The Sevan Podcast - #840 - CrossFit Affiliate Series | Pavel Saenz

Episode Date: March 17, 2023

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You're awesome. Thank you. I thought I saw, you know what's crazy is last night when I thought I came here and I thought I saw happy birthday from Janelle like 12 hours before the show started. I'm sorry. I can't find it now. Oh, maybe,

maybe I'm tripping. Happy birthday, son. Thank you. Oh, today we're going to have on, um, uh,

uh, geez, Pavel. Is that his name? That's what I'm going with until he corrects us. Yeah. Uh, Pavel,

uh, Jeffrey Birchfield, happy birthday, Sevan. Thank you. Patrick Anderson, happy birthday. This guy that we're having on today runs the – on the internet it says the oldest affiliate in Latin America. I don't think Latin America is actually a real place. I think it's – yeah, I don't even know what the fuck Latin America means but I think it's the oldest affiliate

in South America if we're going to signify I think Latin America is an idea and South America is actually a location think of Latin America as gender and think of South America as sex it's real Jethro Cardona

it is your birthday tis, tis, thank you oh, I get it. 551. I get it. That's awesome. Happy birthday, Seve Corey Leonard. Thank you. Hey, thanks for your support. All you guys. Jethro, Corey, Jan Clark. Happy birthday, Uncle Seve. Thank you. Appreciate it. Oh, Heidi Kroon. Happy birthday, Seve. I love you, too. Janelle, there you are. Double money. I think I saw you give money and happy birthday me already. The two things I want to share with you, the two greatest things in my life. This came up to me in the shower today. I'm going to share them with you quickly. Maybe at the end of the show, we'll have time to talk about them after Pavel hits the road. The greatest single thing I've ever done in my life that's added the most value to my life, hands down, second to none, is my pursuit

of my own mortality, me facing my death. I don't know how many of you actually have heard that story. I know it's out there somewhere, but it is not a journey that I take lightly. And it has enriched my life more than anything. It has allowed me to see, see is not the right word. It's allowed me to go into the unknown and it's a crazy, crazy gift and it was a very difficult and fortuitous that I earned it,

but I had to face my own death and it's weird because everyone should do it but it man holy shit it's fucking it's a bizarre it's not even scary because you're beyond scared it's it's flirts with suicidal um so if you have a chance to do true inner work ever in your life that will be the greatest tool you i, I carry it with me every fucking where I go. It's just, I can just step into the unknown. I don't want to say I can see into the unknown because I really, I don't see shit when I'm in there. I'm tarted when I'm in there, but it's great. It's great. It's where all of faith lives. It's like stepping into faith. And then the second

thing, and the first thing I think would be true for everything. The second thing, it's weird because I don't understand. I see some parents and this isn't true for them. But the most happiness I've ever had in my life is not the first time I touched a bra, not the first time I saw a million dollars in my tax return, not the first time I found my penis, not getting promoted to the best job ever the greatest enjoyment i have every in my entire life is um uh spending time with my kids and i'll get crazy emotional if i start going too far into it but every like when i get off this show i'm going to go out there and i'm going to open the door and i'm going to walk in and these three boys are going to look at me and I'm going to have a feeling that there is no parallel to it. And it's everywhere for me in my life right now. And so I'm kind of living my craziest best life now. So those are the two things I want to let you know. Having kids and being present with them is a crazy joy.

Crazy. It's like, it's nuts. And then, and then, and then also the most valuable thing I've ever done with my life is going into the unknown. Bailey Walker. Hi. Thank you. Happy birthday. Susie tell. Hi. Hi. Barry, my cock in her. Thank you. Bruce Wayne, Kenneth DeLapp. I, now that I know what that name is saying, I always just screw it up. I Kenneth DeLapp. Thank you. Buy Wayne, Kenneth DeLapp. Now that I know what that name is saying, I always just screw it up. Kenneth DeLapp, thank you. Buy a pack of gum. Okay, I don't chew gum, but I'll still do it. Happy birthday. The Shiz, happy birthday. Wow, that's a lot of money. That's going to pay for today's skateboard class. Miss Radao, thank you. Audrey, holy cow, you guys, thank you.

Holy smokes. Okay, hold your applause holy smokes pavel dick margarine thank you we're friends that's why i call you dick soccer mom thank you what's up dude happy birthday my friend thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you hi matt hey how you doing hey uh great is that the bad, and the ugly, or hang them high, or what is that back there? The good, the bad, and the ugly. My goodness.

Yeah, I recognize the guys from the good, the bad, and the ugly, but I saw the noose, so I wanted to make sure I cover all my bases. Do you remember the first time you saw that movie? Am I saying your name right, Pavel? It could be either way. It could be Pavel or Pavel. How do you say it? I prefer Pavel. Pavel.

Pavel. Pavel. Pavel. Pavel. Pavel. Yes, Pavel. Pavel. It makes it more similar in English and in Spanish.

That's why I prefer it that way. Just like that. Pavel. Yeah. When my wife asked me what we should name our son, I said, I didn't know, but one of my favorite sounds was, ah, like Pavel or Sevan. And so she said, okay, we'll just call him Avi then. And there it is. I love that sound. Hey, um, do you remember the first time you saw that movie?

I don't know. Maybe some little memories, but I was very young, very young. And and I saw it on TV with my father. And it was a remember those long, long movies. So but it got me hooked right away. I don't know if you know, Sevan, but, um, before my CrossFit years, I was a filmmaker also. Okay. I didn't know that.

Okay. So, yeah, so I got to appreciate a little bit more once I started studying, watching more films during my high school years. So it still remains. I still watch it every, every couple of years every couple of years and learn some stuff from there, from storytelling, from rhythm. And and he was a master. Sergio Leone, the director, he was a master. And I respect everything Clint has done also. You you describe the first time you saw that movie the same way i would

describe the first time i saw it i don't remember the details but i know i was with my dad and my dad loved those movies so i saw you know all of them the pale riders the hang them highs the good the bad and the ugly and they would come on tv on some weird station yeah like all those old westerns too my grandpa always had him on hey uh pavel my sons just recently got into bruce lee and i i don't know who the director is but for sure those five movies he made that guy was just stealing everything from from these movies the close eye eye shots the the you know the gestures i mean it's pretty it's pretty i mean i and i don't when i say stealing i don't mean that in a bad way complimentary for me for me bruce lee was pretty

impactful also yeah uh but more people in the gym but more in the sense for the martial arts thing. So many, not many people know that he did some proud groundbreaking stuff because he did more or less what coach Glassman did in the sense for the martial arts work, because he didn't think as one style could be the answer to self-defense or true expression of the physical combat expression. So he modulated a concept called Jeet Kune Do.

And that concept was very much like CrossFit in the sense if you transfer the ideas behind it. So he wanted to pick the best techniques and principles from different martial arts. And at the time, that was revolutionary. uh, even at one moment, I, I wanted to, to write an article on this for the journal, uh, on the, on the bridge between, uh, G Kundo and, and, and CrossFit. Because when I love it, when I, when I just learned about, uh, coach Glassman and his first writings, it was like, uh, like seeing everything that had to do with jean kundo again but one thing that coach did was that he transformed it in a method in a clear method and that's what uh bruce lee didn't do uh he he defined some concepts ideas, but he left them pretty loose.

So, yeah, he was also very important in the sense of living a spiritual life, connecting that with the physical expression in combat sports. So, yeah, good for him. Good for your son um i guess the way you articulate it i watch a lot of mma and it's odd the mma community has really embraced bruce lee which is always weird to me right because the mma community is so hard on people and so judgmental and like they're like fuck this guy fuck this guy but they really have embraced bruce lee you know you'll see what how would bruce lee do in the ufc and people ask it like it's a legitimate question. And as much as I watch the UFC, I've never heard it articulated the way you just said it.

But now it makes sense. Yeah, yeah. And it's all that. In that time when in the 60s, at the beginning of the 70s, he wanted to mix all the full contact sports with grabbing and throwing the mma the mma style and uh his vision was that you should look at a fighter and that don't even know which is his background he should be so complete that you don't know if he's a striker, if he's a grappler, that, that, um, um, that fusion of techniques, uh, should be so, so, uh, balanced, just like the skills in, in, in skills in, in CrossFit. athlete we don't know necessarily if he's just uh a weightlifter or he's a gymnast or he's a runner they that's the that's the beauty of it also that how about that how about that physique of his too bruce lee's you know what i i see this thing um pavel that that i i don't relate to at

all i've never had a desire to be a big man. I never like people will be like, um, Hey, it's offensive. If like, uh, uh, I remember Ryan Fisher made a video recently and how his girlfriend said he looked skinny. And I was like, yeah, that like, I loved how skinny Bruce Lee was. I loved that lean, uh, that lean physique. I also remember even in, um, in,, in Brad Pitt and Troy, I remember people saying he wasn't big enough. I was like, what are you talking about? I love that. Super crazy. Athletic like the 135,

45 and 55 pound classes in, in the UFC. I just love that. You know, those guys walk around at 185 pounds. Sorry to be speaking in pounds, but those guys walk around at 185, but their fight weight when they're lean, when they're the dog in the alley, you see all the ribs and they're down to 155. And it's like, yeah, there he is. Yeah. Look at him.

He's ready to go. Right. They're hungry at their peak. Yeah. And he looks huge there compared to Bruce Lee. But I love Bruce as a child. I love that physique, almost like part dancer, part fighter. Yeah.

And in his last film, Enter the Dragon, he wasn't in a very good shape in the sense he wasn't all that healthy. Oh, I didn't know that. He was very stressed. He wasn't sleeping. He was very obsessed with being in the project, in the filming, in the shooting. He would give a hard time to the directors. the filming and the shooting, he would give a hard time to the directors. So, so he took it.

He knew that at that moment it was a critical time for him to, to, for a breakthrough. So he took it very seriously. And, and, and, and that's in that movie, you see him a little bit lighter than usual. But yeah, everything else you're saying is, is true. And his lats. Do you mean, I just remember his lats as a kid yeah they were crazy i i i always wanted those and and and i didn't i didn't do you remember getting your first pull-up pavel how old you are not really not not really i think uh maybe i've right that's where our paths that's where our paths separate i wasn't to my point oh yeah baryshnikov god baryshnikov's body

is insane i agree god baryshnikov has a great fucking physique yeah yeah amazing physique i mean so you were you were athletic as a kid you you all your life, you just knew you had one. Pretty as a normal kid that moves a lot and jumps on trees and plays around with friends. Normal according to whose standards? In our cultures in Latin America, we do a lot of soccer and a lot of playing with the bros and kind of physical stuff. We don't have as many options as sports as in the U.S. or in other development countries. But yeah, pretty active. I would say average, a little bit above average.

You're in Santiago. I'm in Santiago, Chile chile yeah let me see if i can pull this um you got it suza this map and uh and chile's the the really uh skinny uh country in south america that that they've just hogged the entire coast right just taking the coast the western coast from south america and and your climate is very similar to um california yes you have big vast deserts but you also can there's areas where you can grow anything yeah yeah what an amazing place could you zoom out just for people who aren't who are geographically uh illiterate like myself and they can see it yeah look at that thing what a crazy piece of

land to try to have to defend is there a quick history you can tell how you guys got just a sliver like that i mean it's like you just took the best piece and was like all right fuck you guys you can have the rest well the thing is that we were we're on the on the lengthy side of it where we go with the border of Argentina. Oh, and they got the other coast. Yeah. And what separates us is the Cordillera. It's a big mountain. And it goes almost all the way through Chile.

Okay. OK, so so it was when when the Spanish came and colonized, they they were they either passed through the border to the mountain and that was another country. So we're really a skinny land while Argentina is very wide. So physically it kept the two countries basically from being able to fight basically or one person to come over what is the peak what is the highest peak there do you know oh i would say in meters that would be maybe i'm not really sure that's a good question but something crazy there's some crazy stuff there yeah Highest peaks in South America? Maybe close to Bolivia, close to some places in Colombia. They don't have the length of the mountains, but they have a higher altitude.

And you guys have the driest place on the planet too. I've filmed a movie there in the Atakama and i remember them saying the spot you're standing at there's no historical record of it ever raining there ever in the history of the planet and i was like how how could that be i mean just nuts and it looked clearly like no place i had ever seen i did not think i was on planet earth it was a very trippy uh very unique scenery right yeah and it's it's uh yeah it's the it's the desert on one side on the north of the country and you can go you can fly an hour and and you're gonna be in the in our tartar so so it's it's pretty crazy yeah they had that they have the highest ch Chile has the highest volcano on the planet.

Did you see that? Wow, nuts. 22,000 feet. Mike Sauer, thank you. So in this amazing landscape that is Chile, you own – you opened 16 years ago the very first CrossFit gym. Is it in South America? america yep yeah that's nuts that is nuts paul have you met greg yeah twice oh okay okay yeah yeah crazy so so when um when i was uh finishing film school i started well, well, I was very into MMA.

I started my Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu also, like, journey. And I got hooked with Matt Thornton. He's the director of an organization called Straight Blast Gym. They're a training organization. American dude with that name. Yeah. American dude. Yeah. He's a,

when I met him, he, he, well, he still is in headquarters. He has his headquarters in Portland. So tell him, I'm sorry.

So, uh, the thing is that, uh, what happened, well, going a little bit back with G Kundo, I was interested in all of that philosophy, but the thing is that what happened, well, going a little bit back with Jeet Kune Do, I was interested in all of that philosophy. But the thing is that, as I said before, many of the students and the lineage of Bruce kind of divided because they all had an interpretation of what his principles were. So one went the route that you should only train whatever he he he trained

the other camp uh wanted they they took a more broad perspective and they thought just bring anything that that's good and and and and it's uh and it's functional for fighting, and you can use it. But the thing is that both camps miss the idea of doing something against a resisting opponent. This is a topic very central in traditional martial arts, that they do a lot of what they call forms or katas. And what that means is they do like a choreographed combat. And this camp from Matt, he tried to implement the idea of a training with alive opponents. Mainly what boxing does, kickboxing, wrestling, and jiu-jitsu, and all that. They do that.

So he incorporated all this sport-like aspect of training for self-defense also. Because his idea behind that is that you can train for self-defense with a lot of protection. You can do the same type of fighting. So you don't have to simulate a fight. So, uh, this grabbed me right away. So I, I, I, I started training under him and, uh, and, uh, and I thought this idea of aliveness was very, very interesting. So when I finished school school i started doing a documentary

on the topic oh and uh uh i had to go to school pavel uh here in chile we we we had a the national like uh film school okay uh and so i had to they they hold a couple of camps, training camps during the year in the United States. So I went to one. What year? What year is this? This was 2005. Okay. Oh, I think I see where this is going.

This is good. So I grabbed my camera. I grabbed my bag and I wanted to train. I wanted to shoot. And I wanted to train i wanted to shoot and uh i wanted to meet matt personally also and at the time at the same time i was um trying to to my my my fitness was very low my my strength and conditioning wasn't that high so I started investigating a lot. And so in this similar pathway, I bumped into crossfit.com.

I started doing some was there. Remember where you were when you bumped into crossfit.com? Were you sitting in front of a computer in, in, in Chile, in Santiago? Yeah. Prior to going to Portland to start the movie.

Right. Okay. Wow. That's early, dude. Yeah. That's early. Yeah. You, you didn you did you didn't have

youtube you um the main site you didn't even have like you had to download links and pictures and that was it yeah awesome yeah people remember this this isn't that long ago there was no youtube no high-res photos or videos if you wanted a video he probably had to wait an hour to download it and watch it. I'm not even joking. You would load it and then you'd go take a dump or go make dinner and come back. And if like something, sometimes you would wait an hour and it'd be fully uploaded and then it would go away. You'd be like, what? Top at 99.

Yeah, you'd be like, what? Or you'd watch the video and it was like seven seconds long of something you can't even figure out what it is. Yeah, that's crazy. You're old school dude that was crazy yeah and so so i would i would see the workouts uh and i would just pick and choose choose the ones i liked you remember what you would choose and would you see stuff like thruster snatch and be like like having to like search the world to figure out what those were? Yeah, I saw the word clean. I didn't know what the hell was that. Yeah.

So I did mostly body weight and like a lot of running and a lot of body weight. A lot of Cindy, a lot of Cindy. A lot of dumbbells. A lot of stuff like Murph, like do Murph too many times. Right. Yep. A lot of Murph stuff, like Murph, like do Murph too many times. Right.

Yep. And so, well, parentheses, when I did my first workout, it was Mary. Oh, wow. And Mary, you guys know Mary, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Isn't Mary Cindy all just for tough guys? It's like the pistol one? Yeah, handstand push-ups. Yeah, Mary's crazy.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. it's like the pistol one yeah handstand yeah man it's crazy yeah yeah yeah so the the the odd thing is i could do the three movements rx'd and it had a handstand push-up it had pistols and it had pull-ups and i only did three rounds in those 20 minutes and it beat me beat me like a week so um well when while this all is going on uh i wanted to learn more about crossfit so i looked up and there was just a couple of affiliates around around in the states and there was one in portland so i said i'm going to be there a week i'm going to train there for a week and i'm going to shoot my documentary and uh well i got there across with portland and they were one of the first i think that may have been the first what was that guy's name again if you say his name i'll remember it scott hagnis sc Oh, no, I don't recognize it. Scott Hagnus? Yeah.

He was. That was in 2005? That was in 2005. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. It had, there could have only been like maybe three affiliates then, I bet. Right.

So I trained there for a week. I saw the class as well. Obviously, he already had a lot of knowledge, and I experimented a true class, a true CrossFit class. Before that, I would just look at the wad, warm up a little. Yeah, that's him. Oh, wow. And I would go at it. Yeah, very, very nice guy. Very nice guy. Very cool dude.

Wow. Is that recent right there? I think it is, yeah. And he looks the same. As a person that popped up. Yeah, crazy. I wonder if he still does he owns crossfit portland it looks like he does according to the internet of things crazy crazy yeah so when i started

training there i i well he he asked me a lot of stuff he he wanted to know about me because i was coming from chile and all that we started talking and. And I told him I would love to do more of this. So he said, you know, man, you should do it right now. I'm going to give you a contact, write an email, and go from there. So the email was for Tony Buddy. Yeah. God, Crossfit spread like a virus he had a visitor from chile they caught the disease and took it home crazy it's so crazy so i wrote to him and he well we started emailing back and forth and he said well uh this is what you should do you start training do the

do the program like it's supposed to be done three days on one day off start by that start reading he started sending some articles from the journal i started downloading more more stuff and that's where i i think i did that like for around six months and then he advised me to to start taking on personal training like teaching others and he said well uh we have now the option for affiliate so if you want to have an affiliate just let me know what year was that 2006 yeah that was 2006 um did you start real quick did you finish the documentary yeah Yeah. You did? Yeah. What's the name of it? It's called Aliveness.

Aliveness. Is it in Spanish? It's in Spanish and in English also. We didn't have the fortune of doing a lot of distribution, but yeah, but it's out there. Is it on YouTube? No, no. Just old school analog. I used to have it on YouTube? No, no. Just old school analog. I used to have it on DVD.

Pavel, why don't you upload it? Yeah, it's a good idea. I've been thinking about it. Okay, yeah, do it. Just upload it onto YouTube. Let people see it. Let me know if you need help. I know how to push a button or two. Thanks. I'm the last guy you want to help me i found this uh post actually of you posting about it

on uh crossfit discussion board in 2008 oh that's awesome hey guys i've just uploaded the trailer of the documentary i shot on aliveness and martial arts. I think especially Matt Thornton, Mike and Rebecca Sweeney, Carl Tanswell and Luis Gutierrez. Oh, shit. Did he see that? What are you shitting? Luis Gutierrez. Someone recommended I have that guy on the podcast. They said he's an amazing he's done amazing stuff with kids in the realm of jujitsu.

Yes. Wow. Yes. Someone just recommended him to me. That's nuts. And obviously, the rest of the athletes present all from the Straight Blast Gym International. Comments are welcome. Oh, David Wood.

You think that's the David Wood? But look at what it says. Please post whether the link is work, family safe, or not. Right. That was before OnlyFan thirst traps and stuff stuff on instagram you don't know what you're gonna get i wonder if that's the david wood the one from our chat yeah no no no no no no uh there's a um because there's a david wood in the chat too i think there's a guy anyway anyway okay sorry okay we digress paul okay so you should so he said you should have Luis. You should have some Luis. He

created a program called Play as the Way for martial arts and for kids. Okay. Yeah, he came highly the same guy who recommended Adam Kramer to me also recommended Luis Gutierrez. Okay.

Is he in the States or is he down where you're at? Yeah, I think he's from Florida. Okay. Oh, that would make sense. Okay. So Tony says to you, hey, you should open an affiliate and teach people. Right. I only had a space, a backyard in my house.

He says, no problem. Start teaching people. And then between Tony, I think he went more to the media side and and nicole uh grabbed grabbed on on the affiliate uh uh department so for people who don't know yeah nicole used to run the affiliate department that's right yep and then well we And then, well, we affiliate on April 1st, 2006. Back then, you could use the name of the country. You might be the oldest affiliate in the world. You might be older than CrossFit New York.

You might be the oldest affiliate open right now. You got to be in the top five. That's crazy. For sure, top five. Yeah, and back then, you can choose the name of the country. Yeah, yeah. That's crazy for sure top five if not yeah and back then you can choose the name of the country yeah yeah that's crazy i know now you couldn't even choose santiago now you couldn't even choose the city yeah so so but i didn't i didn't want to go that route i knew there was something you did good you did good you got a good one sorry what were you gonna say you didn't

want to go that route because why yeah because it was i knew the the the wave was coming yeah you did you did yeah yeah yeah especially in our countries because our countries are not very physical and and and uh in the sports aspect it's very what you do in pe and in high school and school, it's not, it's not very well thought. It's, it's everything leans toward playing soccer. So, so, and people started being more curious about around other things of martial arts or running, doing some biking, hiking. So at that time, it was a good time to bring something, a fresh air. Are you married? Yeah.

Yeah. Because some lady in the comments says, how tall is he? Does he like long wads on the beach? I'm like, honey. And she's wearing a bathing suit, Audrey. And she lives in Australia. God.

I mean, that is. Okay. He's married. Easy down everyone long wads on the beach that's a great line that is a great line good job audrey that's a common i mean i sorry if you don't if this is obvious to you but that's like a common theme in the states right the romantic line do you like long walks on the beach do you like long wads on the beach very clever okay so you knew it was going to take off and so you went with crossfit santiago right and i started equipment buying a little bit of equipment i put up a pull-up bar in the backyard and i had i had students for for jujitsu and MMA. So I started training them on CrossFit. Very good results.

We started going to tournaments. We, we did well. And we knew the only different thing was that we were training better, our strength and condition. So it was kind of like something you guys laughed about and whispered to like that guy was better than me, but man, my, my five minute fran is really paying off kind of kind of yeah we had the secret yeah you know that happened with uh

garth taylor are you you're familiar with that story no he was a he's a guy an amazing jiu-jitsu practitioner kept going uh went to south america a times, went to Brazil, kept taking second place, met Greg Glassman in 2003 or four. Greg got him, you know, into doing Metcons with 500 pound deadlifts. And he went down there and ended up becoming the first white guy ever to win the Brazilian heavyweight champion of the world in Brazil. And I think he maybe won it in three belts maybe like a purple brown and a black or something but yeah and he said yeah as soon as I started doing you're doing a burpees and 500

pound deadlift combo it changes your whole I mean he's a massive man this guy's a 300 pound man but yeah changed his shit no and the other thing that blew our minds was when we saw the Coach Glassman's video with BJ Penn and the fight combat story. Yeah, right.

I mean, tons of people. We met this attorney one time. He was the head attorney for a big hospital here in the States called St. Jude. He said in 20 years, he was a karate guy or taekwondo. I can't remember. In 20 years, he had never won a tournament. And he started CrossFit. And at 50 years old, he just starts just dominating just from incorporating CrossFit.

And at that time, nobody was doing the stuff like that. Right, right. Because you could, you could do, you could do your, your strength cycles and go running and jump rope and all that for mixed martial arts. But nobody was mixing it like, like what crossfit did at that time yeah crazy and now everyone is right all the best guys are whether they know it or not they're like i mean when you watch the ufc like highlight stuff it's like yeah they're doing crossfit like you just see it so common now they don't even know it too because they take it for granted right like if you've only been around five or 10 years,

if you're a 20 year old dude and you just start, you probably don't even know that just 10 years earlier, this shit wasn't around. I mean, even the squatting below parallel, even the squatting below parallel, right? I mean, 15 years, you get thrown in jail for that. Audrey Fraser for the other Audrey 551. Oh yeah. You liked her line. This is one odd. This girl likes the other audrey 551 oh yeah you liked her line this is one odd this girl likes the other girl's line hitting on you so she gave me five dollars it's a what a great world we

live in i made five dollars from one audrey to another yeah it was a brilliant line do you like long wads on the beach thank you oh my god i think half my audience is wannabe stand-up comics like myself. Oh, for sure. Oh, and someone said, oh, my God, his daughter's watching. No hitting on this guy. His daughter said that. Oh, oh, oh. Oh, that is his daughter. Yeah, Paola's daughter.

Paola. Great. Paola. Sorry, Paola. Your husband. Your father probably gets hit on a lot. You're used to it. And did you affiliate your backyard?

Yeah, you did. And how much was that? It was one hundred and fifty dollars. Yeah, but it was supposed to be be 500 back then, wasn't it? No, I think at the time it was 150. And like a year later. He's telling me shit I didn't even know. I didn't even know it was ever 150. That's crazy.

That was the early, early. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was. Yeah. And they and I think you just sent two bags of weed from Chile and you were good to go. Oh, someone's payment showed go. Oh, Chile. Yeah. Chile's payment showed up. Awesome.

Was that a lot of money? No, no. No. What is your affiliate fee today? Is it still, are you still at one 50? They told me, they told me that me that they would never raise it. They told me right away. Yeah. And after our 10-year mark, they waived it. They said, hey, you made it 10 years. You're in for life.

Dude, what a great. Was that under Greg? Yeah. God, what a fucking good dude. God, he could have did. He should have kept collecting. That could have been a raise for me. I cannot believe it. Yeah, that's crazy.

How did that happen? Kathy called you one day or Greg called you? No, it was it was an email. I think it was Kathy. Yeah. Hey, Pavel, congratulations on tenure. You'll no longer be paying affiliate fees. Yeah, it was something like that.

They told me not to talk much about it. Oh, sorry. Well, I mean, dude, I mean, anyone who's going to bitch about that. I mean, well, well earned tenure. Yeah, it's crazy. Rock and roll. So if you if you if you prepare a clip don't be that one okay i won't go and it's it's beautiful though scratch that and to this day do

do you still are you still waived yeah oh that gives me so much faith in the new team god that makes me so happy yeah they send me the contract every year. Yeah. And I just sign it. God, what good fucking people that whoever's over there doing that. That's great shit. Good job. God, that makes me so happy. How many gyms are there in Chile? There are more than 10. Yeah. Yeah. I think there's more in 10. It's been difficult, you know, because, well, they sometimes the exchange rate and now it's maybe three grand or four grand, something like that. I don't know. Yeah. But now you have the option to pay it monthly.

And, well, COVID did a lot, a lot of damage here also. You guys did that? Chile did COVID? Your country did that? Damn. How do they do that to those countries? I just don't think – I just don't understand how those leaders do that to those people because there's enough shit going on there, right? They got a Los Angeles too, dude.

That's what happened. Oh, my goodness. I'm sorry. They try to copy. They try to copy. Is that really what they do? They just try to copy? Yeah.

Oh, man. So they – yeah, that's another whole thing i just always suspect that countries like that just didn't do it they were just like fuck you we got enough fucking shit going on here we're not doing that one we pass well everything now is pretty global with the internet and all that. So it's news spread fast. Fear spreads fast also. Yeah. Yeah. So what happened to you guys, if you don't mind going off the track here a second?

Did you actually have to close down? Can you just pay someone off there? No. You can't? Not here in Chile. No. Not here in Chile. No.

Yeah, there's other countries in South America that are very loose on that side. And you can corrupt authorities and all that. Yeah. But Chile is pretty straightforward in that sense. At least that's what it seems. How long did they make you stay closed? authorities and all that yeah but chile is pretty pretty straightforward in that sense at least that's what it seems how long did they make you stay closed well you know i i saw the interview with uh with uh holly from crossfit new york uh-huh and it was pretty much the same okay it

was pretty much the same okay so close down but those who want to still train we'll figure out a way for you yeah hey did it screw the economy in chile like it did in the united states is your all your shit all just messed up still yeah everybody is paying debt now yeah that's the way it is here too what a mess yeah god it's so it's so part of me is kind of happy right like that misery loves company and another part of me is like how could that how could there be just um there be just dumb people everywhere how could they're just not especially crossfitters it's like how did how did how did they get sucked into it but but for the most part the stories do mostly sound like yours and hotties that most of the gyms figured out a way like hey they knew they knew like hey we need to keep moving

stay in our group keep supporting each other to eat right um how how is the how many times have you moved you you were in your backyard how many clients did you get in your backyard with maybe it was like 20 people i was i was messing up everything in the house so so we had to leave yeah yeah they said they were ruining your bathroom they destroyed your bathroom yeah and and and you know the nice thing about it that it was it was pretty much them my students that said hey we got to go somewhere else and uh that's an international story too right that's the story you hear from all the kind it's crazy how all the people who do crossfit or they have these common threads so now we're in our fourth location. I think it's the one we've been the longest also. We've been here for almost seven years.

And we're pretty happy here. And it's huge. You have 30-foot ceilings, 10 meters. Yeah. Yeah, and it has four floors. And I live in the fourth floor, almost like a penthouse. Wow, above the place. Right.

So I just typed in 1,000 square meters. So you have an 11,000-square-foot gym for those people in the United States. That's massive. Yeah, that's huge. So you live above that place? Right. Oh, that's huge. So you live above that place? Right. Oh, wow, dude. It was a dream.

Every time I saw Mike Berger's videos, it was a dream of me having a garage like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, how is the building? Santiago got smashed hard with an earthquake many years ago. I remember flying into Santiago and the airport was just wrecked. Yeah, it was 2010. Very similar to California. You guys are just on a bunch of faults, right?

Right. And we have earthquakes, pretty hard ones every couple of years. And we have earthquakes, pretty hard ones every couple of years. You know, I was doing a show one time here, sitting in this chair, and all my shit started shaking. Hey, Pavel, how did your English get so good? Where did you learn English? You don't even have an accent. I lived 60 years in California when I was a kid.

In Stockton. Wow. The champs. The champs. Wow. So you're right up the road for me. How did that happen? How old were you

when you moved to Stockton? I was six years old, five years old. Did you do martial arts there? No. No, just just regular sports, just p and all that and and why did your family move just did you come here with your mom and dad

well chile as in in in south america uh we've suffered uh historically with uh historically with military overthrowing the governments. So in Chile, they suffered an overthrowing in 1973. In what year were you born? I was in 76. Okay. So many people were exiled. Many people were exiled. Many people were disappeared.

And, well, you had, basically, you had two choices. You either were with the military or you either left. So, almost all my dad's family left first to Mexico. And that's where my father met my mom and and my Is she Mexican or she's Chilean? She's Mexican. Okay.

And my grandfather was separated from my grandmother so he left to the United States and my grandmother went to Mexico. So then we would do like a, like trips. And,

and, and when my father was out of, out of work in Mexico, we would go to the States and, and we, he tried to work there and we worked there for a couple of years. He stayed there. And your mom too.

Yeah. And my sister were four. And did you guys get legal access into the United States or you guys just snuck across? You got legal access? Yeah, because my grandfather, because he was politically exiled, he got residence pretty quick. Yeah. So he could bring more family every now and then. What an awesome story.

And then why did you guys go back to Chile? That's a good question. I mean, I had family do that too, by the way. I had family basically escape out of Lebanon, a lot of family, Beirut, and then end up going back. And part of me doesn't understand it. And part of me doesn't understand it. Well, my father and most of my, that side of the family was very political. So the government was running the country.

They ran the country for 17 years. The military, the military guys. Right, right. the military the military guys right right so uh many people that left chile i think i think psychologically they felt a lot of guilt like to leaving leaving everything behind right i can see that and and leaving your friends and leaving other family members. And since my, that side of my family was very political, they were, they wanted to fight against this military. So many people came back, not just from the US, from Mexico, from Europe, a lot of, a lot of countries from, from South America that they were also exiled there, came back and they started doing a

lot of pressing, political pressing for the government to leave. And in 1989, it was almost forced, an election the the military to leave won by by a lot of margin so it was pretty clear that they have to go wow and they left and they left and that's when everybody started coming back and and is that the is that the government that's in power now? No, now it's every four years there's a new election for president. So since then, it's been changing. It's been going pretty much a little bit left, a little bit right to the center. So it's been playing on that. Is Chile considered a socialist country?

Is Chile considered a socialist country? Now we have a left-side president, but I wouldn't say it's a socialist country. I would say it's pretty neoliberal, how they call it, pretty capitalist. Okay. So it's not extreme. It's not extreme it's not extreme okay do you think do you think when you look when you look over here at the united states do you does it look like it's extreme to you when you see just from what you see from in here when i when i uh some states i think they're very much like california i think they they they do stuff pretty much like they do the left here in

chile yeah or like canada or like australia i mean we have we have a decline in population in every major liberal run city in this country and they're and it's so odd like all of them baltimore philadelphia los angeles san francisco we're having a mass exodus out of our liberal cities and the reason why is because of violence and crime. And the reason why we have violence and crime is because of this, because of socialism, because of what it's done. It's made it impossible to fucking make a living there. And so they're trying to, by trying, they're tearing down the top to try to help the bottom. And it doesn't work that way, right?

They cut down the tree because there's fruit that's too high. It's like, that doesn't even make sense. Right. And now no one has fruit. It's like, now there's not even fruit from the top to fall down for the people on the bottom to eat. I mean, it is a, it's a disaster, but there are people here that I see that in California, we have a shitload of foreigners. Right. And I've met a lot of people from Brazil and Venezuela,

and they have serious concerns of what they see going on here. So that's where I was kind of going with that. Do you see stuff happening in the United States? And you're like, guys, don't do that. That doesn't... I mean, another example is you see Canada, people in Canada and UK, they used to make fun of our healthcare, right? Because they have free healthcare.

But now they're waiting six months or two years to have their cancer addressed. And by the time it gets addressed, they're dead. Whereas in our society, it's not like that. You, you, you wait six days, right? So it's, it's an, it's a, it's, it's a trippy time and I always wonder what the perspective is for you guys looking at the United States going through what we're going through. Yeah, it's pretty much the same as you describe it for those – like California and those other states that are similar. That's how it is in Chile? More or less, yeah.

Yeah. Are there enclaves or pockets that aren't like that? Like in California, there's a city called Newport where all the fucking rich fucking people live, right? And they don't got that problem. Or just up the street from me, there's a city called Los Galados or Palo Alto. They don't have any of those problems that the rest of California is having. They don't have crime or robbery or homelessness or needles on the streets. Do they have that in Chile? There's pockets that are.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's good. I mean, I like to hear that. I want someone to be thriving. I mean, I want someone to be thriving.

This map that I brought up is interesting. Kind of goes along with the story of Chile, like how people left because of the military having control and then coming back. And this is what we saw just from 2021 to 2022 in the US. The states that are in red had people leaving them. So they saw a decline for the first time in population. And the states that are in blue saw an increase in population.

And you could see the more, quote unquote, red states tend to have a much larger population as people are fleeing a lot of the democratic cities um and and moving and so this is the biggest shift that we've seen in the united states of people people switching uh states yeah that's crazy and that makes yeah if you see that yeah they're just leaving california and new york and in oregon all the places michigan yeah because like you said it's more of a shithole unless you have an income of over $500,000 a year, and then you could go insulate

yourself in these small pockets where you dictate, but you don't have to deal with any of the consequences. How many members are at your gym, Pavel? I would say around 250, 300. Holy cow.

That's incredible. Wow. Congratulations. When you hear that number, is that good? Is that as good as you were prior to the pandemic? Yeah. Yeah, the only thing I've seen, and I think it's because of the economy, is that people, they pause their memberships a little bit more. Maybe they train three months and they stop for a month and like that. So there's less continuity.

But yeah, we're working hard to do our best with our coaches. And we've always, always our students are our first priority. So we want them to have results. We want them to thrive. So I think, and since we've been here for a lot of years, a lot of old students come back after a couple of months, even if they're absent. So that's been good. That's been good. And we're happy.

We're happy, patient, but we still want more. I mean, there's a lot of room to improve. 16 years. So you went from basically a young man to to just a middle-aged man has your perspective on crossfit changed from being a tool to make you the greatest maybe fighter that exists to um transform it like i noticed on your on your uh instagram you guys put a premium on transformation now like have has your perspective like wow um because when i came into crossfit like wow this could make me the fittest person in the world.

And now it's like it's easily 51 percent. Holy shit. This thing could save people's lives. Like Greg said, we have the cure for the world's most vexing problem. Yeah, it shifted, shifted at first. It was fun to see to see the athletes, PRs and all that. It was incredible what what the feats that people have. But yeah, the ones that were more loyal, the more important in the sense of saving their health, their physical and mental health, were the people that were non-athletes. So yeah, that's mainly our community now. The first years, we had a lot of competitors. We still have some, but our main focus is the general population, whoever wants to have a better health, train a little bit harder, learn about their body. Yeah, it was, it was, it was, it has evolved a lot. Especially,

I would say the tipping point was again, when, when Greg Glassman and the media department started focusing more on the, on the living room, on the couch, on the elder. And I think that was something that it was important for us to understand what our mission was also. Make it a little bit more clear that fine leadership, I think that was crucial for us to continue pursuing

what might be the most, yeah, probably the most important thing you can do for a person. Do you have people that lost a hundred pounds at your gym? Yeah. Yeah. In the 15 years? Yeah. Yeah. Crazy. Yeah.

It's crushing. Please, please tell me. Yeah, tell me. You want me to tell you the first time I met Coach? Yeah, that would be great. Yes. And the second time. So around 2006, well, we affiliated and there was no other affiliate in South America until like two years after it was CrossFit Peru.

Nowhere in South America for two years. Wow. So we started chatting with Jaime from CrossFit Peru and then CrossFit Brazil started. They applied for the name of the country. They were the last ones. So when we were like four affiliates already in south america uh around that time the level one uh began so that's when we started pushing hard so we could bring the l1 team for the first l1 in south america and uh jaime did a lot of a lot of uh a lot of work towards that. And that's where we met coach in Lima. I think it was 2008.

And that was the first L1 with the staff was Dave, Dave Castro, Maggie Dave, and Pat Sherwood. Wow. And Greg was there too, right? Yeah, he came down. Yeah, I heard some stories about driving to the airport. You know that story? No.

Okay, I'll tell it after. Go ahead. So, yeah, he did his talk in the L1. He was kind enough to let me shoot that talk also. It was pretty much what he would always say in all the videos, but it was special for me to have that material that it was mine. Yeah, and you shot it on a little tape back then? Yeah. A Hi-8? Is that what they were mini mini dv yeah yeah yeah yeah uh yeah so we had a we had

a blast there and they did for the games they also did a sanctional there the first sanctional in south america something like that i don't know if it was a sanctional or a regional but it was that was in 2008 yeah it's probably called like a sectional then or something right something yeah okay yeah and then and then after of l1s to santiago to chile because because uh well because of my my english and all that i i had a great connection with dave and he just started organizing more and more you kind of look like him you know what's funny is when i was looking at you i was like oh i wonder if if dave like somehow i wonder how close you guys are in the gene pool you can't you kind of look like it's a trip yeah well my mother's mexican yeah i was i was born and i don't trust anyone who says they're mexican anyway like that just means to me that

means you could be chilean or could mean anything it's like where they've all all the latins have gone up there and just made it that's just like mexican is just a catch-all before before yeah it's just a catch-all i think i mean he doesn't even look like he doesn't look anything like his siblings dave no no he no but anyways i digress okay so you start doing a lot of l1s No. But anyways, I digress. Okay. So you started doing a lot of L1s. A lot of L1s. There wasn't no translator. There wasn't a translator. So I started translating the stuff. I was, I knew the material by memory. Crazy. And, yeah, and we started filling out these L1s, and it started to pop up. The gyms started to pop up in South America, especially in Brazil and in Argentina.

They're huge now compared to us and compared to Peru, compared to Colombia. Argentina and Brazil are huge. They would come to Santiago, the Brazilians and the Argentininians to take their l1 in the early days right yeah that's that's so cool and it would all did in um would dave keep coming down there to teach the l1s or started becoming other people no it was other people he just came for that first one it It was mainly Pat, Lance Cantu, Maggie. Lance Cantu. Right.

And afterwards, we had Cherry Chan a couple of times. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Did you ever get on the L1 team, Pavel? I did my internship. I did my internship with a friend of mine from CrossFit Guayaquil, Carlos.

It was a kind of a hectic time for me. So I did my internship and I didn't pursue it. I had to do another one. We did four. for me so i did my internship and i i didn't pursue it i i had to do another one we did four uh we had the option to continue it i didn't continue it because uh my my second girl was gonna be born around those years and i wanted to focus more on on on the gym and on my community fair and i knew that i knew because translated so many l1s i knew what the coaches went through yeah yeah in regards to traveling uh many of them were single so it's a great job if you're single if you have kids it's a tough one right so you had to leave your home on thursdays come back maybe on monday and tuesday so that wouldn't be too compatible with the gym. Right.

So it was a great opportunity working with him, though. Yeah. I learned so much. Manny C. Serrano, feliz cumpleaños, se van salud. I don't know what that means, but okay. Merry Christmas. Oh, cheers. Happy birthday and cheers. Happy birthday. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, cheers. Happy birthday and cheers.

Happy birthday. All right. Thank you. Thank you. My own personal, my own personal translator. What was the second time you met Greg? At the 10 year affiliate gathering in Whistler in Canada. You were there for that? Yeah. This is the, this is the t-shirt. Oh, nice. Yeah. So, uh, yeah, that yeah this is the this is the t-shirt yeah oh nice yeah so uh yeah that was an awesome experience because uh we got to met to meet all the old schools from from way back in in different

countries europe united states from canada from australia i think there was like 250 affiliates, something like that. Yeah, it was crazy. Yeah, and we had a blast. We trained. I think we had the first dose of Greg Glassman's bucket. Yeah, the five buckets

of death, yeah. So that was amazing to hear it live. do you what do you think is there a difference between the affiliate owners outside the u.s and affiliate owners um in the u.s did you think that um yeah did you notice anything anything striking to you I think in general, uh, they're more prepared on the business side. Okay. So that was, that was one of my flaws and one of, uh, of the flaws of, of all the old school coaches that I know here in the region that we were mainly, we were coaches. So we weren't businessmen.

mainly we were coaches so we weren't businessmen and and i think uh the the americans are more in tune with the idea of the business so while we were figuring everything out and and and and to that you have to add all the the complex, different cultures that we have in terms of our relationship between the business and the client and all that. It's very different in every country around here. So that was something we had to fine tune and incurring in a lot of missteps. So we've learned the hard way that we have to have a business. Did you use any mentoring programs? Not officially, but I studied a lot.

You did, okay. I studied a lot. I read a lot. lot i studied a lot i read a lot and uh but the thing is yeah when when that that concept of excellence brings money uh that always i had that very close to me as a as a guiding pole so everything else are tactics but the the strategy was that um you you know greg's a libertarian it's like hands off let let the best rise to the top and um it's interesting because that's where i see like affiliates kind of vary in in their understanding of what crossfit is because it's it is more it it's a fitness program it's a lifestyle methodology secure for the world's most vex more – it's a fitness program. It's a lifestyle methodology. It's a cure for the world's most vexing problem.

It's also a small business miracle in the sense that the barrier of entry is so low and that the mothership is so hands-off. And yet you do pay – people do pay an affiliation fee. Have you ever thought about de-affiliating? Have you ever thought about getting away from the name? an affiliation fee. Um, have you, have you ever thought about de-affiliating? Have you ever thought about getting away from the name? No, never, never. Yeah. Never. And even not even cross my mind. Awesome. Perfect. Love hearing that. It's a, it's a, we're here because we have a mission and we're here because we're thankful and we will

always be. So no matter, no matter what happens, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to try to stay on track. And when you say thankful, thankful for, for Greg and for, for all the original team, for, for sharing this to the world. I mean, uh, this, uh, as we said before, everybody's training like this now, but there was a time that it wasn't like that. And maybe we don't know when would this time would arrive if, if, uh, uh, CrossFit wasn't, wasn't created. CrossFit wasn't created.

What is it to you? When you say this, what is CrossFit to you, to Pavel? Well, for me, I always try to, whatever I do and spend my time on, I want it to be valuable. So it's a journey. It's a way of living also. So it's a journey. It's a way of living also. For me, either coaching class or training, it's my towel.

It's my way. And just as with martial arts, it's the same thing. Because you're doing something that goes beyond the physical realm. So you're being social, you're creating community, you're developing people in their health and fitness, and you're leading also. So that's a very fulfilling uh responsibility to have and uh and i and i and i do it with myself i do it with my family i want to uh incorporate that i want to um inject that also to to to the community um in in 2006 when you were having these exchanges with Tony buddy back and forth and you

were, and you were starting the CrossFit gym in your backyard, were you married yet? No, I had, I, I separated from my first couple. I had a,

I had a daughter with her, Paula, who's the one that's writing. Okay. And no, I was, I was, I And no, I was starting a new relationship. And then I got married with Connie. And we had two lovely girls after that. Wow.

And what did she say? What did your mom and dad and what did your wife, fiance, what did she say about you starting uh to like devote all your time to this uh lifestyle this crossfit thing well well uh connie was very supportive from the start she knew she knew that i i this was one of my passions uh she knew that being a filmmaker and an artist is tough, so it doesn't promise much. So, no, yeah, she was very supportive. She was a teacher at the time, so we could work together and make everything work out. And she wasn't really into it so when she met coach uh she didn't give the importance everybody would give it but but afterwards she knew after a couple of years

when she saw everything was getting huge and all that and she was like oh i met i met the founder awesome awesome what about a second gym uh pavel how come you've never opened a second gym 16 years have you yeah no no no i haven't because i've i've i've tried to stay i always see what what we can improve here so um so here. So there's always something. There's always an obstacle. There's always something to learn. And I try to perfect everything. So maybe sometime in the future, but now it's my whole attention is here.

I wanted to, well, to back from from all the pandemic and and stand firm again after that happens maybe i'll i'll pursue something with a film again something just for my my own sake something for my own selflessness uh but but yeah, that's been, that's been my focus. I, uh, I don't ambition having a five jams or, or anything like that. I want, I want to, to provide to the people that work with me and, uh, to my family and to do a stable business and, and, and maybe pursue some more, uh, another, another challenge that might be doing more film and stuff. Um, when, um, when you see what HQ is doing and what they've done in the past, you know,

the company used to be really media heavy, right. And used to have a pretty strong presence with media. Is there anything you want from HQ? You know, Craig Howard, you know, has kind of famously said about a year ago, Hey, all we ask for you is just basically just don't mess up the brand. And we can handle the rest. Is there any suggestions you have or any thoughts you have or feelings about what you would like to see the mothership, how you'd like to see them direct their energy? Well, one of the things that they started doing, and it was when Glassman was still leading, it was more material in Spanish for our Spanish community. It was more material in Spanish for our Spanish community.

Because unlike Mexico, they're very close to you guys. Or Central America, they're very close to the United States. They're very bilingual. But one of the difficulties here is that not many people speak English. So I know most of the coaches and the flow masters and the trainers of L1 that are from our community, from Latin America, and they're pushing hard, bringing out material in our own language. So that's something I would love to see more. And I know that every year since maybe 2016 maybe 2016 17 it's been growing a little bit so maybe the next step would be to have the l3 in completely in spanish i don't know that they don't have that yet in spanish no okay no so so i would i would love to see that, to see the testimonials, to see the – there's two Instagrams that are very huge in our community. It's CrossFit LATAM and CrossFit Spain.

And they bring out a lot of material, but I would love to see more. That would be it and everything else, as Craig said. You know, it's kind of interesting. Someone in the comments just mentioned this. They said, it's crazy that the DEI board isn't doing better at creating bilingual content. So I just would like to make a suggestion to Dawnfall now and anyone at HQ who's listening. Why don't you just get rid of the entire DEI board? Get rid of, why don't you get rid of that?

Why don't you get rid of all the, anyone who's not doing anything to push forward real inclusivity, which would be to fucking translate everything into Spanish. I wonder how many Spanish speakers are there on the planet? How many Spanish speakers are there in South? You either speak Portuguese or Spanish in, in, in South? It's, it's, it's,

you either speak Portuguese or Spanish in South America, right? Every country speaks Spanish except Brazil. Right? Yeah. It's like, fuck it's an, it's a,

it's a no brainer. God, it's crazy. It's crazy. How about hiring someone because they speak Spanish and not because of the genitalia they want in their mouth. Just a thought. Normally Spanish is the official language of 20 countries

and one independent territory, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea. Hey, what about what's happening in El Salvador? Are you watching that? Are you paying attention to that? I've seen some stuff, yeah. That's some wild shit that they're doing down there.

I wonder if the numbers are true. They said that they haven't had – they went from the most murders per capita on the entire planet Earth to they haven't had a murder in the country in 300 days, and they've arrested 2% of their population. I mean the videos look terrifying, don't they? Yeah. And they're also doing it like propaganda. Yeah, like, hey, we're safe now. Come visit. Yeah, I know.

It's crazy. It's crazy. And they're saying the government has like a 90, the president has a 90% approval rating. Well, I guess all the people who hate him are arrested. They're all in jail. You don't have another choice. Straight to jail. Yeah, it's crazy. i i don't know it feels like at some point that that's gonna have to happen in the

united states too like they're gonna have to collect all the the violent people and put them in nevada nevada have you ever been to nevada no yeah they need to build a fence around it that's where the eight we keep the aliens and the gamblers and they need to build a fence around it. That's where we keep the aliens and the gamblers. And they need to build a fence around that and throw all the drug addicts in there. Oh, my goodness. It's crazy. Is drugs a big problem in Chile? Do you guys have like a fentanyl problem?

Yeah. It started to be a problem because there's a lot of immigration in the region. So probably from where, from where, from, from Venezuela, from Columbia. Okay. From Peru.

that makes sense. Venezuelans escaping the craziness. Yeah. And, and you could say that maybe Chile in South America is one of the more stable countries since, since 30 years. So,

and great weather, right? There's, it's like California, there's cities where you could live outside, right? And for 300 days of the year, it's perfect.

But I think it's, it's developing. I seen it's developing, not, not to the direction we want, but it's a complex problem yeah yeah i don't do drugs uh and i never thought i guess i'm old now but like it's really stupid and it's gonna fuck up your life thank you that's the end of that um what what do you see what do

you see so so going going back to um what you'd like to see from hq more translation in spanish and that means in everything uh media uh visual media videos obviously you said the l3 that i like the way you said the l3 because that seems like a bare minimum you're not like hey translate all the fucking games documentaries into spanish it's like no give us more tools so that we can be better at providing the cure for the world's most vexing problem. Yeah, and there's a lot of people willing to help also. Valuable people. Like now, now there's a lot of trainers in the region.

There are flow masters. There are L1 trainers, L2 trainers. And yeah, we have a good, a good a good army a good army to to battle that um uh pavel you hear these stories um in the united states where affiliate owners are like working with the with you know like the military or the government or like uh matt has a program with the air force and with um with uh fire department fire departments in the area do you do any of that um you know chris cooper had that program with autistic kids just people who see the value of matt shell and uh shell and decker had the program with uh instead of sending kids to juvenile hall they could they have an option

of going to a gym do you have any programs like that? We're beginning with the firefighters. As an anecdote, like four months ago, their shapes and their fitness level. And it was very, very poor. So I contact like the commander and we're going to begin something with that. But mainly we do CrossFit kids. We do CrossFit teens. We do plus 45, plus 50.

Those are more specialized programs that we do besides the CrossFit for the general public. But nothing integrated with it? You don't do anything integrated with the government? No. I like this idea of, and probably Greg would not like this idea, and I don't blame him, but I like this idea of the government or anyone investing money into CrossFit gyms because I see that as just a win-win for everyone, right? So you have this little building in the middle of your town and everything that's invested in it, I don't know what the magnification is, but it's a super magnifier of it, right? So if the local hospital bought 10 memberships for their doctors, that would make 10 better doctors. If the local fire department were to build 10, and then that means that the people would get better care, right? And then that means that that CrossFit gym would thrive.

And that means that those 10 people would be better examples for other people in the world to stay and look healthy. I just see it always as a win to just give money and resources to a CrossFit gym. And you don't have to give the money directly. You can just be a fire department that says, okay, we're going to invest 10 memberships for firefighters. We're the public school system. We're going to buy 10 memberships for school teachers. It's just an – I don't see one – I i don't see one downside it's a magnification in every way and i and i uh i wish community saw that it's like it's it's better than people are

going to hate this it's better than giving to your church to your sierra club to your fucking green piece whatever you're giving your money to you'd be better off just giving money to a CrossFit gym. I believe that wholeheartedly. The thing is that here and in a lot of countries in South America, they're very way behind on these ideas. In the sense I'm thinking of especially the governments and the politicians, because for one thing, the ministry health, they're still recommended a high carb diet. Wow. Well, we got that shit here too.

We got that shit here too. Yeah. And for other thing, people, I mean, the authorities tell people just go run and go run yourself for hours. That's the recommendation. They tell us just to take medication. So at least they're telling just to take medication so at least

they're telling you to run that's good it's one step in the right direction right so not even the authorities know what the path is because they had they're not interested in that they're interested in votes they're interested in money um it would be awesome. But all the things that we do, the birth of what we do comes from us. So, yeah. I wanted to show you, we are, our Admiral,

the 17th Assistant Secretary for Health in the United States is a man named Admiral Rachel Levine. Have you ever seen our health secretary? Are you on? I'll show you a picture of our health secretary. Do you want me to bring it up or you got it? Oh, I got it. I got it here.

This is our health secretary in the United States. This should make you feel better. secretary in the United States. This should make you feel better. This is, uh, and, and his, and his primary focus is, um, is allowing people to do sex change operations, not to eat low carb and exercise. That's the primary focus of our, of our admirals. We're getting after it out here.

And in all seriousness too, if you do have a mental health issue, there's no better place to start than a CrossFit gym. You're going to be surrounded by good people. Don't think for a second that most of us aren't exercising to help deal with our mental health. I mean, we're self-medicating on the rower, right? And being around friends and trying to eat right. Yeah, absolutely amazing. Just so you know, though, it is, I guess the thing that we have here is the CrossFit community is so massive here. I mean, it's still a drop in the bucket, but it's massive still. You can go everywhere and find a crossfitter that we do have that uh support so you don't feel um you you don't feel crazy i mean they'll want to say hey

if you say to someone hey if you just cut out the sugar um you're you're i mean you we had josh bridges on here yesterday he said he had such bad anxiety throughout his games competition years i'd never heard him say this that he that he thought he was going to die all the time on a regular basis and he switched to fucking carnivore diet and that anxiety went away i mean it seems it seems like a no-brainer that everyone should be – well, I don't know if the government, but everyone should be sharing that message of tinkering with what they're putting in their mouth. Sean Sullivan, no, Sevan, the government would ruin it. You're probably right. I know.

I'm sorry for even mentioning it. You're right. I know the government would ruin it. You're right. right i know the government would ruin it you're right um uh kavy on uh kazavi on joiner there's a ton of 18 year olds who are transitioning where i'm at in the military and they're having the u.s government pay for it man uh you you see the gym getting bigger and better and you see you see up upward and onward good things in the future yeah very good things yeah me too we're we're doing we're doing more connection with the relationships we have with every one of our students awesome we're

doing a lot of social stuff uh events uh we're bringing more family also to train couples and their kids. And yeah, we want to impact all our surroundings. We were in a downtown Santiago. So we're in a very populated area. And, uh, yeah, and people are being, if, if something, if something positive came out of the pandemic is that people are more aware that they have to be healthy. And, uh, I think that's, that's coming through in a lot of our, our, our, our minds and people that, that train with us, that they know they have to be healthy to that's the first line of priority so uh that's if if if the pandemic brought us something out uh good for for us was that what about um uh drop-ins you guys allow drop-ins and do you get drop-ins you do yeah we have a lot and where are they from? Are they Americans visiting?

From all over the world. Europeans? Yeah. Actually, yesterday we had one that saw the post of the Savant podcast. And he wrote he's coming like three days this week. Awesome. And he said, hey, I saw the post in the Savant podcast Instagram, so I'm coming down three days this week awesome he said hey i saw i saw the post in savann uh the savann podcast instagram so i'm coming down three days look at that yeah we did we just did

more than done in a while there bringing people into the gyms baby um pavel is there anything um you would like to share is there anything you thought that you'd wanted to talk about uh when you came on? Anything in specific that we didn't cover? No, I think we went for everything. I want to always pay due respect for Greg Glassman, for what he created. As I said on our messages, I thank you guys. I followed a lot of your works, Savant.

Cool, thank you. I have you guys. I've, I've, I followed a lot of your works Savan. So cool. Thank you. I have your, I have your, your DVD for every second counts. Awesome. Awesome. I got a whole box of them if you ever need more. So I'll let you know if I upload the documentary. Yes. Oh yeah. Yes. Yes. How long is it it it's uh 110 minutes um uh yeah i can't wait to see it one uh perosa i train with pavel and he also gives advice about food which is not common on uh conventional gyms Awesome. Yeah. I mean, yeah, you got to. One lost like 65 pounds already. Wow. Yeah. And those got to be your crowning achievements, right? Just watching people just improve their entire life.

Brother, thanks for coming on. Please stay in touch. You're a gentleman of the highest order you're such a cool dude I'm glad to thanks for everything you've done thanks Matt for the invite have a good day have a good birthday and we'll see you next time thank you hey what time is it

there thanks brother it's 1.30pm okay so you're five oh so you're five hours ahead of us all right all right dude uh seriously i i seriously mean that too those aren't empty words you can reach out to me anytime i don't like even if you see a funny video of a dog pissing on a fire hydrant send it to me like i would love to stay in contact with you you're cool dude and and you guys guys were if you're ever in santiago you have to come absolutely for sure we'll we'll drive you around awesome yeah awesome all right thank you thank you my brother have a good day pavel pavel hey that's the kind of um

that's how my mom wishes i would behave how he behaves yeah that's fucking that that's the kind of um that's how my mom wishes i would behave how he behaves yeah that's fucking that that's the chilean dawn fall right there just handsome clothes fit well well spoken polite no hair on his face yeah now the birthday celebration begins i was wondering if i was wondering if i was gonna drink today are you gonna drink i'm gonna go to the skate park right now and rage with the boys i'm so excited listen if you're in santa cruz and you want to see some crazy shit we found this new uh skate park i can't that we've i found the world's best skate park three miles from my house i can't even believe it i just live in how long has it been there for ever forever since 2004 i know how are you doing caller hi yo how you getting on happy

birthday saban oh happy birthday how are you it's john john clark oh what's up brother good to hear from you but yeah just wanted to pull in wish. Wish you happy birthday. Thank you. Someone call in and pretend like you're Bill Henninger and tell me you're going to outfit my whole garage. To the mail. This is Bill Henninger against Katie's, against mine and Katie's better judgment. We are sending you. You're sponsored.

We're sending you a new, a new echo bike to throw on top of that shitty assault bike you have and another $10,000 worth of gym shit. Thank you. Thank you, Bill. How are you going to celebrate? Dude, I swear my life

is so fucking good. I'm going to do it not like different than any other day. I'm going to get off the... Last night I slept horribly because Ob the i'm so like i last night i slept horribly because um obby's breathing obby slept in bed with me last night and he's breathing through his mouth because he just feels like shit so he kept me up all night and then finally i went to his room to sleep at like four in the morning and then i woke up at six and like i want to feel sorry for myself but i'm so excited that i got to speak to pavel i was just like tripping that i'm gonna get to speak to affiliate owner from chile for 16 years and then yeah and

then i kind of got high as a kite talking to him i just start getting like really excited and then now from here i'm just gonna go it's i can see the sun outside the window over there and i'm just gonna go outside and hang out the skate park and i love my kid's skateboarding instructor and my wife will probably come by there and it's just same shit we may even do two skate parks today yeah there's even a liquor store

there's a liquor store over there near the beach too I might even like pick up something pick up something yeah I'll probably call my mom invite my mom it's gonna be dope what a good day. I'll probably call my mom, invite my mom. It'll be, it's going to be dope. What a good day. Yeah.

Well, have a good day, my man. Just want to go down. Um, thank you for calling. Enjoy the rest of your day. What time is it where you're at?

Nearly half past three in the afternoon. Okay. All right. So only, isn't that weird? It's only two, that, that I don't understand time zones.

How could it only be two hours later in europe than it is in fucking chile it doesn't make any sense to me how i would think chile was behind us you're telling me chile's in front of us yeah that's a little weird something doesn't make any sense i don't think the planet's round Oh boy There he goes That's all it took Alright Jan Thank you for calling and making me a flat earther I appreciate it T3

551 I hope the light enters your life today If people keep calling in guys I'm getting mixed signals over here from the chat you guys better chill the fuck out it's going to um seven i hope your life is filled with light and that uh you get saved by jesus christ soon thank you uh hpd is the goodest of dudes who's hpd hpd happy birthday that's me saying that oh oh that's you That's your picture T3 Yeah This is Tom Guerin

I just changed my name For various reasons Hey I can't believe how young you look I thought you were an old dude That was an older picture But I'm not gonna change it

Cause I look Kinda jacked in that picture For sure It's like I'm gonna hang on to that thing How old are you? I picture you like I imagine you're like

I'm only 33 Oh I imagine you're like 44 God Oh, I imagine you're like 44. God, you're so mature. I come off as 44. Yeah, I've lived about three lives. I was saying in the chat,

Brian Friend's story was like an autobiography, like living three lives in the space. He's actually young too. How old is Brian? He's only like 30. 35. Yeah, 35.

Yeah. I wanted to tell you a quick story you guys are children yeah more no we're just learning from the best more so here's my story in 2014 uh i weighed about 280 pounds 275 280 i when you're that when you get to that overweight you don't like getting on the scale so it's like 275 280 and i decided i wanted to turn my life around so i i went and used but i was totally broke as a joke i worked at mcdonald's so i went and used all the like free trial memberships at every gym in town it They'll be like, you can do one workout here. Did you really work at McDonald's? Hell yeah, I did. I worked at McDonald's.

You're a fucking gangster, dude. Dude, I worked from... I was flipping burgers, then I went to fries, then I went to cash register, then I became a manager. Guess how much they paid me per hour to manage the whole store? $9. $9.25 an hour.

Hey, let me ask you this. I always wonder this. When you did fries, did you get acne? I just picture the fry guys. You can't get it off of you. It never gets off of your body. You could take six showers and you smell like McDonald's. Okay, because I always wondered that about the fry guys.

I'm like, God, they must have the worst acne. I didn't even know why I thought that, but I just thought that. Because the oil is i don't know if it's the oil if it's because you're eating free food from mcdonald's all day that probably doesn't help either right but uh so anyway i went around to different gyms started working out a little i know what i was doing i was like going to planet fitness whatever so the last gym in town was called crossfit south bend south bend indiana and uh i just was like, Hey, I signed up for a free trial, whatever. And she's like, so you want to work out right now?

I was like, yeah. So I think we did like a 12 minute AMRAP. It was probably like knee pushups, ring rows and rowing. And my whole world was like upside down for the next hour. I was like laying down with my head on the table. She's like, are you okay? And I was like, like i don't know i probably smoked a cigarette on my way out of there too you know what did you smoke what kind of cigarettes did you smoke uh newport 100s baby yeah that's cool i'm down so so on my that's what sucks about not smoking there's that's a there's no feeling better than walking into a store and getting a brand new pack of cigarettes. Isn't that like, I mean,

you think you're a God. I got 20. Fuck you. You can do nothing to me. Yeah. And like other people got to be nice to you because they're bums too. And they're like, Hey man,

let me get a cigarette. You're like, Oh yeah, let's go outside and smoke together. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. If you smoke one with me and let me talk to your ear off. Fuck yeah. Come with me. Yeah, exactly. smoke one with me and let me talk your ear off, fuck yeah, come with me. Yeah, exactly. Hey, you're bringing the energy, Tom. You're bringing the energy. I love it. Somebody has to after that guest. No, he was good.

Probably going to get killed by the chat here. Just FYI, buddy. No, don't worry, Tom. Fuck those guys. We got a schedule to fucking stick to, Tom. Those are my friends. Whatever. I don't. I got a fucking stick to Tom. Those are my friends. Whatever. I don't care. So,

uh, so after that, right, here's how I got into CrossFit. I ended up being a coach, all that stuff. Uh, I go home and I go to CrossFit.com and I start watching all of the old

videos, all the behind the scenes videos, everything from, uh, the journal, reading all the articles and just completely sell out, go crazy on it. Start watching Gary Taubes.

I'm watching an hour and a half long lecture of why we get fat. Just went crazy on it. And I pretty much never stopped from there. So there were some dark times. I went through a divorce, had two kids, all kinds of crazy stuff in my life. I was driving like a $350 car.

Wait a second, you went through a divorce with kids? Just to work and make some extra dough. And all I did to keep myself together in that time was watch your videos, dude, and behind the scenes and all that stuff. So I just want to say, thank you. You've made a huge impact on so many people and you're the best.

God, thank you. Hey, you want to hear something really weird, Tom? What's that? No one's ever, no one ever comes in my office

and there's this fucking weird and i've never seen this and there's this weird box of like kleenex next to my computer yeah avoid direct sunlight or hot what the fuck is this doing in my office this means my kids have been in here or something hey going through a divorce with kid well i should i would we don't have time for that but but i'd like to hear that no i'm gonna let you go another time okay let me get to these people who are throwing love man uh heidi how's the birthday celebrate tom you're a good dude uh now the birthday celebration begins uh let's light this candlestick happy birthday oh that's from tommy uh richard margarine here we go allison wants to check out the gym audrey fraser let's party 51 some bitch uh wad zombie holy shit thank you wow and wad zombie i have your um i have all that shit you sent me that i need to uh i'll get it in the next uh three shows that we do on on

friday saturday sunday i'll start fucking showing my new cards. I'm sending the bidet back. I'm not even opening it. Thank you, though. I appreciate it. Eric Weiss, let's crack open the White Claws. Woohoo! Let's party. You know what I'll probably really do today?

I stopped drinking sparkling water. I'll probably drink a shitload of sparkling water today as part of my treat. Eat that molly for your birthday no fucking way i couldn't even get to santa cruz yesterday because of traffic yeah it's been it's it's wild here newsome was here yesterday gruesome newsome uh elise car red. You know why Newsom was here is because Dave's neighborhood got fucked. It's funny. There's a levee broke and this town got flooded. It's called Pajaro.

And it's where all the Mexicans live. And the people in Pajaro were like, of course, the dam broke on our side because it's where the Mexicans are. And then you look, but you know what's on the other side of the dam? If the other side of the dam broke the other side of the dam broke what's that watsonville that's as mexican as it fucking gets so it's like um at least carver dow two skate parks yeah i think i am going to do today two today even though i just sit there with my phone um philip kelly 1999 i think we're going to go for at least what time do you have to get off i think we're gonna go for at least what time do you have to get off i think we're gonna go for at least another 40 minutes yeah we got we got something that we're gonna

bring in bring in here i wanted you just to read the rest of those super chats real quick uh for fuck's sake i love a fuck's sake uh elise car radao tom are you for us or against us bro dude he wasn't that bad tom did you fry oil you did fry oil jesus cry many guys tom doesn't put his put doesn't put his weights away that's fighting words oh my god david weed shut up eric wise tom you son of a bitch shut up you guys are brutal here's the deal here's the deal the the chat got together they made you a little something we're gonna play it here okay does it is that why this is here maybe and uh so we're gonna oh my god david why jesus christ fuck off dude yeah yeah so they were upset because tom is uh stalling our um our little plan here okay hey i got us i got uh uh i'll tell you what I bought for myself the other day. Happy birthday, Jessica Valenzuela.

Keith Knapp. Happy birthday, Sevan. Thanks, dude. The 551, that's because I'm 51. Paper Street Coffee. Happy birthday. You don't look a day over 75. Thank you.

My kid wants to shave me with a straight razor. I might do that today. I'll be butt smooth tomorrow. Or cut up. You could be my dad. Happy birthday, Tug Speedman. Jesus. Let's see.

Elise Carr-Ridau. Clean your birthday tushy with that bidet. You'll love it. Little birthday water in your butt. I almost always shit unicorns. Somebody sent you a bidet? For real? My shits are perfect wad zombie did what a good dude kate champion uh 999 happy birthday and updates on the sled yeah

yeah that's i put the sled together yesterday i'll probably use my sled did you end up getting your dog sled i did yeah that was cool hey that was a great bit yesterday right uh shave your 50 shave your head i should do that too. Okay. Allison NYC, thank you. Oh, my goodness. Thanks for making me laugh all the time. Oh, you're awesome.

Can't wait till you guys come back from Costa Rica. All right. So with no further ado here, we got something for you. I need you to relax, empty out all your thoughts and watch. Okay, here we go. Okay. I just got another $4.99. I'm excited about all this money.

Yeah, you should be. You ready? Oh, this really is. Oh, shit, this is long. Yeah. What if it's a P during the middle of this? You got to go P? Go P right now.

No, no, no. I'll hang out with the chat for a minute before they kill me for not. Who put this on? Do we have time for this? We do have time of this. You gotta go pee? Go pee right now. No, no, no. I'll hang out with the chat for a minute before they kill me for not... Who put this on? Do we have time for this? We do have time for this. This is ridiculous. This is making me nervous. What if this is ass? You're fucking nervous. I've been fucking nervous for two days with these guys.

What if this fucking ruins my ratings? The show's killing these days. You guys better not fuck us. It's at the back. We could just clip it. It's fine. Okay. It's a BJ. Yeah, it's just... Okay, shut up. It's fine. Okay. It's a BJ. Yeah, it's just a... Okay, shut up. Okay, fine, fine. Okay.

All right. All right. Here we go. Got that vaccine up inside my life. Got that vaccine and I'm feeling just fine. I got the vaccine. Bam, we're live. Hey, hi. I mean, Savon.

Happy birthday. Oh, hey. How you doing? I didn't see you there. Happy 51st birthday, Savon. Been watching you since you had the CrossFit podcast. I've been excited about 97% of your podcast, but still watch 100% of them. Have a good day, bro. Take care.

Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, Mr. C.A.F. Happy birthday to you. Savan, you never cease to amaze me. And I'm just so impressed by all of your accomplishments and to see all these people from all over the world that you brought together coming together to say happy birthday to you because of who you are and all the amazing things about you i'm just glad i'm not the only one who gets to celebrate that.

I am so grateful for this life we've created together, for these beautiful children we've made, and happy birthday to the best CEO I know. I love you so much. I love you too. Hey, Seve, Elise Rideo here, or Radau, as you would say. I just wanted to pop in to say happy birthday, old man. Happy birthday, Sevan. Thank you so much for all the fun topics and information that you share with us. And thank you for the laughs that I get every

single day. Thank you for all of the information and tools you passed along with homeschooling and skateboarding and jujitsu. It has been absolutely life-changing for my family and children. And for that, I am forever grateful. You are the best at what you do. You know how cool I think you are. I'm grateful for your friendship. I wish you the happiest birthday. I'll see you in Santa Cruz. Thank you. Austin. Happy birthday. Enjoy it.

I hope I look as good as you do when I'm 50 plus. What up, Savon? This is Bill, a.k.a. Barry McOchner, wishing you a happy birthday. Hey, Savon. It's Brandon. You know, your favorite asshole or was it dickhead from the comment section? Either way,

I just want to say happy birthday and I fucking love you, man. Hi, Brandon. I love you too. Happy birthday,

Savon. I love and appreciate that you're always willing to give the honest truth to people no matter how they feel about it

and just keep making awesome content for us. What's up, Siobhan? Happy birthday, man. Just out here in Costa Rica, checking out the waves, and just feeling very thankful to have you as a friend and have you in your family's life back in my family's life. Thanks for everything you do. Thanks for all the information you put out there. Keep doing it, man. Happy birthday. Hey, Siobhan. Happy birthday, Hey, Savan. Happy birthday and congratulations on over 700 episodes. We love your work.

Oh my God, you're beautiful. See my eyes. Hey, Savan. Wild zombie. Hi, Nick. Just wanted to wish you a happy birthday and thanks for everything you've done for me and continue to do. We gotta pause for a second.

Hope you have a good one, man. Fuck me. And thanks for everything you've done for me and continue to do. We got to pause for a second. We got to pause for a second. Hope you have a good one, man. Fuck me. This is fucking four minutes in. Holy shit. Yeah. Incredible, right? So they put this together and uploaded it. And Jonathan Ortega sliced it all together and made it happen for us.

They worked really hard to set this up, and it's been kind of funny, inspiring against you a little bit, which I was like, then when you think about it, you're like, holy shit. Fuck, this is a lot to fucking take in. This is like, I'm just fucking overflowing with emotion. I can't fucking believe all these people took time to do it's crazy that my wife that's why these kleenex are here it's crazy that she knew that i would just completely come unhinged i don't come unhinged

like this yeah okay round two action cory palito here your favorite live caller show caller sure. I hope I can speak for everybody here and say we appreciate everything you do. You are my favorite caller. And how positively you have impacted all of our lives. Have a great day. Hope you have a great birthday. Take care of yourself, brother.

We love you. Step on. Jesus called me to tell you to have a happy birthday. Thank you, Corey. He said he wouldn't have contacted you directly, but you're not actually listening yet. I'm trying. Happy birthday, my brother. God, you're a cool dude.

Probably your longest-lasting Patreon subscriber. Anyways, just wanted to take a second to wish you a happy birthday. Say thank you for the energy that you bring every morning. We appreciate you, brother. Thank you, Eric. Bye-bye. What goodness um well first off i want to thank you for starting the podcast and uh you know just

being a huge part of everyone's lives and i want to wish you a very very happy birthday keep it up man keep up the hard work. No plan B. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Mejor. Feliz cumpleaños, Seba. Hey, Seba. I just wanted to say I hope your little podcast takes off pretty soon, dude. That's pretty cool. You got a couple strangers off the internet to send you a happy birthday video, man.

And you don't look a day over 61, so you're doing good, dude. I wish you all the best. Happy birthday. Thank you. You're hot, Heidi. Yeah, Audrey, I recognize your butt. That's awesome. Excuse me.

Are you looking at my body? Yes. All right. I guess I'll give you a pass today since it's your birthday thank you i love that look at that tree inside so much everything you do keep showing up for us we'll keep showing up for you thank you girl bye thank you keep squatting just uh saying happy birthday from my little brother jay hardle, or Jesse Hartle. Have a great day, brother. Love you, Jesse. Thank you.

Oh, Jacqueline. Happy birthday, Sivan. I hope these clips bring you joy to your day day as you do to all of us every single day. I hope your birthday is as wonderful as you are. Thank you. I love your pants. I just wanted to say happy birthday, Siobhan, and thank you for all that you do

and congratulations for killing it. Hey, Siobhan, it's Jeff Kirchfield here. For the better part of two and a half years, you and I have been cussing and discussing the topics of the day and so on this momentous occasion I'd like to say happy birthday my friend

and remember go out and I hope I get to hang with you soon Jeremy here from Milwaukee Wisconsin wishing you a happy birthday enjoy your day live it up and keep doing what you're doing.

Love you, man. Happy birthday. I love you, too. Yo, Sevan, it's Jethro. Coming to you from New York, baby. Just want to say thanks for what you do with the podcast. I'm here to wish you a very, very happy birthday. Sevan. My mom would love that molding. Happy birthday. Hi. Your favorite cabinet gal here, Jody Lynn.

Hi, Jody. Watch out for my birthday box from the East Coast coming soon. It's going to have a fresh pair of board shorts and a shiny new stethoscope. That'll bring you back to the good old days of running the streets. Thank you. 999. 1000. Oh, you caught me in the middle of my workout. Just wanted to stop by and wish you a very happy birthday, Siobhan. Lots of love from John Clark in Scotland. Peace.

Hey, Siobhan, it's Jessica Valenzuela here. Just wanted to say thank you for everything that you do for us and just wanted to wish you a very happy birthday. Oh, big hugs, Jessica. Hi, Siobhan. Judy Reid here to wish you a very happy birthday. Oh, big hugs, Jessica. Hi, Savant. Judy Reed here to wish you a very happy birthday. You deserve every bit of peace, love, and happiness that I know will come your way. Thank you, Judy. Happy birthday, Dad.

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to wish you a happy birthday. Bye-bye. Hi, Savon. Mike McCaskey from Dallas, Texas. Oh, my goodness. Wishing you a very happy birthday. Thank you for all that you do. We love you. Hey, Mike. Thanks, Mike. You're buff. Happy birthday to Savon, the number one

CEO. Keep up the good work. Mr. Sauer, thank you. Hey, what's up, Sav I'm here to say happy birthday to Sevan, the number one CEO. Keep up the good work. Mr. Sauer, thank you. Hey, what's up, Sevan? It's Philip Kelly. I wanted to wish you a happy birthday, and I hope you get laid. Thank you. I will.

Thank you. Hey, Sevan. It's Renata. I just want to wish you a happy birthday. Hope you have a wonderful day. Thank you for everything you do for the community and beyond. Keep it up. Thanks. Thank you, Ren you do for the community and beyond. Keep it up. Thanks. Thank you, Renata.

Richard here. Oh, my God. I'm going to hop on and wish you a happy birthday. Let you know that we all see how hard work pays off. Just look at you with your self-made tiny podcast. See you, brother. Thank you, Richard. Hey, Ron.

It's Roseview Photography over here in Wisconsin. And I just wanted to wish you a happy birthday and i'm so excited for all the things to come for your podcast and you're seriously doing an amazing job um you're being so raw and real and i love it love it love it so happy birthday and have a great rest of your day i love you rosie we party happy birthday man thanks for all the edgy comments and laughs. Keep doing what you do and never change. Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, Sarah. Happy birthday to you Happy birthday, Siobhan. Soccer Mom here. Just wanted to wish you a beautiful day and another lap around the sun. Appreciate all the information that you share with us

from the CrossFit space and beyond. I hope you have a beautiful day. Happy birthday, Siobhan. Thank you so much, Siobhan. Happy birthday. Thank you for introducing me to the idea of no BMP. It's the one thing I kept telling myself, or I keep telling myself

every day as I go to school. There's no other option. This is it. So thank you again. Enjoy your birthday Steven you can party with me and Rosie here in Lake Tahoe I wanted to wish you

the happiest birthday and just thank you for all that you do I am just so grateful that the Savon podcast world exists and I just adore you. So happy, happy birthday. And I love your sweatshirt.

Where'd you get that? How about a nice frosty can? And you came in focus. How did she get that sweater? That sweatshirt's dope. Cheers, Susie. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday, dear Sevan Autumn. Happy birthday to you. I love you. Thank you, Tonya. I'm your sponsor, James. I'm here to shiz. I get everything you do for the CrossFit community.

Great work with the pod. Hope you have a great birthday. Thanks, Shiz. Happy birthday, Savant. Thanks for everything you do. Give up the good work, brother. Anything for you. Happy 9-100.

From the Queen of Bidussi to Savant, my sincerest and best birthday wishes. I love you, Trish. Thank you for everything. I love saying happy birthday. And just a quick thank you for all you do for the community and for helping build a bigger community right here on your show. You've changed all of our lives for the better. And we're all fortunate for having gotten to know you.

Happy birthday, buddy. Hey, Savvy. lives for the better and we're all fortunate for having gotten to know you happy birthday buddy i did not want to miss the opportunity to be able to tell you um happy birthday and i love you thank you hi savannah i'm bailey walker i initially came to your podcast for the crossfit content but then i stayed with you and now i guess i'm one of your regulars so happy birthday savann hope you have a great day so steph athena tells me you're having a birthday i am man we need to celebrate happy birthday dude thank you hey savvy just here wanting to wish you a happy birthday that's the guy that runs the Instagram we all love you keep keeping it real

oh you're beautiful Bruce thanks CrossFit Cory here wishing you a happy birthday thanks for all the content that you provide us with and giving us weirdos in the group chat a place to hang out and talk shit have a great day hey Savan it's the Vaish

I just wanted to wish you a happy birthday. And also thank you for everything that you do. Without you, I wouldn't be able to make it through my workday. Yo, what up, Savy? Thank you, Devesh. My favorite live chat shit talker. Just wanted to wish you a happy birthday. Let you know how much I really appreciate all that you do.

And how much I look forward to hanging out with you and the Savan podcast fam every day. Peace. Thank you, Mason. Love you, dude. I'm pushing Savant. Happy 75th birthday. He's how old? 55? No way. I'm not making another video.

Happy birthday. Enjoy. Time with the family to a few more years, I guess. We'll see. A few more, a few more. Do you know whose birthday it is? Oh, my goodness.

Heidi's. Is there anything you want to say? Sing happy birthday. You want to sing happy birthday? Yeah. Go for it. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday, dear Heidi. Happy birthday to you. Anything else? I love you, Heidi. I love you, Joseph. Heidi, I love you. I can't believe the world's my son. I just love you so much.

I love you. Happy birthday. Happy birthday love you so much. I love you. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. Thanks, Ari. I think you're the best dad in the world, and I hope you have a good birthday. I will. Happy birthday, son. I love you.

Brought to you by Pfizer. Incredible. incredible incredible crazy yeah i'm not equipped to to take that much input now you guys know why i live in a bubble yeah um so for everybody that contributed to that and all the guy all the hard work that you guys put behind the scenes especially jonathan ortega for putting that together and uh just all the work that went into it i know the chat tried to get everybody involved as much as possible so um there's obviously a lot of other birthdays don't worry assholes so yeah everybody that

that contributed and got a chance to uh thank you guys i i watched it on my own at first and i was just like i i couldn't i mean it's hard to take in right dude holy shit i didn't even see it coming like that it hit me like a fucking freight train i'm like these people should have better things to do with their lives than wish me happy birthday i mean i think it's a testament to to what you've created in the community that you've established over this time. And, you know, I know for myself, you've been an awesome mentor and a friend. And you've evolved my thinking in these last two years in ways that I wouldn't have imagined. I would have already thought I was there.

And I realize that there's more depth. And I take so much away from the lessons I've learned from you and continue to. And, uh, thank you for letting me be part of the, part of the ride and part of the journey. I really value our, our relationship and friendship. Well, thanks for stomping on my dick and getting me going, dude. You're the man you're, you're, you're, you're my bedrock. I anytime I trip, I just call you. That's why I call you five times.

We got some, you got call you. That's why I call you five times a day. We got something? You got something? Yeah, a little something coming in? Dude, this is fucking nuts. I do have another family out there. That's my mom. Hi. Is this heavy?

There's wires and shit everywhere. Let me see. Is it heavy? Not too bad. Your mom carried it. Oh, my goodness This is fucking nuts Hold on

Let me switch the audio here To something Is there an echo now? No you're good A little echo Holy smokes You guys this is crazy Holy smokes. You guys, this is crazy.

I like the chalk someone wrote on there. Oh my goodness. Can you guys see this? Yeah, there you go. Is that where that's going to go? Yeah. Oh my goodness, guys. There's some accessories that are missing. This is crazy. going to go? Oh my goodness, guys.

This is crazy. And it lights up too. It does light up? How do you know? Because Mama told me. This is nuts, guys. This thing is so high quality. This is crazy. This is absolutely nuts.

Look. No, no. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Don't take that. They're already taking my mincing shit off. Hold on, guys. Come down.

You left the boys and they're dismantling my shit. Oh my goodness. Hey, you with something. Do not touch that. What's up, Ari? Hey guys, out, out. Aw.

Don't trip, don't trip. Thank you. This one is way too heavy for you. Oh. Is that the dumbbell? Yeah, that can't be. That can't be. Just say thank you.

Okay. Haley's carrying an 80-pound dumbbell that I don't think can make it around the corner here. Wow, you did? Oh, she said she thinks she broke her back. Oh, my God. You guys are so fucking crazy generous. That is nuts. That is nuts.

Dick Butter, that's crazy. I can't wait to get that up. You guys, that's going to change the whole vibe in here. It's crazy. The kids came in here. They jumped on. They sat in the seats really quick. They started taking like my Listerine strips. They're like, just start fondling all my shit. Crazy. crazy happy birthday bud thank you mr dick miss pug face happy birthday seve thank you uh mason mitchell dude that was awesome seeing you in the video thank you soccer mom god that was great seeing you uh sean i don't remember seeing you uh here we go k pasa oh wait k pasa savvy what's up how you doing pal i'm good i'm a little i'm booking down or whatever i wanted to wait until everything was over i don't want to call you in the middle of it i was gonna in the intermission maybe give you a call. We haven't talked in a while. How you doing, man?

Happy birthday. Thank you. That was, I got like, it was like, I don't know what happened to me. I just got emotionally just fucking hijacked. Beautiful. Beautiful. It's a testament to you, pal. Thank you.

Why do you think that happened? What do you think? Why do you think I got overwhelmed so much? Well, you're a good dude, man. Hey, love is love, right? Sometimes it hits you where you don't expect it Maybe my cup runneth over Maybe like I

I like that, huh? Put that on a t-shirt How did you know I was going to cry? You know, you're an emotional guy I know, but my wife My wife brought this kleenex here i saw a box of kleenex here i'm like this is fucking bizarre it's all set up you didn't notice it until the end huh i didn't know i didn't know i didn't know

anything the kleenex was making me nervous and then asusa usually doesn't try to like railroad me into making the show move fast and i I was like, kind of tripping. I didn't know there was going to be 15 minutes of just fucking. It's basically like an emotional enema. Beautiful, beautiful. I wish I could have been on a video. I'm not on, you know, I'm not on social media and all that other stuff. But I wanted to call and wish you a happy birthday anyway.

Dude, you're the you're the writing that the they were. The video is the cake and and the icing was the presence., you're the writing. The video was the cake and the icing was the presence and you're the writing. You're the part that spells my name wrong and you're the candles. So I love it when you call in. I love calling in, pal. I don't want to take up too much

time. Take it easy. Happy birthday. Enjoy the day. Crack a few cold ones. Get trashed. Have a good time. Okay, thank you. Alright, take it easy. See you soon, though. Later the day. Crack a few cold ones. I'm going to. Okay, I will. Have a good time. Okay, thank you. All right. Take it easy. Bye. See you soon, though.

Later, brother. Victor, that's nice. Jessica T., happy birthday, Sevan. You always make me laugh. I wish I could give you more. Are you kidding me? Telling me that I make you laugh is like, makes me so happy. We did it. Good job, everyone me so happy. Oh, we did a good job. Everyone. $2. Oh no.

Uh, Trish, happy birthday. Wow. For me and Ron, my consciousness does not exist without you. Love you. What you do for bringing CrossFit to the masses.

Thank you. That's so sweet. Call her. Hi, this is Barry. Oh, Barry. God, dude.

How fucking sweet of you to be in the video. Thank you so much. I'm watching the chat live as we talk. That guy was definitely in the mafia. Yeah, isn't he wonderful? Hey, he makes me feel so cozy. He makes me feel popular. When he calls, I feel like the homecoming king or some shit.

Like the coolest kid in school talked to me. Yeah, there's a reason why he doesn't have social media uh uh nicholas pt gamer um uh with the uh dukes of hazard car happy birthday seven you're a good dude thank you uh how uh how how i'm i'm impressed that you participated in the video that you didn't want to keep your identity secret. Nah, we had to do it for the birthday. You know, I'm reading the chat now. Someone Barry say gabagool, gabagool.

I don't know if that sounded like Victor or not. I'm going to read in the chat. Barry is hot. Thank you, Heidi. There you go. Everybody in the chat's good looking. That was the first thing i thought when i saw that video yeah it was a bunch of really good looking people yeah heidi was having a crazy hair good hair day though she was like exceptionally pretty she's like used a straightener or some shit on it that's right no just calling to wish you a happy birthday enjoy the day you deserve it

thanks dude i appreciate it all right peace and love bye bye Phil McCracken no, Philip Kelly Seve, you're a good dude, love you brother, thanks man oh good I hope someone else fucking cried that was fucking a lot call her hi hey Sevan, it's Will Plummer, just wanted to wish you

a happy birthday and say that, and say that I'm glad you didn't stop at 500 episodes. Well, you're the best. Thank you. Thank you for always calling in, um, and,

uh, making the show feel like it has a listener. You're a good dude. Lots of listeners. See you guys. All right. Bye. Later brother.

Damn. Oh, I get Melissa Odear and Seema kind of confused sometimes. Do they both live in the UAE? No, I think Melissa lives in France. France? France. France. Okay.

That's crazy. That was Allison and Brendan from Costa Rica. Yeah. Yeah, that was nuts. That was Alison and Brendan from Costa Rica. Yeah. Yeah. That was nuts. Yeah. I like, I liked,

um, uh, I like Brendan's hair all shaved tight like that. Uh, Eric, you leave $20. Thanks dude. Happy birthday.

Savvy. You know, it's funny. It's the first time I watched it. I had to, I sat down to play it real quick. And as soon as it started, I,

I just started walking and pacing while watching and listening to it it was like it was like bringing in so much emotion you had to like i had to like do something with it i had to like move yeah it made everything almost too it made everything almost too real yeah uh caller hi what's up brothers jethro hey jethro what's up dude gotta let you know man it's been about a it's been about a month in the making all this happening so we hope you enjoyed it thanks to susan it's great thanks to ortega he's a real mvp and thanks for everyone for helping out look i got sweat rings under my fucking arms from me too fucking crazy

and a special thanks to hayley as well Because she did help out a ton Yes yes thank you Haley She was a huge help She's so good at like hiding that shit from me too Like me not knowing what the fuck's going on But I did see I saw this Kleenex and I'm like what the fuck is this Yeah

I knew that was in there too I was like this is Siobhan you don't even know it. Haley is way more entrenched in the chat than you are. Oh, you mean like she watches the show, you think, and knows the chat? Oh, no, no. No, there's something else going on on the side. So she's way more in it than you are.

So you're going to have to catch up with her. All right. Yeah, because as far as... I don't even... When I go out there, I can't even... I don't even think she... We don't even talk about the show, really, me and her, which is kind of interesting.

Happy birthday, dude. All right. Thanks, brother. Later. Eric Utley, happy birthday. Miss Radao. Oh, that was awesome seeing you two. You're so pretty. You guys are so cool.

You're a young car calling and money and in the video. That's why I called you Heidi last week. Oh, look at you. We got a spell right now. Call her. Hi.

What's up? What's up, dude? Hey, this is Richard. Oh, what's up? Hey,

uh, yeah, yeah. Hey, uh, Athena, Athena, Athena got the,

uh, the sign made up. No shit. She took control of that. Yeah, she's good like that. Fuck. I want to thank her. Yeah, that was crazy seeing her on there. She was having a fucking amazing hair day, too.

And that was cool that her mom was on there. Jethro and Athena MVP. Yeah, well, thank you. That sign is crazy dude that sign's gonna you know what's crazy my wife just asked me last week she goes what's that shit behind you in the show and I go it's like some bullshit that's supposed to make it so my voice doesn't echo I'm like do you want me to take it down you think it looks bad she goes no I don't care and I was wondering why she said it and then and then that it's gonna look sick there isn't it yeah it fit

perfect oh my god it's really brought me up to like even change the office even more i got to get dave in here and strut my shit now it's crazy well hey man we just i just wanted to tell you happy birthday and hope you have a hope you have a good day okay hey can i ask you uh uh uh kind of a for some advice yeah or your personal thoughts you can be honest with me sure sure you think it was bad that i cried that that that i that i got uh that was maybe too vulnerable no no when's the last time you cried for 15 when's the last time you cried for 15 minutes with a bunch of people watching you on the internet? The fuck do you know? Oh, yeah.

I don't know. That's why everybody loves you, Sevin. All right. All right. Thank you. Love hearing your voice. All right, man. Call in.

Yeah, man. Thank you. All right, man. Okay. Shout out to Travis for the design of the sign as well uh omar uh cornejo uh happy birthday mr zevi hey i'm not a big fan of this salute thing because do you remember that girl we showed the other day on the that uh what on the crossfit games instagram who is missing the hand? Yes.

This guy looks like he's missing a hand, doesn't he? In half a face, but yeah. It's just like a stub that's like... Sousa and Ortega, thank you. Oh, no, guys. Thank you. Eric Weiss. Oh, it was great seeing you too.

I can't believe how dignified some of these people look who listen to the show. I know, right? I picture most of them just like shooting heroin and like, just listen to the show past their time. Yeah. Till the next hit a Jeremy world. God, you are a beautiful man, Jeremy. That was awesome seeing you. Well-deserved seven. You've changed lives. Mine included. I'm forever grateful. Thanks dude. It's crazy seeing you

uh mike uh popovic uh you're a good man sebi thank you seven suza make him bigger uh rosemary's jack yeah my mom's crossfitter uh she's more of a crossfitter than i am i'd say um uh rebecca simmons for every one of those there are 20 more of us outfitter than I am. I'd say Rebecca Simmons for every one of those. There are 20 more of us out here that feel the same way. Happy birthday. Thank you. Good point,

Rebecca. Holy shit. It is, it, it is so much bigger. You can see it. Hey dude, what's up? What's up?on hey that was a lot just want to say happy birthday brother

thank you that was a lot hey when i see you i feel like someday our paths are going to cross and we're going to get to hang out absolutely it's in the card you remind me of uh of uh i don't know if do you remember, this is Jeffrey, right? Yeah. Do you remember, I had a guest on named Tom Siskron. He was a doctor, urologist. Yeah. Him and some of his friends I'm friends with, and you remind me so much of them. Just like a cool dude to just kind of like work out with and hang out with and just shoot the shit.

Oh, thanks, man. Yeah, you're a cool dude. I feel the same about you. I really do hope that we get to meet one day. Yeah, I hope we get to do more than meet. I hope we get to do something like go on a drive together or drink a beer or play catch or something. Oh, heck yeah. That'd be great.

Well, I just want to take a moment, you know, say happy birthday. There was a lot of conspiring on our parts in the chat to put this together but I'm happy to see that you're happy with it did you have any suspicion that I would be overwhelmed like that I did

you did fuck how did I not know I was completely fucking caught off guard and then I realized why I was avoiding it so much. Like something in me knew that it was coming, I guess, because. But but when he when you first pulled up the video, I'm like, oh, this is cool. This will be a quick little fucking 30 second thing with me, like some tits and ass. And then I just got fucking rocked.

Yeah, I knew that whenever I whenever we were looking at all the clips whenever they would come in and just seeing what people were saying and and then the boys and Haley in there and your mom and I knew that you know whenever those things would start coming up that it would really really touch at your heart and then of course you, I don't know about us, but I mean, we, we all have the same, I think, common feeling about you and kind of what you bring, bring us each day. And so we were just hoping we'd give a little bit of that back to you. Well, yeah, you guys sure did. It's great. I, I'm going to have to figure it out and like, and like ponder it,

but I don't know if it's like, I don't think you guys are real or what happened but but like even even the little bit of receiving from you guys fucking worked me like it was like well you know that more than i could handle that's an interesting point i mean you you see people on the chat you might see their instagram but you still don't know what's real until you see somebody on video actually speaking to you like even those people showing themselves to me

I felt was like I was undeserving of it yeah they're getting outside of their shell they're giving you a piece of their vulnerability yeah it's cool. Well, I'm really appreciative. It made my day for sure. That's good, Siobhan.

I hope your 50 first goes as well as all the 50s before then or the 50 years before then. Thank you. It's pretty, I'm living a great life. I'm having so much fun right now. So I think so. That's awesome. Well, I'll take another year ahead of you here in July. So that'd be 55 for me. All right. Do you think I look Asian from all the crying?

No, I don't. My fucking eyes. You look like a weepy eyed Armenian to me. All right. Like i just found out the genocide is real look at all these okay thank you jeff all right we'll see you later man thank you paulina hi thank you happy birthday thank you look at uh uh it um one two look at One. Look at it. It's just so many Kleenexes. So many fucking Kleenexes. And Haley told me she was putting that in there.

I was like, okay. It's going to be potentially emotional here. God damn. Athena helped with the sign of Vindicate with the design. Well, thank you. Yeah. Jeez Louise. Sean M. Oh, thanks, dude. Happy happy birthday you're a good dude thank you thank you for the extra one cent too uh you found a truckload of tvs i found in the in the parking lot cheap got a truckload of tvs

oh okay okay is that like what victor is that for like what victor should be saying i'm so far behind uh seven thank you for all you do for us happy birthday enjoy your day with your boys and your wife uh we'll see you tomorrow for quarterfinals talk yeah i am fucking really pumped you guys about the quarterfinals i don't know why but i think it's going to be fun i'm excited that halpin and Hiller and I hope I haven't heard back from Brian and JR. They're a little more difficult time. Have we heard back from Grundler?

Not from them yet. Okay, we should ask Grundler. They'll get in. Nathena did a ton. She's awesome. Yeah, I figured. I have to call her today. She's been so nice to me always. Nathena's a boss boss I admire her so much

Her mom is beautiful Yeah she is a boss Brandon Waddell Love you Sevan Have the greatest 51st birthday ever Thanks dude That was crazy seeing you too Phillip's coming over with his hammer

Oh dang it on the wall Hey I got a drill I'll pull out some of my man skills uh feliz cumpleaños al gran esteban so they call me south of the border thank you francisco moreno thank you you want to hear something crazy? Yeah. How desperate I am. You already know the story, how desperate I am to get this podcast off the ground. I reached out to a friend who's friends with Dana white and said,

Hey, and I've never done this around UFC stuff because the UFC is up and going and what the fuck can I contribute? But I said, Hey, I would love to have any of those uh slap fighters on my show so maybe we're going to get some of those guys on the show that'll be interesting to talk to them uh we knew you would uh be overwhelmed we all cried happy

birthday my man thanks nick that was great seeing you too dude uh thank you for being you seven adam blakesley thanks dude oh you kind of look like jay hardell leche de seven what's that mean milk milk seven yeah uh seven we'll be shooting uh ropes later really seven this community is awesome we all lift each other up and it's because of you oh i don't know but thank you hey it was cool seeing you too geez louise really really cool seeing you dude uh our me is so close to asia there's there's some that's true uh happy birthday seven hashid um madani oh my god i got to see Devesh Maharaj. That was crazy. I wonder where he was parked.

Hashim Almadani, five euros. Happy birthday, Sevan. I'm not a regular viewer as the rest, but, man, you deserve all the love. Salute from Spain. You're Hashim Almadani from Spain? Well, thank you. Mr. Butter, all trolling aside, love all of you in this chat, and you two on the screen right now.

Cheers, cheers. Thanks, Big Butter. Melissa Odear, AED, happy birthday, Seve. Thank you so much for all the good times. You're welcome. Thanks for hanging out, man. Oh, Renata, that was. Thank you so much for all the good times. You're welcome. Thanks for hanging out, man. Oh, Renata, that was dope seeing you walking in the wind. That's what I was doing with my mom a couple of days ago. My boys, crazy wind. I wanted to know where you had. I had so many questions for all of you. I want to know where Devesh was. Devesh looked like he was parked at Inspiration Point or something. He just got done making out with some chick and kicked her out. He's like, get out.

I got to film this real quick. Yeah. Oh, that's from the United Arab Emirates. Thank you. Oh, thank you. God, well done with the math. Good job. Oh, yeah.

So maybe you're right then. Maybe she's not in France. Maybe she's what? Not in France. I thought she was in France for some reason. Oh. Where's Seema? Is Seema over there too?

I always get hurt Seema and Melissa like thinking that they're sisters or some shit. Corey Leonard. Oh, dude. Great seeing you too. Happy birthday, Sebi. Grab the Danielle Brandon and get after it, brother. I will grab the Danielle Brandon and get after it. Barry Tracy. Happy birthday. Thanks, dude. the daniel brandon and get after it uh barry uh tracy uh happy birthday thanks dude

crossfit what's that say i don't know there's a ram up there though yeah i don't know right Yeah. Two-pointer. Iraqi who lives in Spain. Word. Cool. Oh, it seems like Austin. Born and raised in Davis, California. James. James, get one of those slap fighters to slap Ryan every time he mentions disc golf, and I'll send you $100. Man, we got another disc golf show on Monday.

I can't even believe it. Vidal Para, $9 para 9.99 thanks dude vidal is vidal an israeli name are you israeli it wasn't vidal sassouna an israeli went to uh europe or went to the uk. Is that. I don't know. It's still my set. I don't know what the fuck that means, but. Seema Vacaville here. No, Seema is not. No, Seema is an Austin born, raised in Davis, California. Oh, you're in Austin.

You're in America. Yeah. You didn't think she was in the US? I thought for some reason she was in Spain. some reason i just see the way she looks and i just think she's looks like foreigner to me yeah oh melissa grew up in france she was in the video right she's really pretty she had the gray long gray gray and black hair right yeah yep yeah that was so fucking cool seeing all of you. God, that was so cool seeing you. I feel like you guys made me fuck to show up and you like gave me like like now I might be a nicer person because of what just happened. Like, I feel like this overwhelming like compassion coming over me like I should be nicer to people.

Like I should do some sort of ode to dan bailey or some shit no fuck that oh my god that's fucking a lot steven flores let's play smash or pass um where was that let's play smash or pass. Where was that? Let's play smash or pass on the people from the chat. Now we're talking. Let's build our external shell up a little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh my god. I gotta go in two minutes. Pavel's a class act, huh? Yes. Yeah. He was awesome. How did my wife know? I don't, I just don't, I must be delusional. I must be delusional.

You see this thing, James O'Keefe is back? No, he's back. Kinda. You see this thing, James O'Keefe is back? No, he's back? Kinda. Did you know Obama was against gay marriage? Yes.

Yeah, everybody switched sides of stuff after a while. It just kind of bled into the other. How the fuck could you be against gay marriage? Dude, you're more concerned about the gay marriage. He got a Nobel Peace Prize for droning children. Haleyley don't give any money don't give any hand me a fucking put a 10 in my pants when i come in the house please that's not necessarily that's like transferring money more so yeah i was just looking up a bunch of obama shit yeah he he killed a lot of fucking people a lot of innocent people and they knew it a lot of the times and just said well there's a chance we might get who we're going after dude how the fuck did he trump's like the

most peaceful president we've had in my fucking lifetime fewest fewest like uh international deaths all this crazy shit and yeah and obama won the peace prize we live in a weird world hey that that that shows how powerful the media narrative is, right? Like they could take somebody who inherently didn't do a lot of like great things and reflect it back to make them be this wonderful, greatest president ever. And then you could take a president that maybe did some things that were really helpful and had a really good, you know, international standing and make them seem like they're a dictator. and make them seem like they're a dictator. The ironic part about that is in order to actually truly have a dictator, the whole system has to work for you, right? It's like you got to have the media on your side, you got to have the military on your side,

you got to have the police on your side. So the fact that simply the media was pushing back against everything he was doing shows that, in fact, there's no way he could be a dictator. Right, exactly, 100%. I saw the craziest comment. i don't go to twitter very often and i was on twitter yesterday i saw the craziest comment this lady was blaming the three years of lockdown in canada on people who wouldn't get the injection because they said if everyone she said if everyone would have gotten the injection it would have only lasted a year

yeah i was like wow so if everyone would have done the injection, it would have only lasted a year. Yeah. I was like, wow. So if everyone would have done what the government wanted, do you think it would have only lasted one year and not three years? I mean, that's just bad thinking on so many levels. Yeah, but it's such a great strategy if I'm Pfizer and I'm the media because now it's a self-governing people. So rather than me going, hey, I got it, but Savant didn't and we're okay with that, now I look at you like the enemy. You're the reason I'm still locked in my house. You're the reason I still have to do all these things. If you just got the vaccine like I did, you know, and so you create that divide.

Happy birthday, brother. When I buy my El Camino, we'll go cruising on Highway 1. That would be dope. Is that a joke? Because I said you look like you drive an El Camino or you really get because you do look like you drive an El Camino. But I would love I would love to own an El Camino. My wife would look great in an El Camino or are you really good? Because you do look like you drive an El Camino, but I would love to own an El Camino. My wife would look great in an El Camino. I've got to hang out with Jonathan a few times and you would really enjoy

hanging out with him. He's a good dude. You have? Yeah, I hung out with him a ton at the Zelos games and we hung out over at Kotler's house for a little bit. I saw him at Guadalupe. Does he talk like a Vato? He can, but not normally. He's a good dude uh janelle

winston your family's so beautiful savannah was fun to interact with your wife and your mom is the bomb thank you um i'm not gonna bone you in my home i want i want to um play something funny for you before we leave the show. What is this? Dick. Did that do it for you, Trish? I'm about to bust. Let me see. What's this one?

Let me see. You're trying to bring the equilibrium back here like set of things with uh yeah there's so there's i have so much cool shit to show you on the um dude yesterday you guys i went to a fucking panic i don't know you guys probably don't know this but in so what i do all day every day is i go i'm on instagram looking for clips to show you guys in the show. And basically they changed the method in which you copy clips and, uh, and, and, and paste and move them around basically. And so I was on the phone. I probably called Sousa three times and Hiller three times, like for like satisfaction, like to help me figure out the new way to do it. And it's Hiller's like,

wow, dude, you really are old. David Aguilar Vasquez, 650 Mexican. This is the peso guy again. Congrats, Sebi, my boy. Thanks, dude. I love your name. Aguilar is such a beautiful name. Aguilar Vasquez. Vasquez.

Thank you. Get Tom back on. I think everybody was just really anxious to like how that was gonna go and if it was gonna play that i just thought it was funny that people called from the chat were just like chatting up with you and hanging out everybody else was getting all antsy okay hold on i think maybe Oh, this Oh, this could be really good No, damn I have nothing Oh, shit

Here we go Listen, you assholes Come on. Yeah, fuck them up. Get them. You motherfuckers. Your son's a bitch. All right. Peace and love. Go play with your boys, man. Happy birthday. I will. I will.

Okay, here we go. This isn't exactly what I wanted to leave you guys with, but here we go. I just want you to know that all that shit that all those Navy SEAL guys like Jocko Willick and Jethro Goggins and whatever all those guys are, the self-help, the roguey joeys, they have it all wrong. This is a great clip.

You know this clip? This is fucking amazing. This is incredible here. I'm going to play this twice so you can look at her face and you can look at the people's face behind you. This is this former fucking press secretary for the White House. This is Jen Pataki, who I find extremely fucking attractive, but probably go to jail. There's probably some rules against having sex with retarded women. But probably go to jail.

There's probably some rules against having sex with retarded women. This is. Just listen to this fucking insanity here. Oh, shit. Fucked it up already. Stand by. On mute. Rewind.

Stand by. Okay. Here we go. On it. On it. Important to note, President Biden does nothing at 9 a.m. He is a night owl. So the fact that he is doing this at 9 a.m. anyway speaks to how vital the White House recognizes it is for him to have his voice out there conveying that to the American public. Have you ever, the only great human being who has ever fucking been a night owl is count fucking Dracula. Are you fucking kidding me?

All right. Look at her. She knows she fucked up. Look at her. Oh shit. Eve Ratner. Thank you very much. Now look at those guys. They're like, what? This motherfucker doesn't wake up till nine. Important to note, President Biden does nothing at 9 a.m. He is a night owl.

So the fact that he is doing this at 9 a.m. anyway speaks to a night owl. You mean he's an insomniac? You mean you mean they give him too much adderall at seven and he can't go to sleep what the fuck vital the white house recognized it is for him to have his voice out there conveying that to the american public hey dude you know what it kind of is too it's it like goes along with this whole thing like why would you want to share with the like obama used to smoke cigarettes and i respected the fact that he hid that from the american people i really did why the fuck would you be sharing yeah one plus one is three thank you this says it all

dude if you sleep until nine i did, unless you're a fucking stripper You're a fucking loser And let's go ahead and fact check CNN described how President Biden settled into his new routine as President February 2021 He established a regular schedule including coffee in the morning With the First Lady, meeting and phone calls from the Oval Office Starting just after 9am and return to his residence by 7 p.m night owl unlike most of his predecessors night owls who spent the dark hours reading briefing materials president barack obama or watching television president donald trump

biden is more of a early to bed type is that what it says? Yeah, at the bottom. That's an article from CNN about his routine. You mean to tell me he's back at home by 7? He's probably at his early bird special dinner at 5 p.m., his blue plate special. And then he's in bed by 7.38, and then doesn't take anything before 9. It's a fucking joke. It's a joke. She's a joke. Biden's a joke.

This administration is a complete joke. And the only people stupider than the people in office are us, the people accepting the bullshit. Barack Obama's presidency, like before when he was running for election he said that he believed marriage was between one man and one woman i believe that marriage is between a man and a woman i do not support uh gay marriage i believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman he would be labeled as a right-wing extremist. That was liberalism from 2004 to 2016 against American imperialism,

against American wars, American expansionism, all this stuff. That was an Obama liberal. And you know what? They were right. They were right to be against George Bush's wars in Iraq. They were right to be upset with a million dead Iraqis.

They were right to be upset that weapons of mass destruction was a lie. They were right to be upset about that. Now they're pro-war. What be considered an obama liberal rhetoric whether it's men or men women or women and the marriage between a man or a woman or the foreign policy issues for for 10 years that's a liberal democrat during the obama years in the bush years barack obama barack obama's presidency like before when he was running for election he said it's it's the war shit is crazy anyway i'll leave you guys with that uh we're on the right path i have i have high hopes um

and uh have i ever seen a full red but yes i have thank you for asking that's an important um you're talking about like a full uh a full uh full like you're talking about pubic hairs like just a full just flaming red bush yes love you guys that was a lot i'll see you guys very very uh soon i don't know how soon so tomorrow tomorrow I'll see you guys very very soon I don't know how soon tomorrow unless you get crazy after a few white claws I could come back on for a late night it's funny I've never wanted to I've never drank on the air

with you guys and if for some reason I was drunk before show I would fucking kill myself doing burpees and assault bike to make sure you guys never see me like that and then and then to the but I'd never planned on you guys seeing me emotionally fucking destroyed like that okay uh yeah live calling show tomorrow morning are you on that show with me um possibly but not until like a little bit later okay i will be shot i will be shot out of a fucking cannon tomorrow morning 7 a.m i think i'll Philip Kelly with that one, don't we? Or is he Saturday?

That's a good question. Oh, he's Saturday. Okay. So you got a 7 p.m. Then we have the 2 p.m. leaderboard check. All right, guys. Thanks again. Yeah, I love you too, guys.

I love you, Jeffrey. That was, you guys filled me up today. I'm a rocket ship. Thank you. Take care, and I will see you guys soon. Bye.