What's going on everybody back with the real bodybuilding podcast? This episode

number 107 and I'm here with Mr. Dave Tate, the owner of Elite FTS and Powerlifting Legend, how are you sir?

Good, how are you doing man? It's been a long time.

I'm good man, I'm good. We haven't seen each other in a while because mainly because of COVID

because John keeps asking me to come over and I can't you know the border issues a disaster but I've been dying to get over to the new gym and see the new

but how are you, man?

How things going?

They're good.

I mean, last year was interesting as it was for everybody, but it seems to be kind of stabilizing

a little bit here.

Maybe not so much for you guys. Yeah. A little bit here, maybe not so much for you guys, but you know, a little bit here.

So at least things are kind of starting to settle.

I'll just say subtle because it's different.

It's interesting I was going to ask you though I mean things were bad for a lot of people last year

but I think things in the gym business industry probably got better, no?

In some ways, I'm in retail, right?

So I work with manufacturers.

So I had a, it was a lot of pivoting for us

because I had a lot of manufacturers that and I understand it, you know, did better to go direct to customer.

Okay. Why pay the middleman? Yeah, yeah. If they're going to go direct so then we can't find product you know so during a time with you know a great demand were kind of getting stuck with that so it was it was not the year for us that people think it was.

But I thought you were correct obviously correct me if I'm wrong but I thought you were

manufacturing your own partners. I have partners. So I have several. partners.

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