Japan GP Preview, Final Four Predictions,

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign. [00:00:04] Speaker B: Guys, we are back. Fun stuff to talk about today. We'll be commenting as the Laker game against Golden State is finishing up live. So there won't be any spoilers because you already know what's happening. But you'll be catching my reaction. I'm not in a good mood right now watching this game. That's all I gotta say. All right. They look, they look a little sleepy tonight. Granted, warriors really need this one tonight, but today we're going to talk F1 first. Then we'll get into the final four. And unless there's like anything else you guys want to put your two cents in. Like Sohail Ohtani with the walk off home run against Aaron's Braves. That was so beautiful, baby. Baseball's back and I'm loving it. I looked up daughter tickets and they're expensive as hell. [00:00:56] Speaker A: I mean, I thought you wanted to talk about the first place White Sox in the most competitive division in baseball, the AL Central. [00:01:02] Speaker B: Dude, are they Rome? [00:01:04] Speaker A: It's a, it's, it's a, it's a four way tie for first. You got four teams, two and four. [00:01:09] Speaker B: Two and four. Oh, Jesus. Yeah, that's tight. So they lost two more games since, since we last been on. [00:01:15] Speaker A: Yeah, but they're still in first place. [00:01:17] Speaker B: Hey, first place along. As long as it's all competitive. [00:01:20] Speaker A: I guess they're the only team in the division with a positive run differential. Man, you know, we're ready for a run. [00:01:26] Speaker B: That's really important. I, I like that stat. Stat of the day there from Jason on his White Sox. I imagine we'd be talking about a lot of White Sox this year if they win like one or two games every week, right? [00:01:37] Speaker A: Oh, 100%, man. I mean that's, that's one or two more games than a year ago. [00:01:44] Speaker B: Yeah, we'll have to do over unders on that one for sure. [00:01:51] Speaker C: I believe they're what their win loss total was 59 and a half for the White Sox. [00:01:56] Speaker B: Ah, that's actually a pretty good number. A lot of people have last year. [00:02:00] Speaker C: Well, they lost 121 games last year. Or 123. What was it? Something like that. [00:02:05] Speaker B: So they won 30. I can't do math. I think 38. [00:02:08] Speaker A: I think they won four, 41 games and they were 41 and 121. [00:02:12] Speaker B: Yeah, I like them to win like 55. That sounds pretty good. [00:02:17] Speaker C: I think they'll win. I said they would lose less than 100 games, so I'll stand by that. [00:02:21] Speaker A: I'm good for Aaron, I'm glad we didn't do over unders because I'll tell you, I probably would have just been down on the White Sox and taking the under. But I think Aaron's right. I think they hit the over. But I would have been really wrong on Aaron's Braves right now because I would have picked them as a contender. But damn, they look bad. [00:02:37] Speaker C: They do look bad right now. [00:02:39] Speaker B: It's unfortunate. Right. When we do over under, it's going to be like two weeks in. [00:02:42] Speaker C: I don't know. [00:02:43] Speaker B: These could turn around. [00:02:44] Speaker C: Well, I don't have what they're over under was for the season to start for the Braves. But yeah, not a good start. Not basically. Major League Baseball did him no favors traveling all the way out to the west coast after spring training in Florida. Terrible job by Major League Baseball and the scheduling for that. [00:02:59] Speaker B: Well, back to back, dude, you got the Padres and you got the Dodgers. That sucks. [00:03:04] Speaker C: You can say what you want about The Braves being 0 and 7. They have sucked. The two teams they played are the only end up being teams in baseball currently right now in the Dodgers and Padres. [00:03:13] Speaker B: Yeah, arguably to the best team suits. [00:03:15] Speaker C: Give Otani credit. That was a great pitch. Not a bad off the plate in a ball and he hits it out. [00:03:20] Speaker B: Of the park on bobblehead night. It was his bobblehead night. [00:03:23] Speaker C: I think it's. I think it's more in the bat than the man. I think it's that torpedo bat. [00:03:27] Speaker B: But he doesn't use it. He doesn't use it. [00:03:30] Speaker C: They say they didn't gamble on sports either, but I don't buy it. [00:03:33] Speaker B: This guy. Week two, the hate is strong from Aaron Tolar. Man, I am loving it. [00:03:39] Speaker A: I mean, you got to feel sorry for the, for the San Francisco Giants. I think they're off to their best start in like, I don't know, 15, 20 years through six games and they're in third place in the division. [00:03:49] Speaker B: That's a tough division, dude, but that. [00:03:51] Speaker C: Is a good division. Arizona's playing good baseball too. Colorado sucks, but they got to bring my boy Zach Veena from the Miners. He's ready to go on my team. He's ready. I'm ready to get him in my lineup. Just give him the call. [00:04:03] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:04:04] Speaker C: Jason over there, first place there, right? I think I saw you in first place. [00:04:08] Speaker A: I was in third. I don't know if. I don't know if I knocked up the first. I gotta. [00:04:12] Speaker C: We'll see. I think I saw you in first right now. [00:04:15] Speaker A: Yeah, we'll just Wait, man. Suarez and my, my, you know, a couple guys on my team going off early. So offense is looking good. Pitching looking little shaky. My guy Harrington, good thing I didn't call him up for the minors because his first start wasn't good for the Pirates. So hopefully they send him back down, we can get him brought up back up in the middle of the season. [00:04:33] Speaker C: Yeah, I was wondering like, wait, like, why are you asking me about a minor? I'm like, oh, okay, yeah. You, you got this guy in the minor league draft. [00:04:39] Speaker B: Miner. [00:04:42] Speaker C: I got that bonus yesterday. I hit that little bonus. [00:04:45] Speaker A: That's a good, it's a good bonus. [00:04:47] Speaker C: A good bonus. [00:04:47] Speaker A: They're probably Rome. You're probably wondering what we're talking about. I mean, you know, one of the most conf. Competitive Fantasy Leagues ever. NL only 10 team league. Aaron invited me to. You know, it's got a, a legacy of history in the, a bunch of the unique goofy rules of this league. You get bonuses based off certain things in the league. So if a player. Yeah, yeah. Player hits three home runs in a game, everyone's got to pay the man. So Aaron had a guy go off yesterday for three home runs. So the rest of us in the league gotta pay. Aaron. [00:05:16] Speaker B: I kind of like that rule. It's kind of fun. [00:05:18] Speaker A: It is. It saved me a ton of money last year and did it. And no lie, Aaron would kind of let me know when I had a random guy go off. He'd always kind of pay. He's like, hey, you might want to check out so and so on your team. Ah, three home run bonus. [00:05:31] Speaker B: Nice. [00:05:33] Speaker C: Yep. Yep. Well, we've had. So you can get bonuses or you can get what we call a reverse bonus. If your players do so bad, you actually have to pay out players. So we actually had in the first game of the season, a guy struck out five times. That's reverse bonus where you have to have to pay out 10 bucks to each owner. So those get expensive. [00:05:51] Speaker B: That'd be kind of nice if they did that like for real, like you haven't been worth that 50 million dollar contract at the Senate backs, you know, back. [00:06:00] Speaker A: It would never happen. But if pro sports really worked like that, all the stuff was incented laden for these guys. It'd be, it'd be a hell of a, hell of a test on the effort that's put out for these guys if they had to like if stats counted like that. [00:06:12] Speaker B: I want to turn to like Hunger Games for pro athletes. They make a lot of money now. Like let's spice up the intensity a little bit. I kind of like that rule. [00:06:21] Speaker A: I mean, baseball would be interesting. I think basketball, just off the top of my head might be the most interesting given how much load management and saving throughout the regular seasons these guys, if they were going for, man, I need to get this max out bonus to get points and rebounds and all this type of stuff. I think you'd see. You'd see some much more competitive games throughout the year, but you know. [00:06:41] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean you'd have to do bonuses, what points, minutes, games played. Yeah, that would be. It'd be interesting. But I, I don't ever see the NBA ever agreeing to anything like that. [00:06:54] Speaker A: 100 not. And we say that as guys on a podcast right now, but if it was our job and we were paid day to day based on our performance, I don't think we'd like it either. So could I totally understand the player never wanting to give that up. [00:07:07] Speaker B: I kind of do get paid on my performance. You know, I'm not selling those expensive Bordeaux. [00:07:12] Speaker A: That's. That's true. That's true. I don't. So, you know, I, I have my guaranteed salary every week, so I want to keep that. You know, this guy, you still got. [00:07:22] Speaker C: You still got to show up. And being present, you still gotta be. [00:07:25] Speaker A: I gotta be present. You know, there's no love. [00:07:28] Speaker C: You don't have to be on your A game all the time. [00:07:30] Speaker A: Not all the time. I mean, I mean, if I'm not, you know, there, there, you know, there, you know, it's. There is. There is a next day. I do have to. Have to talk through building performance, you know, but, you know, whatever. But. [00:07:42] Speaker B: All right, let's get into it. That's a nice little intro. Let's talk F1. It's a Japan Grand Prix this weekend, Saturday night for us at 10:00. Yes, 10:00pm not midnight. It's the Suzuka circuit. It is one that I believe Max Verstappen has won back to back to back the last three years. He's also won pole positioning, I think, in the last two years. And it's also the only circuit, or the only track in F1 that features a figure 8 track. So lots of interesting turns and, and twists in there. I also was reading up how they recently repaved a portion of the track. So it's going to be a lot more grittier. Not sure if, I guess last year a lot of people either did like a 2 pit stop or a 3. The two seem to be a lot better, but with the Tires, different things in play. It could be in play that there might be a, you know, a little bit more pit stops in this version. But everyone's gonna find out as. As we kick things off, but just Japan Grand Prix this weekend. Do you guys know who the favorite is right now? [00:09:02] Speaker A: Aaron, you were looking those up, right? [00:09:04] Speaker C: Yeah. So Lando Norris is the favorite with his teammate, Oscar. Those are the one two in the odds. One, two, Yeah, I believe I'll give you the third. I think verstappen was number three on that list. He was, yes. Followed by Russell, and then you got Lewis, Charles and Lewis. So, yeah, that's. That's her top six favorite guys to win. [00:09:35] Speaker B: Yeah. Silver stapping has one of the last three. Lewis Hamilton has dominated in the past on this track. He last one here in 2018 when he was with mercedes. And then McLaren, they've been two, three. They've done pretty well the last few years as well. Getting some pretty decent points on this one. What do you guys. Or Jason, since you're the main F1 guy, how do you want to break this down, like, kick things off for this one? [00:10:03] Speaker A: Yeah, you know, kind of looking at it. Aaron talked about the odds with it. You look at McLaren, we're recording after the first practice. Before the second practice, Lando Norris had the fastest lap. So no doubt the McLaren's probably favored. Norris potentially looking like the fastest one here after piastri had, you know, the better Chinese grand Prix. You know, they're probably odds on favorite to finish. One, two. The biggest op. The biggest story I think to follow this week is going to be Ferrari's performance. I think given the double disqualification at the Chinese grand prix, Kind of the underwhelming performance in Australia. Australia, this was the team picked to kind of contend with McLaren for the constructors title, Given that Red Bull had taken the step back throughout 2024. Mercedes was kind of lingering last year, but, like, never really was kind of a big threat. Ferrari was in kind of that 1, 2, 3 spot with red bull and really charging at the end of the season with some really good performance from leclaire. And signs adding Hamilton to the lineup. You know, talked about that in the last couple weeks in the pod. This is supposed to be, you know, the time for, you know, Hamilton to kind of to get the better car that he hadn't had in mercedes the past three, four years. And leclaire had already been performing well. And they were going to be the team to challenge, you know, the constructors champion last year, McLaren. So two races in. And when you're looking at the standings right now from, you know, the constructor standpoint, you know, Ferrari sitting fifth right now, they're behind Williams in the constructor standings. So, you know, you know, are tied with WILLIAMS actually at 17 points right now. So, you know, Mercedes has kind of been, you know, the kind of the surprise team so far this year, given in that Russell has been fairly consistent towards the top of the top of the grid at the end. And Kimi Anonelli, I think we're going to be talking about him a ton this year in his rookie season and potentially years to come, is, hey, this is. This is the next phenom. This is the next Verstappen or Hamilton. That's going to be kind of the legacy guy. But I don't think anyone expected them to be second place through two races right now. Will they have the car to sustain? You know, don't know. They didn't have it last year. Do they find a little something in this last year of the regulations if they can? You know, you're expecting kind of throwing Kimi into the lineup as a rookie that he wasn't, you know, you're gonna have your ups and downs as a rookie as he, you know, goes to tracks he potentially has never gone to before, learns the F1 car, which is a lot bigger than the F2 car, and you obviously has way more horsepower inside of it, so a lot to go through. So I think the pressure going back to it really on Ferrari, because if they're going to have a chance at catching McLaren, they got to keep up in this. They're going to have to win some races. And it's going to be on the qualifying performances, too, because they're. They need to be leading the field and kind of get out in front and kind of maintain that league and have the right strategy for what they're going to do. So Rome, you talked about, you know, the repaving in certain spots of the places. What's the tire degradation is going to be, what's the strategy? If you go to historic F1 stuff, like in recent memory, Ferrari is like, it's known as just messing up the strategy. Like they can't get out of their own way. It's just like, you know, you. You live to be a Ferrari fan because of the legacy brand, but they're just going to break your heart. And we saw a little bit in the first race when we talked about Mercedes strategy and, you know, do we pit? Do we not pit when the rain Came out and they messed that whole thing up and ended up finishing way lower on the grid compared to the McLarens and Red Bulls and, and or George Russell in that race. So I, I think a lot of pressure on Mercedes. I know Lewis Hamilton hasn't really been stressing about it that hey, we're going to kind of find the way. They look better in China. He won the sprint and they unfortunately got disqualified. But they really need to keep pace. I, I think they gotta at least get one of these guys on the podium if they can finish right behind them. And if they can, one of them can get ahead of a couple of them. You know, one at one of the McLarens would be even better. But I think it's going to dictate a lot on, on the qualifying performance. Tire degradation on this track. You know, we'll see. The Chinese Grand Prix, it was one that hey was supposed to beat up the tires and it did a little bit, but I think it wasn't as bad as they thought. If you go into this, you mentioned the figure 8 on this Rome, like the first turn into the second, third and fourth turn. It's a bunch of windy, you know, right in a hard kind of like a, almost to a U. You know, you go up a hill to the side, you're really banking the tires a lot. So you can really wear on the tires very quickly depending on where on, you know, where you're at in the car. And so it's, it's going to, there's some long speed straights into some hairpins that, you know, really can be kind of unpredictable. So I think there's a lot going into this race, but I'm going to put it on. Ferrari is the most pressure to really have a breakout performance. [00:14:42] Speaker C: How did Ferrari test in the practice? How they doing that? [00:14:46] Speaker A: Yeah, so if you looked at the practice, Lando, Lando was the fastest in practice, but Ferrari was third. And was it third and fourth? Yeah, they were third and fourth. So you know, they had leclerc in third and Hamilton in fourth. As far as the fastest lap perspective, George Russell finished second. So, so it's up there. I think they definitely got the speed. You know, Piastri was the one, I'm gonna be honest, didn't watch. But Piastri was down at 15th. I don't know if they're trying something different from a setup, from a car perspective. The first practice really doesn't give you the best indicator on where things are at. You'll probably see more tonight in the second practice. And what the speed is. But, but I, I like them in that. I think Red Bull, if you're talking about, you know, what they have to prove in this race, that's where all the drama's at is, is Red Bull right now. So I think we talked about it on Monday a little bit. At the end of the pod, they made the driver switch to Yuki Sonoda and switched in Liam Lawson back to the, to the racing Bulls car. Ton of drama on that. Max Verstappen, you know, liked a former racer's post as far as like Red Bull needs to get it together with kind of their stuff. And that was on Instagram and Max was it. Yeah, Max didn't lie in the air. He's like, no, I liked it. So obviously given the point, the points that were made on. And I agreed with it because I like the post and it was like, oh, okay. So there hasn't, there hasn't been a ton of love loss with, with Max Verstappen and the Red Bull kind of management there. There's been a lot of hostility in 2024 last year with a lot of the drama surrounding Christian Horner, the team principal and some of the kind of extracurricular outside activities that were taking place. That was a ton of drama around Christian Horner and you know, a female staffer and an investigation going into him last year that was sur team and then they lost one of their main engineers midway season. That has now gone to Aston Martin and then Red Bull. The Red Bull racing programs kind of driver development person. I, you know, I don't know what his official title with Red bullet is, but Dr. Helmet Marco. You'll hear this guy's name a lot if you're kind of an L. F1 circle. So he basically is in the driver development thing for Red Bull. So he, you know, kind of, you know, grooms these guys from the ground up. You know, he'll. He used part of Verstappen's upbringing, Sebastian Vettel, which is another four time F1 world champion for Red Bull, who was kind of was the first driver to put Red Bull on the map. He kind of developed him. He is a very outspoken person and he talks a lot of crap on a lot of these drivers. So he was very critical of a lot of the outgoing Red Bull drivers and kind of where they're at. He really doesn't hold back. But I think a lot of times the things he's putting out there really creates a ton of drama for Red Bull behind the scenes, for everyone outside of her stapping because he's just very critical on people's performance. I know if you're looking at Isaac Hazer, which we talk, which is the other racing bulls driver, he was the guy who crashed in the kind of the warm up lap at Australian Grand Prix and he was crying and emotional about it and he basically said that was embarrassing. How dare you cry and this and that. And so he, he doesn't give any BS like he talks through but man he, he really lays it on these guys and you know, in just interviews he'll just be talking straight, which is cool and all, but I think adds a ton of the drama in the Red Bull side of like kind of what's going on. So I think all eyes will be on, on Red Bull and where they're at. Yuki Sonoda, home Grand Prix in Japan basically was you know, a Honda kind of push driver through the Honda program. This is Red Bull's last year with Honda and so this, this is a big race for Yuki. He was sixth in practice right behind Verstappen who was fifth. And Yuki's had, you know, had some good, pretty successful races in the racing bulls car the first two race. So now you give him what's supposed to be the better car in the main Red Bull seat. You know this is, this could potentially make Red Bull a little bit more competitive because Liam Lawson had not been the answer. [00:18:38] Speaker C: I think it's a big weekend for Red Bull. I think they're going to race well this weekend. I think Verstappen's got a really good chance of winning this thing and Yuki's gonna, he's gonna race well too. So I, I expect them both to finish in the top 10, if not both top 5. I expect a big, big race weekend from Red Bull this week. Japan and Grand Prix. [00:19:01] Speaker B: Cheez. Going back to the tire wear, I guess Pirelli always uses their hardest trio of compounds for this track. Allegedly this is the hardest track out of all the circuits. That really wears down the tire. So it'll be interesting. In the past it's been two, two to three pit stops. Jason, do you think it's going to lean with, with the potential wear and tear is going to lean more towards three. And then with all the crazy hairpins and, and the sneakiness, the probability for a safety car is pretty high on this one. [00:19:39] Speaker A: Yeah, I, I think definitely when you're looking in the first class, first lap going into the first turn, I think that's where you definitely can see, can see a lot drivers making an aggressive move. How many go wide into that? Yeah, I don't know because I mean it is the harder track but the Chinese Grand Prix was hard too and that was a low pit stop too. These guys really stretch the, stretch the times right now. So does it, is it only a two stop race? You know, because some of these tracks, man, they're just doing one stop races and really tell them, you know, having them massage the tires and they get into a groove and they're making longer runs than expected. So you could see some teams making some gamble here and just go for the lower stop strategy. Especially maybe some of the lower, the lower performance teams. Maybe like a team like Williams, Carlos Signs, you know, has a lot of, you know, has a lot of strength and kind of making tires last. That's really what Lewis Hamilton's kind of, you know, kind of what he's prided a lot of his career on is being able to, to maintain some of these runs. So I think you get some teams aggressive and, and not wanting to, you know, because that's basically when you look at it it's a, it's a 20 was the official. It's about a 20 to 25 second extra, you know, times you're going to put on your race. You know, is the stop worth the speed? You're losing in some of the longer runs and they're using the harder compound. You expect them, you know, to try to get you know, a long stretch in the hardest compound. Whatever they choose is the hards looking in that first practice, you know, they obviously were getting a lot of the hards and the mediums in into that. So you'll probably see you know, two stops with trying to get two hard compounds in a medium potentially. But it'll be interesting. I think it'll play into it but I think it'll be extremely important on who gets the pole and is able to kind of get out in front, get the clean air and have them run their race and not have to, you know, wear out tires and some of these tight turners where the passing is at. [00:21:32] Speaker B: I guess with this being the in Japan, Tsunoda is getting lots of love. It's a sellout crowd and I guess giving like a lot of Japanese fans a lot to cheer for. Do you guys know how many Japanese drivers have won an F1 race before? [00:21:49] Speaker A: Total F1's race or just the Japanese Grand Prix? [00:21:52] Speaker B: Total F1 races? [00:21:54] Speaker A: Who? It's a trick question because it's zero. [00:22:01] Speaker B: Yeah, it's zero. [00:22:03] Speaker A: Okay. [00:22:05] Speaker C: None of the above. [00:22:06] Speaker B: Yeah. There has been three Japanese drivers who have placed on the podium. They're all third place finishes. Last one coming in 2004 from Takuma Sato who won a couple Indianapolis five hundreds. But that's it though. A lot of people like Tsunoda because I guess he's really quick. He's known for his speed, especially with the racing bulls on, on, on the lower circuit. So a lot of people like his chances to make some noise this year as a rookie. [00:22:36] Speaker C: Yeah, I'd agree with that. Now that he's joined up with the team Red Bull off the racing bulls team, I think, I think he's gonna have a good weekend, man. Top five. I think he's gonna finish top five finish. [00:22:48] Speaker B: A top five finish. How about Hamilton? [00:22:50] Speaker C: Not in the top five. [00:22:52] Speaker B: I feel like this, the race he breaks out in, I think Ferrari's. [00:22:56] Speaker C: I think Ferrari is going to continue to struggle. I think Mercedes, McLaren and Red Bull are going to be the big winners this weekend. [00:23:05] Speaker A: Interesting. Yeah, I, I put it out there. I think Ferrari gets the comeback. You know, they're generally going to go through. I think one of the Ferraris is on the podium is going to depend which one is going to be quicker in qualifying. Likely probably lean. Charles LeClaire probably on this a little bit. I think Hamilton's in the top five. I think you get. Yeah, I think you're probably going to give the two McLarens, the two Ferraris and then, you know, probably Max maybe on there. But I think, I think Yuki's going to be competitive, you know, being, I mean he could be in there in the mix with Max. We'll see. No one has really challenged Max, you know, on the Red Bull side really ever since Max's kind of first couple years when Daniel Ricardo was the number one driver and Max was making his way up. Sergio Perez won a few races a few years ago early on in kind of Red Bull's most dominant fashion in 2023 when they won all but one race. And Perez I think went two of the races that year. But Max has never had the driver. It's been, it's been said. I don't, I don't know if Lewis said this or something like that, but there's never been a championship driver in the number two seed at Red Bull. No one has challenged Max. He's had, you know, he's just kind of had a good solid backup where Lewis had Nico Rosberg, which was. He won a world championship on his own. When you look at the McLarens back in the day with Senna and pros both world champions inside of it. You know, Max kind of like Michael Schumacher with Ferrari back in the day where you know, many people probably couldn't name Schumacher second driver where he just. Schumacher dominated with the seven championships and didn't have that, you know, guy that's pushing him with the same equipment. So we'll see. Yuki, super aggressive, talented driver. A lot of it was really just about his preparation and stuff. If you're to believe what you saw and drive to survive. Does he go that kind of extra mile? Is he willing to work out and do the couple extra things to be great, but has just the raw talent and ability behind the wheel. We talked in the, I don't know, last episode or something about the, the difference in the Red Bull setup versus some of the racing bull setup where the red, the Red Bull car has a very kind of minimal tolerance. Alex Albon, I may have talked to the previous spot but gave a great interview for like down to the layman's on this. But if you ever played a racing game you can kind of go like and you can change kind of the sensitivity of like the steering wheel and the way the car reacts. And his description of is the way Max sets up that car and the way it's set up is it, it's the highest sensitivity. It's just extremely difficult to drive because when it's, when it's driven well, it's the peak of perfection. But the window is like super small to get there. So if you aren't crisp around this stuff, this is where potentially Lawson was at. Potentially where Sergio Perez lost the confidence. It's a hard car to drive, you know, versus like a regular car. And that's like the reputation around it. And so that I think that's the best layman's terms you can drive through when, when Alex Albon was driving through. So can Yuki. He's got the experience and the racing bulls car, you know, does that kind of translate and where he's at in this race? But I, I like him. It's going to be, we talked about free agent year for Yuki. He puts this out and he does have a good performance in this year. You know, he's either getting paid as the number two Red Bull driver potentially and they found their long term solution or he's a free agent and could he be Cadillac's driver next year? Could he be, you know, somebody else team that's looking for, you know, a driver with a ton of upper potential. [00:26:35] Speaker B: A few last things. I guess there's like some history in the making. Hamilton is second with five wins here and the Japan Japan Grand Prix behind Schumacher. Verstappen has three, so he's looking inch closer to him. Same with the polls. Verstappen's itching closer to Hamilton. He has three already for the. From the past three years. Hamilton has for a total spanning 10 years at the spot. So should be pretty interesting if Hamilton can break through with his new team. Be fun. I guess. They dress up in costumes over there in Japan and make it like a pretty big show. Like they're out drinking all night long. It's like a wild like Mardi Gras type of atmosphere, I guess. [00:27:22] Speaker C: Like a little rush hour at the casino vibe going on or what. [00:27:27] Speaker B: Dude, I've been seeing so many rush hour clips, especially with the Dodgers, like LA fans walking the Dodger Stadium, you know. You know the Clip. [00:27:36] Speaker A: Yeah, I know the Clip. [00:27:41] Speaker B: That's why all the daughter tickets are so expensive. I was hoping to take my daughter this weekend. I'm like, I'm not paying 200 bucks to go see the Cubs. [00:27:47] Speaker C: Are you. You mean. [00:27:49] Speaker A: I mean, that's. I. It's. The Cubs are too. The Cubs are a hot ticket too. That's like one of the things you go. You got. You had all. All of my fellow former Chicagoans who, who move out here, you know, they make the Cubs a hot ticket everywhere here too. [00:28:01] Speaker B: I like going to the Cubs games here. But yeah, it's Freddie Freeman bobblehead night on Friday and you gotta go to. [00:28:09] Speaker C: The Sacramento A's, man. The ball's flying out of that park over there, man. A lot of runs being scored. [00:28:15] Speaker A: Is it? [00:28:16] Speaker B: I've never been to Sacramento actually. The. The eight years I've been here. I probably driven through once to go to Tahoe. But. [00:28:23] Speaker C: Yeah, because I like Sac Woman. I like Sacramento. [00:28:26] Speaker B: Yeah, you like Sacktown? I like. That's your kind of. It sounds like you're kind of. [00:28:29] Speaker C: I liked it. [00:28:30] Speaker B: It's like a suburb, but a city. [00:28:31] Speaker A: I went to Sacramento a while back for work. Went to a restaurant downtown Sacramento, and the mayor was eating dinner there. Do you know the former mayor of Sacramento, Aaron? [00:28:44] Speaker B: The basketball player? [00:28:45] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:28:46] Speaker C: Kevin Johnson. [00:28:47] Speaker A: It was. Yeah. So across the table a little bit. You know, the mayor. The mayor was eating there. So it was. It was interesting town. So, yeah, I, I think Sacramento too. That. That may be a. That may be a good road trip there to get to that ballpark there. That's an easy flight up and down. [00:29:02] Speaker B: Yeah. Be fine. I just never wanted to Move up there. You know, I figured I'll be living there one day anyways. All right, let's take a quick break. When we come back, final four. [00:29:15] Speaker C: Well, we didn't. We didn't say who we thought was going to win the Japanese grand prix. I mean, who's Jason got? [00:29:20] Speaker B: And you're up my segues here. Go ahead, aaron. [00:29:23] Speaker A: Oh, man. [00:29:24] Speaker C: I mean, I. We. We did everything except to give the winner. I mean. [00:29:27] Speaker B: All right, well, Yuri kind of told us who. Who he thought's gonna win, you know. [00:29:32] Speaker C: Who did I say was gonna win? [00:29:34] Speaker B: You said, I don't remember, dude. [00:29:37] Speaker C: He said, yeah, Verstappen's gonna win, Russell second, and Lando third. That's my. That's my podium. [00:29:43] Speaker B: And then you got the Japanese rookie. [00:29:46] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:29:47] Speaker B: Top five. [00:29:47] Speaker C: Yeah, I got him. Yeah. [00:29:49] Speaker A: I think it's tough not to go chalk in this. I think Lando's going to win the race. I really think this is going to be a lot his year. I think you're going to get a Ferrari on the podium. I think it's probably going to be charles. So I'll say you're going to get Lando, Charles and piastri as your podium. [00:30:08] Speaker B: I'm going to go a Ferrari. I'm going to go team here for podium. I'm leaning towards Hamilton to win. I will go with lando to get second McLaren. And then I'm gonna go with Albon to get third. Wow. [00:30:32] Speaker A: Wow. Okay. All right. [00:30:34] Speaker B: He's been. He's been driving pretty well. And, you know, they're doing some things over there. So. You mentioned, Jason, the middle of the pact. It's gonna be really tough. You know, it's a lot of tough competition. Outside of alpine. I think they're, like, dead last. So. Yeah, I think maybe albon maybe gets lucky on this one. [00:30:51] Speaker A: I. I like Albon. Like, I mean, he. He was the. He was the one that. I thought red bull, you know, in your red bull history would have been Max's number two. And he's been a really good driver on that team. Hasn't had it. I think the extra competition with signs this year in Williams. I mean, I. I think Williams is going to finish fifth in the constructors this year, which, you know, doesn't sound great if you're an F1 novice, but, you know, that's. That's big time for Williams to jump up in there. I think they pass Aston Martin. I think the big four, when it comes to McLaren, Ferrari, Mercedes, rebel, the top four. I think you're going to be between Williams, Aston Martin, maybe hos, but I really think it's Williams and Aston Martin for fifth and six Alpine. We'll see. Last year, they got, I don't say lucky, but they had a double podium late last year in Brazil because of the rain and stuff going on there. And that really jumped them out of the Constructors where they had a really bad car all year. So we'll see on that. But, yeah, Albon like that pick. I like Alex. I like Alex Albon a lot. [00:31:53] Speaker C: Yeah, I like him, too. And I'll agree with Jason. I think Team Williams is going to get, you know, fifth place in the Constructors Cup. I think they can get that. [00:32:01] Speaker B: All right, take two. When we come back, Final Four. Don't go anywhere. Time for a little basketball preview. For the Final Four, we'll predominantly do men's. I'll briefly touch on the women's. Got my favorite picks already locked in for that one, but it all kicks off. [00:32:26] Speaker A: Y'all. Y'all done eating over there? Rome? [00:32:28] Speaker B: I think I'm done eating these. So I'll see about doing, like, these YouTube videos where I just, you know, just try all the new Trader Joe's snacks. You know, there's some fire ones and these are pretty good. Slightly coated dark chocolate almonds. It says it's a thin layer of dark chocolate and dosed it with cocoa and sea salt, but nice. It's not. It's not sweet. Five grams of protein. Ignore everything else. I take it you try to do. [00:33:02] Speaker A: One of those pods. I forgot what the thing is where just people listen to the different sounds people make when they. When they eat or whatever. [00:33:08] Speaker B: Like some more. I hate them. I hate them. I hate them. My sister sent me that all the time. Just like. I'm not listening to this. Or like they just crinkle their nails or open packages. It's annoying. I don't get. It's not relaxing and pissing me off. Shut the up, you know, I agree with you, Rome. [00:33:28] Speaker C: I agree with you. [00:33:29] Speaker A: No, I agree, too. I just didn't know. He's gonna try to start a YouTube channel of him just trying snacks and stuff. [00:33:34] Speaker B: Yeah. Just like people hearing me chew. [00:33:37] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't know. I mean, Romero and the joke during the break, you know, Rome's trying to be Brad Pitt for motions 11. That's the thing. He just wants to look. [00:33:45] Speaker B: That's his name. [00:33:46] Speaker A: Yeah, he's just. He wants. He wants to be. He wants to be rusty, you know, in. In ocean old 11. Just looking super cool, standing off the side. I'm just gonna eat these dark chocolate covered almonds and just stare out and, you know, plan the heist of the Bellagio. The MGM Grand. [00:34:01] Speaker B: You're absolutely right. [00:34:03] Speaker C: You know, I, I, I wish. I kind of want some dark chocolate almonds right now, man. Just getting a little handful in there and snack on them. [00:34:10] Speaker B: I also bought this espresso martini from Trader Joe's. It doesn't, doesn't look very good, so. Really curious how that is. Anyways, Final four. When's the kickoff? [00:34:24] Speaker C: Tomorrow, Saturday. [00:34:26] Speaker B: Why'd you say tomorrow? My on my computer? [00:34:29] Speaker A: Because tomorrow's Saturday. [00:34:33] Speaker C: If your computer's on eastern time, then, yeah, it would be. [00:34:36] Speaker B: My computer should not be on Easter time. [00:34:39] Speaker C: But yeah, Saturday, regardless. [00:34:42] Speaker A: It's 309. Auburn, Florida. [00:34:45] Speaker C: Correct. And then CBS. [00:34:47] Speaker B: My bad. I'm looking at the women's tournament. Oh, dude, my dog just tried jumping to the couch and missed and just totally flipped over. [00:34:59] Speaker C: And now he's looking at you like you didn't see that, right? [00:35:02] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. It's embarrassing, dude. [00:35:05] Speaker A: He saw the dark chocolate covered almonds and he's like, I'm gonna go get those. [00:35:09] Speaker C: The espresso latte from Trader Joe's. [00:35:12] Speaker B: All right, so my bad. Women starts Thursday. [00:35:18] Speaker C: It'd be Friday. Rome. Today's Thursday. Tomorrow's Friday. [00:35:21] Speaker B: Oh, did I all turn around now? [00:35:22] Speaker C: Yeah, you're confused, man. Confused. [00:35:27] Speaker B: All right, so women's on Friday with the championship on Sunday. During the day, that's kind of nice. Take a little nap afterwards. But let me go back to the men's then. Men's is on Saturday. [00:35:41] Speaker C: Big, big day Saturday. We got the men's final four semifinal matchups and then get a little break. And then bam, we're riding to the Japan Grand Prix and call it a night. And then if you want Rome, you're gonna wake up and watch the women's final on a Sunday. So there's your weekend planned out for you. [00:35:56] Speaker B: I'm gonna try to watch the game with my daughter and see if she actually just finishes one women's game this year. That's the goal. That's the goal. [00:36:05] Speaker C: Without a negative comment. [00:36:06] Speaker B: That's negative. [00:36:08] Speaker C: That's, that's the real key. [00:36:09] Speaker B: Women already hating on women. It starts really young. Yeah, but no one wants to talk about that. [00:36:15] Speaker C: Nobody. It starts really young. [00:36:17] Speaker B: It's part of the controversy after our second, I guess. [00:36:20] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. I don't know if you got enough time on tonight's episode to be able to do your controversy segment tonight. [00:36:28] Speaker B: So Florida and Auburn, 6pm Eastern. So nice little afternoon game for us on the west coast. How they get here? Round 64, they beat up number 16, Norfolk steak, 95, 69. The next round they beat up number 8, Yukon. That was a really good game. Some drama. Yukon was saying they got screwed out that game. I, I thought the better team did win. [00:36:52] Speaker C: That was, that was, that was the coach. That was Hurley going, you know, that was the coach being Hurley. He's a little, a little emotional sometimes. [00:36:59] Speaker B: He's a little much. But Florida moves on. Sweet 16 beats a really good Maryland team, but pretty handily, 87, 71. And then in the Elite Eight they beat up who I thought was a really good Texas Tech team. I, I had Texas Tech winning it actually. And then I had to console a whole bunch of their fans here in San Francisco. [00:37:24] Speaker C: Apparently. Apparently my people. Rome. That's what you said Monday. [00:37:27] Speaker B: That is your people. Yeah. So did you let my mom know. [00:37:30] Speaker C: That you saw her up there in San Francisco? [00:37:32] Speaker B: No, dude, I, I should have mentioned that. [00:37:35] Speaker C: You should have mentioned it, man. [00:37:36] Speaker B: Yeah, but Florida has only lost once, I guess since February 1st to Georgia. Maybe they didn't lose on February 1st, but they've only had one loss since then. They've been on a tear. Last time they've been this good is when they won back to back national championships. And now they have a pretty big matchup against also number one ranked Auburn. So guys, give me your two cents. [00:38:06] Speaker C: I mean, yeah, you, I mean Auburn's the number one overall seed in this tournament. Not really quite sure how they got that after losing what, three of their final five. [00:38:14] Speaker B: I'm not sure either. [00:38:15] Speaker C: I mean they did have a very, very difficult schedule. They played out of conference, some big games against Duke and other teams. But yeah, I mean Auburn already played Florida. That was a home game that they lost back on February 8th. Home game, I believe it was 90, 81 final. Florida beat them coming into this final four. I mean Florida has, you know, they scraped by Yukon. UConn was the defending back to back champs. That was a really good game, two point victory. And then Texas Tech room like you said, had that game. And Florida, four straight possessions for three pointers, two front end misses and one on one for Texas Tech. And it just went downhill real quick for them in Florida. Got that victory. Auburn's been pretty solid throughout this tournament. Really hasn't been tested. Michigan had him kind of on the ropes there, but they went on like a 39, 18 run in the final 12 minutes and pit them away. So should Be a good game. Looking at the spread right now you've got Auburn a two and a half point underdog. A lot of questions with Broom their best player. All American. [00:39:22] Speaker B: Broom's a beast. Yeah, he's, he's really good. [00:39:26] Speaker C: So he's, he practiced in full today. So it looks like he's a good, good to go in that matchup. Without him I don't think Auburn has any chance of winning. [00:39:36] Speaker B: No chance. [00:39:37] Speaker C: But we'll see, we'll see how he looks look like that elbow like kind of like he hyperextended it a little bit. So we'll see how it feels coming into this matchup. [00:39:49] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't want to read into too much of the regular season thing and you mentioned Aaron, they Florida went into Auburn early in the sea or I say earlier but it was like was it two months ago or something like that. At the time though Auburn was a significant favorite in that game. I think they were like eight and a half or ten and a half point favorite I think maybe when the, when the, when the game opened. So significant favor for Auburn. Not only did they not cover it, they lost pretty, you know they lost that game 90 to 81 as you said is, is there. I'm gonna lean to you on this. You know Clayton Jr. Been the top player for Florida all season in that game, was probably the most impactful person on the Florida side. You know if Auburn has any chance, you're talking about them possession not having one of their key players. Is Clayton going to be the focus that Auburn's gonna have to stop in order for Auburn to be able to win this game? [00:40:40] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean they're gonna have to stop him. I mean he's single handedly, he single handedly beat Yukon and he single handedly came back for them when they needed that victory to get to the final Four here against Texas Tech. I mean he can make big shots, big three pointers. You know I, he played for Patino out of Iona. Did not follow him to St. John's I guess he's from the Florida area and it's. He told his mom, hey, I'm coming home. Florida's put up the nil money. I'm coming home. And he's got them back to the final Four. I mean Florida like Roman mentioned, best team they've had since you know basically two decades ago after winning back to back national titles. They were in the final four and back I guess in 2014. I don't, I don't remember them then but Todd Golden's done a good job getting these guys here, but yeah, he's, he's the key for Florida. If as he goes toward his Florida and if he has a big game, Auburn will be in trouble again. [00:41:34] Speaker B: Yeah, Auburn, they're pretty shaky on three point land and has. And they've had a pretty tough stretch. Florida has had the best offense I think in the country over the past month and a half. In Florida, not so much. We didn't talk about how Auburn got here though. They, they defeated Alabama State pretty handily by 20 points in the round 64 around 32 they did. They beat number nine Creighton 82 to 70, streak 16. They beat up Michigan 78 to 65. And then in the Elite Eight they defeated a really good Michigan State team 70 to 64 but dominated that game. [00:42:12] Speaker A: All of Michigan rooting against Auburn in this game? I think. [00:42:15] Speaker B: All of Michigan, yeah. Back to back too. That's pretty crazy. But I guess it all hinges man on the defense. If they can contain Florida, they have a chance. But if Clayton goes off, as you mentioned, it's gonna be pretty tough. [00:42:33] Speaker C: I mean, yeah, I mean both teams are pretty good defensively. We'll see what Broom's got. He's got to play well. I think for Auburn the key is going to be that young backcourt of theirs. They got it. They got a all American five star freshman that's really, really good. The lefty if he has a big game and hit some big shots that could really help Auburn go in this one. And they've got a veteran senior guard. I think if their backcourt can match Clayton of Florida then Auburn with Broom, if he's good, can get, can get to pass Florida. That's really the key. Can their backcourt match Florida's backcourt? Florida's got a lot of tall guys but they don't score a lot of points, you know, but they can throw a lot of different weapons at you, kind of wear you down. We've talked about it. Auburn doesn't have a ton of depth. They're probably run about seven players, maybe eight. But they got a lot of six, seven, six eight wing guys that are long, that could shoot threes. So I think it's gonna be a high scoring game in the 70s should be interesting. But yeah, I think who's ever back court with the point guard play has a better matchup. Here is probably what's going to be the difference in this game. [00:43:44] Speaker B: Who you guys? SC. [00:43:48] Speaker A: I'm going to take Florida. I kind of led the, led the witness There. When I was asked about Clayton in this game, I just, I. He had a big game and rallied them back versus Texas Tech. You know, the UConn performance is where it's at. He was the difference maker in the previous game versus Auburn. I think Florida's kind of just. Just really on a run. I really like their team where they're at. I'll take Florida. If you're asking me, pick the line. I think -2 and a half as the last line I saw as well. I take Florida to cover as well. [00:44:17] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, I got all four number one seeds in the final four, so obviously it's my final four matchup. I did have my original bracket have Auburn winning. Even if Broom was healthy. I still like Florida for the things Jason mentioned. I just think their guard play has been elite throughout this tournament and that's going to be different. So I like Florida minus two and a half. I'm looking at the over under right now at 159 and a half. That's high. I said these teams would get in the 70s. That's a game that gets in the 80s. I'm not sure it gets that high. I'm gonna. I'm gonna go under 159 and a half. But I'm more sure I do like Florida laying the two and a half to beat Auburn here. [00:45:05] Speaker B: That's a tough line. I'm gonna go the opposite direction. I think it all rides on Broom and I think he's going to show pretty big jack up his stock to solidify that number two pick in the draft. Yeah. So go Auburn. Shake things up. Next game. Duke versus Houston. Duke, we all know how they got here. They just pretty much pummeled everybody along the way, including a really impressive Arizona team and Alabama, who I really loved. I really thought they're one of the better teams in the country and they beat him by 20 points in the lead eight. Basically with. With or without Cooper Flag. He's an 18 year old, should be in high school still, but he's dominating college. Even without him, his team plays really well. They won the tournament, their conference tourney rather before moving on on their current streak. And defensively they've been switching a lot. They held Alabama down Arizona pretty well and just. It's just really impressive. So on the other side, Houston, they beat a team I didn't even. I've never even heard of SIU Edwardsville 78 of 40. It was an ass whooping to say the least. They beat Gonzaga, so it ruined their string of Sweet 16 showings, which is kind of nice. [00:46:36] Speaker C: Now, Houston holds that streak now. [00:46:38] Speaker B: Oh, really? [00:46:39] Speaker C: I think they're now up to seven straight, Sweets. [00:46:41] Speaker B: Really? [00:46:41] Speaker C: Six or seven? Yeah, they now hold that record. That's a current active streak. [00:46:46] Speaker B: I didn't even know that. Dang. That's an impressive stat. They defeated Purdue in the Sweet 16, 62 to 60, and then beat a pretty decent Tennessee team 69 to 50. And I don't like Tennessee for obvious reasons. So two really good teams. Tough matchup. What's the line on this one? [00:47:13] Speaker C: I've got currently duke favored by five over under 136 and a half. [00:47:19] Speaker B: 136. I guess we can get to that a little bit later. But why don't you guys break this game down for me? [00:47:29] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, you mentioned Duke. Cooper Flag should be a senior in high school. He's had a good, good tournament run. They didn't have him for the ACC tournament. They won that role. But I'm not pretty much stocking that, you know, conference. The ACC was terrible during this NCAA run. The only team that won outside of the playing game was Duke. But yeah, Duke, you know, got a big win over Arizona in the Sweet 16. That was like a shoot out there. I think 10293 was the final, something like that. And then Alabama, they held them down, shut them out. So they've played really, really well. They're led by a couple freshmen, Flag, and you know, they got the other guy, can't think of his name right now, but they very, very talented team, young team playing, playing against an experienced Houston team. There was an interesting stat I read today. Duke hasn't lost, I think, since maybe February. I believe Clemson beat him, but they've only played, I think it was mentioned, only one top 25 team defensively and they lost that game. Houston, as we know, is a top five defensive team in the country. That's what they predicate themselves on. Kevin Thompson's done a great job with that program since he's taken over. This is their second Final Four in four years. So is this a chance that Houston gets over? This is the seven Final Four in school history. They've never won a title. Probably most famous for that 1983 North Carolina state loss where the guy shoots the half court shot, basically comes up short with enough time on the clock, it gets, you know, picked out of midair and slammed down for the dunk and NC State wins that championship. But yeah, I mean, Houston has looked really, really good. Beat a good Purdue team, beat the snot out of Tennessee. I, I did not see that one coming. I thought Tennessee was going to beat Houston and they just demolished them. So this will be a really, really good final format. I'm actually looking forward to this game much more than I am. Auburn, Florida. [00:49:35] Speaker A: Yeah, I agree with Aaron. Looking forward to this game as well. I think you're looking at, you know, a little bit what Aaron's saying, a little bit of contrasting of two styles here with, you know, with the impressive defense that Houston brings to the table. You know, Duke, no slots defensively for themselves. But you look in the tournament so far, you know, 93, 89, 185 points, like they're, they're scoring points throughout the game. And it's just a deep, talented team, you know, with probably the best player in the country with Cooper Flag now too. But as. As you guys mentioned, like, even outside the ACC tournament, they're a great team. Even when he isn't playing. I picked Duke to win the, the tournament. I'm gonna stick with that pick here. The five and a half is a little scary just because of when you look at what Houston can be defensively, actually. Aaron, did you say it's down to five now? [00:50:27] Speaker C: Yeah, I, I got five. [00:50:30] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, I saw five and a half. But. But either way, I think that that number could potentially be a little scary to me just. Just because of what. How for Houston's defense and they can keep things close there. I'd probably stay away from that. But I still think Duke, you know, wins this game and, and really, I mean, I think you're setting up for a little bit, you know, a little. They're gonna have a lot of players coming back, I think. Aaron, you mentioned in Monday's pod about the boozers kids, you know, coming to Duke here next year too. So is this the time, you know, I don't know, say Duke's been down, but I mean, I can't kind of think right now, like, this is a little bit of a Duke run right now and the ACC ain't what. Ain't what it used to be. The, The SEC is the basketball powerhouse. So now does Duke kind of get this? You know, they get a little bit of an easier road that the ACC is in such a basketball powerhouse as it. As it used to be, and now you're starting to set up a little bit of a Duke. Duke little run here over the next couple years. [00:51:26] Speaker B: They haven't been down that long. [00:51:29] Speaker C: Well, I mean, I think the last title they won was in 2015. [00:51:35] Speaker B: Yeah, but what. When did K retire? [00:51:38] Speaker C: This is shower. [00:51:42] Speaker B: Yeah, okay. I thought so. Three years ago. Wasn't long enough, man. Just like the Patriots are starting to get good again. Wasn't long enough. [00:51:49] Speaker C: I mean it's one of those, it's. [00:51:51] Speaker A: One of those things. They haven't been bad, but it's just like they haven't been like hey, they're I'm in the relevant like dominant team. So. [00:51:58] Speaker C: Yeah, well, I mean, yeah, this first year they got beaten the second round. Last year they got beaten the Elite Eight, an upset against NC State of all teams in ACC school that got to the final four. But yeah, I mean go back to spread. I like Houston +5. I think that's the side here. I think, I think Duke is. Moneyline's probably the safe bet if you like Duke. But I really like Houston +5 to cover. I think they're going to give him a game defensively. They're going to put a lot of pressure on them and they're going to make, they're going to make Duke work. Their two best players mentioned Cooper flag and then they got Knuppo who's a really, really good player. He's an NBA player too. They got three freshmen that are first round draft picks here at Duke which will all likely probably come out and then the boozer twins coming in. So Duke is here reloading. You know, it's hard to say what's going to happen. The acc, North Carolina, we got to figure nil. They'll get there together. NC State just hired the coach from McNeese State who was at LSU. So NC State a pretty good basketball program of a rich history. The ACC will be okay. Louisville's getting better there too. So I'm not worried about the conference as a whole. But this year was a down year for sure. [00:53:17] Speaker B: Yeah, I think this game really comes down. I think Houston led the tourney with averaging eight and a half threes per game. But they also are like one of the worst teams in getting to the free throw line. So if the 3 is fallen, I like their chances. But Duke, they're deep and I think Knubo, I think he's also projected to go top five in the draft this year. [00:53:43] Speaker C: I don't know if he's top five, but he is a lottery pick. He's actually a really nice player. He's. He's good. He's. His game has developed a lot. I think for Houston, three pointers is big, but I think they got to be aggressive. I mean Duke isn't Very, very deep. I mean, even. I mean, they're young, and even the guys coming off their bench are young. They probably play about seven guys. Can they challenge Cooper, flag and get him a little fatigued and tired and really put some pressure on Duke? Duke's basically been doing what UConn did last year, just dominating. Even though Arizona kind of came back, made it a game. They were down 15 points about 10 minutes ago, got it within five. But Duke has been pretty much on cruise control. They've been the best team so far in this tournament, but yeah, Houston, defensively, they can get after you. I mean, Tennessee, I thought was probably the second best team playing wise in the tournament, and they made him look bad. [00:54:33] Speaker B: So, I mean, it looks silly. [00:54:36] Speaker C: They're gonna. They're gonna do a lot to frustrate them. But Cooper flags a talent that Houston has not seen yet this tournament. So it's an interesting matchup. I'll have Duke. I have Duke winning. I like Houston plus five, and I'll take the under 136 and a half. [00:54:52] Speaker B: Yeah, a lot of projected scores for this game are in the either high 60s or low 70s. For both of them, I think it's probably about right. Yeah. Well, you mentioned Duke's young. Sometimes being young and dumb is. Is to your benefit. You could either get shocked by the. By the big lights or you can, you know, I think you'd know any better. [00:55:17] Speaker C: I think we touched on it Monday. I think the last team to be led really by freshmen to win was Syracuse and Carmelo and McNamara. So that was back and I think 2008. So it's. It's been a minute. [00:55:33] Speaker B: The newly minted hall of Famer. Okay, cool. I'm kind of digging it. Let's recap the women's tournament really quick. And then I just kind of want to make some comments on the NBA with some stuff that's happened the last few days. [00:55:51] Speaker A: I guess before you go on to that room. While we don't know the exact matchup picking national title game right now too, before we record too, might probably be the call. Right. Because it's a Monday night. We'd be recording after the title game. [00:56:07] Speaker B: Yeah, you know, I've been wanting to, like, maybe depending on how the games go, do like an emergency YouTube only, you know, quick 20 minute YouTube session to go live right before the game. I would like to kind of test that out if possible. I know I'm gonna be out with my daughter, but we know you got Duke. Aaron, who do you got winning the whole Thing and we understand we don't know who wins. [00:56:37] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. I mean, if we're going off of Florida and Duke getting to the final, I got, I got Duke beating Florida. [00:56:43] Speaker B: Okay. Yeah. I think it's all. I think it's just Dukes to lose at this point. But if I had to pick somebody else, I would go with Auburn, win the championship. [00:56:59] Speaker A: All right, if you're all going Duke. The YouTube show just got a lot less interesting. [00:57:03] Speaker B: I know. Yeah, exactly. Because we can scratch that off now. [00:57:09] Speaker C: That's. Of course it gets there. [00:57:12] Speaker A: This is true. Maybe that's the emergency pod or, or we just have Rome, wherever he's at, we have him stop by Trader Joe's and just get some snacks and just lean up against the wall and just start eating and we can just, you know. Yeah, see, See what that is. [00:57:25] Speaker C: You know, I'd say if it's not Duke, it's going to be Houston. I think Houston, if they, if they actually Duke, they have the defense to stop, you know, Florida's guard playing. I'll go with Houston if they get by Duke. But the winner of that matchup, I think wins the title. [00:57:42] Speaker B: Yes. Because they have the best defense of the best three point shooting team. [00:57:46] Speaker A: So that'd be great because I'd be able to call the SEC overrated in basketball. And then just like, just like football, you know. [00:57:57] Speaker B: We'Ll just briefly gloss over the women's tournament. It starts tomorrow, which is. Which I just learned tomorrow's Friday. [00:58:04] Speaker C: You know what time. Hey, you know what time it starts tomorrow? [00:58:07] Speaker A: Breaking breaking news across the bar. Tomorrow is Friday. [00:58:11] Speaker B: Tomorrow is Friday, so the games are kind of early. 4:00, 6:00. I'm gonna definitely watch the UCLA Yukon game. That's gonna be a lot of fun. That's gonna be a hell of a game. I, I recommend you guys watch that game. [00:58:27] Speaker A: La Homer. [00:58:30] Speaker B: Well, I, I like Yukon. You know, it's unfortunate that Paige Beckers and her team are facing. [00:58:37] Speaker C: So you said you like. You said you like ucla. Who do you like? Romeo? [00:58:40] Speaker B: Yeah, the favorites. [00:58:41] Speaker C: Well, number one is favored by seven and a half. [00:58:45] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, I like both. [00:58:47] Speaker C: I like both dogs. I like Texas plus five and I like UCLA plus seven and a half. [00:58:53] Speaker B: Yeah, UConn's really deep, you know, but they've also haven't faced a team as deep and talented as ucla. The thing with usa, though, they've never been here before. They've knocked out the round, you know, prior for, for the past few years, but they got some veterans there, so it all kind of depends on the nerves and stuff like that. But usually has a talent to get past them is whether can they offset Beckers going off on a score bra. She can post up, she can drive, dish it out, hit from deep like she's been knocking out three pointers in every single game. And that's the thing that's missing on her resume is the national championship for the women's side, Texas, South Carolina. That's going to be a pretty tough matchup. I know. Just naturally more on the South Carolina team because they're on ESPN pretty often and they're deep. They have a hell of a coach. I think they're probably like the favorite to win the whole thing for the women's, if I'm not mistaken and I'm not sure if Texas has enough to overcome, you know, the coaching and the players isn't. [00:59:56] Speaker A: You cut favorite nine to win it. [01:00:00] Speaker C: Let me see. [01:00:00] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [01:00:01] Speaker B: You want to bring those up? Yeah. [01:00:02] Speaker A: Like this favorite now in both games, Yukon's, Yukon and. And South Carolina are favored in both games. I think Yukon's favor to win the title now too. [01:00:12] Speaker B: Really? [01:00:13] Speaker A: Yukon's a 7 1/2 point favorite against UCLA. [01:00:17] Speaker B: You know, I. I don't. I don't want to see June Gene. [01:00:20] Speaker C: Yeah, I don't know. I don't have that right now. They don't have the option favorite to win in the women's. But I'm gonna say it's probably between South Carolina and Yukon for sure. But I think Texas is going to beat South Carolina. You know, that's an all SEC matchup there too. Quietly. We don't, you know, Texas, South Carolina, but. [01:00:45] Speaker B: Oh, that's right. [01:00:47] Speaker C: I'm gonna go with Texas. I'm going to Texas. UCLA. What should have been in the PAC 12, if things have been done properly in the. [01:00:55] Speaker B: Should be the PAC 12. [01:00:56] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:00:58] Speaker B: Should have never gone 14 right now. [01:01:00] Speaker C: Even 16, you know. But yeah, I'm gonna go Texas, UCLA in the final for the women's with UCLA. Women's winning the national title because I know the men would never win it again. [01:01:18] Speaker B: Dude, you just like just move out of California already, man. Like some hick town. [01:01:23] Speaker C: Just saying it, man. [01:01:24] Speaker B: Arizona. [01:01:25] Speaker C: Maybe I should take taxes since my people from there. I don't know. Yeah. Kind of torn between that. [01:01:30] Speaker B: I was supposed to go to the University of Texas. They have a really good music program there. Yeah, but didn't I like Texas? [01:01:39] Speaker A: Well, I'm gonna go opposite Aaron. I think you take the chalk in this game. I think you Got the two big name coaches, Gino Ariema, Don Staley for each of the two respective teams. For UConn and South Carolina, based on what I'm seeing right now, Connecticut is the favor to win the national championship at minus 165. South Carolina second at plus 275. [01:02:03] Speaker B: Wow. [01:02:03] Speaker A: UCLA is plus 800 and Texas is plus 850. So I think. I think I'm gonna go opposite Aaron. I'm gonna go with the odds makers here. I say will be a Yukon, South Carolina final. I think Paige Beckers is going to get her moments and UConn's gonna win the national title. [01:02:20] Speaker B: I wouldn't hate that, actually. [01:02:23] Speaker C: Well, didn't you say you didn't want to see Gene win another one? [01:02:26] Speaker B: No, I don't. He has enough, dude. [01:02:28] Speaker C: But how many, how many national titles does he have? Eight or nine. How many? [01:02:32] Speaker B: I don't know. [01:02:36] Speaker C: Statistician Jason on that one. [01:02:39] Speaker A: Gino Ariema has 11 NCAA D1 National Championships. [01:02:44] Speaker B: It's a little ridiculous for women's sports, dude. Some of these guys are just in rap. [01:02:48] Speaker C: He's got 11. How many did Pat Summit win? Seven or eight? [01:02:51] Speaker A: Yeah, I think Pat six. [01:02:57] Speaker B: Rest in peace. [01:02:59] Speaker A: She had eight. [01:03:00] Speaker B: Okay, okay. [01:03:02] Speaker A: She had eight. So, yeah, Gino, 19 undefeated conference seasons. So he owns the Big East. [01:03:14] Speaker C: What year is this about him at UConn? I'm like 28, 30 years, maybe longer. [01:03:21] Speaker B: You start about 30 years ago? [01:03:23] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, he started in really. [01:03:27] Speaker B: And he's had the same lead head assistant coach since he got there. Like, she's a really big part of it. I can't remember her name, but man. [01:03:37] Speaker A: Okay, he's been there as long as I've been alive. [01:03:40] Speaker C: Okay. Yeah, it's possible. [01:03:42] Speaker A: 19, 1985. [01:03:44] Speaker C: So when he win his first national title then. [01:03:48] Speaker A: First national title was in 1995. [01:03:52] Speaker C: Yeah, so it took. Yeah. So I. I remember when obviously we were kids, kids that. That's when they started dominating because I think Tennessee, like they were rotating them. [01:04:02] Speaker B: In Tennessee, them in Tennessee. Who was the other one? There was like a third one, Stanford, maybe. Women has not won, have they? [01:04:14] Speaker C: They were good. I don't know if they won, but I know Stanford. I think that because the coach at Stanford just retired a few years ago, right? She'd won two or three national titles. Yeah, I think she retired before they made the move to the, you know, the ACC. And then you got the LSU's women's coach. She's won a couple national titles, right. At Baylor, LSU and maybe somewhere else. [01:04:36] Speaker B: But yeah. [01:04:39] Speaker A: Trying to get you the, the facts here of the number of national titles on this one. I think Aaron's. Yeah, you had a little Gino 1 in 95 and then you had a 3 Pete by Tennessee. You had Purdue in the national title. Then Yukon was back at it. Then Notre dame. [01:05:07] Speaker C: Okay. [01:05:07] Speaker B: Okay. [01:05:08] Speaker A: Yukon three peted, then Baylor. [01:05:11] Speaker B: Okay. [01:05:12] Speaker C: Maryland. Maryland's women. Wow. [01:05:15] Speaker A: Maryland in 06, Tennessee back to back. UConn back to back. Texas A M in 2011, Baylor again in 2012. [01:05:24] Speaker B: So Baylor spin it. That was the third one. [01:05:28] Speaker A: I don't know. There's just two, I guess if you're. They're kind of thinking on there. Then UConn went on the big run. 2013 to 2016, four consecutive national titles. South Carolina then in 17, Notre Dame 18, then Baylor again in 2019. No tournament in 2020. Got Stanford back in the mix. South Carolina, LSU, South Carolina. So I guess if you're saying in the mix on this one, it's really Baylor. [01:06:02] Speaker C: Right. They won three. [01:06:03] Speaker A: It's. It's Baylor, but I guess you could say it's really Kim Mulkey. [01:06:06] Speaker C: Yeah, she got the lsu. Right. She won my LSU as well. [01:06:11] Speaker A: She was Baylor for 21 years for that run. So I guess between Baylor and LSU it's been Kim Mulkey being the. [01:06:18] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:06:18] Speaker A: The third one out of that group. So, yeah, I mean, we talked about a little bit the top heaviness there, but Gino's definitely owned it. But you know, Gino has not won the national title since the end of the four peat in 2016. So, you know, it's, it's. I guess this is your Patriots analogy for Duke right now. Rome, like, they feel like they're always there, but they have, they haven't won it here for a little while. So this is even. Even their down time, which is not bad, feels like it's been bad. [01:06:47] Speaker B: Yeah. No, I'm a Silas fan. I'm very well aware of what it feels like to be close but not there. It's rough. Foreigner fans, that's rough. Braves fans, Dodgers fans. It's nice. Jason, you'll join that feeling too when your team's consistently good. [01:07:07] Speaker A: You know, if you watch some great Ben Johnson highlights, just dropping knowledge here and the pre draft workouts. [01:07:15] Speaker C: Ben Johnson's looking sharp. He is looking sharp. [01:07:17] Speaker B: Bears got an exhausted dude. [01:07:19] Speaker A: Oh, no, he's in. He's exhausting the grinding film, finding the next great guys. That's me in the draft. You know, when Ashton Gente is drafted here in a couple weeks, and the Bears, you know, just got the big running back. He's got a backup quarterback today. R. You know, the Bears got a big backup quarterback who. Case Keenum. [01:07:37] Speaker B: All right, all right, all right. [01:07:39] Speaker C: The Cowboys picked up quarterback themselves as well because they. [01:07:44] Speaker A: They lost. They. They lost their. Their big gun. [01:07:46] Speaker C: Cooper Rush is in Baltimore now. [01:07:49] Speaker B: Is he? [01:07:50] Speaker C: Yeah, that's. [01:07:51] Speaker B: That's a nice pickup for Baltimore. [01:07:52] Speaker C: They got. They traded for. Was it Joe Milton? [01:07:55] Speaker A: So, yeah, just from the Patriots. [01:07:57] Speaker C: Yeah, from the Patriots. Who? Joe. From your Tennessee guys. [01:08:08] Speaker A: But yeah, Rome. I mean, you cracked the joke. But I'm just. I'm just saying, you know, this is going to be the run of the Bears and. And you're just gonna. Aaron's. Aaron and I are gonna be looking and tell you just about Ben Johnson's greatness going forward. [01:08:19] Speaker C: Ben Johnson is looking great. I'm buying more stock every time I see him. [01:08:23] Speaker B: So go ahead, buy all the stock. [01:08:27] Speaker A: All the stock. [01:08:27] Speaker B: I'm gonna short the stock. [01:08:29] Speaker A: Yeah, you buy. You buy it low right now because the stock in the real stock and any other stock is going down. So I'm buying low on the Ben Johnson stock and every other stock. [01:08:38] Speaker C: Yeah, the time to buy is now because they are dropping like hotcakes right now. [01:08:43] Speaker A: It's not exactly now. The bottom's gonna come here in a little while, but yeah, just, you know, make sure you sold off. And now when the bottom hits here. [01:08:50] Speaker C: So the bottom hits. That's when you get rich. [01:08:52] Speaker A: Once we're done tack. Once we're done taxing the Penguins at the island in the Indian Ocean or whatever is going on with the tariffs about that. [01:09:04] Speaker B: You guys hear about that and the jokes write themselves, dude. Oh, there's just so much stuff like we just look like idiots to the rest of the world. It's great. I don't care. Poor penguins. [01:09:17] Speaker C: Poor happy feet, the old Penguins. [01:09:20] Speaker A: And they're gonna come to a revolt, man. You know? [01:09:23] Speaker B: They are. They are. That's hilarious. All right, real quick. So Lakers lose. Golden State inches a game away from that fourth seed, I believe. No, fifth seed now. [01:09:36] Speaker A: Golden State, man. I just, you know, I'm. I'm always forthright with you guys. Basketball is never kind of the thing I'm watching on the Daily. But like, Golden State just has these swings since the post Kevin Durant era where it's just like, this is a team not making the playoffs and then I'm just one of the best teams in the NBA the next year. [01:09:54] Speaker B: It's the Jimmy Butler effect. And I just don't get it, dude. [01:09:56] Speaker A: I, I mean, yeah. I mean when they won that title a couple years ago, it was just like, hey, they're just down and out for a couple years and then, okay, we're just gonna be great again. And now, you know, we're that impressive. And now we get Jimmy Butler and now we're gonna be great again. [01:10:08] Speaker B: And just when they won that championship like a few years ago, like, they did not deserve to be there. I was, I was so upset about that one. [01:10:15] Speaker A: No, it's crazy. And like, and I, yeah, I, I still think Oklahoma City's the team to beat because, I mean, they just look impressive as hell. But you're also not going to be shocked here if this team just goes on a run and just pulls and just takes everyone's soul out going to the title. [01:10:28] Speaker B: I'll be shocked. Jason. I'll be shocked. [01:10:31] Speaker C: Yeah, you'll be, you'll be shocked if the warriors get to the finals. [01:10:35] Speaker B: I would, I would. Yeah. I was last time. [01:10:39] Speaker C: I wasn't last time. [01:10:42] Speaker A: I mean, Rome's root against his own self interest, man. You want the warriors to win. [01:10:48] Speaker B: I really don't. [01:10:50] Speaker A: You do. That's, that's, that's big time. Tables up in San Francisco, when they go on a little run here, right? [01:10:56] Speaker B: I don't know. [01:10:56] Speaker C: I, I never worked at tables when they were winning. So he's not real quite sure. [01:11:02] Speaker A: I mean, if, I don't know if it's feasible. But I think, I'm thinking. If you're thinking restaurant service, Western Conference finals, you want Lakers Warriors. Man, that's, that's, that's the big money nights. [01:11:13] Speaker B: So typically I only work in like michelin starred tasting menu restaurants, so it doesn't affect me right now you've got. [01:11:19] Speaker C: Lakers, warriors, first round. [01:11:21] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't like it. [01:11:22] Speaker C: Well, I think the Lakers, I think the Lakers are going to get into the three spot and eventually past the Nuggets. [01:11:31] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm not, I'm not too worried. Golden State needed more so to get ahead of Memphis. Memphis wants a pretty big victory over the Heat, so they stay in the six seed. But I like Minnesota. Anthony Edwards, AKA Mini MJ is tearing it up right now. Had an epic game this past week and they're gonna be dangerous. I think that's like my dark horse to do like another run as we inch close to the playoffs. But real quick though, Memphis, I don't know if you guys saw. This is what I want to talk about. John Morant got in trouble. He was playing against Golden State did a little gun signal to the bench and, And, And. And Steph Curry is crying like a baby to the refs. They don't do anything, but it's all over TV and the. And they're showing the highlights. [01:12:16] Speaker C: Draymond was complaining. He went to the referee and said, why did you not give him a technical foul? [01:12:20] Speaker B: It's. It's stupid. And then. And then it came out today, earlier today, this morning, you know, that the NBA said, hey, you guys can't do that. It's him and Buddy healed from the Golden State Warriors. I guess Buddy Hill did it too, but no one's talking about that one. So they both got verbal warnings. And today, after John Morant hit his game winning two point shots to pull off the victory, he did it again. [01:12:47] Speaker A: Listen, listen. All right. [01:12:48] Speaker C: I don't think he did it again. He did. He did some kind of different variation of something. [01:12:53] Speaker B: It's all over Twitter. [01:12:57] Speaker A: I don't want to start a big political thing here, but I. I got two points in this. All right. [01:13:01] Speaker B: Yeah, let's hear it. [01:13:02] Speaker A: I'm a big hockey guy. All right. We could not have been any happier. The start of Canada us with these dudes just dropping gloves and throwing haymakers when it's hockey. Why is this different? I mean, I'm not defending basketball here, but, man, we can't. We can't do a little bang bang with the guns. And then, hey, we got Happy Gilmore, too, coming out here in a couple. [01:13:23] Speaker B: That's what I was thinking. All right. [01:13:26] Speaker A: Yeah, the shooter, man. I mean, you got coming. You know, you just go at the hole. Once you sink that putt, you get the shooter going and you'll choke on that baby. Man, that is. That's the shooter line right there. [01:13:37] Speaker B: All right, do you guys know the story behind that? [01:13:40] Speaker A: Oh, I do. I wanted to tell. I saw the clip about it. [01:13:43] Speaker B: Go ahead, go ahead. [01:13:44] Speaker A: You know that, Aaron. [01:13:45] Speaker C: I don't believe so. Go. [01:13:48] Speaker A: So Christopher McDonald, who's the actor who plays Shooter McGann in it, so he. He wanted to make the putt. He's like, I legit want to make the putt. And the director's like, all right, I'm gonna give you like 10 chances or ever to make this putt. So, like, it's on a fifth or sixth chance or something, drains the putt. And so he's just all goofed up and, you know, just all the juices flowing and he, you know, he does the shooter thing, goes, choke on that, baby. Was not in the script. The Whole thing because he was really telling everyone who thought he couldn't make this putt, I'm making this damn putt. And instead, in the final cut of the movie. And man, that's just, that's an iconic scene for you. [01:14:27] Speaker B: You know, apparently a lot of people in the staff, the extras are all betting against him. Like every putt he missed, they were talking bad. So, yeah, it was all real. I love that story. Rich Eisen has great interviews. Great interviews. [01:14:43] Speaker A: Gotta give. Gotta give it to Rich. I was watching a good. You know, I know we haven't talked wrestling in a little while on the pod here. I know we're getting off a little tangent here, but WrestleMania is kind of upon us, you know, coming up, WWE's been in Europe the past couple weeks putting on some big time shows in Europe for Ron smackdown. They were in London this past couple weeks. And I'm bringing this up because Rich Eisen had had CM Punk on, who's one of my favorites out of Chicago. He's gonna be Main eventing night one of WrestleMania in a triple threat match against Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins. But, you know, Rich had CM Punk on the interview. I was watching little clips of it and Rich didn't believe that these guys just go out and do their own laundry. You know, the WWE's Foot in the bill and CM Punk's like, hey, I got a lot of things. I'm not losing my gear. I'm just gonna get a coffee out in London, sit at a laundromat and do my laundry. So if you're out and about while WWE is going around, you may see your favorite wrestler at a laundry mat or getting a cup of coffee here and there, you know. [01:15:42] Speaker B: You know, that's kind of shocking, but it does surprise me just knowing the history, like how corrupt and like shady the WWE is. Can't do some laundry. [01:15:51] Speaker A: Yeah, I, I think they have the option to do it. I think it's a lot different now, but some of those guys, like Mick Foley, you know, Mankind, Cactus Jack, notorious cheap guy who just would like stay at a Motel 6 and want to split the room with somebody and stop it like that, whatever, like so, because. [01:16:08] Speaker C: Because basically that's so a lot of. [01:16:12] Speaker A: Those guys, like there's, you know, they could just be super cheap on there. And other guys, now it's different. Not with modern convenience. Now some of these guys got travel, giant buses with drivers and stuff that take them from town to towns when they're, you know, local domestically here. But yeah, I think there's some different ways. Some of the old school guys way do things. Okay. I'm gonna do my things on my own but I think there's other guys that probably have. Yeah. Personal assistance bringing this stuff from point A to point B. WrestleMania, man. [01:16:38] Speaker C: Two weeks out, man. [01:16:39] Speaker B: I was reminded by WWE Girl this past week. [01:16:42] Speaker C: She coming over at 10:30 or what? We're right at that time. Where's she at? I said I. [01:16:48] Speaker A: The card. The card is taking shape here. They're coming back stateside. Main event of night one is now officially signed with Roman Reigns, CM Punk and Seth Rollins, three of the best in the game. Main event, Night two. We've been getting some good stuff with bad guy John Cena and WWE Champions Cody Rhodes. So I mean there's. There's some stuff there. [01:17:11] Speaker C: Pumped, man. I'm excited. Ready to rock and roll. Two nighter. [01:17:14] Speaker A: I'm gonna be two nighter. Be ready. Extravaganza. [01:17:19] Speaker B: Ready for that extravaganza. For those listening, be sure to catch our episodes of Source from the Sofa on Apple podcasts as well as Spotify wherever you listen to your podcast. Our last episode is called sweet and elite. Torpedo season in Major League baseball. Grizzlies Dunk Jenkins and Red Bull has new wings. Catch that episode and catch this one at least once every single week. [01:17:48] Speaker A: Rome was really proud of those titles. You can tell. He's like, he said this is. He's like, he wrote this. Like this is good. I'm gonna make sure I'm pumping up this title. Every topic I had good right here. [01:18:00] Speaker C: That's the first time in the 80 shows we've done whatever that Rome has actually gone over the title of a show. So that's how much, you know, he liked. [01:18:10] Speaker B: The baker one I like too. And that was the one that we got the most hits too. Yeah. [01:18:17] Speaker A: Red Bull gonna come after you, man with the Red Bull has their wings or whatever like that on that one, you know? [01:18:21] Speaker B: Yeah, they got sued big time for that. People are idiots. Dude. I. I wish I had the balls to sue somebody for something stupid like that. Red Bull didn't give any wings. I mean, $5 million. Surprisingly, we eclipsed an hour and a half again. Go figure. [01:18:38] Speaker C: I told you, take the over on the time. [01:18:41] Speaker A: Even when there's nothing to say. There is something to say. [01:18:44] Speaker B: There's something to say. Sources in the sofa, they'll do it. We out.