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Fitness Confidential

Angriest Trainer 207: The Chris Russell Interview

Fitness Confidential

Vinnie Tortorich

Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.72.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2013

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Vinnie and Anna talk to Chris Russell of the Run Run Live podcast. Chris lives and trains in suburban Massachusetts with his family and Border collie Buddy. Chris is a member of the Squannacook River Runners, a small, community running club in Groton, MA that brings you the famous Groton Road Race each year! Chris is also a member of the Goon Squad Runners. Chris is a compulsive mid-pack competitor who is honored to be running his 16th Boston Marathon in 2014. Check out Senator Gary Hand's amazing NSNG transformation!

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0:00.0

He's Hollywood's go-to guy for health and fitness.

0:15.1

And now, America's Angriest Trainer, Vinny Tortridge, with co-host Anna Vuccino.

0:23.6

Why am I America's Anx trainer? Your good intentions have been stolen, and I'm here to help you get them back.

0:31.0

I am Vinny Tortrich, and sitting right over there is Anna Vocino, the best voice in podcast radio, folks. We're back in our normal configuration now. Yeah, just me and you. I even put the third mic away. By the way. I appreciate that. Thank you. How cool was that last show? Great. Did you like it? I love them. They're so awesome. Ben, let me tell you something. Ben Greenfield is... How freaking smart is that guy? I need to take some curcumin and some turmeric because my brain is not even close. He knows how to play the game. He comes in here. We did the thing on his chest. He kept his shirt off the whole time. He's squatting on the chair. We're taking pictures of him, squatting on the chair. The guy, I love that guy.

1:11.3

He gets, he gets it, you know? And that Tony Prazac, how cute was she? Anna.

1:18.8

I'm messaging our guest we're supposed to have on. How cute. She's adorable and I love her.

1:23.4

And she has an infectious laugh and she's just delightful. And just as pretty as she can be.

1:27.4

And her boyfriend, as she could be.

1:27.5

And her boyfriend, John, might be the world's most patient man because he could have had many opportunities to pop you one and he didn't. By the way, he was, that guy is so good looking. I mean, but she. He really is. He knows it too. He's like, I'm fine. Yeah, I'm good. Yeah, I do whatever you want. I'm going to go home and tap some of that.

1:42.5

Yeah, you just have it.

1:44.2

Okay, let me do this at the top because we have a great guest coming on.

1:47.4

Chris Russell is coming on. Chris Russell is

1:48.1

coming on from Run Run Live, but we got to talk about Villicapelie because they pay us. Yes,

1:53.9

they do. But by the way, folks, look, before they ever paid us a dime, Anna, we talked about

2:00.0

one olive oil in the show who was it

2:02.5

villa cappella olive oil remember one of our first shows i brought in the olive oil bottle

2:07.4

yeah because i was getting hoarse because we did five shows right all in a row and i was like

2:12.4

i can't do this i can't do yeah i wanted to bank a bunch of shows and we just sat in here in the first four

2:17.3

or five shows we did all in a row.

2:19.6

And Anna goes, you know, just like an Italian mother. She goes, I can fix that right away. Well, when you said you drank the oil on the bike, I was like, oh, I've got some oil for you. Yeah, and you brought it in. We were still getting to know each other then. Now we're like an old married couple.

2:32.6

Back then, people thought for some reason that we were friends and stuff.

2:36.5

And they were like, so you and Anna, you know, you guys must just have a ball off the air. I was like, now we turn the mics off and I pretty much walk out of the room. We didn't know each other for a long time. One day we'll get drunk together. We kind of got drunk together, but separately last night.

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