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Talking Elite Fitness

Fitness with Friends #117 - Brian Chontosh and Chriss Smith from Team Shut Up and Row

Talking Elite Fitness

Tommy Marquez & Sean Woodland

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Brian Chontosh and Chriss Smith are two of the four members of the Shut up and Row team that completed the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge.  The Talisker Whisky Challenge is a race where teams row their boats 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean.  Team Shut up and Row wound up finishing the journey in 33 days, 17 hours and 38 minutes an they also raised close to 500-thousand dollars for the Big Fish Foundation.  It's a fantastic conversation and we hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we did recording it.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Fitness with Friends. I'm Sean Woodland. Tommy

0:04.3

Marquette will be here in just a second. Today we are talking with Brian, Sean Tosh, and Chris Smith.

0:09.9

They are two of the members of the Shut Up and Row team that completed the Talisker Whiskey Atlantic Challenge.

0:16.0

Now, the Talisker Whiskey Atlantic Challenge is a race where teams of four row their boats 3,000 miles across

0:23.5

the Atlantic Ocean. Shut up and row wound up finishing the journey in 33 days, 17 hours, and 38 minutes.

0:31.8

And they also raised close to $500,000 for the Big Fish Foundation. This was one of the most fascinating interviews that we have ever done on this show.

0:40.8

Brian and Chris cover a ton of topics, and they have some really great things to say about,

0:44.6

well, just about everything under the sun.

0:47.9

I don't know what else to say about it other than that.

0:51.0

I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we did recording it.

0:53.9

And like us, I'm sure you will walk away with some lessons learned and with some valuable

1:00.0

information that you can use to better face adversity and challenges in your life.

1:08.5

Okay, let's bring it in two members of team Shut Up in Row, Brian Shontosh and Chris Smith.

1:15.2

Guys, thanks so much for doing this. How are you doing today?

1:19.7

Well, I'm watching my buddy spit in the PBR can, which always brightens my day.

1:24.9

I thought I like that. And I shed off my beards. I'm happy. How are you talking? Yeah, man. Same same. And you look great, Chris. You

1:31.6

looked like an old fucking dude. I was like, this dude looks like Jefferson from the

1:38.8

Jefferson's. And looking at you now, you look not a day over 30, brother. You kept trying to pump me up on the boat saying, oh, the beard looks good. The beard looks good. There's no mirrors. He started taking it for granted. It's like, oh, man, this is awesome. So I got off the boat. Is this the first visual and encounter you guys have had since then and changing the look? Yeah, totally so. Oh, man. Tosh, is that like, or Chris, maybe you can speak to this. Is that like you're, like I know Tosh is in his element if he's got the PBR can and the, and the, and the chaw on the lip? 100%. And the kicker is we got the plaid shirt on with the buttons down to the belly. Oh, yeah. Good right now.

2:19.0

Oh, man.

2:20.0

Well, okay, now that we set the tone for this entire thing, we wanted to get the two of

2:24.4

you on to talk about the race that you just did, the 3,000 nautical mile race across

2:31.2

the Atlantic, and you rode the entire time.

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