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Charlie Kiba, Jonathan Howard, welcome to the show. Thank you. Thank you. So you guys kind of popped up on my radar. We've been getting blown up with messages wanting us to cover, you know, what's been going on with Hurricane Helene up in North Carolina and East Tennessee.
And John, we saw your video go viral and we got connected through to you, Charlie, through Mark Turner, who's a good friend of mine. And so There's been all kinds of rumors going on in the news. I don't think anybody really knows what to believe. I'm not really one to believe mainstream media anymore, but look, you guys have been on the ground there.
And so I just wanna, I just kinda wanna cut right to the chase on what you guys are seeing down there. If any of these rumors are true about what we're hearing on, you know, from other people on the ground as far as blocking aid and what's actually going on. And then I'd like to wrap it up with, you know, what's the solution and what do you guys need and what can people do?
And so I'm gonna give you guys a quick introduction here. Charlie Kebaugh, you are the Chief Development Officer at Aerial Recovery, which is a Nashville-based nonprofit organization dedicated to providing comprehensive healing to veterans and first responders.
At Aerial Recovery, you empower these individuals with a new mission to respond to disasters and to combat human trafficking on a global scale. Aerial Recovery's mission is to save lives and to stop evil. Prior to Aerial Recovery, you served in the Air Force Special Warfare for 10 years and was a JTAC for 2nd Ranger Battalion in the early days after 9-11.
After leaving service in 2005, you established yourself as a business growth expert, helping two companies land on the prestigious Air Force. Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. five years in a row. You're the founder of the Vidar Group, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business service provider that provides training to classified operators of the MQ-9 Reaper.
Jonathan Howard, you are a Master Sergeant in the Florida State Guard Special Missions Unit created by Governor DeSantis and are currently the impact operations lead at Aerial Recovery. You are also a former combat controller, CCT. In addition to your military service, you're a successful businessman. You have sold four real estate companies and own a title company across Florida.
You are the principal broker for the entire state of Florida for Avance, a national vacation management brokerage. You own a successful lawn care company and build luxury homes in Florida. Last but not least, your happiness and passion is for bird photography, and you sell all of your prints for military charity.
You are both here today to share firsthand what you're seeing take place in North Carolina, and more specifically, what the media is not saying. So, where do we start? How did you guys get involved in this?
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