449: Swiped Right, Hacked Hard: The Peloton Singles Group Breach That Has Riders Freaked Out

Swiped Right, Hacked Hard: The Peloton Singles Group Breach That Has Riders Freaked Out

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What we covered:

This week, we’re unpacking all the latest news from the world of Peloton. We start with the business side of things, discussing the date for the upcoming earnings call. Then, we dive into some community news, including a security breach in the Peloton Singles Group and how the Power Zone Pack is leveraging AI for FTP tests.

We’ll also cover Peloton’s big moves, like its presence at the Sundance Film Festival and the introduction of two brand-new badges. Plus, there are updates on the app, instructor news, and a breakdown of the latest artist collaborations, including features with Tyler The Creator, Magic Mike, and Destiny’s Child. It’s a packed episode with all the Peloton and fitness news you need to know.

• Peloton announces the date for its next earnings call.
• The Peloton Singles Group was reportedly hacked.
• The Power Zone Pack is experimenting with AI to help determine your fitness FTP.
• Peloton is heading to the Sundance Film Festival.
• Two new badges have been debuted by Peloton.
• The Autoplay feature has been added to the Peloton app.
• A Peloton Bike was spotted in the Netflix movie Finding Her Edge.
• Peloton Streetlight (PSL) is hiring a Production Manager.
• Kirra Michel is scheduled to attend the Yoga Telluride Festival.
• Nico Sarani provides an update from Germany.
• Zacharias Jensen (ZACK) makes his official Strength debut.
• Ash Pryor was featured on the NBC affiliate in Columbus, OH.
• Rebecca Kennedy & Cody Rigsby spoke at a Twin Health event.
• The latest Peloton artist series features Tyler The Creator.
• Tunde Oyeneyin has a special Magic Mike-themed ride.
• Destiny’s Child classes are now on the schedule.
• An update on iFit’s Amazon Prime reality show.
• Snooki reveals she had cancerous cells removed.
• Tonal & Kristin McGee are hosting a new Pilates challenge.
• Lululemon has stopped sales of some of its popular leggings.
• The Clip Out Top Five weekly recap.
• This Week at Peloton: A look at the week’s fitness schedule.
• TCO Radar: Classes The Clip Out team is looking forward to.
• Mariana Fernandez led a Holding Space meditation class.
• Bench classes now have their own dedicated collection (sort of).
• Get ready for the big game with the Super Burn class collection.
• A new class type has been introduced: Retro Reise.
• Peloton Birthdays: Daniel McKenna (2/4).

Transcript:

Crystal: welcome to the Clip Out podcast, episode 4 49. This is Crystal O’Keefe.

Tom: And this is Tom O’Keefe. Hi. Hi. It’s been a while since I’ve been down here to record.

Crystal: I know. It’s been so cold down here.

Tom: We, our studio’s in the basement and it’s cold. It is

Crystal: so cold

Tom: in the basement. It’s been cold. Lots of places, but it, it was like below zero here.

Yeah. For multiple days.

Crystal: Yeah.

Tom: And, uh, Winchell put it in the negative teens, and so it’s like, when [00:01:00] we recorded real spoilers this week, we did it remotely ’cause it snowed so nobody’s gonna drive. And uh, I was just like, I’m gonna record in the kitchen this week because it is too cold down there.

Crystal: Yeah, it’s not, it’s not bad at all when you’re working out.

’cause you can start with a sweatshirt on or whatever, but,

Tom: which I have been.

Crystal: Yeah,

Tom: me too. I got like, I got like, I was like 20 or 25 minutes into a tonal workout before.

Crystal: That’s

Tom: funny. I took my sweatshirt off.

Crystal: I was doing, uh, just a walk on the treadmill yesterday and I, I only got about six minutes in before I was like, get a thing off of me.

Tom: I was this close to starting in my jeans. It was so cold down here. I’m just like, well, it’s mostly upper body. That wouldn’t be so bad I guess. Ugh. But, uh, but yeah, so it’s, it’s been chilly. We, we got. We got snow, but we didn’t get the ice. We did,

Crystal: we did.

Tom: Yeah. We avoided the ice.

Crystal: Thank goodness we avoided the ice.

Yeah. But yeah, we got quite a bit of snow. I mean, for us. Yeah. For not compared to the East Coast for

Tom: sure.

Crystal: Not [00:02:00] only did some people get like literally 14 inches, but there’s another storm headed there this weekend and they’re forecasted for another 10 inches this weekend. We got,

Tom: if you get 14 inches on one weekend, you need to take the next weekend off before you get 10 inches.

Crystal: Gonna just, we, uh,

Tom: give yourself a moment to recoup

Crystal: for snow. For snow. We, uh, I think we ended up with around seven inches.

Tom: Something. Yeah.

Crystal: Uh, and so. That’s a lot for us and since it stayed cold, it’s like it didn’t melt right away. So,

Tom: but thanks to Amazon, the snow shovel I ordered should be here today.

Now that it’s

Crystal: just in time,

Tom: now that it’s 35 and sunny. Our snow shovel shall arrive. Ugh. I forgot that when I was sn shoveled the last time it snowed, which was like last year.

Crystal: Yeah. ’cause it only does a really big

Tom: snow

Crystal: about once a year.

Tom: Yeah. It broke. ‘

Crystal: cause it’s, it’s sitting out there dry rotting.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: 20 years. [00:03:00]

Tom: It’s like a snow shovel. My mother got as a wedding present or something, still has a, still has like a wood, those old wood handles and Yeah, it’s,

Crystal: Hey, the wood handle was fine. It was the, the back part that

Tom: broke. So it’s like, I guess I’ll order a new snow show. I got one of, I don’t know, it’s one of those fancy, like it’s all curved weird.

It’s got like peroni’s and, and uh,

Crystal: yeah. When you sent me the picture of it, I was like, what the hell is that?

Tom: It’s supposed to be ergonomic for your back. Like you’re already, it’s like meeting you where you bend over or something. Okay. Speaking of which is, if you’re getting, if you’re getting 12 inches, you want it to meet you where you bend over.

Crystal: Oh my word

Tom: I’ve been told. So, what Pray tell do you have in store for people this week?

Crystal: Well, I think they’ve probably had enough. Uh,

Tom: ah, we’ve done 448 of these, so they know what they’re in for. They’ve bailed a long time ago if that’s who they are.

Crystal: That’s true. That’s true. Well [00:04:00] we’re gonna talk about when the Pelotons next earnings call is gonna be.

We are gonna talk about the great we, there’s not another word for this. There’s not another word, if there is a better word. I don’t know what it is, but the Peloton singles group got hacked. Yeah. And it was epically bad, so we’re gonna talk about that and it’s a good cautionary tale for people.

Speaker 3: Absolutely.

Crystal: We’re also gonna talk about the power zone pack Now using AI to determine FTP, we are going to talk about what’s going on at the Sundance Film Festival that is related to Peloton.

Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.

Crystal: Two new badges this week. There is a brand new feature that was just added to the app and it’s.

Working for some. So we’re gonna talk about that. We had a sighting, a celebrity sighting of the bike. We’re gonna talk about where that is. We’re also gonna talk about, uh, pelotons hiring and the immediateness of it, because that was fascinating. Yeah. Not to mention there are several instructor stories, uh, some of which we didn’t have time for.

It got moved over to the bonus. [00:05:00] We’ve got Kira Michelle, we’ve got, uh, one of the instructors still stuck in another country. Mm-hmm. Uh, we have Zacharias, whatever his name. I’m gonna figure it out. Uh, I could just watch with sound on for any of his videos and I would probably know, but he’s gonna be making his.

Strength debut. He’s made his yoga debut at Peloton. Strength debut is coming up. Uh, we also have a, an instructor that was on an NBC affiliate in Ohio. We have two instructors that were recently at an event we’re gonna talk about. Not to mention there’s a whole bunch of stuff going on with artist series, but it’s very confusing because nothing’s actually been announced.

Tom: Yeah, I was having trouble figuring out even how to write this.

Crystal: Yeah, I know. And so, yeah, I know, I know. It was messy. It was messy. Uh, and then we also have competitor news and we also have other connected fitness news. AKA tonal in this case.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: And a weird one. We didn’t know how to

Tom: classify.

Crystal: Classify. Yes.

Tom: But we just put it there.

Crystal: Yes. Yeah. So there’s some things happening that we need to know about. And of course we’re gonna talk [00:06:00] about content, all the new stuff that dropped this week, the stuff that’s about to drop et

Tom: Well, before we get to all that shameless plugs, don’t forget we’re available on Apple Podcast, Spotify iHeart tune, and wherever you find a podcast, you can find us.

While you’re there, reach and follow us. So you never miss an episode, maybe leave us a review that is super helpful and greatly appreciated. You can also, if this isn’t enough for you and you just need even more of us we Ya ya.

Crystal: Okay.

Tom: You can find us over on patreon patreon.com/the clip out. It’s $5 a month.

You get ad free episodes, you get early episodes,

Crystal: you get really sassy and unfiltered. Me.

Tom: Yeah, you do. And you get bonus episodes. And, uh, each week we just record a whole other episode. 25, 35, 40 minutes. Sometimes it’s longer than the actual episode. Yeah. Depending on what going on or just how chatty we get, uh, where we go down our rabbit holes.

And also talk about all the stories that we didn’t have time to get to. In the main episode this week, we’re gonna talk about [00:07:00] vitamin D and the flu.

Crystal: Okay.

Tom: How they think that, uh, helps you prevent the flu.

Crystal: Interesting.

Tom: How high fashion suddenly is no longer concerned with body positivity. And I’m just like were they ever?

Crystal: Yeah. Compared to what’s

Tom: happening

Crystal: now,

Tom: guess that’s okay. And uh, and then finally, Peloton and your mental health, it’s maybe not. As helpful as you might’ve thought.

Crystal: Oh,

Tom: so we come over to the bonus where we will crush your spirits in multiple ways. Yay. Yeah. But on the upside, we’ll take $5 from you. So it’s a win-win, right?

Crystal: Sure. And welcome to all of our new members.

Tom: Yes.

Crystal: Lots and lots of people joining and we, we love it, love to see it.

Tom: Also, if you haven’t done it, don’t forget that you do get se seven days free. So if you are on the fence That’s

Crystal: right.

Tom: You get seven day free trial and then you can listen to a couple of ’em.

And if you’re like, these people are nut [00:08:00] jobs,

Crystal: you’re done

Tom: and then you don’t ever listen again.

Crystal: That’s fine.

Tom: That happens too.

Crystal: We’re not for everybody.

Tom: Yeah, that’s a So, uh, also don’t forget, you can find us on Facebook, facebook.com/the clip out while you’re there, like the page, join the group. It’s just a good way to stay up to date on things throughout the week.

It’s, uh, maybe a friendlier environment than the OPP. You won’t get overwhelmed with negativeness except for our own and. What else? Oh yeah, we have a newsletter you can sign up for@theclipout.com. Get all these links and stuff sent to you, mostly weekly. And then finally, you can watch all of these over on YouTube.

So if you didn’t get to listen to it on your drive in, you can pop it up on YouTube and just let it play on your second monitor at your desk. So just spell something. What’s going on over there?

Crystal: I don’t know where the sweatshirt’s from and I’m trying to figure it out. Where is this from?

Tom: Disney World.

Crystal: Oh, it’s Tower of Terror.

Tom: Tower of Terror. Lucky 13 Elevator Company.

Crystal: Oh, okay. I was trying to read it upside down

Tom: on Sunset Boulevard.

Crystal: I know. [00:09:00] It’s very cozy and I love it.

Tom: Yeah, so, uh,

Crystal: that’s when a sign, you have too many hoodies.

Tom: No such thing as too many hoodies. You shut your mouth. So anyway, there’s all that. Let’s dig in, shall we?

Crystal: We shall.

Tom: peloton has announced the date of their next earnings call,

Crystal: February 5th at 8:30 AM So we’re back to Thursdays in the morning. So as we thought it was just a one off for the,

Tom: sounds like a radio promo. Thursdays in the morning.

Thursdays in the morning. Peter Stern’s Morning Zoo.

Crystal: Some days I’m sure it feels like a zoo.

Tom: Morning Zoo talking about Q2.

Crystal: This ought be, they need to record these. Yeah.

Tom: And then there’d be like a wa UGA horn and a slide whistle.

Crystal: Oh, some of these are just [00:10:00] rust.

Tom: So I guess there’s really that much else to talk about. Except

Crystal: no, we’ll have all the details. Um, I’m always curious to see what little tidbits come out. Usually they, they tease a few things and Yeah. You know, you can now you can ask questions ahead of time. So like, if that’s your GM and you have a question you wanna ask, you know, this is, I mean, they’ll be very choosy, but they might an you never know.

They might answer it, so,

Tom: yeah.

Crystal: Yeah.

Tom: But if you are gonna ask a question, make sure to first put it in the chat GPT and ask it to insert as many business buzzwords as possible.

Crystal: Yeah. That’s the only way you’re gonna get chosen. Yeah. ’cause if you ask it in a normal, non businessy way, ignore. Ignore,

Tom: yeah.

It’s,

Crystal: those questions are hilarious.

Tom: Yeah. They’re like trying so

Crystal: hard. Talking about the, uh, synergy on the ASEP report with the 74 times. What,

Tom: trying to rightsize the actualizations and, uh,

Crystal: What are your thoughts on that? How, how do we do that?

Tom: Oh [00:11:00] goodness. You can just like smell the ex body spray coming through the conference call.

Yeah, you

Crystal: can.

Tom: Moving along the Peloton singles group has gotten hacked. Now it’s not technically a hack ’cause Yeah, no, but they were already in there, I guess is what we

Crystal: think happened. So, so what? Okay. So, I’ll help her be Nikki, you know, and she put her investigator hat on.

Tom: Oh

Crystal: goodness. Last night.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: So, uh, she sent me some more details, some more context. And this is the explanation. Hopefully I can find it easily now.

Tom: And her investigator hat is no joke. ’cause I mean, she comes from a family with security clearances, so like,

Crystal: she would never misuse appropriations. I’m just, I don’t wanna accuse her.

I’m just saying using

Tom: I’m, she’s got the skill sets,

Crystal: she has the skillset sets. She has learned some things.

Tom: Yes.

Crystal: Do not mess with this woman.

Tom: No,

Crystal: it’s, I mean, at your own risk, but, uh, okay. So apparently there’s a woman Now this was all in the OPP, so I am not trying to call anybody out. I do not know any of these people.

I, I [00:12:00] am not trying to start a thing. The facts.

Tom: It’s a singles group, so you better not,

Crystal: the facts is they have been presented to me. Okay. Karen? Yes. Her name was Karen. Okay. Not a joke. The person who originally created the group like seven years ago

Tom: Okay. Is

Crystal: what it says. She hasn’t been involved at all in the group for the last six, but she rejoined the group recently and since she created it, she still had access.

To the entire group. Like her

Tom: admin privileges came back as soon as she reentered,

Crystal: entered, entered

Tom: the,

Crystal: the chat ’cause she was the creator.

Tom: Okay.

Crystal: So she said nothing to the existing admins and just started booting people and ripping the group apart. Like just taking no communication to anybody. No explanation.

Nobody knows what is happening or why, but the Peloton singles group posted on the OPP, like, we don’t know what’s happening. We don’t know why this person is doing [00:13:00] this, but uh, we are trying to like get our ducks in a row and start a whole new group. But like. It’s feeling like to people in the group that this was some kind of vindictive move over, some perceived thing that happened, but the people who are the admins now, were not a part of this thing.

Whatever it was, it happened.

Tom: It’s, but it’s, it’s changed, changed

Crystal: ownership.

Tom: Yeah. Especially I guess as a singles group, you presumably eventually are no longer single.

Crystal: Not everybody

Tom: I know, but yeah. Like, but eventually, like, yeah, that tends to happen.

Crystal: Yeah, it totally

Tom: does. And, and then you probably move on and so, yeah.

Crystal: So, so I, I have no idea. I do know, I do know that this is a word of caution on Facebook, and I’ve, I’ve seen a version of this before. I remember many years ago, I don’t even remember what group it was. Yeah. But I remember that. There were, there was some beef between the admins and one of the admins started, they like, they got really mad [00:14:00] collectively at this other admin.

Yeah. So they kicked that admin out and completely redid the group.

Tom: Was that the after dark one? They had a lot. Oh, might have been There was that and like, yeah,

Crystal: I, I really don’t remember,

Tom: but yeah. But it’s happened a couple times. It has actually.

Crystal: And,

Tom: And I know that like, out of an abundance of caution, every time, uh, you get mad at me, you revoke my admin status for the clip out group.

Crystal: I’m like, you’re gonna be a moderator for now. Yeah. Not true. Not true. But it is something to be, you know, concerned about. If you’re starting a group with people, everybody might be on the same page and then one day, one day you just never know what’s gonna happen. I’ve seen a lot of beefs go down over the year at Peloton.

Yeah. And many groups. All different kinds.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: And they are ugly when they happen. They’re real ugly.

Tom: I started the. Where I work, I started our Facebook page. So if they ever hack me off, I can take like a page with like 50,000 people with me and be like boop, whatcha gonna do?

Crystal: I mean nothing. ’cause there is no legal recourse Yeah.

For that. But I know you would [00:15:00] never do that. Yeah. It’s, uh, people were just kind of upset, you know? The, the Pingle, the, the Pringles, the Ingles. That was Peloton and singles. Oh.

Tom: A Porta Monte.

Crystal: I did, I did. I mean on accident, but I’ll take it. The Peloton singles group has always been a bit quiet and shy.

Like they don’t put their business out. Yeah. You know, like a lot of groups, they’re very, that’s why they’re

Tom: still single. You got put it out there. Huh?

Crystal: They like to keep their singles in their group. Yeah. You know, reserved and not on display for people. They don’t wanna be made fun of For sure. They don’t want it to be a zoo or a game show,

Tom: or it would be so easy for a place like that to get real weird, real fast.

Crystal: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So they’ve always been very protective of their people. So I can completely understand how this would feel very.

Tom: Violating.

Crystal: Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely. And yeah, so

Tom: I mean, it would no matter what, but it feels like maybe especially so

Crystal: I would agree. Yeah. Yeah. And people tend to, in any group, put a personal information and stories that are, are out there about their life.

Right? Right. And so when [00:16:00] you’re single, you might have stuff about maybe a past marriage, maybe a past relationship,

Tom: a bad date. Yeah.

Crystal: And if all a person has to do is turn that public, you can turn a group public that’s been private and now anybody can see your stuff. Yeah. So there are people that have been blocked and did not have the opportunity to go in and delete their things.

That’s, that is very violating.

Tom: Yeah, absolutely. Well, hopefully they can get that some resolution there.

Crystal: I hope so. Or start a new group and everybody can go back to their, their peloton single ways.

Tom: Yes.

Crystal: And be happy.

Tom: So the Power zone pack is now using AI to determine your FTP.

Crystal: They are, yeah. This, uh, just

Tom: started not quite sure I.

Understand the point of this.

Crystal: I don’t know the point, I, I, I’m not even gonna lie. I mean, I can guess, I could guess that it’s like, well, maybe if you don’t have a chance to, you know, go do a test or maybe you’ve done a test before but you don’t wanna do another test ’cause they’re not the most pleasant thing in the world.

Tom: I get that. But it [00:17:00] just seems like. The whole point is to see what you can actually do. Not kind of guess. And I mean, I know AI presumably should not be, it’s really smart, but,

Crystal: and it’s That’s true.

Tom: But like, it just kinda seems like, I don’t know.

Crystal: Well, there, there are, I don’t know how it works. I just like, let me be clear.

I don’t use power zone pack. There’s history.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: And, uh, but there’s a lot of people that do. For

Tom: sure.

Crystal: And when I am seeing the reports of how this is being used, there are people that have expressed concerns to me mm-hmm. About the fact that it takes, it seems to take all of your classes into consideration.

So if you’re a person who is taking Power Zone classes all the time, this will work well for you to update your FTP. Right. Right. But if you’re a person who takes a walking class and a rowing class, a meditation, a medication.

Tom: It doesn’t, it’s quite know how to filter that out [00:18:00] just yet.

Crystal: It hasn’t gotten there.

Yeah. So that may not be the best for you. So like anything with ai, use your common sense. Yeah. If it says you went way up or way down second, guess that. Yeah. You don’t have to follow what’s on the screen if it doesn’t make sense for you.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: You know, that’s, that’s always the way that people should approach ai, in my opinion.

Tom: For sure. I’ve said before if AI is Google Maps, it is in its MapQuest era.

Crystal: Yeah.

Tom: Yeah. There’s a lot of, like, I took a loft and drove into a lake.

Speaker 3: Oh.

Tom: Peloton is going to the Sundance Film Festival.

Crystal: So, yeah, the, uh, film festival, Emma Lovewell is gonna be there. And I think we also have, yes, Zacharias is gonna be there as well. And, uh, they are going to be doing yoga for Zacharias. And uh, and then of course Emma is gonna be doing Pilates. Okay. And this is all part of the world of Hyatt, which makes sense because [00:19:00] Hyatt and Peloton have their little partnership.

Tom: Sure.

Crystal: And so I guess they’re teaming up together to be part of Sundance.

Tom: Gotcha. Okay.

Crystal: I know they went last year as well. Yeah. I don’t remember like. I’m not going to the Sundance Film Festival. Right. So I have no idea what’s happening there, but this is not the first year and people that are there seem to enjoy it.

Tom: Yeah. That’s all

Crystal: I got.

Tom: We don’t got the kind of juice to go to the Sundance film. I guess I probably could.

Crystal: You probably could if you really wanted

Tom: to. I just, I’ve got a movie pack house for 13 years. I could probably apply for a press pass or something.

Crystal: I just don’t know that we want to.

Tom: I mean, it seems to be cool, but just also I’m good.

Crystal: Can you remind me of where Sundance takes place? There’s so many festivals.

Tom: Uh, it’s in Colorado, I believe.

Crystal: Okay.

Tom: Yeah. This is the one that was started by Robert Redford. I’m trying to remember when he passed away. I think this might be the first one since he passed on. I think it’s been relatively,

Crystal: we lost, we lost a lot of,

Tom: yeah.

But yeah, like he started this film festival like way before film festivals were cool. This was kind of one of the first ones that [00:20:00] really became like, oh, you gotta go to Sundance. But

Crystal: I mean, I’ve heard about it my whole life.

Tom: Yeah. But it’s called Sundance ’cause he played Sundance. Ah, in Witch Cast and Sundance kid.

Okay. If you ever try to remember this,

Crystal: remember

Tom: the, which is which? Sundance Film Festival. Robert Redford, he played. Okay. Yeah.

Crystal: And also I should mention this occurred already, it was 1 23 to 1 25.

Tom: Ah, gotcha. So just pretend like everything we just said was in the past tense.

Crystal: Yes.

Tom: Because it now is in the past tense.

Peloton is debuting not one, but two new badges.

Crystal: They are, yeah. And uh, they are not just badges, they are also challenges

Tom: stink stinking badges, but you don’t

Crystal: need no stinking badges. Um, so the first is the pol the Pilates challenge. Now we thought that would be occurring since they separated Pilates out from strength Fair.

And, and when I say separated Pilates out from strength, you still get Pilates counted towards strength. Right. They just made it easier for you to find. Yes. They didn’t take it outta the strength filter

Tom: whole little avenue.

Crystal: Yes. [00:21:00] They didn’t take it away from counting towards strength is what I should say.

But

Tom: don’t freak out.

Crystal: But now there is a, uh, Pilates challenge that you can take and it’s like five, 10 or 15 classes through February 28th. And that’ll get you your different like bronze, silver, gold. Gotcha. And then they also came up with the super burn challenge. We will talk more about the super burn classes later.

Yeah. The short story is they can’t say Super Bowl.

Tom: You cannot say Super Bowl. It has been trademarked. They did not make the mistake that Major League Baseball did with the World Series.

Crystal: Yes. And so since they cannot, they will go ahead and call it the super burn.

Tom: Yes.

Crystal: But I prefer this to what they’ve done in the past.

I like this one. And there’s going to be a bunch of classes that are dropping on February 8th, which one of our listeners was super excited to find out because they were going to the studio and they were like, why are there no classes on the eighth? And I was like, we think it has something to do with the Super Bowl.

And uh, turns [00:22:00] out that it does

Speaker 3: look at that

Crystal: and a bunch of classes are dropping. So you can earn a badge by taking the tailgate and a Super burn cardio class on the eighth. Yes. The tailgate is strength. People have been asking.

Tom: Ah,

Crystal: so,

Tom: okay.

Crystal: Alright.

Tom: Autoplay has been added to the app for you, people who like to stack.

Crystal: Yes. Okay. So brief history for people who may not know

Tom: mm-hmm.

Crystal: Autoplay was tried a few years ago. It was a major fail. It did not work. And it’s like, for a while, some people it worked and some people it was like you still had to hit the button and you still, and so it was like, well then is it really autoplay?

Not really autoplay? Yeah. Uh, I will say that I have gotten reports from people who are Android user, Christina Sanders specifically. Mm-hmm. That, um, you have to wake up your phone in between classes, otherwise it can’t autoplay. Well, that kind of

Tom: again, defeats the purpose.

Crystal: Yeah. Yeah. I have not tried it.

It is way too freaking cold to be running outside [00:23:00] and that’s pretty much all I use my stacking for.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: So, I don’t know.

Tom: She lives in warmer climbs.

Crystal: Yeah. Yeah. It’s probably like 115 today.

Tom: But it’s a dry

Crystal: heat. It’s a dry heat. Yeah.

Tom: We had a bike sighting on television. Netflix is. Finding her edge. Someone an eagle eyed listener spotted

Crystal: It was Trish.

It was, uh, it was Trish from one of our, our Help her Be Tipsters. Well,

Tom: thank you. She spotted a bike on an episode of that show.

Crystal: Do you know anything about the show?

Tom: I’ve never heard of this show.

Crystal: Show. I didn’t know. ’cause a lot of times, you know, about shows that I don’t know about, so I thought it was possible

Tom: Netflix produces so much content.

Crystal: I

Tom: know. And it’s so targeted too that it’s like,

Crystal: it’s true.

Tom: Ours is pretty much all just like, Swedish serial killer shows.

Crystal: Yeah. That’s our own fault.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: And,

Tom: and true crime rom con documentaries.

Crystal: That was really good.

Tom: That was actually on Amazon. But yeah,

Crystal: I really enjoyed that.

Tom: Yeah, that was a good one.

Yeah. [00:24:00] So, uh, but yeah, it’s, it’s always nice to spot a piece of equipment in the wild. I feel like it’s been a little bit,

Crystal: it has, sometimes people send ’em to me, but it’s like stuff we’ve heard about before. Right. So I, I haven’t mentioned it. I didn’t know about this one though.

Tom: They’re like, did you know that on?

And just like that.

Crystal: Yeah. Yeah. We know.

Tom: No, we, we are aware.

Tom: PSL is looking for a production manager, or they probably say a production manager because they’re very fancy. It’s in London, so you will need to. Have a monocle and perhaps a top hat and handlebar mustache.

Crystal: Oh, even better.

Tom: Even the ladies.

Crystal: Uh, yes. A production manager. So it says that the role involves overseeing the entire life cycle of content from in studio classes to global shoots and music partnerships.

The interesting part about this is that they’re looking for someone who has four plus years as production manager and [00:25:00] people leader within live broadcast or studio environments. They are looking for someone to join no later than the end of February. What is happening over there?

Tom: I don’t know.

Crystal: That’s such a dr.

Like dramatic, like we need somebody right now.

Tom: Yeah, for sure.

Crystal: Like clearly whatever happened here, this became a very critical need. I just, like, my mind goes to worst case scenarios, you know?

Tom: Yeah, for sure.

Crystal: So. Interesting.

Tom: Well, coming up after this, uh, we have instructors in the news we’re gonna talk about who is still stuck in a foreign country who was on, uh, an NBC affiliate in Columbus, getting some love and who spoke at a twin health event, plus all the artist series si sis, that aren’t actually artist series.

So stick around.

Tom: Kira Michelle will be attending the Yoga Telluride Festival.

Crystal: Yeah, I believe she did this last year too, which is [00:26:00] always fun to see instructors return to it.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: Um, but obviously Kira’s really. Awesome Yogi. She can do all of the advanced poses. Yeah. Make it look so freaking easy. So can Zacharia for that matter.

Tom: She can also do Upward Dog. That’s how good she is.

Crystal: But, uh, she wanted people to know that she was doing it and like invite people to come out to Telluride.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: So if you are in the area between June 25th and June 28th, she will be teaching, she’ll be doing a workshop and four classes. So quite a variety of options to see her and, uh, learn lots of yoga.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: Wow.

Tom: So, uh, Nico Sani is still stuck in Germany.

Crystal: Yes. Uh, she posted that it’s gonna be at least a few more weeks. Goodness. Um, that they, she’s still waiting for her visa. Extension to get approved. No luck. And she said that she’s really working on her patients. [00:27:00] So we were talking about this in, I think you and I mentioned this separately, but also in the tipster.

And I was reminded there is no yoga studio in London. So even if they wanted her to teach out of London, unless they make a change, ah, there is no ability to do that. It would be easier for her though, because she could go back and forth between Germany and London. Right. So much easier Yeah. Than here. And who knows what will happen with visas and I mean, the government is just a shit show.

Speaker 3: Yes.

Crystal: Um, yeah. And, and so I, I don’t know when she’ll be able to come back and that really sucks. Yeah, yeah, it does. Like can you imagine just the big question mark over your head?

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: Like.

Tom: Just your whole career is on pause.

Crystal: Yeah.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: That’s crazy.

Tom: And you, you know, you gotta be sitting there wondering, like, you know, at some point Pelotons gonna be like, well, no offense, but what are we paying you for?

Crystal: Yeah.

Tom: So,

Crystal: yeah.

Tom: Yeah. That would be nerve wracking.

Crystal: It would, it would

Tom: through no fault of her own.

Crystal: Right.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: And no control.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: [00:28:00] Either,

Tom: uh, Zacharias is making his strength debut.

Crystal: Yes. Very exciting. I think Elizabeth probably jumped up and down the most about this. She’s been so excited waiting for his kettlebell debut.

Uh, he’s known for his kettlebell classes outside of Peloton, and, uh, he’s going to be teaching kettlebell classes. His debut drops on January 29th, so that’s tomorrow. So you will have, it will have already happened. We also have tons of articles to help you get started with Kettlebells. Uh, so if you’re not sure where to go or like how to use the class or how to, to get started, we got you covered tons of, of information there, but, um, we’re excited to see what this looks like.

Yoga combined with strength because he is such a precise yogi and he can do so many advanced moves. Like what is that gonna look like from a kettlebell

Speaker 3: Yeah.

Crystal: Teaching perspective because that it’s [00:29:00] kettlebells. Are a little more advanced in that you, you can’t just throw them around willy-nilly. Like you really need to use the body parts they’re telling you to use and that’s why you should do the beginner classes.

Tom: Right. I would say that seems like something you could get hurt doing. You

Crystal: absolutely could.

Tom: If you’re not careful,

Crystal: you absolutely could. Your low back is especially, especially at risk. Yeah. Um, and so, uh, it’ll be interesting to see, like, is he gonna come in with beginner classes? Will it be a whole spectrum of classes?

Or no. So curious to see.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: Wait,

Tom: Ash Pryor was on the NBC affiliate in Columbus, Ohio.

Crystal: She was, and I didn’t get a chance to watch this segment. Did you watch it?

Tom: I watched some of it with the sound on off. She was they were showing her on the rower and stuff like that. Uh, she, does

Crystal: she do any Pilates moves?

Tom: I don’t know what that would look like.

Crystal: Just on a mat. Oh, lots of bendy.

Tom: If I, if she did

Crystal: it focused on the tummy,

Tom: I didn’t see it.

Crystal: Well, she’s from Ohio.

Tom: I was gonna say she’s from Ohio, right? This

Crystal: is like her, yeah. She went to Ohio State. I don’t know if she’s from Ohio. Okay. I should say [00:30:00] she went to college there.

Okay. I am not clear if she’s from there.

Tom: Gotcha.

Crystal: Um, but I know Ohio State is like a huge deal for her.

Tom: Well, and she seemed based on her post, very excited to be. On the, because I was like, where is this? When I saw it was in Ohio, I was like, okay, she must have some relation to Ohio to be this excited about being on the Ohio affiliate.

Crystal: Yes. Yeah. Yes, absolutely. And you know, it’s, I don’t know when Peloton is going to announce that she is a Pilates instructor. Yeah. But we know she has her certification. Right. We know because she said it in class in October. It’s happening soon. We know that they just added Pilates instructors. I’m thinking they’re giving Zacharias and Greta and Johanna time to have their moment in the spotlight.

Tom: Right.

Crystal: But it’s gotta be soon that they are putting her in the spotlight all for herself. And I am so here for it. Yeah. So excited to see it. Can’t wait.

Tom: Uh, Rebecca Kennedy, or as I have here, Rebecca Kenny. [00:31:00]

Crystal: I love when you make up new names.

Tom: Whoops. And Cody Rigsby or as I have here, Cody Rigby. I don’t, I got one of ’em, right?

They spoke at a twin health event.

Crystal: Yeah. I honestly, I ke Twin Health is the newest partnership, I think between Peloton and. Twin health. And that was kind of dumb how that works. They hosted a cycling class and a fireside chat to celebrate the power of movement in helping people achi achieve their metabolic health goals.

They also had Dr. Lisa Shaw. They had also Peloton for business partnerships. I’m sorry, Peloton Interactive Senior director, Peloton for business partnerships. Courtney Nolan. And then they had Athlet Tech News was there, the editor, uh, Annie Friedman. And they discussed the powerful connection between movement, metabolic health and wellbeing.

And then Cody led a cycling class to put it all into motion for helping everyone unlock their personal path [00:32:00] to better health. So it was like Rebecca just there to talk or did they let her teach a class?

Tom: I don’t know.

Crystal: It’s kind of weird.

Tom: Yeah, a little bit.

Crystal: A little bit.

Tom: Okay, let’s try and untangle what all this means.

Crystal: All right.

Tom: The latest artist series that is not an artist series features Tyler the Creator. That’s a big one.

Crystal: It is. Yeah. Okay. So here’s what we think is going on. We think that Black History Month is coming up. In fact, I mean it is, but we know that. We know that.

Yeah. But we think that Peloton, we think because of that, we think because of that, that Peloton will be announcing several artist series. Right. Um, one of the ones we, we need to list here that’s happening this week

Tom: Right.

Crystal: Is in excess,

Tom: because that would not be a part of Black History Month.

Crystal: It would not, and they still haven’t even announced that one.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: By itself Now. It’s been a weird week. It’s been a weird news cycle.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: It’s kind of hard to be celebrating things with everything going on. Yeah. [00:33:00] I don’t know if that’s why they haven’t announced it, because it’s Wednesday,

Speaker 3: right? Yeah.

Crystal: So it should be happening tomorrow. But in excess is happening, so we have that.

Then we have some upcoming ones that have been spotted. Tyler, the creator.

Speaker 3: Yeah.

Crystal: And Destiny’s Child are both on the schedule and then not technically an artist series. Mm-hmm. But special. T day’s Magic mic ride. And the tease for this was hilarious. Did you watch the video?

Tom: No, I didn’t.

Crystal: Tunde literally came in and stripped and it was like she had on a big winter coat and she had on like a scarf and like she’s in the, in the middle of the Peloton studio and she starts like dancing and pulling off all the clothes.

And then she’s got like just a, well

Tom: that’s more of a magic Michelle.

Crystal: She’s got just the body suit underneath it. But it is to celebrate the magic Mike opening of the show. Yeah. On Broadway Magic Mike Live, magic Mike Live. Yeah. But [00:34:00] it doesn’t open until October. So we’re all a little confused why we’re doing this now,

Tom: especially when it’s so cold.

Crystal: Yeah, exactly. And Will will Channing Tatum be there? That’s the other question. You

Tom: mean in a class or at the opening of the show?

Crystal: Yes.

Tom: I mean, he’ll probably be at the opening of the show. You don’t

Crystal: think he’ll be in a class?

Tom: I don’t know. I he,

Crystal: I mean, you just never know. He seems like a guy that would do that kind of thing.

Tom: He absolutely does. Like he,

Crystal: like he’s totally down to earth. Yeah. I mean, is down to earth as somebody who,

Tom: or at least that’s what he projects, never met him. It is what he projects. Right. But like he seems like a really nice, normal dude. Which is refreshing.

Speaker 3: It is

Crystal: refreshing. Yeah.

Tom: And I know this is a hot take, but that first Magic Mike movie, it’s really good.

Crystal: It is really good.

Tom: It’s a really good movie.

Crystal: The second one,

Tom: the second and third one. No, they’re really bad.

Crystal: No, don’t do that.

Tom: But the first one is a really good movie.

Crystal: It is. It is. Yeah.

Tom: And I am secure enough in what? Little masculinity I have to say.

Crystal: You have plenty of masculinity. You know why? Because you’re [00:35:00] not shooting people in the face on the street.

Tom: Is that, that’s how low the bar has gotten.

Crystal: It is. It is indeed.

Tom: So we have an interesting update. About the iFit Amazon Prime reality show that is in the works.

Crystal: Yeah. Now, I don’t know if we talked about this at all on the main episode, so very brief overview.

Uh, the iFit team is teaming up with Amazon, I believe, to create a show to find their next instructor. And Peloton should have done this. Mm-hmm. That, that is, that is a very important thing to note. But, um, one of our listeners Tammy Armstrong, she said how fun this was.

First of all, I did not realize that they released the actual show to the equipment before it airs on television.

Tom: Oh, interesting.

Crystal: And if you have their equipment. It adjusts the speed, incline and decline. So you’re doing what they’re doing.

Tom: Oh, wow. [00:36:00]

Crystal: I thought that was really cool. She said throughout the show, as the contestants take on a challenge, the treadmill adjusts to match.

When they are hanging out chatting, you may have a normal walking pace. If they’re climbing, you climb. If they run the speed adjusts, you get the point. How cool is that?

Tom: Yeah, that’s pretty neat.

Crystal: And the equipment also allows you to set a max speed limit so she never goes faster than what she is comfortable with.

Um, and she said that she has gravitated toward a top contestant and she’s hoping they don’t get eliminated. I really wanna watch this show. I haven’t had time because this is one I wanna actually watch and I know it’s not your thing, so I have to watch it when you’re not home. But I’m very curious about this.

Tom: I’ll try to schedule a bunch of concerts so I have to work.

Crystal: Well, we got graduations coming up in a few months. You won’t be home at all.

Tom: Yeah. Or, or I’ll like I have a lot of those days where I’m there for like 18 hours.

Crystal: Yeah. Yeah. I can get through the whole series. Thank you Tammy, for sharing that.

That’s really cool. And I gotta give props to them and Peloton. Whew. You missed an opportunity. You

Tom: should have jumped on

Crystal: it. Yeah.

[00:37:00]

Tom: It’s been a while since we’ve had one of these. It

Crystal: has.

Tom: And this is also a celebrity one, but also like, not the best news.

Crystal: No.

Tom: Uh, well, not good news at all. Snooky has revealed that she has cancerous cells.

Crystal: Yeah. Um, she said that they found that in her cervix and that she’s had several abnormal pap smear that’s so uncomfortable because then they make you do a coloscopy, which he had to do, and a biopsy, they found cancerous cells.

That’s why you do all the tests. Yeah. Um, and he’s found the cancerous cells, but she said that she’s going to have. Additional cone biopsy done under anesthesia for further testing. But she is focused on getting answers. She’s scared, but she said that, you know, she wanted to share her journey because she initially waited out of stress.

So she’s like, I’m doing this video because I wanna encourage people to stay on your appointments. Yeah. It’s true. I mean, I’ve had several abnormal [00:38:00] ones and luckily nothing has come back. Yeah. But like, it is so stressful every time you go. Yeah. And they’re like, Ooh, that doesn’t look right. It’s like, uh,

Tom: and I’ve had to stay on you to stay on your

Crystal: appointments.

You have, because it is, it is such a natural instinct to just be like, I don’t wanna go. Yeah. Well, number one, it hurts. Yeah. Like, it is not a comfortable thing. If men went through this, they’d come up with a better freaking way, I promise you. Ugh.

Tom: I don’t know if they’re doing a biopsy. I don’t know that there’s,

Crystal: the coloscopy is not a biopsy.

Okay. It’s literally they just rip things out. It’s really painful. Yeah. You bleed and they don’t give you anything for it, and they’re just like, take some aspirin. It’s not fun.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: Okay. So like, don’t even try to tell me. It’s no big deal. Okay. I

Speaker 3: say,

Crystal: I could put you in the stirrups and we’ll find out.

I’m just teasing. I’m just teasing. I’m not really that upset.

Tom: We don’t actually own stirrups. I just would like people to know that

Crystal: that’s your clarification.

Tom: We don’t, we don’t just have stirrups lying around. I mean, we’re not, we’re not shaming people. If they do, [00:39:00] we just like it known that we didn’t.

That’s all.

Tom: Moving right along

Crystal: quickly,

Tom: tonal and Krista McGee have a Pilates challenge for you.

Crystal: This is, uh, really fun because this is Kristen’s first. Like big challenge, big monthly thing that they had over at, uh, tonal. So it’s going to be two pieces to it.

So the first two weeks of February is going to be her program that’s called Strong for Life, and it’s gonna be all balanced workouts for intentional strength progression. This is really good for people who have never done strength training.

Anybody can get something out of this, but this is, that’s the best use for it. And then from February 16th to March 15th, her brand new Pilates program, first ever on tonal called Pilates Precision, precision, and Power. And it’s gonna be four classes a week. Four times a week. How exciting. I’m so, so [00:40:00]excited about this.

Eh,

Tom: and you have your special pellet Pilates loops or whatever.

Crystal: See, we have stirrups.

Tom: Yeah. I was glad when that came in the fancy box. It said tonal on it because when I opened, when I saw it laying there, I was like, what is this for? I need to prepare myself. So our story that we didn’t know where to put it. So it’s over here. Uh, Lululemon has stopped sales of some of its leggings.

Crystal: Yes.

Tom: Because, uh, they’re showing the goods.

Crystal: They are quote unquote, not squat proof.

Yeah. Um. Several shoppers had complained that the pants were just flat out see-through. So yeah, you would, uh, wanna be real careful. This is why you always check the mirror Yeah. Before you leave the house. You know, like I, I’ve heard of this happening with other leggings. I’ve heard of this happening to other women.

[00:41:00] Luckily well, one, I don’t wear light colors, so I would have less of a chance, right. Of that happening. But but two, yeah, this is really awkward. The really, really awkward.

Tom: So if you bought some recently, you might want to give yourself the once over before you. You head out

Crystal: and if you’re wondering, what are the names of this?

It is the get low leggings.

Tom: Yeah, they are

Crystal: Low.

Tom: They do come with free stirrups.

Crystal: No.

Tom: Coming up after this, uh, we got content. We’re gonna talk TCO top five. We’re gonna talk bench classes. We got a whole bunch of stuff. So join us, won’t you?

Tom: it is time for the TCO top five.

You have told us your favorite classes and we mostly listened. Number one, your favorite. By class.

Crystal: Okay. So pro as promised, we are gonna talk more about this. This is the Reconnect [00:42:00]ride with Dennis Morton teaching. So this class originated while the Peloton instructors in New York were doing their summit.

Mm-hmm. Used to be once a quarter summit. It seems like they’ve kind of pulled that back to like once a year.

Tom: Gotcha.

Crystal: And all of the instructors that were in town and available for the summit were in the class while Dennis taught it. And several of the instructors had posted videos from it and people were going nuts.

Like, where is this class? Where, where is this class? Where is this thing?

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: And my answer was, I don’t even know if we’re gonna get it, because like, it wasn’t for us. Right. It was for the instructors during the summit. I don’t know what the original plan was. According to some people the members made it happen.

But I kind of think that. That my problem with that theory is that Peloton purposely had the instructors post on socials. Yeah. If they didn’t want people to know about it, they wouldn’t have posted on socials. It’s so, to me this seems like a marketing thing.

Tom: It feels like when, uh, they make you clap to keep Tinkerbell alive.[00:43:00]

Crystal: Yeah.

Tom: Like,

Crystal: or spoil or

Tom: spoiler, Tinkerbell was always gonna live.

Crystal: Or, uh, or whenever they’re like at the end of a concert and you have to clap. Yeah. For the encore,

Tom: oh, I hope Lynyrd Skynyrd plays Freebird.

Crystal: Oh my God. Are they not gonna play? Why

Tom: would they leave without playing

Crystal: Freebird? We all have to cheer like it’s the dumbest.

I hate that. I hate it so much. Encore’s are stupid.

Tom: I can’t believe deep blue something left without playing breakfast. At Tiffany’s

Crystal: though, recently when we went to go see

Tom: the Lemonheads,

Crystal: they didn’t play the encore.

Tom: They didn’t, they didn’t do an encore and they didn’t play Mrs. Robinson, which

Crystal: was crazy, which

Tom: I know is a cover, but it’s like their biggest,

Crystal: it’s their biggest hit.

Tom: Yeah,

Crystal: it was just so funny because like, they just like got up and left off the stage and it was like oh, you’re really done. Oh, okay. We’re not, we’re not doing this.

Tom: I’m like, we’re not, nobody’s worried about beating traffic. There’s only like 200 people here. Like,

Crystal: well, you could have played,

Tom: we’re gonna be fine.

Crystal: But back to this. Yeah. Uh, people were super excited. I think that it was always the plan to put it out. And I also think that, my other reason, rationale for thinking that is [00:44:00] that John Husking, during a Walk Plus Run, he mentioned that Hannah Frankston was doing the London version of this. So all the PSL instructors will be having their Summit Robins going over there, et cetera.

And, um. They are going to have their own, and Hannah Frankston is gonna be teaching it. Well, if you kind of already had that planned out,

Tom: it just kind of seems,

Crystal: and he’s talking about it like this seems like just a way to gin up some excitement, which no harm done. It’s fine. Yeah.

Tom: Like

Crystal: that’s, yeah. But like, let’s not pretend that it was ever anything other than that.

Yeah. But anyway people freaking loved this class. Like it was I feel like Kimberly Ray Jessup said it the best. It was probably the most fun I’ve ever had in a class, and it definitely gave old Peloton vibes, less production, more genuine. And the fact that they let the playlist stand says a lot.

Also, Dennis never cusses on his rides, and apparently he was after darkness and he got, he got a little spicy with the words. Okay. Take that as you will.

Tom: Okay. Uh, number two, your favorite [00:45:00] meditation.

Crystal: Okay. So transparently, I did not take the reconnect ride because I was not in the headspace to take that class.

And I know other people felt the same way. Yeah. There has been a lot happening this week and the last few weeks. Um, so. When Mariana Fernandez set announced that she was going to be doing a 10 minute holding space meditation, that felt really special. Yeah. And several of the helper bees from the clip out showed up, including myself.

Nikki had a, a wonderful way of saying this, that this was the perfect meditation for anyone experiencing the weight of a heavy world. Mariana guides you through giving yourself permission to sit with your emotions and acknowledge them and acknowledge that it’s okay to feel how you feel. This meditation works for a heavy heart no matter what may be weighing it down at the moment.

And Jen Kern added that. It felt like she was being emotionally hugged by her, and Elizabeth said it was lovely how the other instructors were sitting around and behind her in true hands on your back fashion, which felt [00:46:00] very connecting visually. It was, and it did. And it was really lovely. You could feel the, you.

We want to do something.

Speaker 3: Yeah.

Crystal: Impactful coming through the screen like and Mariana’s been through the ringer and send her a nice message because there’s a bunch of assholes who’ve been sending her really shitty messages and people just suck. Like, you know, just be a nice person. Just be a nice, if you don’t have anything nice to say, get the fuck outta here.

Yeah. Like you just don’t need to say anything. Yeah. She’s entitled to her opinions. And if you don’t like it, too bad and don’t even come at me with, there is no place for politics. Yeah. And fitness. It is not politics, it is humanity. That’s where we are now. Anyway. Moving right along.

Tom: Number three, your favorite power zone ride.

Crystal: C yo. Taught this, it was a 30 minute power zone endurance, classic rock ride. And Karen Gage Bensley nominated it saying it was exceptional. Great playlist, excellent endurance structure, fun and well coached. Add in Sam’s new post ride stretch and my body and soul were happy. Isn’t [00:47:00] that lovely? Yeah.

Tom: Uh, number four, your favorite bootcamp.

Crystal: Yes. This is so funny. It was taught by Andy Spear. It was a 45 minute High Rocks training bootcamp. Chelsea Simon said, do I ever plan on competing at a High Rocks event? No. But this class was a great fast tempo, well-rounded workout with a great playlist that perfectly matched up with the given workout at the time.

I’m so excited for the High Rocks program coming out in February. I love that. Like, that’s, that’s just great. Like you can still be involved and have a great time, even if you have no plans of doing it.

Tom: And finally, uh. The class so tough. You dare not stack it. So we have dubbed them Unst. Stackables.

Crystal: Okay.

So Benny Adami taught this, I believe it is not his first time. Yeah. In the Unst stackable, but this was a 30 minute, eighties pop ride and Laura Corcoran nominated this class. She said she was spent after this ride with Benny, not too much of a flat road, and uh, she had to restack a glutes and legs class for another day.[00:48:00]

Lots of great songs in this class. It’s from 12 15, 25. If you’re wondering, congrats to Benny

Tom: taking a look at this week at Peloton, we have Hannah Franken 60 minute EDM.

Crystal: Yeah. Long rides. You know, people have often said we want more long classes. Peloton says there’s gonna be more this year and we are kicking off January with a 60 minute live ride.

Hannah Frankston does not do these often if she’s ever done them. Uh, and that is obviously exciting for people who love her classes. It’s going to be early Saturday morning, so this is gonna be a whole hour before 9:00 AM So get out and do it

Tom: and you’ll have your whole day.

Crystal: You’ll have your whole day to relax.

Yeah.

Tom: Uh, we have a new walking bootcamp from Maddie Omo.

Crystal: Yes. Love Maddie. And it dropped tomorrow. It’s gonna be a 30 minute walking bootcamp, and, uh, he is going to add in. No running because it’s walking so you don’t have that high impact. So it’s gonna be a low impact. Gotcha. If you’re looking for that, it’s [00:49:00] great.

Tom: Yeah. We have a 60 minute live run with Be Gentry

Crystal: longer classes.

Tom: Yeah.

Crystal: Here we are again. 60 minute live run. This is gonna be on Saturday, January 31st at 9:30 AM And uh, I mean it’s Bex Gentry. You’re gonna have great technical cues and it’s going to be an awesome playlist from the two thousands.

Tom: And we have a recovery flow and let go.

Crystal: Yes, it’s the first one of 20 26, 30 minute flow and let go on the 31st and a 10 minute meditation on the 31st. Both happening in the morning, um, and they are designed to be taken back to back. It’s going to help you open up tight hips and hamstrings,

Tom: taking a look at classes that are on our radar and therefore should be on yours. Uh, Rebecca’s Highlit is in, its. Third week

Crystal: It is. Yeah. We’ve got, uh, we, I need to post it, but we have all of the resources so you can go to one place and get ’em all. It’s all from Rebecca’s socials. Like we’re not making different things or, uh, anything like that, but we just want people to have an easy place [00:50:00] to go find them long after the official push is gone.

And we are almost done. She’s, it’s only four weeks. Okay. So just one more week to go.

Tom: Gotcha. And then, uh, we have a trance music ride.

Crystal: Yes. Eric is gonna be teaching that on the 27th. So if out

Tom: before people get upset, it’s trance. Trance with a C

Crystal: Oh,

Tom: don’t be such a snowflake.

Crystal: And uh, and then there’s also going to be, I love how Elizabeth put in here.

Cue the John Ham meme. Have you seen that? Where he’s like in a nightclub and a song comes on. This is an old song from like the 2000 tens. And you just see John Hammond a nightclub, and he’s like, he just feels the beat and he like gets into it and people started making memes about everything. I’m not, oh, I’m gonna have to share some of these with you.

Ben, uh, Aldi will also be doing a 30 minute dance music ride that is also dropping, that’s on the 28th. So both of those will be out by the time you hear this.

Tom: We were talking before about long classes. We’ve got a long [00:51:00] row for people.

Crystal: Yes. 60 minutes. Woo.

Tom: Yikes.

Crystal: Yeah, that’s a lot. That’s a lot. Ash Pryor is gonna be teaching that and that is her fourth ever. So if you want to, uh, give her all of your love and support, this is a great way to do that. If you, it’s a, it’s going to be out this week and on the 30th, so lots of long classes on the 30th coming out.

Yeah.

Tom: You can also celebrate German culture with a two for one retro, I guess Rise.

Crystal: Yeah. I don’t know exactly how to pronounce it.

Tom: It’s German, so it’s R-E-I-S-E-I.

So

Crystal: it might be like re

Tom: Reese

Crystal: or Reese

Tom: re

Crystal: Well, they’re been, they’ve been bringing this theme ride to members since early 2025. And this time they are teaming up. Uh, so that’s gonna be really fun. And uh, Elizabeth said that as she scanned the playlist of older classes, she couldn’t help but wonder why does Brian Adams summer of 69 appear so many times now?

She’s gonna have to take the ride and find out. [00:52:00]

Tom: Okay. Zacharias has his first 45 minute class.

Crystal: Yeah, 40. And that’s yoga flow. Okay. So, you know, if you just be careful, like, don’t go into this thinking beginner is, this is gonna be fun for you because 45 minutes it, this is listed as intermediate for a reason.

He is fast, he’s great, but he’s fast. Yeah. So like, don’t get discouraged. Just do what you can and go in knowing it’s okay.

Tom: Ally love, love is over at PSL.

Crystal: Yeah, she is, uh, she’s gonna be doing a class on one 30 and we also think that this may be indicating the timing for the PSL instructor summit coming up as well.

So that

Tom: makes sense. Mm-hmm. Uh, Maddie’s got another Broadway class for you. This one’s a walk.

Crystal: It is, yeah. And this is also taking place this weekend. This is gonna be on the 31st, so That’s awesome.

Tom: And, uh, black History Month is kicking off on February 1st.

Crystal: It is, uh, there’s gonna be specifically a Black History [00:53:00] Month Broadway ride with Ali on the 1st of February.

Tom: Bench classes have gotten their own collection kind of.

Crystal: This is so weird. Listen, Peloton announced on their socials that there was a bench collection and then they never posted the collection. Whoops. So there was the Robin class that had a bench in it. Right. It was 10 minute glutes and legs. And then also there was a rad class that they included in the collection.

Right. And yeah, it’s, there is no collection like I scrolled this morning just to see. Yeah. Maybe they put, I have no idea. Like lately their socials have been all over the place. Yeah. I, I just, I think that they just don’t have enough people to really check things carefully.

Yeah. So I think somebody posted on socials long before they were supposed to. Gotcha. Is what I think happened.

Tom: Well, if you write an article about that one, the headline can be bench please.

Also, if you’re getting ready for the big game, because you’ll be arrested if you say Super [00:54:00]Bowl. Peloton has the super burn classes for you?

Crystal: They do. It’s gonna be, uh, tons of classes. They opened up Booking or they’re, they book opened up booking for the February 8th classes. There’s gonna be the tailgate class that’s gonna have Adrian, Camilla, Katie, Logan, Tunde, and Zacharias.

And then they have a 30 minute run with Hannah, uh, a ride with Allie, a a row with Matt and a super burn meditation with Chelsea to help calm those pre-game nerves. I’m calm. Okay. I wouldn’t go

Tom: that far.

Crystal: So the in-person bookings, like I said, they opened on Tuesday. I will be really curious to see who all is able to get into these classes.

I know we had some listeners that were very excited, so hopefully they were able to get in.

Tom: Only one birthday this week. It is for former Peloton instructor. Keyword former. Daniel McKenna.

Crystal: Good luck to [00:55:00] him.

Tom: So his birthday is on February 4th, if you celebrate.

So there you go. 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 find me on Threads Blue Sky Instagram, and the Peloton leaderboard at clip out Krystal.

Tom: And you can find me on Threads in bluesky at Tom O’Keefe Jr.

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So that’s it for this one. Thanks for tuning in, and until next time, keep peddling

Speaker 3: and running

Tom: and rowing. Bye bye. [00:56:00]

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