Fuld transskription af The Deep Track, Ep. 104 - Daytona, Le Mans, F1, & Getting Old with Wesley Smith

I keep seeing the promo stuff, and uh I've gotta be on my P's and Q's with the with the with the viewing of it because I I can't wait. 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:17.840 Um the cars are just so cool, you know, the variety and and everything. 00:02:18.240 --> 00:02:20.719 Yeah, the a lot of cool cars uh this year. 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:23.680 Uh obviously, unfortunately, we lose the 963 from Porsche. 00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:28.960 So it always uh a Laman without a Porsche in the top class always feels a little weird to me. 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:29.360 Yeah. 00:02:29.439 --> 00:02:35.280 Um and uh uh I think there, but there are also like a lot of really cool cars that are coming in. 00:02:35.439 --> 00:02:39.039 Obviously, we've got the Genesis this year, which is it's uh a rookie entry. 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:42.080 We'll have the McLaren next year, uh, which would be great. 00:02:42.240 --> 00:02:51.520 And uh the BMWs uh in the top uh hypercar class just won the last round um in uh Spa, I believe. 00:02:51.680 --> 00:02:56.000 And uh uh so I feel like there's there's you know, this will be Alpine's last year. 00:02:56.080 --> 00:02:58.000 Yeah, I there's a lot of like interesting storylines. 00:02:58.400 --> 00:02:59.120 Moving and shaking. 00:02:59.599 --> 00:03:00.159 Yeah, exactly. 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:06.560 So I don't I don't know necessarily, like I wouldn't say Ferrari's a lock, like they've won the last three years straight. 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:10.080 The way these things go, they can go in kind of those spurts, right? 00:03:10.240 --> 00:03:19.120 Like four or five years straight of of win, like Toyota before before this, and uh uh or Porsche, all that kind of like they've always always kind of been kind of streaky. 00:03:19.199 --> 00:03:19.919 So but I don't know. 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:23.360 This year I feel like I don't know what's gonna happen, and it's a lot of fun to to watch. 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:25.360 So I'm really excited about that uh this weekend. 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:31.039 Do you have a a favorite track as far as is WEC goes or or F1 for that matter? 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:32.639 Because mine's Spa. 00:03:33.199 --> 00:03:36.719 I I was gonna say I love Spa, you know, it's uh it's it's fantastic. 00:03:36.879 --> 00:03:41.520 Um I I also like the Nerber Ring, the Nerber Ring and North Life together. 00:03:41.680 --> 00:03:41.919 Sure. 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:49.520 Um that um you know 24 hour race obviously was was a few weeks back with uh with Max um unfortunately having to retire from that. 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:51.360 But I like I really love that track. 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:54.479 Like I know you're not like a video game guy or whatever, but Grand Turismo. 00:03:54.719 --> 00:04:01.120 Like I'll pop open, you know, uh the Nerber Ring North Life and and and and just do laps on that. 00:04:01.199 --> 00:04:01.599 I love it. 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:02.800 And the same with Spa. 00:04:03.039 --> 00:04:06.560 And those two geographically are not all that far apart. 00:04:06.719 --> 00:04:09.039 Uh in the world, it'd be a really fun trip to do. 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:11.439 I was just about to say that. 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:12.080 Yeah. 00:04:12.240 --> 00:04:17.199 You know, week in, week out, you know, go to Monaco, then hop up to Le Ball, you know. 00:04:17.439 --> 00:04:23.920 Yeah, just casual, casual from Mediterranean and then up uh to the north of France, and then over to Belgium. 00:04:24.079 --> 00:04:40.720 Um I guess uh over Germany and then Belgium, maybe you'd end in uh in Spa because I think uh the Nerbergring is in um northwestern uh Germany, and then uh the um and then Spa is in southeastern Belgium. 00:04:40.959 --> 00:04:41.279 Belgium. 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:42.319 Yeah, yeah. 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:43.759 So thereabouts. 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:57.040 I I couldn't help but notice, and not that we always do a wrist check on this show, but I couldn't help but notice the Daytona today, and uh it's very uh on on the same page with Laman, even though you're not wearing a Laman specifically. 00:04:57.199 --> 00:05:04.079 Uh tell tell me about the history of this watch for you, because I uh you've owned it for several years. 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:05.199 I know that. 00:05:05.519 --> 00:05:11.920 Um, you went white dial, which is probably if I were to buy a modern Daytona, I would do the same. 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:15.360 But tell me what what appeals to you about this watch? 00:05:15.519 --> 00:05:16.560 Why did you buy it? 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:17.759 Where did you get it? 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:19.199 How did you get it? 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:20.879 The people want to know. 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:25.199 You know, I have kind of a sordid relationship with the Daytona overall. 00:05:25.360 --> 00:05:29.839 It's it's a watch that like many of us have always like kind of had a thing for, right? 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:32.639 Yep, uh, from the very early days of being into the hobby. 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:43.040 And and uh one of the things that always kind of kept me interested in it is it always seemed like there were interesting wrinkles to its history to learn about and to discover and different weird variations. 00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:46.000 And I'm always like there's always something new to learn about the new tona. 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:47.600 I still feel like that today. 00:05:47.759 --> 00:05:52.240 Yeah, and there's still things that I come across about it that I that I didn't know that I enjoy reading about. 00:05:52.319 --> 00:05:57.199 Um, so for me, it's like one of those watches that is like perennially interesting because of that. 00:05:57.360 --> 00:05:57.759 Yeah. 00:05:58.000 --> 00:06:08.160 Um you know, all the the the hypey stuff around it kind of um uh sapped some of my enthusiasm around it for for a period there. 00:06:08.480 --> 00:06:08.800 Totally. 00:06:09.040 --> 00:06:17.759 That stuff comes and goes, you

know, and and this is a watch that's been um you know, it's just been kind of a mainstay, uh, obviously, since um since the late 50s. 00:06:17.839 --> 00:06:26.800 So, you know, to me it's it's it's bigger than that than just being defined by a single kind of like era when a bunch of assholes wore it and wanted it, right? 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:27.199 Sure. 00:06:27.439 --> 00:06:31.120 Like uh like it's it was here before that, it'll be here here after that. 00:06:31.360 --> 00:06:36.560 Um so um I sold my modern Pepsi because of what you just said. 00:06:37.519 --> 00:06:38.560 So you get it, right? 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:40.879 Like in and I've I've had those feelings. 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:50.720 I think anybody who's owned watches that have gone through those periods has has to kind of deal with that and and really kind of confront like their own identity around the watch. 00:06:51.199 --> 00:06:55.279 And I don't I don't I don't even know if you know, but I sold it for my Zenith Daytona. 00:06:55.759 --> 00:06:56.560 Oh, did you? 00:06:56.720 --> 00:06:58.399 Yeah, interesting. 00:06:58.959 --> 00:07:10.480 Yeah, so that's not a bad uh you know, like the you know, the the the uh the 16520, I think is its own kind of interesting story and and chapter, obviously, in the in the Daytona history. 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:18.399 I'm actually looking at one uh right now uh to potentially add uh because of it's a reference I've never owned. 00:07:18.480 --> 00:07:21.360 And uh I just it wears better than the Pepsi. 00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:29.680 Yeah, the the the I think that's a that's like a real strength of of that generation of like like any five-digit roller right? 00:07:29.759 --> 00:07:31.120 Like they wear just like fantastic. 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:33.040 So the case is a great size. 00:07:33.279 --> 00:07:44.800 Um, you know, obviously that this this generation that I have on my wrist is the one, two, six, um, five, zero, zero, and it adopted the the uh the same kind of precious metal symmetric case of the the previous generation. 00:07:44.879 --> 00:07:56.319 So uh so it has like a kind of a slightly larger flare to the end of its lug, and you know, it wears ever so slightly larger, but yeah, you know, not big by like it's still like a very great watch. 00:07:56.639 --> 00:08:07.040 That's kind of like my 2018 OP no date, is like those lugs are a little there's broader shoulders, let's call it, um, as opposed to the the current that are kind of uh slightly more tapered. 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:16.079 Yeah, and the the the the the shape though of of yours, I think, has there's a really nice kind of just taper into a point, you know, where there's more of a foot on the lug of this one. 00:08:16.160 --> 00:08:24.800 And then obviously it's a symmetrical case unlike um uh the pr the the previous generation, so that kind of fills out a little bit more of the space on on the wrist. 00:08:25.040 --> 00:08:33.919 I always kind of think it's it's like like like that perfect pair of jeans that you've worn for like or that you've worn for like 10 years, and you slide them on and they just like fit perfectly to your body. 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:37.679 Like the Daytona always kind of feels like that kind of a watch to me, like on my wrist. 00:08:37.759 --> 00:08:41.519 And the newest generation like isn't that far off of that either. 00:08:41.679 --> 00:09:01.120 Um the the my you know my my big hang up, uh so I actually I owned um four different Daytona references of the previous generation, and um my my biggest niggle with that watch was always the shape of the hour markers, which are which are kind of rotund and portly, they're kind of boat-shaped. 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:10.080 And I always really like the elegance of the kind of thinner bar-shaped hour markers of older of previous generation, including uh including yours. 00:09:10.240 --> 00:09:18.320 Uh so when the new 126 generation came out and it had those thinner markers, it was kind of an instant, like, oh, this is this is kind of what I've been waiting for. 00:09:18.399 --> 00:09:21.279 Uh like this is the kind of uh Daytona. 00:09:21.679 --> 00:09:24.879 And I've had various precious metal references as well. 00:09:25.120 --> 00:09:30.879 And uh I find that I don't wear them enough because it feels you know, the precious metal kind of feels like more of a special occasion type thing. 00:09:31.039 --> 00:09:32.639 And I don't want the Daytona to be that. 00:09:32.799 --> 00:09:38.399 Like I am a guy that will wear it with a t-shirt and jeans and backwards hats, and totally you know, it's it's all messy. 00:09:38.480 --> 00:09:40.000 I can see gunk on it right now. 00:09:40.159 --> 00:09:41.919 Like it's just kind of like that's how I like to wear it. 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:45.279 And if it's steel, I don't feel so bad about it being that, right? 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:48.559 So it's slightly more resilient as a resort, you know. 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:50.080 Yeah, or result, rather. 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:51.039 Yeah, exactly. 00:09:51.200 --> 00:09:58.399 Uh in the white dial, um, you know, I I I it really comes down to like the the black rings uh around it. 00:09:58.559 --> 00:10:10.720 If the white dial or if the sorry, if the black dial had um like white, pure white rings defining it, subdials instead of a reflective polished surface, I think it'd be a different story. 00:10:10.960 --> 00:10:17.519 That said, I think the black dial of this watch is more photogenic of this in this generation than the white dial. 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:24.399 So um I I mean I could I could honestly talk for for uh an hour on on just like in my thoughts on the on the Daytona. 00:10:25.279 --> 00:10:29.840 Um but that's that's kind of like personally what what uh what is kind of speaks to me. 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:34.480 You know, I think when when I think of the Daytona, it's like there's there's never like a perfect one. 00:10:34.720 -->

00:10:37.519 There's always something that I would change. 00:10:37.759 --> 00:10:46.240 And uh the the newest Daytona that was released this year, the bezel on it, uh is uh it's great, it's anthracite, right? 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:46.879 They call it. 00:10:46.960 --> 00:11:02.000 Uh I care less about that, but what I do love about it, and that I would love to if if this one had um all of the the tachymeter, the numbers of the tachymeter are all situated horizontally, like old school bezels rather than radially, uh like this. 00:11:02.159 --> 00:11:05.039 And and that's one of those things, kind of like the hour markers. 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:15.840 Like um you notice something's different when you look at it, but you maybe can't quite put your your your finger just on what it is, but it makes a difference in like how it feels overall, like as a whole, you know. 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:22.159 Rolex are really good at doing that kind of a thing, you know, like it's greater than the sum of its parts, kind of a sure uh kind of a thing. 00:11:22.320 --> 00:11:25.759 So um, so yeah, that's that's that's my story with this thing. 00:11:25.919 --> 00:11:43.360 Yeah, I got it after it it it came out, and uh and I'd had um a 116509 full white gold reference with a silver dial and uh before this, and and again it just it didn't get a whole ton of risk time, even though I like that watch quite a bit. 00:11:43.519 --> 00:11:51.519 Um, but and then I kind of traded that um uh with uh with the dealer for for this and uh and something else as as well. 00:11:51.679 --> 00:11:53.600 So um so that's how I ended up with this guy. 00:11:53.840 --> 00:11:56.399 What uh where did you buy the white gold? 00:11:57.759 --> 00:11:59.360 Where did I get that? 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:01.919 Was it pre-owned or did you get it new? 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:03.279 No, it was pre-owned. 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:08.559 Um I found it like I one of the collector guys that I knew, I think he's based out in California. 00:12:08.799 --> 00:12:11.039 Okay, um, is this who I found it with. 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:17.120 And I had the 116519, uh, which was on the Oyster Flex before that. 00:12:17.279 --> 00:12:18.159 Uh got it. 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:25.440 So we did a swap, uh, plus like a little bit of of cash because he had wanted that one, and I wanted to try the full white gold bracelet. 00:12:25.519 --> 00:12:29.200 So yeah, yeah, it's nice to know a lot of different collectors, you know. 00:12:29.360 --> 00:12:30.960 Well, you're around the space long enough, yeah. 00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:32.320 I guess I'm sure you do that. 00:12:32.399 --> 00:12:35.840 You just you you you collect these kind of people that you know and that are on your radar. 00:12:35.919 --> 00:12:36.879 So it's funny. 00:12:36.960 --> 00:12:40.639 I've never done a deal, actually, now that I think about it, between two collectors. 00:12:40.799 --> 00:12:45.759 Like if I were to, you know, for you and I to do a swap of some variation, like I've never done that before. 00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:50.080 I've only worked either with ADs or I've worked with pre-owned dealers. 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:52.240 Um it's kind of funny. 00:12:52.480 --> 00:12:55.360 So the one on your wrist was pre-owned as well then. 00:12:56.559 --> 00:12:59.679 Um or did you get that one at a boutique? 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:07.120 Uh this was uh yeah, it it was new, uh in a part of kind of a broader trade trade deal. 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:08.399 Okay, cool, cool. 00:13:08.960 --> 00:13:09.440 Nice. 00:13:09.679 --> 00:13:14.799 Uh but yeah, I've I've enjoyed it, and it's uh you know, it gets uh more wrist time than the precious metal ones did. 00:13:15.039 --> 00:13:15.360 Yeah. 00:13:15.600 --> 00:13:18.960 Do you have a particular go-to AD for Rolex? 00:13:19.519 --> 00:13:21.600 Um, I know a few. 00:13:21.759 --> 00:13:35.360 Um, and I know some of the people that work there uh at at some uh at a couple different places, but um but yeah, I'm generally not a guy that's you know uh I don't it's not like I buy all kinds of modern Rolexes and that kind of stuff. 00:13:35.440 --> 00:13:51.200 And right um so you know I try not I'm not like the guy calling in favors or when people find out like casually what I do, you know, like you know, like uh my wife's friend's husband or something, and then I get a check, hey, can you get me one of the like you know, I'm not I'm not that guy. 00:13:51.360 --> 00:13:53.120 And and frankly, I don't think anybody can. 00:13:53.440 --> 00:13:57.679 Somebody recently reached out to me and said, Hey man, I'm really interested in an AP. 00:13:57.840 --> 00:13:59.039 Can you get me this AP? 00:13:59.200 --> 00:14:01.200 And I was like, I can't even get an AP. 00:14:01.360 --> 00:14:02.639 Like, what are you talking about? 00:14:02.960 --> 00:14:04.399 Yeah, it's it's not how it works. 00:14:04.480 --> 00:14:15.039 You know, I play pretty much by the same rules as everyone else, I just know more people, you know, so I have like kind of more opportunities um to uh to to do trade deals to do all that kind of stuff. 00:14:15.200 --> 00:14:15.360 Sure. 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:16.480 So yeah. 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:17.919 Yeah, cool, man. 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:19.200 So how long has it been? 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:20.720 How long have you own that one? 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:26.080 Uh let's see, this came out in 2023 and I had it by the end of that year. 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:26.879 Oh, okay. 00:14:26.960 --> 00:14:27.840 Yeah, okay, right, right. 00:14:27.919 --> 00:14:28.639 2023. 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:33.759 So it's got like the thinner inner uh like the thicker. 00:14:34.320 --> 00:14:38.799 Yeah, that's that's the other kind of you know, I guess controversial thing around it, right? 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:49.120 Because uh the bezel itself has a liner around it, um, which is also kind of akin to the older references um that accepted an insert um into

that assembly. 00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:53.919 Uh so this one has that kind of you know, Rolex called a protective kind of ring around it. 00:14:54.000 --> 00:15:02.639 It's the same metal as the case in this instance, and because that thinned out the bezel a little bit, they kind of reproportioned the rings defining the subdials. 00:15:02.799 --> 00:15:03.120 Yeah. 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:10.000 Which I think in pictures is always kind of like looked maybe a little funny, especially right off the bat, but in person it makes a lot more sense, I think. 00:15:10.320 --> 00:15:17.519 I really want to get my zenith pressure tested because like I kind of like want to wear it on vacation and wear it in the water. 00:15:17.600 --> 00:15:20.000 You know, I mean, you've got the screw-down pushers, obviously. 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:22.639 So like I I I need to get that looked at. 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:28.399 Um, no idea what that would cost, but um, I genuinely want that thing to be functional for sure. 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:29.679 I think that's a great idea. 00:15:29.759 --> 00:15:31.679 That's uh that's such a great watch to wear. 00:15:31.759 --> 00:15:40.159 And in and that that's that particular reference set, I think, is one that looks better with wear because the bezel is polished, obviously. 00:15:40.240 --> 00:15:46.799 So the the more kind of little dings and scratches and whatever you get on it, the the more kind of like muted it looks and yeah. 00:15:47.039 --> 00:15:57.759 I mean, when that thing's like really polished and clean, which I think I got uh I mean mine uh was pre-owned, clearly, um, and I bought it, uh it it appears to be completely unpolished, right? 00:15:57.919 --> 00:16:03.600 Like it still has all its uh sharpness to a degree, uh, given that it's 30 years old. 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:37.600 But um yeah, what's funny about it is if you're in the right light or the right setting, or like you have something black over your head and you're looking down at it, the bezel can look black and the indice or the subdial, I keep saying indices, the subdials can turn black to where it almost looks just like your watch, and which is kind of a wild thing to experience because you're like, oh well, maybe I wouldn't mind a modern one after all, because it kind of looks like this, but then you rotate your wrist 20 degrees and it goes. 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:45.120 Yeah, I mean it really just depends if you if you want that kind of you know, that polished bezel look or or a black bezel look. 00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:48.080 You know, I don't obviously there's no like one right answer or anything like that. 00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:51.120 Uh yeah, I think uh they both have their place. 00:16:51.279 --> 00:16:57.360 And you know, like I said, I'm I'm kind of on the cusp of of adding one of those to to my collection as well. 00:16:57.440 --> 00:17:05.359 So I I would hopefully we'll be able to do kind of like a side-by-side retro review type thing with um uh with the with the older one, I which which would be great. 00:17:05.440 --> 00:17:10.000 Uh you know, so you're going white dial TBD on that. 00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:13.599 Okay, you're not doing uh Patrizie. 00:17:13.920 --> 00:17:16.400 Nah, there's there's kind of a couple on my radar right now. 00:17:16.559 --> 00:17:17.200 Uh okay. 00:17:17.359 --> 00:17:18.160 So we'll see. 00:17:18.400 --> 00:17:20.400 So uh well, TBD. 00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:22.880 Stay tuned, folks, including me. 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:24.079 I can't wait. 00:17:24.640 --> 00:17:25.680 Yeah, exactly. 00:17:25.839 --> 00:17:34.319 Dude, speaking of chronographs, uh I gotta get your your thoughts on the the new Tudor uh Bumblebee Chrono 39. 00:17:34.400 --> 00:17:34.960 Did you see this thing? 00:17:35.039 --> 00:17:35.599 What do you think about it? 00:17:35.759 --> 00:17:37.200 I saw it on television, in fact. 00:17:37.279 --> 00:17:39.359 Uh on television, you saw it on the telly. 00:17:39.519 --> 00:17:42.960 Yeah, I saw it uh on the broadcast of F1. 00:17:43.359 --> 00:17:52.480 Um it was uh really yeah, one of the Racing Bulls um uh pit guys had it or the pit the head what what's his name? 00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:53.599 I can't remember his name. 00:17:53.839 --> 00:17:56.480 Anyway, they showed him and the guy was like wearing it at the race. 00:17:56.640 --> 00:17:58.319 Oh, cool, which was cool. 00:17:58.640 --> 00:18:00.880 Um I I like it. 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:06.640 I mean, yellow is a uh to use, I think it was uh I don't remember whose terminology it was. 00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:08.240 They called yellow a big swing. 00:18:08.400 --> 00:18:12.799 I think it might have been Tony Traina, but yeah, I'm not a yellow fan. 00:18:12.960 --> 00:18:15.039 Uh I don't wear yellow t-shirts. 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:17.359 Uh it makes me look jaundist. 00:18:17.519 --> 00:18:30.559 Um, so uh yellow is not really my dial color, but should they come out with I used to own the tutor Black Bay Chrono uh and just found it to be just not uncomfortable. 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:36.559 That that's uh a bit drastic, but it was thick, it would dig into the back of my hand a bit. 00:18:37.200 --> 00:18:47.839 Um in fact, the Black Bay 41, you know, the Black Bay Black with the ETA original, I had that one, and that crown would sort of dig into the back of my hand as well. 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:50.000 So not unlike the chrono. 00:18:50.240 --> 00:18:51.920 So I ended up moving on. 00:18:52.079 --> 00:18:56.319 I think I owned the chrono for maybe six months, and I was just like, I can't do this. 00:18:56.640 --> 00:18:57.839 But I loved the look. 00:18:58.000 --> 00:19:01.119 I like the twin register, I think it's a really cool look. 00:19:01.279 --> 00:19:10.799 Uh, by all accounts, this new chrono wears much more like a black bay 58, which is a sweet spot for 99% of the people out there. 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:20.640 As a Black Bay 54 owner, I find that to be even better wearing,

but there's no way we're getting a chronograph at 37 mil, which is totally 54 is dope though. 00:19:20.720 --> 00:19:26.319 Yeah, yeah, it's just it's got all that pedigree and heritage look and and just vintage vibe. 00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:30.400 And every time I look down at it, I'm like, oh yeah, 5508, of course. 00:19:31.920 --> 00:19:34.400 Save a hundred grand, but um, whatever. 00:19:34.640 --> 00:19:36.400 Yeah, I think I think it's awesome. 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:41.759 And I can't foresee a world where they wouldn't issue that with other dial colors. 00:19:41.920 --> 00:19:46.640 I just hope it's not that blue that they just released because that is shiny. 00:19:47.359 --> 00:19:48.960 Yeah, no, I'm I'm I'm with you there. 00:19:49.119 --> 00:20:00.799 I'm also not like a huge yellow person, uh, but I do think you know, if it was like uh like a fance yellow or uh uh speed yellow or something like that, you know, it was something matte, yeah, exactly. 00:20:01.039 --> 00:20:07.839 I mean, this is just I don't know, it's just so the vibrant and bright yellow that I'm like, you know. 00:20:08.000 --> 00:20:13.279 Uh but if it was that more kind of subdued yellow, then well, I don't know how I'd feel about it. 00:20:13.359 --> 00:20:15.279 I'm also not a huge yellow guy though, like you know. 00:20:15.519 --> 00:20:18.319 Well, if people are kind of like, why would you do this? 00:20:18.400 --> 00:20:25.039 You know, like which I'm sure someone out there has said uh publicly, I haven't read any negativity actually yet. 00:20:25.200 --> 00:20:39.039 Um, but I think it's because like look, when they came out with like the pink dial chrono for like the Miami soccer team, um, and they've taken some swings with that watch with colors and have seemingly done very well. 00:20:39.440 --> 00:20:47.920 Now I think the fashion in which they release them, sort of like hush hush, or this is for David Beckham only or or for Messi only or whatever. 00:20:48.079 --> 00:20:52.319 Um, I think that maybe sort of commands a different attention. 00:20:52.480 --> 00:20:55.200 But yeah, um I I like it. 00:20:55.359 --> 00:20:56.160 I like it. 00:20:56.480 --> 00:20:57.759 Yeah, yeah, I do too. 00:20:57.839 --> 00:21:03.440 And and sure, yeah, surely we'll get a white one, a black one, and whatever, you know, just more kind of standard, standard one. 00:21:03.519 --> 00:21:04.000 So it's a good one. 00:21:04.160 --> 00:21:08.160 Yeah, uh yeah, they'll be uh yeah, they'll be high. 00:21:08.799 --> 00:21:10.319 And a hell of a price point, right? 00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:14.799 Like so approachable with a robust sort of movement, let's call it. 00:21:14.880 --> 00:21:17.599 I think it's still using the B01, right? 00:21:17.920 --> 00:21:19.440 From Brightling or no? 00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:26.000 Uh it's a very it's yeah, it's a it's a basic because it's it's the same one that was in the regular Black Bay 50. 00:21:26.079 --> 00:21:26.400 Yeah, yeah. 00:21:26.720 --> 00:21:26.960 Right. 00:21:27.119 --> 00:21:29.920 So it's like uh Black Bay chronograph, yeah. 00:21:30.240 --> 00:21:43.759 Um and you just wonder, too, like I think it's not just Tudor, I can't remember who else, but by making it thinner, you're just moving the dial closer to the sapphire oftentimes, and things like that. 00:21:43.839 --> 00:21:47.359 So you're move moving the movement higher in the case. 00:21:47.759 --> 00:21:51.680 And you just kind of wonder like, why wasn't that ever done initially? 00:21:52.000 --> 00:21:53.519 Or was it no one thought of it? 00:21:53.599 --> 00:21:54.480 I I just don't know. 00:21:54.799 --> 00:21:56.799 Yeah, no, I think that's that's a good point, right? 00:21:56.880 --> 00:22:01.279 Like, the uh uh there there is a way that they Could have done this from the get-go. 00:22:01.359 --> 00:22:04.880 The Black Bay chronograph could have always been 14 millimeters. 00:22:05.039 --> 00:22:05.440 Uh yeah. 00:22:05.599 --> 00:22:11.519 You know, it's so it was obviously a kind of a design and aesthetic choice around how they wanted the dial to look, but you know, which is which is fine. 00:22:11.599 --> 00:22:12.640 That's their prerogative. 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:15.680 Uh, but yeah, I I don't mind a dial that's like kind of a little bit closer. 00:22:15.759 --> 00:22:18.559 I think this would be even really cool if it just had like a flat crystal. 00:22:18.720 --> 00:22:19.680 Um, you know, sure. 00:22:20.160 --> 00:22:22.000 Because this still has kind of kind of the domed crystal. 00:22:22.240 --> 00:22:24.799 Maybe it needs it now to get to make room for the hands faster. 00:22:25.440 --> 00:22:25.920 You know, I don't know. 00:22:26.559 --> 00:22:28.559 And then what the slimmer hands, too? 00:22:28.640 --> 00:22:32.079 Didn't they like thin up the hands so they don't obscure the subdials quite as much? 00:22:32.319 --> 00:22:36.000 Yeah, that I have a harder time discerning, to be perfectly frank with you. 00:22:36.319 --> 00:22:36.799 I do. 00:22:37.039 --> 00:22:37.440 Yeah. 00:22:37.599 --> 00:22:57.440 Uh like I looked at at the two of them side by side, and it's uh maybe when you're well, it becomes a proportion thing too, because they didn't just make the hands smaller because the whole watch is smaller, so it's like yeah, it's kind of honestly it reminds me somewhat similar to the uh the ingenure coming out in a blue dial and a 35 millimeter. 00:22:57.680 --> 00:23:01.440 And it's like by all accounts, a lot of people love the way that watch fits. 00:23:01.519 --> 00:23:06.799 And of course, that watch is incredibly comfortable, but there's just something off. 00:23:06.880 --> 00:23:09.759 I think the dial aperture is just too small for me. 00:23:10.079 --> 00:23:16.000 Yeah, all those things that you they're all the little details that you know you that all kind of add up, and it can be something like that. 00:23:16.079 --> 00:23:24.000 The size of the dial aperture is something that not a lot

of people think about, but that make a huge difference in like how big the watch visually it looks. 00:23:24.160 --> 00:23:24.480 Yep. 00:23:25.119 --> 00:23:28.400 And legibility for that matter, and and legibility, all that kind of stuff. 00:23:28.559 --> 00:23:34.319 Uh, so yeah, I'm um I'm curious uh at how this will evolve. 00:23:34.400 --> 00:23:40.319 I like that they've opened up this development direction for uh for the watch, and I think it's a healthy thing for them to do overall. 00:23:40.400 --> 00:23:43.119 So yeah, uh, you know, born to dare. 00:23:43.200 --> 00:23:44.319 Uh yeah, yeah, that's true. 00:23:44.559 --> 00:23:48.559 Born to dare exactly, yeah, totally all yellow. 00:23:48.960 --> 00:23:52.559 But that's why um that's why Tudor is what it is, you know. 00:23:52.720 --> 00:23:56.160 I I like to refer to it as Rolex's skunkworks. 00:23:56.559 --> 00:23:57.519 Yeah, there you go. 00:23:57.680 --> 00:24:00.880 That's uh like it's just they are the daring one, right? 00:24:01.200 --> 00:24:07.920 Yeah, you know, I think that's that's kind of how they use it to segue into more of kind of like a lifestyle territory, you know. 00:24:08.079 --> 00:24:14.799 Yeah, um, you know, just I as we record this just this morning, I think they had some news around aligning with like some runners. 00:24:15.039 --> 00:24:15.599 Oh, really? 00:24:15.759 --> 00:24:35.759 Uh yeah, I haven't really looked looked at it or so uh or read the the the release that uh that I was sent uh but I was like, like are we talking ultra marathon folks or are we talking about um it looks like maybe uh let's see here it's like the thing is you know tutor goes goes running. 00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:41.920 So I think they've aligned with um Tudor hits the trail with the world's top running athletes. 00:24:42.079 --> 00:24:48.240 So it has new like trail running athletes that are now like a part of the brand. 00:24:48.559 --> 00:24:48.880 Yeah. 00:24:49.119 --> 00:24:50.079 Uh let's see here. 00:24:50.160 --> 00:24:51.039 Yeah, these let's see here. 00:24:51.119 --> 00:24:53.359 These guys run 171 kilometers. 00:24:53.759 --> 00:24:54.240 There you go. 00:24:54.400 --> 00:24:55.440 Ultra marathon. 00:24:55.599 --> 00:24:56.160 I thought so. 00:24:56.319 --> 00:24:57.920 So well, here here we go. 00:24:58.079 --> 00:25:00.559 Um what watch are they gonna be wearing? 00:25:00.720 --> 00:25:08.480 Because you would think that's like a Richard Meal sort of lightweight, because God knows you don't want to weigh your wrist down. 00:25:08.880 --> 00:25:19.920 Yeah, I wonder, you know, it would be really cool if they came out with some like super lightweight, you know, Black Bay 54 on titanium, or maybe like a you know, like a um I don't even know. 00:25:20.079 --> 00:25:21.440 What would you even what would you even do? 00:25:21.599 --> 00:25:21.839 Excuse me. 00:25:21.920 --> 00:25:25.839 Maybe like a like a smaller fixed lug uh fixed FXD thing. 00:25:26.000 --> 00:25:31.599 Um just for like just for athletes, but it's like a little maybe lower profile or something like that. 00:25:31.839 --> 00:25:32.880 That makes more sense, yeah. 00:25:33.119 --> 00:25:44.079 Um but yeah, I mean athletes uh these are obviously like world-class little athletes doing this kind of stuff, so I'm sure they have their own kind of sophisticated gadgets and stuff that they're wearing uh to track their. 00:25:44.559 --> 00:25:52.000 I think if they did like a carbon-cased FXD with the Pelagos blue dial, that'd be killer. 00:25:52.720 --> 00:25:55.680 Yeah, it maybe like just slightly smaller, right? 00:25:55.759 --> 00:25:58.240 Yeah, uh, then I think that would that would be a good one. 00:25:58.400 --> 00:26:02.720 Can you imagine that and carbon with like that brighter blue? 00:26:03.759 --> 00:26:04.720 That would work well. 00:26:04.960 --> 00:26:05.759 That would work really well. 00:26:05.920 --> 00:26:07.519 I think it'd be a really great combination. 00:26:07.759 --> 00:26:12.079 Or titanium, I guess, but like carbon would be for running, I would think. 00:26:12.480 --> 00:26:14.319 Yeah, I'd run it, I'd give it a try. 00:26:14.480 --> 00:26:18.799 I don't run uh 171 kilometers in one go. 00:26:19.119 --> 00:26:20.319 Because you do 200? 00:26:20.640 --> 00:26:22.079 Because I do 200. 00:26:22.559 --> 00:26:23.519 Uh let's see. 00:26:24.240 --> 00:26:25.920 I mean, I run a little bit here, you know. 00:26:26.000 --> 00:26:28.400 I I I I run about 30 miles a week. 00:26:28.480 --> 00:26:31.920 Um, you know, I but I I don't wear a mechanical watch while I run. 00:26:32.000 --> 00:26:35.039 I have, but I I would like that's what I use an Apple Watch for. 00:26:35.200 --> 00:26:35.440 Yeah. 00:26:35.599 --> 00:26:48.079 And so I can keep like my uh my heart rate, my my um, you know, my distance of how far my pace, all that kind of stuff, yeah, to to a more or less approximately accurate like degree, right? 00:26:48.319 --> 00:26:50.079 Um so that's that like is that true? 00:26:50.160 --> 00:26:58.240 Is an Apple Watch not to I mean I don't know if it's like as is as accurate if I was doing like um like a chest band for the heart rate or whatever. 00:26:58.400 --> 00:27:00.079 Yeah, but like it gets me in the ballpark. 00:27:00.240 --> 00:27:01.839 I wear it like kind of tight on the wrist. 00:27:01.920 --> 00:27:11.440 I have very light skin, so I think it it can get like a decent read on my on my heart rate, which is really like the most important, you know, because I want to train like with my heart rate in a certain level, like in a certain zone. 00:27:11.599 --> 00:27:18.079 Yeah, so I kind of want to make sure that I'm keeping it in that uh in the is like a Garmin more accurate than an Apple Watch. 00:27:18.160 --> 00:27:29.200 I think they all have the like the same thing similar technology, like yeah, like if you got a bunch of tattoos on your wrist or or a darker skin color, if you wear it kind of loose or sweat

gets in between there, like it can affect like the accuracy. 00:27:29.519 --> 00:27:30.079 Oh, no way. 00:27:30.240 --> 00:27:32.160 Tattoos even wow, yeah. 00:27:32.400 --> 00:27:36.799 But it you know, for me, like again, I'm not some elite athlete that's trained for for whatever. 00:27:36.960 --> 00:27:42.480 So if it can like kind of keep me in the ballpark of where I want to be, then that's like uh I'm more of a power lifter myself. 00:27:42.799 --> 00:27:45.039 So um I could tell you're huge. 00:27:45.200 --> 00:27:46.799 I'm in bulking season right now. 00:27:46.880 --> 00:27:48.000 I don't know if you could tell. 00:27:48.160 --> 00:27:49.359 Yeah, yeah. 00:27:49.519 --> 00:27:52.319 You've got a you've got a protein meter on your uh watch, right? 00:27:52.559 --> 00:27:52.960 What is funny? 00:27:53.039 --> 00:27:57.119 I I guess I never shared what I was wearing, but um just the G Shock baby. 00:27:57.599 --> 00:27:59.440 All right, I like the high low here. 00:27:59.759 --> 00:28:01.839 That's like a murdered out uh G Shock. 00:28:02.160 --> 00:28:05.920 Yeah, it doesn't have like the uh the red and blue on the dial or the face. 00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:07.200 Um it's pretty cool. 00:28:07.440 --> 00:28:13.039 I got this from Amazon, I want to say during COVID, probably 2020. 00:28:13.359 --> 00:28:23.200 All right, you know, I felt it was uh kind of you know a COVID-esque watch, you know, sort of the apocalypse feeling in 2020. 00:28:23.359 --> 00:28:26.640 So I was like, what better to get than a G-Shock? 00:28:27.599 --> 00:28:29.039 How often do you wear it? 00:28:29.599 --> 00:28:30.880 Uh good question. 00:28:31.039 --> 00:28:38.880 Um if I I so I haven't been on my bike in like a year and a half, but this was almost exclusively like my cycling watch. 00:28:39.119 --> 00:28:44.160 Uh uh, just because like if I god forbid ever crashed, I didn't want to like screw something up. 00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:50.240 Like I know Zach Pinha like wears anything and everything on his bike, but yeah, he's a psycho though. 00:28:50.400 --> 00:28:54.000 He's just below pro level, I think, as far as cycling goes. 00:28:54.240 --> 00:28:58.160 Um we love Zach, by the way, around here and totally giving a shit about that. 00:28:58.400 --> 00:28:59.519 Yeah, no, a hundred percent. 00:28:59.680 --> 00:29:04.960 Like, but like legit, he's like probably sub just under pro. 00:29:05.279 --> 00:29:07.680 Um dudes dudes built for the bike. 00:29:07.839 --> 00:29:14.160 Uh whereas I did it more for just cardio and enjoyment and sightseeing around San Diego. 00:29:14.319 --> 00:29:16.559 Uh, but I mean I would do some big miles. 00:29:16.640 --> 00:29:28.880 Like, I mean, my average ride, I would say during COVID was 24 to 40 miles, and then you know, somewhere in that neighborhood, and then once in a blue moon, I'd do like 50, 60. 00:29:29.200 --> 00:29:33.119 Um, but I've never done a century, never ridden it 100 miles. 00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:34.720 I've always wanted to. 00:29:34.880 --> 00:29:38.799 Um, yeah, yeah, for sure. 00:29:39.039 --> 00:29:49.039 Um, but right now I just don't have the time, you know, um, with with the little one and everything, and um juggling, traveling, and and all the rest of that. 00:29:49.119 --> 00:29:51.599 But um I really do want to get back on the bike. 00:29:51.759 --> 00:29:58.640 But I just I I always prided myself historically on having a lot of hobbies, you know, watching F1. 00:29:58.799 --> 00:30:12.480 I like photography, I rode bikes, I played golf, I like to surf, I love driving cars, you know, and it's like and then throw in the watches and the watch meetups and dining out and traveling and you know, it's all this stuff, right? 00:30:12.559 --> 00:30:15.359 Yeah, snowboarding if I could ever find the time. 00:30:15.599 --> 00:30:27.440 And now it's just kind of like okay, I wonder if it does make sense to sort of pair some of this back and uh just to like put more focus into like a couple like fewer amounts of things. 00:30:27.680 --> 00:30:29.839 Well, I only have so much time, right? 00:30:30.160 --> 00:30:49.200 Well, it's less about that and more just like not the FOMO aspect of well, God, I haven't ridden my bike, and now I feel bad because every time I step into my garage and see it hanging on the wall, I feel like it's just the reminder of and then sometimes you know, once in a blue moon, I'll step on the scale and also be reminded that I haven't ridden. 00:30:49.440 --> 00:30:52.000 Um so you know, it's a combination of things. 00:30:52.240 --> 00:30:55.440 Well, you're a dad now, so that means you can, you know, you can let yourself go a little bit. 00:30:56.240 --> 00:31:04.079 Um, you know, it's funny, I didn't gain that much weight as much as what kills me is the travel. 00:31:04.160 --> 00:31:09.759 And I've I've like, you know, because you're going out, you're eating, you're drinking, you're partying, whatever. 00:31:10.160 --> 00:31:11.920 You know, it gets to you quick. 00:31:12.160 --> 00:31:15.119 And it just yeah, it and that's really it. 00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:27.680 But I've I've really kind of leaned into this year, especially, is the hotel gym, and just like really making sure that I'm like don't plan anything before like 11 a.m. 00:31:27.920 --> 00:31:31.279 so that I can like really wake up, get my coffee, go to the gym. 00:31:31.519 --> 00:31:41.039 You know, I'm not running 30 miles a week, but you know, I'll I'll you know run for 20 minutes and then get in and lift, or you know, so I've got like an hour or something in the gym. 00:31:41.119 --> 00:31:43.039 So yeah, love a good hotel gym. 00:31:43.200 --> 00:31:46.559 Um, yeah, it just I don't know, it just makes such a big difference. 00:31:46.720 --> 00:31:53.200 Like ironically, I it was probably becoming a dad that kind of like made me think about my own health moral. 00:31:53.519 --> 00:31:53.680 Sure. 00:31:53.759 --> 00:32:01.440 And like exactly well, and like you

know, I wanted to be able to play catch and do all the active things, you know. 00:32:01.519 --> 00:32:05.839 Cause when you have a kid, you you think about all these things that you want to want to start doing. 00:32:06.000 --> 00:32:09.599 And uh I got a much start, I got a much later start than you did. 00:32:09.680 --> 00:32:22.160 Uh to I had like you know, I was I was I had I had let myself go, and it was really becoming that that made me kind of think like, oh, I gotta get my I gotta get my ass back in shape if I wanna I didn't know Chubby Blake. 00:32:22.799 --> 00:32:34.319 Yeah, I mean I don't know what you call it, but yeah, I was I was definitely I was uh you know larger um okay on the larger side and then uh but I did crow like I ran cross country in high school so I knew how to r get myself into rescue. 00:32:34.480 --> 00:32:34.960 Yeah, sure. 00:32:35.119 --> 00:32:51.359 Um so I did that, and obviously you can't outrun a bad diet, so it was like that in in the kitchen and then you know running and uh those two things, but you know, it can't be like a fad thing because other it can't be something that's just you can gonna do for a few weeks or a month or two, lose a few pounds and then be like, great, I'm done. 00:32:51.599 --> 00:32:59.920 Like it has to be how you think about your your life as a as a whole, and and things that you can sustain over the course of like years and decades. 00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:05.599 Otherwise, you're always gonna be battling um you know, the scale, the fork, the you know, whatever however you want to. 00:33:05.759 --> 00:33:07.359 I mean, that that is my life, honestly. 00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:17.200 Like I I get into these routines and it's great, and then I hit the road and it gets disrupted, and then I come home, and then it's recovery like from a work standpoint, not a body standpoint. 00:33:17.359 --> 00:33:20.319 Well, sometimes a body more of a liver recovery standpoint. 00:33:20.559 --> 00:33:21.839 Yeah, yeah, no, I know, I know what you mean. 00:33:21.920 --> 00:33:29.200 Yeah, so I've I've actually been a lot more like top of mind too, as to like, okay, maybe maybe just like cap it at two or three drinks. 00:33:29.359 --> 00:33:31.519 Like, we don't really need to go. 00:33:31.680 --> 00:33:35.200 And I'm not actually historically one to get that hung over, really. 00:33:35.359 --> 00:33:42.400 Honestly, I've been blessed with that my entire life, where I could drink five IPAs and be fine the next day, you know. 00:33:42.720 --> 00:33:47.599 Um now not so much, but um Yeah, it's never easy as you get older. 00:33:47.759 --> 00:33:48.160 I don't know. 00:33:48.319 --> 00:33:51.519 I've I've yeah, it it's it's it's and that's another thing too. 00:33:51.599 --> 00:33:59.519 The kid, like how I even think about my long term, like I can see where like I've got cut like kind of I don't drink all that often these days. 00:33:59.599 --> 00:34:00.240 And okay. 00:34:00.400 --> 00:34:04.079 Uh and you know, I could see a future where I just like it's not that big a deal at all. 00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:06.160 Like I don't drink at all, right? 00:34:06.559 --> 00:34:08.400 I thought about quitting at 50. 00:34:08.719 --> 00:34:11.119 At 50, that's the that's the that's the number. 00:34:11.280 --> 00:34:12.400 I've I I've thought about it. 00:34:12.639 --> 00:34:15.360 Just because it's like, all right, you're halfway to a hundred. 00:34:16.320 --> 00:34:20.719 Though you've only been drinking, I guess legally for what is that, 29 years. 00:34:21.039 --> 00:34:29.360 Um I I just thought about 50 just because by that point my daughter will be I don't know, four or five. 00:34:29.840 --> 00:34:35.679 And like I just think that like I don't know, like I've I've done it, you know? 00:34:35.840 --> 00:34:38.000 Yeah, like it's kind of like watch ownership. 00:34:38.159 --> 00:34:40.480 Like sometimes you're just like, okay, I've experienced it. 00:34:40.559 --> 00:34:42.000 I I don't need it, you know? 00:34:42.159 --> 00:34:42.800 Yeah, yeah. 00:34:43.039 --> 00:34:43.920 I don't know, we'll see. 00:34:44.000 --> 00:34:45.119 I got four years. 00:34:46.000 --> 00:34:47.440 Yeah, yeah, you don't need it. 00:34:47.840 --> 00:34:51.599 Yeah, it's uh it's it's when when I'm 50, let's see here. 00:34:51.840 --> 00:34:53.599 My my birthday's tomorrow, actually. 00:34:53.679 --> 00:34:54.960 Uh as we're no way. 00:34:55.119 --> 00:34:55.840 Well, happy birthday. 00:34:56.159 --> 00:34:56.800 Uh well, thank you. 00:34:56.880 --> 00:34:59.920 I turned 43, so that'll be seven years. 00:35:00.159 --> 00:35:05.280 In seven years, my son will be just about to turn 21. 00:35:05.519 --> 00:35:07.280 Oh, so maybe maybe you go out with one. 00:35:09.039 --> 00:35:12.559 Yeah, I go hang with all him and his 21-year-old buddies. 00:35:12.719 --> 00:35:15.039 Yeah, get wasted one good time with your son. 00:35:15.440 --> 00:35:19.440 That's then he'll probably say, Dad, I never want to see you like that again. 00:35:19.519 --> 00:35:20.559 And you're saying, No problem. 00:35:20.719 --> 00:35:21.519 Yeah, no problem. 00:35:22.480 --> 00:35:23.360 Yeah, exactly. 00:35:23.679 --> 00:35:25.360 That's actually sounds kind of fun. 00:35:25.519 --> 00:35:26.719 Like, that's cool. 00:35:28.079 --> 00:35:29.840 That's not that long though, seven years. 00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:31.599 God, I have three and a half. 00:35:31.679 --> 00:35:32.800 I'm doing the math. 00:35:33.039 --> 00:35:34.719 You're old, you're too old. 00:35:36.400 --> 00:35:37.599 A hundred percent. 00:35:37.840 --> 00:35:42.800 Trust me, I'm reminded every day when you're like, Oh yeah, like I want to be healthy to throw the ball and stuff. 00:35:42.960 --> 00:35:45.280 I'm like, I want to tie my shoe. 00:35:45.360 --> 00:35:46.079 Are you kidding me? 00:35:46.159 --> 00:35:47.599 Like, I'm wearing loafers now. 00:35:47.760 --> 00:35:49.440 Yeah, oh yeah, dude. 00:35:49.519 --> 00:35:54.239 Bend in the

back some, you know, bending down, you're tying your shoes some days, all that kind of stuff. 00:35:54.320 --> 00:35:56.079 Yeah, you feel it. 00:35:56.159 --> 00:35:56.559 You feel it. 00:35:56.960 --> 00:35:57.280 So funny. 00:35:57.440 --> 00:35:59.519 I think as a whole, though, we're doing pretty well. 00:35:59.840 --> 00:36:00.639 Yeah, totally. 00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:02.559 Like, I'm not, I'm not sweating it. 00:36:02.639 --> 00:36:05.440 Oh, although, yeah, I mean, I I feel pretty good. 00:36:05.599 --> 00:36:08.159 Um, but yeah, there are the the subtle reminders. 00:36:08.320 --> 00:36:13.519 This morning I woke up with like a sore back, and I'm like, what did I do yesterday? 00:36:13.760 --> 00:36:19.679 You know, anyway, let's uh maybe maybe you know uh get off this path. 00:36:19.840 --> 00:36:26.880 I doubt people want to listen to our ailments, but um our wisdom uh so this past weekend. 00:36:27.039 --> 00:36:36.239 Um, for those listening, unfortunately Blake had some trouble with the internet, but uh yeah uh had to stream the F1 race on his phone, no less. 00:36:36.320 --> 00:36:37.679 Um yeah, it's true. 00:36:38.000 --> 00:36:40.719 You missed the pit coverage with the bumblebee, obviously. 00:36:40.880 --> 00:36:43.840 So yeah, which is totally fine. 00:36:44.000 --> 00:36:51.920 Uh but this race in Monaco, okay, so yeah, I I made a comment, I think maybe even on the F1 uh Instagram. 00:36:52.079 --> 00:36:57.199 So I don't remember what the post was, but it was like, oh, a beautiful day here, and this was like Thursday, Friday. 00:36:57.360 --> 00:36:59.440 So I was like, oh wow, it's gorgeous. 00:36:59.599 --> 00:37:00.880 It must rain on Sunday. 00:37:00.960 --> 00:37:03.280 And then someone replied, nothing in the forecast. 00:37:03.519 --> 00:37:06.880 Ended up being a gorgeous day in Monaco. 00:37:07.119 --> 00:37:10.800 My one of my favorite weekends, like I said, Spa's my favorite track. 00:37:10.880 --> 00:37:13.599 There, I do have a soft spot for Monaco as well. 00:37:13.840 --> 00:37:20.400 Uh, I just love the I mean June on the Mediterranean, it looked gorgeous, like the overhead shots. 00:37:20.719 --> 00:37:23.039 You just wanted to be there, yes, yes, the whole time. 00:37:23.440 --> 00:37:30.719 The water is so crystal clear in a way that like it doesn't always appear that way, probably because of the cloud cover, right? 00:37:30.800 --> 00:37:32.320 And the often rain. 00:37:32.480 --> 00:37:32.800 Yeah. 00:37:32.960 --> 00:37:35.840 Um Max didn't even get off the line. 00:37:36.079 --> 00:37:37.679 Uh yeah, what's up? 00:37:37.840 --> 00:37:39.280 I was uh what I feel terrible. 00:37:39.679 --> 00:37:42.800 He did he did the Kimmy walk right right off the track. 00:37:43.199 --> 00:37:45.760 Yeah, that would have yeah, he just like went home. 00:37:46.079 --> 00:37:52.800 Probably to like uh you know to get to get on the sim and uh yeah, he or destroy a vase of some sort. 00:37:53.039 --> 00:37:54.320 Yeah,

who knows? 00:37:54.719 --> 00:38:03.199 Yeah, I but he feels he seems kind of like over over a lot, but man, you know, he custled that car uh around that track in qualifying. 00:38:03.440 --> 00:38:06.000 Uh you know, honestly, just like incredible. 00:38:06.079 --> 00:38:11.440 Him and Kimmy watching them were just like on another level, it seemed uh from everybody else. 00:38:11.599 --> 00:38:23.119 And you know, obviously Max is dealing with a Red Bull, uh, which now, according to the FIA, have the strongest engine in terms of the internal combustion component, actually. 00:38:23.199 --> 00:38:25.199 So um, and not Mercedes. 00:38:25.280 --> 00:38:34.960 So, you know, the the adjustment benefits, all that kind of stuff, the adjuo will be given to Mercedes-powered cars, Ferrari powered to what extent I don't think is quite clear yet. 00:38:35.039 --> 00:38:44.239 But I thought that was really interesting that uh right out of the gates, this Red Bull Ford developed engine is you know so strong, has been so strong. 00:38:44.320 --> 00:38:48.000 Uh, I I still think everybody on the grid would say the Mercedes engine is the best engine. 00:38:48.079 --> 00:38:57.440 Uh, but for however whatever metric they're using to judge it, you know, they're saying that that's the str like uh the internal combustion component of it is the strongest engine on the grid. 00:38:57.760 --> 00:38:59.920 So you know, hats off to Red Bull and Ford. 00:39:00.079 --> 00:39:07.280 You know, that could be Horner's crowning achievement at the end of the day, like getting that thing developed and in the car, you know. 00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:08.800 So hats off to them. 00:39:09.440 --> 00:39:19.199 Yeah, the race itself was was um entertaining, boring, and perplexing, I think, are the three words I would I would use. 00:39:19.360 --> 00:39:29.920 Uh the penalties was just it almost seemed like a not a conspiracy, but it was almost just kind of like, oh, well, nobody's getting past, nothing's happening, so let's see if we can mix this up, is how it started. 00:39:30.639 --> 00:39:31.280 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:39:31.360 --> 00:39:32.000 I know, right? 00:39:32.159 --> 00:39:47.679 It's uh yeah, all the penalties was crazy, and that's I think came down to how they judge the speed of the cars, which is like um like over like distance traveled over time instead of literally like using a speed gun to measure their speed. 00:39:47.840 --> 00:40:00.880 Uh so they it there's like uh blocks of the grid um of the pit lane, sorry, and and if they if it takes more than X amount of time to cover that distance, then they get dinged with the the speeding. 00:40:01.039 --> 00:40:08.320 And some of the cars they're saying were cutting a corner, which was effectively making that distance shorter, so they weren't technically speeding. 00:40:08.639 --> 00:40:13.599 But I was gonna say, how is it that this percentage of cars could do this in the pit lane? 00:40:13.679 --> 00:40:15.119 I've never before seen something like this. 00:40:15.199 --> 00:40:18.159 But then that makes all the sense of the world. 00:40:18.239 --> 00:40:20.159 Yeah, well, you know how tight the pit lane is there. 00:40:20.320 --> 00:40:27.599 Yeah, so it's so the cars, I think you know, leaving and maybe entering, it's like a corner that they kind of cut a little bit, which I think they do at every track. 00:40:27.920 --> 00:40:31.920 I mean, it must be like speeding by two hundredths of a second or something. 00:40:32.159 --> 00:40:36.880 It was it was 0.1 kilometers per hour for for them, which is what it turned out to be. 00:40:37.119 --> 00:40:38.719 Yeah, that's insane. 00:40:39.280 --> 00:40:41.119 So, yeah, I I think so too. 00:40:41.199 --> 00:40:50.960 Uh the and the only one that really ended up kind of getting, you know, a bum, you know, the bum end of the stick uh because of it is Pierre Gasly, who would have finished on the podium. 00:40:51.199 --> 00:40:51.440 Right. 00:40:51.599 --> 00:40:54.159 Uh, because it was very much a race of attrition. 00:40:54.320 --> 00:40:57.119 Uh and you know, that's just where he netted out. 00:40:57.199 --> 00:41:11.039 Uh so uh, but because of the penalties in the speeding, I think Alpine is going to um appeal it, like uh formally appeal, yeah, and like make their case to the to the FA in um uh Barcelona this uh this weekend. 00:41:11.119 --> 00:41:12.239 So that's wild. 00:41:12.559 --> 00:41:13.599 Yeah, I hate it. 00:41:13.679 --> 00:41:29.119 I mean, Charles crashing out, you know, like that's just he was complaining about his brakes, which actually I don't recall in the broadcast him ever being on the radio complaining about it, but I thought it was a cold tire thing because it was just the one lap, right? 00:41:29.199 --> 00:41:30.559 After the the restart. 00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:33.440 Yeah, well, I think it was cold brakes, uh, probably. 00:41:33.599 --> 00:41:38.000 Uh, but the the but he was saying the rears weren't even working. 00:41:38.320 --> 00:41:39.119 Yeah, exactly. 00:41:39.360 --> 00:41:41.519 So he was saying, I think complaining about the brakes, right? 00:41:41.599 --> 00:41:49.039 But then they showed the road in that section, it was like all chocolate like uh like it looked like the road had been kind of like torn apart almost in certain sections. 00:41:49.519 --> 00:41:50.400 Well, that's what they were saying. 00:41:50.639 --> 00:41:55.519 Was that the same section that uh stroll wasn't that turn 19 as well, right? 00:41:55.760 --> 00:41:57.679 Going into Rascass or coming out of it. 00:41:57.840 --> 00:41:58.800 I think it's I don't know. 00:41:59.119 --> 00:42:02.800 I don't I didn't see which exactly what Stroll was, but it was about the same part of the track. 00:42:02.880 --> 00:42:11.280 I don't know if it was the same like issue of the road being like that, like there was no surface right, yeah, like for the tire to to catch on to. 00:42:11.360 --> 00:42:11.840 So I don't know.

00:42:11.920 --> 00:42:12.800 It's so weird though. 00:42:12.960 --> 00:42:14.079 So what let me ask you this. 00:42:14.239 --> 00:42:20.000 So after qualifying, and it's uh you know, Kimmy Max 1-2 with both Ferraris right behind them. 00:42:20.159 --> 00:42:30.960 Yeah, so this year the Ferraris have been traditionally very good at off the line, they've got those smaller turbos, so they've were you thinking oh the Ferraris are just gonna whoop like swallow these guys up? 00:42:31.119 --> 00:42:33.440 Or or what how are you thinking the start was gonna go? 00:42:33.519 --> 00:42:36.079 It seems like the other cars have maybe got their start sorted, though. 00:42:36.159 --> 00:42:36.639 I don't know. 00:42:36.880 --> 00:42:39.280 But you're talking about the initial start of the race, or you're talking about the streets. 00:42:39.440 --> 00:42:40.559 Yeah, the start of the race. 00:42:40.800 --> 00:42:42.480 Okay, like yeah, the initial start. 00:42:42.800 --> 00:42:45.360 Because I thought Lewis was gonna get him on the restart. 00:42:45.760 --> 00:42:47.679 Um that too, right? 00:42:47.760 --> 00:42:53.199 Because again, the Ferraris generally started better than the Mercedes cars, like just from zero. 00:42:53.440 --> 00:42:53.679 Correct. 00:42:53.840 --> 00:42:55.360 So I thought, oh, this is Lewis's chance. 00:42:56.000 --> 00:42:59.360 Because Max was where he was in two, right? 00:42:59.519 --> 00:43:02.960 So those guys were even further back from Kimmy. 00:43:03.360 --> 00:43:11.039 So um, yeah, that's the only reason why on the restart I'm saying, like, I was I was kind of fingers crossed. 00:43:11.280 --> 00:43:14.800 I mean, look, as an IWC fan, I'm pulling for Mercedes. 00:43:14.960 --> 00:43:15.119 Sure. 00:43:15.440 --> 00:43:16.960 As a race fan, I'm pulling for Ferrari. 00:43:17.039 --> 00:43:18.159 I'm a Ferrari man, right? 00:43:18.320 --> 00:43:18.639 Yeah, yeah. 00:43:18.800 --> 00:43:20.079 And I've come around on Lewis. 00:43:20.159 --> 00:43:22.000 Like, I did you see that clip by the way? 00:43:22.159 --> 00:43:29.679 Let me interrupt myself for two seconds of Toto looking at the board and being like, oh, I thought we had three drivers there for a second. 00:43:29.840 --> 00:43:30.000 Yeah. 00:43:30.239 --> 00:43:31.039 Did you see that clip? 00:43:31.280 --> 00:43:32.480 I love how proud he still is. 00:43:32.960 --> 00:43:33.199 I don't know. 00:43:33.360 --> 00:43:34.800 I just think it's so touching, man. 00:43:35.119 --> 00:43:36.559 I really think it's really beautiful. 00:43:36.960 --> 00:43:47.280 I think he genuinely cares for for these guys, you know, and he fostered Lewis for, you know, obviously, uh six of his um seven championships. 00:43:47.599 --> 00:43:49.119 Uh right, yeah. 00:43:49.199 --> 00:43:52.960 So he like I I think those two have a special like a very strong. 00:43:53.440 --> 00:43:58.880 They've gotta be like uh uh brothers or like uncle nephew type of vibe, you know? 00:43:59.119 --> 00:43:59.280 Yeah. 00:43:59.519 --> 00:43:59.760 Yeah. 00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:08.000 Um yeah and it's great to see you know how Toto kind of looks after Kimmy now in brand you know kind of bringing away. 00:44:08.079 --> 00:44:16.960 Well you better obviously like he he saw something in him, you know, I don't know what it was, that uh he's like, nope, this kid is gonna be something special. 00:44:17.119 --> 00:44:20.000 Yeah, and look at him five races in a row. 00:44:20.159 --> 00:44:20.639 Unbelievable. 00:44:20.960 --> 00:44:21.360 It's insane. 00:44:21.440 --> 00:44:31.039 Did you I saw all the metrics of like the youngest to do XYZ, and it was like Vettel, Max, Lewis, Max, and it's now all Antonelli. 00:44:31.360 --> 00:44:38.800 Yeah, it's it was like I think um winning four races in a row, youngest to win a Grand Prix, I think. 00:44:38.880 --> 00:44:43.920 Yeah, uh there was like I don't know, like nine metrics, and it's all Kimmy Antonelli now. 00:44:44.159 --> 00:44:48.400 We could be witnessing something special uh you know unfold before before us. 00:44:48.639 --> 00:44:51.440 I do think coming in comparisons, yeah. 00:44:51.519 --> 00:45:00.719 Uh but I think coming into these uh these these more kind of traditional European tracks that we're about to will be a good indicator of, you know, because Monaco's like always an outlier. 00:45:00.880 --> 00:45:05.360 There's all these kind of like, well, yeah, but well, yeah, this, you know. 00:45:05.599 --> 00:45:08.239 So well, and then it's also the car, right? 00:45:08.320 --> 00:45:11.039 Everybody wants to say, Well, it's the car, it's the car. 00:45:11.280 --> 00:45:12.159 But look at George. 00:45:12.400 --> 00:45:15.440 George, George has the same car by all accounts. 00:45:15.679 --> 00:45:28.239 Um, no shots of George, but I mean it's and George is like the mature established driver, like for all intents and purposes, you know, he's the one that should be uh you know, head and shoulders out and take everybody else, yeah. 00:45:28.480 --> 00:45:34.960 You know, and and and he's of course kind of in this stage of like I just don't quite get along with this generation of car, whatever it is, you know, I don't know. 00:45:35.119 --> 00:45:39.280 But um uh but for Kimmy to like really just kind of adapt to it, right? 00:45:39.599 --> 00:45:45.199 Just write like this, and uh and then if you if you have the best car, what are you expected to do with it? 00:45:45.360 --> 00:45:47.679 Make the most of it, and that's exactly what he's doing. 00:45:47.760 --> 00:45:52.159 Like he's doing what you would expect somebody with the best car to do, who's also the best driver, right? 00:45:52.400 --> 00:45:54.719 And Kimmy's what this is a sophomore season, right? 00:45:54.880 --> 00:46:01.840 This is a sophomore season, so he's still got that like grit because he still feels obviously like he's got something to prove. 00:46:02.000 --> 00:46:07.440 Because literally, like last year was you know,

it wasn't this year as far as his results go. 00:46:07.519 --> 00:46:25.679 Yeah, so yeah, um, I think he doesn't know what he doesn't know, and then once you start winning, it's like a there's the momentum, there's the emotional momentum, there's the self-confidence, but then throw in like the Senna comparison where it's almost like I'm just doing whatever I have to do to win this race, you know. 00:46:26.000 --> 00:46:28.559 Yeah, he's he's drives with like reckless abandon. 00:46:28.719 --> 00:46:29.039 It's awesome. 00:46:29.280 --> 00:46:32.559 Yeah, if I if I run George off the track, that's a George problem. 00:46:32.800 --> 00:46:34.159 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:46:34.400 --> 00:46:44.559 Yeah, I mean, obviously, it would it's great when when the cars are you know able to when the dri when the drivers are all right there and and they all get to be competitive with each other, and we see great racing as a result. 00:46:44.719 --> 00:46:45.360 Like, I want that. 00:46:45.440 --> 00:46:46.639 I think we all want that. 00:46:46.800 --> 00:46:47.039 Totally. 00:46:47.199 --> 00:47:00.480 You know, so you know, hopefully this weekend in Spain we'll see we'll see more of that, um, which is more kind of like old school style track, um, you know, wide, big runoffs, all that kind of stuff, big sweeping corners. 00:47:00.639 --> 00:47:03.519 Um, so you know, the cars should be able to stretch their legs a little bit more. 00:47:03.679 --> 00:47:08.400 Uh, you know, I don't know, I don't know how the energy situation is going to play out. 00:47:08.559 --> 00:47:16.480 Yeah, uh, I think I saw they have I think there's four like straight line areas on the track uh this year that they'll be able to open up the front and rear wings. 00:47:16.639 --> 00:47:24.880 So yeah, hopefully, yeah, I want to see the cars racing in and amongst each other up front, you know, whether it's on the same team or or a different team. 00:47:25.039 --> 00:47:30.880 So, you know, I do think that the um the McLaren will probably look better in Spain than they're gonna be. 00:47:33.199 --> 00:47:34.559 I'm just feeling for that guy. 00:47:34.719 --> 00:47:42.880 Well, I mean, going from championship winner to like middle of the pack, which is kind of where he's existed most of his career, right? 00:47:43.039 --> 00:47:50.880 Yeah, but I mean look, he got that chip, so yeah, he's you can tell you can tell he has like kind of this like a load off of him now. 00:47:51.119 --> 00:47:52.400 Like okay. 00:47:52.480 --> 00:48:04.880 I got my I got my dub for the drivers championship, and uh, you know, I can I can go out there and and still perform, but he doesn't seem like as high strung tense as he had in the past, I guess. 00:48:05.119 --> 00:48:05.840 And I'm not even gonna be a little bit more than that. 00:48:08.159 --> 00:48:08.960 That's why. 00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:12.559 Yeah, I'm sure they're getting along better now. 00:48:12.639 --> 00:48:13.599 Uh sure. 00:48:14.159 --> 00:48:17.679 Look, it's still a long season, so I mean, look at Piastri last season. 00:48:17.760 --> 00:48:22.079 Um what do you think the relationship is between Charles and Lewis? 00:48:22.239 --> 00:48:24.000 Do you find them to be close? 00:48:24.639 --> 00:48:28.719 Or sort of just like, hey man, we're here, we're just gonna do our own thing. 00:48:28.960 --> 00:48:30.159 Um, I don't know. 00:48:30.320 --> 00:48:35.039 I think they they both seem a little tough to read, and I think that's probably intentional. 00:48:35.119 --> 00:48:39.360 Uh and I think Lewis seems very kind of like closed off for the most part. 00:48:39.519 --> 00:48:39.920 Yeah. 00:48:40.159 --> 00:48:43.199 Like uh, like I like I don't know. 00:48:43.280 --> 00:48:57.039 I I don't have a sense of like what he's maybe like behind closed doors or what kind of a person he is because he seems so like um just measured in how he responds to everything, and obviously through many years of training and doing all this kind of stuff, right? 00:48:57.280 --> 00:49:04.719 So yeah, I feel like his uh his celebrity to some degree has almost eclipsed him being a driver, if that makes sense. 00:49:05.039 --> 00:49:11.119 Yeah, almost it's and it's not because of Kardashians and all that stuff, it's really just him. 00:49:11.199 --> 00:49:13.280 Like this is pre-Kim, all that. 00:49:13.440 --> 00:49:22.480 Like uh it just seems almost like he's like he's the celebrity of the sport, so to speak. 00:49:22.800 --> 00:49:23.199 Yeah. 00:49:23.760 --> 00:49:31.679 Like even if you're like doing a grid walk, it's like Lewis is like almost like in a different category than the rest of the drivers on the grid. 00:49:32.239 --> 00:49:32.880 Yeah, yeah. 00:49:32.960 --> 00:49:35.119 He's from an aura standpoint. 00:49:35.360 --> 00:49:36.400 Yeah, that's that's true. 00:49:36.559 --> 00:49:43.760 And but I think he I think it's by like by design that he is kind of like you you can't penetrate that, like it just kind of is what it is. 00:49:44.079 --> 00:49:47.039 Because he's a purple Jedi, or well, yeah, right. 00:49:47.119 --> 00:49:50.960 He's he's but look at like the you know, the fits that he comes to the track with, all that kind of stuff. 00:49:51.119 --> 00:49:59.679 Like I think that's all designed to kind of put up this this image of who he is and all that kind of stuff, but yeah, like just chilling with him, like behind closed doors. 00:49:59.760 --> 00:50:01.760 What's like I have no idea what he might be. 00:50:01.920 --> 00:50:06.880 Whereas, like, you know, Max, I could probably he's probably exactly the same, no matter what. 00:50:07.039 --> 00:50:11.360 Like, I feel like you're getting exactly who he is all the time, and that's that, which is great. 00:50:11.519 --> 00:50:13.519 Uh, and and maybe some of the other guys too. 00:50:13.599 --> 00:50:17.599 Uh, but uh, but with Lewis, it's I don't know. 00:50:17.760 --> 00:50:18.480 I don't know, man. 00:50:18.559 --> 00:50:21.599 I

um well, most of these guys have YouTube channels now, right? 00:50:21.679 --> 00:50:26.400 So you can like follow Carlos signs, you can follow Charles Leclerc, like and maybe even Lando. 00:50:26.719 --> 00:50:30.239 And it's like they do seem like super approachable, like Carlos. 00:50:30.320 --> 00:50:34.400 Like, I want to play golf with that guy, like he just like seems like the real deal. 00:50:34.800 --> 00:50:35.519 Seems fine, yeah. 00:50:35.679 --> 00:50:38.960 Uh, you know, you know, Lewis was on a hot ones episode. 00:50:39.199 --> 00:50:41.280 Was he last year, maybe? 00:50:41.440 --> 00:50:42.639 Yeah, I think he was. 00:50:42.880 --> 00:50:45.039 Um just remember I had to have seen that. 00:50:45.119 --> 00:50:47.119 Like, uh, that's a show I don't miss, actually. 00:50:47.360 --> 00:50:53.840 And even even um, even that, it's a little bit hard to like you can tell there's still a little bit of a guard up. 00:50:53.920 --> 00:50:57.039 Um, but he does let down maybe a little bit uh more. 00:50:57.119 --> 00:50:58.000 So definitely find that. 00:50:58.079 --> 00:51:03.039 If uh we'll link it in the I got yeah, I gotta yeah, I gotta pull that up, see if I saw that one. 00:51:03.119 --> 00:51:06.159 I I'm sure I did, especially if it was Lewis, right? 00:51:06.239 --> 00:51:09.599 Like, not even just hot ones, but hot ones with Lewis. 00:51:09.679 --> 00:51:11.119 It's like, yeah, I'm not missing this. 00:51:11.360 --> 00:51:12.239 Hot ones with Lewis? 00:51:12.400 --> 00:51:13.679 Yeah, I'll have to give that a quick Google. 00:51:14.159 --> 00:51:16.079 Yeah, because I think he was already a Ferrari driver. 00:51:16.239 --> 00:51:18.079 I think it was last year uh that that he did it. 00:51:18.239 --> 00:51:18.719 Oh funny. 00:51:18.800 --> 00:51:18.960 Okay. 00:51:19.199 --> 00:51:19.599 Yeah. 00:51:19.760 --> 00:51:25.840 Uh you think you think his competitive nature brought out the hey, don't make mine quite as spicy. 00:51:27.679 --> 00:51:28.719 I gotta look good here. 00:51:29.039 --> 00:51:32.880 Well, he's he's he is vegan, I think, or vegetarian. 00:51:33.199 --> 00:51:35.599 So I think he does the the vegan wings. 00:51:35.920 --> 00:51:36.400 Yeah, the yeah. 00:51:36.800 --> 00:51:38.000 Yeah, the cauliflower or whatever. 00:51:38.239 --> 00:51:39.119 Which which people do. 00:51:39.679 --> 00:51:41.039 Yeah, tons of people have done it. 00:51:41.119 --> 00:51:42.000 Yeah, yeah. 00:51:42.239 --> 00:51:42.800 I don't know. 00:51:42.960 --> 00:51:43.679 I yeah. 00:51:44.400 --> 00:51:50.239 Traditionally, it's always been like Daniel Ricardo's the guy that I would like go go to the pub with and like cut loose, right? 00:51:50.320 --> 00:51:52.960 And then have a great time probably doing it. 00:51:53.679 --> 00:51:59.360 Although I will say now he's like a Ford ambassador for trucks and stuff, and you know, I guess the raptor. 00:51:59.519 --> 00:52:00.079 I don't know. 00:52:00.159 --> 00:52:11.280 I just feel like look, I'm in no position to tell others what to do with their lives, but I just feel like I really selfishly, I just wish he was closer to F1. 00:52:11.519 --> 00:52:13.599 I feel like he's just left and gone. 00:52:14.320 --> 00:52:16.639 Hey, Daniel, if you're listening, listen up here. 00:52:17.199 --> 00:52:23.119 Well, really, I mean, I just like he's such a lovable character, he's such a good energy for the sport. 00:52:23.280 --> 00:52:32.559 Yeah, and I feel like his talents sadly were eclipsed by contracts and cars he shouldn't have been in, and maybe he was chasing the bag a little too much. 00:52:32.639 --> 00:52:33.119 Who knows? 00:52:33.280 --> 00:52:41.679 But like, I I just think that like he was so good for the sport that like I just wish he was closer to it. 00:52:42.000 --> 00:52:51.920 Like, you don't see him at any races, you don't but uh look, every it's no secret this is a very political sport as well, and God only knows how he feels about that. 00:52:52.079 --> 00:52:57.440 I imagine there's there's an inkling of him that's like screw you guys, like I'm out. 00:52:57.519 --> 00:53:01.599 Like, and and obviously that is the case, I guess, to some degree. 00:53:01.920 --> 00:53:04.800 Yeah, he should, you know, it seems like he's having fun though with what he's doing. 00:53:04.880 --> 00:53:06.239 And oh, I mean he's a millionaire. 00:53:06.480 --> 00:53:22.239 I mean, I agree that if I was if I was if I was people in charge of the sport, I would make more of an effort to like bring him to be there with open arms and be like, hey man, like come and be a part of this family that you're you know that you that you've have historically been a part of, all that kind of stuff. 00:53:22.320 --> 00:53:23.199 Uh I think it'd be great. 00:53:23.440 --> 00:53:26.719 Yeah, I think uh yeah, we're all big fans of uh of him. 00:53:27.199 --> 00:53:27.519 Yeah. 00:53:28.239 --> 00:53:28.639 I don't know. 00:53:28.800 --> 00:53:30.480 So sorry, I'm totally blanket. 00:53:30.719 --> 00:53:31.519 What's the next race? 00:53:32.320 --> 00:53:33.199 Uh Spain. 00:53:33.840 --> 00:53:34.159 Right. 00:53:34.480 --> 00:53:34.719 Right. 00:53:34.960 --> 00:53:35.599 Barcelona. 00:53:36.000 --> 00:53:36.079 Yeah. 00:53:36.480 --> 00:53:40.400 Um is that this weekend as well? 00:53:40.719 --> 00:53:41.840 Or is that next weekend? 00:53:42.880 --> 00:53:44.000 I think it's this weekend. 00:53:44.239 --> 00:53:45.519 Okay, same as Lamont. 00:53:46.239 --> 00:53:46.800 Yeah. 00:53:46.960 --> 00:53:52.880 Uh because last year the Monaco, I think, was the same weekend of um of Lamont. 00:53:53.599 --> 00:53:53.920 Yeah. 00:53:54.000 --> 00:53:55.519 Uh let's see here. 00:53:56.159 --> 00:53:57.440 June 14th. 00:53:57.760 --> 00:53:59.280 Sunday, June 14th. 00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:01.519 So that is this weekend. 00:54:01.760 --> 00:54:02.880 That is this weekend, yeah. 00:54:02.960 --> 00:54:03.679 Yeah, okay, cool. 00:54:03.920 --> 00:54:11.360 Uh, and then Austria, Red Bull Ring, um, and then Silverstone. 00:54:11.599 --> 00:54:14.079 I feel like Red Bull Ring always has something. 00:54:14.239 --> 00:54:18.239 His there's always some antics there at turn one, you know, in like tourists. 00:54:18.480 --> 00:54:20.559 Yeah, turn one and uh and turn three. 00:54:20.639 --> 00:54:25.519 Um yeah, which maybe like the super tight right hander that's like going up a hill. 00:54:25.599 --> 00:54:29.119 I feel like it's like the most awkward turn on the whole on the whole calendar. 00:54:29.679 --> 00:54:30.960 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:54:31.119 --> 00:54:32.960 Uh yeah, I yeah, I like it. 00:54:33.119 --> 00:54:37.519 Uh let's even Austin's turn one, that like hairpin at the top of the hill. 00:54:37.599 --> 00:54:38.239 That one's interesting. 00:54:38.400 --> 00:54:39.599 Yeah, it's almost like that in reverse. 00:54:39.840 --> 00:54:40.239 Yeah, right. 00:54:40.320 --> 00:54:43.039 Except it's even caterer in the Red Bull ring. 00:54:43.280 --> 00:54:50.239 Uh, and then I think this might be the last year of uh Zanvoort of the Dutch GP for a while. 00:54:50.559 --> 00:54:51.280 Because I think that's cool. 00:54:51.679 --> 00:54:53.039 Too much sand on the track. 00:54:53.360 --> 00:54:54.639 Yeah, exactly. 00:54:55.679 --> 00:55:00.400 Uh yeah, no, we got a good we got a good slate of uh of of races coming up. 00:55:00.480 --> 00:55:02.559 Uh so yeah, I'm I'm really excited. 00:55:02.719 --> 00:55:04.320 Um, those are all great ones. 00:55:04.480 --> 00:55:14.320 Uh yeah, Barcelona, uh Red Bing, Silverstone, Spa are the next uh and then summer break, August. 00:55:14.960 --> 00:55:20.400 Yep, and then summer break, uh or no, sorry, uh the Hungarian GP is before the summer break. 00:55:20.639 --> 00:55:25.440 Uh and then uh the Dutch um the Dutch GP is end of August. 00:55:25.760 --> 00:55:26.079 Okay. 00:55:26.559 --> 00:55:27.199 So cool. 00:55:27.280 --> 00:55:30.559 Uh it'll be here before you know it, the the summer break. 00:55:31.039 --> 00:55:33.440 Yeah, hopefully we get some more spicy races too. 00:55:33.599 --> 00:55:35.920 Um crazy c coming into all this. 00:55:36.000 --> 00:55:37.360 So yeah, I'm excited about it. 00:55:37.599 --> 00:55:38.480 Yeah, likewise. 00:55:38.800 --> 00:55:41.280 Blake, always an enjoyable uh time. 00:55:41.679 --> 00:55:42.239 Thank you. 00:55:42.800 --> 00:55:43.599 Thanks, Wesley. 00:55:43.679 --> 00:55:44.079 Appreciate it. 00:55:44.239 --> 00:55:45.119 Thank you guys for listening. 00:55:45.280 --> 00:55:46.079 We'll catch you soon.