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Apparently,
I wasn't the only one freaked out by
the ring doorbell thing.
Let's talk about it next.
I love the chase and the hunt,
and I set the pace when I'm running.
I always take what I want,
and I always give it one hundred.
Don't need a bank, no one funded.
Play the game like it's nothing.
I'm always thankful for something.
Don't take for granted, stay humble.
Now wake up!
It's time to look at the enemy.
Look in the mirror if he is no
friend to me.
It's not working out,
maybe it's the chemistry.
It's time to...
what is going on everybody welcome to
lunch with the clydesdale a little
premature there and didn't let my intro
finish we've already got jody and meredith
and corey in the chat what's going on
everybody jody is here in sunny florida
wow
What's crazy is it's fifty degrees here
today.
I've got fifteen inches of snow.
It's fifty degrees.
I took the dog out in short sleeves
and it was actually kind of nice.
I am so conditioned to single digits now
that fifty degrees feels like sunny
Florida to me.
So there you go.
Um,
I'd probably be sweating my ass off in
Florida right now and not knowing what to
do with myself or, uh,
drinking my air down in Louisiana Lake
Corey.
Um, yeah.
So what's going on everybody.
Mark Phillips is here through his back out
Saturday, but he's here.
He throws his back out carrying the show
in the comments.
That's, but we, we love him for that.
So.
So there you go.
Jody's back to frigid Connecticut on
Friday.
It's crazy.
We get one day of fifties tomorrow.
It's back down in the thirties for like
two days.
And then we go back up to like
mid forties.
so yeah it's going to be a little
up and down roller coaster thing for us
for the next few days but every day
in the next like ten day forecast we
get above freezing which is key because we
need to get rid of all of this
snow we just like my mom's coming to
visit thursday and i don't even have a
place in my driveway because my extra car
is buried
I need it to be unburied so I
can move it at least a little bit
and give my mom some space to get
in my driveway.
Probably tomorrow I'll be shoveling a
little bit to make some extra room,
but man, it's crazy.
Crazy.
Mark Phillips wants a new back.
His old one sucks.
Hey, I'm with you, man.
From twenty sixteen to twenty twenty,
I had twelve back procedures.
I found the right doctor.
I got everything fixed and I haven't had
much.
I haven't had any bad back problems in
five years, six years, whatever it's been.
Yeah.
And knock on wood,
that's not anything that holds me back
going forward.
Now that we've had the sinus surgery,
we're getting the biopsy done in a week
and a half.
And hopefully get back at it.
Get all ripped like Corey.
Compete in the sixty plus division.
There's it is.
Goals everywhere.
Goals everywhere.
Let's go.
Let's go.
um lito it's rained every single day since
the beginning of the year in the uk
and we've seen the sun for about three
point five seconds since december that
sucks uh hell yeah make me rip like
corey too yeah we all have goals man
we all have goals
Uh, Meredith says, yep.
If I think had one thing fixed on
me, it would be my back.
Yeah.
It took forever, man.
It was like, I,
I slept in a recliner for like two
years cause I could not lay down.
It hurts so bad with my back.
Um, it was, it was pathetic.
Um,
And I was doing all this CrossFit.
I lost like two hundred plus pounds.
I was doing all this stuff and I
go to lift a damn laundry basket and
it like that's what set it all off.
And and then it was just doctoring and
nursing it and trying to get through the
next day.
And man.
Corey says he's not that ripped.
I've seen pictures, dude.
I've seen you in person.
You're way ripped to me.
Then way more ripped than me.
So, yeah.
I understand.
I've hurt my back standing up from the
toilet.
Yeah.
The last time my back hurt,
Stan was judging WF, no judging MFC.
And I literally had to go to the
break room and lay on the cement floor
with my feet elevated.
on sunday and that's the year we had
like no breaks um and my back just
said i'm done on sunday completely done
and that was like the last time it's
hurt and that was what like twenty one
twenty two somewhere in there um
Ortega says he'll see Corey this weekend
at Fresh Coast.
No, Fresh Coast.
Fittest of the Coast.
Fittest of the Coast.
And he'll check out how ripped he is.
Take a picture, Ortega.
We need proof.
Sten says he remembers that.
Oh, it was so bad.
Worst judging experience of my life.
That was my last judging experience, too.
I tell you,
I get these spasms like twice a year
when I wake up and it locks up
and I can't move for like two hours.
It's the worst.
Yeah, I...
When it was bad, Ortega,
I used to have a stem machine on
me just to go to work.
Like I carried the remote in my pocket
and I would crank it up while I'm
sitting at my desk at work just to
get through the day back before I got
sent home and got to work from home.
It was horrible.
David Reed,
I ruptured a disc while out on a
run five miles from home.
And we are all old.
We are all old.
Mark Phillips,
all these backstories make me feel better
and worse at the same time.
Yeah,
never was I five miles from home with
a ruptured disc.
That just seems like pure hell.
Like just lay in a ditch at that
point.
So anyway,
what do I want to talk about today?
Let's talk about the WFP.
So yesterday,
Will was on with the Rich Froning podcast,
and they asked him how many people have
signed, how many people have not signed.
And he said like, you know, like,
you know, like, you know, like, you know,
like, you know, like, you know, like,
you know, like, you know, like, you know,
like, you know, like, you know, like,
you know, like, you know, like, you know,
like, you know, like, you know, like,
you know, like, you know, like, you know,
like, you know, like, you know, like,
you know, like, you know, like, you know,
like, you know, like, you know, like,
you know, like, you know, like, you know,
like, you know, like, you know, like,
you know, like, you know, like, you know,
like
And I thought I remembered like the
barbell spin saying only two of the top
ten have signed.
And then I read,
I remembered more carefully that spin said
two of the top ten games athletes had
signed.
So actually,
like it may be closer to seventy than
I gave it credit for.
But in the moment, I was like, man,
Will is not telling the truth.
Because if only two of the top ten
have signed,
you're already down to seventy five
percent.
We're not even talking about the women
yet.
But when I look at the leaderboard.
Actually,
like a lot of them have signed in
their top ten.
So if we look,
like we know Sprague is signed.
We know Pepper hasn't.
Gerrard hasn't.
Medeiros hasn't.
Roman did sign.
Gee signed.
Tudor signed.
Chandler, Yona, and Enola Kai signed.
So really only three in the top ten
didn't sign of their leaderboard,
and it's Dallin, Ricky, and Justin.
And then Jeff Adler said he did not
sign.
So that's four of the top twenty.
They've invited three of the next ten.
So they're one shy at this point if
everybody else signed.
But they have announced anything on the
women's side.
On the women's side of the top ten,
the only one we know has signed is
Emma Tall.
And the only one we know hasn't signed
is Lucy Campbell.
We know Lucy Campbell said no,
and we know Emma Tall said yes.
The other eight,
we have no idea on the women's side
if they have signed or not.
And why are they waiting?
Why are they waiting?
It makes no sense.
Like,
Are they trying to hide something?
Because once you get to Andrea Solberg,
we know she signed.
Lydia Fish did.
Sydney did.
Emily did.
And then we know Oda did.
And that's all we know.
So there's a lot of gaps here.
We don't know Ella.
We don't know Jennifer.
We don't know Mano.
We don't know Hannah.
And we don't know Danny Spiegel.
And then we only know one has in
the top ten.
So it is,
it's crazy that they haven't released more
information about that.
Grace is fifteen forty says maybe people
are trying to negotiate.
The new rule is that you don't get
to negotiate anymore.
That where you finish.
is what um salary you make now so
first place got a hundred thousand dollar
contract so james sprague won the tour
last year means he gets a hundred thousand
dollar contract going into this year it's
not negotiated anymore you have to you get
what you earned from the previous season
now with all the people withdrawing you
can move up
And maybe your number is different than
you thought it would be.
Maybe you finished fourth,
but you moved up to second.
So now you're making an eighty thousand
dollar contract instead of a sixty.
But you cannot negotiate.
It's where you finished.
Corey says Mano Anganese is my favorite
element on the periodic table.
Isn't that wild?
She has a crazy name.
She's a fun person to talk to.
Really fun.
Okay.
John George, I finished tenth,
but are now the number two.
Do I get number two money or ten
money?
You get the two money, John.
And it happens because we know like Nick
Matthew, Colin Bossard,
and one other person that was outside the
top twenty have been invited.
So they're not going to come without
money.
Oh, Luka Djokic.
So those three were invited.
There was no money for twenty-first,
twenty-second, or twenty-third.
There now is.
So, Grace,
the other thing is it was said publicly
that their window has closed.
So they know who is signed and who
hasn't.
They had a window to sign their contract
or not.
And that has ended for the initial forty
athletes who earned a pro card.
Now we're just waiting to see who it
is because they haven't announced it.
Now they've made two announcements with a
media release,
and it listed all the people that we
know for sure,
but there's a good chunk we have no
idea whether they are or not.
Seamus says,
is WFP like the minor leagues?
I think it's become the developmental
league for sure.
And I think that's the right size for
it.
And I was thinking about this last night
and this morning.
You know,
when the USFL first came into football in
the early eighties,
they tried to compete directly with the
NFL and they got thumped.
Then they moved to a different part of
the year, a different season.
And they actually started to make money
and move in a direction that was
successful.
And with that,
they actually started gaining talent.
They were able to sign people away from
the NFL to their league.
Then they tried to sue the NFL and
they put so much money in that basket
and they actually won.
But the money awarded to them was so
nominal.
It was like three dollars or it was
ridiculous.
Even though they won the verdict,
it bankrupted them.
So I think that it's very similar to
what's happening.
With W.F.P.
WFP tried to go head-to-head with the
CrossFit Games season.
After one year,
I think the athletes decided they can't do
both,
and many of them decided that it was
more conducive to do the CrossFit Games
season than to do the WFP season.
So now the people that are doing WFP
are those people that
don't realistically have a shot at winning
the CrossFit Games.
Because winning the CrossFit Games is more
money than you can make at either one
of the leagues, seasons, whatever.
If you don't have a legit shot at
winning,
this is a great place to develop your
skills.
And where the WFP needs to capitalize on
this is to create a brand loyalty,
treat these athletes so well,
and give them this guaranteed money to
work on their skills, to get better,
to move up the ranks as a top-end
athlete,
and then treat them so well that they
don't want to leave you,
that they want to keep playing in your
sport.
That's the way they have to move going
forward.
Instead of coming in and owning everything
and thinking you can take over everything,
now you have to develop this league.
Now you're going to take...
And we're not talking bad athletes.
We're just talking about not top ten
athletes.
And again,
we don't know what's happening on the
women's side.
We still have to wait for that.
But on the men's side,
you have a couple top ten athletes,
and then you have a lot of those
people that finished eleven through thirty
at the CrossFit Games.
Can you develop them?
Can you develop brand loyalty?
Can you make it worth their while to
stick around with you?
That's their only shot now.
And maybe,
maybe through the development of what
they've done,
it's right-sized them to a place where
they can succeed more.
And I think that that is what's happening.
And I hope that they look in the
mirror and they look at this and say,
This is our strategy going forward.
We're not going to try to take over
the world.
We're going to build our brand and try
to advance forward with what we have.
David Reed says,
WFP is D-II to the CrossFit Games D-I.
I don't think it's that far of a
jump though, David.
I think it is...
The CrossFit Games are the Big Ten.
And WFP is the ACC.
ACC.
Because WP is still playing with James
Bragg, Roman Krennikoff.
You've got Nick Matthew and Nate Ackerman
and BKG, Ty Jenkins, Pat Vellner,
Yellow Hosta, Colton Mertens, Jack Farlow,
Chandler Smith, Yona Koski.
Those are...
still high-end athletes.
They just are none of the people you're
going to roll off the tip of your
tongue and say they have a shot at
winning the CrossFit Games.
But they're going to be competitive and on
any given event or any given Sunday or
any given whatever you want to call it
could win an event.
And Roman and James gives it some
legitimacy.
Now again,
we have no idea what it's going to
be like on the women's side because they
have not announced all of those moves yet.
I think you're making my point when D-I
athletes compete against D-II, they win.
Yeah, but here's what...
I just think you made the leap between
the two.
D-I to D-II is too big of a
gap.
It's not that big of a gap.
It is like a powerhouse Big Ten conference
or SEC versus the ACC.
It's not that Pitt can't beat Penn State
or can't beat Ohio State.
It's just Ohio State's going to be
favored.
Like Colton Mertens could win any weekend
if the programming is right.
But James Sprague is going to be favored
over Colton Mertens in almost all
situations.
It doesn't mean Colton can't win,
and Colton will win aspects of that.
He just may not win that entire weekend.
So the gap is not like Corey and
I.
Corey being Big Ten and me being JMU.
Exactly.
And someone like Colton signing is
actually like a big coup for the WFP.
The man has a ton of followers.
He is...
great on screen,
he is going to win events,
and he is so popular,
and he's going to do it with a
big crowd,
and it's people like that that can take
advantage of this money,
this opportunity to advance their career.
I think it's just the WFP being kind
of smacked in the face to say...
This is where you should have been all
along.
Trying to take on the games was a
big mistake.
No matter how much money you have,
the games has prestige.
It has time.
It has time-honored tradition.
It has all of those things that you
can't buy.
And they tried to buy their way in.
And, Corey,
you are not the Little Sisters of the
Blind.
You are not.
So I know I bash on the WFP
a lot.
I criticize.
I don't hate them.
I want them to succeed.
I want these athletes to have some
opportunity they never had before.
I've always been a champion for that next
tier of athletes that don't get all the
sponsorship dollars that the top end
athletes do.
And to actually make some money,
develop themselves, develop their career,
and then maybe,
maybe WFP can actually create some brand
loyalty to them over CrossFit.
But they're going to have to work to
do that.
NAI,
but telling WFP investors you're going to
be second will cut off the bank funds
quickly.
I think the dynamic of the WFP funds
and who's supplying them is different than
a typical business.
It's not generally your parents funding
your business venture.
It is usually like investors who are
trying to make their money back.
Here,
it's a parents trying to help their kids
be successful.
And maybe, just maybe,
being successful is taking a step back
before you take two steps forward.
They still got James Sprague to sign.
They still got Roman Krennikoff to sign.
They got Colton Mertens.
They got Chandler Smith.
They've got people that are popular in the
sport to sign.
That's why I'm saying the gap isn't as
big as D-I to D-II.
The gap is much smaller than that.
But they're going to have to work if
they want to compete.
They're just going to have to work.
And in the water is wet category,
Kenneth DeLapp says Colton is good enough
for me to watch.
Yeah, we know Kenneth.
Nobody has a bigger supporter than
Nobody is a bigger supporter of an athlete
than you are of Colton.
Everybody in the world should find someone
who loves them as much as Kenneth loves
Colton.
It would make us all a big, happy,
loving family.
So the other thing I have to,
I have to a one o'clock meeting today.
So I'm going to keep this a little
bit shorter today.
Corey sent me.
Water actually isn't wet.
It just makes other things wet.
There's always that one person,
always that one person.
Yeah.
the ring doorbell camera we talked about
yesterday corey sent me a post apparently
i am not the only one freaking out
about this there are several people
freaking out about this technology and the
ai cluster of ring doorbell cameras able
to find your lost dog um ring came
out and said
just like Vicki did yesterday,
that it is an exclusively you have to
opt in to get this thing.
In addition,
it is only to be used on animals.
Now,
if it can find an animal using AI,
how far of a stretch are we until
that becomes a human?
I am very,
very reluctant to think this is a good
thing.
Again, yesterday I said,
this is very person of interest.
The TV show person of interest for me.
I it's,
it's like the beginning of that big
brother, somebody watching and, um,
collecting that data to know everybody's,
uh, every single move.
Um,
I am just not a fan of this
at all.
At AI,
I got rid of ring and blink a
long time ago.
IT nerd here.
Local storage only.
Yeah.
Yeah,
I have a blink and I'm really seriously
considering disconnecting it.
But it's not my doorbell camera that's
going to see me.
It's going to be my neighbor's ring or
blank doorbell camera that sees me.
And that's what sucks.
That's what sucks.
They can already find people,
cars using traffic cams and facial ID.
This is just using people's home systems
to do the same.
It just goes,
like when you're on a public highway,
I get it.
You're out there and you're exposed.
When I'm mowing my lawn,
I don't want people seeing me.
I don't know.
It just is,
it feels way more voyeuristic than driving
down a public highway to being filmed in
your front yard.
It's such a, such a mess.
Uh, clock says,
I heard the British also don't think the
sky is blue.
They swear it's gray.
Yeah.
If you missed the beginning of the show,
Lito already told us that the sky is
gray.
Um, they have not,
they've only seen the sun for three point
five seconds this calendar year.
Um,
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um ed ai says it's also great in
seattle what is sun yeah uh corey says
it's a lovely day in south louisiana sunny
in yeah i'm taking i'll take my fifty
degrees man it it's been a long time
so
Did you guys see that the CrossFit L
four, the relaunch,
the new video version of the L four
sold out in like fifteen minutes,
fifteen or twenty minutes.
I saw comments that like nobody needs
this.
It's such a select group.
CrossFit isn't growing,
so they shouldn't be worried about these
niche things.
If you put out something and it sells
out in fifteen or twenty minutes,
probably should do it.
Probably should do it.
Probably means there was a demand for that
thing.
If you're selling it out in fifteen or
twenty minutes, people really wanted it.
Um...
They already have a wait list available.
So if people cancel,
you can grab a spot if you had
didn't get in on the initial sale.
But they they only have the capacity to
do so many at a time.
And then I'm sure they'll reopen for some
other things.
Craig Pastley says that is great news.
It is.
Anytime you have a product that you can
put out to the public and sell in.
And not have any more to sell.
That's a good thing.
I don't care what business you're in.
That's a good thing.
Demand is greater than the inventory that
you have.
And that's awesome.
Um,
Last thing I'm going to share with you
This is from Mike Halpin's Instagram
account.
This was as of yesterday.
We are currently sitting at ninety seven
thousand five hundred and forty six people
signed up for the open.
We're almost to that hundred thousand
registrations.
Then this was as of yesterday.
I don't know where we are today,
but that is an increase of thirty eight
point four percent over last year.
Going into this year's Open,
so many people predicted that it would
actually be lower than last year.
I am happy to say it is not
lower than last year.
It is actually growing and doing well.
Now,
Halpin also points out on his next slide
that twenty-two, twenty-three,
and twenty-four had more than a hundred
thousand by this point.
Now that's great that that happened,
but something happened in twenty four that
created a backslide on that.
And we all know it.
So I don't think it needs to be
pointed out.
We all know we're fighting against twenty
twenty five and growing off of that.
Twenty four happened.
We had a death in the family and
now we're trying to move forward.
Yesterday we saw a huge dip because or
last year we saw a huge dip because
people were affected by that death.
Now it's trying to rebuild,
get through the grieving process,
and keep going forward.
So that's what we should be judging on,
not pre the death in the family.
So I'm super proud of what CrossFit has
put out from a media marketing sense to
get the interest out there.
I think a lot of the third-party media
have chipped in
To give more people the the news that
it's out there sharing their stories doing
their thing,
and I think that that has been a
tremendous effort throughout the space um.
So.
Super pumped.
Great numbers.
Hopefully we're already over a hundred
thousand signups,
but hopefully we'll find out.
I wish I knew a way where I
could pull those numbers and have them up
to date,
but I'll keep watching for more updates to
see where we are and keep you guys
updated along the way.
Well, today's been fun.
Sorry it's a little bit shorter show,
but I have to get off.
I have a meeting at one o'clock,
ten minutes from now.
So I have to go up and get
signed into that.
Hope you guys have a great rest of
your day.
I got to get back to work.
You knuckleheads get back to work too.
And we'll see everybody next time.
Don't forget to like and subscribe to the
channel.
With that, have a great day.
We'll see everybody tomorrow on lunch.
Oh, tonight.
Sunday night CrossFit on a Tuesday night.
Tonight.
Tonight.
We'll be live tonight,
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Bye, guys.