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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.

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0:00.0

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

0:04.0

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

0:09.5

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

0:14.4

Atlantic Challenge. The Talisker Whiskey Atlantic Challenge is a race where teams of four

0:20.8

row their boats 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean. Shut Up and Row wound up finishing the

0:27.3

journey in 33 days, 17 hours and 38 minutes. They also raised close to $500,000 for the big fish

0:35.7

foundation. This was one of the most fascinating interviews that we have ever done on this show.

0:40.6

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

0:44.8

just about everything under the sun. I don't know what else to say about it other than that.

0:50.8

I hope you enjoyed listening to it as much as we did recording it. Like us, I'm sure you will

0:56.2

walk away with some lessons learned and with some valuable information that you can use to better

1:03.2

face adversity and challenges in your life. Okay, let's bring it in to members of Team Shut Up

1:12.6

and Row, Brian Sean Tosh and Chris Smith. Guys, thanks so much for doing this. How are you doing today?

1:18.8

Well, I'm watching my buddy spit in the PBR can with our brains my day.

1:24.0

Do I like that? And I showed up my beard. So I'm happy. How are you? You look good.

1:28.5

Yeah, then same, same, man. You look great, Chris. You look like a whole fucking dude.

1:33.7

That's what I was like. This dude looks like Jefferson from the Jefferson's and now looking at you now,

1:41.4

you look not a day over 30, brother. You keep trying to pump me up on the boat saying,

1:46.2

oh, the beard looks good. The beard looks good. There's no mirrors. He's taking it for granted.

1:50.1

Oh, man, it's awesome. So I got off the boat. Is this the first visual and encounter you guys have

1:55.4

had since then and change and change in the look? Yeah, totally so. Oh, man. Tosh, is that like

2:03.0

our Chris? I maybe you could speak to this. Is that like your, like, I know Tosh is in his element

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