>> Miguel: Well for me, everybody's a fighter.

To me, I see everybody the same because we're all trying to l We're all trying to gain the experience you it's the people that come to the academy, my students that make >> Just enjoy a couple hours of good food and interesting beers made from two guys that are from Northwest Indiana just trying to bring what we ideally want to the table.

It is the hardest thing in business to get people to walk through that door right th and once they're here, you're going to come back.

(upbeat guitar music) (rhythmic whistling) >> Jose: Bad weather cancels tee times, you know?

Winter, you can't do anything.

With this, you get the best of both worlds.

You can come in, practice your golf but also enjoy yourself and have a drink, have some food, stuff like that.

>> Greg: What we learned in the feedback from our guests is that they were surprised to learn I think we pushed people off of the fence in our di with being honest and truthful about the history, for better or worse.

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Everyone makes an effort to help each other.

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(upbeat guitar music) (relaxed guitar music) >> Well for me, everybody's a fighter.

To me, I see everybody the same because we're all trying to l We're all trying to gain but it's what experience you gain and for me, it's the people that come to the my students that make this place so special.

(relaxed guitar music) I grew up watching "Samurai Sunday," watching Bruce Lee and all that stuff and I always seen that there was this one guy that was a small guy but after years of training and dedic he became really good at martial arts and was able to not just defeat his opponents but take care of his peop I grew up watching boxing with my dad.

Cesar Chavez and Duran and stuff and to see those fighters walk out and see my dad shed a tear for the first time in his life 'cause the guy was gonna fight and it made him fe I kinda like wanted to invoke that in my family and my friends and my people.

So I pursued martial arts since I was real young.

But it was hard finding a place in Hobart that taught mixed martial arts or boxing or something like that.

So the first UFC came out, I was like 12, I fell in love with Royce Gracie but there was no juj I had to be able to get old en and make enough money to to find like an instructor for jujitsu.

So until then, I started training at kickboxi and as I started fighting, my first fight, I won in 10 seconds.

After that, I knew I was gonna fo r the rest of my life and I started fighting every month and in the old days, there was no weight classes.

It was like 160 and under, 155 and under, that was the lightweight class.

So it was like a big So I had to like weigh in and put like quarters in my pockets or a taco or something like that and I would weigh with my clothes on.

It was just a different time (relaxed guitar music) It was illegal in Illinois, in Chicago and there was no commission to sanction the fights 'cause in the old days, there was there was no glove check.

The weigh-ins were kinda So all those promoters from They came to Hammond, Indiana and that's whe So they had their tale but they wanted somebody local that had a g and I was the skinny Mexican guy that would do th and from there, I got huge exposure.

I started the first fight of the night, second fight, fourth fight, 10th fight, main and after so many different promoters who picked me up on the shows, I got calle to fight in the WEC and I was their champ for two years and then after that, I went to the UFC and after UFC, I fought in maybe like six other promotions and I retired I think in 2017 and I've been teaching ever since.

The experience that I survived and I'm able to like enjoy all those me I get to help other people do for themselves.

What other great life can I have?

No amount of money and no amount of gold or whatever can amass what I feel when I come into this bui I come in, I shake everybody's hands.

I get to have a word with everybody and I get to meet you on your first day when you don't kno and then after the first month, two or three other guys come in and they don't know anything and now you have a little more confidence becaus Because if you train consistently, you're gonna get in shape, yo u're gonna learn what's going on, you're gonna have know and to see that, guys walking in with their shoulders down and thei that's the first step, just coming in the door and once they're in the door and they get their gloves on, they put their gear on and they get on the everything else takes care of itself a most people are nervous and they're scared, they're not sure and once an d they meet that I'm not some c or everybody here is not gonna try to kill th and try to actually help them and help th 'cause it helps themselves grow at the it creates like a bond, I call it my gym famil my second family and it's so powerful that everyone else feels it too.

(relaxed guitar music) (mid tempo drumbeat) I just know so many people from this area, I grew up here.

So many friends, my wife and my family's here.

I'd be lonely if I was somewhere in Calif in Texas or somewhere in Florida where they weren't here.

My heart wouldn't be there, my heart would still be here.

So for me, my kids are here, my parents are here, I'm gonna be here too and I'm gonna help this community out and do the That whole time that I was training for fights wherever, I th ere was always people th they were way better in different ways but they didn't have that little spark.

But then I would look at the academy they and the instructors they had and they wouldn't fan that flame to gro I've trained kids that were six that are now like 24, 25 and they have their own kids and they'll come back to the gym.

They're passing by and see the sign or they know I'm her Or they were training in this and then got into wrestlin and then got into football and then their life blossomed.

But their goal in the beginning of starting this was to gain confidence and once they got that and that the abili they were able to go forward and go into other avenues of life they would' never went into if they and to hear those stories countless times gives me a sense of purpose, you know?

Like I'm not just making money punching a clock and sending out.

I'm doing something that's actual helping the co they're gonna help their friends, they're gonn People are gonna notice a change "Hey, I seen you lost some I see you're walking different.

I like how you're speaking different.

And then they'll tell 'em where that's and that leads back to the (u pbeat ensemble music) (crowd cheers) (air horn blares) >> Announcer: And there you have it, what >> The experience is everything.

The records are fickle, pe I was one of the pound-for-pound best fighters for two years and they were trying to get me to pick a fight with Mayweather for about a year and I was in fights with Anderson Silva and Freddie and they were like light heavyweight and heavyweight fighters, you know?

And I was 135-pounder and to m the greatest high you can have, everybody knows your name.

You can't go to BW3's, you can't go to Hooters, you can't go eat, you can't watch the fight so 'cause people are gonna just an d once all that finished, once that limelight was over, everybody forgets who you are.

You'll get recognized it's a little "Hey, I used t And those titles don't mean anything anymore.

Those belts don't mean anything anymore.

That money's long gone and sp So what's left after the fight?

The experience, the experience you have that not even, the fight wasn't even hard.

It was the training camp 'cause every day in the morning, I would get up, come to the gym, I'd work out for an h go in the cage, spar for about an hour, hour and a half and I was sparri and in the old days, that was crazy.

There was no timer and there was no water All those experiences, all those fights I had before the actual figh that established relationships that did so many things in my life that that experience was the most important thing in my life 'cause without those experiences, I wouldn't be where I'm at n The titles and the mon other stuff doesn't It's the experiences that I had while I was enme The people that I met, the lives That's what's important.

(soft electronic music) (relaxed piano music) (steady tempo drumbeat) >> I grew up in Highland, I still live in Highland.

Highland didn't have a brewery, so I wa on making sure that Highland had a brewery.

I wanted to be the first one here.

(relaxed piano music) (steady tempo drumbeat) I don't like to just make the same thing over and over again and li ke to always drink the same thing over an Always experimenting, seeing what's in season from local farmers, local hops.

Whatever we could use to highlight Northwest Indiana and the ingredients that we can get from here specifically and what's fun for me is the challenge of brewing with unique ingredients.

Like last year, we did a collaboration beer with Scheeringa Farms and I used their sunfl We went out to the fields and cut a truckload of sunflowers and threw 'em in the boil.

I don't know anybody who was making sunflower beer but it was neat to use local ingredients and something that you wouldn't commonly find in a beer.

So that's what excites me.

>> Someplace you can come, bring your family, have really good local food that is seasonal.

It's much easier and it always has been to work with local products, local ingredients, local farmers working just as hard as us to bring great products to the region.

We really try to work with the seasons as much as possible and the menu's just ever-changing of highlighting things that we know are great that are right in our backyards.

Locally-sourced, globally-inspired cuisine is the closest thing that I could put around the cuisine that we do here at Fuzzyline.

>> Alex: I take care of down here, the tap room and the brewery.

I lease the kitchen to Chef Bob, he owns that.

It's his baby, it's his dream, it's his staff, his menu.

We just pretty much agree that I'm gonna make good beer and he's gonna make good food and we're gonna do the best that we can to make a prod >> We definitely get confused for being, "Oh, you guys must have been best friends and come up with this concept fo I didn't know Alex from Adam.

I came in and I met Al and he was in her probably sleeping on one of the banisters over here because he was just pulling an all-ni Met, talked to him, kinda got the concept of where the brewery was gonna go and I reall instantly when we were talking about flavor profiles and how he approaches brewing and what he wanted to bring to Highland and the brewery scene and I was all-in.

>> Alex: The staff, myself, Chef Bob, we're all a pretty tight family and we take customer service very seriously and we like to have fun and I think people recognize that.

We've done such a good job at keeping people despite not having TVs or being like a typical bar.

People can come here, have a conversation, have fun and they're gonna have a meal and a beer that they're gonna remember and they're gonna want to come back, especially since we've changed the menu so much that I want to keep them interested and engaged in the product.

>> You can come with your boys and have a good, n have a good meal, have a burger, enjoy company and then you can come date ni or bring the kids on any day.

If you've had one too many on Saturday night and you come in for Sunday brunch, it's a great place to co what ails you or just to hang out.

The patio's great.

We're righ and you can sit out in th enjoy the company of your guests or your friends or your family and really just enjoy a couple hours of good food and interesting beers that are made from two guys that are from Northwest Indiana just trying to bring what we ideally want to the ta It is the hardest thing in business to get people to walk through that door right and once they're here, you're going to come back and it's ever-changing.

We're alwa as a new business owner and then still as a chef.

Like you're learning something new every single day and to work and be humbled and also be able to be really proud of what you're doing and bringing to the region is the best thing.

>> The main thing is if I can get people to just recognize and then I'm confident that even though we're changing things so much that someone wi hey, if it's coming from Fuzzyline, I've never had this beer before, I'm confident that it's gonn As long as we can have consistency and then the product should do a good job at selling itself.

(upbeat rock music) (relaxed ensemble rock music) >> I grew up seeing my dad and my uncle put in a lot of work growing the restaurants I was always into sports growing up and I have a business backgr and I just wanted to combine the two, you know?

Something with sports, something new, fun.

'Cause you don't really see that around here.

This is something completely di Something new to the area and for me, it just kinda gives me pride honestly to be able to come back in and being able to make a difference and help out.

So honestly, I love (upbeat ensemble rock music) We have four simulators.

We also Also we have a full bar menu as well.

The server will come meet you guys at the door, get you guys all set up, walk you through h show you how the simulator actually works how the ball reads up.

After that, once they'll take you onto the course.

(relaxed rock music) One program has up to 20 courses right now.

That one has like La Jolla, Pebble Beach and courses For these simulators, they tell you everything.

All your ball information, your loft, you With these, you can change anything.

You can change the green, the gr the pin placement, weather, wind, rain, the day and time, elevation.

You can change pretty much everything.

We also have clubs that you guys can use.

So we have a full set for everyone.

We have tees, we have balls.

We pretty much provide everything else.

(upbeat rock music) (relaxed guitar music) (light drumbeat) We have a couple burgers, flatbreads, boneless wings and stuff like that.

We also have Italian sandwiches and full dinners and stuff like that.

(relaxed guitar music) (light drumbeat) We have a full cocktail menu.

We try to So like right now, we have like the John Daley.

We have a sweet tea mule.

We do specials lik and stuff like that, you know?

Just come up to keep it fun and interesting.

(relaxed guitar music) (light drumbeat) And that's what we're more shooting for is for the full experience rather than ju focusing and limiting ourself to golf.

(jazzy ensemble music) I know for me from personal experience, me getting out to an actual golf cours and trying to learn by myself was a So something like this, I was able to just k not having people to watch me or feel embarrassed or anything like that for not being good.

So that's something that I t is also a huge thing too is for beginners, you don't have to be an experienced golf (jazzy ensemble music) Bad weather cancels tee times.

Winter, you can't do anything.

With this, you get the best of both worlds.

You can come in, practice your golf and have a drink, have some food, enjoy yourself.

(upbeat jazzy ensemble music) (soft piano music) >> The prison was constructed in 1858.

It was known as simply the Illinois State It was preceded by a state penitentiary that was built on the Mississippi River commun Because of deplorable conditions and actually as a result of the prison being a privately-leased oper which is an interesting feature, there was a call to By 1858, the penitentiary had begun construction here.

53 inmates came up from the Alton Penitentiary, quarried the limestone, were housed here and actually built the prison around themselves.

(soft piano music) When we took over, not only did you have yo u had damaged structures, you had a vari throughout the site for security reasons, razor wire, overgrowth and just years of vegetation and trees.

We adopted what's known as a stabilized ruin.

Essentially we want to make sure that the buildings are ph but the presence of the decay kinda speaks to these are forgotten people in some respects that put them behind walls not only so prisoners do not get out but so our eyes do not get in.

Even when it was constructed in the 1850s, this was a notoriously massive, i Its size was commented on from the earliest days of the penitent Up until today, visitors are really a by how physically large the site is.

It encompasses 16 acres inside the walls.

You have almost two dozen outbuildings in there.

Things like chapels and dining halls and dormitories Throughout those years, you always had about 1000 or inmates here at any given time, whic and in addition to a couple hundred guards, essentially a city within a city.

Joliet has had a synonymous relationship with the penitentiary, being the prison city.

That was a complicated legacy and it was part of the re for the prison to kinda sit empty because that reputation had sort of underwritten negative perceptions about the ci In light of the damage, the arson, the vanda we collectively decided the prison has defined us for long enough as Why don't we take this back?

Why don't we define Capture this interest, capture these dollars and really take this site back, if you will, on behalf of the city of Joliet.

The interpretation of the site from the beginning was something we was gonna be challenging a we would want to be respectful of a variety of viewpoints.

You have incarcerated persons, you have victims of crimes, you have employees that were here.

You have the perception of this facility w It took a variety of research.

It took a strong stomach some very hard truths, whether you're t mass incarceration today and kinda the straight line from the 1860s and after the Civil War or you're talking about convict labor, things that are still complicated today.

We knew we had to be respectful.

We knew we had to be fact, ev in our interpretation of that.

What we learned in the feedback from is that they were surprised to learn I think we pushed people off of the fence in our di with being honest and truthful about the history, for better or worse.

There's the morbidity and th that kind of attracts people and that we do discuss.

I think there's also more socioeconomic, cultural takeaways that we want people to have and we want people to reflect on what's happening Most people are shocked to learn that it did hold m You are walking the grounds where prisoners of the state of Illinois have been held for a century and a half.

When you think about Leopold and Loeb and Richard Speck and these people, you're walki and you're working in my case where they were.

More importantly, you have Ida B.

Wells who visited prisoners here 100 years ago to bring attention to the fact that Black men were being The prison was designed in 1858 to essentially be the only prison that Illinois would ever nee Within 20 years, the only prison the state would ever need filled up over cap You see suggestions in media at the time that that was attributed to post-traumatic stress disorder following the Civil War, several financial panics after the Civil War.

2/3rds or thereabouts of the inmates were in here for theft, larceny and overwhelmingly for crimes against property.

So for stealing things, for trying to survive.

It kinda stays with you.

A term I've You feel the sadness, you feel hop You do feel empathy in that it's complicated and that there are a variety of perspectives and that once you see and walk t it really gives you a unique perspective.

We have stoked conversations in the cars on if you will, that we've changed some minds.

That we have created an empathy f incarcerated people but Department of Corrections worker just how complicated and sometimes messy incarceration can be and it tells us a lot about our society for better or worse.

But you also do feel a sense that we can and we will and we want to do better.

It's an emotional experience as much as it's an It was built in an effort to want But like many things in history, it evolves.

It's old but it's still with us.

If you want to know and learn about a look at its penitentiaries, look at the history th (soft violin music) >> Spokesperson: Centier Bank is proud to serve hometown comm For over 128 years, Indiana's largest private family-owned bank has been not for sale and promises to keep it that way for years to come.

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Providing certified, trained and experienced professionals for residential, commercial, industrial and solar projects.

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Learn more at StrackandVanTil.co >> Almost every single professor I've had, I'm on a first name basis.

By building that re I was able to get involved with re It's one thing to read about an i versus physically doing it and seeing the results.

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