Sevan Matossian (00:00):
We’re about to be live in two seconds. Bam. We’re live. I got some new camera angles.
Dave Castro (00:04):
Do you?
Sevan Matossian (00:05):
Yeah. Oh, damn. I heard that hum pretty bad right there. I wonder why it’s not popping up on this tv. I want you to see the new camera angles. Dave Castro live in studio. Upcoming. I shit. Maybe since it’s scheduled for three 40. We’re live and people can see it. That’s so weird. I wonder why I can’t see us on this TV right here. Oh, but I see the comments. All right. Fuck it. Maybe it’ll pop up. Oh, there it is. Look it. See, look at that angle right there.
Dave Castro (00:41):
Oh yeah. Yeah.
Sevan Matossian (00:42):
It’s cool. Right? And then I can switch to this me and then that one.
Dave Castro (00:50):
So which one? So that’s
Sevan Matossian (00:52):
What’s on. They see ’em all. Yeah, they see ’em all. That’s just a little delayed.
Dave Castro (00:57):
Gotcha.
Sevan Matossian (00:58):
It was nice of you to bring this wine.
Dave Castro (01:00):
Yeah. I wanted to share it with you. And as we sample the new offerings,
Sevan Matossian (01:11):
Why did you do
Dave Castro (01:13):
Fat?
Sevan Matossian (01:14):
I’ll pour fat pores. That’s pretty fat pour.
Dave Castro (01:16):
Yeah. I’ve never,
Sevan Matossian (01:19):
Oh, there’s my phone right there.
Dave Castro (01:22):
Let’s talk about the wine. I just picked it up. Read the label.
Sevan Matossian (01:26):
El Vaquero. There
Dave Castro (01:27):
You go.
Sevan Matossian (01:28):
What does that mean? Like El Vampire El Vaquero. I need to look that up. El Vaquero. How’s your Spanish? Oh really? Yeah.
Dave Castro (01:36):
Check out the
Sevan Matossian (01:37):
Vaquero
Dave Castro (01:38):
Va. Read that. Read the label.
Sevan Matossian (01:40):
Va. That’s it. Just says El Vaquero. Sandy Lane. Vineyard
Dave Castro (01:47):
The
Sevan Matossian (01:48):
Pack. Damn. This was expensive.
Dave Castro (01:51):
Nah, don’t worry about that.
Sevan Matossian (01:52):
You’re big time. El Vaquero is a small family operated winery based in Corletos. Oh
Dave Castro (01:57):
Yeah. See, they like to support local businesses.
Sevan Matossian (01:59):
That’s the town between my town of your town, CODOs California. Home of our sustainably farmed estate. What’s that mean? Sustainably
Dave Castro (02:07):
Google it
Sevan Matossian (02:09):
Sustainably farmed estate. Pinot Noir Vineyard. We believe great wine is made in the vineyard using a minimal intervention style of wine making to express the unique characteristics of each vintage.
Dave Castro (02:23):
Someone commented high as fuck.
Sevan Matossian (02:28):
No, I’m not high as fuck. I don’t do that. El Vaquero celebrates the heritage of Corletos and a spirit who watches over the state vineyard. Oh, the apparition of a cowboy. El Varo has made himself known as on several occasions he’s believed to be a shaman who often meditated on the hilltop property overlooking the Monterey Bay in the 1880s. We hope you’ll enjoy drinking our wine as much as we enjoy making them. For you the, it’s not even a Mexican name. The family.
Dave Castro (03:02):
Well, of course not. They live in Corita.
Sevan Matossian (03:08):
It’s a Polish family Here.
Dave Castro (03:09):
Pour yourself
Sevan Matossian (03:10):
Pki. pki. All right. Have you ever had
Dave Castro (03:17):
This wine? No, but it looked cool and it had the local story, so I was like,
Sevan Matossian (03:22):
How long did you take to pick this out? Cheers,
Dave Castro (03:25):
Buddy. 20 seconds.
Sevan Matossian (03:26):
Oh, but you looked long enough to look at the back of the Yeah, yeah. Alright, here
Dave Castro (03:35):
You go.
Sevan Matossian (03:37):
Oh, hold on one second. Slow. Let’s slow roll this.
Dave Castro (03:40):
Okay.
Sevan Matossian (03:40):
Okay. I think this might be the first time I’ve ever drank on the air.
Dave Castro (03:45):
It’s definitely the first time I’ve ever drank on a podcast or on air.
Sevan Matossian (03:50):
I don’t want anyone to see me in that state. What if I start lisping?
Dave Castro (03:54):
Just take these. Don’t
Sevan Matossian (03:56):
Slow. Just fake it.
Dave Castro (03:57):
Just go easy. Just go
Sevan Matossian (03:58):
Easy. Just fake it. Okay. Lemon infused olive oil. Sage made you do this. She’s like, Hey, you need lemon infused. Your wife made you do this. No,
Dave Castro (04:06):
No, no. The guy I work with who sells the super grows the oil, who I get it from. He also does lemon infused. So I said, Hey, I want to offer some lemon infused in my collection. And so he put that together for me. And also garlic infused. He also has a pepper that he does, but we didn’t do it this time. So we’re going to
Sevan Matossian (04:28):
Have you tasted this sample. Oh, we are?
Dave Castro (04:30):
Yeah. Yeah. We’re going to sample. I brought the whole kit.
Sevan Matossian (04:32):
Holy shit, dude. We’re
Dave Castro (04:33):
Going to sample it. That’s why
Sevan Matossian (04:34):
We needed the wine
Dave Castro (04:36):
To sample the whole to have the experience. Wow.
Sevan Matossian (04:39):
Have you seen the new Danielle Brandon documentary that you’re
Dave Castro (04:41):
In? Open those while I’m getting everything out. I have not seen the documentary. They asked me to be involved with the salami and cheese.
Sevan Matossian (04:51):
Damn.
Dave Castro (04:52):
Yeah. Little, little afternoon picnic inside during the podcast. On the podcast. Damn. Haven’t seen it. I thought they were going to send me a, they might be sending me a, they said something about sending me a VHS. I don’t know if that’s real or not, but nobody has a VHS player these days.
Sevan Matossian (05:11):
Rad. Kind of goes with an old school look. You know what I mean? That’s kind of their vibe. Retro, right? Yeah,
Dave Castro (05:16):
Yeah. But the thing is,
Sevan Matossian (05:18):
How will you play
Dave Castro (05:19):
It? Yeah, exactly. So if they really do send me a VHS, maybe it’s just a collector item. I don’t know. Cool. Regardless. Here, take
Sevan Matossian (05:29):
These. So I took a nap. I woke up, I did a shot of espresso. Oh
Dave Castro (05:35):
Fuck.
Sevan Matossian (05:37):
I did a shot of espresso. Now I’m drinking wine and now I’m going to drink olive oil.
Dave Castro (05:42):
No, no, no. You’re going to taste the olive oil with the bread. Oh,
Sevan Matossian (05:45):
Okay. God. My poor stomach.
Dave Castro (05:47):
Oh, your wife took the cut bread. The cut bread was for this. Text her and tell her to bring that bread back. She wasn’t supposed to. They started eating the bread. That was pre-Sliced. The pre-sliced bread was for this.
Sevan Matossian (06:01):
I don’t really like you blaming my wife. My audience is a group of,
Dave Castro (06:05):
I’m not blaming your wife. I’m just saying that’s what the pre-sliced bread was for
Sevan Matossian (06:09):
This. We’re an accountability group. Accountability and responsibility group. Dude, did you tell her you’re already eating
Dave Castro (06:24):
On
Sevan Matossian (06:24):
A snap? I’m trying. I’m trying. I’m trying to call her. I dunno why it’s not working. I don’t even know. My phone is, didn’t I have my phone? Oh, here it’s, Hey Haley. Hello. Jesus Christ. What am I telling her? To bring
Dave Castro (06:41):
That pre-sliced bread back so we can sample the olive oil.
Sevan Matossian (06:45):
Please bring back, oh, I saw the boys eating it already.
Dave Castro (06:50):
That’s my point. Oh,
Sevan Matossian (06:52):
Sliced bread. Dave forgot it in the house. She’s going to be like, oh shit. The boys ate it already. It’s not reality. What does it say? Okay, sorry. When people pay, I have to stop. Show needs more callers with nothing to say he told. What did you tell me, Dave?
Dave Castro (07:15):
We didn’t finish talking about the documentary.
Sevan Matossian (07:17):
I know, but what did you tell me about collars?
Dave Castro (07:19):
Let’s not ever do that
Sevan Matossian (07:20):
Again. It’s not really drinking. It’s a wine tasting is classy. Alright, fine. Oh yeah. Okay. Okay. Someone
Dave Castro (07:25):
Said that.
Sevan Matossian (07:28):
Yeah. So tell me what infused. Infused all of. Hold
Dave Castro (07:40):
On, hold on. This is
Sevan Matossian (07:42):
Some serious
Dave Castro (07:43):
Multitask. Yeah, they’re sending me the DVD, but they had asked me to be in it and I, hold on.
Sevan Matossian (07:51):
Take your time. Take your time.
Dave Castro (07:52):
They wanted to film.
Sevan Matossian (07:53):
There’s nothing to rush here. Take
Dave Castro (07:54):
Your time. They wanted to film with me while I was at the RO invitational and I said there was no way I was going to do that. I was there for such a short time and I don’t like doing things on top of things most of the time. And so we didn’t film there. And then they’re like, Hey, we need to,
Sevan Matossian (08:12):
Do I pour this in here?
Dave Castro (08:13):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because where you’re going to dip.
Sevan Matossian (08:15):
And when you say someone says that to you, who says that to you? Did Danielle?
Dave Castro (08:19):
No, Cooper. And
Sevan Matossian (08:22):
They should have had Danielle ask you. That’s where they went wrong first.
Dave Castro (08:26):
Hold on.
Sevan Matossian (08:29):
I have a cup. I have a cup. Yeah,
Dave Castro (08:30):
But there’s two flavors, remember? Oh, so this is the lemon, right?
Sevan Matossian (08:34):
Yeah. Okay. If any of this spills on my computer desk, I’m going to fucking freak out. This is really nice of you to bring this over. Hey, these are nicer than your original bottles.
Dave Castro (08:45):
So you don’t like the tins? You like the bottle?
Sevan Matossian (08:47):
No, no. I like the tins too. But I’m saying originally you had this bottle.
Dave Castro (08:50):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I got you with this.
Sevan Matossian (08:52):
Yep. Oh, G bottle.
Dave Castro (08:57):
I don’t know. I might not like the tin. I like the tins. It’s a better look, but they get dented. I don’t know. I might like the
Sevan Matossian (09:02):
Bottle. Do I have to give this back to you or do I get to
Dave Castro (09:04):
Keep this? Yeah, I’ll be taking it home at the end. Or you can buy it at a discounted rate
Sevan Matossian (09:08):
At the open bottle rate.
Dave Castro (09:10):
Yeah, there you go.
Sevan Matossian (09:13):
Hey, will you sit down with us in film at row? We want to ask you some questions for the documentary.
Dave Castro (09:18):
So then they ended up saying, Hey, can you come out to us? And I’m like, Hey, I’m not traveling to do this. And they said, we’ll send a crew to you. And so they sent a crew out and they went to the ranch and we set up and they asked me a handful of questions. We probably interview,
Sevan Matossian (09:36):
Dude, this smells fucking great. This garlic
Dave Castro (09:39):
We interviewed for probably half an hour or so. Oh, maybe an hour.
Sevan Matossian (09:43):
Is Danielle there?
Dave Castro (09:44):
No. No, no, no.
Sevan Matossian (09:45):
Who’s there? Anyone? I know
Dave Castro (09:48):
Ben.
Sevan Matossian (09:49):
Nope.
Dave Castro (09:50):
The rad guy.
Sevan Matossian (09:51):
Dunno him.
Dave Castro (09:52):
Yeah,
Sevan Matossian (09:54):
I get my own plate of salami. Yeah.
Dave Castro (09:56):
Jesus Christ. Salami and cheese. He’s like a picnic. Picnic. We’re sharing with picnic indoors.
Sevan Matossian (10:02):
So is he the director of the movie?
Dave Castro (10:05):
I don’t know who the director of the movie is.
Sevan Matossian (10:07):
Why would the shoe, it’s interesting that the shoe guy came out to do the movie.
Dave Castro (10:12):
Maybe he is.
Sevan Matossian (10:13):
Okay,
Dave Castro (10:15):
Hold on. Is she bringing the
Sevan Matossian (10:22):
Bread? Hey, would it have been different if she was there? Did they ask you questions? What kind of questions did they ask you? God, these smell good.
Dave Castro (10:34):
They asked me about my relationship with her, how I met her, how long I’ve known her. I met her back in the 2020 games. She was on the demo team and whenever someone
Sevan Matossian (10:46):
Oh, and she was cantankerous on the demo team, right? She was Wiley.
Dave Castro (10:50):
I think that’s just how she is in general. Right,
Sevan Matossian (10:53):
But she postured on you, which you’re not used to.
Dave Castro (10:56):
Yeah, for sure. But I think that’s part of what makes her unique. They just asked me about her and what I thought about her and her story and what she’s been through and how she’s a fighter and in some regard, being a fighter and having an underdog perspective, I sort of relate to, she goes against the grain, and so I respect and appreciate that in people. I also talked about how when I got fired, she was one of the very few newer modern athletes who reached out to me and that meant a lot.
Sevan Matossian (11:39):
What did she say? Audios bitch. Yes, exactly. What did she say? Something like, Hey, we’ll miss you, or that sucks. Or You still got my digits. If you ever want to hang, what’s this?
Dave Castro (11:52):
So I have a lemon, so now I need a garlic. Oh,
Sevan Matossian (11:57):
The garlic’s crazy. It smells crazy.
Dave Castro (11:59):
What do you have two for? So you have two. Oh, you have your two. Got
Sevan Matossian (12:03):
It. Yeah, and they look the same. And I was like, how are we going to tell ’em apart? But there’s no doubt you can just smell
Dave Castro (12:11):
I
Sevan Matossian (12:13):
Is that enough? Yeah,
Dave Castro (12:14):
Yeah, yeah. So I talked to her in Nashville when I was at the open about it and she
Sevan Matossian (12:21):
Clear some of that shit off. That shit’s making me nervous. Give me small,
Dave Castro (12:24):
Just lemme do my thing. Let me do my thing. Here you go. She said she was happy with the documentary and she liked my part in it, so that was cool.
Sevan Matossian (12:37):
Did she give you any insights like, Hey dude, they had some shit in there that I didn’t think was cool, so I had them take it out or boy, I don’t know if I’m ready.
Dave Castro (12:44):
I have no idea what it’s about really. I know it’s about her, but I don’t even, is it about her past her whole life? Is it about her competitive time? Competing? I’m not quite sure is about her role with Rad. So
Sevan Matossian (13:01):
I’ll tell you what I know after I read this. Lucky camera straps, my girlfriend level three coach and I are visiting the US in May and June. We want to spend a week at a great affiliate in a nice area. Anywhere you guys would recommend in the Southwest or Texas. Oh shit. Teal’s Gym, right? CrossFit Central.
Dave Castro (13:25):
Yeah. That’s a nice gym.
Sevan Matossian (13:26):
Nice gym. A nice
Dave Castro (13:27):
Area. Annie’s gym is like a couple hundred yards away.
Sevan Matossian (13:30):
Oh, Annie Sakamoto. Yeah,
Dave Castro (13:31):
Her temporary gym.
Sevan Matossian (13:32):
Have you been there? Yeah.
Dave Castro (13:34):
We did a workout when we had a meeting here a few weeks ago
Sevan Matossian (13:38):
At the religious campground at the Presbyterian campground? Yeah. How is it? Is it indoors?
Dave Castro (13:42):
It’s indoors. It’s in a huge shed kind like the ranch shed, but it’s a little rugged, but it has a lot of potential. I told her it’d be cool if she could stay there, but she can’t because they can’t open on the weekends or on Saturday. What’s the story with the bread?
Sevan Matossian (14:00):
Oh, oh shit. I don’t know. I’ll call my wife again. So in one of the previews, her mom sitting there and her mom says something like, yeah, I’m paraphrasing, and then the feds came and raided the house.
Dave Castro (14:15):
Oh
Sevan Matossian (14:15):
Wow. Yeah. Anything you want to say about that?
Dave Castro (14:23):
That’s
Sevan Matossian (14:23):
Good. Oh, buddy. Oh, buddy. Sucks. When you know the guess better than you’re supposed to.
Dave Castro (14:30):
See what I said, there’s a lot of to relate to with her.
Sevan Matossian (14:35):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. She jumped out at me because early on in her story she was like, Hey, I’m not taking the injection, and I didn’t care whether she was taking the injection or not. I just thought that since that was somehow a controversial thing, I thought it was cool that she came out and said that. Yeah, Hey, I text her, what do you want me to do? Hey, when you walked in, you said, oh, hey, your house is cleaner than I thought. Do you think I live in a dump?
Dave Castro (14:58):
I think you are not that clean of a person. Oh, fuck me. You asked the question and I was just surprised to see
Sevan Matossian (15:05):
What about why? Because you’ve come over to my house and you think it’s messy. We’ve already opened the door. Let’s go there.
Dave Castro (15:14):
I’m just saying
Sevan Matossian (15:15):
All
Dave Castro (15:16):
I said my piece.
Sevan Matossian (15:17):
I thought my house looked kind of messy when you came over my garage, got shit all over it. All kids gym equipment. What’s up with the games doc? I told you, Hey, that’ll never be released.
Dave Castro (15:30):
I don’t think you told me that. I don’t remember that. And it will be released when soon.
Sevan Matossian (15:35):
What’s the hangup? How is it? Are you mad at them the way you’re mad at me? You’re always like, do you take too long to turn shit over? What’s taking you so long? You’ve been saying that to me for 10 years. Do you say it to those guys?
Dave Castro (15:45):
I’m mad at them. No, I’m not. I do respond that often to situations like you’re describing.
Sevan Matossian (15:50):
Yeah. Yeah. You bully me. You
Dave Castro (15:51):
Bully me. Not you, but just I think when there’s
Sevan Matossian (15:54):
Not just me
Dave Castro (15:55):
When there’s a product or when there’s something coming out or when there’s a deliverable. Yeah. I hate the artist’s delay, meaning people like creators. You, it takes a really long time for things to happen, and so I like to put pressure on people or my team to get things out on a timely fashion and more often than not early, ironically enough, you’d ask the team in regards to me around programming and in the past programming specifically, they were hypercritical of how long it took me to get them the programming for whatever stage.
Sevan Matossian (16:30):
I’ve heard that
Dave Castro (16:31):
For years and years. Yeah. So it’s funny that I’m saying that because on the flip side, it’s a criticism of me.
Sevan Matossian (16:38):
Recently, my buddy Brian friend was on a podcast and he was also critical of the time. It takes you guys to make plans and shit like that.
Dave Castro (16:48):
Who?
Sevan Matossian (16:49):
Brian? Friend. I’ve never been critical of you about that. The games’ timing for me is fine. I never feel like you guys relate.
Dave Castro (16:58):
I’m something different. I’m talking about, I’m talking about the delivery of the programming to internal assets.
Sevan Matossian (17:05):
Right. So they could start
Dave Castro (17:06):
Organizing. I’m not talking about going
Sevan Matossian (17:07):
Public. I understand. Are you calling my wife? Yeah. Okay. Answer.
Dave Castro (17:19):
I hear your fucking dog barking.
Sevan Matossian (17:21):
I see him outside. I’m about to take a sip. I did two podcasts already today. I don’t go on other people’s podcasts.
Dave Castro (17:32):
How was that?
Sevan Matossian (17:33):
How was that? It was cool. It was the most natural I ever felt on a podcast. I do so many where it’s like my podcast. It was kind of like having you on where you just take control. It was like that. It was like, okay, I just got to take a deep breath and realize that they’re going to control it. I am going to sip this. This is the
Dave Castro (17:53):
Garlic. I’m going to go get the bread. Serious?
Sevan Matossian (17:55):
Yeah. Okay. Go ahead. Please don’t trip over anything or knock your wine over. There’s no room for you to get out, dude. Dude.
Dave Castro (18:04):
Oh, because you have this white carpet. Ouch.
Sevan Matossian (18:10):
I open up the phone lines while you’re gone. What’s Dave’s favorite bible story so far? He doesn’t have to profess a belief system. Just for fun. We will get there. We’re just warming up. I get him drunk. Have him take his shirt off. Way out of my comfort zone. Jesus crying. It was cool. I didn’t know that Andrew had pushed the, I didn’t know Andrew had pushed the Glinton Things podcast, but I went over to the Glinton Things podcast to look at the comments over there and there’s a half dozen comments saying that Andrew pushed people over there. That’s fucking really cool. Where did he push that? Where did he push that? Oh, Bernie again. And Dave has mellowed over the years for sure. Holy crap. You don’t even, he said, you
Dave Castro (18:58):
Know, gave us a dented one. Is that on purpose? I said yes.
Sevan Matossian (19:02):
Oh, Haley said that? Yeah. Okay, okay, okay. Okay.
Dave Castro (19:09):
Product. Okay, okay, okay,
Sevan Matossian (19:16):
Okay.
Dave Castro (19:16):
You’re nervous with all this stuff going on,
Sevan Matossian (19:18):
Aren’t you? Dude, I’m so out of my comfort zone.
Dave Castro (19:21):
Why? Just roll with it. Just be happy.
Sevan Matossian (19:32):
I thought about handing you the bag, but
Dave Castro (19:36):
Okay. Which one are you going to go into
Sevan Matossian (19:37):
First? Hey, I tasted that. It’s fucking great.
Dave Castro (19:40):
Which one? The
Sevan Matossian (19:41):
Garlic.
Dave Castro (19:43):
Hold on. I think I’m dipping into the lemon
Sevan Matossian (19:44):
First. Okay, then I’ll do lemon first too. Yeah, the lemon has no odor. Basically
Dave Castro (20:00):
It’s like lemon pound cake.
Sevan Matossian (20:02):
It totally is. Is there sugar in oil? Olive oil? No. Yeah, this is crazy. This is crazy. Good. That’s the yellow bottle. Hey though, you know what? The straight olive oil is great too. Feel how light this is? I’ve drank all that on the show live. That’s
Dave Castro (20:26):
Solid. You’re getting, that’s half getting
Sevan Matossian (20:27):
Big. Yeah, you can tell right Sw.
Dave Castro (20:30):
Let’s try the garlic going for the garlic. The garlic has this strong,
Sevan Matossian (20:40):
Are you enjoying the whole olive oil thing? Dude, this is awesome.
Dave Castro (20:52):
It’s
Sevan Matossian (20:53):
Good. I went to Cafe Cruise last night and it tastes just like the one that I make there where I mix all of that. Minced garlic. Yeah. This is great. Hey, congratulations. Seriously,
Dave Castro (21:05):
Thanks.
Sevan Matossian (21:05):
This is fucking crazy that you do this. Hey, where’s the Ian I gave you,
Dave Castro (21:11):
I think I lost it already.
Sevan Matossian (21:14):
Douche nozzle. Hey, you should talk to Dale King about having this on his website too. Okay, so these are the two new flavors. Are these more expensive?
Dave Castro (21:30):
2 50, 20 $5. A 545. That’s at three 50. I think it’s like 35, 33, 32.
Sevan Matossian (21:39):
Yeah. 3 75. Damn, this is good. And it’s dated. It says, why does it say 1122?
Dave Castro (21:50):
That’s when it was cultivated.
Sevan Matossian (21:51):
Oh, it takes that long to finally get into a bottle, huh?
Dave Castro (21:55):
He cultivates it. Then we put it in the bottle and then we sell it. So it’s from this past season. Thank you.
Sevan Matossian (22:07):
Look at this picture. A fan drew that for me. No one can even see it. No, I know one can see it.
Dave Castro (22:18):
Do you want some more salami and cheese or you have some? Alright,
Sevan Matossian (22:23):
So
Dave Castro (22:24):
You’ve never had a guest on where you just sample olive oil, drink wine, and have salami and cheese. Have
Sevan Matossian (22:29):
You? No. It’s good though. So give the people some. We
Dave Castro (22:32):
Seem out of sorts.
Sevan Matossian (22:34):
Let me give some people some shit. So there’s a Danielle Brandon documentary coming out on the 27th. Do you know where that they’re putting that?
Dave Castro (22:42):
VHS?
Sevan Matossian (22:43):
No, but is it going to YouTube or iTunes or Netflix? I You have no idea. And then what about the CrossFit Games documentary? The one that was made by the Hollywood guys
Dave Castro (22:53):
We’re still working on getting it out,
Sevan Matossian (22:55):
But it’s done. Yes. And you’ve seen that and is it good?
Dave Castro (22:58):
Yeah, it’s really cool. I liked
Sevan Matossian (22:59):
It. Is Danielle Brandon in that one?
Dave Castro (23:01):
Yep. It’s not a Danielle Brandon doc, but she’s in it.
Sevan Matossian (23:04):
Who runs the show in that? Who’s the big superstar in that?
Dave Castro (23:07):
I think Annie’s in it a lot. She’s got a prominent role. They actually go to Iceland and film her and interview her there. Who else was in it? Noah was in it. Chandler.
Sevan Matossian (23:25):
How about Vellner?
Dave Castro (23:26):
Vellner? Yep. There’s a handful of them that they followed around.
Sevan Matossian (23:30):
Any good drama from Danielle?
Dave Castro (23:33):
There’s some drama. Yeah, there’s some coaching drama. Some back and forth between her and her coach. That was interesting.
Sevan Matossian (23:40):
Matthew Torres, the guy who looks like you
Dave Castro (23:44):
That coach he not look like me.
Sevan Matossian (23:46):
What do you mean?
Dave Castro (23:47):
Other than we’re brown? Yeah.
Sevan Matossian (23:49):
There’s only three looks on people. Dude. White, brown, and Asian.
Dave Castro (23:55):
Yeah, there was some, I wish we would’ve captured more of that or are gone one layer deeper, but I don’t think they got that.
Sevan Matossian (24:07):
Are those guys coming back this year?
Dave Castro (24:08):
I don’t know yet.
Sevan Matossian (24:10):
What do you think about the, you probably don’t have an answer for this. What do you think about the success of the behind the scenes? Did it help with what I did? Help with the open or drive level ones?
Dave Castro (24:22):
Yeah. I think it drives awareness to all of it. I think it’s good. I think you did a good job. I think people were excited about it.
Sevan Matossian (24:28):
You think it drove anyone away? You think it hurt your numbers,
Dave Castro (24:32):
Your involvement? Potentially. I can’t put an exact number on it, but I don’t know. I mean, I can’t prove that it drove anyone to an L one or it drove anyone to sign up for the open. I also can’t prove that it drove anyone away. But I can say having saw 80 to 90% of ’em, I think it was done really well. And I think it was additive to the whole season and the whole entertainment. That is the sport and the games.
Sevan Matossian (25:00):
Thank you. By the way, Heather, Lawrence and Haynes did an amazing job promoting it. Haynes, I’ve been in close touch with Haynes. That’s the guy that runs the game, social media, and he’s been just fucking pumping it out the last couple days, pushing people there. And then Heather got it put I think in an email,
Dave Castro (25:22):
Which
Sevan Matossian (25:22):
Was really fucking cool. It made me feel really good. Dollar 99, asymmetric years. Thank you. You don’t want to say anything for dollar 99.
Dave Castro (25:30):
They don’t get to ask any questions. Not this show.
Sevan Matossian (25:35):
There was a nuance I want to ask you about when you were recently you got together with your buddy Rich, and that was fun, by the way. That shit is so fucking cool. Kudos to you. And anyone who says that you’re soft or any of that shit, that’s just bullshit. Soft is not fighting back. It’s so cool. Do you know what I mean? Other corporations, someone talk shit to ’em and they just kowtow. You’re like, fuck you. You want to talk shit about our media team? Eat a dick. And you fought back and then they come out and film with you and we get to watch the whole thing. You know what I mean? We get to watch the whole thing. And there was a really cool healing process. Not in a, I don’t mean to be over sentimental, but seeing you and Rich come together and see how men or adults handle a situation like that. Really fucking cool. Watching you fist bump Scott Vandersloot, who’s incredibly talented. Awesome. In that conversation, go ahead. You want to say something?
Dave Castro (26:27):
Yeah. I don’t think there was anything soft about how I handled that.
Sevan Matossian (26:31):
No, no. I didn’t want to be soft in saying that. It was Oh, right. Okay,
Dave Castro (26:36):
Fine. People saying you said, people said,
Sevan Matossian (26:39):
Yeah, you’re being woke or you can’t take criticism. It’s like, no, dude, you’re driving by in your car and someone’s like, the fifth time someone says, your car looks like shit. You’re like, fuck you.
Dave Castro (26:48):
The thing about not being able to, just because you respond doesn’t mean you can’t take criticism. Just because you defend yourself or add information to a topic doesn’t mean you can’t take criticism. Especially when they see someone like myself in a, call it a authoritative position or overseeing something, there’s almost this expectation for that individual just to take it and shut the fuck up. You know what I mean? You take the insults, take the abuse, take the criticism, and don’t defend yourself or say anything. And I’m not going to do that. Hey, but I’m also going to be very selective about when and where I do that. I think there’s plenty people always taking jabs at me or CROs that are insulting us, or it doesn’t mean I’m going to respond to every single one. And actually I don’t respond to most.
Sevan Matossian (27:47):
I know you said you don’t respond to, I forget 50% of them. And when you said that, I was laughing. I’m like, you don’t respond to 99 9%. Yeah, 99%.
Dave Castro (27:54):
There’s some that in this rich case, yeah. I chose to respond.
Sevan Matossian (28:00):
Yeah, that’s your boy. Yeah. But here’s the thing, and I mean this with absolute certainty, with all arrogance and confidence, whether people hate you or love you on a subconscious level, you offer them something that no one else gets from any other brands. And that’s real. They got a real person to pop their head up from behind the fucking counter and be like, what? You know what I mean? And people love that. CrossFit’s real to us now, and we can be attached to it. Whether it be being disgruntled with Dave, they’re emotionally engaged. Now with CrossFit, it’s you. It’s you again. Hey dude, I know I’ve told you this before, but I’m going to say it to you, even harsher in front of all these people, you are making a mistake not doing all the open announcements. You are making a fucking mistake, dude. It’s what’s best for the fucking company. It’s what’s best for the CrossFit Games and it’s what’s best for the open. And I want to tell you something I’ve heard not one person say different.
Dave Castro (29:02):
Someone said, he said that he was punching equal and not punching down. I wouldn’t say I was punching equal.
Sevan Matossian (29:07):
Jesus Christ, dude. Do you want me to open the fucking phone lines? Look at two glasses, two sips of wine, and I’m fucking,
Dave Castro (29:15):
I’ll give you all my attention again. Here’s the thing on the open announcements, and someone said, a few other people have said, Hey, it’s not that big of a deal. It’s only three a year. Just do ’em. People really want that.
Sevan Matossian (29:28):
Yeah, it’s once again, it’s the chicken scratch. It’s like real, it’s not the
Dave Castro (29:32):
Say, but let me just say this. But I get it, but I don’t want it. And it’s only three year,
Sevan Matossian (29:38):
But it’s your fucking job,
Dave Castro (29:39):
Dude. I know that’s what people say too. But it’s a part of my job and I don’t need it to be the defining feature of my job. And honestly, I did it for since 2011, 12 missed a couple years, but I don’t want to just be about that. And I.
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