428: Peloton Puts Out a Casting Call for Members

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Peloton Puts Out a Casting Call for Members

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Here is what we covered:

  • Peloton member submissions – New film project seeking your stories and experiences
  • Fresh class plan layout – Peloton debuts updated interface to streamline your workout planning
  • Corporate moves – Peloton set to participate in Citi Global TMT Conference
  • PSNY closure update – Studios closed on 10/6, what this means for members
  • Fall fitness prep – TCO shares essential tips for transitioning your workouts this season
  • Instructor spotlight – New York Post features Susie Chan and her inspiring fitness journey
  • Travel chaos – Jeffrey McEachern and Susie Chan face unexpected travel challenges
  • Tour announcement – Alex Toussaint hits the road with exciting live events
  • Health comeback – Marcel Mauer’s recovery story and return to peak performance
  • Artist Series drop – Bad Bunny takes center stage in latest music-driven classes
  • This Week at Peloton – Your complete rundown of current platform updates and features
  • TCO Radar – Must-try classes we’re tracking for your next sweat session
  • Songs of Summer reveal – Peloton drops the ultimate workout playlist
  • Missing class mystery – Alex Toussaint’s disappeared workout creates member buzz
  • Birthday celebrations – Mila Lazar (9/7), Jon Hosking (9/9), Hanna Corbin (9/10)

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Transcript:

Welcome to the Clip Out Podcast, episode 4 28. This is Crystal O’Keefe, and this is Tom O’Keefe. Hi. Hi. My button won’t work. Oh, no. There it goes. I hate when that happens. I know, right? So goodness. Don’t really, I’m the one who says things like that.

Well now, so moving right along. [00:01:00] Am I a host or a sidekick? You are a host. No. So what, so someone created a poll? Yes. One of the listeners in the clip out group created a poll and, uh, which was very nice of me. It was Paul Kittinger. Okay. Yeah. And, uh. And then people voted and most of them were wrong.

It was 70% out of, uh, it was 70% out of the whole thing that said it was a host. So I feel like you really can’t argue with that, Tom. I feel like if that’s the case, then uh, I wanna raise, okay. I will make you exactly equal to what I get paid.

I said I wanted a raise. Exactly. I, what’s wrong, puppy? Why are you looking at me like that? Is everything okay? She looks very distraught. Yeah. She has a rough life. I know. Yeah. Get it rough. Oh yeah. So, so, uh, what pray, tell do you have in store for people this week? Oh, I need to [00:02:00] look at the list. I was too busy looking at the little picture.

Okay. So, uh, we are gonna talk about this new project that Peloton is putting out. It’s some kind of short film, so we’re gonna talk about that. Okay. And how they are at, they’re doing a casting call from anybody in the Peloton community, which is cool. Um, they’re also, should we send them footage of me just sitting next to it doing nothing like what you are right now?

I’m just like, I’m like, here I am standing next to a Peloton. I mean, you can, they won’t use it. No. If you don’t look a certain way, they’re not gonna use it anyway. So, I don’t know, maybe they’ve turned over a new leaf in that regard. Who knows? They’ve been better about putting real looking members out there.

They have, I just gave up years ago, so. Um, they’re also debuting a new class plan layout we’re gonna talk about. Um, and Peloton will be [00:03:00] participating in the city global conference. Um, and then we also just wanna remind people that they are gonna be closed coming up very soon. We also have some tips from the TCO team about.

Fall workouts, how to do that transition from outdoor workouts to indoor or vice versa, depending on where you live, right? And we have tons of instructors in the news. We have, um, Suzy Chan news. We have very disturbing Jeffrey McKern news. Ah. Oh my God. Uh, we have Alex Toussant news. We have, we should say he’s safe.

He’s fine. When you hear the story, you’ll understand. Yes. My laughter. Yes, yes. He’s okay. I was being dramatic. Yes. Um, and, uh, we’re gonna talk about Marcel’s uh, health, Marcel m um, and then we’re gonna talk about the newest. Artist series and we’ve got some content to update you guys on, and we’ve got some more birthdays.

Okay, well, before we get to all that shameless [00:04:00] plugs, don’t forget we’re available on Apple Podcast, Spotify, iHeart. Tune in wherever you find a podcast. You can find us while you are there. Sure. And follow us. You never miss an episode. And maybe leave us a review. You can also, if you would like to support the show with more than just your ears, you can do that over at patreon.com/the clip out where for five bucks a month, you get ad free episodes, you get bonus episodes, and you get early.

Episodes. I like how you’re getting more confident about that every week. Yeah. Yeah. We’re getting there. It used to be like, if we get ’em early, you get ’em early. Well then you took over the editing. They are early. They are early. We had to start recording earlier. I’m surprised Patreon people aren’t listening right now.

They are. Oh, that’s true. That’s where it’s sitting over there. Okay. But, uh. Where was I? Oh, last week’s episode was quite the bones. It was 45 minutes long. We were quite chatty. We were very chatty. I don’t think we will be so chatty today. Yeah. Or. When we record. When we record, yeah. Yeah. Like, [00:05:00] yeah, we actually, it was so long, we had some people unsubscribe.

You’re like, that’s too much, too, too much of you guys. You know what? I didn’t think there could be a line. And yet you crossed it. Here we are moving right along. So, uh, on this week’s Patreon, we’re gonna, because people wanted us to, uh, the ones who are left, uh, discuss the. The Biggest Loser documentary.

Yeah. Uh, that’s over on Netflix, which was very interesting. Ali, love at the US Open already. Mm-hmm. And, uh, an article I found about how binge watching television. Is healthy. And that’s, so this will be replacing my tonal workout. I’m gonna give some side eye to this. FYI, it’s science, right? Quit denying science.

What are you the head of Health and Human Services? Not yet. I’m working on it. So, [00:06:00] uh, what else? Oh yeah, you can find us on Facebook at facebook.com/the clip out while you’re there like. The page, join the group. Of course, don’t forget to, uh, watch all of these over on YouTube. And then finally we have a mostly weekly newsletter.

I say mostly ’cause I realize now I forgot to send it out last week. Whoops. Labor Day weekend, threw off my rhythm. Whoops. A doodle, oops. And then it, we had, I had a big concert on Saturday night, so that threw off my sense balance. And it was our first weekend without the kids. It was weird. Yeah. So I mean, it affected me, not you, but I’m sure had the vibes came over there to you.

Was it our first weekend? The last weekend? Last weekend was, well, we had just gotten home, so that didn’t really count. Okay. This was our first weekend, like going into the weekend without them here, if you say so. I feel like they’re really. Am I losing my mind? No, you’re not. I was. Pull up a calendar. Okay.

Shoot. So anyway, now that you’ve had the joy of listening to [00:07:00] me, check a calendar. It’s exciting stuff over here. Shoot us to the top of the Apple Podcast. Charge to be sure. Uh, this clip’s gonna go viral. Yes. Let’s dig in, shall we? We shall.

Peloton is looking for member submissions for a new film project. I struggled with how to phrase this ’cause I didn’t wanna make it sound like they were shooting a major motion picture. Yeah. And, and they’re not. They are doing a short. Movie. Um, they’re calling it a project, celebrating the stories, emotions, and motivation behind what motivates its members, whether it’s the bike plus tread, tread plus a row.

It’s an opportunity for members to share how their Peloton equipment fits into their lives and keeps them moving. What about the guide? Can’t you, it’s discontinued. Share your guide story. No, they don’t care. You were motivated by the guide. They were like it. It’s discontinued. We no [00:08:00] longer care how the guide guided you.

We don’t care. Yeah. Get outta here. Get out.

I had mine all ready to go. Did you? I did. So I just think it’s funny, you know how many, you know, how many videos I’ve videoed of myself and submitted to this, this company over the last 10 years, the last freaking decade, and now they’re like, show yourself working out safely on your Peloton hardware. No, I’m going to, I’m gonna work out all crazy.

I’m gonna recreate an okay. Go video. God uh. Probably people would though. That’s true. There are so many people who are so damn thirsty. Yeah. I mean they, I get why they put that in there. ’cause Yeah, there were people that be like the crazier thing I do, the more likely they are to use it. No, they’ll have like a box on the treadmill with a puppy in it or something.

Yeah. Yeah. That’s not good. No, don’t do that again. Exactly. Yeah. So what do you think this is getting used for? Just gonna go on socials or YouTubes or something. I don’t know. Um, [00:09:00] I’m guessing that, yeah I would like to believe that it could be for a commercial, but I just don’t have, I don’t have enough confidence in them that it is, uh, but also the way they’re phrasing it like a short film project, not a commercial.

That’s true. Although, you know, um, they do have their little Peloton studios now. Yeah. You know, that they did like, uh, Susie’s big. Project and Beck’s big project. Yeah. And so, so maybe they’re gonna do something and it’ll be available over in the entertainment section Yeah. Of your equipment.

If you, have equipment. Yeah. Uh, that could be, but I’m guessing it’s probably going to be a hype reel for social media if I had to guess. Yeah. And it’ll probably be like a longer cut version will, or uncut version will be over on YouTube would also be my guess. That makes sense. Yeah. Peloton has debuted its new class plan layout.

Yeah, no, it’s a very, very minor thing, you know, but, uh, what is cool about it for people who [00:10:00] practice training in ways where they’re trying to accomplish certain goals? Like let’s say you want to spend a certain amount of time in zone four. Or zone five. One way to be able to do that is to see like, what’s a tempo run?

What’s a threshold run? And in the past it’s been like, okay, you’re gonna have 20 minutes of intervals. That’s how they break it down. They’ll be like, you have five minutes of warmup, and then you have 20 minutes of intervals. And then you have the end. And sometimes they would even say, your intervals were a minute and a half long or seven minutes long, but they wouldn’t give you any details about where you’re supposed to be.

And now they’re breaking it down. Into these really specific threshold tempo, like that kind of thing. The only time we’ve seen this before has been in strength training. Okay. Where they switch between the moves, they’ll be like bicep curls and tricep. Kickbacks and you know, they’ll, they’ll do that. And now we’re seeing that move over into the equipment for the cardio, [00:11:00] which I think is great.

Now, what they need to do is be able to add a filter where you can sort, like, I want one that focuses on threshold. I want one that focuses on tempo. I want one that. Focuses on endurance. You know, you need to be able to do that next. Otherwise, you just have to look through the class programs and find one that you want.

And I, I have long said, that’s the one area Peloton really needs to get good at. Because if you want to increase your fitness and not like, working out for fun is awesome. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Like I, that is the majority of what I do. But when you are training for something, what, whatever it is, triathlon, a marathon, a half marathon of.

5K, it doesn’t matter. You need to have some structure around that training. And Peloton would do themselves a lot of good if they would make all of their classes easy to find like that so people could make their own training. Right. And make it easier to find, because right now you have to sift through it and it’s, it’s.

It’s not fun. Yeah, it’s a lot of work and yes, [00:12:00] AI can do some of it, but it can’t do all of it. Yeah. So that would be my big thing. ’cause Right, right now they don’t even have notes where it’s like you do a class and you’re like, oh, this had exactly the amount of tempo that I wanted. You know, you can’t put that in the notes anywhere.

So like you save. And then you’re like, wait, was this the one that I liked? Right? And why did I like that? You have no idea. None. So th there, this is part one, hopefully of more to come that’s going to make it where what people are looking for from a training point of view.

Peloton is going to participate in the city global TMT conference. I was really excited about this ’cause at first I thought it said TMNT conference and I was like, teenage mut Ninja Turtles. I’m in. Oh my God. Did you see the viral video of the two rats fighting in the New York subway? I saw it, but I didn’t click on it.

Oh my God. They were doing such ninja moves, like they were jumping at each other. There were, there were like [00:13:00] jump shots. They were running at each other and colliding in mid air. It was like nothing I’ve ever seen. So I sent it to Sydney and I was like, where are the turtles? And then later that day, yeah, I found a video and I found out where the turtles were.

Right. They were all in the water. Saving another turtle. There was a turtle that was upside down. In the water and a whole gang of turtles flipped him over and saved his life. I guess this explains pizza rat. It does all of it. It’s all coming together. They do love their pizza. They do. So the TMT conference.

I don’t know what that means. Oh. Uh, it’s just a financial conference, and the reason that people are gonna care about this is because Liz Coton from Peloton, she’s the CFO. Mm-hmm. She’s gonna do a fireside chat. What that typically means is that people are gonna ask lots and lots of questions about Peloton, usually softballs, and we’re gonna find out.

Typically where things [00:14:00] are headed, right? You know, you’re gonna get some nuggets about the future. Mm. Nuggets and, uh, not chicken nuggets. Boo. So that is gonna be on, it’s gonna actually be today at 10:00 AM So, you know, it’s possible that something major is gonna come out of this. And we will be recording again, Tom.

Oh, I doubt it though. Yeah, it’s, I doubt it. It doesn’t usually happen like that. So we still don’t know what TMT stands for. Oh, I just didn’t really care. It’s probably like, I bet you at least one of the tees is technology. That seems right. City, city, global. It’s probably technology, money technology.

That’s what it stands for. That’s, that’s exactly it. Yeah. Yeah. That’s what I’m here for. You’re welcome. Thank you. PSNY is going to be closed on October 6th. They are. So mark your calendar. So you know when you can see people screaming in terror on the OPP because they will. Yes. Uh, there’s no live classes.

Oh my God. They’re closing. So they are gonna be the classes went up from October 2nd to fifth, uh, to be available [00:15:00] to book this past. Past week. Yeah, on Thursday, August 28th. But since there were no classes on Monday, October 6th, we just wanted to make sure that people saw that because they will go to book it and then there’ll be in an uproar.

So we’ll have two stages of our uproar the day they tried to book for October 6th, and then on October 6th, both of those things will occur. So no classes okay, no member classes. There will be lots of on demand. Do we know why they’re closed? No. Do we care? Not really. So fall is almost upon us. I’m just, it’s here for me.

Well, if I can’t wear a hoodie, it’s not autumn. Well, I’m just forcing the subject, you know, like I’m wearing long sleeves throughout the day. I only take off the long sleeves when I have to go for a walk with a dog. Because you have the AC set to 62 in the house. It’s not 62, 64, it’s not 64. It’s 74 during the day.

Thank you very much. Now at [00:16:00] night. At night need to see. I have hot flashes and it needs to be at 69, and it is. God dammit.

So anyway. Oh yeah. Fall. Fall. Yeah. So our wonderful tipster, Liz wrote this amazing article about talking about fall transitions and how you change your workouts. Typically with the seasons, like that’s a really good way to do it. Especially again, if you are training for something you want to change up your workouts on a regular basis.

Doesn’t matter if you’re training or not, it’s just an especially, but you wanna look at things like what’s the temperature gonna do, what’s daylight savings times gonna do? Because like for me, I really don’t like running outside in the dark Sure. At all anymore. I used to love it and now it’s terrifying to me.

Yeah. I cannot do it. And there’s also, you wanna change your hydration. Uh, so there’s a lot to think about because when you’re, if you’re used to only running a certain time of the year and then you start running outside, or you start biking outside and [00:17:00] it’s a different time of the year, you need to change all of these strategies.

And she also talks about how you want to look at different things like changing the type of workout that you do. So if you’ve been doing. All outside stuff. It might be time to come inside. Also, depending on where you live, it might be time to go outside. Yeah. ’cause it’s been miserably hot like it has here.

Um, so she gives you all kinds of different things to think about trying, like, if you haven’t been doing strength workouts, trying some of those, uh, she also has like, think about doing a core stability focus. Maybe you haven’t been focused on that. And then of course, tons of options for training on your bike.

Indoors and for of course your your tread, incline speed work, endurance building. There’s tons of ideas here for how to take your next training block. So thank you to Liz and all of that lives over on the club out.com. Or you can find it in the group or you can find it in the newsletter if you manage to send it out this week, if I remember [00:18:00] to send it out this week.

But we, it’s not a three day weekend, so I think we’ll be okay. Okay. Coming up after this, we’re gonna look at instructors in the news. We have updates on Suzy Chan, Jeffrey Chen’s Nightmare. Oh, and which instructor is going on tour? Maybe he’s coming to your town.

The. New York Post spotlighted did Susie Chan and her completion of her finer Final World. Major marathon. Yes. So she now has seven stars. Uh, and for some reason they felt the need to share that it happened at age 50. I know. I’m not really sure why they thought that was an important detail. But I will say that Susie is incredibly inspiring for not even starting to run till she was in her thirties.

Yeah. Which I hear, but she’s way faster. She like says how slow she is and I’m like, [00:19:00] girl.

It was fun to see her in the New York Post and get a big spotlight on running all of her world majors and this was the first opportunity people had to get their seven stars. So it was pretty cool. And then Jeffrey. McKean or Mccn? Ecker. McKeon. I don’t know. Jeffrey. Jeffrey. He’s the sweetest.

He really is. He’s such a nice freaking guy. Uh, he did this marathon as well. He did. And he had some travel troubles. I’ll tell you what guys I am so upset about this, Jeffrey, they had to do two planes coming back from Australia to the uk, right? He left his medal on the first plane. Oof. I mean, it’s just gone forever.

It’s just gone. You can. You can still buy one though, right? It’s not the same. It is not the same. Tom, the one they put around your freaking neck is the [00:20:00] important one. That’s important, but you can go buy an identical one. It’s not the same. And yes, yes, yes. You can buy one, buy it. You already bought it because you had to pay to get into the marathon.

Now you gotta buy it again. Although, I don’t know, maybe when they’re, when you’re a Peloton instructor, you don’t have to pay for any of these. I have no idea. But I would think if you won another medal, they’re gonna be like, you got the first one. You got podium now. I am just so upset. Like it was, it was Susie and Jeffrey in the airport waiting for their second flight, and Jeffrey was like, just.

Heartbroken, and I am heartbroken on his behalf. And then Susie’s luggage was just like, apparently it wasn’t gonna be there when they got there, although it ended up being there. It all worked out like her luggage did arrive. It did not magically have his medal in it though. You had like sympathy, panic, attack.

Oh, I did. Because, well, when you’ve only run one marathon [00:21:00] like myself you, you wear that and you’re not taking it off for anything. Yeah. You know, but I, apparently Jeffrey does. But, but see it’s not his. First so I can understand like you’ve done a few of these, you have a little confidence. Yeah. And like it’s not such a huge accomp, like it’s a huge accomplishment.

I don’t mean to take ’em. Right. But it’s not like this amazing, like you’re like, I’ve done this before. Yeah, yeah. It’s not like the first time you do something. It’s always an major, major accomplishment though. And uh, so I could see you having the confidence to like, take it off. Put it in the back of the seat pocket.

Yeah, because maybe it’s hanging on your neck. It’s a little heavy. Those metals have gotten very large. They have, I’m sure they’re heavy. And so, you know, just, just to rest your neck and then leaving it there. I’ve only been around yours and you wouldn’t let me touch it. No. So. I’ve never actually lifted one, but it looks like it would be heavy.

It was very heavy. It’s not that heavy, but it does pull on your neck after a while. Yeah. Does not bother me. I will have that sore neck for that [00:22:00] 24 hours. I’ve not taken it off, does the proudest accomplishment of my life. And, uh, everyone will know everywhere I go and even if they don’t notice it, I will be like, I ran the marathon.

You’re wearing it right now. That’s what I did. I’m not, but I should. I should wear it. Every single time we record, Alex Toussant is going on tour. Yeah, so they’re starting up this thing called like the give back Run and, I don’t know why I don’t really get what this is about, but, uh, it’s called the Give Back Run tour, and there’s at least four cities that we know that are going to be included Chicago on September 14th, Dallas on September 28th, Kansas City on October 5th, and San Francisco on October 19th.

Um, as soon as we know more details about what that’s going to include, we will let you know. We assume you’re gonna be able to come out and actually run with. Him. I mean, it kinda sounds like it. It does, it does. They just haven’t given [00:23:00] any actual. And information yet, but that’s what it looks like. Um, and uh, so I think this is kind of like a little tiny baby Peloton on tour.

Yeah. Except it’s just one instructor on tour. Just, ah, guy. Exactly. So yeah, it’s, uh, that’s happening. Marcel Mauer gave us an update on his health and it’s good news. So tell us about it. He had good news about his health. He said, uh, the last weeks have been a bit of a rollercoaster. He had a, see, this is why.

This is why I’m a sidekick right here. This is a prime example for all of you who voted for me to be a co-host. I don’t know anything. I see it in the notes and then I’m just like, Hey, here’s the thing, and then Crystal talks for the next five minutes. And then maybe I, uh, I have dropping a dick joke or something, [00:24:00] and then that’s it.

That’s a sidekick. If I had been like, well, here’s what’s going on with Marcel. He talked to his GP and they said like, no, I don’t know anything about that. I still have to look up every time to see if this just the guy Marcel or the girl Marcel. So that’s what I do because I’m a sidekick. Well, Marcel m.

This is the mail. ’cause it’s in MM for mail. There you go. Okay. Uh, he says the, the last weeks have been a bit of a rollercoaster. He’s had leaky gut, histamine, intolerance, food sensitivities, and he had to go on a very strict elimination diet. That’s tough. I don’t know if you’ve ever, if, if people listening have been in an elimination diet, but like they cut out everything and then they start adding things back in.

So it is. You have to be very patient. Yeah. And I’m not a patient person. I’ve never noticed liar. So they also had to give him probiotics and he said a small pharmacy’s worth of supplements are now his daily companions. He [00:25:00] lost more than seven kilograms, which I believe is like 15 pounds ish. That’s a lot.

And uh, he said that training felt like a fight. His social life got tricky and even standing in front of the camera to teach and produce classes was not easy when the energy from food was missing, he wasn’t exactly loving what he saw in the mirror. But hey, even fitness instructors. Hit rough patches.

The good news is it’s turning around the next High Rocks competition is in 32 days. He already has gained five pounds back, 2.5 kilograms. And, uh, and I’m, I’m definitely estimating nobody yell at me about how the metric conversion, I know it’s not right. Yeah. I’m roughly. Roughly doing that. Yeah. Anyway, um, he’s working on continuing to add a little bit more and he finally smiled at the, managed to smile at the mirror again.

I just think this is a really vulnerable post. Yeah. Especially from a man, because you see a lot of women on social media talk about like. What it’s like being in the spotlight, what it’s like to have people judging [00:26:00] your body and your performance and everything. Not that men don’t deal with it. Obviously men deal with it too, but you don’t see men being as vulnerable about it.

And I also think, especially from a man’s perspective of dealing with illness like on top of the body image, I just really appreciate his vulnerability about this. For sure.

 The latest artist series features Bad Bunny who was just in the movie we watched. He was, he was in caught ceiling. He was, yeah. Where he was the, uh, he was. This is all sounding very cagey now.

No. So the Russians or Ukrainians? Yeah. Depending on what you, what they were. Yeah. Because they never really, they never did say for sure. Really said the guy that comes in, that’s like their boss. Yeah. That’s bad bunny. Oh yeah. Oops. Yeah. I did not realize that we saw caught stealing last week. We did by, well, ’cause I saw the wrong [00:27:00] movie for the podcast.

I thought we had to see Toxic Avenger and that was not my jam. It wasn’t any detail, although apparently if you like Toxic Avenger, then you’ll like this. ’cause it seems to be getting good reviews from people who dig it. Honestly, it was not the most terrible movie we’ve watched. Yeah, it was not great, but it certainly was not terrible.

I was really dreading caught stealing though, because I hate, what’s his name? Darren Aronofsky. I cannot say that man’s name, right. Yeah. Ever. But um, yeah, I really don’t like his movies and so I was dreading that we had to go see this movie. But Caught stealing was actually a really good movie. Yeah. Funny.

I don’t know why they’re kind of trying to make it like a funny thing. The trailer made it look like a wacky heist movie and it’s not. And it’s not, but, uh, but it’s good. But it’s like, like an intense. Fun like guys in over his head. How’s he gonna get out of this? Yeah. And uh, it, yeah, and it was really, and Darren Aronofsky, he made the whale, which I did not care for, hated it.

He made Mother, which I hated with the white hot, he never watched it, but Intensity of a thousand sons, but hated it. Just [00:28:00] based on what you said. Yeah. I didn’t like Noah. Like he hasn’t made a good movie since Black Swan, as far as I’m concerned. So, but this Caught ceiling was really good. Bad Bunny was in it.

That is the artist series, bringing it full circle. Oh yeah. Back to Peloton. Oh yeah. So, um, I thought this was interesting because Peloton posted a couple of chairs on and they were like it’s a new artist series and you know, I’m not hip, so I didn’t know what this meant. Yeah. But our sleuth figured out that it was the empty chairs.

It was representing the empty chairs behind Bad Bunny’s album cover and the new album that he just came out with. In Span it translates from Spanish to English as I should have taken more photos. And, uh, it. The empty chairs specifically represent the absence of loved ones who have left Puerto Rico, symbolizing migration and the loss of community.

Uh, and the humble white [00:29:00] plastic chairs are a familiar site in Puerto Rican households and evoke feelings of nostalgia and loss for many, becoming a powerful sim symbol of homesickness and the. Dysphoria dis, how do you say that? D Dia. Diaspora. Diaspora. Um, and then the other thing is that his album, um, that says, I wish I should have taken more photos.

In English, because I’m not going to attempt to, I’m not gonna attempt to say that in the Spanish title. I will, I will completely mess it up. But the, it delves into political themes of Puerto Rican colonization, cultural preservation resistance against the US government Go bad bunny. Um, the phrase also carries a personal meaning reflecting bad bunny’s desire to have more.

Fully embraced and appreciated moments of his life and his culture before they passed, or before they changed by external forces like gentrification. I just was like really moved by how much two chairs [00:30:00] meant. I know. I was like, dang. I was like, when they said that, the humble white plastic chairs, and I was like, oh, that’s all, that’s every, that’s what all the chairs look like in our.

Patio growing up I didn’t realize I was so humble. You’re so humble. I’m so, I’m the most humble person ever. We had metal ones, but bragger before you tell me, I’m bragging. My dad got those from somebody and I can’t tell you how many times we had to repaint that thing. Like I, the, the one that my parents have is like.

Like, it’s been there since I was like seven. Yeah. Like it’s been there forever. Those white plastic ones were great. ’cause they were stackable. They were, yeah. That was nice. Now that is true. That is very true. You just like bloop, bloop and put ’em all in a corner. Yep. Where unlike the old ones, you had to fold up.

Whoa. And then they would somehow, you would fold ’em up and stack them and they seemed to take up more space than if you had just left them unfolded. It was, I know it defies the laws of physics, but, and yet here we are. Here [00:31:00] we are. Coming up after this, we’re gonna take a look at content, just all the classes and stuff that you might want to add to your list of things to do.

So stick around.

So, because of the holiday, there is no TCO top five this week. Mm-hmm. Just throwing that out there. Yes. Just making sure people don’t think like we forgot it. No, uh, it was a purposeful decision, but that’s okay because there will be lots of content to choose from next week. The uh, what we did was, since we didn’t ha do the TCO tab five, we took that time and just.

Uh, spent more time and care On the newsletter. It shows. Yeah, it shows. But we do have something new to share. Yes. With everyone. I had a person reach out to me, Sammy Evans, and, uh, by the way, her leaderboard name. I love this. [00:32:00] Glitz and glam. Go Sam. I don’t know if she ever gets shout outs, but she should.

It’s just a lot of letters. Yeah. You know, but it’s, it’s a fun leaderboard name. Well, anyway, Sam Sammy reached out to me so Sammy reached out and she wanted us to know about the pillow. Twenties ladies. Apparently that is a new, like they’re relaunching their Facebook group and they have a brand new Instagram and uh, they wanna make sure people know about it so that they can come and join them.

So, so if you’re a fan of the 1920s, if you’re a flapper, is that what they called them? And I think this is a little different. So I think this is actually a group for women. In their twenties, like age twenties. I don’t think that sounds right to me. It literally says this is a group for gals in their twenties.

Okay, let me explain to these women how this group actually, oh dear God,[00:33:00]

clearly they just like depression era music clearly, and, and cinema clearly. Yeah. They probably got some like pearl head, head gear. Yeah. And uh, yeah, and some flapper dresses. They’re reading the Great Gatsby on their bikes.

Oh, but actually it is a group for gals in their twenties and they’re trying to create a community for young women to gain motivation and friendship, and I just think that is lovely and what Peloton is honestly all about. For sure. Even if they wear flapper dressers, why dresses? Why they do it? Whatever you wear on the bike or the tread or the guide, that’s the beauty of it being in your home.

That’s right. And if you are using at a gym and you’re using a different kind of machine and you’re still using Peloton, you’re still part of the community. Yes. And we love you and we welcome you. I use my tonal in a flapper dress all the time.

Thank you for sharing, Sammy. And I’m looking forward to that [00:34:00] Al Jolson artist series. Who’s Al Jolson? A famous music artist from the twenties. Really? Yeah. Never heard of him. Can’t be that famous. He was literally in the first sound movie ever made, never heard of him. The first person to ever speak on film was Al Jolson.

I mean. I guess that’s pretty cool now, the fact that he performed predominantly in blackface, not so cool. No, really? But yeah. Oh my God. That was, start with that. Jesus. That’s what, that’s what his thing was. Gross. Yeah. It’s a very different time. So was it,

sadly, Touche. Let’s take this moment in time to pivot to content. As there is plenty. Okay. We will take a look at this week in Peloton. We will. So a lot of the instructors are back this week. Okay. [00:35:00]And, uh, one of those instructors is Bradley, Bradley Rose. He is back from paternity leave and, uh, it’s, he has a 30 minute, eighties ride this week.

And, uh, of course he also. Is making sure everyone knows about his new podcast with his wife called Relatable with the Roses. Ah. All I can think about is the remake the Roses. I know it’s an unfortunate timing. It really is. These two get along better than what’s going on in that movie. One would hope. I mean, they appear to Yes.

We also, uh, have, well, we don’t, but Peloton has for you a weekend walk run with Robin. Yeah. It’s a 30 minute walk plus run Saturday, September 6th at 12:30 PM Eastern. And you can, what is the Celebrate Longevity Collection? I think it’s just an excuse to have classes that are geared towards[00:36:00] longevity.

Okay, so in other words, if you take this, you immediately add five years to your life immediately with just this one 10 asterisk. 10 minute class. Yeah, 10 minute meditation for longevity with Chelsea, and then a 15 minute stretching for longevity with Adrian. Both of those dropping on demand on September 7th.

We have deep core with Anna. Yeah, this is a 30 minute yoga plus Pilates. These are so deceptively hard. Yeah, and I can’t even imagine how difficult a deep core is. ’cause like that sounds so easy. Get your mind outta the gutter, but I don’t know what you’re talking about. It is not. Anyway, September 3rd on demand, 12:00 AM midnight eastern.

So we have the complete schedule now for the Renee wrap classes

it is interesting. They, they titled this Unfiltered Meets Unstoppable. I’m not really sure why. They say that she is unfiltered and unstoppable, but I don’t, I don’t know why. And it’s like red, it’s like different. It’s Is that her album titled later? I don’t know. [00:37:00] Maybe. Yeah. That totally could be.

But, uh, there is a. Bunch. There are a bunch of different classes. We’ve got yoga Flow, we’ve got Pilates with a Didi, a Ride with Jess King, a run with Mariana, a row with Ash. Um, so there’s tons of them coming up and it’s interesting because there’s nothing for late September showing on the schedule yet.

So still wondering if that’s gonna be the all for one. ’cause nothing’s been announced. Okay. So we shall see Sense? Yeah. We also have the top 10 songs of summer series. Upon us, we do, and I am not really clear, but I think this is actually just. It says of the year, but they’ve already done a top 10 songs of summer for all summers.

So I think this is just the top 10 for this summer this year. That would make sense this summer. Yeah. So, there’s a bunch of these different classes coming out and of course we will see what songs are [00:38:00] chosen by us, I guess, because if we hearted it or whatever’s Oh, is that how they calculate it? Yeah, that’s what they say.

But it also has to do with how many times an instructor plays it in their. Class. Right. Which we have nothing to do with. Yeah. So not, I don’t know. I don’t know. It’s very weird

and I guess this one isn’t content, but lack thereof. Alex Toussant has a class that went missing. Well, and it’s not just a class, it was his first walk run. Like ever and nobody knows what happened. Yeah. Like a lot of times when these don’t make it to on demand, it’ll be like, oh, there was an issue because somebody like Jen Sherman’s son threw up in the studio and so it never made it on demand.

Right. Like, we get that. Yeah. Um, or that one actually did and they just deleted that scene. But, um, but like sometimes it’s really obvious and people know. Yeah. If there was a reason, I never saw it. Like nobody can figure out specifically what happened. It just never showed up. In the library.

Interesting. So, yeah, I thought it was interesting too. Maybe one day it could still happen. It’s not like it’s never happened before. Yeah. So you never [00:39:00] know.

So we have three birthdays this week. September is trying to be the next August.

September is the new August. Oh my goodness. Mila Lazar on September 7th. And we have John Hoskin on September 9th and Hannah Corbin on September 10th. Well, happy birthday to Mila, John and Hannah Corbin. So that brings this episode to a close. Until next week, where can people find you? They can find me on Facebook at facebook.com/crystal d O’Keefe.

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And if you just can’t get enough of us, there’s more of us over on Patreon, five bucks a month. You get ad free episodes, you get [00:40:00] bonus content and early episodes, and we like you a little extra. So that’s it for this one. Thanks for tuning in, and until next time, keep peddling and running and rowing. Bye bye.

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