Hanging Out With Rory McKernan and Angelo DiCicco (EP. 032)
The CrossFit Podcast
CrossFit LLC
4.3 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2025
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the CrossFit Podcast, host Denise Thomas sits down with Rory McKernan and Angelo DiCicco to talk about everything from their hopes for the CrossFit community to stories from their early days.
Community Highlight
Bob Moran has been a police officer in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, for 23 years. For much of that time, he was drinking … until Jan. 1, 2023. That was his last drink.
He went cold turkey. One day at a time. And through it all, CrossFit was his anchor. His gym, RDT CrossFit, welcomed him back without judgment.
Now 18 months sober, Bob is training consistently and leading from the front. He helps run Signal 30, a weekly fitness and mental wellness program for current and retired law enforcement. Every Sunday at 8 a.m., officers show up to move, connect, and reset.
“I’m not afraid to share it,” Bob says. I was a f*ing drunk. And I want people to know that’s not the end of the line. There’s more past that.”⠀
Next up: earning his Level 1 Trainer credential and continuing to give back. Because he knows what’s at stake and what’s possible.
Celebrate his soberversary workout on Jan. 2, 2026:
10 rounds for time of: 10-calorie bike
10 back squats from floor (95/135)
10 burpees over the bar
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| 0:00.0 | CrossFit, the community and the training philosophy is unkillable. |
| 0:04.6 | And sometimes it sounds like you guys don't like CrossFit, |
| 0:07.9 | and then other times it sounds like you love CrossFit. |
| 0:10.9 | If you're not having honest conversations, |
| 0:12.4 | you're never going to make any progress. |
| 0:13.8 | You know, it's not like I don't think we're like presenting lists of demands |
| 0:16.2 | or we're trying to leverage or we're trying to angle. |
| 0:19.4 | It's all authentic conversation. |
| 0:25.4 | Well, we're here with two people that do definitely do not need an introduction, but I always |
| 0:31.8 | like to give you guys a little one. But we got Rory here on my right. Maybe you're left. |
| 0:36.8 | I don't know. But if you came into the community |
| 0:39.3 | 10, 15 years ago, you'll probably know Rory as the open host. He was the one that was announcing |
| 0:45.1 | the workouts. You're on site. You traveled the world. You did the games update shows. But if you |
| 0:50.9 | came into it more recently, you probably know Rory as the guy behind the |
| 0:54.8 | mayhem media. |
| 0:56.1 | And then for Angelo, similar, if you came in 10, 15 years ago, Angelo started doing CrossFit |
| 1:01.1 | when he was like three. |
| 1:02.9 | So is CrossFit old, but he's younger. |
| 1:07.0 | World's fittest teen you were for two years. |
| 1:10.0 | And then you moved into competing on a team |
| 1:12.7 | and you've been very successful there. Congratulations. And already said that second place. |
| 1:17.2 | Thank you. Thank you. In the world. But thanks for joining. I'm pumped to talk about you guys. |
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