The Sevan Podcast - THE SEVAN PODCAST CROSSFIT NEWS - ALWAYS ON POINT 2/08/24

Episode Date: February 9, 2024

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And in the news Keith Knapp Director of marketing for CrossFit Has moved on he's transitioned He's been fired More to come For those of you who don't know Keith Knapp He just opened a

CrossFit gym He opened an affiliate And he has been rewarded who don't know Keith Knapp, he just opened a CrossFit gym. He opened an affiliate, and he has been rewarded by having his job taken from him. The media team, marketing team, whatever you want to call it at CrossFit, is slim, and it has just got slimmer. Good luck to Keith Knapp, father of four, good dude, diehard CrossFitter, strong as shit, just opened an affiliate. In other news, rumors are starting about the use of EPO running rampant among the CrossFit Games athletes.

For those who don't know what EPO is, by injecting EPO, athletes aim to increase the number of red blood cells and consequently their aerobic capacity. Consequently, their aerobic capacity. Now, the question is, is CrossFit testing for EPO? And who's been doing EPO and how rampant is it? Or is it just a vicious rumor? More vicious rumors. Andrew Hiller retires from YouTube. Believe it or not. Believe it or not, after Josh Bridges lambasts Hiller on the Coffee Pods and Wads game show,

it's a knockoff of Death By that the Lone Ranger does, except this one's successful. And here we go. Let's listen to what Josh Bridges has to say about the great Andrew Hiller. Here we go. Just lost the show. Good. Nobody cares. Go look for your bat signals. My wife said to me the other week i don't know how you're friends with him i like i hate

his stuff like it's just he's a bully it's so negative and i was like how many videos of his have you watched he was like none but i mean it doesn't matter i'm with your wife i haven't watched it either i would say hiller is not a polarizing figure in crossfit right you're talking about a fucking guy who literally critiques people's movements. The guy's a joke. Josh just lost the show. Good. Nobody cares. Damn! Andrew Hiller makes this post, puts together this montage from that

show that Pedro White has, and he says, I would like to announce, Andrew Hiller, myself, that I have made my final video. You guys can thank Josh Bridges. I'm glad I got to do it with William Leahy. And I just got him over 3000 followers. Wow. That is also in today's news. If you didn't know, Jason Hopper went to HWPO and could barely put on i don't know 10 of new followers and here william lahey

hangs out with andrew hiller for a week and his followers double congratulations to william andrew hiller uh more to come on uh if andrew hiller is going to actually stop uh making uh youtube videos um in in more in more serious news the debate rages on amongst the uh crossfit uh pundits um all over the world are emily rolf's boobs real or are they implants um that debate uh will continue to rage and we will keep you updated on the Sevan podcast, of course. Justin and Ellie, as we all know, supposedly are sharing a dog. And I'm just wondering, can you share a dog? No sign of Ellie in this video.

Justin posts just some movement with me and my dude. Can you share a dog? They're not married. They're just a couple. Just a couple, boy and a girl working out together. But they're sharing a dog. How many of you have known couples to break up and the dog thing gets weird? Make a comment below.

Tell me what you think about dog sharing. Every community has the whiny little bitches. And it's no surprise to me that the clowns over at Rad Shoes are those whiny bitches. Their shoes look like knockoffs from 1980s Reebok Jazzercise shit. I know a lot of you like them, I guess. They mislead by saying shit like they're collaborating with Danny Spiegel when clearly they're not collaborating. They're paying her money to peddle shoes. But he writes, this guy writes,

I think this is the founder and CEO who I've heard nothing but good things about, but it sounds like a whiny little bitch here. He writes, I was upset when I was told Rad would be banned from Wadapalooza 2024. I'm pretty sure that's not true. I'm pretty sure that's not true. I'm pretty sure you weren't told you were banned. I'm pretty sure you were told that you could not sell your shoes there But hey buddy All you had to do was offer more money than tear Haven't you ever been to a stadium That's like sponsored by coke And they only sell coke there

Or sponsored by Budweiser And they only sell Budweiser there You know this is America This isn't that socialist fucked up country you're from Right Maybe you shouldn't have spent so much money On Danielle Brand and you should have saved a little socialist fucked up country you're from, right? Maybe you shouldn't have spent so much money on Danielle Brand and you should have saved a little so you could sponsor an event like Wadapalooza.

But here you go. I wonder if I put on your shoes if I would start crying and whining like you. I felt like the big brand was trying to silence us and detract from what we were building. Of course they're fucking trying to silence you and detract from what you're building. You're they're fucking trying to silence you and detract from what you're building. You're competing with them for the shoe space

at CrossFit. God damn! As I thought more, no, you didn't think at all, by the way. Another flagrant lie. You didn't collaborate with Danny Spiegel and you didn't think. You were feeling sorry for yourself. I remember that there have always been haters and naysayers since

inception. Haters and naysayers. Dude, that's what you're doing. You're hating on Wadapalooza and Tear for their partnership. You have the scarcity mindset. Before we had our first product, we had a brand. Before we had a brand, I had an idea. We had a brand before we had a brand. Before we had our first product, we had a brand.

Holy shit, they're no different than Noble. They're a brand before they're a product. Am I really reading that right? How have I never noticed that before? I had an idea there was a better way to do things. An idea that a brand can stand for more than just the products it sells Oh please Yeah well you get it

Whiny woke Stop dude Put on your big boy pants Quit complaining You're diminishing your brand You're diminishing your brand is what you're doing Colton vs Taylor heating up Complaining you're you're you're diminishing Your brand you're diminishing your brand Is what you're doing Uh colton versus taylor Heating up

These are two men that can teach rad a lesson Or two uh they Will be doing taylor versus the world Week three colton versus taylor Holy cow Just out here Taking it nice and easy my deload Week

Got a secret for you colton I'm not worried about you bro Just out here taking it nice and easy my deload week. I got a secret for you, Colton. I'm not worried about you, bro. I'm not worried about you. And then he goes on the full offensive. Taylor takes the piss out of the rising CrossFit Games superstar Colton Mertens. Colton also opened up the attacks, which inspired Taylor to respond with that post. You are not going to want to miss those events.

Those will be Friday, Friday, Friday. I believe it's March 1st, 8th, and 15th at 5 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. Taylor Self vs versus The World with superstars Dallin Pepper, Jason Hopper, and Colton Mertens. Moving along to other things that don't seem like

they were thought out, it appears that, no shit, the 2024 Masters CrossFit Games are the same weekend as the Teenage CrossFit Games. Now, I'm making the assumption that they're going to be in different locations. And I just like to be in the room when this discussion was had. Basically, there's four CrossFit Games now. You realize that, right?

There's the Team Elite, there's the old people there's the babies and then there's the people with missing pieces the adaptive adaptive kitties old people elite team and individual but two two of them they have on the same date in different locations, I think. I bet you the directors of these events are not happy. And to go out on a limb, this is a story that needs to also be followed more. The truth is, is probably no one gives a shit about the adaptive masters and teen anyway. And this is just an expression of no one really giving a shit except the people who are participating and the people who are going to put their blood, blood, sweat and tears into actually organizing the the event. And finally. Finally, finally, finally. I would like to show you an Instagram account. I was going to show you an Instagram post, but this is an Instagram account and this guy's taken some shots at rogue and he and I can't find the post I think he's pulled it down but there was a post here where he was I'm calling Bill in a Katie's

company rogue a corporate bully for those of you who don't know Bill and Katie are living the American dream as as the folklore goes when Bill opened affiliate, he couldn't rub two nickels together. And him and Katie put their heads down and built what is the Rogue Empire that I believe employs over a thousand people at some of the highest starting wages of any company in the United States, especially fucking Ohio. They're proud of their American made roots. They've always been a huge supporter of everything CrossFit they've been through a lot of crazy times and they are the furthest thing from corporate bullies

they're just two people who built up an empire in Ohio, stayed in Columbus reinvested into the communities, and haven't sold out to private equity, haven't taken on any money. And the rumor has it that they don't run the company with any debt. And this guy wants to paint them as some sort of corporate bullies when they're real people. You'll see them walking around the games with the hard hats on assembling stuff you'll see them all over the

behind the scenes it's just it's just really uh it's it's it's an ignorant cheap shot that this guy is taking on uh on bill and katie um they're living the american dream that any one of us would want to live um and and none of it came easy and none of it came by chance and none of it came by luck. All right. That's my attempt at the news. Love you guys. Talk to you guys tomorrow. Bye-bye.