Episode 708 - The New Jersey Gym Owner Who Risked It All

Drinkin‘ Bros Podcast

Tetherball Academy Media

Politics, Comedy, News, Sports

4.8 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Ross Patterson and Dan Hollaway welcome special guest Ian Smith, the New Jersey gym who was shut down during the pandemic and has defied the governor and opened back up only to receive a $15,000 daily fine every single day for months. Crazy story.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Drinking Bros, presented by GhostBed.com.
0:11.6	Sit back, relax, and grab a fucking dreamy.
0:18.2	Welcome to Drinking Bros Podcast.
0:22.0	We got another fruitful episode.
0:24.9	Exciting.
0:26.3	Full of nonsense, habidashary, and some fullery.
0:30.9	Today's guest is Ian Smith.
0:33.6	You might remember him from the news.
0:34.9	The story went viral.
0:35.9	He is the defiant New Jersey gym owner for, I mean, too.
0:44.7	Explain to the audience what exactly happened, because this one is a hard one for me.
0:48.0	It's hard to put in words, because it almost doesn't seem real.
0:51.1	What's going on?
0:52.1	Yeah, it's a good way of putting it.
0:54.8	All right, let me give you the short version.
0:58.0	My business partner and I just like pretty much every other small, non-essential business.
1:03.8	In the country, shut down on March 16th after Emperor Murphy told us to do so.
1:08.8	Emperor Murphy being the governor of New Jersey, right?
1:11.7	Yes, yes.
1:14.4	14 days, low to spread, everybody knows the story.
1:17.7	14 days very quickly approached two months.
1:20.7	And Frank and I made the decision that we were going to reopen.
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