Welcome back to Holy Spirit of Gravel: The Podcast, the only gravel podcast willing to say out loud what everyone else is whispering into their Wahoo head units: Did Lifetime just deal Gravel Earth a quiet, corporate deathblow… or are we finally watching two gravel series split into their true identities?

LTGP came out with a star studded female line up and a unknown-ish euro coded male line up (simon pellaud coded if you will). Will the most talented roster ever live up to its name?

People are dogging on Gravel Earth series right now but is it a bit too early to pile on?

Does any of it even matter because we are just two normies (out of many) who will watch anything presented to us anyway and find ways to talk about it while also bringing up Chase Wark regularly?

Lifetime rolls out the prize purse, the infrastructure, the media machine… and suddenly half the hitters are signing NDAs and smiling for drone shots. Meanwhile, Gravel Earth is posting artsy European B-roll and hoping the Americans remember how passports work.

We’ll break down:

• Europeans invading Leadville like it’s a cultural exchange program with altitude sickness

• Americans descending on Traka trying to cosplay as Girona locals

• Gravel Worlds deciding it might actually be Unbound’s real rival… and not just the quirky cousin

• BWR quietly sharpening knives

• And unaffiliated races like Mid South whispering, “You know we were cooler before everyone started chasing series points, right?”

  
  

  Plus:

  • Our totally not-actionable new bike pitches for Scott

  • The Dylan Johnson backlash, which is the gravel version of a bar fight in a Whole Foods parking lot

  • Privateers telling their fanbases to stand down in the comments like they’re running a militia

  • The Rift being spiritually annexed by Cuckoo Gravel, whether it likes it or not

  • And Holy Spirit of Gravel reminding everyone that she “DMs everyone,” but still refusing to say what those spicy insider messages actually contain. Classified. Sealed. Buried under the dangerous feed zone that everyone hates but actively contributes to its potentiality for disaster.