Hey, this is Jim. I just want to let you know that there was a weird technical thing with

this episode where as we were recording on FaceTime every once in a while we'd get into

like an echo loop for some reason. So I'm just recording this after we've recorded

that this episode and I'm not sure exactly how I'm going to deal with it, but you were

going to notice that there is either a little bit of a gap and then I will explain what

was said or you'll hear a little bit of it or something. I'm going to have to treat

it somehow and you'll notice but we will try to make it as clear as possible what was

said while that bizarre like digital echo was going on. So anyway, enjoy this episode.

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Alright, welcome. We've got Jay Ashman here today with us from Kansas City Barbell.

And a big reason that I wanted to talk to you is you as a Jim owner have gone through this

experience with the closures related to the pandemic and all that and have continued forward

in like putting a new investment into your gym, changing locations, you know, keeping the path

that you would set before all this happened. That's a very optimistic point of view because like

a lot of gyms every every everybody doesn't know what the hell is going to happen afterwards and how

they're going to try to keep people safe and liability and whether people will actually show up.

All those big, big, big concerns. Gold's gym is in bankruptcy. Nordstrom's closing down.

Yeah, Nordstrom's actually closed here locally.

Let's find out what building a new Nordstrom out by us, which is funny. It's actually in the middle of

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