 Ladies and gentlemen, it's time to bring on a very special guest. Ta-da! Hiya! It's Dana, it's Dana, it's Dana. Oh, so good to see you. It's great to see you. I know the channel has missed you, they love you. For all of you who don't know Dana, Dana's one of my very best friends. She's a mentor, she's a guru, she makes me laugh every day. She has the heart as big as, like at least 10 times bigger than the Grinch, which is really big. That's really big. And we've done a lot of fun adventures together throughout the years. We're gonna get her back on the channel this year, we're gonna do something fun. Yes, we are. But this video is all about getting kids on bikes and getting you to buy raffle tickets to win a priority 600X bicycle. Buzzer sound But before we get into those details, Dana, tell us about your foundation and how it got started and what you do. Okay. Well first, thanks for doing this again. You're welcome. You mean the world to me. Well, you mean the world. You're one of my best friends too. And did you see my shirt? Oh, look, take a step back. Whoa. It's cool to be kind and we're gonna be talking about being kind. Ain't that the truth? Cause today's Valentine's Day. That's right, it's all about the love. Love and lugs and kind. Kiss home. Kiss everybody. Muah, I love you. Okay, so about the foundation, it's called the KRD Foundation. And it's in honor of my brother, Kirk Rocky Derricks-Filer. And we have been raising money for cheese since 2007. And our focus is on getting kids on bikes. And we used to do a fundraiser. As you know, I owned a few restaurants here in town. And it was pretty easy to raise money when we had that. But then, do you remember what happened? Oh, the pandemic. COVID happened. So the restaurants got shut down. You had no way to generate money for your foundation. And we were brainstorming and Ryan really generously gave his channel. I offered up all of you. All of you. And also priority bikes. Priority bikes. Yes. And we created this fundraiser to raffle off a priority 600X. It's the bike that I helped design with my friend Eddie at Priority Bikes. And one of you can win this bike. And let me just say right off the bat, priority bikes are amazing. I don't ride anything else. But they're not just great bikes. They're great people. Every time I've ever asked priority to donate a bike for a cause that I believe in, they're like, we got you. So they're just good people. That's really why I love them. Okay, so let me tell you some more about the foundation. Yes. So to honor my brother, he died when he was 49 years old and I had donated a kidney to him and cancer took his life. But he was so passionate about being outdoors and adventures and especially with kids getting to start doing that. And so we have given money. Like last year we raised like 60,000. We, you, we all raised $60,000 with this same fundraiser. You know, I want to just rattle off for a minute like where some of that money went. So you know, it's all going there. And I'm just going to jump in really quickly. 60,000 last year, 45 the year before. So over $100,000 in the last two years because of you and your big kind hearts. Hit them Dana. Over a hundred thousand. That's a lot of money. Okay, community cycles. That's a great nonprofit here in Boulder that gets people on bikes. Montana Indian Reservation, the peddling mines, the assisted cycling center, bikes together, lucky to ride Nature Center Pueblo Boys and Girls Club, the cycle effect and the Pueblo Green Chili Bike Bank. My brother was from Pueblo. And so I love helping out that community also. And the thing is what we've been doing a lot of is teaching kids. Like they're not only learning to ride bikes but they're learning bike maintenance or learning to take care of their bikes. And you know, it's, that's like a freedom machine. Like didn't that? It is a freedom machine. So once you get on a bike, you just feel so good. It's good for the environment. It's good for your health. It's fun to hang out with friends and ride bikes. Yeah, love it. Right? And I want you to know that your donation, all of it goes to these programs. Like we buy the stamps, we buy any stickers, we do all the addressing. Ryan makes the videos. There is like no overhead. We're not even buying a paperclip. No. All of the money that you give us goes to these foundations. There's no overhead costs. It's awesome. It goes to these programs. So, you know, last year was 60. I think we... 60,000? Yeah? I think we could do 100. You think we can go $100,000? You know, I was doing kind of the dirty math on that. So like if, what do we say? If 6,000 people. Okay. And you have 177,000 viewers right now. Yeah, yeah. So if 6,000 people gave $10. That's 60,000 right there, baby. There it is. You better than that, right? I think we could have 177,000 people. You should give something. Who knows? But we're gonna need your help. So please share this video. Share the fundraiser link. It's down here below. Share it with all of your friends. You're giving to a great cause. You're getting kids on bikes. We all know the power of bikes. Yes. And how transformative it can be. We've seen, you know, what these foundations do with the money and we get, you know, emails and they tell us about how the kids are so excited and some of the kids even say that they never want to drive. They want to ride their bikes forever, which is my kind of, my kind of kid. Yeah. Yeah. So thank you so much for donating. I know you're all hitting that button right now. Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. Oh yeah. The button's down below. The button's down below, yeah, yeah. And another thing, if you know of some great foundations out there or organizations that are getting kids on bikes, let us know. Because we want to give more money away and spread it around. Yes. We really appreciate you. Don't think for one second, we don't know that without your help, this wouldn't happen. So, we love you. We do love you. Happy Valentine's Day. The fundraiser's gonna be going for, I think about a month, but let's just hit it hard right now, send it to all your friends. And again, thank you to Priority Bicycles for donating the 600X again. This is the third year in a row. Yes. We have the coolest bike on the planet, the bike that I designed, the adventure machine. Let's raise money, let's raise money, let's raise money. Yeah, and Dana, we'll get you on the chain. We're gonna go on an adventure at some point this year and we're gonna have some fun and you're gonna get all the Dana wisdom through this lens to you. To you and Raghbri. Yeah. So, have a great day. Thanks for watching this video. Thank you. We love you. Thanks for donating. Thanks for being good people. What else? Is that it? That's it. That's it? Love you. Love you, Mike.