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Now here's John and Tex. Got a pocketball to change.

Sorry. I was going to,

do you remember that pure pharma back in the early days at CrossFit?

They sold like.

Oh, yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah so

they came out with like a vegan uh protein and they came and and uh you know sampled it and it

i mean it tasted like ass it was terrible when i had well food co we were trying to figure out how

to make a salmon protein.

And so we had like, so Joe, who was my partner was like in the fish, he had like a client that like basically what they were doing was they were taking the salmon that they couldn't sell and then like somehow turning them into like a powder.

And then I think they were using the

powder for like dog bangs and all this. And they were like, what about salmon protein? The shit

had like 40 grams of protein per scoop. Like it was like, I mean like everything about it was perfect

other than the taste of old dry powdered fish. And so we tried everything.

Like, I must have had 400 samples of it missed with everything from sugar to monk fruit to chocolate.

I mean, like, this shit would show up and I'd be like, fuck, I can't drink it anymore to the point where they were like, is there anything?

And I'm like, no.

Like, I don't care.

Like, there's like nothing like zero taste would be better than the taste that you guys give me. So for almost like a year, I sampled probably, and I kid you not, it was probably 400 different versions of this salmon protein. So the point where like, like any type of protein that tastes weird now, I'm just like, I'm a fucking puke.

So yeah.

And it was the weirdest thing. But like kind of like happens to you and you guys and your clients where you're like, everything's going right. You're monitoring calories. The training's going pretty well. Everything. And then all of a sudden you make a change. And you're like, why did the scale go the wrong way? It's so fucking weird that that happens. and then you know what I'll make a couple couple tweaks and it'll be back. But it's so funny if you don't weigh yourself. Like I didn't necessarily notice. I was like, uh, maybe my pants fit a little tighter or something. But I'm like, maybe my legs are just getting bigger. And then sure enough, I'm like, fuck, how did that happen? I don't know, but we're keeping that story in there. No, it's a good story. What's the salmon protein story?

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