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SPENGA Vero Beach - Part 2: The 20/20/20 Workout
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Spin. Strength. Yoga. Three words that can sound intimidating until you hear how this studio designs the hour to meet you where you are. We’re back with Christi and Brad from SPENGA in Vero Beach to unpack what the 20/20/20 format really feels like from the inside, from the two-minute transitions to the way the class flows from high energy into a surprisingly calm finish.
We dig into the details that make group fitness more personal: app-connected bikes, simple performance data you can actually use, and heart rate zones that turn the ride into “you versus you” instead of a competition. If you’ve ever thought spin is only for already-fit people, or you’ve avoided strength training because you don’t know where to start, you’ll hear how coaches offer real modifications, how each person has their own strength station, and how the workout stays scalable for beginners and advanced members alike.
Then we go behind the scenes on what most people don’t think about until it’s missing: culture and cleanliness. Christi and Brad explain how they build a positive, veteran coaching team, why the studio’s deep-clean schedule is so intense, and how being a franchise can still mean being truly local and community-driven. Brad also shares the personal, faith-filled story that brought him from member to general manager.
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Introduction & Workout Format
BrianAll right. Well, welcome back to the Vero Beach podcast. This is part two of our discussion here with Christy and Brad from Spanga. See ya? See how I said it? I did. Spanga. So all right.
ShawnaSo Spanga that time.
BrianIs that right? Good job. Spanga? Did I say it right? You did. All right. Thank you. All right. So during this episode, we're going to talk a little bit about the day-to-day. Like what's it like running the fitness studio here? But before we get started on that, I would love to ask you, can you explain the format first? I know Shauna just guessed what the name stood for: spin, strength, and yoga. Can you talk a little bit about that?
ChristiYes. Yes. We do 20, 20 minutes of spin, uh, of spin. And uh there is a metric that we use in spin so that it uh tracks your data and uh lets you know if you're improving along the way, gives you goals to meet when you're doing it. And we have an app that we use, and your data is sent to the app after each workout so you can track yourself. And uh we move from 20 minutes of spin into 20 minutes of strength. And uh everyone has their own individual station in strength that has kettlebells, uh, dumbbells, BOSU, TRX, battle ropes, uh, slam balls, a variety of equipment to work off of. And the room is set or staged each day for the workout that's going to be going on that day and for the equipment that's going to be used. So it varies from day to day. Never is it the same. And then we move into 20 minutes of um yoga and uh, or we call it revive uh to finish off and kind of complement the whole workout.
ShawnaOh, wow, that's awesome. Yeah, to be honest, this middle part, the strength part, is what intimidates me. That's why I haven't been here yet.
BrianYou know what intimidates me is the transition. Like we've done spin. I I love Tabata. I used to do Tabata for years. Uh and Tobata actually introduced me to yoga, which I'm still not a huge fan of yoga, but I understand like in the Tabata class that I did, we would do yoga to begin to stretch, and then also afterwards, which helped my body in so many ways I could tell. But like doing a full yoga class was like something I'm like, yeah, I'm not gonna do that. But the transition from cycling to strength to the transition from strength to yoga, I get, but I would you have to wear special shoes for the spin bikes, right? No? Okay.
ChristiYou do not have to. So we have straps, but we also have clips. Okay. But we use a clip that's embedded into the shoe. So you can move right from the spin to the strength floor and wear the same shoe and not have to shift them.
BradOr you can just wear your tennis shoes either way.
BrianOkay, so you have shoes here. Do you like do people rent the shoes? Is that what they do is they rent the shoes?
ChristiNo, they we do sell them every so often. And so people can purchase them or they can go on their own and bring really um any spin shoe except for a Peloton spin shoe will work. So Peloton did a proprietary clip. So people would have to buy them. But if you've taken cycling at any other studio, your clip will work here.
ShawnaDoes your but your clip like sticks out of the shoe?
BrianDoes the isn't that more like the Peloton? That's more like the Peloton.
ChristiThe Delta is the one you have. Yes, we use a shoe that tucks it in. Um, yeah, that's how mine are. You can use the clip that's on the outside, but like you said, you would have to take the shoe off um, you know, when you get off the bike. Yeah, you'd put it on right before you got on where the other style you can walk in the door with it on.
BrianSo I guess you have time to do that. Like, because you now is that pretty is it a pretty quick transition? Like, because I know like you're gonna keep that blood pressure up, right? You gotta keep that energy up. Blood pressure, but uh, heart rate, heart rate, blood pressure down, heart rate's up, right? Yeah, stay in that zone.
Brad's Point of View
ChristiWe transition pretty quick. It's about a two-minute uh transition from one area to the next. So it moves very smoothly. Um, and kind of back to your point that you said earlier, um, I think why people have had such great success and we've gotten such great feedback is a lot of people will do uh one or two of the components, whether it's cardio strength or flexibility, but not all three. And so, and a lot of them have had an adverse reaction to one of the three in the past. But when they think of only doing it for 20 minutes, they like, well, I think I could do that. Maybe I could get through it. And so, and then we've had a lot of people that just have seen incredible changes because they're adding a component that they never had in the routine. That makes sense. So, and Brad might be able to speak to this a little bit because he was a member with us for several years before he became our manager.
BradYeah, I'd never done yoga before I came here and uh for whatever reason, and I was like, yoga, you know, that's for girls or whatever. I don't do yoga, but now it's my favorite part because it's it's really like a modified stretching, is what it is. It's not the Middle Eastern type of yoga. Right. And so, I mean, after a great workout, it's it's a good way to cool down, relax your body, the lactic acid, all those things that go with stretching. So it's actually my favorite part of the workout now, is the yoga. So I have to go to yoga now if I'm I'm the I don't feel complete unless I do the 60 minutes.
BrianYeah, see, I could okay. So, see, that's interesting because I know Shauna, like she's done yoga classes. I'm like, I couldn't do a whole class, but I love to doing it after Tabata. And I've done strength classes without the yoga stretches afterwards. I'm like, I need that. Like, cause you can definitely feel the difference. I remember I couldn't even reach my arms back behind me, like the touch. Sure. Yeah. And then all of a sudden, after like it was like two months of doing it, all of a sudden it just felt like something released. And I was like, oh my gosh, I feel so much more flexible and and and I could do that. And I loved seeing that uh that progression, like, wow, I can do something that I I didn't think my body could do. Sure.
Myths and Misunderstandings
BradSo and if you know, if you do any other sports, like I play golf, probably not as much as I'd like to, but it it actually changed my golf swing completely because of the flexibility. So for any extracurricular activities or sports or anything, it enhances that like unbelievable. So you wouldn't think that, but it does. I mean, they have I have five sons and they all played uh vars city football from Rail Beach High School. And one of our instructors actually would go once a week over to the field in their training, and they would all do yoga for like 30 minutes. She would do training because that's I mean, that's for those elite athletes, that's part of their routine is to actually do stretching and yoga.
BrianRight. So I I love that we're talking about this because I had on here that we I wanted to talk to you guys a little bit about myths and misunderstandings about some of the different exercises that you guys do here. And we're talking about some of those right now of yoga. Are there any other ones that come to mind like about like about the spin, you know, the bikes, and and maybe like as Shauna said, you know, she's kind of intimidated by the strength. There's myths or misunderstandings that you guys would like to help uh help educate the community about when it when they're listening to this podcast.
ChristiWell, one of the things when it comes to strength, because it can be intimidating if you haven't done it before, um, is we work with a large variety of sizes of weights. And our instructors are very educated on giving lots of options. So, first having them try to pick the right choice to start with, to begin with, and then lots of different variations. And because we work with a wide population and everyone has different histories of injuries, accidents, sports activities, age. Um, not everyone is, you know, always doing exactly the same thing. There are a lot of people who need different modifications or maybe a challenge to make something more intense. And so our staff is super well educated on bringing all those variables and making the workout work for each person.
BradSo you have an instructor that actually leads to spin class. Then when you get off the bikes after 20 minutes, they'll they walk you into the strength section, they explain the exercises to you, what it's going to require. And then, as we're sitting in this room now, I'm looking above, we have six widescreen TVs that actually demonstrate the exercises as well. And so the instructor then walks among everybody to help people if they need assistance or encourage them. Then the instructor actually will take them into yoga once the strength is done, show them the yoga exercises and lead them through that. That's the beauty of a group exercise.
ShawnaThat that I didn't I noticed the TVs, but I didn't realize that's what they were for. That's really smart. Yeah, that's really smart.
BrianThat's very interesting. So, okay, no, go ahead.
You vs. You
ShawnaI want to ask about so when I first started doing spin, the misconception, I mean, I resisted it for a while. I did not want to do spin because in the movies, they make it look like you can only do spin if you're super fit and it just looks so scary and so intense, and like the instructor's yelling at you, and you know, it looks like everyone's about to pass out. So is that something that you've noticed that people kind of come in like, oh, I can't do spin. That's way above my ability.
BradSure. Yeah, we we do certainly have that. But the beauty of Spanga, especially in the spin section, is that it's what we call you versus you. You're not in the group with everybody else trying to do what everybody else is doing. You have us, you have goals that you have, and the bike is intuitive and will take you through those goals, and the bike will actually increase over time based on how well you've done.
Speaker 3Oh wow.
Smart Bikes at SPENGA
BradSo you may stay the same, you may go up, you may come down. The the bike actually takes those readings and then kind of uh adjusts it according to the level of fitness. The other thing is I not to get too detailed, but there's actually four zones. One is the first zone, it's the easiest one, four is the hardest. Uh, three is what we call your sweet spot, and everybody has a different sweet spot. And the bike's gonna adjust that sweet spot into those areas. So it's not like everybody's thrown into this group, everybody has to do the same fitness level. You have guys that are off the charts on their bike, and you have people that are beginners that are at the very beginning that are not doing that crazy stuff. They're just maintaining, getting used to it, and it grows over time based on your own fitness level. So it it really is you versus you. There's no competition here. We want everybody to have fun. If you're not having fun, you're not getting fit. So we want fitness to be fun.
Speaker 3I love that.
BrianOkay, I love that. So that wow, okay. So that's leaning to some other questions that I already had, but now I'm really interested because I was I was gonna ask like, how do you guys differentiate between you know serving and working with people that are beginners, that's been doing a while, and then some that are advanced. And then now learning about some of the technology on your bikes. Like I've not stepped on a bike that, and we're gonna definitely have to sign up for one of the free classes to try it out. Yeah, we would definitely will. Because like to hear about the bikes are adjusting as well. And you mentioned earlier, Christy, about uh the data. You guys are capturing data that reports back to the app to that person. Can you tell me a little bit about that data? Uh and again, it's very I'm I'm kind of blown away. I'm a I'm a tech person, like, so I love all that stuff. So to know that these bikes can automatically adjust, and that has been a fear, you know, for me earlier. Like I used to always work out at home watching, you know, services online and stuff like that. That's what I did a lot of. But then when it came to going to an actual location, I'm like, oh man, everybody's gonna be watching me. You know, we got mirrors, but then you start realizing pretty quickly everybody's working really hard. Nobody's looking at each other exactly. You've done it before. Yeah, it's like, wait a minute, okay. I don't, I'm not, I don't need to worry about that. Uh but I do love that you guys have this technology that's adjusting alongside you. Uh so tell us a little bit about the data. Like, what is that data like what kind of what is some of the data that it looks like?
BradWell, it's it tells you um how far you've pedaled, how how many calories you've burnt, um, those type of things. But then it'll also uh the instructor has those four zones I mentioned. So it's gonna tell you how long you're in zone one, how long you're in zone two, and so on and so forth through those four zones. And the instructor takes you through those zones. So it'll show you if you weren't in zone two for the amount of time that the instructor is, it's gonna read and tell you that you weren't in that zone, and that's maybe an area you need to work on. And again, this is on your personal app. Nobody sees this but you.
BrianYou don't have like a red light flashing above you like, oh, Brian did not get in zone two. Yeah, you better look next time, Ryan.
BradWe do have on the screen, it does have everybody's name, and then there's a graph, a little graph out beside your name. If you're in the zone you're supposed to be in, it turns green. If you're not, it's in gray. But like you said, nobody's paying attention to you. Uh to you know, everybody's paying attention to themselves and trying to get in their zones and that type of things. Those are the zones that are adjusted over time based on uh the app and the bike actually being intuitive, will increase the third zone, which is what we call your sweet spot based on what level of fitness you're at. So you should know too that when somebody comes in and we'll do this for you too, Brian, we ask you what you feel like your fitness level is. And so we then go in and set your sweet spot based on what you've described to us about your fitness level.
BrianThen if I just guess too high, you're gonna be like, you weren't even close.
Coaching Culture
BradWell, I will say, you know, I I've never had anybody actually come in and say it was too hard because we don't we want people to have fun, as I mentioned. So we want to we adjust accordingly. Some people say, I want it to go higher. So we can adjust it. If the if the computer isn't adjusting it higher, we can actually set that based on if you want it to come down, say you're not feeling good for a week and you want your sweet spot to come down, we can adjust that as well. I mean, it's all about pleasing the member and whatever fit list level they come in at. And so it's nice that everybody doesn't feel like they're thrown into one big group and they have to do what everybody else does. It's you versus you.
BrianI love that.
BradI love that.
ShawnaI love that too. What is the culture like among your coaching team, like the instructors?
ChristiUh well, we have a fantastic staff, I have to say. Um I really feel like culture amongst your staff and the community of your facility really makes your business. Initially, when I opened the facility, I actually kind of handpicked all my staff and brought them all on board before we we opened. I had taken all of them down to uh Spenga and Boca and had them tried out, kind of got them all on board. Because I was very involved in the community, I knew exactly what instructors I wanted. Um, our instructors um have a really high level of education. They're great communicators, um, super energetic. And um, and that same um goes over for our front desk staff, which now actually our entire front desk staff teaches, except for except for me. I'm holding out.
ShawnaShe's gonna wear you down eventually.
ChristiSo so they cross over. But um, yeah, they're just really kind of positive, upbeat people, well educated and fitness, so they really care about people. Can you think of anything else adding to that?
BradI would say, from my perspective, the experience. I mean, if you were to total all the years of fitness instruction among our instructors, you're talking about hundreds and hundreds of years. I mean, they're that, they're that veteran instructors. Because Christy, as she mentioned, because she ran a gym so long in Vero, she knew all of the great instructors or hired them, or they worked worked for her at one time. So she could go and hand pick the instructors. So um it's a the years of experience, and you can tell when you're in the session, everybody knows what they're doing.
Smell How Clean It Looks
BrianYeah, that's awesome. Give us a little bit of insight. What's it like when you're coming in here and preparing every day? Like, I mean, your team and stuff like that. What do you how long is the the fitness studio open every day? And what is it like kind of preparing to get ready? I mean, right now we you know, right now there's nobody in here because I know you're in between classes and and for Brad, we had to make him go get a table, bring chairs for me.
BradLike y'all gonna stick around and help cut deep clean the studio with us? We were timing you to see how fast is to get this done.
BrianBut tell us like what is it, what is it like and like even like the clean, I mean again, like coming in and smelling how clean it looks. I smell how clean it looks how clean it looks. Smelling how clean it looked. Have you ever experienced a clean look before? That's Spanga. Yeah, that's the Spanga vibe. Yeah, yeah. Share that with us. Like, what what all is what is a process?
ChristiUh Brad could tell a little about the cleaning process because I would say that is one thing we are definitely known for here is the cleanliness of the facility.
Power of a Local Franchise
BradSo we're actually uh doing this interview right now is in the mid-afternoon, and we have two, three, four hours where we don't have sessions in the mid-afternoon just because that's not a most people don't go to the gym during those times. So we use that as an opportunity to do what we call deep cleaning. Of course, after every session, we wipe down, clean, and disinfect every bike, every strength pod, every yoga mat. We do that after every single session, we do that. But in the afternoons, we deep clean. So one day is set aside to clean the lobby, the restrooms, deep cleaning like you would at your home, or at least like I would at my home. Maybe not you, Brian, but like I would at my home. I'm not doing any cleaning. But so then we so we'll our spin area will take one day uh a week and deep clean everything, the pedals, everything about the bike will deep clean it. On Tuesday, we'll come into strength, clean every pod, every will we remove all of the weights from the pods. We disinfect all of the stands that they're sitting on. We wipe down the TVs, the walls, everything is wiped down at least once a week in here from a deep cleaning perspective. Same with yoga. We disinfect the mats, do a deep clean vacuum in there at least once a week beyond what we do after every session. So I mean this place extensive. And again, you'll see that in our Google reviews, too. Is that I mean, some people say we're the cleanest gym in Vero, and I I'm certainly that's arguable, but I think we are the cleanest gym in Vero.
BrianSo Well, I mean, it's lit up nicely in here, and if it wasn't clean, you'd be able to tell. And but uh you can tell how much is put into the cleanliness, you know. Was there any other misunderstandings or myths or anything like that that you guys wanted to touch on?
BradI mean, I I mean I you don't have to put this on, but I I think one of that may be out there is that because we are a franchise, there's about 30 spangas across the nation. Um we we're the only ones, certainly in this area, is that people think we're just uh an outside club coming in here. And obviously, with this interview, you know, Christy's been around for a hundred years in the community or something like that. Um, and I've been here 35 years.
Speaker 3You're looking good.
How Brad Got Invloved
BradSo I always like to say, you know, we've got the the power behind us of a franchise, and a lot of what you see in here is done because it's a franchise and the professionalism and the sound and the lighting and all of that. Um, but we are local. All of our members are local. Christian are local, all of our staff is local. We love Vero Beach. Vero Beach, all of my children were born and raised here. Um, so we love Vero Beach. So we like to communicate that as well.
ShawnaSo yeah, I think that's great to be in.
BrianI think it's good. And okay, so let me clarify this too. Like, even though it's a franchise, it's like there's I've learned like there's like different types of franchises. Sure. And you're still a local business owner. Oh, absolutely. So that's that's an important piece to know. Yeah, yes. Because you're hiring locals. Yeah, you're putting yeah, yeah. Your your finances and I mean you're all that's you are a business owner locally here in Vero. Yes. So it's absolutely a lot different than like probably well, I'm not gonna mention it.
BradNo, no. But yeah, yeah. But we just like to clarify that because they may see that and and realize that they saw it somewhere else. And while we're a franchise, we are local, it's run local, it's owned local. I mean, just about as local as you can get in Vero Beach. So we've been here forever.
BrianAnd you're here for the locals too. Like that's the beautiful thing. Like, so that's that's cool. Okay, so Brad, uh before we get to the last question, you know, you're learning that, okay, you're the general manager. Uh, you've got a lot of knowledge because you're talking talking to us about the tech and stuff like that, and correcting my how things can't visually smell and look. Right. Like smell doesn't have a look, I guess. So thank you. But so you're a general manager here. So how did that come to be?
BradWell, uh, it's an interesting story. Uh, my wife and I, Heidi, uh our founding members, as I mentioned earlier. We started coming, we didn't have a hobby together. Since then, we've picked up golf together, but this was going to be our hobby, and it it still is to a degree, but we said, let's start going to a gym together. And of course, I knew Steve and Christy from years gone by. And Steve was telling me about this new opportunity that he had. So Heidi and I joined up. We started coming every afternoon, four or five days a week together. Um, and her and I both got in pretty good shape. You know, we weren't in that good of shape when we came, we got in pretty good shape. And then um, I actually have been in working in this before I came here for about six years in the citrus industry and the fundraising aspect of it. So, kind of what I did at Christian FM with development, business development and fundraising, transferred over into a Florida inner Florida Indian River Groves was the name of it.
Speaker 3Okay.
BradAnd we would work with schools and churches on fundraising. Of course, as you know, that as we talked about off-air, the citrus industry is not doing very well right now. So there came a point where they decided to go seasonal, and I just couldn't do seasonal at that point in my life. And then I'll let Chrissy kind of pick up the story from there.
ChristiSo, um, as I mentioned before, you know, my husband had cancer. And uh, while he was um sick and we were just kind of, you know, talking life and discussing everything that could come in the future or any of those things, he had at one point had said to me, if at any point anything happens to our current manager that we have, I really think you should ask Brad to be the manager. He's got some skills that could just bring it to another level. Um, I just think he would be a great fit. You know, I really trust him. You know, they they had a personal relationship, you know. And um, so I had kind of filed that away. And then probably seven or eight months after my husband had passed, um. Um, the manager that we had had had had gone through a divorce and was making some changes and needed to step down from that position. And initially, um, and this is where, you know, God is bigger than you. Initially, I'm thinking, well, I know Brad's been in his job for a while. And, you know, I'm like, oh, I certainly couldn't interrupt that. And but I at the time I was like, well, I'll jump into it until I can find the right person. And so um, literally about three days before I was going to go into that position, um, I got a message from Heidi Brad's wife saying, um, I just wanted to make sure I told you in person that I'm just um I'm kind of upset because Brad and I are gonna probably have to cancel our memberships for a little bit. And she shared with me the story that his company was shifting and Brad was gonna be job hunting right now. And so for the time. And of course, I just started crying. I was actually at the park with my mom and sister. And of course, it just kind of became one of those things, you know, that God just laid it out right in front of me and said, you know, I told you this. You know, and he didn't follow it. So I actually, you know, immediately touched base there and said, you know, can the two of you come to my house tonight? I have to share a story with you. Wow. Um, you know, about what had kind of happened. And so uh they came over and we kind of talked about everything. And um, you know, Brad said, you know, I have a good feeling about it, but I'm gonna go home and I'm gonna pray. You know, when do you need to know by? And so we talked about him maybe in the next two or three days, letting me know. And the next morning he called me and he said when he woke up that God had clearly smoked on him, told him to take the job.
Speaker 3Wow.
ChristiSo it was just kind of an amazing thing.
How Do You Feel When People Take Steps Closer To Their Fitness Goals
BradAnd you know, Steve choked up here, but Steve was uh one of my closest friends, if not my closest friend. We actually started in that lull business that was talked about earlier. He and I started a little handyman business together and spent a lot of time together. And it was more of an iron sharpens iron type situation for us, but he was a very close friend of mine. So I I I really feel honored to, you know, for my friend to be able to help his widow. And I see it. There's a higher purpose here and a higher calling for it. And I and I knew that that morning when I woke up that I was this was what I was supposed to do. And of course, Heidi agreed with me a thousand percent. So, and um, Chrissy's great to work for. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.
BrianSo wow, what a story. Wow, that's amazing.
ChristiAnd it's been amazing. And you know, it was also, you know, Brad and Heidi were part of our community already. Yeah, so our members knew them, they were integrated.
BradIn spite of that, she hired me.
BrianOh, I love that because that's that's an inspiration to again others that it might be listening. Uh, so that's that's cool. Wow.
ShawnaYeah, that's awesome. Yeah, thanks for sharing that.
BrianYeah, thank you. God's faithful. Yes, he is. Amen. All right. Well, as we get ready to wrap up, I'm gonna I want to ask you this. When you get ready to wrap up the class and you're at that, everybody's doing their yoga moves and finishing up. How would you describe the feeling when you look around and like you look around and you see that everybody showed up? Well, maybe not everybody, it's probably probably every the percentage might be lower. I don't know. Uh, but everybody that did that did show up, they're finishing up, they're wrapping up. And uh like you know that they're taking, they they made that step, another step towards their goals. How does that make you feel?
ChristiWith finishing up with yoga, because we finish uh very quiet and still, lights out, and uh then we kind of all sit and we take a couple nice deep breaths in before we kind of re-engage again. I think you're just left with a very kind of peace and calm. And um, so as you know, we bring the lights up, it starts with kind of just a slow integration of conversation, and it's just kind of a peaceful way to end. And I just feel like it's a it's people leave with a really just good, kind of grounded feeling when they finish up.
BradYou know, and because of what we talked about earlier, the sense of community, I mean, you'll sometimes the people have to be, I mean, we don't drive them out, but they recognize that there's a session starting, but they're so engaged with their friends and community, talking about life and talking about their kids or whatever the situation is, uh, that they have, you know, have to have to get out so we can start the next class. But that's just a testament to the family atmosphere that we have here where people are engaging, where they want to know about other people's lives. You know, you can be as shut off as you want, or you can be as open as you want here. And seemingly everybody wants to be open with each other and and create that community.
BrianSo just when you were just explaining that piece, I was like, okay, I I found some peace in it. Because I also think a lot of times, and I know for myself, this is me talking personally, but if I know I want to get in better shape, I've got to get to the gym, and then I don't, then my mind is racing of anxiety. I'm like, and I'm beating myself up. I didn't go, you know, life happens. We all know that happens. Uh, but I love like it's kind of like you're painting a picture of like this is what it's like. People have that piece, like, yes, like I did it, you take it in, you, you know, it's a it's a celebration moment. Uh, and that's a great thing. Like, I think people want that, you know. So thank you for sharing that. I think that's great. So, all right. Well, you guys, let's get ready to get into episode three where we're gonna talk about Vero Beef, what you guys love about Vero, and hear more about how what a community means to you. And uh, with that, if you guys have enjoyed the episode, make sure you click that leave a review.
ShawnaI'm gonna I'm gonna mix it up. Spangulator, neighbor.
BrianWow. Spangulator.
ShawnaAgain, that got a little out of control.
BrianThat smelled looked good.
ShawnaOh, we'll just leave it.