 Welcome to our year-end review and what a year it's been we thought we'd get together and show you a little rundown or a highlight reel of how this year is gone and all the changes and growth that we've seen we're excited to drop this episode with you today yeah so welcome did you know Benji that we had over a hundred and fifty thousand views this year on the channel that's a lot of views I also saw that we had over 1500 hours of viewed content like that's a lot of hours people are spending days on our channel which is flattering yeah and how many episodes did we have I think we're right around 75 episodes for the year 75 episodes like Ted Lasso's got nothing on us yeah and we made over 300 new friends this year we got 300 new subscribers so welcome yeah welcome to the channel thanks for showing up so we wanted to share some of the highlights and recaps for this season we had five new nerds disclose some of their nerdiest secrets this year with door disclosures let's take a look hi my name is Andy Anderson hi I'm Gary Egens I dressed up as the flash and paraded throughout the national sales meeting hi my name is Dennis Christiansky and I've been in the industry my entire life hi I'm Jeff Moss and I'm a door hardware nerd hi I'm Ryan Ritchie and I am the institutional locksmith for the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology we had 12 new code corners with Katie diving deeper into those code books I'm adding access control to several openings when do I need to make the lock fail safe that's a great question does ADA require power operators that's a great question and of course we had a lot of fun with all our new guests on 12 new episodes of unhinged the best kind of doors are the doors you have to explain if a firefighter first responder tried to break through this then honestly they probably need to be let go they've better been the Kool-Aid man actually this is where the Kool-Aid man comes from oh my gosh oh my goodness Valentine's Day is coming up and the share a little love with all the door hardware nerd wow I've never seen that before yeah well my initial thought is hey I made it through all three pictures without seeing something I did so we got that going I mean is there really even a door everybody do a shot this is coffee I feel like the Kool-Aid man reference comes up so many times and that was all I could think about although this would be a really we you don't really need to be the Kool-Aid man for the situation but yeah anyone could fall it's a mess those stairs is it down or up is this out of home alone no you would think this speaking of death traps yep so this is a computer store I'm pretty sure you've seen this before I have not actually haven't seen this before okay I have not I love the wood frame on this this is fantastic okay well this first one is kind of a two-fer are you sharing and you guys not see it I'm sorry I stopped at the toilet plunger is there a button on the chassis I saw a stat one time it said that more people are killed annually by donkeys than plane crashes very secure I didn't even know what to say about this we learned more about some special applications so our cam closer works quite a bit differently than a rack and pinion closer there are actually two pistons inside the closer there are two springs and then there's a cam so how do you tell if an opening is fire-rated when come to the exit device on the side here there are labels this one is the you all fire label and we even had a nacho showdown a nacho competition I feel like there's a nacho pun in there where it's not nacho business well not your regular competition yeah we call cheese that is not yours nacho yeah we should save the best for last so Andrew go ahead burn and because I liked it I'll go next we started some new shows we have our director of cyber and information security on with us now what a lot of people don't know is that Richard and I have a teams chat that we send each other different cyber means and LinkedIn posts that we find our funny dealing with cyber security so we thought we'd pull this episode together and share a little bit of like what we're laughing at so you can laugh with us and learn a little bit as we go I mean that's part of why we do this channels to better our education and knowledge in security and as a whole by name again like you said Richard Wilford I am the information security officer for the America's division at Ossob boy my responsibility is to protect us from all of those things that you just said are all of those cyber threat actors out there trying to get on to our network and stop what we're trying to do and that's securing people and making sure that our door hardware is the best in the industry so that's kind of what I'm here to do oh my goodness mm-hmm yeah everything about this is what keeps me employed I love this cookie monster in the background okay from the bottom of our hearts thank you so much for being a fan of the show thank you for showing up and being a part of the community happy holidays and we look forward to another wonderful year of the door hardware nerds from our nerdy family to yours happy holidays and thanks for spending the year with us wishing you all a happy nerd year