Hello, I'm professor John Kelly and this is the WeberAuto YouTube channel. I'm excited
to announce the YouTube has recently honored the Weber Auto YouTube channel with the silver creator
award this silver creator award is for surpassing 100,000 subscribers, now I look at this award in
amazement because most of my videos are very long and very boring and in unless you are an automotive
nut like myself, you won't enjoy my videos they are not entertaining, they're long technical,
boring, detailed, videos of how different automotive components and parts work in an automobile. so I
wish to thank all you other automotive nuts out there and the millions of other people who have
watched my videos over the last nine years now I also wish to thank my parents who supported me in
my youth as I gained a passion for automobiles I also wish to thank my mentors who helped and
taught me as a young technician I wish to thank my wife for all her support as I have spent many
hours up here to work and my children who grew up in these shops over the last 30 years of me
teaching here and for all their help and support in not only preparing for my classes but helping
me shoot many of these videos I also wish to thank Weber State University for the academic freedom
to explore and research the different automotive topics of interest to me I wish to thank my
co-workers and colleagues who have helped me with the things that I can no longer physically do and
also for the support and the ideas for different topics throughout the years in these videos I also
wish to thank my students and the graduates of our program over the many years for their comments and
feedback which have given me ideas of ways to improve my classes I wish to thank my fellow
automotive instructors at different automotive programs throughout the country and throughout
the world specifically though here in Davis and Weber counties in Salt Lake Counties I wish to
thank automotive enthusiasts throughout the world according to youtube analytics, my videos have been
seen in every country on the planet and many of you have provided feedback and given me questions
and things to research further to improve my knowledge or correct mistakes that I have made
in my videos and of course, I wish to thank YouTube for providing a free storage medium so that anyone
anywhere can gain access to these training videos I've used videos to demonstrate complex procedures
and for demonstrations that take a long time to set up for I've learned many things over the
years shooting videos many through failures and things that didn't work very well and some through
successes and I feel that I'm getting better every year the videos I produce are typically related to
the four topics of which I teach here at Weber State University in the automotive technology
department the first topic which is my primary passion today is hybrid and electric vehicle
technologies the second topic that I teach is automatic transmission technologies and the
third topic is manual drivetrain technologies and the fourth topic is vibration Diagnostics
on automobiles and in trucks now this building that I've taught in for the last 30 years is 61
years old and it is an old inefficient building and it's scheduled for demolition Weber State is
going to build us a new building on a different campus and I'm excited to get set up and moving
moved into that new building here over the next few years what does that mean for the Weber Auto
YouTube channel and future videos I don't know at this time hopefully, I'll still be able to
shoot videos during this transition and continue shooting videos for many more years until I retire
but until then thank you again for your support this is my passion I really love automotive
technology and exploring the technologies and sharing those with you, have a good day!