A short YouTube interview clip (Chris Collins hosting Christian Lafferty) focused on playful office-level 'psychological warfare' centered around Peloton stationary bikes. Conversation covers how Peloton's gamified tracking enabled workplace competition and 'stalking' of other users' scores, differing favorite instructors, anecdotes about Patricia and Christian's rivalry, and a proposed office Peloton challenge with a prize. The clip ends with a standard show promo and contact/CTA.
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Let's talk about the psychological warfare you have been raining down here at the office.
What do you mean?
Like for the longest time.
We'Ve had. We've been in the peloton cult. Yeah. So pelotons, if you don't know, are stationary bicycles where you take like a spin class online. It is the most genius business model you've ever seen because they basically charge what a gym would charge every month. But they don't have a gym and they make you buy the bike, you buy the gym and to pay them to be in their brilliant. And they gamify you and they're always tracking you. And so here at the office we. It all started with. It was a Christmas gift for Patricia. I forget maybe her husband cued us in that she wanted one. I forget how it happened. But we got her one and then she loved it. And so then we got one here at the office. Then I moved and took it with me and we got another one. Because you loved it so much.
Yeah. We're a three peloton family.
But even to the point, like kind of pre Covid, Christian was planning his travel. So if he was going to a client, he, he was looking in the area to see who had a peloton because him and Patricia in the office were competing to see who could. Who could do anything. And I think at one point you clued me in. I didn't, I didn't know that the reason why Patricia set up my peloton for me. I thought it was because she loved me. But you clued me in that it was no, so she could spy on me. So she, she knows what everybody is doing on the peloton. She can see what everybody's doing, memorizes the stats. And so you were trying to beat her. And then at some point during all this, because I haven't, I kind of do my peloton thing alone, knowing that you. That she's watching me, but you know who. Doesn't matter to me.
No.
At some point this flipped because she.
Was the star I had.
So now that we have three pelotons and it's very so on. On the peloton you have classes by trainers. And the idea behind the peloton business model is they were going to hire the best spin trainers in the country and syndicate them. So that's basically what you're paying your membership for, is the best. Most motivating instructors teach these spin classes online, basically. Right. So they're very talented trainers, but I have a different taste in my spin Instructor than you do or than Patricia does. Yeah, Patricia looks down on my spin instructor. She does. She's like a cheap. A cheap hussy, I guess we'll say. Or a stripper. Because she wears body glitter and very colorful clothes and heavy eye makeup.
Yeah, she's a. She's a glitter shamer.
Yeah. So, you know. But if you look past the body glitter and the heavy eye makeup, she's the best trainer on there because she gives out great motivational quotes. So I veered off of the track. Her name's Olivia on there. I veered off Olivia a couple times. Classes aren't as hard, not as fun. I love her little motivational quotes. I follow her on Instagram. I think she's great. And so I don't know who's her favorite. One's, like, somebody named Jed.
She likes Alex a lot.
Alex is boring.
He thinks I really like.
He thinks he's a Southern Baptist preacher. And the thing also, I don't like is he doesn't do the class with you. Most of the time, he's just standing there yelling at you like you feel like you're in Sunday service in, like, the south, like.
Well, he's got some good classes that. I've taken some of the Alex classes, and I've been. I've gotten pretty interesting.
You gotta be honest. I took one, and I wasn't interested.
Yeah, you just. Maybe you picked the wrong one. It's almost like turning to a book and you get told that anything in the book is gonna be awesome, and you turn to the book, and it's not that good. But mine's Robin.
That's never happened.
Never. Never Once Robin is your favorite?
Yeah, Robin. Okay. So I had this idea, because we all have different favorite instructors, that we would have a competition because, you know, Russo's been doing it. I think Michael's dabbled in it. Like, everybody's kind of dabbled in the. In the peloton thing. I thought it'd be fun if we had a little fitness challenge. So I proposed. It was just one morning. I come in. I'm over there warming up my breakfast in the office, and Patricia comes in, and it's just me and her. And I'd had the idea the night before. I didn't. I just thought I would bring it up. And I said, I think we should have a peloton challenge where everybody, like, we pick five classes, and then we do. Everybody does the same class, and then we kind of take everybody's output, their score. So the output on Peloton is your resistance level and your speed kind of combined. And we have, like, a prize for the winner in the office of who does the best over the five. And she just. Patricia just instantly said, well, Christian will win.
And I was like, well, no, we'll have a contest over five. Well, Christian will win. And then I'm like, well, what do you mean? Like, he'll win? And I'm like, what about me? Like.
Like, I can't. I don't have the opportunity to win. You don't. Russo can't win. Michael. Have you ever seen Michael on a peloton?
What about Russo's calves?
Yeah, it's like the size of a truck.
I know.
No, no chance. Like, you're so far in her head. How did you do that? Tell. Let's tell it. Let's make this show about this. Tell everybody how you psychologically program somebody that you just win no matter what. Because I want to do that to people. I want people to just think, oh, he wins.
Well, if I think back one, it certainly wasn't intentional. And as we started to do the peloton thing, and she explained how stalking worked, of stalking other members, I would go in and I would do a class that she did, and then I would beat it. And then I would do that and keep hopping above it.
But you should not understand that there's an unfair advantage to knowing what somebody's score is. Because when you're taking the class, you're taking the class and you're following the instructor.
Yeah.
If I knew that your general average output was something, I would beat it.
Beat it.
Because I wouldn't even be paying attention to the instructor. I would just be pumping.
Yeah. What I think happened was, is that. That I did. That's awesome.
What do you. How can we turn that into a Christian joke?
Right.
What do you do when you're writing the poet pumping the whole time?
But, yeah, so I think what happened was. And she did.
She hasn't connected those dots.
I don't know if she just sees.
That you go and beat everything she does all the time. And so that's how you're in her head.
I think that that must be it.
But she never comes behind you, so.
She has done that to me. I think the thing is that she's lost her peloton confidence. But if you see.
How do you lose your peloton confidence?
I don't know, but I'm telling you, she's a.
Fear of success, fear of failure. What is it?
No, because I think she's one of the more competitive people. I know, I know.
It blew me away and I tried. I was like, no.
Like, she'll find, she'll find her groove and she'll beat me. I'm. There was no doubt.
It wouldn't even have been a consideration.
I couldn't keep up with her. Remember you told me. I remember. You're like, she's in your head.
Yeah, I was like, she's in your head.
And she was for sure.
But you somehow you flipped that script.
I don't know. I will tell you that. I, I leave it all on the.
By the way, if we do that, I'm not letting you win. Like, I don't understand how. You're like, just like, we just give you the trophy and we don't even miss.
That's fine. But you, everyone who beats me is going to have to work.
Well, that's the idea of the beauty.
Of the whole thing.
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