449: Tunde’s Magic Mike Ride Has the Boys Clutching Their Pearls

Tunde’s Magic Mike Ride Has the Boys Clutching Their Pearls

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What we covered:

• Peloton reduces its workforce yet again, sparking industry buzz and member reactions.
• Tunde’s Magic Mike ride stirs up some unexpected emotions among the guys.
• Peloton meets with UK members to address concerns over recent schedule changes.
• Highlights from the Peloton Instructor Summits—what’s happening behind the scenes.
• Peloton extends special pricing to Canada, with even more people now eligible.
• Strength+ App officially launches in Canada, expanding Peloton’s fitness offerings.
• Peloton’s Senior Vice President & General Manager of Peloton for Business announces their departure.
• Songs that hit you right in the feels—emotionally triggering tracks discussed.
• Ben Alldis surprises riders during his INXS-themed ride—what went down?
• Hannah Corbin featured in Self Magazine—spotlighting her fitness journey and impact.
• Johanna files for a trademark—what could this mean for Peloton’s future?
• February’s Artist Series lineup—what to expect and which rides to bookmark.
• Tonal hires new coaches—how this could shake up the connected fitness space.
• Oura extends a hand to Peloton employees affected by recent downsizing.
• TCO Top 5: Listener-recommended Peloton classes you won’t want to miss.
• This Week at Peloton: A roundup of the week’s biggest highlights and updates.
• TCO Radar: The classes currently trending on The Clip Out’s radar.
• Peloton celebrates Black History Month with special rides and content.
• Matt Wilpers’ Move For Life plans and an exciting new challenge for members.
• Matt Wilpers and Christian Vande Velde team up for a Valentine’s Day ride—don’t miss it!
• TCO has your HiLit resources to keep you informed and inspired.

Transcript:

Crystal: Welcome to the clip out episode four 50. This is Crystal O’Keefe

Tom: and this is Tom O’Keefe. I, uh, have my computer open

Crystal: Yeah.

Tom: As one does.

Crystal: Right.

Tom: And I just, it’s weird ’cause like I know Facebook has been around a long time, but like, I always forget how long.

Crystal: Yeah. My, it’s been around almost 20 years now.

Tom: Uh, yeah, I just had, that’s what caught me off guard.

It was like, it shared, like, you know, it [00:01:00] does like memories. Yeah. It shared a memory and it was 17 years old.

Crystal: Yeah.

Tom: And I was like, but that can’t be right because minus and carry the one. And I’m just like, oh, some of a bitch.

Crystal: Yeah.

Tom: 17 years. And I, and I mean, it’s probably been longer than that, but

Crystal: it probably has because my.

My earliest posts on Facebook are from when Sydney was like, like three,

yeah.

Crystal: Like two or three. And so she’s 19. And we know it was around before that because they only had colleges on there for a long time.

Tom: Right. For a long time it was, yeah. You had to have an EDU

Crystal: Yeah.

Tom: Email address to even get it’s onto

Crystal: Now it’s just for the,

Tom: the Facebook

Crystal: now it’s just for the olds.

Tom: Yeah. Yeah. And

Crystal: and we’re where most of us. Peloton in the Peloton community live because they, that is where a lot of our interaction occurs. It’s so funny. People, you know, just, [00:02:00] we’ll get to the story behind what I’m talking about, but. I posted a question this week and I, and I posed that question on Instagram and Facebook.

Now, on Instagram we have almost a hundred thousand followers.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: On Facebook we have like 20,000. Yeah. But on Facebook, the amount of comments that came in was like, it dwarfed. The amount of comments by like tenfold over on Instagram. It was

Tom: crazy.

Crystal: It is crazy. It is crazy. So people, people on the Facebook are much more active and engaged.

I think on the whole,

Tom: I also feel like Instagram doesn’t encourage you to comment in the way Facebook does.

Crystal: How is it different?

Tom: I just feel like the comments don’t display the same. They don’t, I don’t tend to read them when I do. They’re harder to read and so like, I just feel like it doesn’t, which I think is purposeful.

It wants to be more visually driven, driven. It does

Crystal: want to be more

Tom: visually driven and it wants to be like, look at this picture, like, or don’t like move along. And [00:03:00] so like you can comment where I think Facebook is way more about like leaving comments and using your voice where. Where

Crystal: Facebook is all about pictures and reels

Tom: and movies or Instagram is more about

Crystal: Yeah, yeah.

That’s what I meant to say.

Tom: Yeah. Yeah. And so, um, yeah, I just feel like, I feel like you’re more apt to get into the flame wars on the Facebook. Yeah.

Crystal: Oh, de I’ve been dragged on both pretty good.

Tom: I’m sure. Yeah. Like, I’m not saying it never happened. Yeah. I just feel like Facebook, it just, it tends to get there a lot faster

Crystal: than that opinion.

Yeah. I just, I feel like there’s a more warm and fuzzy vibe of. I feel like your algorithm is more warm and fuzzy on Facebook in general than it is on Instagram. I feel like you’re open to, like, you’re more public on Instagram, and so the attacks can come from anywhere. Like anybody can chime in in a way that not anybody, like you can change your privacy settings on both, but I feel like they make more sense on Facebook because [00:04:00] you still have.

The ability for people to see certain things.

Tom: It’s more of a closed ecosystem.

Crystal: Yeah. Yeah. Whereas Instagram, it’s like, you’re either public or you’re private. Pick one. Right. And so, I feel like because of that, like anybody can weigh in on anything.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: You know, unless you have a Finsta or something.

Tom: Right. Yeah. I’ve, I’ve talked about this in bonus. I cannot. Get the Facebook algorithm to stop feeding me alt-right content.

Crystal: Yeah.

Tom: Can’t do it. Yeah can’t be done.

Crystal: Like, and, and that’s just crazy ’cause I don’t get any of that.

Tom: I have blocked literally hundreds

Crystal: of, I’m telling you, because of websites.

You watch all this stuff. From the 1960s. So they just assume,

Tom: well, if you like leave it to Beaver and the Dick Van Dyke show,

Crystal: you must be racist.

Tom: Yeah. You just gotta you clearly wanna make America great again. And I’m like, no, I just like old time TV shows, that’s all. So, uh, what pray, tell do you have in store for people this week?

Crystal: Gosh, I was not prepared for that question. I really should have. I ask

Tom: it every week.

Crystal: I know. Uh, [00:05:00] well, we are gonna talk about the latest reduction in workforce. We are going to I should also say. We are recording on Wednesday. Tomorrow is Thursday, and that’s the earnings call, right? So the tone of this whole thing could change dramatically,

Tom: right?

So something awful is revealed tomorrow, and you’re like, why are they so chipper?

Crystal: That’s because it hasn’t happened yet.

Tom: Yes.

Crystal: Uh, but we’ll probably insert whatever that is. Uh, up here. If it’s big news stop,

Tom: but you said insert. What did you expect my eyebrows to do?

Crystal: Uh, we are also going to talk about T Day’s Magic mic ride and how some people were triggered, which is ironic given how many people were upset about my triggered song post.

Yeah. But we’ll get there later. Yeah. Uh, we are also gonna talk about Peloton meeting with UK members over the schedule changes. Peloton Instructor Summits. We’re gonna do a little bit of an overview. Peloton in, uh, extending new things to Canada, but not to the uk, Germany, Austria, or Australia yet. [00:06:00] Uh, and then we’ve got people moving on from Peloton moving on or forced out.

Uh, and then we’ve got instructors in the news. We’ve got, the surprises that were in some classes this week

Tom: surprise

Crystal: and also some instructors causing some surprises. Just doing things that are surprising, I should say. Right. And then we’ve got some artist series news. We’ve got other connected fitness news, we’ve got new content that we’re gonna talk about.

Lots of that. And I think that is it.

Tom: Well, before we get to all that shameless plugs, don’t forget we’re available on Apple Podcast, Spotify, iHeart tuning. Wherever you get a podcast, you can find us while you were there, be sure and follow us so you never miss an episode. Maybe leave us a review. You can also find us on the Facebook facebook.com/the clip out.

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Crystal: I saw.

Tom: Yeah. I was like,

Crystal: it’s

Tom: called the League of Show Shares. Oh, wait, no, it’s not. But you can join that one too if you want.

Crystal: It’s lots of fun.

Tom: [00:07:00] We do have a Patreon.

Crystal: Yeah.

Tom: Five bucks a month.

Crystal: For the clip out.

Tom: For the clip out. Well, we got one for both.

Crystal: I know, but we’re, we’re here for the clip out. Sorry. Okay.

Tom: I’m like, but people listen to this one. It’s five bucks a month. Have I said that nine times? Mm-hmm. Uh, what you get for your $5 is the joy of helping just a little. Any podcast m emanated from a basement in the Midwest.

You also get ad free episodes.

Crystal: Yes.

Tom: You also get bonus content. And you also get early episodes.

Crystal: I just wanna spell out for people who I think there’s some people that don’t realize that our ad free episodes are different than our bonus episodes. Like those are two separate

Tom: episodes. Yeah. You’ll get a version of this show sans advertising, and then you will also get a bonus episode which never has advertising.

Crystal: Correct.

Tom: But but yeah, so you will get two. Weekly shows Yes. From us this week on the bonus.

Crystal: Yes.

Tom: We will be discussing how the shingles vaccine [00:08:00] seems to slow down the aging process.

Crystal: I have questions.

Tom: Okay. Well, we’ll have answers. Okay. Or at least as much answers as we can clean from this article.

Crystal: Okay.

Tom: Airbags for cycling.

Crystal: Okay. I am fascinated by this one. Yeah. This changes the outdoor cycling game a lot.

Tom: Yeah,

Crystal: I, this is fascinating stuff and.

Tom: We have another instructor teasing hi content.

Crystal: Hmm.

Tom: So. That’s all over on the bonus. And also we have a newsletter that goes out mostly weekly. I say mostly because I forgot to send it out this week,

Crystal: whoops.

Of duty

Tom: because we went to see a play on Saturday

Crystal: and that, I tell you, you do one thing differently

Tom: and it screws everything up. I tend to do it on Saturday nights while we watch our, our old timey movie.

Crystal: Yes.

Tom: We’ve been slowly working our way through the airport franchise,

Crystal: which actually is quite enjoyable.

Tom: Yeah. Like, it’s like the love boat, but on an airplane and people die.

Crystal: Yeah.

Tom: But, uh, but other than that,

Crystal: yeah,

Tom: it’s kind of fun to see all the, especially ’cause we watch so many old time [00:09:00] TV shows where you’re like, oh,

Crystal: oh, hey look, it’s so and so.

Tom: It’s the maid from Hazel or whatever. Yeah,

Crystal: yeah,

Tom: yeah. Um. But and if anybody’s really old, they’re like, Shirley Booth wasn’t in an airport movie.

And you’re right.

Crystal: Yeah, it was just an example.

Tom: It was just an example. It was a for instance. Anyway yeah, we went to see Hell’s Kitchen and I got all,

Crystal: which I really enjoyed.

Tom: I liked it.

Crystal: I liked it a lot.

Tom: Alicia Keys is entirely my jam, but I, I enjoyed it. Yeah. I thought it was solid, but Yeah. But anyway where, oh yeah, so I forgot to send a newsletter.

So see, I don’t bother, bother you that much. If you missed a link, just email me. I’ll send it to you. Yeah,

Crystal: yeah.

Tom: So anyway, there’s all that. Let’s dig in. Shall we?

Crystal: We shall.

Tom: Peloton has reduced its workforce yet again.

Crystal: Yeah,

Tom: I’m, there’s really, there’s just the three people there now.

Crystal: I’m really curious how this is going to. Play out in tomorrow’s earnings call and if we will be changing this tomorrow [00:10:00] morning. Yeah. But, um, right now what we know is that most of what was affected was engineering.

And it is another ongoing effort to streamline operations and reduced costs. I mean, aren’t they always?

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: It’s. It is notice. It is notable that they did this just days before the next earnings report, and I am surprised. Given how weird the market is. Yeah. That it did not boost their price, but it did not, and you would think that, yeah.

That it would like signal that they are really serious about cutting costs and, and getting to a profit. I don’t know. Nothing. Nothing ever works. I’m really curious to see what tomorrow does and very curious.

Tom: Yeah. I really, I don’t know what the stock market wants.

Crystal: I know

Tom: from them. I know at this point it’s ridiculous and I’m sure they’re sitting in their.

Staff meetings saying the same thing. They’re

Crystal: just, they gotta be, what

Tom: do these

Crystal: people want?

Tom: It’s like the only way the stock price is gonna move is move if there’s some sort of law [00:11:00]mandating every man, woman, and child must own a bike.

Crystal: Um, so engineering roles related to technology and enterprise projects and people have asked me what an enterprise project means that is things that are within the company.

So stuff that the company does not necessarily like. New projects that would affect the equipment or new projects that would affect the app. Like it’s, it’s more internal.

Tom: Okay.

Crystal: So I don’t know. We’ll see.

Tom: We shall see.

Crystal: It’s depressing. Yeah. It’s depressing to see this company gets stripped down to, I mean,

Tom: yeah.

Crystal: God from what it once was.

Tom: For sure. So yeah, Tunde had a magic mic ride.

Crystal: She did.

Tom: Fellas,

I’m speaking to you as a fella. Get it together. Why you gotta be like this.

Crystal: I mean, there were multiple Thomas, we have to explain to people what we are talking about. There were [00:12:00] multiple, and I mean several

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: Posts on the OPP by different. Men Of course.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: Saying, well, we need to show girls ride. And I say it in a whiny voice.

Yeah, because, because that’s how they, that’s how it sounds.

Tom: That’s how they typed it. They typed it while whining.

Crystal: I mean, dear God, can anything not be about cisgendered white men? Can anything like, just anything, not be about them, but is that okay?

Tom: But it’s like, like, look, I famously don’t use Peloton. I’ve seen some of the instructor class clips.

There are showgirl rides out there if you want them.

Crystal: That’s so true.

Tom: Who are we kidding?

Crystal: That’s so true.

Tom: So

Crystal: some of those instructors are even still there, but the ones back in the day that are no longer there, I mean, I guess Yeah,

Tom: literally keep it in your pants,

Crystal: right? Right.

Tom: Yeah. Right.

Crystal: And

Tom: it’s just this.

The whole pearl clutching moral equivalency. Like it’s, yeah, it’s like the whole [00:13:00] world has been framed around the male gaze. Mm-hmm. GAZE. Forever. Forever, forever. And like. You get one of these and you lose your shit and then you complain. When people make fun of the fragile male ego, and I’m like, you’re exactly who we’re making fun of.

If you think we’re mocking you, make no mistake. Oh, we’re totally mocking you.

Crystal: Oh,

Tom: because

Crystal: honey, I love you so much. You’re

Tom: an idiot. Thank

Crystal: you. Thank you. On account of all women. Thank you. It’s

Tom: just so

Crystal: stupid. It is so stupid. Like Jesus Christ, they were out there like it was the last like six or seven, eight minutes of the rise.

Yeah. And the performers from the Magic Mike show came out and performed in the middle of the class. Like, and that’s the surprise. So like spoiler,

Tom: right?

Crystal: Yeah. You haven’t taken it then. I mean. Well,

Tom: and there’s pictures everywhere at this

Crystal: point. There’s totally pictures everywhere. So

Tom: I, I’m sure our description of ABS doesn’t do the photograph of ABS justice.

Crystal: No, I think they [00:14:00] did quite well. They did quite well. I still have not, how dare you? I know, I’m sorry. I’m not

Tom: just a piece of meat, honey.

Crystal: I’m so sorry. This

Tom: is why I always have to wear a baggy hoodie.

Crystal: And part of what men complain about in this is that women get upset when. Th This is like a general statement Yeah.

That men are making, I am not making this statement. There are a lot of men who complain that women will say things like don’t objectify women, don’t objectify the instructors, yada, yada, yada. And then they will go crazy over Dennis’s hair, for example. Yeah. And we will have an entire discussion about what is happening with his hair.

And some men feel as if that is a double standard. Which I can understand.

Tom: To a point

Crystal: to a point, and let’s not forget, although I am guilty of this as well, you have to remember that the internet is not one person.

Tom: Right.

Crystal: It’s coming from multiple voices. Now. I know that’s easier said than done.

Tom: Yeah. ’cause it does feel sometimes like the same people [00:15:00] that say X than also say.

X divided by Y. They

Crystal: do.

Tom: And, and

Crystal: it does feel that way.

Tom: And that’s not always the case.

Crystal: That’s, that is correct. Yeah. That is correct. And this was fun. It was different. It was pressed for. The Magic Mike show.

Tom: Yeah.

And it’s one thing.

Crystal: Yeah.

Tom: Right? Like

Crystal: Yeah.

Tom: It’s like in terms of objectifying women, it’s because it was everywhere.

Like you go back and watch some of the shows from the seventies, God even shows that are os ostensibly for children. Yeah. And there’s a lot of jiggling going on.

Crystal: There is,

Tom: and

Crystal: and there’s a lot of comments about women’s bodies. Yeah. From main characters. Yeah. That are not, yeah. They are not jokes. They are like people commenting on women’s weight or how they look Yeah.

Or what they’re wearing. Like the whole world thinks they get to have

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: Some kind of decision making power over how a woman looks. Yeah. But if you talk about a man, how dare you.

Tom: Yeah. If there, if there was just isolated [00:16:00] incidences of those,

Crystal: a lot different, you might have something to stand

Tom: a permeated culture and then so.

Ah, magic mic ride is not permeating culture.

Crystal: It is not

Tom: So calm down. It’s gonna be okay.

Crystal: It’s put your put, put your pearls down.

Tom: Let’s message for the boys from one boy to another. You’re pretty too. It’s okay. You’re very pretty. We don’t all have to look like that. It’ll be okay.

Crystal: Oh dear.

Tom: Moving right along.

Crystal: Okay.

Tom: Peloton has met with UK members over. The controversial schedule changes or for the British schedule

Crystal: and specifically it was taking out those Sunday classes. Yeah. That kind of started this whole thing. But, uh, they also talked about just, I guess there was a lot of discussion about [00:17:00] live content amongst UK German instructors, the US studios, like just kind of.

The whole balance amongst all three. And Peloton said that content is broadly balanced while noting that the US produces more live classes overall due to having more modalities. It was also noted that German instructors have more capacity in the schedule for earlier rides, which. That actually makes a lot of sense.

Yeah. So they, uh, Peloton also explained to members that the live content and scheduling decisions are data led, which I have always said, just for the record.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: Noting a relatively small number of members globally take classes live, and that live classes are resource intensive to produce. So those live classes in studios on Sundays, it’s not about making money.

It’s or not making money. It’s about that. It’s, you’ve got 15 people in the background producing one class. It’s just it.

Tom: And I wouldn’t be surprised if you have to pay a premium to people to come in and work on a [00:18:00] Sunday.

Crystal: I don’t know what the UK is like. Yeah,

Tom: that is

Crystal: possible.

Tom: But a lot of places, like especially, I don’t know if they’re union, I don’t know how unions work over there.

I don’t even know if unions exist over there. But uh. But yeah, there’s a good chance you’re, you know, you, it costs extra to bring in that team of people on a Sunday. Yeah. And so if you see people aren’t using it why spend the cash?

Crystal: Absolutely. Peloton. I wanna say that like this whole conversation came from a letter that we covered, that was signed by UK and US members.

Mm-hmm. Um, there were 1,279 Peloton members across the board and Jen Kotter actually. Led the discussion along with Peloton, London team. And they invited this commu people in to have this discussion in person. Yeah. Which was very, very kind of them. They did not have to do that. Yeah. And the assess, did they

Tom: do it on a Sunday?

Crystal: I did. I didn’t ask. It just says this week. So I’m guessing this was the same week that they had the Peloton [00:19:00] global, like whenever they had all the UK celebration.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: Do you understand? Reconnect the, the summit Instructor Summit? That’s the word. Read my damn mind.

Tom: I more often than not, I’m pretty good.

Crystal: You are. so, at any rate, Peloton confirmed its commitment to the UK market and to Peloton Studios London. They referenced ambitions to grow the UK and international market while emphasizing the importance of making effective and efficient use of the studio. So, in other words, they’re not changing anything.

Right. But they did at least sit down and explain it to people. Yeah. Which was nice of them.

Tom: Yeah. But like, if it’s just not getting enough people, it’s not getting enough people. Like

Crystal: it’s, I know, but like. The thing is, is people have to have their hand held and feel that they are heard, and that’s fair.

Like I am one of those people. Yeah. In many instances I’m not making fun of that. Yeah. But it still is, I think. I think that it cannot be overstated enough that Peloton did not have to [00:20:00] do that.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: And most companies wouldn’t.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: Like let’s be clear, most companies would not. Yeah. Say group of people who got really upset, come in and let’s have a talk.

They did. Yeah. Not have to do that.

Tom: When’s the last time a network has canceled a television show? Then had a meeting about it.

Crystal: Yeah. Yeah. Or like, uh, all the people that complained about Samsung refrigerators, do you think they had a meeting? No. Do you think they brought people in? No. ’cause it didn’t happen.

They did not. I mean, it’s just people don’t real, like they, they don’t appreciate that Peloton still does things like that. Now, that was a lot more common back in the John Foley days. Not gonna lie,

Tom: for sure.

Crystal: But Jen Cotter is from the John Foley days. One of the few. One of the very few. And, uh, and. I believe that her heart is in the right place.

Tom: Yeah. So, uh, speaking of Peloton, get together gathering instructors, what’s it called?

Crystal: I think it’s called a summit.

Tom: I believe it’s called a Hoot Nanny Peloton [00:21:00] Instructor. Hoot Nannies.

Crystal: Oh, is that what they’re called?

Tom: That’s what they’re called. I don’t know why you got the word summit from. I

Crystal: don’t either.

Tom: Yeah. It’s

Crystal: crazy.

Tom: But they had ’em.

Crystal: They did. And, uh, the London one that included the German and UK instructors

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: Was this past week, duh. And, uh, so on the US side it was. Dennis, who led the instructors in a ride that included all the instructors that were present in the ride? Well, on the UK side, as we alluded to last week, Hannah Frankston led that class in London.

And both of the, in the, both of the summits had other things happening. So, for example, they had, let’s see here. Thoughtful conversations with international speaker, author, man, managed author, change management, catalyst and co-host of higher performance. Damien Hughes, uh, was a full on dance party with the legendary [00:22:00] former Spice Girl, Mel C, and that had Hannah over the,

Tom: you’re never a former Spice Girl.

You’re a spice girl for life. Dammit. It’s like being a Marine. There are no former Marines. You were always a spice girl. Better I recognize.

Crystal: And not only was the London team there and the German team, Robin and Allie, and of course Jen Kotter, uh, were also there. And uh, then in the New York Instructor Summit.

And they had Jesse Israel and they ha he is the founder of The Big Quiet. He, and they also had Ali led thoughtful conversations that sparked meaningful connections. And then of course it culminated in the reconnect ride. So it was, uh, there was lots going on for both of ’em. Yeah, it sounds, but I think it’s, it’s really great to see all the instructors.

Come together like this. I also feel like it is needed to say Hannah Franken’s class that she taught [00:23:00] was so different in flavor of Dennis. Now I love both of them. Yeah. So this is a, no, it’s just it’s more of a reflection about how different the teams are. The teams in London, she called Hannah, called out each person and said thoughtful things about each and every one of her teammates.

They were all in sync. They were all together. They all like, you could see the unity.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: Not so in, in New York now there’s a lot more instructors in New York. So I think that needs to be said, but also there’s so many more personalities. Like the more people you add, the bigger those personalities are

Tom: for sure.

Crystal: And um, they were both great in their own ways for completely different reasons, but I think in New York you tend to see like these huge personalities that kind of, everyone’s kind of like, look at me versus look at us. Yeah. And I think in, in London it’s, look at us and I. Personally, I think being from the Midwest and having more of those conservative values, I like the teamwork, believe

Tom: it or not.

Crystal: I know

Tom: lowercase C

Crystal: Yeah, it Oh, definitely. But I really enjoy seeing like, the [00:24:00] teamwork side of it. And, you know, the people who work on the Tipster channel and the, the, uh, helper bees, they get tired of me going, oh, teamwork, because that’s my favorite part. Yeah. Of what we do. Like, it’s my favorite part when everybody comes together and like, we whip out an article in 15 minutes and everybody did a different thing.

Yeah. That’s my favorite. It’s just like, that’s what humanity is. Yeah. Is that togetherness And I, it really, really shown on the London side.

Tom: So, uh, Peloton is extending special pricing to Canada.

Crystal: They are. Yeah. So the entire, program, yeah, if you will, is also going to be taking place in Canada. We’re hoping we’re gonna see this exact same thing take place in Germany.

In Australia, yeah. In Austria. But that means that if you are, um, let’s say an EMT worker or, or a doctor or

Tom: first responder,

Crystal: yes.

Tom: Uh, believe they’re military as well.

Crystal: Yeah. They do have military,

Tom: which I’m sure people will be claim complaining about shortly. If you offer a discount to Canadian military, then you hate the US [00:25:00] military.

Right.

Crystal: There was literally a person that said to me, and if you don’t belong to one of these special groups, then what? And I was like, then you don’t, you pay for price. You don’t qualify. No. Like, what are you even saying right now? Yeah. Like, they’re somehow wrong. They didn’t, like, I don’t qualify for any of these groups.

I paid full price for every single piece of equipment that I have from Peloton. And I am grateful for that. So like, if I was. If I was an EMT worker or a doctor or a nurse, like cool

Tom: discounts for, they didn’t invent that.

Crystal: I know discounts for first responders know. I swear to God, people find something to complain about with everything.

Also, this week Peloton announced that on the US side, I don’t know that this has rolled over to Canada just yet, but on the US side, they also added government workers to the program.

Tom: So now you qualify.

Crystal: I’m not a government worker. You’re a government.

Tom: Right?

Crystal: But I’m not gonna be buying any more equipment.

Tom: Right. Like we, we, we’ve got all the equipment we need. Thank you.

Crystal: Now they do have special pricing for the app membership, but they do not have a discount for the all access. Yeah. Which is pretty much every other [00:26:00] complaint that comes in. Why don’t, why don’t the people who pay the most get a discount on that?

That’s because you’re the ones that are paying the most and actually keeping the company

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: Afloat

Tom: because they don’t need to discount that.

Crystal: Yeah.

Tom: It’s doing just fine.

Crystal: Right.

Tom: Unless you’re a stock. Market analyst, they ain’t doing fine while we’re speaking of Canada.

Crystal: Yes. ‘

Tom: cause we were at some point there.

Crystal: We were.

Tom: Uh, the Strength Plus app has hit the Canada as well.

Crystal: It has, yes. And, uh, people in Canada are very excited to see the Strength Plus app. So for those of you who contacted me this week, let me tell you a few things about this one. No, it is not an extra charge if you have the All access. Also, I believe the app plus also now includes Strength Plus.

That is new. It did not use to do that. Yes, it is a completely separate app. No, it is not for Android. No. I don’t know why. No, I agree. It doesn’t make any sense because Peloton. [00:27:00] Puts all their equipment on Android, but that’s not really the way that electronics work. So I agree that we should have it, but it doesn’t.

So, yeah.

Tom: And yes, Tim Horton’s is overrated.

Crystal: But you like your poutine. I

Tom: do like the poutine. I’m like Winnie the poutine.

Crystal: And honestly, mostly people asking those questions. Were not from Canada, just to be clear.

Tom: So they were unaffected. But still looking to complain.

Crystal: I mean, that is the internet. Yes.

Tom: Did they not even see the magic of My Ride?

Go over there, complain about that.

Crystal: Well, they were women. Oh,

Tom: so Pelotons. SVM, I don’t know what that stands for.

Crystal: I, I dunno. I think that should be SDP. I’ll be honest,

Tom: I was just cut and pasting. I thought maybe I type out, I

Crystal: mean,

Tom: stand out of the realm of possibility and GM of Peloton for business

Crystal: Yeah.

Tom: Is moving on.

Crystal: He is. This is a big deal because when Peloton first bought,

Tom: pre-core.

Crystal: Thank [00:28:00] you.

Tom: You’re welcome.

Crystal: Uh,

Tom: pre-core Summit, I believe it’s called,

Crystal: This is the guy, this is the guy that took over and was gonna be growing pre-core, so he. Launched LED Peloton for business. He launched the Peloton Pro series, which is the first commercial product line. He also opened up the first Peloton powered wellness community at Utah City.

He also, uh, built the first branded cross training space at University of Texas. He established integrated wellness partnerships with twin health and hospital for special surgery. Let me be clear, he didn’t do all those things on his own. That was with a team

Tom: for sure.

Crystal: But this is a big deal that he’s leaving, and I don’t know if this was like his position got axed because it was part of the 11%, or if it’s just like he was like, eh,

Tom: yeah.

I

Crystal: don’t know. Hmm.

Tom: Interesting.

Crystal: It’s a big deal that he’s leaving. Yeah. So, uh, he, he will be missed. And I know there’s not a lot of people that will see the benefit of all the work that he’s done. [00:29:00] Yeah. ’cause they just, they just expect things to happen. But,

Tom: but you need somebody to orchestrating that.

Crystal: Yeah.

Yeah. It’s a lot of work. So,

Tom: so you wrote an article this week about emotionally triggering songs.

Crystal: Okay. Elizabeth technically wrote the article, oh, sorry. Sorry, Elizabeth. And when I say technically. It was her idea to do an article. It was her and but I put out a post that like gathered the thoughts.

Okay. Okay. So it was a little bit of a teamwork. She did the writing part. You

Tom: love the teamwork?

Crystal: I do love the teamwork. Alright. Emotionally triggering songs. What does that mean? What it means is I took class the other day with Mariana and I was just running along doing my thing. It was a walk plus run at the very end.

It was the cool down song and it was my wedding song for my first wedding. I, one forgot the song existed. Two have never heard it played on the platform. In fact, I have never heard another human being except my ex-husband play this song ever. It [00:30:00] caught me so off guard and like I was just really like, I hadn’t heard it in so long that like, it just took me back,

Tom: right?

Crystal: Like, and. My wedding itself was not a bad moment at all.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: But like, I ended that marriage for a reason.

Tom: Right.

Crystal: So let’s just say it wasn’t the most pleasant place to revisit.

Tom: Sure.

Crystal: Ever.

Tom: You weren’t like in a heap.

Crystal: Oh, Jesus Christ. No. It just, I, it just really like took me by surprise. If I, if blindsided you.

If had seen it. If I had seen it, I don’t know that I would’ve taken the class. And if it had been in the middle of the class, I don’t know. I don’t know what I would’ve done with that. I probably still would’ve finished it. Yeah. But like, it’s kind of a long song and it’s really slow, so I can’t imagine she ever would’ve put it in the middle.

Tom: Right.

Crystal: But I just don’t know that I would’ve chosen to take the class. I never look, I never, ever look at playlists. Yeah. Which, when we put out the call for other people’s stories, I thought that would be, that other people’s stories would be the center of this [00:31:00] discussion.

Tom: Right.

Crystal: But no, that’s not what happened.

What happened is when we wrote emotionally triggering songs, people just heard, I hate things.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: I hate this. I hate that. Not songs, just entire genres,

Tom: right?

Crystal: Or entire, no

Tom: country

Crystal: or entire catalogs. Taylor Swift came up a lot. Nickelback because Of course,

Tom: yeah.

Crystal: It was, uh, there were such weird ones on there that just totally took me back, like, uh, took me aback like Billy Joel.

What? You won’t listen to an entire catalog by Billy Joel. Do you know how many songs it is that you’re shutting out? Like, honestly, except for people that I just really don’t like, like Nicki Minaj for a host of reasons. There are not a ton of people I won’t listen to. Dave Matthews is one of those for me.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: But like, if it’s in the middle of a playlist from an instructor, I’m gonna, I’m gonna go through with it, but. Instead, that’s what we got. We got pages and pages. We got 300 comments of [00:32:00]people complaining about different music or people saying, you need to play more of this. First of all, we’re not Peloton,

Tom: right?

Crystal: Like you need, we don’t play anything. We

Tom: don’t play anything. Yeah.

Crystal: And second of all, not at all the question. Now, we did have some great answers. People who got the assignment, rich Glass was one of those people.

Yeah.

Crystal: Now Rich Glass has been part of our community for a long time, and I cannot pretend that I agree with everything that Rich Glass has to say.

But he, he got it. And he talked about,

Tom: but his reading comprehension skills,

Crystal: it’s on point.

Tom: On point.

Crystal: It’s on point. He said, the one song that hits me every time when it’s played is Fix You by Coldplay, knowing what the song’s about. When my mom passed in 2024, I get choked up every time I hear it,

Tom: man.

There’s a documentary

Crystal: Yeah.

Tom: About, people in nursing homes and they create choirs and they, and it was just about them as assembling, but they would have them sing like new songs. Mm-hmm. Not like old timing people songs. Right. Sure. And, uh. Now, this [00:33:00] documentary is probably 15 years old at this point, but like in the final scene, they sing Fix You after one of their members had died.

Crystal: Oh, Jesus.

Tom: Oh my God.

Crystal: Yeah. Like you’re about to tear up right

Tom: now. Yeah, it’s like woof.

Crystal: I mean it does, it gets me every time too, and. And somebody else said that, uh, it was Erica Griffin and she said she’s a breast cancer survivor. And unless she’s feeling super strong and empowered on that certain day, she will skip a ride with fight song on the playlist.

I do love the song, but if I’m feeling tender or it’s around the time of any of my anniversaries, I will definitely skip. And I totally get that. I totally get that. I don’t ever check the playlist, so I am often surprised by things and usually I’m surprised because, oh my God, I haven’t heard the song in forever.

Right? Or, um. Yeah, I like this song. But this one was just different for me. And I think the reason it was like, if somebody had asked me this question, I would’ve never put this song on the list. Right. ’cause I literally forgot it existed.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: But like the people, whenever we put [00:34:00] this on the, um, official Peloton page, that’s the OPP.

I had somebody ask me what that was on a, on a YouTube video this week. Right. The. They literally laughed at it and said that Peloton was woke as fuck. Then they said how stupid this article was, and I believe one person said, and I quote, if a song triggers you and you that much, you need to get mental health.

Mental health immediately. And she said, if a song triggers you into inaction, you need to get mental help. No one at any time said we were in, in actionable. No one said we

Tom: couldn’t, they

Crystal: couldn’t function or

Tom: that they should stop playing these songs. No. Towards the conversation about

Crystal: it was just a conversation.

Yeah. I, I swear to God, the meanest people on the planet live in the OPP.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: And I think there. All Maga

Tom: and I, I would love to know the Venn diagram of people who are like, you shouldn’t get triggered by a song that also lost their shit over the magic mike. Right.

Crystal: That is my question right there. How many of [00:35:00] those same people I ended up taking it down off the OPP because the people who shared their, uh, vulnerable stories.

Yeah. I just felt like they didn’t deserve to, to be treated that way.

Tom: For the, for ridicule

Crystal: like that. Yeah. Yeah, because that wasn’t the intent. And and we at the clip out appreciate your vulnerability and sharing and like, I wanna live in a world where we can have this conversation and you don’t get ridiculed.

Like, I, I don’t see a need for it. Yeah. I think it’s hateful and it’s stupid and it’s everything that’s wrong with this world right now. Everything. Yeah. It is. It is. It is.

Yeah. Like that hatred is so unnecessary. It is. It is humanity. It is humanity. It’s, we are all sharing these songs in these playlists.

Tom: It’s like, and songs are like the, the people that were acting like. It’s crazy that a song would have an emotional impact. Like, that’s kind of the point.

Crystal: That is the point of

Tom: songs,

Crystal: right?

Tom: Coming up after this, we’ve got instructors in the news. We’re gonna talk about Ben Aldis having a little surprise on the NXS ride who’s featured in Self Magazine, and we got an instructor [00:36:00]filing for a trademark.

Why? Whatever. Could that mean? We will tell you right after this.

Tom: Ben Aldis did the NXS ride. And he had a little, a little surprise.

Crystal: He did. Tim Robards was on the bike but he was in the crowd, not like, up on the stage with men.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: And he talked a little bit about Tim Robards and asked him a couple of questions. It was a little bit of a, a, you know, get to know you, but it it was very brief.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: And, uh, my understanding is that he also been. Tim Robards also showed up in a different in excess class, taught by a different instructor. And there was, there was kind of a, about you. Yeah. It was more of a get to know him in that class as well. So that was just kind of a fun surprise and it was a great class, by the way.

Yeah. Talking about music takes you back.

Tom: Yeah. Well, and I guess since in Excess is Australian.

Crystal: Yeah. Yeah. That would, you know, uh, he said, okay, so. One of in excesses [00:37:00] songs that everybody knows is never tear us apart. Right. Well, um. Fun little fact. Tim Robard said that they have this little countdown that they do.

It’s a music countdown every year. But this year when they did a music countdown, they did like the best songs of all time,

Tom: right?

Crystal: And Never Tear us Apart, was number one in Australia.

Tom: Wow.

Crystal: And he goes, maybe not deserved, but

Tom: I think it’s a good song.

Crystal: It is a good song of

Tom: all time.

Crystal: I dunno about that. Well, they were all Australian songs.

Best

Tom: Australian

Crystal: songs. Well talk. Yes. I’m just saying it’s a different

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: Different subset of songs than, than we might choose. Okay. But uh, but I, that is another song. Yeah. That reminds me of my ex-husband. But that was during a really good time in our relationship. That was very early on.

Tom: I’m also like, well ac d is Australian.

Crystal: Are they?

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: Oh, well, I don’t see how that couldn’t have been number one. Yeah. And I love that song.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: Never tear us apart. Yeah.

Tom: So, uh, Hannah Corbin featured by Self Magazine. I [00:38:00] can’t tell she featured in Self Magazine or just buy them on their Instagram channels. And honestly, in today’s world, does it

Crystal: matter?

Tom: Being featured on their Instagram channel probably has more cachet than actually being in the magazine.

Crystal: I would agree. And this was of course, pressed for her new book. Did you stretch though?

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: And, uh, she did, uh, her three f fa favorite stretches for. Any Peloton workout. Yeah. And she demonstrated those, so there you go.

Tom: Okay. New instructor, Johanna?

Crystal: Yes.

Tom: In case you’re not familiar with the name yet, like still put new instructor in front of

Crystal: you. Yes. Definitely

Tom: has filed for a trademark.

Crystal: She has. And that trademark is the Pilates plug Go.

Tom: I, you’re like, what is that? Mean,

Crystal: well, I think it’s supposed to be her fan group and, and, and she does Pilates.

Tom: Right.

Crystal: And so it’s like, [00:39:00] you know how you sometimes we’ll say shameless plugs,

Tom: right?

Crystal: I think it’s, it’s somehow supposed to be a plug for her Pilates classes. Go on. I know you have more to say,

Tom: but what does that mean?

Crystal: I don’t know.

Tom: Like I’m,

Crystal: I don’t know. And it’s also the first time I’ve ever seen an instructor create their own fan group.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: That has, that is new.

Tom: It’s just such a. We, I mean,

Crystal: actually I think Ali Love technically did that first, now that I think about it, because the whole, like, whatever it’s called Love

Tom: squad thing.

Crystal: Yeah. Yes. Thank you. Uh, yeah. Whenever the instructors all left their groups. Yeah. She, she took back all of her naming rights and wouldn’t let the group, like, there were restrictions put on the group, let’s just say that.

Tom: Gotcha.

Crystal: So she was actually the first one to like,

Tom: yeah.

Crystal: Own that.

Tom: Yeah. But yeah, I just like, I like. It’s such a weird, I know. Yeah. Like I’m,

Crystal: when I hear Pilates plug, I think, is that dirty?

Tom: Yeah,

Crystal: I know. Yeah, [00:40:00] I know.

Tom: And my other thought was like, was, were you in grave danger of someone else using that?

Crystal: I’ll be honest now, I have not taken a ton of classes with Johanna, but I don’t understand her.

Tom: Yeah,

Crystal: I don’t, I don’t. Get her thought process. Like a lot of times people will make choices and even if I don’t agree with them. I can like this. You like, oh, I get, but I

Tom: get what the logic is here yet,

Crystal: and I, and I, I haven’t figured hers out. Yeah. So I, I am sure there is a logical reason that she did that.

I just don’t know what that is.

Tom: Right.

Crystal: I am unaware. So not everything is for me to know. Yeah, that’s okay.

Tom: But, uh, that’s trademark now.

Crystal: There you go.

Tom: So you can’t have it,

Crystal: you can’t have Pilates plugged. You cannot. You cannot.

Tom: Yeah.

Tom: So we have a quick look at the artist series being featured in the month of February.

Crystal: We do, we do. [00:41:00] First up is, uh, Destiny’s Child, which is pretty exciting for a lot of people. There’s a ton of classes. Uh, this article doesn’t include the on-demand ones that dropped in the Pelotons list yesterday. We also have Tyler, the creator, and uh, that is going to be later on in February, and we’re wondering if there’s going to be like.

Another one in the middle because they only did two.

Tom: Yeah. It feels like there should be more,

Crystal: but we’ve also noticed sometimes in the last few months, sometimes it is only two or they’ll do like a surprise thing in the middle. Unclear. Unclear what they’re doing.

Tom: February is a short month.

Crystal: It is a short month.

Yeah. It is a short month. We’re not starting on this till February 5th. ’cause it’s kind of a weird, weird timing.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: Like, like it started on a Monday. Right. And they would do these on a Thursday. So like, but yeah, I, I would think there’s at least time for one more. So

Tom: one would think

Crystal: maybe

Tom: perhaps

Crystal: we don’t know.

Tom: So Tonal has hired new coaches. [00:42:00]

Crystal: They have, yes. We have talked about before that, um. Kristen McGee had joined the tonal team as a guest coach. Mm-hmm. Well, uh, they are in, in, they are continuing to expand their Pilates team and they have added Katie Yip.

And pill and Anise, and they will be starting in March.

Tom: And that also means,

Crystal: that also means that we

Tom: have another coach exiting.

Crystal: Yeah. Sadly, Christina. Centenary will no longer be with tonal. And I can’t help but wonder, I wondered this before with Tanisha.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: Leaving, but now I’m even more concerned that this is a financial decision,

right.

Crystal: We’re not as privy to Tonals financial decisions because they are not public in the way that Peloton is. So they don’t have to explain the things they do right. In the same way. But, um, I’m sure they learned a lot from how they let go of the. The last batch. Yeah. Yeah. That was not good. Not good. Yeah.

Tom: So, [00:43:00] uh, but we wish her the best.

Crystal: We do wish her the best. She’s really nice and I love her running content. Yeah. It’s so, so good. And I love Tanisha too, so both of them wish ’em the best.

Tom: Speaking of employees being downsized.

Crystal: Mm-hmm.

Tom: Um, aura maker of Aura Rings and they probably make other things. They are just flat out. Put it on front street.

They did. If you work at Peloton and you got downsized. Hit us up on the LinkedIn dms.

Crystal: Yeah. It was totally like we’re hiring message me. Yeah. For a referral. Like it was just like, I mean, yeah. Put it out there.

Tom: Yeah. I guess you know that they understand the space and they’re looking for a gig. So

Crystal: Yeah.

Tom: If you are a former Peloton employee listening to this.

Because I’m sure once you get let go from Peloton,

Crystal: all you wanna do is sit around and listen to a Peloton podcast.

Tom: Yes. And the outside.

Crystal: It’s happened before.

Tom: Yeah. On the outside. Chance that is you and you are affected. Reach [00:44:00] out to Aura. They’re out there for you.

Crystal: Marissa Braverman. Tyak is on LinkedIn, and uh, if you need help finding that, I am happy to send you the link.

Let me know because I want everyone to land on their feet successfully.

Tom: it is time for the TCO top five. You have told us your favorite classes of the week, and now we will tell them right back to you. Number one, your favorite ride. Brace yourself, boys.

Crystal: Okay, so it was the 30 Minute Magic Mike live ride. This was, this was nominated by a lot of people. Here were our favorite nominations, Karen Smith.

It was so amazing. The energy in this class was fire and the burner at the end made this class a worthy bookmark. I don’t often ride with tune day, but I didn’t wanna miss one, this one, and it did not disappoint

Tom: Karen Smith. You’re a hate monster.

Crystal: Go. Karen. Diana Volk also had a lot of fun, especially watching the expressions on Katie and Olivia’s faces when [00:45:00] everything unfolded. I saw some stills of that. Yeah. And like Katie was like. Like, I mean, it was, it was precious,

Tom: Diana Bulk, you’re a misogynist.

Crystal: Joni Robertson reports, the vibe and energy was fantastic.

And then in the last seven to eight minutes, boom, there was the surprise,

Tom: Joni Robertson. I don’t have a third one.

Crystal: Just know there’s a boy out there somewhere that’s mad. Yes. And I have to say, several members also nominated the PSL Reconnect Ride that was led by Hannah Frankston. And we have a whole, like we went over that one.

Like in depth. In depth. Yeah. And so we have a whole article about that as well.

Tom: Uh, number two, your favorite row. Alex k. Properly attired, wearing a shirt, doing nothing. To upset me as a straight man.

Crystal: That’s good.

Tom: Thank you. Alex? K [00:46:00]

Crystal: uh, he taught this class on January 31st. It was a 30 minute classic rock road row, not road row.

And, uh, Sarah Lester, I, she, I’m taking this class. She convinced me.

Tom: Okay.

Crystal: Because Alex created a playlist that reflected where we currently are. In the United States in a subtle way. The songs he played were very intentional, and while I had heard them before, I had never really listened to them and heard them in this specific way.

I think you could take this row and think it’s political, but others have taken it and didn’t take that away from it. So I, uh, I’m looking forward to this.

Tom: Okay. Uh, number three, your favorite walk.

Crystal: So, Robin taught a 30 minute nineties pop walk on 1 24, and Tiffany Cortez loved it. She really enjoyed the this class.

It had the best nineties playlist and it had long intervals that weren’t too challenging. Kind of reminded me of a [00:47:00] PZ endurance ride. Perfect.

Tom: Yeah. Favorite way to pass the time while running.

Crystal: I feel really weird talking about this one. Yeah. Uh, Christina’s,

Tom: it’s a little naval gey.

Crystal: It, it is, but

Tom: not unlike Magic Mike.

Crystal: Christina Stavro nominated the Patreon episode from 1 21. Uh, so that would’ve been the clipped out from 4 48.

Tom: Okay.

Crystal: She listened to this while she was running and the time flew by because she was laughing so much, and she also thanked us for what we do and appreciated the bonus episodes, especially amidst the craziness these days.

We did wanna include this because there’s a lot of people that don’t know these episodes exist. And, uh, also it’s just different. Yeah. So

Tom: is that the one where I coined the phrase racist pez dispenser? I

Crystal: think it

Tom: might’ve been, yes. Okay. Yeah. And then finally, back to your regular programming, number five, your Unst Stackable.

Crystal: This was a 30 minute kettlebell strength and [00:48:00] conditioning class taught by Zacharias. By the way, Ned Jetski.

Tom: That’s how you say it.

Crystal: Yep.

Tom: Like jet ski.

Crystal: Thank you, Nikki. Yes. Um, so. Elizabeth wrote this article. She has been on a zacharia spree, and this was his fa, this was his first kettlebell class.

Uh, she’s a beginner at kettlebells, so she was really intrigued about the approach.

Tom: I’m starting with kettle chips and then working my way up.

Crystal: To Bells? Yes. Okay. Uh, she’s deeming this unst stackable because these new, new movements really woke up some muscles that apparently she rarely uses. She was sore in a good way for days.

Tom: So moving on to this week at Peloton, we have advanced beginner flow with Kira.

Crystal: It was a 30 minute class, and it’s dropping on February 7th. Um, it’s going to be focusing on beginner, but like starting to get into that intermediate, like you’re starting to stretch yourself. Mm-hmm. She’s gonna be working on skill refinement, pacing, and instructional depth. [00:49:00]

Tom: And we also, uh, speaking of kettlebells, have all sorts of kettlebell stuff out there.

Crystal: There’s some new classes that are coming up with Jocelyn Thompson rule as well. Uh, they’ve actually, it’s dropped already, so it is out there on demand. You should check it out.

Tom: And we have a progression run with Alex. K

Crystal: We do, yeah, 45 minutes. And that dropped on February 7th as well. So progression runs, they start slow and they finish fast.

They’re very simple, but they’re very intense. So this is great when you need a, uh, a challenge. I also wanna point out that we have a new vinyl vault coming out, and that is with Hannah Corbin. 20 minutes, and it came out on February 5th.

Tom: It is currently Black History Month and Peloton is celebrating it, I should say Black History Month America.

Crystal: Yes.

Tom: Because the UK

Crystal: That’s right, they have one in a different month. Yeah, that’s a good point. Yeah, and it’s, it’s, um. Something to remember is that this is the hundredth anniversary of Black History [00:50:00] Month.

So that is just pretty darn cool. Yeah. Also their Destiny’s Child is obviously part of the Black Histories Month Histories, histories month as eight artist series, but there’s also a Broadway ride with Ali. This week there was an r and b run with Jeffrey Neo Soul Yoga Flow. Kira is dropping later in the week.

Um, so that’s just week one. And then every week Peloton is gonna be dropping new classes and we will keep you updated on those. And I have to say, Ash Pryor, when she was talking about Black History Month, she said that there were some really big surprises coming this month.

Tom: Hmm. Well maybe that’s why we only have two artist series.

Maybe. Maybe that’s one of the big surprises.

Crystal: Maybe

Tom: Matt Wiler has moved for life plans for people.

Crystal: So here’s, okay, I’m gonna try to explain this to people.

Tom: Okay.

Crystal: Move For Life is a team on the Peloton app. It’s super simple to get to. You just go in the app and you [00:51:00] click on the three people. It’s like a little emblem of people.

Mm-hmm. You click on that and then there’s Teams and Move For Life is one of the Peloton official teams. Okay.

Tom: Okay.

Crystal: Matt Wilber is the leader. Of that team. So what he decided to do was for the month of February, he has three different tracks that you can be on. There’s a total of 150 minutes for track one, two hundred and twenty five for track two or 300 for track three.

The idea is to mix walking with strength, and he is going to be posting every day. Curated classes. These classes already exist on the platform. He is just listing the classes that he recommends for you to hit these goals daily. You can find those on teams. We were going to post them, but we are not gonna go post every single class for an entire month.

We’re just not gonna do it because that’s a lot. Yeah. And no. So it is out there. But if you have any trouble finding teams, [00:52:00] just let me know. I am happy to help you. It’s really easy to find, I promise.

Tom: And there’s also a challenge to go along with this.

Crystal: Oh, I’m sorry. That was the point. That is a challenge.

The challenge, 50 minutes is the challenge. 225 minutes is a challenge, and you’re mixing again, walking with strength. So the challenge is to pick a track and complete all of the classes. Gotcha. For the month that Matt Wilpert tells you to. On teams.

Tom: Okay. Speaking of Matt, him and Christian Vanderbilt are teaming up for a Valentine’s Day ride.

Crystal: They are, and this is, I believe, their second one. And not only is it their second one, it’s a two hour bromance, so they will be on the bike. For two full hours. I predict a banana for a snack for Matt Wilber’s.

Tom: Well, now,

Crystal: and I predict a orange for Christian Vanderbilt because he hates bananas.

Tom: Okay.

Crystal: And he makes fun of Matt Wilber’s always having a banana on these rides.

Okay. But, uh, people love these so much. It’s a real treat. [00:53:00] So for it to be Valentine’s Day is just Chef’s kiss. There’s also a bunch more classes that they have added to the Valentine’s Day schedule. We will be covering those as we get closer.

Tom: And a lot of people do celebrate Valentine’s Day with a mouth full of banana.

Crystal: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Tom: Just putting that out there. TCO has your high resources.

Crystal: Yes.

Tom: With a little help. A lot of help.

Crystal: Just a reminder that we have an article that has all of Rebecca Kennedy’s. Resources for the high class, the high challenge for the entire month. We have it in one place. So you don’t have to go and download 18 million things.

Yes, it’s all in one place for you.

Tom: All compiled for you.

Crystal: Yes. And for those of you who were trying to take the Pilates class this morning and it didn’t drop on time, I’m sorry, and I hope you pivoted to a different Pilates class.

Tom: So that brings this episode to a close. Until next time, where can people find you?

Crystal: People can find me on Facebook at facebook.com/crystal d O’Keefe. They can also find me on Blue Sky [00:54:00] Threads, Instagram and the Peloton leaderboard at clip out Krystal.

Tom: And you can find me on Threads in Blue Sky at Tom O’Keefe Jr. Or on Facebook at facebook.com/tom O’Keefe. You can find the show online at facebook.com/the clip out.

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Crystal: and peddling

Tom: and rowing. Threw your curve ball.

Crystal: You did. Bye guys.

Tom: Bye.

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