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I want to welcome everyone back to the Pekingyona show.

I am very pleased to have Bien Smith with me here today.

How you doing, Ann?

I'm doing good. How about yourself? Doing well.

give people some background on your on you know where you're from what you do and stuff that.

So I am from New Jersey. Most people know me because of my crusades over the last three years. In the beginning of 2020, I was an obscure gym owner in a quiet corner of New Jersey. A small business owner, been in the fitness industry for about 10 years. I've done pretty much every job there is. Landed as a independent

personal trainer for a lot of years, sort of hit my ceiling with that. I was wildly successful.

Added, I just, I wanted to stop trading my my hours for time so I sort of needed to scale my business so I bought a gym and and that Jim became a national, I guess you could say an international news story in 20

when after the COVID shutdowns, my business partner at the time and myself decided that we were no longer going to comply with the New Jersey governor's orders to stay closed.

We originally complied because we just

didn't really know enough to stay open confidently.

We weren't a big fan of the idea of the lockdown

to begin with, but the last thing we wanted to do was hurt somebody.

So, you know, we shut our business for a little bit and then very quickly we realized that that something was horribly wrong and we decided that we were going to reopen and we did and our

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