potentially even multi-month training. Uh, albeit the most expensive way to learn, uh, I can argue or I would argue that is it's not just the most expensive way to learn.
Uh, it's the most profitable way to learn, um, nuances in PDR. Like, you need to build those up. You need to start from scratch, start from zero, and learn this whole new skill set as you're working up and beginning to. Be able to make a high spot accurately and knock down a high spot accurately to fixing a small dent, to fixing a smaller high spot, to fixing a larger dent and not so on and so forth.
If you can have somebody over your shoulder showing you and teaching you how to do that, magic is gonna happen. Now that being said, make sure it's a trainer that you can get with. So Mike ald at Gateway Dent, uh, in the St. Louis market. I've heard [00:14:00] fantastic things from, uh, I guess he was an ex d Wizard trainer.
Uh, just does, it's a six week program. Several of my friends have sent their, uh, sons to Mike for training and they come out and they're fixing dents already. That is a serious testament two, one, Mike being a great instructor and having it dialed in, but two being completely. Engulfed in, OR, or, or surrounded by.
Yeah, training. All you're doing is just PDR all day, every day. That's gonna make a difference. That's a whole lot different than learning at your house and sneaking out to the garage for an hour after you worked all day. Right. Total immersion, that's the word I was looking for. Total immersion in PDR. Uh, and of course, right.
Somebody like Mike Toledo out at Dent time slash Dent trainer. Mike has a huge catalog [00:15:00] of students that he's trained and. Offers that big, long, multi-week training. Don Kavanaugh up at Dent Craft. Again, in person long-term, super successful. That is where it's at, right? So I would say maybe there's not a perfect training, but the best training is gonna be some sort of one-on-one, um, one-on-one training with, and I can't stress that enough with an instructor.
That works well and teaches well the way you learn, right? That is so, so incredibly important. Get after it then, you know, I, I'm gonna, I'm sort of, I guess I'm not torn the next best in my opinion. Kind of training is going to be small group hands-on. Right. So like our level up [00:16:00] training that me and John did.
Side note, if you are interested in potentially joining Level Up for. The last week of February, 2026, send me or Jean a dm. Uh, we're putting some feelers out to see if this is a class that we're gonna put on. Uh, and if we don't have enough interest, we're not gonna put it on because it is a whole ton of work, uh, not only to put it on, but to lead up to it.
All of jean's travel to get in, um, getting all the damage set up. It, it's a ton of work. So. If you're interested, if you think you're interested, send me a dm. Let's talk about it. Zero pressure. I'm not a hardcore sale. I mean, I'll close you if I need to close you, but I'm not a hardcore sales guy if you, if it's not right.
I don't want you here. If you can't afford it, I don't want you here. Uh, so if you're thinking about it, hit me up. So, level it up. John, I'm sure you're listening. Make sure you share this episode. Tell 'em to hit us up. Go back and listen to some of the old episodes. Uh. With Sean and [00:17:00] where we talked about Level Up because it's gonna be a very similar level up, uh, this year or this coming year if we can put it together.
So anyways, one, two, uh, instead of one-on-one, one to a handful, uh, where you get that, that one-on-one attention, I would argue that maybe that is going to be the best. Possible training because, uh, in that small group, you're still going to get that over the shoulder. Look, uh, you're still gonna be able to get the time with the instructor to help literally lead you on your way, show you what's going on, um, and, and steer you in the proper direction without.
Having to take the entire burden of the cost of the expense for that instructor of one-on-one. So, you know, as a, as a business, right, as a trainer, [00:18:00] uh, you need to make x number of dollars per day or per week or per month, or whatever your equation is. And if somebody, if someone, one person wants to buy your time, which is, you know, what, you're selling your time and your knowledge.
If you're in one-on-one, you are paying for that entire time, right? Be it a day, a week, a month, multiple months, whatever it is. If you can get into a good group setting, a good small, excuse me, a good small group setting, you can then take some of that cost and spread it amongst the other students without giving up much, um, without giving up much of the, uh.
Attention to detail, right? I think maybe that's the best way to go if we're talking, if, if, if money is an object right in, it probably is, uh, that's gonna be your most affordable, uh, but [00:19:00] most rewarding. Uh, program, you know, like Kiko does their five day GPR plus trainings in Oklahoma City. Uh, and really for what that is, you know, it's one or two instructors to a handful of students.
Excellent. Incredible value. Um, right, same kind of idea. So another, another way to to think about it now, probably my least favorite. Yeah. Although still fun and I still enjoy them, would be, uh, seminar type instruction or, or even, you know, talk about like an education day at MTE, uh, kind of deal where you're just being spoken to and just shown and just talked about is there value in it.
Absolutely. Am I going to go to MTE and talk? Absolutely. Stick around at the end and I'll tell you what we're gonna talk about. Um, [00:20:00] but you're not gonna get any engagement, right? It's, uh, you know. You, you can learn a lot. Uh, but Charlie, the guy who got me into the business, hit me hard with this one years ago when I was just starting, uh, when there was, I can't remember if it was the medical channel or the health channel or it was something along those lines.
Um, I had gone to, to. Painful and was back and practicing. And I'm like, Charlie, can I just sit and watch you, uh, so I can like try to figure out this magic sauce that I'm missing? And he's like, dude, you can sit down and watch me all you want. He goes, I can go home and watch all the brain surgeries I want on, on the health channel, uh, but I can't go do brain surgery.
He is like, I don't care if you watch. It doesn't bother me. You're not gonna learn what you need to learn. Just sitting there and watching. And I was like, damn, that is a little harsh. Still a little, still a little hurt by that. Charlie, you could have helped. I'm not really hurt. We're good. [00:21:00] Um, they're exciting.
Um, I always come back from, from seminar type talks, uh, engaged, excited, uh, and I really do learn things there. Uh, you know, at some point, at some point in your career, uh, and I've probably said it on the show here before, I know I've said it. Publicly. Um, when you reach a certain level in your career or in your skillset, it's not likely that you're gonna go to a, a, a, certainly not a big group training and learn something that completely changes and shifts your whole world.
Uh, not likely, not impossible, but not likely. What I'm always looking for is like, if you think of nascar, right? And they're, they're running around the track. They got 400 laps, uh, on the, on the track. They're not looking for something that's gonna save them 10 seconds on a lap. It doesn't [00:22:00] exist. They're looking for something that might be a hundredth of a second over each lap, right?
Or, or maybe even a thousandth of a second. I guess if that math would work and then he would be 400th of a second. Don't. I'm a dent guy, man. Not a math, not a math guy. But anyways, what they're looking for is, is something that gives them just that slight little edge. That they can then take and apply to that entire, in this case, race, that entire track, that one little tweak that lets them go just a fraction of a second faster.
When I go to a seminar or or a talk, or even online, if I can pick up one little thing that makes me the equivalent of that 100th of a second faster or better or cleaner on a repair, now I'm not just applying that to my. Repair that day or [00:23:00] just that day. I get to compound that over the rest of my career.
If I can take that new thing I learned and apply it to the rest of my career, I'm winning. So, example, advanced skills seminar. I've talked about it on a couple episodes. Bryce keeps, uh, a heavy like Baby Sledge. Uh, I think the one I have is two pounds. I went and bought it something, something along the lines of a two pound hammer where I would have probably prior to advanced skills seminar, grabbed like my big craftsman hammer.
I don't know what that weighs, but you know it's not two pounds and trying to move an edge. You're trying to move something big and you're making this big uncontrolled swing. Bryce uses this little baby sledge and he's got a leather wrapped face. Instead of this big, wow, you're just like bump, bump, bump, but it has all that weight behind it.
[00:24:00] So you're moving nice and easy and clean. You're not wearing yourself out. You're able to strike accurately because you're not uh, um, swinging so far. You're not covering so much distance. That is one little thing that I picked up from Bryce at Advanced Skills this year that I can now and will. Apply to the entirety of the rest of my career, and I will continue to win because I picked that up, right?
So I don't want you guys to think that I'm like dogging group learning because it's, it's there, right? Like I will learn everything. I can learn, but it's different. Right? When me and John did the first level up, I think we did Level Up and smash school. It was one. Uh, or it was two separate classes the first time we did it.
We've now incorporated it all into one. We did these really sharp dents and, and I think you've probably heard this on here as well before, but it's still a good story [00:25:00] with these really sharp dents that if you push perfectly and accurately go incredibly fast and incredibly clean, and they look super simple and we sort of, we both chart our own approaches.
John uses a cherry cap. I use a pheno tip. Uh, you know, that's the big difference at the end of the day. But we can both fix them, uh, very quickly, very cleanly, um, and efficiently. Everybody watched us teach that and before we sent them on their own, right? The in person hands on approach, uh, everybody in the class was like, oh yeah, look out this bro.
What do you mean? Like, really you're showing us this? And then they all went and proceeded to eat shit. On those dents that that looked easy, they followed the process that we said to follow, they thought and they missed and they made a mess. And everybody struggled on that dent [00:26:00] until right. Here's the in person.
We were able to walk around the room and correct each person and show 'em what they're doing wrong, and we got 'em up to speed and got 'em to where they could fix that dent. Right. That's the idea, but. You know, I tell that story because if it were just a showing seminar, like a show and tell, where even if we set up cameras and show everything looks super simple, you think you got it until you go back in real life and try it yourself and you don't got it right.
Big, big difference there. Um, so pluses and minuses to all of those, and I think that brings us to. Lemme go back through my notes. Large crew center, small group, beginner level training. Uh, you know, I'm gonna go, uh, I'm gonna, we're gonna talk a little bit of beginner training, um, but also start to dive into online.[00:27:00]
You know what, we're, we're gonna skip beginner. We're, we're gonna go straight into online. If I can get on my soapbox and I would stand up and get on a soapbox, but I only have one camera going, and then the green screen wouldn't work and like it's a whole mess. So just pretend if you're watching the video that I'm up on my soapbox.
And if you are, you know, listening, uh, here, that's my soap box and I'm gonna hop on it and stand in it.
Make up your freaking mind. All of you across the board, make up your mind because here's what I hear and have heard for a long time, right? Maybe this is a little bit of a rant. Everybody wants online, or everybody wants in-person training, and I where I've already just said that in-person training one-on-one or even one on small group is the best you can get, [00:28:00] but it takes the most commitment and has the most cost.
So, oh, I want to get better. I want in-person training. Okay, great. Now you need to hop on an airplane or hop in your car and drive to where this training is going to be and get a hotel and eat three meals a day out, uh, or two meals a day, or one meal a day if you're on OMA and doing fasting. Um. Now you need to travel and get there and spend time and be away from your family and not make any money, and you're gone.
And then you're paying a premium to be in person with an instructor. And then all these people, all of you people, you know who you are. And I love you. And I've been there. Oh man, it's too expensive. I can't do online or I can't do in person training. That doesn't make any sense. It has to be, ugh, I can't do it.
I had a bad year. It didn't handle enough. I have to pawn my [00:29:00] Rolex. I just put a big lift on my truck. I can't get there. All right, fine. I've got a great solution for you. Incredible, amazing technical online training. It's way more affordable. Do it at your own pace. Whenever you wanna do it, you can go back and revisit it.
You can go watch the lesson a thousand times. If you wanna watch it a thousand times to get it down under your head. Oh, I just don't know. I just don't know if, if I can learn online, okay, well then come in person. Well, I can't go in person because it's too expensive. Well, how much money are you costing yourself by not spending any money and not making a commitment and not trying to find that?
Hundredth of a second or thousandth of a second to get around the, the track a little bit faster. Like, bro, [00:30:00] come on, make a freaking decision and do it. These guys who dog online training, I get it. Like I've watched some, maybe not stellar online training, maybe all of my online training isn't perfect, but there's good online training out there.
I show stuff in the, in the trainings we've put together, I'm able to, I call it our technician's eye view. Maybe I should trademark that or patent that or something. We're able to zoom in with these cameras and show detail and nuances that simply you, you can't see in person. Certainly as a beginner, you know, when you're learning, you can't see the detail that we see.
I've seen that with several beginners that I've trained where I'm like, oh, it's right here. And they're like, oh, it looks good to me. I'm like, no, you don't see it. And then I'll pull the camera out and put it up [00:31:00] on a screen, and instead of that flaw being a 16th or a 32nd of an inch, right now, it's up on screen and it's a half an inch and they can see it and they can go back and forth and, and make it happen
online. Definitely has. A serious place in, in training today. Um, even, you know, like Bryce, as busy as he is and amazing as he is, is at at in person, has an online smash school, right? His, his training is available online. He drops a new video every month, uh, that goes super into depth and shows you all of his tactics.
A couple advantages there, one. You get to see real world, uh, working through and, you know, a, a good online class can't hide things, right? They're gonna be able to show you the nuances that are there. Two, [00:32:00] I can't tell you, but I probably have notebooks somewhere here, like full of notes that I took somewhere that I haven't gone back and reread or.
Lessons that I've learned that I didn't take notes on, uh, that I was like, oh, I got this. I can remember it. And then you forget the nuances. With a good online library, with good online training, you can go and watch it again, right? You can dive back in, you can fast forward and rewind and fast forward and rewind and rewind and fast forward and watch exactly what's happening, happening.
See exactly how these moves are coming out. Um. And with, with that being said, I've got friends that learned 100% how to do PDR online. They've not had in-person training. Right. They watched, you know, a lot of 'em have watched Mike's videos and they've taken, you know, their YouTube certified, but they put their reps in and they went back [00:33:00] and learned and learned and learned and learned.
I think I know. Yeah. Now I think I definitely, I know that a lot of concepts, a lot of approaches, uh, you know, be it in smash or in uh, beginner land are
very simple concepts. I think. Whether you're thinking about, you know, going to a Bryce for a SMASH school or coming to a Level up, or, you know, maybe you're one of the body techs that listens to this and you wanna get better at glue pulling, uh, or right, you're a beginner and you're just trying to figure out where to start.
There are programs out there that can help you get started, get the ball rolling in the right [00:34:00] direction. Yeah. Then in turn you can sit back and practice and work on your own and get better. Or it can be a stepping stone towards one-on-one or one on small group training where instead of coming in empty and unskilled and blind, you are able to come in with ideas and concepts and real world.
Um.
Real world, what's the word? Experience. I don't know if it's experience real world reps. Maybe if it's not real world experience, it's real world reps. And on some of these,
I don't wanna say basic, because we can even get into advanced, more simple to understand concepts. Real world PDR, right? I've sent a ton of [00:35:00] potential newbies to real world PDR to check out Jim's beginner session, right as beginner. Uh. A group of videos, right? It's a jump off point. We created, I have intro to PDR through GPR, right?
And, and I'm gonna be talking a whole lot more about that, uh, over the next month or so. Uh, but I think, right, you can learn the basics. Of PDR and get, get your journey started literally with some tabs, a mini lifter, a knock down, a hammer, and a light. Right? I think you can do a ton of stuff and teach yourself a ton of stuff with good, proper instruction.
Um, glue pull repair, right? The GPR masterclass broken down into, I can't remember how many different chapters, right? We can get you up to speed with glue. Pull fast. I know in person's better. I do, [00:36:00] but I know it's a big ask to get that in-person training, right? So quit sitting on the sidelines and being that armchair quarterback and start thinking about, man, how can I level up and move into a better direction?
Dent trainer.com. Right? Mike has a huge, maybe the biggest catalog of, uh. Online training and classes out there. Real world. PDR has a big catalog. I know Dean from Legacy Dent just launched a, uh, an online portal, dent Slayer, right? Matt and James have their beginner training with, with Dent Slayer. You can really learn a ton online and then apply yourself, right?
So we opened this up with finding the right instructor that teaches how you teach. Or no. Finding the right instructor that teaches how you learn or that can adapt to how you learn is, is magical.[00:37:00]
You cannot, I don't care what you do. You cannot replace your metal time. Right. Whether you're a beginner, learning how to place a tab on a little dent, or learning how to see your tip for that first push, or you're a seasoned pro looking to get better, to learn the nuances of how to unfold a smash, unlock the metal, get rid of those nasty egg crowns in concave areas with lateral tension and outward pressure, and big clean knockdowns.
If you're not gonna put the reps in, I don't care what training you get. Be it one-on-one, one on small seminars online. You need to commit your commit to yourself and put the reps in to become the technician that you want to be. Like. That is what it is all about. Um, so end of rant. Let me see online. Yep.
Mistakes. Yep. [00:38:00] Yeah, figure out where you're at, figure out what you need, what you're looking for, and find that instructor, uh, that, that will help you learn and, and get to where you want to be. Whew. So end of that little rant, uh, or whatever you would like to call that, our little, uh,
soray. Soiree soiree into training and did some training talk. Uh, what is going on in the Dent world, um, this Wednesday? So that is gonna be the 17th, uh, at 6:00 PM Eastern. Uh, there's going to be like the MTE Super Show. I'm not sure if it's Dent Nerds or if it is dents and dreams, uh, but I believe Mr.
Vine, uh, is running it. I will be on there and I think all Sheldon. Uh, Sheldon Kay, Kevin Bird. Um, they'll both be on and I think it is all of the podcasters [00:39:00] that are gonna be doing, or most of the podcasters that are gonna be doing a show from Radio Row, uh, will be on there as well. Um, looking forward to that.
Uh, and that's always a good time when you get a bunch of, uh, PDR people together. Talking, talking business, uh, MTEs coming up. Right. So Wednesday is the beginner's day. I'm speaking in the afternoon on Glue Pull 1 0 1 on Thursday Education Day. I will be talking, unlocking and staying unlocked, uh, for Kiko, right?
Putting that Kiko shirt back on. I'm excited to come out of a little Kiko retirement for that. And then in the afternoon, Matt Moore and myself will be MCing the shop owner's round table. Ryan Schutt of RPS Dent Specialists, uh, Doug Hillas out of Seattle, and the Patricks, Andy and Amanda Patrick of Dapper Dent Repair outside of Nashville will all be on stage to share some of their wisdom and how they've grown, uh, [00:40:00] their businesses and what that all looks like.
Super excited to be there and I'm always pumped to go to MTE. Level up. If you were thinking about it, contemplating it, would like to learn more, send myself or John. Zan, uh, a dm and we're happy to talk about it. Uh, we would love to make that class happen. It will be, if we can do it, it will be the last week of February here in Pittsburgh.
Beautiful, sunny. It won't be sunny. It'll be kind of cold. Uh, Pittsburgh, uh, but right, we've got food, good food, and the shop's nice and warm. Uh, it's a good way to spend a, hopefully the last slow winter week learning and leveling up. So when the busy season comes, you are ready to hit the ground running and make better, faster, cleaner repairs, and more importantly, make more money.
That's what it's all about. Uh, Keith, I think you're a regular listener now. Shout out to PDR College. I love that you guys have been putting a few [00:41:00] episodes out. I hope you are completely back on the podcast. Podcast bandwagon. Um. Although I am not mobile anymore, I still look forward to listening to every show back in the day.
I couldn't wait to go to work on Monday so I could fire up my, uh, iPhone and hit the podcast app and catch that new episode. Guys. Thanks for doing that. I'm excited to listen. Love listening. I'm in the middle of the. Shop versus mobile, uh, episode right now. So Keith, I'm in my drywall prison. Uh, but we've got some windows installed, so it's nice to see outside.
Uh, what else? Keep an eye out. Uh, we've got some new beginner stuff coming up. Uh, I'm excited for that. Uh, we are in the process of moving all of the old episodes. Um.
Over to the Dent Repair now YouTube channel. Um, excited to have that, uh, moved over and [00:42:00] everything here. Uh, we have transitioned, uh, fully from a a i to dent repair now. So if you go to ot repair institute.com, it will forward you to dent repair now.com/institute, uh, where you have access to all of the classes and courses that you have signed up for.
Uh, what else? I think that's about it. Yes. And I'm recovered from shoveling snow. I did have to go to a rental house this morning, uh, or I would've recorded this earlier. Uh, but I think we're on a warming trend after we get outta these ridiculously cold days. I think it's supposed to be 50 and rainy here on Thursday.
That'll melt all this garbage off, clean the roads up, and people will be able to see their dents and we will be able to fix their dents for them and get it all taken care of. So, super excited for that. That is episode number 48, I think in the books. We're gonna hit 50 real soon. I'm gonna hit 50 in April.
Uh, [00:43:00] let's see, 22. Yeah, we will hit 50 before the end of the year. I've got two more episodes to go. Uh. One of the next two episodes before the end of the year will be my end of the year tool wrap up, uh, with some reviews, uh, talking about some of my favorite tools of the year, uh, a little bit more in depth than we did on, uh, the Cyber Monday Black Friday deal, and hopefully the new studio.
We'll be set up or at least to a level where I can get my table out and get a couple cameras going, uh, and really give you guys some in-depth looks at some of my favorite stuff from the year. As always, go follow us on social at. Dent repair. Now across the board, give us a like, uh, if you're watching on YouTube, make sure you hit that, subscribe and hit the bell for notifications.
Jack Bucknell, I'm talking to you. Make sure you're on the Dent Repair Now, YouTube not the old a a i YouTube, uh, I don't want any excuses on [00:44:00] why you're not watching my videos. Alright guys, thanks so much for listening. I will catch you on the next show and hopefully we don't get snowed out and it'll be live for you at 7:00 AM Eastern next Monday.
See ya.
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