2:00 - Happy post Thanksgiving 3:08 - Armen’s ties to Popeyes 5:31 - Fitness after Thanksgiving + lifting fallacies + rep max calculators 11:07 - Exoskeletons 16:04 - Greg Glassman visits China 24:50 - The Fitness Arms Race + CrossFit Media 44:04 - Arrival + The Academy Awards + how writing credits work in Hollywood 1:01:30 - Westworld Episode 9

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0:01 - subscribe to ArmenHammerTV! 1:37 - Some Athleticism Neglected! 3:00 - purposefully ignoring actual fitness talk 4:40 - bodyweight strict presses: super tough. 14:28 - rucking: Kyle and Cliff do it. 21:30 - “if you’re gonna die with a backpack full of literature, what literature would you pick?” 23:19 - Fourth of July! And growing up in Texas 28:50 - a very long Nicolas Cage circle: Con Air to The Sorcerer’s Apprentice to Leaving Las Vegas to Mandy to Ghostrider 2 to Face/Off 39:00 - John Woo circle: Broken Arrow, Face/Off, MI:2 40:44 - the evolution of action movies over time 1:00:06 - Bethany Shadburne prefers “Bethany” over “Beth” and an in-depth discussion on the acoustics of “Bethany” vs “Beth” 1:07:23 - Reebok will require athletes to wear only what is provided to them at the Games 1:14:26 - ….almost.

95 Some Athleticism Neglected!

0:04 - SARMs Are Needed 1:01 - we changed locations! 2:02 - three athletes tested positive at Regionals 8:23 - Chase keeps working out for some reason and literally salting your wounds on your torn hands 18:12 - the reason why most of our audience is men (“you can fuck a meat pocket”) 19:45 - #FitBeth! 26:05 - Kyle’s sad/crazy Alex Jones story 29:06 - Michael Shannon as a sad rodeo clown, Viggo Mortensen, 34:20 - Kyle and Armen’s travels 35:50 - T*rkish delight and the history between Armenians and T*rks 38:08 - Armen hung out with Sean Sweeney for a few days! 48:24 - Kyle’s epic saga of getting way too high and watching 2001: A Space Odyssey 59:35 - the reason why Armen doesn’t do edibles in public anymore 1:04:26 - Cliff’s “I got super high and lost my car in a parking lot” story

94 Hand Tears, Fit Beths, Being Way Too High In Public

0:01 - SHAVE A NERD! 1:00 - special delivery interruption time! 2:17 - Armen’s mullet 6:30 - the long lasting pain of childhood humiliation 14:58 - Magic cards, the Black Lotus, Armen’s weird dream 22:10 - Cliff’s awesome idea to make CrossFit Games events way more exciting 27:15 - Armen’s other weird dream 29:10 - The Fittest Beth, #FitBeth 30:58 - CrossFit is suing Reebok, Rogue vs Eleiko barbells, and who might be the new title sponsor at the Games 49:00 - Dan Bailey’s recovery is going better than Kyle’s did, are these knee injuries from plyometrics?

SAN 93: CrossFit Suing Reebok, The Fittest Beth

00:38 - subscribe to ArmenHammerTV 03:30 - Russell Berger was fired 26:11 - Klokov and Trump? 32:15 - Tough Mudder X 41:12 - Existenz, The Blog, body horror movies and more

19 The Fitness Arms Race, Arrival, and Westworld Episode 9

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