Scale As Needed Podcast

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0:01 - subscribe to ArmenHammerTV! 1:37 - Some Athleticism Neglected! 3:00 - purposefully ignoring actual fitness talk 4:40 - bodyweight strict presses: super tough. 14:28 - rucking: Kyle and Cliff do it. 21:30 - “if you’re gonna die with a backpack full of literature, what literature would you pick?” 23:19 - Fourth of July! And growing up in Texas 28:50 - a very long Nicolas Cage circle: Con Air to The Sorcerer’s Apprentice to Leaving Las Vegas to Mandy to Ghostrider 2 to Face/Off 39:00 - John Woo circle: Broken Arrow, Face/Off, MI:2 40:44 - the evolution of action movies over time 1:00:06 - Bethany Shadburne prefers “Bethany” over “Beth” and an in-depth discussion on the acoustics of “Bethany” vs “Beth” 1:07:23 - Reebok will require athletes to wear only what is provided to them at the Games 1:14:26 - ….almost.

0:04 - SARMs Are Needed 1:01 - we changed locations! 2:02 - three athletes tested positive at Regionals 8:23 - Chase keeps working out for some reason and literally salting your wounds on your torn hands 18:12 - the reason why most of our audience is men (“you can fuck a meat pocket”) 19:45 - #FitBeth! 26:05 - Kyle’s sad/crazy Alex Jones story 29:06 - Michael Shannon as a sad rodeo clown, Viggo Mortensen, 34:20 - Kyle and Armen’s travels 35:50 - T*rkish delight and the history between Armenians and T*rks 38:08 - Armen hung out with Sean Sweeney for a few days! 48:24 - Kyle’s epic saga of getting way too high and watching 2001: A Space Odyssey 59:35 - the reason why Armen doesn’t do edibles in public anymore 1:04:26 - Cliff’s “I got super high and lost my car in a parking lot” story

0:01 - SHAVE A NERD! 1:00 - special delivery interruption time! 2:17 - Armen’s mullet 6:30 - the long lasting pain of childhood humiliation 14:58 - Magic cards, the Black Lotus, Armen’s weird dream 22:10 - Cliff’s awesome idea to make CrossFit Games events way more exciting 27:15 - Armen’s other weird dream 29:10 - The Fittest Beth, #FitBeth 30:58 - CrossFit is suing Reebok, Rogue vs Eleiko barbells, and who might be the new title sponsor at the Games 49:00 - Dan Bailey’s recovery is going better than Kyle’s did, are these knee injuries from plyometrics?

00:38 - subscribe to ArmenHammerTV 03:30 - Russell Berger was fired 26:11 - Klokov and Trump? 32:15 - Tough Mudder X 41:12 - Existenz, The Blog, body horror movies and more

0:03 - WE ARE BACK! 2:10 - “60% of this show is no longer employed at FloSports” 19:30 - Armen and Chase have seen each other every day since getting fired 21:24 - What’s next? 29:15 - Chase competed at Regionals! 40:27 - Regional performances breakdown 1:03:10 - Deadpool 2!

2:35 - 2018 Regionals Day 1 events: Triple 3 and Linda 27:10 - Kyle and Cliff visited Dallas recently 30:52 - Thor wins World’s Strongest Man 40:49 - Westworld sucks 41:35 - Andre The Giant

The entirety of this episode is Avengers: Infinity War

1:00 - Kyle is back and he looks more like Jesus than ever 5:00 - pierce tongues and other weirdness 6:10 - Sam Briggs broke her elbow 12:50 - the Masters competition 21:40 - John Cena cleans 352 and deadlifts 500 for 3! 24:30 - Kyle was at Overlook Film Festival 29:15 - Chase’s Regional training update 37:40 - does the pursuit of fitness eventually outweigh the benefits? 59:15 - Venom trailer is terrible 1:03:44 - Infinity War!

1:00 - no Kyle today, and the Cliff Arm, and the Cliff Farm 19:10 - Chase’s Regionals training and the Whoop Strap 36:29 - Brooke Wells CrossFit HQ 18.4 controversy 46:50 - Armen’s vlog Chasing Fitness

0:35 - the 1997 film “Thinner” 3:30 - nutrition is the worst 6:30 - “the toughest thing is not eating exceptionally shitty” 8:50 - The Big Poop Talk and the strangeness of shame 25:25 - Chase’s Regionals training and the team competition 34:00 - new ways to make Regionals event more interesting 40:00 - outrageous regionals workouts from 2012 42:00 - Matt Chan’s exploded leg 46:45 - how to build an engine

1:55 -“ Margaret Thatcher is not a centaur” 3:00 - AI can generate faces, voices, videos  of pretty much anyone doing and saying anything 4:18 - deepfake, pornography, and technology changing behavior 11:00 - Pornhub is changing the world, Kyle’s prediction for the future of porn and mainstream fame, what it was like when porn first started streaming on the internet, and why Kyle follows pornstars on instagram 30:34 - Chase is going to Regionals! 39:30 - Dan Bailey’s knee explosion is exactly what happened to Kyle 51:10 - Armen will row 1,000,000 meters in 2018 52:40 - Is it part of being a CrossFitter to start hating other CrossFitters at some point? 58:36 - you should be able to very easily do the type of training necessary to actually meet your goals 1:12:09 - Ready Player One 1:30:30 - Westworld season 2

Armen, Cliff, Kyle, Chase, and Daniel chat about the 2018 CrossFit Gmaes Open and review "Redeemed And Dominant" the new CrossFit Games commercial/film.

1:20 - Jacob Heppner will not be competing at Regionals 2018 and the new handstand push up standard 13:50 - CrossFit’s MO has always been “fuck you, deal with it” and their reddit account 20:30 - Armen’s 18.4 29:15 - 18.5 guesses 34:20 - Chase got poisoned 38:00 - Armen and Kyle’s story about Chase’s butt 41:57 - The CrossFit Podcast needs some help 53:00 - We need Gore4Ever on the show and weird DMs 1:03:00 - Infinity War!

1:10 - the unexplored reaches of fitness: butthole weights 3:20 - what would you ask Dave Castro? 5:50 - 18.3! 16:50 - being a CrossFit Clydesdale 26:06 - two people finished 18.3, Dakota Rager and Josh Bridges 30:20 - 18.4 announcement and the 18.3 companion announcement that didn’t happen 35:40 - Kyle goes on a Stargate and The Crying Game tangent, the animaniacs, and more ridiculousness

2:00 - marilyn manson has gotta have a punch at this point 5:10 - trent reznor is pretty jacked though 7:40 - if you train regularly you’re probably hungry all the time 9:40 - Vice is the worst 12:10 - the guys take on 18.2 and 18.2a 23:20 - ZA Anderson 26:25 - Lil Xan is a real thing 36:00 - Chris Pritchard is my favorite CrossFit Games Open athlete 47:00 - Dakota puts together timely photoshops for the crew 48:30 - Thor deadlifts a World Record on the Elephant Bar and Ray Williams sets a new raw squat World Record 51:09 - Dan Bailey out of the CrossFit Games again 53:20 - Armen vs Iceland

1:40 - Chase Long is the Fittest on Scale As Needed and a full 18.1 breakdown for Armen, Cliff, Jannis, and Chase 11:10 - Chase’s first and second shots at 18.1 were very dramatic 20:00 - 18.1 leaderboard lessons: northern Europe, Alex Vigneault, Kara Webb, Brent Fikowski 32:08 - 18.2 clues? 35:30 - our YouTube videos are getting some ridiculous and amazing comments 51:40 - Fikowski’s Open humiliation crushes Travis Williams in 18.1 54:30 - Black Panther 1:13:30 - “Do my nipples offend you?”

1:10 - Armen got a haircut! 14:10 - roasting Chase’s instagram 20:55 - The 2018 CrossFit Games Open kicks off 28:40 - Armen doesn’t understand movie phrases, Kyle and Cliff explain Pulp Fiction 42:40 - Mathew Fraser is ready for 18.1 44:50 - Eddie Hall vs Robert Oberst 49:20 - Fikowski’s trash talk Thursdays 54:00 - Harrison Maurus clean & jerked 200kg

The guys talk about Valentine's Day, Thor's 1003lb deadlift, Ray Williams' 1003lb squat double, John Cena's 2000lb super total challenge, the 2017 Games Documentary, and more!

1:00 - Cliff’s dick symbolism 3:14 - Armen’s a fan of Tom Brady and Bill Belichik 11:20 - Chase’s “Fitter Bowl 2018” experiment was a huge hit 15:02 - Wearing a tiny wrestling singlet to a weightlifting meet 19:15 - fitness inflation 21:15 - Jason Khalipa’s 2010 Amanda fails and old school CF Games workouts 30:03 - Greg Glassman’s original ‘How Fit Are You” article 45:40 - The new Deadpool teaser, Solo looks terrible, and the show runners of Game of Thrones have a series of Star Wars movies to ruin