Clydesdale Media Roundtable - The WFP are now Talking!

The Crew get's together to discuss what is going on in their lives, the CrossFit Space and whatever else pops up for them.
In this episode we talk WFP Signings and appearance on TEF.  How was everyone's Christmas? plus we dabble in everything else around the Holiday.

00:00 Introduction
00:50 CowCat
02:42 Family Time during Christmas
07:55 Television Talk
10:22 Best Christmas Gift
14:30 More Television Talk
20:39 Details on the World Fitness Project
41:19 Wrap Up

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What's going on, everybody?

Welcome to the Clydesdale

Media Roundtable.

We have this show every Thursday.

We have a couple people that

are out today.

Amy is celebrating the

holiday still with family,

and Charlie is on a cruise

ship somewhere.

We don't know where,

but he's out there floating somewhere.

And Kat has become a cowgirl.

Yes.

Cowboy Kat.

I like it.

Yeah,

I did something terrible to my hair a

couple weeks ago.

I got bangs, and they're really short,

and I hate them, so

I'm doing everything I can

to camouflage them.

My hair grows really fast,

so that's good news.

Do I remember this happening previously?

Probably.

I mean, why didn't you stop me this time?

Didn't know until after the fact.

Isn't it funny how women do

these things to their hair?

I feel like it's a transitional thing.

Like, okay,

you're making some changes in your life.

Now it's time to do something drastic.

So, yeah, here I am.

growing out my bangs yeah

the blonde the redhead the

bangs all the things uh

evening up instead of

layers and then going back

to layers and I got lots of

layers I try to layers yeah

you do you do a good job

we're back to layers and

this is like the color I

always say this is the

color god gave me so it

like matches yeah mine is

getting uh whiter and whiter and whiter

If I didn't have so much of it,

I would let it go.

Yeah.

Let it go.

I,

if I had short hair and it was starting

to go gray, I would do that.

The problem with mine is

that I would look like the

Brad Frankenstein.

Yeah.

Corey that's redhead cat is

coming next for sure.

My daughter keeps saying like,

when are we going to do the

chocolate strawberry raspberry color?

So it's coming.

If you hang out with Kat long enough,

you'll get a version.

The version you want will

happen at some point.

At some point.

So true.

You just got to keep waiting.

Well, Scott,

you were almost by yourself

today because I had plans

to have Christmas morning with my kids.

Graydon and Eliana and my

mom were coming over at ten.

And then I was having lunch

with my dad and the kids.

before I drive him to the

airport tonight to go to

England to propose to his

forty nine year old girlfriend.

And Eliana got the flu.

I had to take her to I took

her to the walk in on

Christmas Eve.

And she had,

I'll preface this by saying

she's a hypochondriac for sure.

Like there's always

something wrong with her.

Like she thinks she's dying.

She's Google doctoring everything,

every little, you know,

indigestion twang that she has.

She thinks she's got an

ulcer or cancer or the

worst thing possible.

So she also has something

called medical anxiety.

Like

Like she doesn't like to take medicine.

She gets anxious, you know,

when she takes medicine

because she'll like look at

the side effects and, you know,

assume she's going to get

all of them and everything else.

So it's really hard.

She actually tried to get

medicine for her anxiety

and it just made her more

anxious because she has medical anxiety.

Like it's crazy.

So anyway, so, you know,

she calls me and she's like,

I'm really sick, you know,

and sometimes I kind of

roll my eyes and I'm like, oh,

is she really sick?

Or is she just like, you know,

imagining things?

So drop my plans for the day.

was supposed to work, didn't work,

drove her there.

Sure enough,

the kid's got like a hundred

and two fever.

She's got like partially

collapsed lung from her chest x-ray.

Like she's a mess.

Um, so anyway, she's got that.

People have you thinking you

have lupus induced AIDS

within five minutes of being on there.

I know it's crazy, crazy.

Um,

So, but here's the kicker.

She did not,

she still wanted to see

everyone for Christmas.

So this is what happened.

My mom,

who did not get her flu shot and is,

you know, in her seventies,

came over last night around five.

My son Braden came over around six.

They exchanged gifts.

Eliana showed up around six thirty.

My mom,

like from the other side of the apartment,

watched Eliana open up her

gifts for my mom.

Then she left.

Brayden and Eliana stuck

around for a little while.

Brayden drove back to

Virginia because he needs

to go see his girlfriend

who lives in Georgia.

And Eliana stayed until midnight.

And she and I sat on the

couch this close to each

other all night with her

coughing and hacking and everything else.

And I'm pretty sure I'm

going to get the flu.

awesome so that's but you

know I wasn't gonna like

send her away like she's my

kid I don't care if I get

sick I'm fine what's funny

you said I might have been

alone I'm getting used to

that now I'm trying to like

get used to being on here

alone it's something I'm

not comfortable with and

I've been doing the lunch

shows and that's why jody's

saying is this the lunch

hour show or the media

round table every thursday

is the round table

But the lunch shows are

welcome to any of the crew

to come on whenever they feel like it,

as long as we have a show.

I think that would be on Monday.

I was, and there wasn't a show.

Or Tuesday, I think it was.

Because that's when I had a

lunch date with my daughter.

It'll happen.

It's funny, you know,

you got to spend time with

Eliana and the family.

We had the breakup,

and then we got a longer

time with Corey than we

thought we were going to get,

which was really nice.

the bad part was she had to

go to work today back in Pittsburgh.

And so, um, yesterday was Christmas.

She had to drive back

yesterday and like Christmas,

which was supposed to be

like the climax of the week

with spending time together

really was a sad moment

because she didn't really

want to go back to the

apartment she shares with her boyfriend,

her ex-boyfriend.

She didn't,

And yesterday we were

loading up her car with the

new mattress we bought with

all the stuff from Christmas.

And she just didn't want to leave.

And, you know,

mom didn't want her to leave.

I didn't want her to leave.

And it's officially a show now.

Yeah, sorry.

And so yesterday was kind of

melancholy on Christmas Day.

She left at like two o'clock

in the afternoon.

And then it was just Julie

and I for the rest of the day.

watching football and then

watching movies and all

that kind of stuff.

But, uh,

but it was nice cause we were only

supposed to get her from

like Saturday to Monday

morning and we got from a

till Wednesday afternoon.

Couple more days out of it.

Yeah.

That's nice.

I would have,

I would have liked to have

spent more time with, uh, Braden,

but you know,

he was supposed to leave tonight.

And then, of course,

once he heard his sister

was sick and that we might

not be doing today because she was sick,

he was, like,

scheming the whole day yesterday.

Like, what time can I come over?

How early can we do, you know, our thing?

Because he just wanted to

get his gifts from his

grandmother and then leave

because he already got my gift,

which is money.

So it was just a little bit, you know,

a little bit flat when that happened.

But it was nice to spend the

time with Els because she and I just,

like, cuddled on the couch and watched.

We watched this game show

called The Floor with Rob Lowe.

My favorite.

Yeah, I'm addicted now.

We're halfway through the first season.

It was really fun.

I love that it's just

pictures and you're just

trying to identify them.

It's fun to play along with.

I think season two came off better.

They changed a couple of the

rules and there's more

people on the floor to start.

Oh, wow.

It's a hundred people instead of eighty.

Eighty-one, yeah.

And then the

and you're not to the finale,

but the finale is eventually at the end,

you have two categories

left and you have to pick one of them.

Right.

So control gets to pick that

category and then it's over this year.

You had to play both categories.

And if it was a tie,

then you get like a third

category that is picked by a randomizer.

Yeah.

Okay.

I like that.

So I think all the

categories should get covered.

Yeah.

So I like the ending better than year one.

Okay.

Well,

we watched season one because she's

already seen season two, Eliana, that is.

But I don't know if you

remember in season one,

there's a category, dogs.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, are you kidding me?

Rapid fire.

I knew all of them.

It was great.

It's always fun when you

have a category that you're

very confident in.

That would be my category for sure.

So I have a game called Outsmarted,

and it is played.

It's like a board game,

but you can play it online.

So like we can play with my

mom in Pennsylvania.

We can play with Corey in Pennsylvania.

Oh, cool.

You just pull it up on your iPad,

and then we just move your

piece around the board.

But it's categories.

And one of the categories you can,

and you can buy categories.

So you can build the game to

whatever you want.

One of the categories is dogs.

Perfect.

Yeah.

I am not good at it.

I am not good at breeds.

I am not good at any of that stuff.

I just go cute, not cute.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I always,

I always impress people if I'm

like walking with someone

and we see a dog, I'll always say like,

oh, that's a such and such.

And then at some point in time,

we're talking to the owner, you know,

and they're like,

the other person will be like, oh,

what dog is that?

And they'll say exactly the

breed that I said, like,

how did you know that?

I just, I don't know.

I used to study your books of dogs,

apparently.

Well,

before we get into all this WFP stuff

that came out with the

Talking Elite Fitness interview, and Will,

I believe, is on with Coffee, Pods,

and Wads at three o'clock

Eastern time this afternoon.

Okay.

Hopefully, we'll learn more.

But before we get into it,

did you get any cool gifts yourself?

Or was there one you gave

that really hit home?

Yeah.

So I have not gotten my mom an actual...

like significant Christmas

gift in probably thirty years.

Right.

Like ever since I've been an adult,

you know,

out of the house and everything else.

I would always get her.

She has like a bird collection.

She has a Santa Claus tree.

I'll get her a little Santa

figurine or a little bird picture.

Nothing, you know, crazy.

This year,

I am taking her to see Swan Lake,

New York City Ballet in New

York City in February.

And she is over the moon.

about it because girl has

not been to new york in a

hot minute probably three

decades so yeah that is

really cool yeah yeah I

just noticed uh hamilton's

coming to columbus uh this

summer uh so that might be

something I do with core

julie says she doesn't like

musicals but then she goes

and loves everyone that she sees yeah

I don't know if she'll go with us,

but I think it's something

that would be fun to see live for sure.

My gift that I was so pumped

about is Julie is an

interior designer by trade, by degree.

But she left that field a

long time ago just to pay

the bills and really never

got back into it.

She loves art.

She loves doing art.

And with her going in for

surgery in January,

I got her a Potter's wheel.

oh and she loves to spin

clay loves loves loves it

always did as like growing

up and so I got her one for

her rehab like while she's

having to put her leg up

and whatever she can take

time to like spin some clay

yeah and I got it like I'm

picturing I'm picturing a

scene from ghosts the two

of you yeah yeah that's I'm

singing the song

Um, probably not.

Uh, but it's,

but she's been looking to get

back into like some hobbies

now that Corey's kind of

gone and off doing her own thing.

So I got her like a medium

grade Potter's wheel.

And if it goes well, like if we,

she gets back into it,

like we'll invest into like a great one.

But she's already got ideas

like I can put down old

shower curtains in the

garage and I can do all

this stuff to have a spot.

She's excited.

She's really excited.

That's great.

I love that.

I'm stoked with that.

You'll have to have her

watch Dax Newman or David

Newman's son on TikTok.

Oh, yeah.

He does all that pottery stuff too.

Very cool.

I love it.

Well,

Braden got toothpaste and hand soap

in his stocking because he

gave me zero ideas on what to get him.

So he got the essentials.

Good hygiene.

Yeah.

Oh,

and Eliana's favorite gift was I got

her one of those off the TikTok shop,

one of those sealers,

like a portable sealer that

you can like instead of a chip clip bag.

She was super excited about that.

Yeah.

She said that was her favorite present.

Corey needed an iPad for her new job.

And, uh,

we did that a couple of months ago

and that was Christmas gifts.

So we didn't have anything

like big for her, um, at this,

at this Christmas,

but it was still a great day.

Sometimes the little bit, the little,

little gifts are fun too.

I know, uh,

my ex and I used to do this

thing where we would like

on Christmas Eve, we'd go through the,

as seen on TV, um,

aisle at the walgreens and

we just pick up stupid shit

and put it under the tree

uh well jody's with us now

we've got jay birch has

jumped in and jay birch and

I had a great chat

yesterday he finished tulsa

king um and we got to uh

bounce ideas theories back

and forth as to what season

three will bring us with

the tulsa king and uh and

it was great chatting with him yesterday

Is that like, uh, is that like Lion, the,

um, Tiger King or no?

No, no.

So it's another Taylor Sheridan show.

It's as a mob boss who gets

the boot from New York to go to Tulsa,

Oklahoma.

And he ends up creating his

own little like mob family in Tulsa,

Oklahoma.

And there's two full seasons

out on Paramount plus.

And, uh,

It's really, really good.

In the Taylor Sheridan shows,

I would rank probably third with Lioness.

And then I would put Landman number one,

Yellowstone number two,

and then Tulsa King and

Lioness in the three spot.

Okay.

I got some shows to watch.

But Landman, man, that thing is so good.

Every week.

It's like Taylor Sheridan

practiced on all the other

ones and put everything he

learned into Landman, and it is so good.

So good.

But only my second best show of the year.

Number one is Shrinking,

which I just watched the

season finale last night,

and I gasped at the end of this.

It was so crazy.

But so crazy good.

if you've never seen that

shrinking is on apple plus

it is jason siegel and the

guy who um played roy kent

in ted lasso wrote it um

the two of them and roy kent is

So the guy who plays Roy

Kent in Ted Lasso gets

drunk and kills Jason Segel's wife.

And that is the premise of

the show as a drunk driver and,

and how Jason Segel kind of

comes out of that.

He is a therapist and he

works with Harrison Ford,

who's a therapist and

another woman who is a therapist and how,

uh,

They learned to and his

daughter sees Harrison Ford

as a therapist.

Jason Segel is totally off

the rails when the show

starts in season one.

And season one is all about

him kind of overcoming that grief.

And then season two is like,

can he get back to zero?

Right.

Like, can he get back to base level again?

And it's a phenomenal show.

My favorite best show on TV

in the last ten years, in my opinion.

is it only two seasons?

Correct.

Okay.

And then it's over season.

No, there's going to be a season three.

Oh, there is.

Okay.

But it, it like season two just ended.

So you've got a year before

season three comes about.

I can catch up on that.

And it's ten episodes, season one,

twelve episodes, season two.

How about based on a true story?

I mean, that one,

I just finished season two

of that yesterday.

Okay.

haven't started it.

I'm looking for something to start.

Most other than land, man,

all of my shows have pretty much ended.

This one.

It's not super sophisticated.

It's not like, like ultra drama.

It's more like, like campy horror comedy,

sort of.

That's the thing.

Yeah.

I'll give it a go.

I know I've, I've seen it.

I thought Julie would jump

into it because of the

content because she's a crime person,

but she hasn't jumped into it.

So maybe I'll have to force

her into it while we're off

for her rehab for a little bit.

Yeah, it's good.

It's good.

And the seasons are the, um, the episodes,

it's like, I think,

ten and ten and the

episodes are only like

twenty six minutes long.

You know, it's one of those half hour one.

So it's really you can get

through it quickly.

Cool.

Yeah, those don't take long at all.

I had no plans for TV talk,

but I have a question

because I was watching

something where they were talking about,

do you prefer your TV in

the FX Netflix style where

they just dump all the

episodes of the season at one time?

Or do you like it like Apple Plus,

Paramount, HBO,

where you get one episode a week?

I...

have so much going on in my

brain these days that if I

don't watch them in succession,

I will not be able to

remember what happened.

I mean,

literally if I go like four days in

between an episode,

even on the ones that I can binge watch,

I have to go back to the last episode,

at least the last like five

minutes to remind myself where I was.

So a week in between is not

happening for me.

No way.

Can't do it.

Not smart enough.

Um, I like to savor it.

I like the, the one episode a week drop.

Really?

Yeah.

Because then,

then it like stays in my life

for a while.

Like,

and I get to really get to know these

characters, um, where I don't have,

I am too impatient with the drop,

the big drop and I'll just binge it all.

And then it's over.

And like, like Tulsa King,

I ended and none of my

friends watched it.

So I had nobody to talk to

until Jay Birch finished it this week.

And then like, I just,

I vomited all over Jay

Birch and my theories and

what was going on.

Cause I had nobody to talk

to about it for a couple months.

So yeah.

Yeah,

I get the whole being able to savor

the plot line and the

characters and everything else.

But like I said,

if I'm not completely

immersed in it the whole week,

I will forget what happened.

It's unfortunate.

Jay Burgex,

do you think Taylor Sheridan is

bigger than Kurt Sutter?

I don't know who Kurt Sutter is.

So yes, your answer is yes.

In my mind, I guess, yeah.

Now, he may tell me that Kurt Sutter did X,

Y, and Z, and I'll be like, ooh,

those are all great.

Oh, wait.

Yeah.

So before we run out of time,

Will Morad and the head of the WFP,

I'm getting his name here in a second,

Jackson Terry.

Okay.

Um,

we're on talking elite fitness and it

was released, I think early this morning.

Uh,

and they talked about what the WFP is

doing, what it is all about.

And,

and I want to save some of this for

like Carolyn,

because she's an actual

athlete and how it impacts her.

Um,

but I do want to talk about it because

I think there's some, what's that?

I'm a fake athlete.

true charlotte's an actual

athlete I mean I'm an

actual games master's

athlete there is a master's

division to this so I um I

want to get their opinion

because I think it's very I

think people have

misconceptions as to what

it is okay and the first thing is

It is not a direct

competitor to the CrossFit Games.

Will says in this interview

very plainly that they

designed the season to not

compete with the CrossFit Games.

They have made it so that

the elite athletes can do both.

And it should not affect their training.

Now, can one athlete maybe peak...

for one of them over the

other and make that choice.

Sure.

But it's he,

and he said that we

specifically designed it

not to beat the athlete down.

Uh, when we looked at qualifying events,

we're trying to keep them

small so that they don't affect training.

When the tour events are

only going to be six events,

the finals are only nine events, uh,

And it's not going to be

like your fifteen event

CrossFit games where when you're done,

you're just completely beat

down and can't do anything else.

And not only did they avoid the games,

they avoided Rogue.

They avoided Wadapalooza.

Very respectful, very mindful.

So in no way is this a

direct competitor and the

contracts the athletes are

signing are not exclusive.

And they said they went into

this with the idea of not being exclusive,

that just being an option.

And so all the athletes can

do whatever events they

want across the season in

addition to signing this contract.

And wasn't it, I mean,

originally it was supposed

to be for those athletes,

like top four to go to the games,

the next ten do this, right?

Like initially it was...

supposed to be for that.

So yeah,

it's clearly not going to compete

with the season necessarily

because that's how they

were planning to get those folks anyway.

Yeah.

I think the ideas have evolved from, um,

from it being a,

a charitable event and a

place for kids to go.

And they're still doing that.

So this is the place of that.

But instead of building a

building in Nashville,

they're partnering with

people around the world for

the charitable aspect of it.

And then this pro season

initially started as they

were going to build a

building in Nashville and

they're going to hold an event that

post semifinals for those

people who just missed the games.

And it would be like in college basketball,

the NIT tournament.

So if you don't make the NCAA tournament,

you could then go to the

NIT tournament and compete

for that championship.

It was going to be very similar to that.

But as they talked and

opportunities arose and the

investments got bigger,

they were able to turn this

into like a full season.

And I think what's even

cooler is they're taking a

lot of like the lessons

learned from the CrossFit game season.

A lot of the things that

people have been clamoring

about on shows like this

and others across the space,

trying to fix those issues,

having a better media presence and,

doing a live stream that makes sense.

They talk about ramping up

media coverage the week

before an event to get to

know the athletes as people.

Like doing features on the

athletes that are

participating in the event

to ramp up the excitement

for that event as you get

to know those people.

Also that the event itself

be something that...

you can tune into and not

know the sport and still

understand who's in the

lead and who's not.

And maybe you don't

understand everything about it,

but you understand who's

winning and who's losing

and that they wanted to

take a different road than

assuming that the, the,

the niche market is all that's watching.

I like that.

Do they have a media

department necessarily?

Or do you think they're

going to be leaning on

people that they know in

the space to just sort of take on roles?

It sounds to me like they

are going to be hiring

people to do pieces and parts.

And they are hiring someone

to stream the events as they happen.

uh will talked about

programming and that the

hardest part of programming

is not making a cool

workout for everybody it's

fitting it in the timeline

of the broadcast it is

fitting it in so it makes

sense to people watching um

and they're in negotiations

with those people doing

those other aspects already

so they must have some

stuff signed but they're

not announcing all of that yet okay

The other thing is it

appears that all of the

events will be in the U S in year one,

and then they're looking to

expand to Europe and

Australia in year two.

And it, I think it's just what they could,

you know,

it's a big undertaking and it's

what they could handle as a

team in year one.

And they've hired two event

organizers to help them out.

Uh, the one is.

I have so many notes.

Jason Ainsley.

Is that right?

He does the monster games.

Ensley, Jason Ensley.

He's going to be in charge

of North America.

He does the monster games currently.

And then Roger Nelson or

Nielsen is going to be the

Europe individual.

And he is known for doing

the Norwegian throwdown.

Okay.

So those people have been brought on.

Ryan Howard is a big partner.

The LRX guy.

Okay.

He is a big partner in this.

They didn't really name a

lot of the partners and

they didn't name any of the investors.

They also said a lot of

stuff will be coming out,

rolling the rest of this

month and through January.

Just kind of social media

will be announcing more and

more of things as it goes.

Their events will be

completely new events.

They're not relying on a

partner event to hold the events.

And that is so that they can

standardize some stuff to

make the complete tour kind

of the same expectation across the board.

They are in talks with the

PFAA on standardized movements and safety,

but they're just talks.

There's no former...

there's no formal agreement

with the PFAA at this time.

And Judy Reed is correct.

Ryan husband is from a native of Columbus.

Uh,

he used to tour all the local gyms when

he first started our LRX.

So I've met Ryan, uh, super nice guy.

Uh, but yeah,

initially I think at first

you said Ryan Howard and I

was thinking of the Phillies,

the Phillies, Ryan husband,

first baseman.

Um,

They've been stress testing

point systems for the entire tour,

doing fake leaderboards to

see how it affects things

to make sure they can get

the points down.

But basically,

it's if the twenty

contracted athletes will

participate in the tour event,

they will have a qualifier

where the top ten in that

qualifier will then also

compete in the pro division.

and earn points in that and

then eleven through thirty

will compete in a

challenger division at the

event and they can earn

points but it's on a lower

scale than the pro division okay

So you can go to event one

in the pro division,

earn X number of points,

go to event two and fall

into the challenger

division and get X number of points.

But together that may get

you in the top thirty,

which then go to the finals

to compete for double points.

And then if you're in the

top twenty after the finals,

you get your pro card for

the following season and

you become one of the twenty.

Um, and the other thing,

the last thing I'm just

going to point out,

cause there was a lot of

good stuff in it.

And I think that, uh,

it's actually not confusing Jody.

If you see it kind of out on paper.

I'm with you, Jody.

I was confused.

It makes a lot of sense.

I've just I've been thinking

about a lot I've read a lot

about it I think yeah for

me it makes sense and it

will to others once you see

it played out because it's

just like tennis it's just

like golf um done in the

same way but the last thing

I'm going to say is and I

think you you actually have

more control over this with

contracted athletes and

that is they want to have a

better connection with the community

And they want to make appearances.

They want to do things to

bring back that pro athlete

to community feel where

it's very accessible.

It may not happen on the day

of a tour event because, you know,

they're trying to make money,

but they want to do

activations at other events as well.

And every tour event is

going to have a community event.

And those community events are,

in addition to the challenger division,

a master's and what they're

calling next gen, which is a team.

So it will be fourteen to

sixteen and seventeen to nineteen.

So they are expanding the

team division out a little bit further.

um to give people more time

to uh adjust to the pro

elite division I like that

uh maybe just confusing

while I'm deep into a

kitchen design while trying

to compete I am sure I was

just I was just sitting

here listening and it

sounded confusing to me too

jody so you're good yeah

for this season there are

two tour events where you can earn points

You can earn points in the

pro division at the highest scale.

You can earn points in the

challenger division at a lower scale.

Your total combined points

from event one and event

two will be put together.

And the top thirty in points

go to the finals to compete

for points there, which will be doubled.

So the scale will double at the finals.

the top twenty in overall

points after the finals get

a contract for the next

season or a pro card.

Do your own individual

points ranked against each

other reset at the final so

that the final is just the

final or do you come in

with points and you earn

points in the final towards that thing?

Does that also determine the

winner of the thing?

No.

So you can win each event

separately and it will have

its own prize money.

Okay.

That's kind of what I meant.

Okay.

So you're just talking about

points to earn status for

the next season or to get

your pro card or what level

you're going to be at.

But each event has its own

scoring system for who wins

and who gets second place and all that.

Right.

And then your points for the

tour are based on where you

finish overall in that event.

Okay.

Yeah.

So if you win tour event one,

you get the max number of

points moving into tour event number two.

Right.

Okay.

But it doesn't give you an

advantage to win the second event.

When you get to the second event,

like everybody's on.

Okay.

That's where I was getting confused.

Paul Kane says,

I wish they would name the investors.

The money is the thing to make this legit.

All they're saying is they

have enough money to

sustain this for the foreseeable future.

And they even said, and it was very subtle,

that not only do they have

current investors,

they have investors waiting

to invest that they haven't

needed to tap into yet.

That's exciting.

But I don't know what that means.

So I hope that they,

I think an organization

like this has the ability

to be more innovative.

Because they're new.

They can try whatever they

want to try and see how it works, right?

You've heard all this stuff

coming out from the

different podcasts and the

different media types

criticizing CrossFit for X, Y, and Z,

right?

They have the opportunity to

try to come up with a solution to that.

And if it fits,

there's nothing to say that

CrossFit can't go, okay,

they proved it can work in

that direction.

Let's pivot.

Right?

Yeah.

When is the first event?

When and where?

They have not named.

So all of that will be part

of these announcements that

are coming out over the next five weeks.

Got it.

Okay.

Right now,

they're focused on naming all

the athletes that are signed.

And since I last was on on Tuesday,

they've signed Emma McQuaid,

Victor Hoffer, and Roman Krennikoff.

In addition to what was

previously announced, Travis Mayer,

Alexis Raptus, Yella Hosta,

Patrick Vellner, Brooke Wells,

Chandler Smith, and Alex Kazan.

But my thought is, if I'm an athlete,

you do both.

Your career is short.

Make the money where you can

make the money.

Yep.

And any kind of publicity recognition,

anything that's done from

either organization,

you get to benefit from.

Just getting your name out there more.

Yeah, it's great for the athletes.

So, but again,

apparently the entire twenty

twenty five season will be

in North America.

And then twenty six, they look to expand.

Now,

I think that once they expand or if

they expand,

that's when it gets a little

more tricky with the two seasons.

Because it's going to be,

the more events you put out there,

the more events you put out there,

the harder it's going to be

to avoid another season.

Yeah.

Yeah,

there's only so many Saturdays and

Sundays in the year.

Exactly.

Exactly.

So I'm excited for it.

I think that one I've liked

will ever since I've met him,

I think that he can, um, I think he,

he has a lot of good people behind him.

And I think that he has put

a lot of thought into this,

especially with the community engagement.

Um,

I just, at the very least,

I hope that they show that

different innovations could

change the way we do things

and maybe have a consistent season.

Um,

so Corey makes this statement and I'm

going to back this up.

I feel like Travis happened

to be there the day they

signed Alexis and they felt

guilty for not asking him.

So they do go into how they

pick the athletes and it was,

they took the leaderboards

from rogue in the games

over the past two years,

combine them together and

came up with a top six team.

Supposedly,

they have offered the top

sixteen athletes from that leaderboard,

both men and women.

Then they left four spots at

large to go grab people

they think will draw viewership,

that will be good for the sport.

Just arbitrary things that

they think meet a criteria.

Mm-hmm.

I don't think Travis makes

the top-sixteen because he

was disqualified from Rogue

in the qualifier two years ago.

He missed the games due to

injury last year,

so I think he probably was

not in the top-sixteen.

But maybe they think he has

enough fans or support or

he's a good ambassador to

bring in for this first year.

I am more...

Intrigued at how they picked

Victor Hoffer.

Because he didn't,

he made the games last year

and withdrew before the first event.

And other than that.

Yeah, it's relatively.

Unknown.

So, and even Emma McQuaid.

has not been really

competitive in the last few years.

And I really like Emma.

Like she's like, we've talked,

I think she's a great person, but I,

I don't know what she just

has not been competitive in

the sport in the last couple of years.

Um,

but the only time we have to worry

about this is year one,

because after this year,

your top twenty will be

based on the points you

earn from the season prior.

There's no judgment.

There's no at-large bids.

The twenty highest scoring

athletes will be the people

with the pro card in the following year.

Judy Reed says,

maybe just trying to get

more European athletes.

Maybe.

Maybe.

Maybe.

Kenneth says,

Travis is the old reliable

vet to get people to watch.

I believe that.

It's almost like a lifetime

achievement award as opposed to like,

should they really be the people?

But again,

it only matters year one and

then year two will take

care of itself because

either you score the points or you don't.

but I'm anxious to see it

play out and it gives us

more to talk about on our show.

So, uh,

Really excited about that.

I'm excited for them to announce places.

Because at least with CrossFit now,

we know where the in-person semis are.

And I can already start to

plan on which ones I can

get to and which ones I can't.

And we met at the Mayhem Classic.

Yep.

You going back for the second undertaking?

I would love to.

I would love to go back.

That would be so great.

That was the best

competition I've ever

witnessed in person.

Now they were supposed to announce,

they did on Monday,

they talked about what

theirs is going to be like,

and it's using the open as a qualifier.

It looks like it's going to

be just a twenty person field for theirs,

and they're going to try to

do some community

activations along with the

competition during the day.

Would that have been the

first time I talked to Colton Mertens?

Was that the classic?

Was he there?

I don't know.

I remember Jeff Adler being there.

I remember a tiny person being there,

and I'm pretty sure that's

when I became a Colton Mertens fan.

I'll have to look that up.

And Daniel Brandon,

that's the first time we

saw Daniel Brandon.

Yeah.

Like up close and personal.

I actually asked her to be on the show.

And she gave me an email to

use to contact her.

And then it took me like

another year to get her on.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's funny.

But that's where I

interviewed Ben Smith and

my battery ran out after

four minutes and thirty seconds.

Yeah.

Good stuff.

That was awesome.

Um, but yeah, we had, it was a good time.

I love the intimate setting.

Um, and I, I,

it's like a boutique in person semifinal.

Yeah.

My favorite was when we had to,

when we judged the trail

run and I got to ride in a

Gator with a senior, just me,

me and senior.

It was fun.

Yeah.

He's a good dude.

And I got to use the bathroom.

I remember I used the bathroom in his, um,

the gym and at seniors house

the original barn that's

cool I didn't get to do any

of that stuff I just work

security at the finish line

I wasn't even a media

member I was security at

that event just doing in

the back extra media stuff

that I could get away with

that was great so

And then your guys from the

MAC are doing Syndicate Crown as well.

Love it.

And then your TFX folks are

doing an Oklahoma City version.

Yeah, that's interesting.

I wonder if it's going to be

like the same.

Is it Jeremy Teal and his

whole team doing it?

I guess.

It's their team.

They're just doing it in Oklahoma City.

If you go to their website,

they talk about how it was

years in the making that

they've always wanted to be

like an elite CrossFit event.

Because I think they're the

oldest CrossFit competition.

Yeah.

FX has been around longer

than any other major

competition in the space.

Yeah.

Prior to the games.

Yeah.

And finally,

they have made it to being a

part of the game season.

And they couldn't have held

it in where they hold it

outside of Austin.

They need something a little

more professional.

Yeah.

Corey says athlete control.

So athlete control is actually a group.

And you were security.

I was security.

And I was at the finish line

making sure that the

spectators didn't come down

and mob the athletes.

yeah you're like a bouncer

totally yeah lots of lots

of experience with bouncing um

But yeah, so that's the news of the day.

I'll be back tomorrow for

lunch with the Clydesdale.

If anybody wants to join on, they will.

And it'll probably be less

CrossFit talk tomorrow and

more of the other stuff we

do on lunch with the Clydesdale.

But I wanted to get that WFP stuff out.

I'll probably watch the

Coffee Pods and Wads today.

And if there's any update

from what we learned on TEF, because...

were some there were some

follow-up questions that

were left on the table for

sure in that first

interview and I'm hoping

peter knowing peter he'll

follow up much more than

they did so yeah I'll watch

both of them too in case I

pop on tomorrow we can I

can talk about it

intelligently so so that'll

be interesting um with that

guys thank you so much for

being here and yes kenneth

you know how I uh

I have an affinity for a

finish line that all events

at a CrossFit event should

have a finish line and the

athletes and a bouncer and

a bathroom and a bouncer.

Oh, and a bouncer.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So with that, um,

we will see you all

tomorrow and Kat has given

you all a yeehaw.

See you guys for that.

Bye guys.