Shrugged family. This is Anders Varner. Normally the host of Barbel Shrugged with

my main man Mr. Doug Larson. Today we are not on the show together. We have a

special guest. When I took this job over six months ago becoming the host of

Barbel Shrugged was was a single piece of it. On a larger level I've also

become the program director at the Shrugged collective and with that my

intentions for the Shrugged collective are to ensure that Barbel Shrugged and

the Shrugged collective are and will always remain at the center of the

conversation for all things strengthening. This network and these people have

all kind of built our names through the world of CrossFit. It's incredibly

important to us. It's been the education system that's taught us how to be

great coaches, entrepreneurs and to find ourselves in the world. CrossFit's at

an interesting spot right now. Barbel Shrugged is at an interesting spot. The

Shrugged collective is at an interesting spot. We CrossFit has fired Russell

Berger for a tweet that he made in response to a Jim Loner cancelling an event

for pride and his comments about the LGBTQ community have landed him unemployed.

You could call it. I wanted to interview him. I feel like he's a massive part of

the CrossFit story. His rise from relatively unknown athlete to becoming kind of

the face of affiliates and over the last 10 years the changes that have gone

on in CrossFit and the messaging whether you agree with it or don't. In large

part has been because of Russell Berger. I think it's an incredibly important

character in the story of strength conditioning in 2018. Really for the last

10 years he's played a very integral role in CrossFit and I think that it's

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