Oh, shit. It's a pleasure, man.

This one's overdue.

Yeah, this one's long overdue.

What was the time, before we get into it, Ashton Hall, thank you for coming on. What was the time like before the time in between? Because I had known you for some time. You were a member at Zoo Culture, the original one in Woodland Hills. And we've obviously moved to the new location in Encino. But you remember there, we've had a few conversations, which is why I'm really

excited to have you on the pod today. How long had it been since we had those sort of like

original interactions to your like blow up? I want to say it was 2021 or 22 that I met you.

Yeah. And super chill. Always good conversations.

Literally like 30, 40 minute conversations. Yeah. All the way down. Yeah. All the way down. Okay, cool. We're just talking now. But it's been like three, three and a half years. Yeah. And it's crazy. Like I always tell my team, I told you this, but I always tell my team like, yo, like, when we leak, it'll be lit because he literally knew me like before. And for some reason, I would always, like, share stuff about me to you. Yeah. For some, like, I don't know why. I think I just like talk. And you would like show respect and it was cool. And I'm like, yo, like Brad is like he's legit. Yeah, I appreciate. How many followers did you? You still had like a, you had like a million or something then?

I had like, yo, like, Brad is like, he's legit. Yeah, I appreciate. And how many followers did you?

You still had like a, you had like a million or something then?

I had like maybe like 1.5 mil or something like that. Yeah. So we're pushing fitness content every single day. Yeah, every day. And I remember when I met you, the first thing you said, you're like, yeah, I've seen your stuff. Like you're that guy who does outside workouts.

Yeah.

I was like, yeah, yeah, that's me.

Yeah.

And I don't

know what i was trying to arrange or something like that but you always show love and literally like

because your gym was for me like i needed that gym to just like pop off of my content the lighting

for me was on point like i didn't want to go to any other gyms. They had like golds, what other gyms were popping out here.

John Reed, like there was no vibes other than zoo. Yeah. Then you opened the second one. That's your second location, right? Yeah. Second location goes crazy too because of the lighting. But that OG gym was like, it was everything for me. Yeah, it was different. was right by the house too it was different man and you were doing yeah you were doing mostly like

strictly fitness like workout related content yeah only only workouts i wouldn't talk at all yeah what made you change to like the lifestyle stuff so for me you know just like quick quick uh background on my story I was at LA Fitness and I would sell training

memberships so when a pandemic kit the gyms were closed and I started selling my own training

and I said okay cool like I can make a good living out of this so I started pushing workouts

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