What's up ladies and gentlemen boys and girls around the world I would like to welcome

you back to another episode of Real Talk with Zuby.

Now on today's episode we've got on Ian Smith who is the co-founder and co-owner of Atillis

Jim in New Jersey he is a freedom fighter you've seen him all over social media recently

so welcome to the show man how you doing.

I'm doing great thank you for having me on fantastic so I've done a brief intro there

but for people who are not familiar with you tell them a little bit about who you are

and what you do.

Okay so about 18 months ago my business partner and I came into the national spotlight because

we publicly, very publicly reopened our gym against the very oppressive coronavirus lockdown

measures here in New Jersey kind of like right time, right message you know we weren't

only people are open but we received an overwhelming amount of media attention and also government

attention for our choice to open up and we've been in a very heated long and drawn out battle

with the state government of New Jersey for going on 17 months now and in the process you

know we've we've acquired a platform where we do represent the the ideas and the values

of a lot of people not only in the country but around the world so it's kind of grown

from opening up a gym and fighting for the right to work and what we believe as a constitutional

battle into something much bigger now just more amplified and way bigger and more drawn

out than we ever thought it would be.

And what was it that made you decide to open I mean that's some that sounds like a weird

question that I shouldn't have to ask because it's your business everybody should be allowed

to have their things open but did you stay open so you didn't stay open throughout you

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