3 Key Takeaways From Brian Friends Interview On the ‘Good Morning Murph’ Podcast [Video]

Over the weekend, the Good Morning Murph podcast published a recent interview with Brian Friend, CrossFit analyst and founder of B.Friendly Fitness, and Austrian Masters athlete Shireen Maria Sarwari.

• The primary focus of the nearly two-hour conversation was the events surrounding the 2024 CrossFit Games, the death of Lazar Ðukić, the aftermath of the Games weekend, and Friend’s thoughts on the 2025 season.

In the interview, podcast host Michael Gruber asks Friend to recount the decisions he made personally in the days following Ðukić’s death, including the decision to leave Fort Worth early. 

They then turned to his decision to stay mostly quiet on the information he learned on-site and through conversations with Luka Ðukić and the Ðukić family.

The timing of the interview seemed curious, but in an email, Friend explained to the Morning Chalk Up that, “It’s something I’ve been contemplating and preparing for over the past few months, but I was never sure when and where I would do it.”

• Friend …