Crystal OKeefe: Welcome

Crystal OKeefe: to the Clip Out Podcast, episode four 17. This is Crystal O’Keefe, and

Tom Okeefe: this is Tom O’Keefe.

Tom Okeefe: Hi. Hi. What?

Crystal OKeefe: I don’t know. That was a look.

Tom Okeefe: No,

Tom Okeefe: I was responding to your

Crystal OKeefe: No, you give me a look.

Tom Okeefe: I always

Crystal OKeefe: a look.

Tom Okeefe: a lot.

Crystal OKeefe: So

Crystal OKeefe: anyway,

Tom Okeefe: so Anyw, who so, uh, I don’t know, let’s just get right into it. What Pray towel do you have in store for people this week?

Crystal OKeefe: Well, uh, we are gonna talk about [00:01:00] these new program updates that Peloton made, not to program, mean to programs. Uh, we’re also gonna talk about the new additions that Peloton made to the C-Suite. Not to mention some tech updates that Peloton is, has rolled out and they are putting on their social channels. There is a

Crystal OKeefe: New

Crystal OKeefe: update from the person who used to be the Peloton head of Global Marketing, and we’re gonna talk about how they are using a past play from Peloton.

Crystal OKeefe: At

Crystal OKeefe: their new job. Okay. Okay. Um, and we’re also gonna talk about Chase Sapphire

Crystal OKeefe: and

Crystal OKeefe: their, uh, yeah. Annual fees and how that will

Crystal OKeefe: impact

Crystal OKeefe: people getting this card that are doing it for Peloton benefits. Instructor in the news, we have an update on all the instructors at cans. We also have we are gonna talk about which instructor is being called out on social media.

Crystal OKeefe: Buy

Crystal OKeefe: [00:02:00] another, uh, social media slash fitness person. right?

Crystal OKeefe: And uh, then there’s some people that we are going to mention who they made media appearances this week. Uh, and we have one of the instructors withdrawing from a marathon. We’re gonna cover that. We Got some competitor news. We’re gonna talk about

Crystal OKeefe: body and

Crystal OKeefe: what they’re doing and how.

Crystal OKeefe: This may look familiar real

Tom Okeefe: soon. Okay. All

Crystal OKeefe: All right. And then of course, we have content to cover as

Tom Okeefe: well.

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Tom Okeefe: Mm-hmm.

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Tom Okeefe: Mm-hmm. [00:03:00]

Tom Okeefe: And if we get ’em early, you get ’em early. And of course, our undying love and affection. Yeah. This week on the Patreon episode, we’re gonna talk about a simple test you can do at home that will predict how long

Crystal OKeefe: you live.

Crystal OKeefe: Why

Crystal OKeefe: didn’t we do this test before we

Tom Okeefe: started recording?

Tom Okeefe: Oh yeah. Maybe we’ll be dead soon. And why bother?

Crystal OKeefe: Yeah. Yeah.

Crystal OKeefe: You need to think

Tom Okeefe: these things. Oh man, I don’t even, so, okay. And then if you fail that test, here’s a story about how coffee helps you

Crystal OKeefe: live longer.

Tom Okeefe: Okay. But as with

Crystal OKeefe: all things

Tom Okeefe: uhoh,

Crystal OKeefe: there’s a catch. Mm.

Tom Okeefe: And then finally we’ll have all sorts of instructor updates that we didn’t have time to get to in the main episode.

Tom Okeefe: Uh, first and foremost, somebody

Crystal OKeefe: did a TED Talk. Okay?

Crystal OKeefe: That’s pretty special. That is really,

Crystal OKeefe: spiffy.

Tom Okeefe: you can find out who that is over there. Okay? So also you can find us on Facebook at facebook.com/the clip out. While you’re there, like the page, join the group, sign up for the newsletter@theclipout.com. We’ll send all the links and stuff to you as long as we’re not at Disney World and.

Tom Okeefe: [00:04:00] Also, uh, don’t forget, you can watch all of these over on YouTube, at youtube.com/the clip out, so there’s all that. Let’s, uh, let’s dig in. Shall we? We shall.

Crystal OKeefe: So I got, I got a text from Gail. And she said I was right.

Tom Okeefe: That’s all. That’s the only update

Crystal OKeefe: people need.

Crystal OKeefe: Yeah.

Crystal OKeefe: I

Crystal OKeefe: really can’t remember exactly what the conversation was

Tom Okeefe: about. Like we were talking

Tom Okeefe: about, we were talking about licensing about the, bikes being in Latin American. That’s right. Like hotels. Right.

Tom Okeefe: And

Tom Okeefe: I was like, does their licensing cover that? Because for a long time the, argument was we can’t go to these.

Tom Okeefe: Other areas ’cause we haven’t licensed the music for there. Right. So yeah, if you smuggle a bike across the border and plug it in, you can still access it. But we as a company cannot advertise, help or facilitate in any way your acquisition of a [00:05:00] product because we have not paid for

Crystal OKeefe: set licensing.

Tom Okeefe: And she says that now they have worldwide licensing, so that

Crystal OKeefe: really shouldn’t matter.

Crystal OKeefe: And that crystal was right, like that’s the part. That’s the part we really

Tom Okeefe: need to hammer home.

Tom Okeefe: I think what that she probably meant like accidentally, right?

Tom Okeefe: No, she that you

Crystal OKeefe: said, She actually said, and your explanation makes a lot more sense, was actually what

Tom Okeefe: she

Crystal OKeefe: said.

Tom Okeefe: You know,

Tom Okeefe: I think now you’re just

Crystal OKeefe: Griffin. Nope,

Crystal OKeefe: those were the words. You

Crystal OKeefe: were winging it

Tom Okeefe: it Uhuh.

Crystal OKeefe: Uhuh.

Tom Okeefe: So, uh.

Crystal OKeefe: Anyway,

Crystal OKeefe: I

Tom Okeefe: just wanted to update everybody.

Crystal OKeefe: Peloton. in the news.

Tom Okeefe: Peloton in the news.

Crystal OKeefe: I’ll make my own sweeter. I hear

Crystal OKeefe: that.

Tom Okeefe: need you. So, uh, there’s been all the back and forth about, uh, the hubbub Yeah. With programs. And so they now

Crystal OKeefe: they now

Tom Okeefe: officially.

Crystal OKeefe: Been rolled out.

Crystal OKeefe: They have, and the [00:06:00] big things that you need to know about this is you can,

Crystal OKeefe: you

Crystal OKeefe: don’t have to start over on a program if you miss a day and they’re not locked.

Crystal OKeefe: Those are the two biggest things. You can take ’em at your own pace.

Crystal OKeefe: And

Crystal OKeefe: all of the classes, the program description and the class descriptions are available from the landing page. And now they have tabs that help you organize by all programs in progress, and completed pro pro programs. You cannot filter yet, but you can search.

Crystal OKeefe: It’s a little janky, but hey, it’s there. And uh, they are, the biggest change is they are no longer available via your web or smart tv.

Crystal OKeefe: You

Crystal OKeefe: have to cast or

Tom Okeefe: are You have to

Tom Okeefe: cast. You have to

Crystal OKeefe: You have to cast, yeah.

Crystal OKeefe: I guess I, again, you can do the janky thing where you like. get a link for it and do that,

Crystal OKeefe: and blah,

Crystal OKeefe: blah,

Crystal OKeefe: blah,

Crystal OKeefe: but

Crystal OKeefe: honestly, I don’t know that it’s really necessary because you can just put it in your [00:07:00] stack now. Because it’s on your phone and you can make, since it’s not locked down anymore, you can just put it in your stack. Gotcha. They also got a whole new look and they got all new badges. You get badges for completing programs now.

Crystal OKeefe: And if you had already completed a program. And you go back and look. Now

Tom Okeefe: there’s a shiny new badge. We can see. Oh, you

Crystal OKeefe: you

Crystal OKeefe: got a retroactive badge.

Crystal OKeefe: I, I got a couple of retroactive badges and I was not upset

Tom Okeefe: about it. Hmm. Wasn’t sad.

Tom Okeefe: We don’t

Crystal OKeefe: We don’t need no stinking badges.

Crystal OKeefe: I like the badges. Yeah.

Tom Okeefe: I’m

Tom Okeefe: not

Crystal OKeefe: badge whore.

Crystal OKeefe: Cool.

Tom Okeefe: Ooh.

Tom Okeefe: But I do like the badges shots fired

Tom Okeefe: at people who are into badges. No, no. They, you’re

Crystal OKeefe: They self, they’re all, whores. they self proclaim?

Crystal OKeefe: They are

Crystal OKeefe: badge

Tom Okeefe: horse and they are proud of

Crystal OKeefe: it.

Crystal OKeefe: They do need stinking badges.

Crystal OKeefe: They do. And they love them and like it really motivates them. And I won’t go that far.

Crystal OKeefe: But I do, I do like getting a badge, you know, so it’s like

Tom Okeefe: I’m not badge averse, you know?

Tom Okeefe: Okay.

Crystal OKeefe: right.

Crystal OKeefe: You’re a little badger.

Tom Okeefe: [00:08:00] I’m badge. Curious

Tom Okeefe: on that note, Peloton has added two new people

Crystal OKeefe: to its C-suite.

Crystal OKeefe: It has, yeah. So

Tom Okeefe: let’s take a look at this, shall we?

Crystal OKeefe: Let’s judge these people. Shall we Love it.

Crystal OKeefe: Love to judge. All right, so first of all, Peloton opened up this brand new role called a a

Crystal OKeefe: Chief

Crystal OKeefe: Technology officer. Now this is a big deal because this is where all of their AI is going to be living.

Crystal OKeefe: so

Crystal OKeefe: when

Crystal OKeefe: they talk about progress, personalization, all around ai. It’s all landed on this guy,

Tom Okeefe: and

Crystal OKeefe: that is a big deal because Shanahan, uh, so, uh, wait a minute. What’s his first name?

Tom Okeefe: Francis

Crystal OKeefe: Shanahan. Okay. Do,

Crystal OKeefe: he was. The SVP of connected fitness software. So they promoted from within. Okay. For This brand new role, which hasn’t been done for a really

Tom Okeefe: long time.

Tom Okeefe: Yeah. [00:09:00] So

Crystal OKeefe: go

Crystal OKeefe: Francis. Yeah. You know? Yeah.

Crystal OKeefe: But uh that

Crystal OKeefe: is a lot of weight sitting on his shoulders. Yeah. Because they are pushing, Peloton is pushing out, Hey, personalization. All of this AI is all gonna be based on AI and all of that

Tom Okeefe: technology is gonna come from

Crystal OKeefe: role. So

Crystal OKeefe: it’s all coming from Francis.

Crystal OKeefe: Francis. Good luck to you, sir. And then we have a brand new chief Marketing Officer.

Crystal OKeefe: Uh,

Crystal OKeefe: and that is Megan

Tom Okeefe: Emre.

Crystal OKeefe: Uh,

Crystal OKeefe: so she is. Just brand new to the company. She previously headed a Apple’s marcom role and uh, she also oversaw brand marketing for Amazon ads and led content marketing at Quibi. So she is

Tom Okeefe: is

Crystal OKeefe: after Lauren Weinberg becoming the Yes.

Crystal OKeefe: Fourth person

Crystal OKeefe: in

Crystal OKeefe: that

Tom Okeefe: role

Tom Okeefe: since

Tom Okeefe: 2020. It’s like

Crystal OKeefe: To being

Tom Okeefe: drummer for [00:10:00] Spinal Tap.

Tom Okeefe: I think it’s worse.

Crystal OKeefe: Also,

Tom Okeefe: drummers for Spinal tap all died.

Crystal OKeefe: Oh no.

Crystal OKeefe: not worse. Not worse.

Crystal OKeefe: No, no. Yeah. So

Crystal OKeefe: although

Crystal OKeefe: I say good luck to Francis, I say even more luck to Megan because

Tom Okeefe: that role

Crystal OKeefe: Is short-lived. thankless. Thankless indeed, yes. If you don’t see an immediate result. out, And I don’t know if they’re leaving. Voluntarily or Pelotons pushing ‘

Tom Okeefe: em

Crystal OKeefe: I don’t know. Yeah. But, uh, ouch. Yeah. So,

Crystal OKeefe: yeah

Crystal OKeefe: And

Crystal OKeefe: this is all, you know,

Crystal OKeefe: A big

Crystal OKeefe: strategic shift in general. Like, since Peter Stern’s been in, we’ve seen a whole new C-Suite, so that’s important.

Crystal OKeefe: Uh, also we are hoping,

Crystal OKeefe: we

Crystal OKeefe: are told we will see more data-driven campaigns that are optimized for ROI, as Megan jumps into this marketing role,

Crystal OKeefe: that’s

Crystal OKeefe: gonna be a big deal considering. The Q3 marketing spin has

Tom Okeefe: been halved to [00:11:00] $61

Crystal OKeefe: million, Only 61

Crystal OKeefe: million. I know

Tom Okeefe: it’s such a

Crystal OKeefe: tiny

Crystal OKeefe: drop

Tom Okeefe: in the bucket. What

Tom Okeefe: are you gonna do with that?

Crystal OKeefe: Megan,

Crystal OKeefe: Megan.

Crystal OKeefe: Megan. You boost on Facebook ad and you’re

Crystal OKeefe: done. You’re done. You’ve used up your whole

Crystal OKeefe: punch. Hold on.

Tom Okeefe: it’s all gone.

Crystal OKeefe: And of course also got a billboard in Des Moines.

Crystal OKeefe: Well,

Crystal OKeefe: it’s,

Crystal OKeefe: I

Crystal OKeefe: know for that kind of money. It’s not digital. Yeah.

Crystal OKeefe: Um,

Crystal OKeefe: and of course we already talked about what a big deal the CTO role is because it’s all gonna be focused on that, those AI driven features. So we will see

Crystal OKeefe: how

Crystal OKeefe: this goes. We will see, I don’t know, I’ll be honest, listeners, I’m a little exhausted.

Crystal OKeefe: Yeah. By Pelotons. Constant changes and I don’t work there. So how must this feel to

Crystal OKeefe: the

Crystal OKeefe: people that

Tom Okeefe: work there?

Crystal OKeefe: That’s,

Tom Okeefe: I’m exhausted.

Tom Okeefe: Well,

Crystal OKeefe: there’s been so many changes.

Tom Okeefe: of them haven’t been

Crystal OKeefe: through them all.

Crystal OKeefe: Fair

Crystal OKeefe: enough. I was thinking it wasn’t that long ago like it was.

Tom Okeefe: Um,

Crystal OKeefe: we are in the 11th [00:12:00] year of Peloton.

Tom Okeefe: Yeah.

Crystal OKeefe: So it was just like 16 months ago that we sent out 10 year

Crystal OKeefe: guides.

Crystal OKeefe: Like like a, a timeline to every single Peloton employee. I just wonder I. how many of those people are

Tom Okeefe: are left?

Tom Okeefe: Yeah.

Tom Okeefe: Should

Crystal OKeefe: send them out again

Tom Okeefe: and then see how many bounce back. I know,

Crystal OKeefe: right?

Crystal OKeefe: Well,

Crystal OKeefe: it’d be a good test.

Tom Okeefe: It’d be an expensive test.

Tom Okeefe: It would be

Crystal OKeefe: an expensive test.

Crystal OKeefe: but, uh, We can save the money for a billboard in Des Moines. There you go. Maybe we can spring for a digital

Tom Okeefe: ooh.

Tom Okeefe: Fancy. Mm-hmm.

Crystal OKeefe: Fancy. Mm-hmm. Okay,

Tom Okeefe: So,

Crystal OKeefe: uh, we have some tech updates.

Crystal OKeefe: We do.

Crystal OKeefe: Yeah.

Crystal OKeefe: And honestly a lot of these we’ve already seen. But a couple of things that I don’t know, people

Crystal OKeefe: don’t

Crystal OKeefe: always like hear everything

Tom Okeefe: whenever we’re doing a podcast ’cause like we’re talking and they’re doing other things.

Tom Okeefe: Yeah.

Crystal OKeefe: Yeah, They’re multitasking. Absolutely.

Tom Okeefe: easy to tune out when I talk

Crystal OKeefe: Right. Or when I talk [00:13:00]

Tom Okeefe: what was that

Crystal OKeefe: exactly. But there are some new things you can do. You can now pro,

Tom Okeefe: you can now

Crystal OKeefe: programs and collections. Okay. That’s a big deal. There is now a historical calendar, uh, that you can see all of your classes

Tom Okeefe: and there’s in improved progress.

Tom Okeefe: Oh, I thought it was gonna be like

Crystal OKeefe: the Battle of Hastings was in 10 66.

Crystal OKeefe: No. Also you can, uh, share any strength plus workouts, uh, the generator plan. So like, let’s say you

Tom Okeefe: made a strength plus workout, now you

Crystal OKeefe: share,

Tom Okeefe: do one

Crystal OKeefe: do one bicep curl.

Crystal OKeefe: I mean, you could, you could share that. That seems like something

Crystal OKeefe: you, I just did.

Crystal OKeefe: So those are the tech updates that Oh, that have been

Crystal OKeefe: included,

Crystal OKeefe: So

Tom Okeefe: I’m tired.

Tom Okeefe: I’m, trying.

Tom Okeefe: I know. I’m trying.

Crystal OKeefe: So.

Tom Okeefe: Gotham fc. Oh yeah. You

Tom Okeefe: said Gotham and I was like Batman.

Tom Okeefe: I know, right? Gotham FC is part of the [00:14:00] NWSL. That’s the National Women’s Soccer League.

Tom Okeefe: Oh, thank

Tom Okeefe: you. And I know that because I Googled it,

Crystal OKeefe: not because I know sports things. just being,

Crystal OKeefe: and you know, Nikki was a little lazy.

Crystal OKeefe: She didn’t

Crystal OKeefe: paste

Crystal OKeefe: it in for us. She found the article. Yeah. She told us all the other details that we needed to know.

Crystal OKeefe: By

Crystal OKeefe: the way, she found the little birdie.

Tom Okeefe: That gave her

Crystal OKeefe: some of this knowledge that we’re about to seek. Okay.

Crystal OKeefe: So, so like she’s been very busy. Okay. But

Tom Okeefe: she did not tell us what the thing stood for.

Tom Okeefe: Gotcha.

Tom Okeefe: Well, so the owner of the team is the former Peloton Head of Global Marketing and she says that they’re going to use some of the tricks of the trade that they utilize to make the Peloton instructors

Crystal OKeefe: so popular and do that with their players.

Crystal OKeefe: Well, it’s very interesting because, uh, they, this whole, this whole article is all about how they turned

Tom Okeefe: the

Crystal OKeefe: [00:15:00] instructors into celebrities.

Crystal OKeefe: Yeah. And then

Tom Okeefe: And then

Tom Okeefe: they talk about how they are no longer relatable.

Tom Okeefe: I.

Crystal OKeefe: Our goal is to make the people on our team no longer relatable, but maybe

Crystal OKeefe: that is appropriate

Tom Okeefe: in some places, especially sports teams. Yeah. Like

Crystal OKeefe: maybe that is, appropriate.

Crystal OKeefe: You’re supposed to relate to LeBron James.

Crystal OKeefe: No. Like He’s supposed to be on a pedestal.

Crystal OKeefe: so Like, I think that is appropriate. Yeah. But

Crystal OKeefe: what’s interesting is I, I had a, a recent conversation with a, a journalist who

Tom Okeefe: me several questions about

Crystal OKeefe: this. Particular subject.

Crystal OKeefe: The relatability of instructors?

Crystal OKeefe: Yes. And how it has changed over time, and It has, it has changed over time.

Crystal OKeefe: And

Crystal OKeefe: it’s funny because I don’t think that I am alone in saying that it has evolved who I spend time with on the platform.

Crystal OKeefe: I

Crystal OKeefe: used to have a go-to set of [00:16:00] instructors. And I never spend time with those people anymore because. I don’t find them relatable. Yeah. You know, and part of what for me, made Peloton so special was, and I think a lot of people relate to this too, that, that you had a one-on-one conversation. You go into the studio, they knew who you were. Right. ’cause They saw you on the leaderboard. I

Crystal OKeefe: don’t see that anymore. Yeah. I don’t have that experience anymore. And yeah,

Tom Okeefe: I could

Crystal OKeefe: the person that constantly lights up their

Crystal OKeefe: inbox. Yeah.

Crystal OKeefe: I could be that annoying dipshit jackass who’s so needy, but like, I don’t wanna be, and I don’t, and I don’t like that the instructors reward that, quite honestly.

Crystal OKeefe: Yeah. I think that’s part of this. It’s symptomatic

Crystal OKeefe: of

Crystal OKeefe: this. Yeah. But regardless,

Crystal OKeefe: they’ve changed who they are for bad or for good, whether it works for people or it doesn’t. And um, I find myself really gravitating toward instructors

Tom Okeefe: who,

Crystal OKeefe: who are [00:17:00] quieter and who don’t get, not that they are not amazing instructors.

Crystal OKeefe: They don’t get a lot of glamorous like places on magazine covers, And

Crystal OKeefe: podcasts

Crystal OKeefe: and things like that. But they’re amazing people.

Tom Okeefe: And that,

Tom Okeefe: That

Tom Okeefe: is, that keeps me coming

Tom Okeefe: back. It’s like when your favorite band becomes

Crystal OKeefe: like an arena band It’s exactly like, that. You go back to the clubs, Yeah, the clubs

Crystal OKeefe: and they’re never gonna go back to the clubs.

Crystal OKeefe: Yeah. Like they, they can’t, that’s, It’s just not a thing. Right. And you really can’t expect them to. No. Like,

Crystal OKeefe: as much

Crystal OKeefe: as I don’t like how those

Tom Okeefe: instructors feel now, whenever I spend time with

Crystal OKeefe: them,

Crystal OKeefe: it’s not necessarily their fault. And there’s not a whole lot they can do to change it. You got it.

Crystal OKeefe: Yeah. You got it.

Crystal OKeefe: Yeah, so it’ll be very interesting to see if

Crystal OKeefe: she

Crystal OKeefe: can pull this off. And

Crystal OKeefe: will it

Crystal OKeefe: be a good thing? Yeah, I think it will. For a team, I think it’s appropriate. Yeah. And honestly for, even for Peloton, I think it’s overall [00:18:00] good for the brand, but I don’t think it’s good for the community. I think it has

Crystal OKeefe: Really

Tom Okeefe: stripped away the, the really amazing community that we used to feel.

Tom Okeefe: And unfortunately there’s no way they can operate at this level and

Crystal OKeefe: still have that

Tom Okeefe: tight of a

Crystal OKeefe: community. Nope. You just can’t.

Crystal OKeefe: You just can’t. It’s sad.

Crystal OKeefe: It is,

Crystal OKeefe: but

Crystal OKeefe: it’s part of evolution and it’s part of the things that are happening. It will be really interesting to watch Gotham and see what happens there though.

Crystal OKeefe: because I wanna know if she can replicate that, because that seems

Tom Okeefe: like you have to be in the right place at the right time. Yeah, I think you can just make

Tom Okeefe: it happen. That’s very difficult to manufacture. Right? Like you, there’s a lot of luck involved in that. And not to say that there aren’t tons of talented

Crystal OKeefe: people involved, Right.

Tom Okeefe: there are also tons of talented people that never get any traction.

Tom Okeefe: That is

Tom Okeefe: so

Tom Okeefe: true. And so it, it’s, it being talented isn’t always enough and so you need a lot of things to happen

Crystal OKeefe: simultaneously, and some of them you don’t have any [00:19:00] control over.

Crystal OKeefe: And the world is just in a different

Tom Okeefe: place right now.

Tom Okeefe: Yeah, for sure.

Tom Okeefe: So Chase Sapphire, they get mentioned a lot on here, not because they pay us

Crystal OKeefe: or anything, and we would, we don’t have a Chase app.

Crystal OKeefe: We

Tom Okeefe: car a lot.

Tom Okeefe: We don’t

Tom Okeefe: got that kind of, we aren’t now for sure.

Tom Okeefe: Yeah.

Tom Okeefe: But

Tom Okeefe: they get mentioned ’cause they do lots of their card is one. Pricey and two has a lot of cool perks. And one of the perks you see all the time with the Chase Sapphire card are Peloton related. You get Peloton

Crystal OKeefe: discounts. This is the card.

Crystal OKeefe: Sometimes it has like what special class they do? Yeah. They get. Lots of like classes where they’re

Tom Okeefe: invited to or you pay a certain dollar amount, you’re not invited. Yeah. But let’s get first

Crystal OKeefe: dibs and

Crystal OKeefe: it’s pretty. Inexpensive in Yeah. What

Tom Okeefe: have to pay to

Tom Okeefe: be in these.

Tom Okeefe: Yeah. Pay 45 or five bucks. Yeah. It’s so It’s not, yeah. Not crazy. And

Tom Okeefe: uh, but

Tom Okeefe: their annual

Crystal OKeefe: fee is going up sub

Tom Okeefe: substantially.

Tom Okeefe: Yeah.

Tom Okeefe: It

Tom Okeefe: [00:20:00] $245 increase.

Tom Okeefe: Yeah. So it’s

Crystal OKeefe: going from like 5 5 50 to 7 95. Yeah. That’s crazy. Yeah. So I read about Points Guy ’cause

Crystal OKeefe: we

Crystal OKeefe: had, um, we had

Crystal OKeefe: somebody from there on the

Crystal OKeefe: show. We did, Yeah. So whenever I I really tend to follow Points guy because they’re consistent with the way they report. Mm-hmm.

Crystal OKeefe: Um, and so I appreciate that. Like when they talk about Chase Sapphire Reserve card, the next time I read about this, they’re gonna be comparing the same types of things so I’m not apples to oranges.

Crystal OKeefe: Right.

Crystal OKeefe: Right.

Crystal OKeefe: And so they talk about what the summary of changes are. The things that are going to be changing are the higher annual fee and earning rates and all this other stuff, but.

Crystal OKeefe: what

Crystal OKeefe: I also like about Points Sky is they break it down. Like, here’s what you need to know. So the new credits that they give you, because they do give you substantial credits, they’re only going to be useful to you if you already spend with the merchants that they designate, that you get credits from.

Crystal OKeefe: Okay? Okay. [00:21:00] So

Crystal OKeefe: That’s

Crystal OKeefe: only gonna work for you if you’re you’re spending with those merchants. It may be. Also, if you maintain the current, to maintain the $300 travel credit in its preexisting form, that’s a positive. So they put that in the checkbox. And then you do get a higher earning rate on flights and hotels, but then they decreased

Crystal OKeefe: the

Crystal OKeefe: points per dollar earning rate on general travel.

Crystal OKeefe: So if you are a person

Crystal OKeefe: who

Crystal OKeefe: books directly every time.

Crystal OKeefe: then

Crystal OKeefe: you’re gonna get four points per dollar spent. Great. Okay. But if you are a person who does general travel and you don’t book directly, you’re only gonna be getting three to three points per dollar, and it may not be worth it.

Crystal OKeefe: Not

Crystal OKeefe: to mention it was a $75,000 spending requirement to unlock the premium perks.

Crystal OKeefe: Yeah.

Crystal OKeefe: You really gotta,

Crystal OKeefe: you gotta be spending,

Tom Okeefe: yeah, because that’s on a credit card. Honestly, I’m scared [00:22:00] for

Crystal OKeefe: that need to put that much on one

Tom Okeefe: card.

Tom Okeefe: Well, some people only run businesses off of it. That’s true. Or they

Tom Okeefe: pay all their

Tom Okeefe: bills for it. They, yeah, they set up, they pay everything. Or especially if you travel a lot for work.

Tom Okeefe: So you’re, you’re racking up point, you’re racking up

Crystal OKeefe: a bill, but like. The, your company is, is reimbursing you, so like

Crystal OKeefe: it’s not necessarily like I can’t afford regular things and I’m

Tom Okeefe: Putting 70 $500,000 Yes. Credit on a credit card. Yeah. Yeah. Those are two very different

Tom Okeefe: things. I would think with how high the annual fee is on this card.

Tom Okeefe: Even

Crystal OKeefe: before this, I wouldn’t think the paycheck to paycheck people are probably using a chase, F

Tom Okeefe: car. No I mean, they shouldn’t be. Yeah. It’s not, it’s not

Crystal OKeefe: meant. To be used like that And You’re not gonna get the,

Crystal OKeefe: benefits from it. none of them are

Tom Okeefe: to be used

Crystal OKeefe: like that. I dunno.

Crystal OKeefe: they give you all those perks.

Crystal OKeefe: I think that’s exactly how they wanna use

Crystal OKeefe: it. put that out there.

Crystal OKeefe: Yes,

Tom Okeefe: Yes, you are right.

Crystal OKeefe: It

Crystal OKeefe: is

Tom Okeefe: not smart to do that, but I think they’re just asking for you to do

Tom Okeefe: this. Yeah, for sure.

Crystal OKeefe: Yeah. So anyway, if

Tom Okeefe: gotta chase Afire card

Crystal OKeefe: check out the TNC you.[00:23:00]

Tom Okeefe: you, uh, you might wanna reconsider,

Tom Okeefe: you might.

Tom Okeefe: And coming up after this, we’ve got instructors in the news.

Tom Okeefe: Somebody may or may not have had a baby shower, and we’re gonna talk about can con lion or cans, lion. I don’t know how you’re supposed to say it anymore. I feel like half the

Crystal OKeefe: people say it one way.

Crystal OKeefe: Half Parisian.

Tom Okeefe: Yeah.

Tom Okeefe: And uh, who’s calling out Dennis Morton. We’ll let you know right after this.

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Tom Okeefe: Okay.

Tom Okeefe: The

Crystal OKeefe: instructors

Crystal OKeefe: all got together for what I like to call Schrodinger’s baby shower. It both was and was not a baby shower. for

Crystal OKeefe: Ali La. I would just like to say there was a cake there and it had a topper and it said, oh baby, on the topper. so it has the word Baby Shower has now been used next to Ali Love’s name.

Crystal OKeefe: Okay. Baby has [00:24:00] been used next to Ali. Love’s name I. Actually didn’t see this on her social media. I only saw it on other instructor’s social media, but several of the instructors were there and they were celebrating

Crystal OKeefe: the

Crystal OKeefe: baby to be. So,

Crystal OKeefe: uh, let’s see, who all were the instructors? There were a bunch of people I didn’t know too that were there, but, uh, the instructors, Selena, Aditi, Katie, Emma, Olivia Ash.

Crystal OKeefe: And then there was Anna, Jess, Sims,

Tom Okeefe: Tunde,

Crystal OKeefe: Callie, Camila, Chelsea and Robin. All there.

Crystal OKeefe: and

Crystal OKeefe: a whole bunch. And not pictured, but I saw Alex Toussant post

Tom Okeefe: about it as well. So I think he was there just not in the picture. So they may have been like only the

Crystal OKeefe: women, get in the picture, yeah. yeah, Oftentimes baby showers are kind of just for the ladies I know, but he was definitely there.

Crystal OKeefe: So, you know, make of

Tom Okeefe: what you will.

Crystal OKeefe: I don’t

Tom Okeefe: mean that in a negative way. Yeah. Just, I don’t know if that meant it was a girl’s only picture or it’s

Crystal OKeefe: he [00:25:00] had left early, by the time they taken the picture, the break room.

Crystal OKeefe: I don’t know. Yeah.

Crystal OKeefe: Yeah. I don’t know. Who knows how it works

Tom Okeefe: there.

Crystal OKeefe: So baby

Tom Okeefe: has been celebrated.

Crystal OKeefe: We must be getting close to this pregnancy

Tom Okeefe: pregnancy that won end and also has never started. So Peloton instructors were at Con Lion.

Crystal OKeefe: Yep. Whatever the heck

Tom Okeefe: that means. It’s uh, some sort of, uh, like all I know is the Con Film Festival, right. And I think it’s like adjacent to that, but it’s for

Crystal OKeefe: more like advertising and marketing type stuff.

Crystal OKeefe: But you had lots of, you had three different instructors there. I think it was more than just these. three. Oh, really? There have been things posted all day, so I definitely know for sure. Ben Aldis, Jess, king, and Robin were all there. Ben and Jess were like teaching classes together. Robin was there for, I don’t know.

Crystal OKeefe: She was there for a different reason. Right. But Also part of it. And she wasn’t part of the class teaching and then I thought there was another instructor that was there. It was really confusing.

Crystal OKeefe: It was just [00:26:00] so out of left, like I don’t understand how it connects. Like what The connective tissue Is

Crystal OKeefe: back

Crystal OKeefe: to Peloton. And so I, mean obviously it’s good exposure for them

Tom Okeefe: and it

Crystal OKeefe: really matter at the end of the day. You know, they’re out there teaching film classes,

Crystal OKeefe: uh,

Crystal OKeefe: film classes.

Crystal OKeefe: Oh my God. Uh, they’re also out there teaching classes. And so they’re getting all of this exposure.

Crystal OKeefe: I think Aditi

Tom Okeefe: was there too, and she was teaching. Yoga. I saw a yoga slide

Crystal OKeefe: In there too.

Tom Okeefe: Well, I, as Robin was doing a fireside chat. Influence in motion or she, there you go. She did it. It already occurred. And Con Lyon is a five day international festival of

Crystal OKeefe: creativity, and it’s the largest gathering in the creative marketing community.

Crystal OKeefe: creative marketing.

Crystal OKeefe: I mean, marketing really is the only like segment

Tom Okeefe: of

Crystal OKeefe: that can say.

Crystal OKeefe: nothing.

Crystal OKeefe: When they say anything like, like [00:27:00] What you just said means nothing.

Tom Okeefe: They get you get to the end. the largest of creative marketing. What ’cause ’cause you just made it up. Yeah.

Crystal OKeefe: Yeah. Like of course you’re the largest, like, let me explain what we do and then you get to

Tom Okeefe: end and you’re like, okay, but now could you explain

Crystal OKeefe: it? Yeah. It’s real similar to crypto.

Tom Okeefe: of guess this iss. Why Robin’s there?

Crystal OKeefe: but

Crystal OKeefe: yeah, lots of buzz words. Yeah. it,

Tom Okeefe: like

Crystal OKeefe: it’s like, it

Tom Okeefe: like you said something

Crystal OKeefe: meaningful, but like, but when you like dive in, not really. and I say this as, but what do you

Tom Okeefe: do?

Crystal OKeefe: you’re a marketing person. so

Tom Okeefe: So I feel since I’m married to one. I can

Crystal OKeefe: say this

Tom Okeefe: about marketing

Tom Okeefe: Uhoh. I know. Yeah. No, it,

Crystal OKeefe: what I’m

Crystal OKeefe: saying.

Crystal OKeefe: I said it.

Tom Okeefe: marketing’s a lot more tangible. I know. Like, it’s like, I have a show coming. I need to promote this band, and then you market it. I’m gonna buy

Crystal OKeefe: Facebook ads and And

Tom Okeefe: YouTube ads and ads on the radio

Crystal OKeefe: and like, it’s very, it, you know, it’s tangible. Yeah, yeah. In a way that a lot of this influencer stuff isn’t, yeah.

Crystal OKeefe: [00:28:00] It’s just funny because, you know, you see Spotify have stuff and Meta has stuff and,

Crystal OKeefe: and

Crystal OKeefe: I’m just like. It’s hard for me to believe that this, this, whatever this is, is larger than the one that meta puts on. Yeah. Like

Crystal OKeefe: that.

Crystal OKeefe: That’s hard for me to believe.

Tom Okeefe: But maybe it’s in another like tiny little niche, because again, they make this stuff up.

Crystal OKeefe: So I don’t know. And meta might be siloed, like, right? Like they’re looking

Tom Okeefe: like if you’re, if you are well known on TikTok, well, oh no, because these instructors were

Crystal OKeefe: over at the meta one too. But I mean, like if you’re a

Tom Okeefe: influencer, you might not be allowed at the meta one because that’s, well, I’m just saying these instructors.

Tom Okeefe: Yeah. On TikTok and Meta. That’s what I’m trying to say. Yeah. But you know, like, yeah. But there could be

Crystal OKeefe: some compartmentalization

Tom Okeefe: Absolutely. On the part of Meta. Like, you can’t come

Crystal OKeefe: to this thing because of this other but

Tom Okeefe: knows? Yeah. So Bob

Crystal OKeefe: Harper

Crystal OKeefe: from

Crystal OKeefe: The Biggest Loser From The Biggest Loser had some words for Dennis Morton.

Crystal OKeefe: He did.

Crystal OKeefe: He,

Crystal OKeefe: he did a SmackDown

Tom Okeefe: challenge. He did. And

Crystal OKeefe: did. [00:29:00] And

Crystal OKeefe: he said, Dennis.

Crystal OKeefe: You

Crystal OKeefe: need to play more female

Tom Okeefe: artists. That was the challenge. Yeah, that’s it. I

Crystal OKeefe: know how I feel about that.

Tom Okeefe: I don’t know. It was kind of a, it was kind of a weird thing for him to do. It was, but it got my attention. Yeah. Which is why it just, it, it feels weird

Crystal OKeefe: because like this guy was

Tom Okeefe: on a network television show and it feels like he’s

Tom Okeefe: trying

Tom Okeefe: to be relevant.

Tom Okeefe: Drifting off

Crystal OKeefe: of Dennis Morton. I, I don’t know how else to see that, but, uh, it’s kind of what it feels like. Yeah. I don’t know. It is also interesting because the timing of it, I find a little interesting too, because Dennis Martin has started this new thing where every Tuesday he, it’s called like Tunes Tuesday.

Crystal OKeefe: And he talks about some artists that he really likes.

Crystal OKeefe: and

Crystal OKeefe: He, he goes into a di, like a deep dive

Tom Okeefe: for whatever

Crystal OKeefe: artist that is. So he’s only been doing

Tom Okeefe: that for

Crystal OKeefe: about three weeks, so I find that interesting. With this, I don’t know. [00:30:00] And

Crystal OKeefe: I

Crystal OKeefe: don’t really take a lot of bike classes anymore, so I haven’t taken a class with Dennis Martin in a long time, but I always remember his classes being very

Crystal OKeefe: varied

Crystal OKeefe: across a lot of different genres.

Crystal OKeefe: Yeah. I don’t really remember if they were female or male. I couldn’t tell you. ’cause I don’t pay attention to.

Tom Okeefe: Yeah.

Crystal OKeefe: I tend to

Tom Okeefe: gravitate toward female artists, but that doesn’t mean that I’m like, don’t like the men.

Crystal OKeefe: songs. Right. Yeah.

Crystal OKeefe: You know, so

Crystal OKeefe: Yeah, like it, it seemed very like good natured, but it also seemed a little, yeah,

Tom Okeefe: I don’t know.

Tom Okeefe: It was weird. It was

Crystal OKeefe: weird, right? Yeah. Yeah. All right,

Tom Okeefe: well, there you go.

Crystal OKeefe: Kirsten Ferguson talked to the manual.com about making yourself a priority.

Crystal OKeefe: Well, I mean, that is a good idea. Yeah. To make yourself a priority. It’s also easier said than done when you have children. as she does sure. And, uh, I

Tom Okeefe: believe she is a single mom. I think you would list

Crystal OKeefe: as a single

Tom Okeefe: mom.

Tom Okeefe: Like, I don’t know her.

Crystal OKeefe: whole situation. I don’t list of

Crystal OKeefe: mother single or

Crystal OKeefe: you don’t, you don’t do that.

Crystal OKeefe: That’s nice. [00:31:00] You asked me to stop.

Crystal OKeefe: Oh well

Crystal OKeefe: I can’t believe you listened. But any, at any rate, it’s like I said, easier said than done. So I think that’s helpful. And

Crystal OKeefe: if

Crystal OKeefe: that’s something that you’re struggling with, definitely check out this article on the manual.com and

Tom Okeefe: we’ll have it in the list

Crystal OKeefe: I’m sure you’ll

Tom Okeefe: be sending out approximately Monday.

Tom Okeefe: Correct. Okay.

Tom Okeefe: Tuneday

Crystal OKeefe: Tunde

Tom Okeefe: is everywhere

Crystal OKeefe: lately. I know. And uh, she’s

Tom Okeefe: in

Crystal OKeefe: Glamor Magazine, South Africa.

Crystal OKeefe: She is. Full.

Tom Okeefe: Lots It’s a big spread,

Crystal OKeefe: a huge spread.

Tom Okeefe: I don’t

Crystal OKeefe: using that word

Tom Okeefe: when I talk about women.

Crystal OKeefe: It sounds

Crystal OKeefe: I get that, but that’s what they call it is. It is,

Crystal OKeefe: Yeah. We have another They don’t word for it.

Crystal OKeefe: Nope.

Crystal OKeefe: I mean, clearly because men made it up, so Of course they don’t.

Crystal OKeefe: Um, but, uh, yeah, and she looks amazing. Beautiful. Like, I’m like, is she just going to

Tom Okeefe: become a

Crystal OKeefe: model?

Crystal OKeefe: and leave Peloton?

Crystal OKeefe: She’s [00:32:00] well on her way, well, on her way. And voting is still open.

Crystal OKeefe: Oh yeah. Got the whole month

Crystal OKeefe: And, uh,

Crystal OKeefe: you can find it over

Tom Okeefe: on Instagram.

Tom Okeefe: We have it, uh, pinned to the very top

Crystal OKeefe: corner

Crystal OKeefe: of

Crystal OKeefe: my profile. Awesome.

Crystal OKeefe: Max Gentry has withdrawn from the grandma marathon.

Crystal OKeefe: Yeah. I thought this was weird. I just feel like there’s more going on. here than what she’s saying, but she said that like logistically she was gonna do the marathon and then she had to go back for the Save the Children event in LA and that it just was like too much and so she can’t do it.

Tom Okeefe: And

Tom Okeefe: the reason I think that is

Crystal OKeefe: is just that like, that didn’t happen overnight.

Crystal OKeefe: right? Like,

Crystal OKeefe: You know, you already had all those

Crystal OKeefe: dates now. No. Expense. exactly.

Crystal OKeefe: What could have

Tom Okeefe: happened was she just started feeling really exhausted and run down and didn’t realize she would feel that way. And yeah, that’s the new part.

Tom Okeefe: Totally. Um Equivalent

Crystal OKeefe: of when someone’s like, yeah, let’s hang out on

Tom Okeefe: Friday. Yeah. On a Tuesday. Yeah. And then Friday

Crystal OKeefe: gets there and it’s like Ugh. Going Out. [00:33:00] Well, that

Crystal OKeefe: sounds terrible,

Crystal OKeefe: but when you’re VX ginger, you do that, but with marathons. Yeah,

Crystal OKeefe: exactly. Yeah. Yeah. On a Tuesday, a marathon on Friday.

Crystal OKeefe: Sounds great.

Crystal OKeefe: Yeah.

Crystal OKeefe: But, um, I just hope she’s feeling good. I hope that it’s, it’s like

Tom Okeefe: nothing happened.

Tom Okeefe: Right. She’s good and the family’s good. And this was all just like,

Crystal OKeefe: I’m just tired. Yeah. I hope that’s all it was.

Tom Okeefe: The latest artist series features Cynthia Arrivo. Yeah, She’s. Amazing. That’s really cool. She’s also everywhere she is. Yeah. It’s, it, you know, we thought it was interesting because Peloton said nothing about this. Yeah. And then all of a sudden it was just happening. Yeah. So I don’t know if that’s because like it took forever, like till the last second to get all the deal points.

Tom Okeefe: Right. Signed off on You think that they would’ve sat on this until closer to Wicked For Good coming out? Well. [00:34:00] Okay, so there’s a lot happening in June.

Crystal OKeefe: So I don’t know if like she fit really well and They wanted to highlight her specifically this month. And, it probably also

Tom Okeefe: has to do with like her album and when things

Crystal OKeefe: were coming out. Like I, I

Crystal OKeefe: think that she probably wanted

Tom Okeefe: to get as much out of that. Oh, I didn’t realize

Crystal OKeefe: Oh, I didn’t realize she had her own album I think so. okay. I think so. Yes,

Crystal OKeefe: according to

Tom Okeefe: Broadway

Tom Okeefe: World, she has a new record coming out. There you go. So

Tom Okeefe: there we go. It’s

Crystal OKeefe: we know.

Tom Okeefe: Now we know it’s to tie in with that. We figured it out on the fly in real time. You

Crystal OKeefe: watched us figure things out

Tom Okeefe: to

Tom Okeefe: the Google. Yes, to the Googles. The internet will never steer us wrong. Never.

Tom Okeefe: Never.

Tom Okeefe: So

Crystal OKeefe: body.

Tom Okeefe: As in Beachbody

Tom Okeefe: Is launching a new community platform.

Tom Okeefe: But we are wondering if this is maybe [00:35:00] an,

Crystal OKeefe: a glimpse as to what we know Peloton is working on something similar. Is this kind of an insight as to what we could expect from Peloton?

Crystal OKeefe: Well, what, what we know. So, so, so Nikki talked to a little birdie.

Crystal OKeefe: and This little birdie said that. almost everything in this article was just recently put out on the like testing platform where they had a bunch of people, like Insights Lab, Peloton

Crystal OKeefe: inside Lab

Crystal OKeefe: Insights Lab. and they were asking all of the same questions. So it’s just hard not to see the correlation, between those,

Crystal OKeefe: Those two things. So let’s see here. They are saying that this experienced community is gonna have online support groups that deliver connection, motivation, and accountability. By rewarding customers with points and badges for completing challenges, they’re going to offer insider access to brand new content and product launches, as well as providing direct [00:36:00] engagement with body trainers and leadership members will also have the opportunity to share progress.

Crystal OKeefe: and access

Crystal OKeefe: VIP perks all designed to motivate and,

Crystal OKeefe: drive long-term

Tom Okeefe: transformation. So

Crystal OKeefe: that be interesting? Yeah. And it’s

Tom Okeefe: stuff that we suggested to Peloton

Crystal OKeefe: a decade ago

Crystal OKeefe: or real close.

Crystal OKeefe: Yeah.

Crystal OKeefe: Yeah.

Crystal OKeefe: Okay. Eight years. Yeah. I was rounding.

Tom Okeefe: Well, we shall have to, uh, keep an eye on that.

Tom Okeefe: We shall, yeah.

Tom Okeefe: This will be very interesting to watch. So this could be a peak at the future. Yeah.

Tom Okeefe: Tonals.

Crystal OKeefe: Tonals, Troy Taylor, who was

Tom Okeefe: on the show not too long ago. Yeah. Maybe I should have played a past guest update sweeper. Oh, instead of

Crystal OKeefe: a competitor Sweeter. Yeah. that’s hard to say. Yeah.

Crystal OKeefe: But, uh, he is going to speak at Athleta News Innovation Summit.

Crystal OKeefe: This

Crystal OKeefe: is very interesting because he is, this is not just Troy Taylor talking about tonal.

Crystal OKeefe: He’s talking about

Crystal OKeefe: the

Crystal OKeefe: future of fitness in a [00:37:00] store. And so I think he’s going to be kind of talking about, at least in some way, what Tonals gonna look like in a retail space

Tom Okeefe: going forward. Okay.

Crystal OKeefe: Which also makes me wonder if we’re gonna see

Tom Okeefe: some of these things in Pelotons future

Crystal OKeefe: as well.

Crystal OKeefe: Interesting. So,

Tom Okeefe: lots to keep our eyes on.

Tom Okeefe: Yeah. We’ll have to

Crystal OKeefe: report back after that summit.

Crystal OKeefe: Yeah. June

Tom Okeefe: 17th and 18th in New York.

Tom Okeefe: So it’s

Tom Okeefe: happening yesterday and today in our recording time. So just

Tom Okeefe: pop right up there. Yeah.

Crystal OKeefe: Coming up after this,

Tom Okeefe: we’re gonna tackle content. We got the TCO top five.

Tom Okeefe: Take a look at, uh, some classes and things you

Crystal OKeefe: should not miss. So stick around.

Tom Okeefe: It is time for the TCO top five. You have given us classes.

Tom Okeefe: We

Crystal OKeefe: have

Tom Okeefe: put them through our class ranking machine that we keep in the basement

Crystal OKeefe: next to [00:38:00] our tonal, and then it has spit out the five best classes.

Crystal OKeefe: I just wanna say that, uh,

Crystal OKeefe: Tina

Crystal OKeefe: was able to write this article. She has the last several. And I keep

Tom Okeefe: forgetting to mention,

Crystal OKeefe: to put, I keep forgetting to put

Tom Okeefe: this in the

Crystal OKeefe: notes so we remember to talk about it During the recording. But Mason got to go to his

Crystal OKeefe: graduation.

Tom Okeefe: that’s great.

Tom Okeefe: And he got to cross the

Tom Okeefe: stage. Oh, that’s awesome. Yeah.

Tom Okeefe: So for people that are following along Yeah. This long journey, just wanted to

Crystal OKeefe: put that out there. Awesome.

Crystal OKeefe: Well, let’s, uh, segue into the TCO top five with your favorite strength class,

Crystal OKeefe: Jess Sims.

Crystal OKeefe: Taught a flash 15, and it was about kettlebells, and this was taught on June 10th. And

Crystal OKeefe: Mindy

Crystal OKeefe: Jensen brought this class up and she nominated it. She said that she’s a few,

Crystal OKeefe: She’s

Crystal OKeefe: a huge fan of just Sims Flash 15. And for those that don’t know, it’s a combo of cardio and strength. And [00:39:00] after the warmup, there are imams of various move, and now Kettlebells

Crystal OKeefe: have

Crystal OKeefe: come to the

Tom Okeefe: flash.

Tom Okeefe: 15. She also suggests that you do a few classes of kettlebell instruction first because. Since this format is so fast, it

Crystal OKeefe: doesn’t leave a lot of time for

Crystal OKeefe: instruction. No, that makes sense. It does. Yeah. if you are new to it, you can hurt yourself. Absolutely. Uh, number two, your favorite endurance ride.

Crystal OKeefe: So this was a 90 minute power zone endurance ride taught by Dennis and Matt together,

Crystal OKeefe: and

Crystal OKeefe: it was taught on June 7th, Tom Gilday recommended this ride. Saying that it had great music and dialogue between Matt and Dennis that made the time fly by,

Crystal OKeefe: and

Crystal OKeefe: Karen Smith also nominated it. She, she, said a lot of things too, but one thing that stood out to

Tom Okeefe: me, they mentioned that

Crystal OKeefe: it had been five

Tom Okeefe: years since their last two for one.

Tom Okeefe: Oh wow. We

Crystal OKeefe: definitely need more. Matt and Dennis combos more often.

Crystal OKeefe: Five

Crystal OKeefe: years. How is that possible?

Crystal OKeefe: Oh, that’s crazy.

Crystal OKeefe: It Is,

Crystal OKeefe: uh, number three your favorite ride?

Crystal OKeefe: Okay, so this [00:40:00] was a Sweat Steady Ride taught by Jess King on June

Tom Okeefe: 9th, and Katherine Kimes recommended it

Tom Okeefe: and

Tom Okeefe: she

Crystal OKeefe: said that you should try it, and if you do like it, there are many

Tom Okeefe: more sweat

Crystal OKeefe: rides with Jess.

Crystal OKeefe: Okay.

Tom Okeefe: Number four, your favorite German ride.

Tom Okeefe: Benny has been heating

Crystal OKeefe: up the TCO top five.

Crystal OKeefe: He has been

Tom Okeefe: coming in hot.

Crystal OKeefe: Get it heating up. I do.

Crystal OKeefe: Okay. Just

Crystal OKeefe: be

Crystal OKeefe: sure. Yeah. I say heat in German.

Crystal OKeefe: All right. Well, let’s just add that to your to-do list

Crystal OKeefe: dos

Crystal OKeefe: heat.

Tom Okeefe: heat.

Crystal OKeefe: Well the, ride this week was

Crystal OKeefe: from

Crystal OKeefe: June 14th. It was.

Crystal OKeefe: his dine

Crystal OKeefe: concert, a sing-along ride, and, um, sparkly eight 13 nominated it saying that it was her favorite.

Crystal OKeefe: Without question words cannot

Tom Okeefe: describe how amazing this ride with Benny’s gorgeous voice and energy, the incredible playlist

Crystal OKeefe: and a studio full of members singing along

Tom Okeefe: a 10 out of. Okay.

Crystal OKeefe: 10.

Crystal OKeefe: And finally your uns stackable. It’s a [00:41:00] tread class.

Crystal OKeefe: Yes. Okay, but it’s not just a tread class?

Crystal OKeefe: it’s, we know it’s an unst stackable.

Crystal OKeefe: It’s a free, it’s any of the free mode classes that they have released on the Tread Plus. Mm-hmm. Doesn’t matter how short they are. Sarah Lester nominated these classes and she was like, I’m happy they’re here. And I like that they’re standalone. So she added a Andy Spear class at the end of a 30 minute run, and it was.

Crystal OKeefe: hard.

Crystal OKeefe: She had forgotten how

Crystal OKeefe: difficult

Crystal OKeefe: free mode is and by the time it was done, uh, she was doing a five minute cool down walk and she could barely do the walk, the five minute walk. She

Crystal OKeefe: was like, I will be doing these classes on a regular basis. So for those of you who don’t know, ’cause I had some people ask me this, free mode classes allow you to run using the power of your

Tom Okeefe: body to move the machine, not

Crystal OKeefe: the motor.

Tom Okeefe: And again, only on Tread Plus. Really cool feature though.

Crystal OKeefe: We will now take a look at this week at Peloton, we have a two for one ride with Alex and Tound Day. Yeah. This one is going to be to celebrate Juneteenth. It’s gonna be a 30 minute, [00:42:00] the cookout two one ride.

Crystal OKeefe: Uh,

Crystal OKeefe: and it’s gonna be dropping on demand at midnight Eastern. Okay. Uh, we also have a row bootcamp with Katie.

Crystal OKeefe: Yes. Uh, it’s gonna be a 30 minute, and this one’s gonna be a 50 50. Boot camp. And that is going to, that took place on June 17th, so it’ll already be there. All of these will already be there by the time you hear the episode, Right.

Tom Okeefe: Uh, we have a meditation with Dennis.

Tom Okeefe: Yeah, he said he was gonna start doing meditations and here’s a brand new one, here you minute sleep meditation. And this one is going to be premiering on Sunday, June 22nd.

Crystal OKeefe: And we also, uh, have a strength with Rebecca.

Tom Okeefe: 60 minutes of full body strength also.

Crystal OKeefe: premiering

Crystal OKeefe: on June 22nd. This will be live at 2:30 PM Eastern.

Crystal OKeefe: Andy Spear has a new Strength Plus program for you.

Crystal OKeefe: Yeah.

Crystal OKeefe: This one is called Spark Your Strength, and it’s for beginners. So if you are looking to get into lifting and you’re not exactly sure where to start, this would be a great [00:43:00] place to start because it’s four weeks long and it’s five times a week.

Crystal OKeefe: And I think that really helps you set the stage. Yeah. And get into a rhythm and a routine.

Tom Okeefe: and

Tom Okeefe: it’s all going to be helping you build the fundamentals of hypertrophy. So I think that’s awesome.

Crystal OKeefe: we have reason to believe that Cali Gullickson is returning to bike

Crystal OKeefe: Boot camps.

Crystal OKeefe: Yeah. This was posted in one of the groups that she is going to be returning to the bike bootcamps. Why not? Sure. But she’s, I just don’t know any of the details about it. Yeah. But I think, I know people will excited about it, so that’s the important thing.

Crystal OKeefe: And, uh, finally, Eric Yeager has a 120 minute power zone endurance Right. It was live yesterday in the studio two hours. Yikes. In the middle of the week.

Tom Okeefe: So I am like, dang, that is, that is quite an endurance ride.

Tom Okeefe: Take on a random Tuesday.

Tom Okeefe: Yes. Like that’s a, I never thought about it. I don’t know why this just clicked for me, but like, those are a big, that’s a big. [00:44:00] Test for yourself to take any time, but then to actually go in studio for it like,

Crystal OKeefe: yep. Because remember

Crystal OKeefe: You

Crystal OKeefe: can’t leave.

Crystal OKeefe: Yeah. You can’t even go to the bathroom. You do not leave studio once the lights are on. Yeah. So if you leave, you’re coming back. Right. And I think I could handle it on the bike. I really do.

Crystal OKeefe: Yeah.

Crystal OKeefe: But a run. Yeah. Like no way I would pee my paper. Right there on camera, that would be happening.

Tom Okeefe: There’s no way I could make it two hours without, peeing. None. None. Not gonna happen.

Tom Okeefe: Oh, I, I know the feeling. I know you

Tom Okeefe: do.

Tom Okeefe: And finally we have not one, not two, not three, four, whoa.

Tom Okeefe: Birthdays this week.

Tom Okeefe: It’s the new August. It

Tom Okeefe: is. So first up we have Selena Samuella on June 22nd.

Tom Okeefe: Okay.

Tom Okeefe: On June 23rd. It’s a twofer, Andy Spear and Dennis Morton. Oh,

Crystal OKeefe: Oh,

Tom Okeefe: [00:45:00] and on

Crystal OKeefe: on

Crystal OKeefe: August 20,

Crystal OKeefe: this

Crystal OKeefe: is,

Crystal OKeefe: you made me say August

Tom Okeefe: and on June. 25th, you have Katie Wong.

Crystal OKeefe: Well, happy birthday, Selena, Andy, Dennis, and Katie. Yes.

Crystal OKeefe: /

Crystal OKeefe: So I guess that brings this episode to a close. Until next week. Where can people find you?

Crystal OKeefe: People can find me on Facebook at facebook.com/crystal

Tom Okeefe: dokey. They can find me on.

Crystal OKeefe: on.

Tom Okeefe: All the platforms that I never can remember threads Blue Sky Instagram and the Peloton Leaderboard at clip Out Crystal.

Tom Okeefe: And you can find me on Threads in Blue Sky at Tom O’Keefe Jr. Or

Crystal OKeefe: on Facebook

Tom Okeefe: facebook.com/tom O’Keefe. You can find the show online at facebook.com/the clip out while they’re like the page, join the group.

Tom Okeefe: Don’t

Crystal OKeefe: forget our Patreon.

Tom Okeefe: Five bucks a month, all sorts of bonus content, and of course, we like you extra. So that’s it for this one. Thanks for tuning in, and until next time, keep pedaling and running and rowing. Bye.

Crystal OKeefe: Bye.

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