The Sevan Podcast - David Attaway | CrossFit Oviedo | Affiliate Series
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Drenched in sweat. I'm like, fuck.
Are you eating just meat and, um... Fuck, I wish I could just eat in general are you eating uh just meat and um fuck i wish i could just
eat in general are you eating just meat and vegetables nuts and seeds yeah yeah yeah
are you doing constantly very functional movement executed at high intensity
yeah laying on the couch laying back in bed hey dude i'm tripping on two things are you you own crossfit livermore for people who don't know yeah if i'm on should i turn on
my mic i just didn't want to cough into it because it was gonna sound like shit
no you could you could do do whatever you want but hey david what's up dude hey what's up man
i'm i'm tripping that um can oh oh we don't have three across oh yeah yeah yeah yeah
i'm tripping that um can can people just pay money to show up in an affiliate gathering and
pitch products to affiliates i saw an email today and i asked someone about it and they go
dude it's been like that for a long time
so like
you could just pay
oh I hear an echo
hold on maybe that's me
oh shit Sousa's dying
you're a cop you're not a medic
breathe I don't know
drink some water
as a police officer i know some
fundamental uh life-saving procedures drink water that's all i got is the echo me i have my other
phone pulled up youtube i have the sound down so i don't think it's me whatever it is it's better
now okay cool um oh no it's there again maybe it is your maybe it is your it's better now. Okay, cool. Oh, no. It's there again.
Maybe it is your phone.
Hold on.
Okay, thank you.
Try now.
How about...
No, it's still there. It's weird.
That is weird.
Is it me? No.
No, I'm pretty sure it's David.
David, did you pause the video on YouTube?
I got out of it
I turned it on
Oh yeah so it is him
That's so weird that it's causing that echo
Maybe it's
Can you try without your headphones
Well let's just go for a little bit
And if it still goes we'll try without your headphones
Okay let me know and I can always go outside
It might be the office
It's only when I talk
Oh Hey if it starts annoying you guys And I could always go outside. It might be the office. It's only when I talk.
Oh.
Hey, if it starts annoying you guys, let me know.
We'll fix it.
Yeah.
I could always go outside if I need to.
So I'm hearing that people can just go, like, you guys have these affiliate gatherings, right?
You guys have these people, like, who represent.
Oh, it's bad.
It's bad.
Maybe, or just take off your earphones, maybe, David.
Oh, yeah.
It was the headset.
Is that better?
Yeah, much better.
Thank you. Okay, I can hear you guys good, so we're good.
Okay, cool.
You can hear me.
So, you have an affiliate, local affiliate representative, right?
We do.
It actually changed recently.
I guess they, it seems like they cut down, And it's like a region Instead of having one
They like
Cut down less
Affiliate
Reps
Than they used to have
So it's somewhat different
They have a bigger area
I guess now
And your CrossFit
Oviedo
Oviedo yes
Oviedo
What's that mean?
It's the city
Okay
I'm not sure what it means
And
We're right next to
University of Central Florida
And like Disney
Disney World We're near there And who of Central Florida and like Disney World.
We're near there.
And who's your affiliate rep or your regional rep?
I don't know.
It was Shay Tozo, but she was recently relieved of that duty.
And I was pretty close to her.
I don't know who the new rep is.
So I heard, not I heard, I saw an email that was like, hey, hey I mean let me read it to you this it's fucking
it's kind of crazy I can't even believe this is real um it is it says um happy Friday my
southeast affiliate owners are you looking to add additional revenue stream to your affiliate have
you ever tried selling supplements and it did not work or interested in
selling supplements to your community?
I actually did read that one.
I do remember that going by.
Not,
not really.
How long has this been going on?
I think that's the first time I've seen it to be honest.
I mean,
those,
I know they're a good resource,
but for us,
I mean,
I don't pay attention to too many of those.
What's crazy, too, is it says, as we're joined by Kerry Hare, that's a dude who used to be our building manager over at HQ in Santa Cruz.
I mean, I worked with him for over 10 years.
We're joined by Kerry Hare from Momentus.
I'm guessing that's a supplement company, which is the nutrition and supplement partner with CrossFit.
So these people pay money to then get access to affiliates to then sell you shit.
And our only benefit is if we choose to sell their stuff.
And it's not because it makes your community better.
It's just to add additional revenue. I'm tripping on that's yeah does don know that that's a complete shift in the
model that greg programmed you guys to work with like the excellence model i can't imagine so
wow i wonder what uh it sounds like content for hillar yeah hey i'm all for them helping you i'm
all for i'm all for them for finding ways to generate revenue it's just as the sole reason
to sell your um clients shit yeah generate revenue just seems off the mark yeah i mean
again like i said i don't know this could be a negative but i haven't found a lot of
use out of a lot of those emails for those affiliate rep stuff and the gatherings it's
good to meet and know other people in the area but it's i'm not going to sell something they
push to us the the implication is is that you should sell anything that makes you money and
not and not under and yeah that's the implication i wonder if hq has vetted all of
the supplements and vets all the people that come in i wonder how they do that i wonder if any of
the supplements would pop an athlete positive too i mean they're basically like are they bringing
wolves to their own um god it's such it's such a trip. Anyway.
I scanned and deleted.
Welcome to the show, David Attaway.
Police officer straight out of high school.
Yes.
Can you still do that to this day?
Yes, you can.
Yeah, it's...
Well, you have to be 19 where I'm at.
So it was about eight months after I graduated high school.
I turned 19 and I actually applied for I it was about eight months after I graduated high school I turned 19 and
I actually applied for Home Depot and law enforcement and Home Depot didn't hire me so
I went with being a police officer I guess it's a better long term yeah and probably less crime
as a police officer than in a Home Depot probably dude how crazy the crime at home depots is crazy yeah yeah we're i'm lucky to live in a smaller
town so it's pretty good around here but it's it's seeing the effect everywhere else is pretty sad
um uh how how old are you david i just turned 39 uh wednesday and you've been a cop for 18 years. Almost 20. 19 years. June will be 20.
Crazy.
And how long have you owned Oviedo?
I've owned CrossFit Oviedo.
This is our 10th year.
And I took on a co-owner after two years.
So now me and my partner run it.
We're in our 10th year.
Are you glad you have a partner?
Oh, it was a blessing it was uh
i went through i herniated the c6 and 7 disc in my neck went through surgery was gonna quit
crossfit i opened the gym just kind of jumped into it with five thousand dollars opened an affiliate
way over my head as far as business aspect goes but i know i wanted to help people and spread
what crossfit was and i was in love with it and uh about a year and a half then he was a 5 a.m guy he's like hey man
you need some help with this and you look stressed out and can i help you with anything i was like
yeah you know you waited a month or two and he offered again and i brought him in he started
helping and before i knew it i had a partner and we've been grooving since it was a blessing
We've been grooving since.
It was a blessing.
So you were a cop for basically nine or ten years, and then somewhere in there, you decided to open a gym.
Yes.
I went to several other affiliates, and I don't think this is egotistical, but I saw the way some of them were running things, and I was like, I think I could do this better. And I think I could do it in a way that Greg would probably like and meant for it to be.
And we all need to make money and it's a business.
But I think there's more than just the business with owning a CrossFit affiliate.
And so I guess I had just enough to try it myself.
And I started in my garage after my surgery.
I talked to eight of my friends into giving me a thousand bucks each.
And I built out my garage after my surgery. I talked to eight of my friends into giving me a thousand bucks each and I built out my garage. So I was, and, uh, I was like, Hey, you guys can come from
two to five and five to four, you know, four to five in the morning. You just buy this stuff,
come anytime you want. That went pretty well. I ended up with like 15 people coming and, uh,
I was on Craigslist and saw a little, a little 800 square foot warehouse for rent for 500 bucks a month,
then I'm like, I could afford that myself. So if worse comes to worse, I just pay it.
And now I'm in 4,000 square feet, small to medium CrossFit gym, anywhere between 70 and 100 members,
depending on the time of the month, you know. But it's been a ride. we've gone ups and downs but it's been i wouldn't
have changed it for anything is that your second location or third location home the 800 square
feet and then yeah so it's funny uh home then the 800 square foot and then moved across the street
in the same area the landlord had some fire coding issues with the building we got so we got told we
had to be out in 30 days so we went back across the street to the 800 square
foot started looking immediately and then found this place and we've actually
expanded two bays over since owning it it was originally one bay and then we
took the neighbors and the neighbors left we took that and we're hoping to
get the whole building once our last group the last neighbor leaves so that'll
be a positive
for us yeah that's crazy that so it's basically your fifth location basically yeah like you
divorced a woman and went back to her yeah yeah yeah it was uh it was that was a stressful time
and right about after that is when pat came on my co-owner and he's like you need help i was like i
do yeah that's it and dav, how long have you been married?
Seven years. And I've got a little four year old girl.
Yeah. Congrats. That's awesome, dude.
It doesn't get any better. That's the only reason I do everything I do and work as many jobs I do is for those two.
So, hey, I want to I want to go back to high school.
When you're in high school, did you want to be a cop?
And why did you want to be a cop?
No, not at all
I wanted to be an NBA star
Oh yeah, how tall are you?
I'm 6'4", I was tall then
And then halfway through high school
I realized I didn't want to play basketball anymore
So I started just doing all the extracurriculars
Having fun, played volleyball
How did you realize that?
Why not? Too hard work? Or girls? Or lost lost focus do you wish someone would have kept you on track or what
happened no i will so i don't i mean i had a dad but he wasn't in my life so it's just mom working
a bunch of jobs and it's just you know a teenage boy trying to figure out his life and uh if i was
now if i was then the way i am now i could have been whatever i want in the world i just
tell me to.
And that's not an excuse.
And I coach a bunch of high school athletes as well.
Not an excuse.
That's on me.
But I definitely think if there was a father figure around, it would have been a different start.
But still wouldn't change it.
I had no idea what I wanted to do in high school.
I was the guy checking the GPA to see if I'd be eligible for next week's game.
So school wasn't really my thing either. I just like to play sports and have fun with friends.
And that's one of the athletes I coach. So this is a high school kid that you are now
coaching? No, she actually is in college there now. So she went on and got a scholarship to
Lyft at Lindenwood University. And I coached her in high school crazy yeah he's so proud oh you have no idea
she's starting her second year now she's it's one of the most fulfilling jobs is working at
the high school so i'm the school resource deputy of the high school but i'm also the weightlifting
coach i coach flag football and i'm an assistant athletic director at the school as well hey i i
know we have like five stories open let Let me keep drilling down on this one.
So you say that if you knew now,
I want to keep going with the high school thing
and figure out what happened for kids who do get derailed
because it sounds like you uncovered a diamond there.
So you're in high school.
You want to be a pro basketball player.
You change your mind around your sophomore, junior year,
but now you're saying if you knew what you knew now,
you would have known that you could be anything you wanted to be.
What did you eventually figure out?
So I really didn't figure out until I got hired at the sheriff's office, and I started to get some peers and some people I respected, and I learned how to be a man there.
So when you get hired at the sheriff's office, I started at the jail.
So at 19 years old, at 150 pounds pounds i was working a max security in a jail
six four just as your sheet of paper like this yep yeah yeah noodle if they blew i would fall
over so their sneeze would knock me over yeah but working for the police department the sheriff's
office is what raised me for for the most part and i had some some other guys and some uh some bosses that
really kind of developed me into who i was and showed me i could be whatever i wanted to be
and one of my partners was a power lifter and he's like we're gonna start lifting weights
you're gonna stop you're gonna eat you're not gonna go to the bathroom and you're gonna lift
weights and you're gonna get big i was like all right so I never heard not go to the bathroom. I like that. That's a fucking secret sauce.
They said, cork it, bro.
Cork it and eat and lift.
I'm like, all right, let's go.
Hey, did they know?
Do you think that they knew that they were mentoring you?
Did they?
I don't think so.
Yeah.
Isn't that amazing that those are the best mentors?
They don't even fucking know.
And you're just, they're just how they carried themselves what they said
how did you how did you they impart their information onto you well it was one getting
me in the weight room for the first time and then just the way they were i just watched i i like to
watch and learn so just seeing how they were how they respected people in a jail you're working
with not necessarily the best clients and they would show respect but they
did hard work they did their job they didn't slack on anything and i just kind of followed
followed the lead so which i guess is lucky because if you had a different person that
didn't do that i'd follow that lead as well so i was very fortunate to have good people in my life
that helped me develop into what i am now and it hasn't stopped i started the school 10 years ago
and same thing i started learning
different aspects of doing your job and being organized and how to run events and how to do
things and don't slack and don't complain and call out your biggest thing is i learned how to
call out my friends if they're slacking keep the accountability for everybody around me so i mean
if your friend won't tell you you're slacking they're not your friend so that's a special skill
to be able to do that.
Oh, yeah.
I work with someone that does that very well.
She will look at you dead in your face and go, you should have been over there.
It doesn't matter, you know.
So, it's just I've been fortunate in my life to have this family.
I moved out my junior year of high school, lived in an apartment.
So, I've never really had family as an influence in my life after sophomore year.
So, it's just I've been very fortunate to find the right people to show me how to be.
And you know, it's interesting.
I'm not sure what blade's referring to out there, but he's saying that could
have gone South. Glad he learned from hard chargers.
And I guess what he's saying is,
is when you're a young man and you in you're open to being influenced,
if you would have met the wrong crowd, you could have been misdirected.
Absolutely. Especially in that line of work, you can get the wrong crowd and not the, I'm not
talking the extreme where they're doing illegal things, but there's lazy and there's not lazy.
So very fortunate, hard charging for sure. I know blade knows. So it just, I was very fortunate in
my life to every, every step of life that went to was a a good person to learn from
that's 150 pounds so you're you so when you graduate from high school how does um
being a cop pop on your radar at the same time as a home depot job uh so my uncle worked uh drug
rehab program in the jail locally and i was working out of walgreens and uh put in
for home depot and he's like hey david listen they pay 25 000 a year you get insurance and you have
a retirement then you know in 2004 that was yeah yeah so i put in for it and found out i was
physically capable and i guess i had enough of a good person to pass all the polygraphs
and everything else and I could pass a drug test and they gave me a shot so I feel very fortunate
and then and then and then you you go to a police academy yes I actually went to two so I went to
the corrections academy and then after a year I enjoyed I met some great people there but I knew
patrol was probably where I wanted to be.
That'll rot your soul, right?
Eventually, like you can't,
if you stay in the prisons forever,
it would break you?
It can.
It depends on who you are.
We have some people that have been there for 35 years
and they're still-
Wow.
Oh yeah, yeah.
God, I just can't imagine that being good
to be around locked up humans.
You learn a lot though.
Yeah.
They're not all bad.
I agree. I just mean the idea of locking a human being up is a very um well and you're locked up
yeah yeah right a lot you have your hallway with your people you're over and you have your office
sit there for 12 hours so yes yeah it's it's the organization I work for, too, from the bottom down is just rock star, too.
So, you know, if you lead correctly and there's things and our sheriff started in the jail, too.
OK, so the boss has been there. But yes, it was good.
So when I decided I want to leave, they have what's called a crossover academy.
So you can go to be a deputy sheriff as well, not just a detention deputy.
So I went to two academies.
And then, so when you're at the Correctional Institute, do you go to the new academy simultaneously?
Yes, I did.
I actually worked-
So it's 80-hour-a-week shit?
Yeah, I would work six at night till six in the morning, take a nap in the car till eight in the morning, and go to class till five.
And then take a nap in the other parking lot and go back to work dang and and how long was the second academy the sheriff's academy
six months and then so you you finish that and you become a sheriff for what county uh i'm in
seminole county and are you still a sheriff there i am no shit you've been with the same group that
long yeah so uh in the state of florida i'm sure it's probably the same group that long. Yeah. So, uh, in the state of Florida,
I'm sure it's probably the same in California, but we have Florida retirement system.
So if you stay in a sheriff's office, you'll be in that FRS. And I always say I'll never be
homeless if I retire. Yeah. At least have 60 K a year coming my way regardless. So I could always
live in a box. Um, and I'm, I got lucky again. Like I said before, every step of my life, I was,
I was guided. I don't know how, but I was guided, and I got the right one.
So still there.
But I've worked in corrections.
I've worked in a courthouse.
I've worked on patrol.
I now work at a high school.
So it's lots of jobs to do.
So you go from the jail to street patrol,
and then how does the option for high school pop up,
and why did you take that?
You actually go to – when you suit up and then go to a high school every morning?
Yeah, yep.
Oh.
It's fantastic.
It's like the loophole, the secret nobody knows about.
So actually I herniated my neck, went down for three months until I could get surgery and all that.
How did you do that again?
Several things.
One was I was working out on a bench press and I felt something pop.
And they said it was like a slight herniation.
And six months later, I was being vague.
I was on a bicycle working and went over the handlebars and finished off the other side.
Ah, okay, okay.
Doing some stuff.
Because you don't normally hear about it up here in our community
you don't usually hear about neck stuff no so it had nothing to do with crossfit okay the initial
was when i was doing jujitsu i did jujitsu for 10 years okay doing you know normal bro workouts and
it's just lots of guillotines and neck cranks and i think it just kind of went and then um
so while i was doing my surgery,
I did a proposal to bring CrossFit to my agency
because I was sitting in an office all day
just doing paperwork.
So I put this whole proposal together,
proposed it and ended up,
it went another way, which is cool.
You know, no hard feelings.
And I'm sitting in my hospital bed after my surgery
and I'm looking at this proposal.
I'm like, well, shit, I could just do it myself. I could myself I could like my own gym I have here's the template that I've created
and uh that's when I did the garage deal and then it kind of just escalated into now I have a gym
so I I kind of live in the moment my whole life I I plan but it's pretty much just where I'm at and
that felt right at the time so I did did it. Those, those original investors, are they, are they still members at your gym?
A couple of them are, but not, not the original, original,
but I, they still talk to me all the time and reach out and tell me
congratulations. And I tell them, Hey, anytime you want to come.
Yeah. Yeah. You got a lifetime membership.
Yeah. It's amazing that like basically started with a couple thousand dollars
and that's still no debt.
Never been in debt. Just keep reinvest.
I'm going to come back to the high school thing in just a second.
I want to ask you a question. How did you meet your wife?
At the gym.
At the CrossFit gym?
Yeah.
Oh, shit. That's amazing. So she can you give me more detail?
You're you're training there one day and she walks in and you're like, hey, girl, what's up?
You want to take a class?
Yeah, there she is.
Yeah. no. So she actually came in with a couple of her friends and she's, uh, she's super introverted. And so she got some friends to come and she was
there for, she was there for a couple of months and she was dating and I was dating and, um,
I don't know what happened, but someone just, Oh, so I was talking to her about, um, it was
her birthday and I'm like, what are you doing for your birthday? You're going to go have some drinks. He goes, nah, I think I'm just going to relax. I'm like, Oh, so I was talking to her about, it was her birthday. And I'm like, what are you doing for your birthday?
You going to go have some drinks?
She goes, no, I think I'm just going to relax.
I'm like, oh, well, I'll just take you somewhere.
And she's like, well, yeah, yeah, yeah.
This is this, you know, guy at the gym.
You know, I don't really know.
And I got a message from her on a Sunday.
And she goes, hey, stupid.
I got tickets to Orlando City Soccer.
I'm going to pick you up.
And I was like, all right.
Wow. She picks me up and And I was like, all right. Wow.
She picks me up and she tells me she'll kill me, but she basically says when we get there,
don't be blocking me if any cute guys are trying to talk to me at the,
at the game. Wow. Wow. Wow. I was like, it, she's like, I was joking.
I was into you then, you know, she tells me later, but then I was like,
Oh, well, damn. All right. That's good shit. I'm crushed.
I guess I'm all right.
I got a sidekick here.
By the end of the night,
the rest is history.
We have not been away from each other a day since.
How fun. How cool, dude.
We got married in three months.
No shit.
Mm-hmm.
Wow. Lusa, you approve of that? I don't approve of that that's too soon he gave it one of these he's like uh well i've done things the right way my whole life and the
norm and uh she kind of did too and once we met each other we're like she's i think one day what
did her parents say what did her parents say? What did her parents say? They're cool about it.
They were cool with the three months.
I mean, obviously now it's awesome.
You guys, I mean, you've left the whole, your whole tribe with the daughter, but what, um,
if some chick wants to marry my son after three months, I'm like, dude, are you fucking
nuts?
Something's wrong with this girl.
Yeah.
They probably thought we were crazy, but they were super supportive, but it was just, we,
we got five of our friends
We jumped in a car. We drove up to nashville. We got a marriage certificate
We got married went down broadway after and just had the time of our lives. God. You're a big dude, man
What do you weigh now?
Uh between 210 and 220. Yeah, you are a fucking big man. You like being that heavy
um, so now i'm i'm i'm i'm trying to be a good crossfitter, I guess and Between 210 and 220. Yeah, you are a fucking big man. You like being that heavy?
So now I'm trying to be a good CrossFitter, I guess.
And I'm hanging around 208 to 210, and gymnastics feels a lot better, obviously.
And my strength is holding on.
So it depends what I'm doing or what stage I'm at in the year.
Yeah.
Go back to the high school thing. So you're a cop for nine years, and then this thing pops up. Like, hey, you could work to the high school thing so you're a cop for um nine years and then this
and this thing pops up like hey you could work at a high school yeah i would just think that
you're there just like searching people's lockers and shit not well so our um so this was before
the stone and douglas shooting happened i don't know if you know about that so that was a major
major school shooting very very bad lots of people died
in florida yeah yeah and um that was before this happened this was back when we had one deputy at
every school so i was just working into high school and the biggest thing our agency pushed
is you got to kind of become family with the admin and get to know the people and be in the
community don't just be the cop there yeah i kind of took that to heart and that's why i pushed and
started coaching and started getting some jobs there, so I'm employed by both.
And then Stoneman Douglas happened, and we were already ahead of the game.
We were already on campus.
We added another deputy.
There's two of us there.
And it's way more about developing relationships
and being a positive role model than it is just arresting people.
Did anyone try to stop you from having the two jobs or like, no,
that you can't do that?
No, they, they loved it because that's cool.
That's what they push. I was fortunate. Yeah.
So because you actually have to apply for other jobs,
like you have to request permission.
And so I did for all of them and they're like, absolutely.
So flag football coach and what'd you call it?
School resource counselor.
I'm a school resource deputy. That's just the top of the school.
And then I'm an assistant athletic director.
So my boss is over all of athletics and then the weightlifting coach as well.
When I was in high school as a boy, like I didn't think.
Yeah.
So like if I just wanted to drink at school, I would just bring a bottle of Jägermeister.
Or if I just wanted to sell weed, I would just bag the weed up and come to school.
Like I didn't think.
I wasn't like these are the consequences.
I didn't think this is bad.
I didn't think.
And that's just the way boys are.
If you don't keep them busy, they will, especially the entrepreneurs, they're just going to find they're going to want to do what they want
to do i'm guessing that that's just rampant in school that there's just really talented boys
who don't have direction and and you just see them being expressed in in impulse the stuff we
see i'm like do you realize you could run a Fortune 500 company if you just weren't an idiot?
And I'd like to think we all have a lot of impact on those kids.
We're at a very, I'm at a very, very good high school.
Oh, you are?
Yeah, they're, yes, they're, yeah.
And by good, you mean they have both their parents at home?
The lots.
Top scores, great athletics, great staff.
So I'm very fortunate.
It's not like gangs running around our
schools and such but even worse than all that is social media so if you and i i'm sure if we were
in high school when social media was oh my god oh my god it'd be so bad and it's oh my god like
so back in the day you know when two boys hate each other you go fight and then yeah yeah fight
and then they talk shit about each other every day forever and it just gets worse and worse oh on social
media can't get away from it that's why there's so many issues with mental health and stuff when
it comes to those age groups you can't go home and just be at home and they can't call you on
the hard line you know so yeah and you just can't get away from it what about um uh people sending nudes uh kids sending nudes
i can't imagine giving kids cameras yeah you can send pictures around i just can't even fucking
like my boys will i would never i i think it's almost abusive to put that power in a boy's hand
as a parent but it's funny i always boys are because of just by nature what we are well i i
use what you say all the time
When I tell people, my boys are different
Like you said before, girls aren't in the park
Grabbing guys and pulling them in the bushes
And when you give that power
And the immature status
The maturity level is just
Zero, I barely have maturity now
I have to fake it
Yeah, 100%
And like you said, that power they get through those phones and do it.
And kids don't go to school anymore either.
So like you have seven periods in a day.
The majority of our kids go like three and then they'll have like virtual
classes and college classes and OJ off campus shit.
Everything.
Yeah.
On and off all day long.
So it's like,
and I'm like,
you might,
we homeschool our daughter and we
probably will forever yeah but if you are gonna do public school there was
something to having standards that you had to follow yeah yeah early in the
morning and having to stay all day and having to do what you told and when a
substitutes at school you still went to school when you sat in the class now 500
people will call out because their subs and we're not doing anything I'm just
gonna go home so there's no like rules anymore i always say those small rules matter
the little things the dress codes the stuff i dress code i there's a high school and a junior
high on my street that i drive by every day i i literally have to avert my eyes yeah it's bad i
i cannot fucking believe what I see Yeah it's tough
It's
I have a little girl
And she'll be at home
And if you had a boy
Why would you send your boy to work in that environment
Outside
I'm not projecting any morals or anything onto it
I'm not saying like what's appropriate
I'm just saying that as a boy
You have enough trouble focusing
And if the girls are coming dressed to school in bathing suits yeah um do you remember that
fad i don't see it anymore it was like five or six years ago but girls shorts were made to look
like lingerie yeah yeah what the fuck was that i don't know and it's i you know i pray which we
know it's not the deal but i pray that
it's just the parents don't see it but you know they do right that's that's the worst part it's
like your parents watched you walk out of the house greg glass one time we were talking about
dress codes and i'm like yeah dress codes are fucking stupid for kids and he goes no no let
me explain it to you and i go okay he goes kids are gonna push back wherever they can they don't care
they just want to push back so what you do is you set a dress code and then you make it so the skirts
have to be below the knee and so the whole entire battle is whether the skirt's too high or too low
you make the boys have to wear cords that are black and now they're trying to get away with
wearing dark blue because if you don't have that fight becomes, can you have a revolver or a fucking Glock at school?
Yeah.
It makes it tough.
Like, set the bar somewhere.
They'll still be happy they can fight with you.
But set it somewhere you can control it.
And I was like, oh, shit.
Yeah.
The foundational rules.
Yeah.
The small things matter.
Like, we just get speeding.
Oh, go for it.
Just drive 100 miles an hour.
Then they're going to rob a bank. Then they're going to shoot someone shoot someone then they say you got you know yeah we're there we're there
by the way oh you yes you are yes we're there yeah we are but it's i had a i had a talk with
suza last night and he was like telling me that um with the with the massive and he was just
telling me that he basically buys the same thing at Costco every single week or month or whatever.
And he said basically in a nutshell, he said, yeah.
He said two months ago it was $150 for this stuff, and now it's $231.
And he goes, it's crazy, inflation.
And so he's like, so basically with the inflation, the price of everything is going up.
And he says as the price of stuff goes up, the have-nots will start to steal.
Yes.
And then I said, oh, that's interesting. And then I was was like but at the same time that we're not even enforcing stealing he
goes correct he goes but hold on i'm like yeah he goes eventually the middle class he well he told
me this story he said he was in a fucking nice like safeway or whole foods the other day he says
this fucking just normal looking fucking indian guy just walks out with a bag of groceries and
steals them and no one stops him. He's like,
it's happening,
dude.
He's like the have not starts,
start,
start stealing.
We don't stop them.
Then the,
then the middle class who's getting pinched by having to deal with inflation
eventually is like,
fuck you.
I ain't paying either.
Yeah.
I certainly don't feel like there's a middle class anymore as I think I used
to be in it,
but now I have five jobs and work overtime every day just to do what I was
doing before.
So, so, so you're, you're a high school uh a teacher you're a cop and you're a entrepreneur gym owner yeah entrepreneur coach coach athletic director oh my god yeah and then overtime and that's just
to do what i was doing a year ago two years ago well let's see two and a half years ago yeah and i bet you david
that you um you feel you probably also feel fortunate and thankful 100 yeah yeah look at
at least everything i'm doing i love doing yeah and again i didn't plan that it's odd it's obvious
you're thankful for how hard you get to work oh yeah and i'm surrounded by good good
people and like you know same for you the people that make it really easy right right yeah um so
eventually you're you're five years away from kind of having a decision to make
oh no it's it, 5 years, 7 months
10 days, 14 hours
Something like that
You'll retire from being a police officer
Yes, so
You'll be young enough to become a cop
Somewhere else and get another 20 year pension
And do two pensions
Yeah, it couldn't be in FRS though
So
My thinking is retire
Get a job as a security guard Or a, I couldn't be in FRS, though. My thinking is retire, get a job as a security guard or, I don't know, work at a 7-Eleven with medical insurance, supplement it with what I'm already making, run the affiliate.
So we'll see.
But you can't give up being able to retire at 44 years old.
Right.
So with a full retirement.
Yeah, that's awesome.
And who knows what other opportunities.
I mean, there's opportunities around every single corner, right?
Oh, yeah.
Yep.
And coaching is I love coaching.
I don't think I see myself leaving the school.
There's some sort of capacity there.
I would stay.
Is your does your wife work?
Yeah, she works on the weekends so she can stay home and watch our kid
That's awesome, what does she do?
She's a respiratory therapist
Oh, no shit, how long has she been doing that?
Did she do that through this fucking weird thing we went through?
Yes
Wow
She's over 10 years now
It got a little squirrely here
But obviously, you know, Florida did pretty well through the whole thing
Yeah
I mean, she's still, yeah, but it's good.
It was interesting, but she's a savage.
She pushes through it.
What's her take on it?
Was she freaked out at the beginning and then she came to her senses?
Or what was her take on it from the beginning, from like December of 2019?
We were pretty much just living our life normal
And doing whatever
Doing whatever we usually do
There was nothing, no
Wasn't her community freaking out?
Yeah, I think everybody was
But
We're pretty sensible
Yeah
Without saying much
And did your jobs try to get you to do things
That you didn't want to do
No
Oh that's awesome
Yeah no
Cause I got friends who are cops who are like
They're the only dudes who didn't do it
Yeah
And like it got weird
Yeah
It got weird for them
There's some other counties that had some issues like that
But we were fine
It was
Man
I never
What were you going to say?
I never even got asked.
No shit.
Dude, that's amazing.
And we have our governor really covered us too.
That's the DeSantis dude.
Yeah.
He supports us really well.
So, you know, everybody has opinions on the next level for him,
but my last last couple years of
living here because of him were way way better where were you born uh in oviedo you were okay
okay wow born and raised around here god that how many people live in oviedo uh i actually looked
i knew you're gonna ask that It's right around 40,000 Crazy
But we're right next to Orlando
Which is larger
Fergie Show
Mr. Attaway
Are you benefiting from all the people moving to Orlando?
I guess that means you're a CrossFit gym
Yeah
So it's funny
Most of our new clients are from Venezuela
Okay So a large group are from Venezuela And it's funny. Most of our new clients are from Venezuela. Okay.
Yeah. So a large, a large group were from Venezuela. Yeah.
And it's cool because they're very like-minded with us, you know,
because they don't want that socialism shit.
Yeah. They've been through it.
They've been through it.
It's some of the best people that I've ever met.
And when you talk about hard work and pushing through and not letting
bullshit push you around,
what they've gone through is just hopefully not five years away here,
but it's been bad.
And,
and,
um,
uh,
they're family oriented.
Yes.
Oh yeah.
They,
yes.
A hundred percent extended family.
The whole thing.
They,
they,
they come here,
they work.
I've had a few work for me and still do.
And,
um,
they come live in a house, try to get the next one over try to make money to get the next one over until they can get their
whole family safe and they will it the status and what we're used to here and what cars we have and
what we look like and our you know do we have an iPhone or an Android them they're just surviving
getting out of a bad situation and and they work hard as hell.
There's a guy in Florida that we had on the show.
He's the only person that I've ever heard apologize to Greg.
Really?
And he's an affiliate owner.
Did he opt out?
What? Say it again? Did he opt out or whatever or put the screen up and say, I'm leaving.
Yeah.
I don't know if it was that bad, but, but he basically was like, he was, he was really
disappointed in, in 2021 when he, he got swept up in it and I had him on here for the affiliate
series.
He's an awesome dude.
And I was so impressed because there's probably 10,000 people out there that need to apologize.
They need to be like, oh my God, I am a a like just straight up i'm a fucking idiot i'm so
sorry yeah and this guy came on my show and fucking appalled hey i'm so sorry i got greg's
back fucking good for him yeah i heard you tell me the other day that's yeah good for him who was
that guy and i think he's venezan. He's definitely something South American.
Handsome, strong accent.
I have to look back.
I can't remember who that was.
I feel like I saw that show.
I watch most of your shows.
I'm going to scroll.
I'm way behind in the comments.
Let me see.
Someone will say in the comments.
Jedediah as Nelson,
do you have any adaptive athletes or am I thinking of another box in that area?
I actually don't.
I've always thought it'd be really cool,
but I've never had one walk through the door.
You don't have any dwarfs?
No.
I did have one gentleman who,
it was like a paralyzed shorter arm
and we worked with him for a while,
but he and his wife moved.
But other than that, no.
No dwarfs.
Oh, this guy.
This guy.
This guy's a stud.
Yeah, Carlos.
Oh, from Life.
Yeah, yeah.
I still wear that shirt, the blue shirt.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, this dude's cool.
Is he Venezuelan?
Carlos Mejeas.
What a stud.
But basically put his whole life into opening a CrossFit gym.
Like, you know, yeah.
Those guys, that's, yeah, you got to do it right.
That's for sure.
So what ends up, so you start the gym in your garage small,
probably the way Greg would say to start it.
And then it grows and grows.
And now you're a 10-year
affiliate and you have a partner and what would you say is the reason um you do it the day-to-day
i mean obviously a lot of you know everybody has that selfish factor you have your place to work
out and you love crossfit but number one i love to coach people i love coaching i don't get to
coach as much as i used to because of how much I have to work. But coaching people and then giving everybody else really is just giving everybody else the opportunity to have a place that has the same mindset as I do. Providing a good place for them to work out. Positive, teaching new things and really just having a CrossFit gym for people.
just having a CrossFit gym for people.
We only have two in the area.
And for 50,000 people, we're fine.
We split.
But I just love CrossFit.
I love to support it.
And another thing I hear a lot where people say the games don't matter for their CrossFit gyms or what the CrossFit Games does,
it's funny because here everyone loves the Open.
Everybody watches the games.
It's like ESPN.
Nobody cares about football or basketball. It's who won Rogue and who won the open and who won this and who won that so
i i would we don't have any like games athletes but we have lots of people that compete
and so i'm very competitive guy and it's cool to provide a place for that where they can come we've
got a bunch of masters athletes that go win a bunch of local comps and it's just i i drink the
kool-aid every day and i
hope it never changes i want to be 75 years old still doing ring muscle-ups that's the goal your
gym has a very og feel to the um instagram account it's dogs and babies and american flags
and um crossFit game stuff.
Yeah. That's, that's it. No bootcamps, no yoga. No.
And I don't hate on any of that because a business is a business and I've
just, I liken it to my garage still. So we get the new equipment we need.
We just got a new wall rig that roll that rogue rig is new, but I,
I want it to be, you know, the know the og guys you see if they ever walked in
i'd want them to go damn this place is cool you know and uh so it's good we like it it fits our
people yeah i'm looking at this picture i'm looking at this picture i got of the this this
was the as i quickly scrolled through your instagram this was like the thing that stood
out to me the most, the dog. Yeah.
We had dogs and babies.
Yeah, dogs and babies.
We have a little lady who brings her a little gate and has her two-year-old run around in it while she does her WOD at 4 o'clock. And then lots of dogs.
But that pretty much sums us up there.
Hey, how did you handle the closures hard on you?
How long did you close for?
I hate to tell people this, but, yeah, no, it was not hard.
We had to close for eight weeks.
He shut it down, and then DeSantis got it open as quick as he could.
And we obviously, we didn't, so working in law enforcement in the area where I own my gym,
I wasn't going to be the guy that was like, you're going to arrest me before I close, obviously.
Sure, sure.
We waited until the last minute.
I had all my members come in.
I let everybody take a piece of equipment.
My gym was completely empty, even the floor mats, aside from the rig.
Everybody took equipment home.
I did Zoom classes a couple days a week.
A couple of my coaches hosted some from their house, and I gave them stuff.
We got all the PPE, PPP loans to pay all our coaches the
whole time and pay our rent. So we never fell behind. I think my co-owner would kill me. I
don't know this. I want to believe 80% of my members kept paying. That's awesome. Yeah. So
we actually put us in a really good place. So when we reopened our gym, we were able to purchase some
new equipment. We've got a bunch of echo bikes and stuff so we were
able to it's kind of a way to think then we obviously my co-owner I don't take a
salary for our gym we just reinvest and we bow jobs and we you know we do our
what's he do what's he do he's yeah he used to be in the military and now okay
defense contractor he's in charge um like apache and helicopter
simulators all over the world so okay yeah so we we make our own jobs and we we love to do it and
he's the same way man he's just all in loves it he works 14 15 hours a week i try to do you know
between 8 and 10 on what i could do and we just love to do it. Do you have a full-time head coach?
No, actually we don't.
So him and I both coach.
I've got five coaches that go for membership and then I've got three other kind of main coaches
that pick up a good chunk of the hours.
But I'm very lucky.
Everybody's really good and everybody kind of falls
into their slots and all the hours get filled.
And we've been hosting the L ones lately. So we get these fresh, new, excited people that come in and we, you know, we show them and we show them how we do things and teach them.
And then they just grab up hours and they just love to do it. You know,
they're like, you don't have to pay us. And we're like, we're paying relax. So it's just,
they're awesome. I have a really good group. Um, how did you get to host an l1 what a cool thing
yeah so my co-owner does all that he uh he just applied for it and we want to do more but so we
are old school we don't have ac no central air and it is florida so we're kind of we're in that
like august to january phase where we're kind of eligible to host it. But he puts in for it and we've done two.
First one was okay.
It was,
there was some things that,
you know,
kind of were here and there.
And then the second one was much better.
And it was just,
when you say,
okay,
you mean on your part,
you wish you would have done better for HQ.
Not that they fucked up.
Nah,
I guess it was,
it wasn't what I remembered.
Oh,
oh, you sat through it. You sat I remembered. Oh, oh.
You sat through it.
You sat through it.
In my office, a little around.
I have cameras everywhere, obviously.
But it was good.
It all ended up well.
The next one was really good.
And it was cool to be able to.
That was probably one of the peaks of owning a CrossFit gym is getting to share
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Tell me, but you're saying that when you went to your L1,
Magic.
Magic.
Yeah.
Yeah, it was like that for me too. It like literally magic it was like holy shit actually the first 10 i went to i was just i couldn't fucking believe what i
was hearing and i did at my l1 yeah yeah is so what didn't you like about can you say what was
disappointing you was it was it not as hype you don't think they disseminated the um uh culture
you you don't like has it been watered
down like what i wouldn't say that i think it was more for me my communication with them i think the
people that went experienced the magic okay okay good okay good yeah no nothing i mean i had three
members go and they're still smiling and that was a a year ago, you know? So it was still, yeah, but it was good. And then, and, uh, and you know,
when you host something, you're working together,
so you got to mold and work together. And then, uh, we got it.
And I think we're pretty set now and we want to, we put in for everything,
specialty courses, L2s, L1s, whatever we'll host, whatever.
It's, I don't think people, this,
this doesn't get said enough and um if i with zero humility
matter of fact i don't think i've heard anyone say it besides me but when you have a crossfit
gym in your community and an affiliate in your community the repercussions and the ripples from
it are immeasurable and it's really it's like when people were donating money
um to causes i was like why don't you just give money to your local affiliate
they all and people were like why would we do that it's a business what do you mean you're it's like
tipping the gut first of all they barely make it by like you said you don't take any money you tip
the guy if the if you pull up to a hotel and the guy runs over and opens your door and and lets
your wife out and then the next thing he does is he has your kid like a teddy bear or something, welcome to the fucking Four Seasons, you're stoked.
Yeah, yeah.
And you tip that guy big.
Why wouldn't you, if you have a thousand, if you want to raise money, why wouldn't you raise money for your local CrossFit gym instead of your, so that they could buy new equipment?
Because what that's going to do is that's going to make everyone in your community healthier.
And what does that mean?
Those people are going to require less resources from your community.
As a matter of fact, they're going to become contributors instead of takers.
It's crazy the power that these gyms have in terms of everything, mindset, physicality, the way people carry themselves, the happiness, the lack lack of the resources they don't take from hospitals
Just all that shit
Yep yep
You're not sick you're not issues you're not obese
You don't have no injuries
It's just
You're nicer to people
Like if you just leave your CrossFit gym
And you just got done doing Fran
And you pull up to a fucking Safeway
And someone takes your parking spot
You don't give a shit
You're like no problem I can't walk You're high as a fucking Safeway and someone takes your parking spot, you don't give a shit. You're like, no problem. I can't walk.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You're high as a fucking kite.
It's amazing.
Yeah.
You go to pull out a shopping cart at the store and someone grabs it ahead of you,
you're like, no problem.
Go ahead.
I mean, you're so confident.
You're so in yourself.
Yes, and that's the biggest thing I try to tell the high school kids.
Confidence.
There is no drug better than confidence.
There's nothing.
Yeah, yeah. You basically feel like you're conquering the world in your crossfit gym right the stuff we do is insane so when you go out like you said you go in the real
world you're like okay whatever that's i got it i got confidence i could do anything yeah so um uh
um uh tom i think this is a question for you. Is Patrick, is this your partner, Patrick Trevino?
Yeah.
Oh, cool.
He said we're the head coaches.
He's probably right.
What's up, Patrick?
Hi.
I think this is Tom.
I hope it's a great affiliate.
But man, people who do it for free make it impossible for others to make a living doing it.
Hmm.
Impossible for others to make a living Doing it
Hmm
Um
Well we I think some don't provide the same
Service like if they discount
They don't take a pay and they discount everything
They do because they don't take a pay then yes
It could slight but we give the
Same service the same opportunities as everyone
Else would be my yeah well
And you're not doing it for free for
We I think what you're saying tom
is this um he could shut the doors down and walk away yeah and it'd be no sweat off his back just
more free time that he could spend with his daughter but he's still charging his members
and his members are subsidizing keeping keeping the doors open, paying the electricity, the Internet, the equipment, the toilet paper, the water machine, all that shit.
Keeping the parking lot clean, shit like that.
It's not that he's he's not he's not giving it away for free.
He's basically the he's basically the guy who just collects the money and keeps the lights on.
He's doing that for free.
I get out what I need from it, what it does for me and what,
what coaching and, and I work out really hard. Like, you know,
you would think I'm trying to be a games athlete as hard as I work out in the
career I work out with. That's my payment. That's, that's what I need.
That's my fulfillment. And I can see where he's coming from.
I can imagine people probably think like, I don't give a shit factor comes in because I don't get paid.
And we never feel that.
I would be devastated if I had to close this place and didn't make it.
And I scratch for every penny to keep it open and do what I got to do.
Right.
But I get what he's saying.
I can imagine if you're, you know, someone just gave you a million bucks, you open a gym,
and you just have it as a toy a toy shed for yourself and you prepare but that's where we work very hard to to keep it going and doing what we
can are you friends with the other gym um i try to be yeah it's kind of different i don't know how
it is around there but there's people get i don't know they get territorial here sure like i'm really close with the guys
that are 45 minutes away you know i've competed with a bunch of them um i'm if they were watching
here they'd probably comment say some nice things but the you know i try i i have no hard feelings
for anyone i've gone to one of them i went there as an affiliate um and i left and was gone and i've i don't we don't do
any really advertising we did groupon a little bit and you know we post things here and there
but it's all just very they just flow in they come people tell other people about it we don't
go hunting members so but nah it's very territorial around here are you the only two coaches, you and Patrick? No, no, no. L1s. We're L2s, and we've got nine coaches.
Oh.
And then a lot of them do it.
Some of them trade membership for coaching, and we pay a few.
But, yeah, we've got a lot of coaches.
Oh, okay.
So people are getting paid to coach there.
Yes, yes.
No, yeah.
Okay.
Three or four we pay.
Okay.
Others that trade for membership.
Awesome.
Yeah, yeah, yeah so that that
helps out a lot and we work we work a good amount i had someone tell me yesterday
my god what was the story
there was a coach there and do you like do you like your coaches will you talk to your coaches
if they're being um uh uh
as taylor self says slap dicks if they're fucking off will you talk to them yeah dude you can't be
sitting on a box on your phone like get up there and coach some shit so i like to approach it kind
of like a broad like you know if you're coaching a class and someone's doing something wrong
you explain the right way to do it that'll fix them but everybody else can hear it i try to start
that way and then yeah i'll talk to them and say hey dude you got to make sure you lock the door yeah oh yeah the younger ones so i've had um
two people i coached in high school that now have coached for me i'll tell them hey get off your
phone and go talk okay let's go yeah and it's not not to be mean i'm trying to teach them of course
of course 100 like i said before if your friends don't tell you you're doing wrong then you don't
have friends no no one's paying for a membership somewhere so that you can be on your phone.
Yeah, no, no, no bueno. Unless it's taking a clip for social media for the gym.
Right, right. Exactly.
Do you do you ever think that you would do you ever think when your affiliate fees are due that you want to stop
paying them is or is it easy to pay them financially it can make it hard sometimes
but um it hasn't yet we definitely because you're running it you're breaking even then all of a
sudden a three thousand dollar bill comes in yeah and then you know hearing that it's going to go up and and like you i mean i
watch all shows yeah you guys point out it's not exactly the same um however even with greg and
dave and you guys all run the show i ran the affiliate the same way as i you know it didn't
really affect me when you guys left it just bummed me out because i'm a fan yeah and i've never gotten
anything from headquarters they've never like helped me fan yeah and i've never gotten anything from headquarters
they've never like helped me pay a bill they've never sent me a member ever so i'd have a really
hard time it's amazing what the word crossfit means you know what i mean like i'd have a hard
time taking that off and rebranding but you know i'm not gonna lie we talk about it every year
you know we do our finances and we we assess and we see what we can do better and where we're at financially.
But it would be a cold day in hell before we changed our name, if that makes sense.
Yeah, yeah.
I wonder what you think about this.
So this is – they hired this guy, this new affiliate director, right?
Oh, yeah.
And before they had this big, beautiful, fucking black dude as the affiliate director who was like a 10-year CrossFitter, right?
Strong, smile, went to CrossFit gyms, Gary Gaines.
When I think – and then they had Austin Maliolo as the interim affiliate director.
When I think of the affiliate director from where I stand, the affiliate director is just a cashier.
What they do is that they go out into the community, and they collect all the money from everyone, and they bring it back to the mothership.
And that's what they do, and they do it with a smile on their face.
Oh, you're a little late. Oh, your gym closed, or you need help changing your name.
But this guy, Gary, to me was like the ideal affiliate director big beautiful strong and
he made you feel confident like while you're while you're working here he's he's got it
and he and he and he drinks the kool-aid and maybe he every weekend he goes to a different
gym and works out around the country you give him like four weekends off and that's it that's
all he does so you feel so you feel like there's some like fucking stud right yeah representing us but who actually should be
representing the affiliates and taking care of them is the media team and the ceo's office and
the ceo's office is like imparting the vision and just keeps reiterating the message that greg glad
the philosophy yeah and the media goes and visits these gym and shows examples of it. Yes. But the affiliate
director should just be a cashier. Like, like just like, like, thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your money. Yeah. Here's your receipt. Thank you. And smiles
makes you feel like, like it's a well-dressed con like I liked this Gary dude just because he's a
stud. Like I want to give my money to a stud 100% yeah
They're not bringing me members or
No no thank you my money
The media team in the CEO's office is
Going to provide and then
The L1 team in the games are also going to
Provide stuff to content
That's going to that the media team can then go out
And get and then yeah and then being an affiliate
You get like cool perks like you get to purchase games
Tickets first but other than that you're part of a fucking club like you said you
pride this name out of my fucking cold dead hands yeah yeah god it seems so simple it the media team
would be the biggest impact i think that would help because you know
as far as it comes from me the only thing that I've ever gotten from being an affiliate other than the name is regionals a few years ago.
I got an affiliate owner tent I got to go hang out in one time, a lounge.
Aside from that, other than the name bringing people in, headquarters really hasn't affected anything on my gym that I'm aware of.
There are things I missed, but it would be nice.
I go to work, and I hear people once a year when the games
Are on TV. Hey, don't you do that CrossFit thing in that, you know, but aside from that no one
Even knows what CrossFit is. There's no commercials. There's not a big social media presence. There's no YouTube
There's no Instagram really worth anything
It's like so we're used to being on our own and we just feel like it almost feels like
Greg made something amazing.
He taught it to us.
We pay for the name and we've run with it. Yeah.
On our own for the most part.
So, yeah.
I like the fact of it too, of it like being on YouTube and social media as opposed to,
like some people are like, we need a commercial for the Super Bowl.
I'm like, fuck that.
I like this kind of whole, even though we're massive, this underground feel to us to like, hey, we know we do shit that like all the other people in Starbucks can't do.
Well, and the commercials are dead. Let's be real. Social media is everything.
Yeah. So that's where that's where everything because that's all anybody looks at anymore.
Social media. I don't watch the news. I just open Facebook. Oh, wow. There's a bombing yesterday okay cool you know so i um uh i saw on yesterday on facebook um
who's the kid he used to be a games athlete he's probably not even a kid anymore
he has a gym in washington cody he was on the show is that cody mooney no oh he he's that's
a cool dude too but that's from the northeast oh i know you're talking about the little guy
gymnastics but he's strong as hell.
Yeah, the other day I just fucking, I saw he deadlifted 510 pounds on Instagram.
I think he has 400 clean and he weighs like 160 pounds or something like that.
Yeah, like that's all I want.
Yeah, yeah, look at him deadlifting.
This is all I want to see.
Yeah.
This is it.
This is like, fuck you, we CrossFit.
Like, here's our guy.
Look at him.
He's tiny and he's huge.
Yeah. Like, that should be repost you, we CrossFit. Like, here's our guy. Look at him. He's tiny and he's huge. Yeah.
Like, that should be reposted, I would imagine.
Yeah, that's...
Cody Anderson, yeah.
What a stud.
He was fun to watch.
He won, yeah.
He won one of the muscle-up biathlons or something at the games,
and he was always fun to watch.
So, you're... There there's you you the the you like being in the club it's like i feel
like that's um you like being in the club you like the name you don't want to see the price raised
i would prefer not right and and if they did rate would you be okay if they raised the price that they grandfathered you in?
Yeah, but I don't know.
I listened to a lot of stuff from Greg,
and the reason why he kept it so low is a reason.
He wanted that low barrier to entry,
and basically everybody has a chance to play. But, I mean, if I'm just worried about myself, I guess, yeah, that's fine.
And I believe they have.
Didn't the affiliate fees get up to $5,000 or something at are they suza suza shaking his head no but there keeps being rumblings so supposedly
they were going to raise them a couple months ago oh uh suza's saying 4 000 he's got four up
okay yeah and i'm yeah is that what they are now suza they're 4 000 if i want to open a gym
they're 3 000 okay so there's rumblings of $4,000. Okay. And then supposedly because of some,
whatever the mishap was with the Coons now,
they've pushed it off till January.
Yeah, that was kind of weird.
Yeah, it really was.
That really was weird.
Well, and it's funny,
if it wasn't for your show or Hiller,
I don't think anybody would have known about it.
Right.
Well, they have a new media director
that no one knows about
I see nothing about CrossFit
Aside from your show and Hiller
And Coffee Pods and Wads
I think that's it
That's all
My members watch
That's where we get our CrossFit media from
You understand when Pedro talks?
I do
He's hilarious CrossFit media from. You understand when Pedro talks? I do.
He's hilarious.
I watched your CrossFit update show this morning,
making sure I didn't miss anything.
He's fantastic.
You ever think about opening a second gym, David?
No.
I think if I ever opened something more, it would be another smaller kind of competitor style gym.
Yeah, I really like competing.
Does that even exist?
Does that exist?
I don't think so.
A lot of the gyms in my area, it's just one big gym.
We're very fortunate.
We have like a big bay.
And then you go through a doorway and I have another smaller bay.
And we generally, the competitors will kind of go over there and do open gym gym or I have weightlifters that will go do their weightlifting over there
but nothing in this area that I know of but and again I'm not going to be brute strength but I'd
like to have another like maybe 800 square feet with like three of everything and just have like
hey if you want to go hard and follow the programming here's your spot you know because
you never want it to take away from your affiliate either but that's probably what i'd be interested in or like a you know a
pseudo weightlifting crossfit gym so i could push my team there over the summers and stuff
um have you ever been to img the academy down there uh only to work a game just to see the
outside they're like seven turf fields and they're, it's amazing.
You mean that you went there like as a, as a, as security?
Yeah, pretty much.
Yeah.
It was, we had a lacrosse team go play there.
So I went and watched and hung out and they have like a turf practice field and then their
football field and then their lacrosse main field.
And it's, it's an incredible facility.
I think you guys have a lot of stuff like that there though don't you in california yeah yeah i i guess i went to img in
florida once and it was crazy impressive i mean it's basically it's it's like a fucking national
park with a bunch of athletic shit going on there yeah and the guys they get there they have like a
450 pound like guy from samoan guy who's like 16 and can run like a four
five or some crazy thing like that the athletes they get they're incredible yeah everyone's been
through there from the kobe's to the serenas right yeah yeah yeah i wonder how do you know
this is kind of a weird question to ask you but how does someone how do these training camps like
how does matt torres make his money i have no idea I would be interested to see I don't know
If does he get a cut of
What they pull in or I assume
The athletes don't pay him but I have no idea
I always watch hoping I hear from you guys
So let's say he has
10 games athletes and they each pay him a thousand
Dollars a month so that would be
That would only be a hundred and twenty thousand
Dollars like how that that you
That doesn't that I don't know how he does that
Especially where he was living
There's no way
The cost of living there is insane
In Naples
Yeah he couldn't even
That wouldn't cover the cost of the gym
I mean his apartment alone
Had to have been $3,000 or $4,000 a month
Like it's incredible there
I don't know
I wonder if he gets his own sponsors
I don't know
Maybe his
Brute has sponsors.
I don't know. Brute brought to you by Philip Morris. And they and they're like, yeah, I don't know.
Do you know how they do it, Sousa? Do you know how camps do it?
So so it makes sense, right? What what Fraser's doing, right? Because he's put he's selling podium.
So you run a camp and it's subsidized by And he has his memberships For his different levels
Oh right right right right of course
So that's all subsidized
That's even smarter
His programming and his supplements
It's almost a virtual gym for him basically
But I'm trying to think I guess Brutel's programming too
Because John Young does their programming
Oh okay
So that must subsidize it too
I'm really impressed with matt torres
are you impressed with him yeah i think it's pretty cool he's he's i'm curious to see what
this next step is i you guys probably have more some some more insight but from outside looking
in i don't really know who's there honestly i didn't understand it at all he says he's rebranding
i didn't even know that you had to brand training i thought like just people came out and if they
were good we liked you.
And if you suck, we didn't.
My assumption is branding means you lost something that was a major part of your company.
Like if you are branding?
If you're rebranding.
Oh, rebranding.
Like if I lost my partner and he took half the gym and I would rebrand with my own.
You know, so I don't know.
Again, I don't know.
I'm not there.
Well, the listeners bought me this
And so I kind of rebranded
Yeah
I just branded
He's got a
He's got a good bunch of athletes
It definitely matters
What happens
And who's still there
And who's
Five complete weirdos
All through the game
Fisa Goffey
Emma Carey
Dallin Pepper
James Sprague
And Daniel Brandon
What a
And then the
kid nate ackerman they got just like weirdo centro down there and he did it i mean james
sprague is a giant giants don't go to the games yeah i actually reached out to him to talk to him
a while ago and he said he would um but yeah for your podcast yeah yeah yeah he's great yeah get
him on you'll love him he's dope Yeah, I love doing it
We did a couple episodes
And just life got kind of crazy
And then he said we'd reach out after the games
But he seems like a good dude
And he's cool
Emma Carey's not there anymore though, right?
No, she went up to
Bayham, right?
Yeah
Yeah, it sounds like she went with her boss too
Her coach
Yeah, maybe that's part of the rebrand
I don't know
Tell me about your podcast.
It's just I started initially I was just started to kind of introduce all the coaches and locally.
It was like a meant for like a local a local deal and for my gym only.
And I had a couple of members, a few members come on and it was like, I'm fortunate.
One of my members is a Hall of famer for softball at
mississippi state so i got to talk to her about her story another one of my members is from
venezuela and like escaped venezuela came had a really cool story and she's been kidnapped and
basically walked on the ucs campus just trying to yeah that's her she walked on ucs campus said i
want to go to ucf i'm from venezuela i had a
i had a master's degree there i was an engineer i want to start here and she met a professor who
sponsored her and now she's an engineer here it's just an incredible story holy dude her dad
was kidnapped she was kidnapped held for ransom just incredible stories and so i was just fortunate
to get to to get to talk to them and then but yeah she's
that's an incredible human
that story was
cool
are you going to keep doing it? It's a lot of work
yeah that's the goal
it's not a lot of work
it's just a
significant amount of time
I love to talk to people
and getting that you
know getting who some of my coaches were a little scared to get on and do it so my original plan
with them kind of fell through um but i had some few people lined up i was going to talk to and i
just saw work got really crazy no excuses got laryngitis got all this other bs but i'm going
to get back on it i really enjoy it i just like to talk to people show people their story nobody
would know about her
If you know
If I couldn't talk to her
And a thousand people
Or whatever saw it on
On YouTube
So I thought that was kind of cool
But I dig it
And hey
That's one of those things
Really that got a thousand views
I think it got more than that actually
It did
Imagine the inspiration she is to
Venezuelan people who saw it
Oh man
And it's funny
Because after she came on A few of them reached out and thanked me.
And they basically all have the same similar stories.
And it's wild.
Like, if you ever want to talk to us, I'm like, absolutely.
Like, absolutely.
So it's been cool.
It's good.
I'm going to keep going.
And my co-owner is the one that talked me into doing it.
He's like, you should do a podcast. I'm like you're crazy. Um
So yeah
um, uh
uh
I had joely joely gentry on here and then and then one of my friends who's a
Local cop was telling me that that's basically I think that's basically the job of being a cop that no one ever talks about
You're really it's it's it's all talking it's all getting to know
people that's like the the foundation of the job well it'll say it saves your life explain oh i
mean there's been especially working in a jail i've had a bunch of situations where i had to
talk my way out of situations where you end up and there's five people there that might not like
you much and you can fight your way to talk fight your way out or talk your way out. And talking is the safest way.
And going to domestics and going to, you know,
the crazy stuff you hear about and you talk them down
and get them hugging each other by the end of it
or at least get them in the handcuffs safely.
But there's nothing more important at all.
Be physically ready, but if you can't talk,
you're just, you're not going to make it.
Are there any stories in the jail that you could share where you were in a weird position i in five years
have me back on okay okay perfect i'll write the book jail is a horrible place huh to be in yeah
i can't think of anything I would want less. Yeah.
And you know these days you can't get away with it being a bad condition.
It's a wonderful condition and they take care of them and they're fed.
But just being in jail, I couldn't imagine.
I don't know, man. I've seen some videos of like these jails in Florida.
Yeah.
Where there's like a hundred dudes in one room.
Well, yeah, that's jail.
It's a big open like living room it looks it looks so
scary yeah yeah i mean yeah like your just head would always be on a swivel 100 yeah it's and
everybody has their role there so you find your role and you hope it's good um uh wad zombie uh
i can almost guess how she votes in our elections
After seeing how Venezuela is
Yeah bring in the Venezuelans
Every person I've ever met from there
Is very in line with
Us
So
I mean they even talked about
They started tearing down their statues
And their memorials
And their history was one of the
levels that they did and then when we started doing that a couple years ago i was like oh wow
yeah it's it's it's crazy yeah it's if you read about it i'm sure you have it's it's scary it's
almost like uh we need to read their history to make sure we don't end up in the same way
Dude you know
What I was tripping on the other day
This is way off
Subject but there are
There are
464
Million
Arabs
Really
There's 1.8 million
Muslims
There's 15
Million Jews
Oh wow
Leave them the fuck
Alone
Yeah yeah oh all the stuff going on over there
Right now leave them the fuck
Alone just leave there's only There's probably only six million in that country.
Leave them fucking alone.
Yeah.
There's two billion of you combined between the Muslims and the Arabs.
Leave them. There's 15 million.
Yeah.
That's how many Mormons there are.
Yeah.
Like leave them fucking alone.
It's crazy
It's hard to understand really what's going over there
You know there's so many things from different sides
And there's
You know in my simpleton mind
I'm like can we just pull back
And like sure up our country
Oh that too
Yeah
Can we pull the aircraft carrier into the Gulf of Mexico
Yeah
Just fire on the border Yeah there's like naval you know different companies Can we pull the aircraft carrier into the Gulf of Mexico? Yeah. Yeah, I keep seeing the different –
Just fire on the border.
Yeah, there's like naval different companies and aircraft carriers
and soldiers and Marines and landing over there.
I'm like, hey, guys, can you guys hit Texas first?
So it's, you know, what could happen here?
David, your cute ass will do fine in JL7.
All right, thank you.
I appreciate you having you i appreciate you
having um i appreciate you running the show in there you'd have a poker game in your cell
good good something i needed you something to keep keep me busy yeah uh so um no no no no second gym uh really really focused on this one uh what about pursuing a more
um like like a level three or level four interest you at all yeah absolutely and how come why like
whenever i hear about i'm like why would anyone want to do that isn't it enough like you love
coaching you're good at what you do yeah i mean
it might be as simple as like if you're doing jujitsu right you just stop at blue belt or you
try for the next one right okay okay keep it very simple in my head both my coach my coach and i or
owner and i um we're both l2s and we're like why do we keep renewing this let's just try to take
the test you know so we'll give it a shot am i too far far from my mic, Sousa? Is that,
are you signaling me?
No.
Oh,
oh,
you're coughing.
You're coughing.
Okay.
Hey,
what did,
what would you say to someone who wants to open a gym?
Uh,
good luck.
And if you don't have passion,
don't.
Hmm.
It's really financial.
And you think it's just going to be,
you want to do it to make a living.
You're going to make money.
And it's a business decision. Don't, and you think it's just going to be you want to do it to make a living, you're going to make money, and it's a business decision.
Don't.
What percent of gyms do you think make money?
Do you think half of them make money?
I wouldn't guess that.
I know there's some huge gyms and major backing and had a big head start,
but I don't think if you start from the ground up,
I think five years is a good spot to where you're making some good money, hopefully.
And if not, it depends how you push, but you have to have the passion.
What would you do if you and Patrick wanted to start making money?
Is the only option to get more members?
Probably, yeah.
Yeah, and we're getting close to filling here, too.
We'd probably have to get a bigger place.
But in our area, the real estate boom is insane. So for us to get a bigger place, we would have to get some, we'd have to bring someone in and get some financial backing. And
we're just not interested in that. We love our community, what we have.
And when you say there's a boom, is that a California? Why is there,
is that all the Californians are coming? I don't know what the heck it is, but it's getting expensive.
So we bought our townhome four years ago, and it was $200,000, and it just appraised for $360,000.
So it's doubled.
Yeah, more.
Or yeah, a little over.
Yeah, it's bad.
It's a lot.
Yeah, that's crazy.
Well, you're stoked, right?
That's good.
Yeah, but what good does it do? If I want to upgrade my house and get my family into some property,
I could sell it, but I can't afford where I want to move.
So, in a park, $2,000, $3,000 a month.
Right, so everything went up.
Yeah.
I'm trying to figure out, do you think that the people,
did you ever meet Greg?
No, I haven't.
You never met him?
No, no.
Have you ever met any of the new leadership?
No, I haven't.
Nobody comes down here.
Yeah, too far away.
Yeah, no, nobody gets over here.
I – no.
Matt Schindeldecker says 80% of the CrossFit affiliates profit less than $30,000 a year.
I can see that.
What's his name?
I'm really excited.
On November 13th, Chris Cooper's coming on.
Do you know who that is, the Two Brain Business guy?
Yeah, he's a rock star.
Yeah.
Do you ever use any of his services?
I haven't.
We've kind of just done it our way, but it's something we look into.
We pride ourselves in kind of doing it our way. I don't know if that's stubborn or stupid, but that's just kind of how we've always done it.
Maybe we'll make a big push for that, but I just,
I love the community we have and I love what we have.
I like coming here in the morning. I get up at three 45. I'm here at four 15.
I work out for two hours, coach, go to school, go home.
You don't drink.
No, no. Me and my wife, if we go out, you know, or once every six months we get to go out, you know,
we might have a drink here or there, but generally not.
It doesn't pay dividends at four o'clock in the morning when you're trying to ring our bell.
Yeah, I don't think anyone who gets up at 4 drinks.
No, no.
Yeah, crazy.
Or probably who's working three jobs.
Yeah.
No, you can.
I just don't.
I mean, you never would recover.
In, you know, in 2008, 2009, the CrossFit thing really exploded, and the economy was in a fucking really bad spot.
So I always thought that some of the reasons why is that people weren't working.
They got to pursue their dreams as maybe being a trainer.
They took their L1.
There was a lot of fucking commercial property available for people to move into places, all that stuff.
It was just a colliding of perfect scenarios for CrossFit to explode.
And we're kind of in that situation now where society is kind of in upheaval
and there's all this economic turmoil.
But I don't ever remember inflation being like this.
Nate, I guess it was the last time, right?
I don't even remember
2006 at least in Florida the housing market
Crashed and we had like a 60%
Short sale rate or foreclosure rate
But do you remember inflation
Do you remember ever food or items
Like skyrocketing in price like this
Oh no other than gas
But that doesn't count you know how the gas is
But yeah no I don't
It's incredible
uh that our food bill went from 200 to 500 a month it's yours did okay yeah all right a week
weekly it's incredible so i i i'm i'm i keep wondering what's going to happen to crossfit
like if is it going to flourish during this like it did in 2008 and 9 Or it's something different now
And it's not going to flourish
I think it'll survive
Yeah
I can't foresee a time
Where we're not going to have CrossFit
As part of Star Society
I don't know
I don't know if it'll be like an American Ninja Warrior
Niche market or what
But I don't see if it'll be like an american ninja warrior niche market or what but i
don't see it going away what about this i think of crossfit as a and these are my words these
aren't greg's words i've asked him about this before and i don't think he saw it this way
but i think of it as a libertarian personal accountability, personal responsibility, lifestyle movement, meaning it brings people together who who.
Have certain values regarding personal responsibility and personal accountability and that this lifestyle is ideal for that.
Right. Yeah. And I don't think that the current
i don't think it lives in any other way because it's so hard
like i don't think like i don't think dipshits pick it up right and so you can't sell it to
dipshits like like like you can sell cigarettes to dipshits yeah yeah like all day long right
and just fucking make a killing you can't sell crossfit to dipshits
and so um but i don't think the owners know that so part of me thinks that the that they have to
like this is gonna sound fucking nuts here i think they have to give it back to greg
i think maybe i think maybe they have to pay him to take it back
woody like hey here's 50 million dollars
Please take it from us
Your fucking wife's crazy
Sorry we fucked your wife
I don't want her back
I'll give you 50 million
It feels like that
They got a problem on their hand
This Andrew Hillard guy's not helping
He's fucking like
Every time they try to pull their skirt down over their feet He lifts their skirt up and ties it up over their head Like look it's got a problem on their hand it's not this andrew hillard guy's not helping he's fucking like every time they try to pull their skirt down over their feet he lifts their skirt up and ties it up over
their head like look it's got a dick that's accountability i guess right he's holding yeah
they weren't prepared for the community they weren't prepared for any of this
i don't know how anyone could be right yeah it's unless they just want to cut unless
i guess there is another way you could turn this thing into curves,
but you'd have to cut off the head of the snake.
You would lose everybody, I think.
Yeah, I think so too.
Do you see what I'm saying or do you think I'm crazy?
I think we have a situation on our hands.
I don't think it's bad.
I think it's fun.
I mean, from my perspective, it's fun to watch.
But I think we've got a problem on our hands.
Not a problem, a situation.
Escalating situation.
Look, Waze, like, 90% of my member base never had done CrossFit before,
before they walked in the door.
They didn't come for CrossFit.
They came because, oh, you can get fit here and look good in your bathing suit.
Yeah.
I don't rely a lot, like you said, on headquarters or on the games page
or CrossFit's Instagram page.
We rely nothing on that. I've never had anybody go, had anybody go oh i you know maybe five or six people i google
crossfit and found you it was just i looked for a gym and you popped up on social media or or it
was in one of the city affiliate you know facebook pages and they were asking well i need to find a
good gym and people spoke up about it um but and it's also it's like a sport for adults yeah yeah so a
lot of our members all played sports and they're very competitive people and what else can you be
competitive in because you know beer league soccer beer league basketball or softball i fulfill so
much right here and be the main attraction on a local competition. We have one going on now that's in the same place the semifinals was in Orange County in Orlando.
What else can offer that?
So I guess there's both sides.
There's the fitness and healthy, and then there's athletes that want to still have that go.
But those people end up falling into – those are the people who come into it at 34.
Like you're at that age now you're
at that age where people around you are going to start getting type 2 diabetes and they're going
to start dying and shit and you're going to be like oh like like it took even though i heard it
every day it wasn't until i'm 50 like oh fuck this really is like this isn't the games this is the
cure for the world's most vexing problem now i get it it is also the games and god bless those 25
year old kids who are crushing it but at some point that
25 year old kid's going to be a 35 year old kid and his dad's going to come down with type 2
diabetes he's going to be like oh shit yeah i think i heard coach attaway say that this thing
can also cure type 2 diabetes yeah and they're going to you know what i mean it's this yeah and
it's crazy how you don't have to like you said with the alcohol thing you don't have to push
don't drink alcohol you just do crossfit right you don't want to do like you said with the alcohol thing, you don't have to push don't drink alcohol. You just do CrossFit.
Right, and you don't want to do it.
Yeah.
You're not going to want to.
Right.
Yeah, I smoked when I came to CrossFit, and I love smoking,
but it literally came down to like, hey, this can't, this isn't,
like I have to choose one.
These two aren't compatible.
Yeah, no, no.
My ex and my current girlfriend can't be together.
I got to pick one.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So it just does everything yeah What Greg made was incredible
And I mean I would love nothing more than him to be back
But
I mean you know him better than I do
I can't imagine that would ever happen
He sure as fuck ain't gonna pay for it
No
And I can't imagine them giving it back
But at some point
They kind of
I get this feeling that part of hq is just like an ostrich it just wants to put
its head in the ground and act like it's not going on but it's going on well the revolution
there's something going on and i and i feel it more than ever now and it's like oh shit something's
happening in the community i feel like an investment opportunity either
Like say that again none of us
Want to feel like we're just this investment opportunity
Right right
Yeah yeah yeah and there is
Yeah they're doubling down
On the rhetoric but here's the thing though
Even if they convince all let's say
They convinced all of you guys
That hey this is just about selling
Supplements and bringing money
making opportunities then you then you're going to accidentally kill it yeah that's why like
even if they convince you that they were right then they're going to have killed i suspect
maybe i'm wrong maybe maybe i have too much faith in humanity but i suspect then they're
going to kill it it's like um it's like um like I'm just trying to think like when you add too much of
something you ever put like too much dressing on the salad
and you fucked up your salad it's not a salad
anymore or cook your steak too long
or yeah then it's charcoal yeah you fucked
it up yeah it's not
it's not what it was it's not even a steak
oh no
I'm in my little town here
hoping it all just stays the same yeah well well that's
what's kind of cool about you your gym's off the grid yeah very much we're self-sustained you and
your you and your um i almost feel bad reading tom's comment because basically what you're doing
is is your you're subsidizing health and fitness for your community god dude you're an amazing cop what
a good cop you are trying to be just trying to survive yeah what a good human being you are
that's the goal and incredible people around me so you ever seen anyone lose 100 pounds at your gym
no um i haven't honestly in the 10 years we've been doing this, we haven't had any morbidly obese folks come in.
But I mean, I've seen people come in looking like they go to soccer games and now they look like Xena or your princess, you know?
Wow. Yeah. Lots of that. Let's be able to do things that they never did.
They were stepping up on an irrigation box at 12 inches and now they're jumping on a 30 inch box.
stepping up on an irrigation box at 12 inches and now they're jumping on a 30 inch box yeah you seen anyone quit drinking soda like yes like been like dude i can't fucking believe like like
i just don't drink soda anymore as well yeah yourself as well yeah yeah yeah so it's it's
more of like the things they could do like again we're not games athletes, but I would say 25% of our members can do a muscle-up with 30%, maybe even higher, a ring muscle-up, which I think is pretty cool.
You know, you go to a lot of gyms and there's five or six, maybe seven.
But it's just as long as they're getting something out of it every day, you know, work a little harder, push a little harder.
David Weed, guys Guys find yourself someone that
Loves you as much as Sevan loves cops
Yeah
They call me a
What are they
A cop bunny police bunny
You call us enough don't you
Yeah all the time
Yes there's trash in front of my house
It's completely unacceptable
What I was going to ask you about something yesterday about someone calling the cops and someone
i got a funny story about one ridiculousness tell me we had a lady call it was one of my last nights
and she called and said someone is harassing her and they put a dead fish in her driveway
wow so i walk up and i look at the dead fish and it's got four big holes in it and i put a dead fish in her driveway. Wow. So I walk up, and I look at the dead fish,
and it's got four big holes in it.
And I hear a bird over my head, and I look up,
and there's an osprey carrying a fish from the water over.
Oh.
And I said, ma'am, I think that's what did it.
And she goes, no, that's a different fish.
Like, I'm thinking he just dropped this one,
and now he's got that one.
And insistent on a report.
And,
and,
and,
and,
uh,
I'll never forget that.
I'm like,
no shit.
Yeah.
Lots of fun stories.
Like,
could you just take her in for being on meth at that point?
No,
I think,
I just think she looked out of the blinds a lot,
you know,
peaked.
Yeah.
Took a report for her and said,
we'll take care of it and moved on but
It's the most fun what are the odds you look up
There's another one carrying another fish
Yeah perfect timing crazy and with
The four holes in it yeah
Uh you have
You have you already worked out today
Uh yes damn
Yeah I work out I try to do every day
Monday through Saturday at 4 a.m.
And then Sundays I'll work out at 2 when I have a couple of clients come in.
Awesome. Well, I really appreciate you coming on. It's long overdue. You're a great dude.
That was easy. Easy peasy. I appreciate you having me on.
CrossFit Oviedo in the city of Oviedo. David, thanks, man, brother.
And obviously stay in touch. We text. I feel like we just furthered the friendship.
I appreciate you. Anytime. Thank you so much
for having me on. Alright, dude. And tell Patrick
thank you also. I will. Thank you.
Alright. Ciao.
An abrupt
ending to the Affiliate Series this Saturday
as I
must take
Avi
to tennis.
Oh, yeah. You're almost late for that i was just picturing i was picturing uh that guy i was picturing some guy at a pickleball court excuse me miss your shirt is way too small
i wish i was friends with danny so i could hear that story
i want to see what she was wearing
When she got kicked out of the pickleball place
Damn
Dude I can't even fucking talk
You look good your color looks good
You look good
Really I don't even have a light on
This is just going through my computer mic right now
No you look good hey
i have this show that i want to do that's just fucking war what do you mean like just a full like
like like like the state of oregon is going to make it seem you don't have to fucking
pass basic literacy competency tests for the next five years to graduate from high school.
That's just fucking all-out war because of black people.
That's just an all-out war on black people.
That's basically the government telling black people you don't have – we're not going to require that you read to be able to graduate from high school.
It's like just a war from fucking the liberals on black people.
And I got like a hundred things
like that I want to talk about.
It's just a fucking,
I don't understand
how anyone thinks
that that's okay.
It's fucking,
we live in clown world, dude.
Oh my God.
Shit's nuts.
I would fucking,
I wanted to do
the million man
fucking black man march
on fucking portland
portland's gone portland sierra gone we should just write that off just let it burn let it have
it the fuck are they doing and you and i should just move to a different state they straight up
say it's because of fucking colored people that's what they say that's the word yeah because you
can't attack it it's all about the packaging. Think about every bill that comes out that the politics do. They probably spend more time packaging it in a word salad that you can't question, even you yeah portland's crazy racist you package it in a
way that it can't even be questioned because if you the the simple fact of you saying hey like
what is this like what who who benefits from this and why are we doing this oh you're racist what
why would you say that they're the fucking racists they're the fucking racist of course
They're the fucking racists.
They're the fucking racists.
Of course.
It's like fucking throwing a black man
off a cliff and then saying, well, we did it because the lions
were coming. We're saving them from the lions, but we threw
them off the cliff. Okay, I have to go.
I'm ready to fucking, I got a whole,
I'm ready to fucking
on the show. Okay, I love you.
Get healthy. Everyone,
talk to you maybe later today if Sousa can do a show. I can't do a show. Okay. I love you. Get healthy. Everyone. Talk to you. Maybe later today. If Susan can do a
show. Bye.