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Eric, I am excited to have you on the podcast, man.

It's going to be cool because I was just recently on your podcast. We had a great

conversation. I've known you for a long time and you've grown so much since we first

interacted and met online and stuff like that. And it's just so, it's so cool, man. It's so dope to see

the growth that you've accomplished in your life with business, with with social media and marketing

and also your fitness

journey and uh i'm excited to to rip apart your story and tell everybody about it because i think

that's that's where you know the story of the people getting to where they are now that's where

people learn the most man's why i love podcasting so um eric welcome to the show i'm happy to have you

here dude yeah it's a uh you know it's an honor honor. And I said this on, you know, my podcast that

you and I did, but just where everybody knows, like, number one, I've just been an absolute

fan of Cody's for a very long time. I mean, I started, that's how I kind of started getting

into the industry of tab. And I'm sure we'll talk about that but like I mean I listened to your podcast religiously the Q&As and just like all you know I remember like you

would do these series of like this week we're doing like a complete strength

training breakdown and a complete like nutrition breakdown I'm like this dude

is just the the boss like the absolute man and so no it's it's super cool to be

here and yeah you know I know you said we kind of, you know, mentioned this and somebody,

if they didn't listen to our podcast, our first interaction, like I said, I said this on our podcast,

but I'll never forget it because, you know, we kind of had like a call, potentially about

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