 We're here mm-hmm ladies and gentlemen Silent Mike We're back. I don't know what the title says You guys probably clicked on it thinking like man Maybe Mike has a really cool announcement or man. Maybe Mike's click baiting me neither are true or both are true No, one's true. I have a big announcement and we're not click baiting you. We're going back to my roots I don't even know how to do this. So I had an idea. We talked about on the podcast. We'll check out 50% facts I'm gonna blown up and I've had an idea forever And I think everyone does the number one invention or innovation driver is finding an issue or finding something that doesn't fit you And then solving it I Never necessarily felt this is no not to any singular person. I never felt that I was part But that I belonged in the strength game I felt very much part of basketball culture growing up even the video game culture now that we play on a Twitch Podcast culture and many of the youtubers the omars. I have a really good friends that I met through fitness But the strength game when I walked or saw other people do it Isn't what I do or felt that makes sense I never lifted weights as a way to get out all my anger. So I don't hurt somebody now I'm just rambling Connor. I'll cut this up. Don't worry kids 2011 I'm trying to find a place to improve my knowledge as a coach And as a lifter and strength conditioning and powerlifting I Ended up in this facility right here in Sacramento, California, which was at the time called the Midtown strength There was a corner of it a portion of it leased out by super training. That's where I met Jim McDee, Mark Bell, everybody else Fast forward a year later. They feature me on the YouTube a little bit I start to get a little bit of recognition on the internet as Creating content and we start a podcast me and Jim McDee Jim McDee comes to me and literally says hey, I have an idea for a podcast Would you like to be a third talk with a third co-host? 23 years old So bro, this is years 2012 never heard a podcast in my life Jim sounds fun. I'm down I lifted many a weight in this building. I learned a lot of good. I've learned a lot of bad Came across a lot of different people from folks that work into the Capitol To recovering drug addicts about a year ago two years ago. I'm talking with Jim and I'm wondering man I don't I now live in downtown Sacramento. I have nowhere to train Nowhere near me fits my needs as just a plain barbell athlete, let alone who I think I am as a human We began looking for locations fast forward six months later I'm getting my phones blown up from multiple people And they said hey the old Midtown buildings empty Go open a gym. We're opening a gym