[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But, but, but for the people in the stands, it's, it's phenomenal. The atmosphere is incredible. And yeah, I'm just intrigued to know where you pitch it across other things.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I want to, I want to move on just to talk about one of your other roles and that is as part of your Tailenders Cricket podcast, which is sensational. And I, and I wonder if there are sort of some parallels between


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] What you're trying to do with Fast and Curious and what you've done with, with Tailenders in terms of creating a sort of inclusive space for old fans, new fans, maybe not even fans yet, people who just want to hear a great discussion or great entertaining podcasts. Why, why have you, what parallels do you see between, between the two?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, if I was Lance Stroll right now, I probably would want to do an interview with you, Greg, and probably not with Sky Sports F1. Yeah, I'll drop in a gotcha question though.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I know your dad runs the team, but yeah, uhm, oh very good. And then I, when I was doing some research for this chat, I, I found an article that you, that you've written in the, in the eye.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And this was, this was the headline from, it said, I know how rubbish it feels to be marked down as not enough of a fan, but sport belongs to us all. And I thought that was a really lovely quote about fandom and sport and, you know, your own experiences. I mean, you tell me, but you mentioned the football example of, of when you were a little bit younger. Is that, is that correct?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You mentioned the hundreds, just there.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Cricket has gone through, I think, an experience with obviously, as you mentioned, you've got the old school of test cricket and that being the very pinnacle of the sport. And then you've got T20, most recently the 100. And do you think there's anything F1 can learn from what cricket has gone through to try and make


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, that's what Drive to Survive did so well, wasn't it? It created stories behind every driver and you just got to learn their story and why it was important to them. And speaking of, I sort of want to kind of...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, and fundamentally, Formula One is the most simple sport in the world. It's whoever drives the fastest round the track over however many laps wins. It's so simple. That is obviously a very reduced form, uh, version of what it is. And you, you know, no one knows everything about F1. There is always another level, isn't there? There's a strategist who just comes in with.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uhm, what I was going to ask you was, was with regards to the characters of Formula One and through your, you've done obviously what was six, seven months now of the podcast. What have, who have been the big characters that have really, you've engaged with or you or you and Christian and Betty have engaged with?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Absolutely, and you alluded to it there, the mid-season turnaround. You know, imagine being in pretty much the slowest car in the grid.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And then all of a sudden halfway through the season, pretty much at Silverstone or Austria Silverstone, you go, hold on, I've got a rocket ship underneath me. But then it's all very well that happening, but then you've still got to perform, you know, and Lando who he's with is one of the.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] One of the best drivers on the grid. You know, he's obviously super experienced and still in that McLaren team, but to be neck and neck with Lando.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, pretty much here or there, it's, I think it's incredible. I think it's an amazing, an amazing rookie season for sure, for sure. And yeah, actually, funny enough, I interviewed him at a cricket ground when we did a little Ashes thing with him in Lando, um, pre-season and yeah. Oh yes, I saw that. Yes.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] His passion for cricket was, was very clear. He used to play cricket. Uh, I think he went to boarding school in the UK. So he's played quite a lot of cricket there, but he, yeah, he just was the most chilled out normal guy. He just, you know, you're like, you're a formula one driver. You know, how is this happening? How, how much?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, I remember that first interview in Heathrow. The other person I wanted to, or kind of two drivers I wanted to talk to you about is Lando Norris and Charles Leclerc, because you, you know, in your job as radio and breakfast host, you've interviewed probably every big megastar under the sun.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And I think F1 is, is just, it's just, it's changed hasn't it since Drive to Survive in that now Lando Norris is a megastar. You know, he can't walk through an airport.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] In London, in Europe, in the US probably without being recognised. And I just wonder if, what do you make of the fandom now that is associated with drivers like that? How do Lando and Charle, people like that, how do they connect?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, really well put. Speaking of jobs, I thought we'd finish the podcast on you naming dry, this is my attempt at coming up with a radio feature, which is I'm going to say poor at best. Your task, Greg, is to name the person in the paddock who would be best at the jobs that you have done.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It needs a title. Maybe we'll, we'll, we'll workshop that later on.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But, I have them here, and some of these have come from people at home.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Who in the paddock, and this is from Claire on Instagram, would be the best host of a breakfast show?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, very good. I would love to listen to Alex at 7am. I think he'd, I think he'd be brilliant.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And this is because you are, of course, chairman of the Oval Invincibles cricket team.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, who in the paddock would, I mean, it doesn't have to just be, it could be team at team principles.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Yeah. Bit of a hairdryer mixed with the tap on the shoulder and you know, yeah.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, since he's moved to Alpha Romeo, I feel like the shackles have kind of come off, you know, perhaps from Mercedes, where you sort of had to be a little bit more kind of corporate. And now he's just completely unleashed into this wonderful sort of slightly quirky character. And yeah, he's amazing.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And it's, as we said, it's getting a whole new audience into, into Formula One. And that's only a good thing. So to you, Christian, Betty, uh, Jimmy, your producer, just congratulations. It's been brilliant.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Thank you, Greg. We will clip that up and we will be back next Tuesday to look back at the Singapore Grand Prix. Hope you can join us then. Bye for now.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I feel bad complaining about the, well, the one night.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] For me, you drive appropriately to the tyres in the car that's underneath you, so...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Difficult. We saw a lot of, what, eight cars didn't finish that race. Eight DNFs from the race. Mad. Yeaah. I think chaos is quite up.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Because there's so many factors, you've got the cherry picker which didn't need to go on the circuit but was in the gravel itself, you've got all of the gravel on track and you add the big,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's a big sweeper machine that came out and it's, it's one of them, I think Alex's crash.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The immediate eye test watching anyway, you think, oh, they can probably clean that up because, you know, damage to the barrier seemed pretty minimal, but then you've not just got gravel on track. There's probably bits of carbon fiber because Alex hit the wall, you know, fairly hard, but it was a glancing blow. So it didn't cause, you know, there's certain crashes. We see a track like Saudi, for example, if you go straight on at turn 22, that's a pretty obvious red flag straight away because that's a, that's a,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Touchpoint for crashes quite consistently. You need to repair the tech pro.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, that was a race that had kind of petered out a little bit and then you had this really exciting finish and so are they artificially inserting that? I think that's where the... Okay.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And that's where obviously George missed out, but even in hindsight, George was like, see, he made the right call. Even though he missed out, he was, you know, which I thought was...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Impressive and quite unusual for the driver to actually be like, you know what? I'm happy actually with that call. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] In a sporting context. WWE for example. Yeah. I mean, I used to think that was real when I was a kid.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, it's, it's funny, isn't it? Cause, you know, Lando's...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] He had a worldy off the start, which I mean, I love Yuki so I was obviously very happy for him. And then obviously him and Nico went back, both having had good starts, but.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I think yeaah, there's a question around that, and you know, it's...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I think before you can, on a safety car, before you can change tyres, you have to wait for the field to kind of bunch up so that you can't gain an advantage, uhm, somewhat.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, there's no perfect solution. We've got a solution now where, again, if you...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, you've got these standing restarts, and like you said, Landau can... Drivers might take each other up, but again, I feel like there's a responsibility on the drivers, no? Like...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, they have to understand the car that's underneath them, and they don't have as much tire. I know it was hard to get tire temperature in Australia, but...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Tell us that. Communicate that. At least we know, okay, what are we waiting for? Uhm, you know, it's when it's...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Again, it adds to that whole, I think because they're...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I thought that so often, particularly in the last kind of few years, there's been a lot of press around the FIA, how the sport's been managed, safety cars, all this.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Tell us why. Like, that's what we wanna know. We just wanna know, understand why as fans, so that we...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Because I think, I mean, in my opinion, that science penalty was fair. That's just, that's my take on it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I think to write down every potential eventuality in these regulations is going to be incredibly difficult.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And it's just taking these instances, this was a chaotic race towards the end, it was a madness and it all came from Kevin Magnusson's incident.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's, you know, you get to an end of a race and we saw it with Fernando getting his podium taken away, but then returned and it's just like.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And again, I understand that, like, if Carlos is, you know...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I get it, cause yeah, why isn't that being punished? Like for sure, that, that one, uh, the Gasly Ocon one, you know, Gasly's gone off track.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I get it, it's a difficult sport to manage, of course it is. It's the most complicated sport in the world, again. But, consistency.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I think that's what we're as fans and the drivers and everyone watching is asking for.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, it's not like a drop ball situation. No, it's not. Because I just wonder that, you know, you've got all these different angles of looking at it and...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I dunno, it, it felt to me like, like what's the difference when we say lap one?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Um, drivers are given a bit more leniency, yet you can still get a penalty.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So, what is the, what is the understanding of that?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] For no... Well you say that, Hulkenberg had issues.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You've got to get your car around under its own, which is obviously why the Alpines couldn't.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well look, and again, this is another thing that we know this was talked about, I think it was...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Again, I think the argument was like, you had the cherry picker on the track for Daniel's car and...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That's where this conversation is. That's where there's this balance.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You can't deny the standing starts were exciting.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's, you know, Max didn't have to take big risks at the start, you know.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I think, depending on the context of the season, you know, max.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Didn't fight Lewis taking, uhm, making that move up the insides as hard as...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Again, I'm not sure how quick Luis was in that second sector as well. I think maybe, I think Luis went a bit slower in that sector, so that...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] A package cause you look through the rest of the field. Everyone scored a point now as well in the constructors with free races in, you know, in terms of the rest of the field.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I think there is a degree of kind of parity there when you look at the gap between, you know, P2 and P10. Uhm, but Red Bull are just on an absolute world here.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Which if they haven't found it, that's pretty concerning. Yeaah. I mean like, well that's the, I think each race so far, at least one of the drivers has complained of some sort of issue.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Like, either during, well, particularly during the race in, in, in Saudi, I know Max was talking about the gear shifts and that, so.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Concat in Saudi, we had Russell, another Mercedes power, which Mercedes, that was their thing last year. You know, it wasn't about ultimate performance. It was about consistently being up there, consistently finishing, consistently getting good points.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And uhm, yeaah, I think with Cheko, you know, he's...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Blinding start to the season, of course. Uhm, I think that...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And I hope Cheko can do it, because there's nothing more I'd love to see than a Cheko championship fight. That would be...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I mean, they have to just, Red Bull have to act like that, don't they? They have to act like they're going to lose their advantage.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So, every team, apart from Alpha Mal and Alpha Tauri, have gotten to Q3.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uhm, the historical kind of personnel talent as well as the money that Red Bull, Ferrari, Mercedes, all the big teams had relative to the bottom teams.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's going to take time. The budget cap's not going to, you know, change that overnight. It's still giving a degree of merit to these teams. Um, I think, you know, Haas, for example, I think their pace is really good. Look at Gasly's pace in the race. He was right up there with, you know, Carlos and Lance. It wasn't a mile off at all. Even Lando's pace was pretty good. So I think your point on McLaren Ted, it's like that Baku upgrade.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Isn't it about half a million dollars? I've seen that number chucked around.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] If they're not fighting, if they're not on par with Red Bull, they're not going to be satisfied. So they're going to be unhappy with the car. And it doesn't, you know, no one reflects in the history books. No one looks back, uh, who finished second and third. It's not going to make a massive difference to a team like Mercedes. They're, they're, they're conditioned to win. And if they're not winning, then.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] They're not going to be happy. So I don't, I don't think it's them personally. I don't think it's them blowing there.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That's what I mean. It's relative to expectations. So it's bad by their standards, but it's still not, it's obviously not a bad car. It's just, is it the right, has it got the ceilings?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Do you think the seating position thing is an example of, you know, when Lewis has said, you know, he didn't necessarily feel like the team listened to as much of his input as he'd have liked and something like it, cause you know, a driver's not an aerodynamicist. There's, there's going to be limits to the input a driver can meaningfully have, but they are the one driving the car and it feels like,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The seating position relative to the front axle is something that...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, like a driver's feel, because Lewis is complaining particularly about, you know, he feels like he's too far forward.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It needs to be considered more. Because then, you know, if Lewis is talking about the underfloor, I doubt his input is gonna...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I think you look at, you look 3-0 and you think, oh wow, but I think it's the gap. I mean, I know Hulkenberg's quite significantly out-qualified Magnussen in terms of the actual deltas. So I don't think that, I mean, they are, you look last season, they were, there was nothing in it between them in qualifying.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] All is, all is well. If they were fighting for a championship then that might be a bit different.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uhm, but the fact that they're so close, I think, that's the, that's, that's the important thing. They're so close, and I think George has really stepped up into that team. Which is why.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You then, over time, you forget, oh, this driver DNF'd, or there was bad luck, someone got taken out. You know, within the paddock.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So it's when you're actually looking at driver performance, points don't tell the full story. And I feel like people in the paddock, I would have thought understand that a bit more.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Glad we've got through without talking about Alex's crash tip, cause Alex is my favourite. Alex Alvins your favourite? Yeaah. Okay.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I was so gutted. I know. I was so gutted. Cause, I was going in sixth. William's best qualifying performance for many a year, P8, and I


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I think he, I think he went wired corner before, didn't he? And they said he got a temperature spike.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It wasn't, no, I, I, I'm gonna go with, I'm gonna go with Decent, because I think it was a decent race. It was a decent show, a decent race, uhm, yeah, as Martin rightly said, I don't think it is gonna go down in history books as one of the greatest Grand Prix's, but,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It was, it was, there was enough going on in there. It was an absorbing contest between the two Red Bull drivers. You know, we had...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That sort of contrast strategy and, and there was a various periods of times where you wondered whether


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, Max would get back, um, at, at Sergio and how quickly and, and there was enough going on and the, and you know, watching the Mercedes drivers come through the pack was interesting enough. Um, there was intrigue around science and the penalty and you know, how that would shake out. So I thought it was a decent race.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, Baku was a terrible race, wasn't it? It was an utter snoozefest. And I think this was, this was decent. It was sort of middle of the road, but I think I should go back to the point. I put a tweet out about it yesterday and I've been banging on about this since 2016 in every FP1 that I go, Crofty or FP2, whatever.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uhm, is that, I still think we should have a regulation where they have to use


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] All three compounds in the race, it'll have a two-stop race because


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, and I immediately got a couple of text back from engineers in the pit lane saying, well, we couldn't have done that in Miami because the soft tire wasn't good enough.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So what? You know, it would have done five or six laps. At some point they would have all had to use it for between six and eight laps.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And it would have jumbled things up around, around the pit stops and I think more in Baku as well I think. And I still haven't understood why


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And then it's been seven years and nothing's actually happened, so uhm, I'm gonna just keep keeping the job.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Exactly, cause a lot of the criticism now from the, shall we say,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Purest fans are saying, oh, you're doing too much to create a show and fake news.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] This isn't for me, this is a sporting regulation, like you have any other set of rules, like you have 13 sets and defined in the rules. All I'm talking about is, is a line of the sporting regs. So it, you know, it's, it does it in a way that doesn't create a fake race. And I think, um,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You'll get some convergence, right? Because all the strategists, they're of a similar mindset, of a similar personality, and they'll probably come up with the best, similar optimum strategy. But, with the way the undercut and overcuts will work, and when they use the tyres, you will have some variance, by definition.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, I'd like to see it happen. I mean, we seem to be in a culture of more openness, don't we? You know, we're trying sprints, we're trying quality formats, we're trying different things.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uhm, I'd like to see a bit of, you know, variety for the main Grand Prix because I feel like we've sort of not done anything with that in terms of the actual lights out to check a flag.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, I think, you know, as Martin alluded to, they're doing this management thing now, where basically they spend the entire race, the engineers tell them a lap time and they drive to that lap time. Whereas...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, if they had to do two-stop, then they can all go a bit quicker, they can push a bit harder. The problem we had in Baku, for example, you know, we had uhm,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I also think some of the issues right now with Sunday are the fact that fundamentally Mercedes and Ferrari have under-delivered this year. If you look at last season, the gap between


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The winner, i.e. the same winner as last, as last weekend, Max Verstappen, and the best non-Mercedes non-Red Bull was, uhm, I think it was 28 seconds or something like that. And this year it was 26 seconds to Alonso. So actually, you know, the gap between the winner and, say, P4 should have, is about the same as last year, except that


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I think competition for me is key. To me that's the key word. And I think at the moment we're somewhat lacking that in terms of, you know, we've got an inter-team battle.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] As Natalie said earlier, you know, all things being equal, we all kind of expect Max to come out on top, don't we? You know, Czechos had a couple of blinding races so far this year and all credit to him for especially what he did in Jeddah and the second stint in Baku.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I think, uhm, on the whole, we need more than one team, you know, and that, if I look back at my favourite seasons of Formula One, it's involved having two, three, four teams in the fight, and we want to arrive


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] On Saturday morning, not knowing what the top six is going to be in the grid. We want to know, and we didn't, you know, Miami...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We had that jumbled grid, but because Leclerc and The Sniper made mistakes, isn't it, really?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And I, you know, I think we, that, that for me is, is the key to, to having a good, to answer your question on a good Formula One race or a season.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's genius though, isn't it? You know, you look, we've had DRS now for, what was it, 12 season, there's a 12 season of it, and they've just gone there and thought, right,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We need to find something that gives us this incredible advantage. And so even if we don't qualify on the front door, it doesn't matter as, as Proof of the Weekend because


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, somebody was showing me some drag numbers, and when they hit the magic button, the Red Bull loses about 24, 25% of its drag. This was the case in Baku, the speed's there. Whereas most others are sort of 14, 15%. So they've just given the drivers free performance. And so,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, more often than not, they're gonna qualify in the front row, but even if they don't, they're still gonna come through the pack.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] They have no weakness either. They can, you know, start cricketing. They can bat down to number 10. There's, they've got two incredible drivers. The car's quick in qualifying. It manages its time as well. The engine's strong. It can overtake.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The strategy team is brilliant. The pitch stop team is brilliant.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] There's, and there's no lack of motivation. You know, Adrian is...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Heading into nearly, well, his 40th year and at the forefront of the sport, be it IndyCar or Formula One, if not more actually, probably, he was in, he was in Kopasuka, 79, 80, so he's 43 years in.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And he's still motivated, isn't he? And his brain is still there and he sort of motivates that team of people around him. And it's, yeah, there is just no weakness in that team.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, so, no, what I meant was, there's no shame in being beaten by Max Verstappen, I think, because he-


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] He, if you look at, and I've said this before, you look at the history of the sport, every five, six, seven years, a genius comes along.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And, you know, before Max was, was Lewis, before Lewis was Fernando and Kimi sort of came together, you had Michael, Senna, et cetera. And, you know what? If you, if you can take the odd win off one of these geniuses and, and finish behind them and, and rack up a whole bunch of wins,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, but he just got more and more angry and frustrated and bitter about it. But I think of someone like Eddie Irvine or someone like David Coulthard, you know, when he was


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Build a great career and, and this is it. You know, I think it's a poison chalice, isn't it? If you're a teammate to Max Lewis, um, Schumacher, et cetera, Martin, you've been in that position. It, it's quite good because it means you've, you're inevitably one of the best cars on the grid or one of the top three.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But the downside is you gotta be, you're always compared to the guy, genius in the other car.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Can I grab MB's line and segue into, segue into those who need to raise their game? I mean, what was happening with McLaren at the weekend?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Unbelievable. Now out in Q1, I mean, droning around at the back, they looked like they'd seen a bit of a breakthrough at Baku. You know, both cars were sort of hovering around the points and, uh,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, qualified Lando got him Q3 and did a good job. And then they, you know, one week later, absolutely nowhere.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Oscar's not got that opportunity and he's actually doing a great job. In Miami, 900th of Norris in qualifying. In Baku, 32,000th of Norris in qualifying. You know, he's, he's actually doing a cracking job, I think, but it's just sort of,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Going under the radar because of the situation.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, it takes the pressure off, but I think you'd always much rather...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Have the spotlight because you're trying to establish yourself, you know, Norris is, Norris has made that impact. He's established himself as a genuine future star. We all, you know, we all talk about the fact that if he gets an opportunity, he'll be a championship contender.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But Oscar, unless it's people like us who go and deep dive and look into the results and look at these numbers, 99% of the people


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Don't really know, you know, that he's actually not far off nor is he. So I think it's, it's tough.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Martin, do you think he should be on the phone to make, to, you know, Ferrari, for example, you know, Carlos is having, isn't having a great run? At what point do you start to get twitchy, if you were Lando, you think?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Tell you what, what a great job George did though, the weekend, wasn't it? Like...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I thought he was a standout of the weekend, picked his, clearly the car's difficult to drive, we saw him qualifying, but, you know, got in the top six, picked his moments, it was so important for him to clear the Alpine early in the race and get a bit of free air and then break away and then run his own race.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And to finish fourth, you know, uhm, I thought that was a stellar performance. I think on the road, obviously, because Science got the penalty, but four seconds ahead of Science, uhm, not a million miles off Fernando, I thought another really, really impressive drive from George.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I think what a lot of people don't realise is Jackie's seen Martin's Side of the Fence. You know, he used to cover Formula 1 for many. I mean, I've got, there's a book on my shelf up there called Faster, which I'd highly recommend. It's Jackie's diary from 1970, the year after his first World Championship.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Now imagine this, he's the reigning Formula One World Champion, right?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And he goes off to cover races in America as a reporter, as a journalist.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] As a Rating World Champion while also racing in F1, uh, is, is completely mad when you think about it. Uhm, but you know, so Jackie's seen, Jackie's seen this side of the fence. He's seen how tricky it is to be a broadcaster and, and cover things, um, out on the grid.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, I saw some of the comments and the first thing I thought is none of these drivers have been to Le Mans or to Sebring or to the Indy 500 recently because, you know, at Le Mans the race starts at 3 o'clock as everyone knows.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But you're on the grid from noon, you know, it's like it goes, it's a three hour, they play the national anthem of every driver competing at the 24 hours of Le Mans. You know, it goes on and on and on.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But guess what? It's part of it. It's part of the show, you know. But they don't have a morning warm up anymore. They don't have, you know, the only actual driving bit is the Grand Prix itself. So...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] If you gotta go through some of the, some of the other stuff that happens because of the commercial reasons, you know, the reason all of them are being paid as much as they're being paid is because of the commercial benefits of Formula One and there's, there's sponsors and partners and people queuing up to be a part of the show.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And it is a show. You gotta, you gotta embrace it. So, look, I think there's things we can, I'm not saying it's perfect, and I think there's, there's timing can be better, and it can perhaps, you know, the, the positioning of each of these slots can be different and can be better to help the drivers do what they need to do from a sporting perspective.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But I think having the show is, is fine and it's good, you know, so it makes some people cringe and so, you know, and that's just what it is. But I, I don't have a huge problem with it. I think it, it needs tweaking, but I think it's fine.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I think, you know, you gotta think about when we go to Vegas.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Where everyone's gonna have grand plans, but guess what? It's gonna be six degrees as...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And they do this big razzmatazz for the people at the ground.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But then, you know, the build up, as Martin said, is still, you know, a shorter time with a more compact, high energy intro. So, yeaah, maybe, maybe as I say, it needs a bit of tweaking and that's a better balance.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] No, they take as long as they take, you know. I think that's what people need to understand. You can't just...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Think of an idea, just put it on the car the next race. There's a six to eight week lead time before you come up with an idea.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Design it in CFD, in a virtual world, then...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] What we're going to see in the car in Imola is something they would have started back in Bahrain in the process to get here.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I believe there's a decent upgrade coming, uhm, to the Mercedes and Imola, and I'm really intrigued to see where that moves them. You know, I, uhm, I don't think it'll move them into Red Bull territory, but...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I think they're hoping it'll clear them ahead of Aston and Ferrari. That's their ambition I think with the update, so we'll see.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I think it's, I don't think you could put the blame on the number of races. No, I think it's, it's, it just is what it is, you know. I think Martin's absolutely right. Teams haven't hit their targets with the base car. They've arrived, so many of them, at the opening race.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And as I was saying earlier on, I think Red Bull, I was talking to Rob Marshall, their chief designer in Australia, he came out, and I was saying, have you guys


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, just made this massive jump and he said, not really, you know, we, we think we've gained about seven tenths of performance, which year on year is what we expect. Aston under-delivered last season with their car, so actually, you know, they've made a bigger jump because they under-delivered last year and, and if you look at where


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alpine and people like that has, they've sort of made a sensible gap. It's more,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I think what we were saying earlier, you know, McLaren,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Ferrari, Mercedes, uh, AlphaTauri, you know, there's a bunch of teams who have actually not, not hit the targets that they should have done for this season, and we're creating this disparity in the field.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But he's sort of racing, he's sort of racing nobody at the moment, isn't he?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, this other weekend, he was racing, he was just sort of driving around by himself.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] My mouth hurts so bad, and I'm trying so hard to tell you just a story about my life. That's the show.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Sean, I won the hearts of millions and now I'm ready to just shit my brains. I feel like pretty good with everything and then the ones with like the explosives are where I'm worried.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's like sub-zero and you're going there greased up. Listen, I've done that before. It's not pretty.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You walk in and it's just like every other arena you've ever competed in.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The part that you don't ever get prepared for is all of the media. And uh, for me, that meant going into the media, just saying what was on my mind, being a little trashy, having a little fun. Sean, you'd know me well enough, now you know I like little fun.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yum. Some of these are delish. I love this one.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I'm gonna say, why is Adam Ripp on the Woke Bay we don't deserve?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I'm afraid I'm the one that's, um, red. I think that's still in the like, not top three territory.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Expectations? Condom. Brothel. Reality?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Hot box orgy. And what I got was stress box.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] In and out meets, those are magic meets.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So basically, if you are depressed, eat a burger and four years later you'll go to the Olympics.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Oh, they used to call me Barry Bottons. Little League throwback. Mhm. I used to be a baseball player. Here's the thing. I wasn't good. No. And I wasn't great. I was actually terrible. So I actually, this is what, that was a hot one. Get it?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And then one time I went up to... bat, as they say, that's our lingo.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And I got hit by the pitch. I started crying. And they're like, take a bass. If you get hit by a pitch, you take a bass. And I was like,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Nice. Yeah, so then I got in trouble with my parents, cause I'd go up to bat and I'd be like,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And get hit by the pitches all the time. So the moral of that story... You gotta do what you gotta do to help the team win.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Thank you. You took the words right out of my mouth. There you go, Adam.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] This is pre-Oscars with Jeremy Scott. Yes. So I love me some Jeremy Scott because I think Jeremy Scott is a genius and he's crazy and his ideas are bizarre and wild. And I'm crazy, bizarre and wild. Some people have called me a genius. Like I don't agree. Like I do a little, like I understand, but.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And then the whole team around me was like, Adam, you're gonna wear a shirt. And I was like, oh yeah, you're right. It's the Oscars.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uhm, high level skaters work with a DJ to, like, customize the tracks. So a lot of times, even if it's a song that sounds familiar,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Fully. So you can skate to literally whatever you want. I could honestly, if I wanted to, skate to the audio of this interview.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That's not fair. People tried to do that to me too once. I mean I said, uh-uh. Not anymore.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I won't get scared until I get to the next one. But this is the one that scares me because it's red.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So here's me hitting it. Mhm. Wow, this is great. Wow. You look like you have a lot of support. Emotional though.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And oh, oh nice rec- that's beautiful. Oh. You are very into the upper body.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, I think so. I mean, as a judge in this situation, I really enjoyed it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Right there is when you see the Achilles injury really come through.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I almost say too little. Why didn't you do that? Why are you looking back now and being like, I fucked up?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I- I didn't wanna say it. I'm glad you did.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] What song do you think I should skate to? Probably the T-Pain song that you weren't allowed


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That's not originally where my head had gone. Uhm, I appreciated the intent. Uhm, don't do that.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, now I'm scared. Now I'm scared. I don't know why I said it. I heard myself say that.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm trying not to talk because like the wind from my voice is like making my body hurt right now.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It just felt like extra spit I didn't need.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So, I work on my core every single day.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I think one thing that might help is if you weren't having so much fucking chicken. I'm do- my lips hurt.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] What? Who did this? This show is bullshit.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's often, uhm, not appreciated. I'm gonna tell you a few tips that trade.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The things that I love, there are some crazy talented fans that I have that put together fan art. I'm gonna just keep this very close to me. It's just like the essence of, uhm, Mother's Milk.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The person writing the tweet is just completely stupid. And I like to respond to like completely stupid.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Not the pesky bottoms. I've run into a few of them. Recently.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I'm so sorry, this is like your work and you have to come back here. Alright, do you take a bite of that? That would be the point. Oh, that's why we did that. Yeah.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] To my doubters who thought that this wouldn't happen.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Come to Stars on Ice. Go to starsonice.com. We're coming to 22 cities. Find out one that's near you. Also, you can go to justgiving.com slash Adam Rippon and give to my GLAAD initiative. I'm working with their youth ambassador program. Also, follow me on Twitter and Instagram. It's really fun.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Hello everyone. Welcome to this week's episode of the Sky Sports F1 podcast with me, Matt Baker. And this week I'm joined by a guy who's had a fascinating career in Formula One at Torosso and is now a hugely successful DJ and music producer. Please welcome Jaime Alguerstrari. Jaime, how are you?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Very good, thanks. Very good. Where are you joining us from?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, sounds, sounds fantastic. Uhm, Jaime, there's so much I wanna, I wanna talk to you about. So uhm, I'm just gonna try and give our listeners a bit of an overview of what, what we're gonna talk about in the discussion. So I wanna, I wanna get into your career, your, your Formula One career.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Time, time with the Red Bull family and I think there's just some interesting conversations to have around what's happening at AlphaTauri or Toro Rosso, your former team with Nick DeVries being replaced by Daniel Ricciardo at the moment. So I want to get your thoughts on that. I want to also talk about.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Jaime, take, take us back to the start of your, start of your career and how did the relationship with Red Bull come about? Where, where were you and, and who approached who?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] What were your, what were your first impressions of the likes of Helmut Marko and Christian Horner once you got into that Red Bull family? Were they welcoming? What were the first impressions?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Do you think that reflects, I mean, what you just say there kind of does reflect Formula One in general, doesn't it? Ultimately, there's only 20 drivers. There's only, well, I mean, 24 races is quite a few races per season, but.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You don't get many opportunities in Formula One to, to prove yourself. I guess it's a good opportunity to talk maybe a little bit about what happened to Nick de Vries. And he only had 10 races in the Alfa Tauri. And, and we must also remember this is not the fastest car on the grid. This is one of the slowest cars on the grid.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, absolutely. Well, when, uhm, just to compare a couple of, you know, for example, Yuki Sonoda at the moment, you know, you and your final season before you were let go by Toro Rosso, you got seven top tens, which was, which was a good season. And Yuki at the moment, he's got two 10th place finishes. We're halfway through the Formula One season. So.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Do you maybe perhaps see the, the, the red bull or the...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The Red Bull program, as it were, has maybe got a bit more lenient on drivers. Do you think that maybe looking back, that was, that was obviously very harsh with what happened with, with yourself.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But where do you, where do you see that example with, with Sonoda sitting?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, well to, to build on your point there, the, the fact that Liam Lawson, for example, one of the Red Bull junior drivers was overlooked for the seat that Ricciardo has now eventually, obviously Ricciardo has got, but Ricciardo is 34. You know, no disrespect to him, he's 34. Liam Lawson is 21.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah. So you would argue that, you know, if you're not going to put Liam in there, then yeah, perhaps you're this, this is sort of your theory that, that, that it's, it's not a system that's necessarily working very well is correct because surely you'd want to put youth to develop them in AlphaTauri and then bring them into the Red Bull team.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, 2009, at the Hungara Ring, it's kind of funny that we're talking to you. The week of the Hungarian Grand Prix, the week that Danny Ricciardo comes into AlphaTauri, your former team, halfway through the season.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] What were the challenges of coming, I mean obviously I appreciate you hadn't driven a Formula One car before as you just said, but what do you think your challenges were coming in mid-season to a team?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And when you look at the job Daniel's now got to do, obviously he's, you know, he's, he's very experienced, but what would you deem a successful?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Second half of the season for Daniel Ricciardo right now at Alpha Tauri.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah. Were you surprised when he took, when he took that job?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah. You mentioned earlier, obviously that you know Sergio well, that you've, that you've raced against him. Do you think that?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Bringing Daniel in has now put more pressure on Sergio in that second Red Bull seat. Do you think ultimately the goal for Daniel is to move from AlphaTauri to the second Red Bull seat to partner Max?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The funny thing with Max, I think, at the moment is that by himself, he could be leading the Constructors Championship, you know, with the amount of points he's amassed, he doesn't even need a second driver. And that as such is the dominance that we're seeing from Max. So, you know.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Back to your own career and your time with the, with the Red Bull family. I mean, how, looking back on it now, how do you reflect your time in the junior program and then into your career? Did you enjoy it? Was it, was it a part of your life that you look back fondly?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Do you ever think back and, and if things had gone differently, if you had been kept on, you know, obviously because that, that was the last time you raced in Formula One and then you've obviously gone on to have a successful career in music, but do you ever, do you ever look back and go, if you had have stayed on for that extra season and it had have been a very good season and maybe you might still be in Formula One now, you know, do you ever think like that?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah. Just, just hearing you talk about that, I do get the impression with, with, with Red Bull, certainly in those days from your experience, the, they were pretty brutal, pretty cutthroat with, with their young drivers. And, you know, would you agree with that? Would you agree that that was the kind of atmosphere and culture within Red Bull at that time?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah. Do you, um, do you, have you seen Helmut Marko since? I mean, have you been in the paddock much since? Yeah. What's it like?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Do you still, I mean, when, you know, do you still enjoy Formula One? Is it, is it something that you're able to watch now and enjoy and actively, actively watch?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] What do you think is next for Carlos in terms of, is it the car at Ferrari? What needs to happen for him to take that next step? Because I think, yeah, we all agree that he's a phenomenal talent, phenomenal driver. What will just take him to the next level?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well time will tell if Fred Versailles is the right man to bring that structure back. Just before we move on to talk about your music career, I'm just intrigued to get your thoughts on Red Bull's domination this season.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Obviously Max Verstappen was the driver who replaced you as the youngest driver to start a Formula One race. You did it at 19 years and 125 days, pretty much 14 years ago to the day.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, at the Hungara Ring, as I discussed, Max was 17 years and 166 days.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So when you think that he was almost two years younger than you were, and I think back to when I was 19, I was pretty young at 19, so I can't imagine how, you know, driving a Formula One car at the age of 17 must just be ridiculous. But how, how do you reflect on, on what Max is doing at the moment, how he's dominating, how Red Bull are dominating the sport?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I think if we got three Red Bulls and put, yeah, Max Lewis and Fernando in there, I think, I think that'd be box office. Um, that's really, it's fascinating insight, Jaime, really is, uh, about what's happening at Red Bull at the moment. Um, I wanna, I wanna just finish by talking about what you're up to now. And obviously you mentioned that.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So obviously you left Formula One and then you raced in Formula E for a bit and then retired at 25. And then how did the music element to your, to your career come about? Was that always something you wanted to do or, or when did that start?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] This was, this was as you got your chance in Formula One. This all happened at the same time. Yeah, wow.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah. It seems slightly trite to ask if there's similarities between music and being a Formula One racing driver. Was there any crossover that you felt, was there anything that Formula One prepared you to do well in music or do you see them as completely separate things? You know, this is actually an escape from.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] From Formula One, from competitive sport, from all of the pressure that came with that.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Fascinating. I think what's, Formula One seems to have changed quite a lot in the last maybe five, five years or so. It seems to be moving much more towards entertainment. I don't know if you agree with that. And I'm intrigued to get your thoughts about, you know, for example, in Miami we had Will.i.am.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Making a, making a track just for Formula One specifically. We had the big driver intros. It feels like Formula One, we're going to Vegas this year. There are lots of elements of Formula One that are now becoming more and more entertainment based, more, even more music based. Would you agree with that?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And just, just finally, give us a, give us an overview of how your life has changed. So obviously you were, you were a Formula One racing driver. You were, you know, how many weekends of the year you were, you were driving. Now you're a DJ. What, what does your week look like? How does it compare to Formula One?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, very well said. Where can people find, find your music? And are you touring at any point? Like, if people want to check you out.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Nice one. Nice one. Well, it's, uh, it's been brilliant to chat to you, Jaime. Thank you so much for your time. And, uh, yeah, really appreciate it. Fascinating insight to what it was like at Red Bull and glad to see you doing so well now. Uh, we will be back next Tuesday after the Hungarian Grand Prix to look back at that. We'll be joined by Nico Rosberg for that. Hope to see you then. Bye for now.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You got it. So, uh, 1620, I'll get you paid. You got a deal. Can we check out the field? Let's check it out.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We're from Undisputed, we're gonna be on this week's episode of Truth or Dab, and I do not think he can take the heat.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Once upon a time, my father owned a little hole-in-the-wall barbecue restaurant on the wrong side, the south side of Oklahoma City. He made me work there as soon as I was four years of age. And the whole option there was either hot or mild sauce. So when I was four years of age, I took my first shot at hot sauce.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Absolutely. I'll do two in a row. It was two nights ago and one night ago. Two nights ago, he had just returned from playing his first and probably only gig in Saudi Arabia and it was over the Thanksgiving holiday.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And we must have texted 20 times back and forth about what Saudi Arabia was really like.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And he did say a guy named His Ex- Your Excellency had come to his hotel suite


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You should eat a wing for that. For what? What I need to walk back? You're wrong opinions. You have tried to retire Tom Brady for three straight years. This is it. It's over. He's washed up.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, again, he's still afloat and I believe he'll be New England's quarterback next year and you have now...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Sort of edited your opinion down to, well, he's not going to be New England's quarterback, but he'll still be a quarterback. The walls are closing in, Shannon.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Got no sports knowledge at all. He was struggling from question number one, but he's a guy you don't want to mess with so you don't really challenge him on the air or maybe he would challenge you off the air.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeaah. You know what, you think you know what I'm going to say.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] At least I'm not being a hypocrite here. It's the Dallas Cowboys. It's America's team.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I was basically born and raised a cowboy fan and I will admit it, I am insufferable when it comes to the Dallas Cowboys.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I was taken by my uncle in Dallas, Texas to my first game when I was 10 years of age at the old Cotton Bowl where they used to play and they played a team that was then called the St. Louis Cardinals just like the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And it always gets me that you're the biggest LeBron fan on the planet because he's the one guy I would think that you would not have great respect for. And you, you like stalk him. You're just like his biggest groupie fan in the history of fandom. Am I right? No.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I'm not, I'm just gonna take it. I'm gonna take the bullet so that I can win every debate tomorrow.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Maybe. Super Bowl rings from the 49ers. Yep, those are cool.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] These are really neat. How'd you acquire these? I got them from some collectors I know.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] These are pretty rare in my opinion. They make about 150 rings a year. They are very expensive when it comes to the owner of the team buying them. They cost between five and five and a half million dollars to buy the 150 rings. So the average price is about 36, 37 thousand dollars. It's crazy. I just wanna take a look.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So this ring belonged to Toy Cook. You gotta look for the markings. Looks like...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, it's resized. It looks like it was really, uh... It was done by a really bad jeweler.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, that's true. But, uh, it looks like it's authentic. The Jeff Fuller ring from 1988. This is really, really nice. And this is Eric Wright. Very cool.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] These are definitely genuine 49er Super Bowl rings. They have the right diamonds, they're yellow gold. It's really a great collection of three rings. So what do you think they're worth? Value-wise...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Superbowl rings are very highly collectible. 49ers, they pretty much own the 80s, so there's a lot of demand for 49er rings. Uhm, I think retail, they're probably in the range of about 20,000 a ring.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I think these rings are a great buy for the shop if you can get them at the right price because there's so much demand and there's a great presence when you have that type of eye candy in that store.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] After a 2022 filled with strategy and reliability mishaps, this year was supposed to be when Ferrari turned their undeniably quick car into a championship winning machine. Two races down and the team looked a long way off the pace. So what next for Ferrari? This is the Sky Sports F1 Podcast.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Hello all, welcome to this week's episode. Alongside me for this one, I'm joined by two people who know Ferrari very well, but for slightly different reasons. First up is Filippo Massa's old race engineer with Ferrari and someone who spent a decade at the team, Rob Smedley.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alongside Rob is fellow F1 podcaster, co-host of P1 with Matt and Tommy, and Ferrari and Charles Leclerc fan Matt Gallagher. Hello, uh, to you both, uh, Rob.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I want to start with you. You're joining us from Italy, which is very appropriate for a chat about Ferrari. Uh, yeaah.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I'm sure Florence is much nicer than the UK this time of year, Rob. Matt, how are you? I imagine this is going to be a slightly painful 45 minutes or so talking about Ferrari and their problems this year.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, alright, well let's get into it and maybe we actually can start with some of the positives. Certainly in terms of qualifying pace, Ferrari have looked okay in the first two races, Leclerc


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, you know, only two tenths behind the Red Bulls, you know, just on qualifying pace alone, but obviously in the race, it's been a lot harder.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I want to, I want to kick things off as well by quoting Fred Versaire who said, we have to stay calm, it's not like everything is going wrong. So Rob, when you hear that from Fred Versaire, the team principal at Ferrari, what do you think?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And Matt, in terms of, I guess in the context of last year and the disappointment of that season, you know, having all those reliability issues, having the strategy calls that, that didn't, that didn't go right for Ferrari, is it perhaps more the case of it's just, it's more disappointing this year, the fact that you, you can't just start the year with a, with a car that's right up there with the Red Bulls?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Rob, that lack of competition means that what I want to understand is what's going on at Maranello right now. What would have been happening, you know, if you'd had a bad run of results in your time, what would have been the process back at Maranello? Would you all be back on a Monday morning in the office all discussing and trying to work out a strategy for the next few races, for example?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] No, I want to get some tweets as well from some of our fans. So a tweet from Kieran. It's clear they've got the drivers. I think most people would agree. Certainly Sharl is a champion in weighting. But why do you think over the last couple of years they've struggled?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Simple as that. Cricket car. I think we've kind of discussed the, the team itself and, and where they are, but I, I want to get into the drivers and I've got a question here from, from Elle, uh, tweet. So Charles, Charles is going to be a world champion, um, one day. Do you see it with Ferrari?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] If you're, if you're, if you're paying now, and you have lower expectations, I'm sure in the future, you're just gonna surpass your expectations, it's gonna be better.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That's what we'll hope. Uhm, Rob, I don't know if you noticed, I thought last year with Shell's body language, I thought it changed throughout the year. I thought at the start of the year, you know, when things, obviously they went very well for the first three races, but after that when things didn't, didn't go their way, I felt like he, you know, he still carried himself


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, he towed the party line. He still came out and spoke very highly of the team. I think as the season progressed, you saw him look a little bit different. It was harder and harder to justify those, those things by the team. And I just wonder, you know, in your experience when you're dealing with the drive, obviously you had an amazing relationship with Felipe, but how do you manage


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, a driver who is sort of kind of, you can see him just drifting and drifting perhaps a little bit away from the team.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I just want to pick up on something you said about Michael and how he galvanised the team. Are there, do you see anything in Charles, you know, or Carlos for that matter, do you see anything in the Ferrari drivers at the moment that makes you think they do have that in them and that, you know, if they can weather this storm, they will be the right drivers to take Ferrari further forward?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And if any team is gonna want team players, you know, at the top, it might be Ferrari. Matt, I wanna get in a tweet here from Freddy. Do Ferrari need to do the Mercedes approach with Hamilton and Bottas and clearly make Leclerc a number one driver? I.e. do you see the benefit of having a number one driver at Ferrari right now?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, so that's kind of the drivers. I know we mentioned Fred Verso at the top, but I just want to get back to him and his role over the next year, two year, three year plan, whatever. Rob, what kind of job has he got on his hands now at Ferrari?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I guess the question is ultimately how long is it going to take for us to see...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] His, his, uh, you know, his changes within the team.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You probably will both think I'm crazy here. I wonder if they could have worked together.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And I wonder if you could have had a situation. Well, yeah, because Binotto, obviously he's been at, well, he was, I'm sure someone you know, Rob, very well in that he, he'd been in the team since 95, I believe.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And he would have been able to know all the structure, all the kind of inner workings of Ferrari, how to deal with the top boards and board members of a Ferrari. But also then you can have maybe Vassar who's the slightly more public.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, friendly figure, maybe he does a bit more of the media kind of stuff and the race, the race weekend stuff. I don't know, Rob, do you think I'm barking up the wrong tree there?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That makes sense. Rob, just give us an insight as well into the, into that rollers' variety in principle, because it is...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, you know, it's kind of the national team, right? It's the, it's the football manager. It's, it's that, it's that number one person on the front of the sports pages. Every weekend there's a Formula One race, maybe every weekend there's not a Formula One race, but in, in Italy, the Ferrari team principle is a big, big role, right?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Definitely. Okay, Matt, I want us to give some reason to be optimistic about this season for Ferrari.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I'll kick things off, uh, perhaps the fact that it's a really long season. We've got 23 races this year and we're only two races in. And yeah, maybe it's not going to be a world championship winning car. Maybe we don't, we obviously don't know that just yet, but you know, there is a, there is a,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So Rob, we've obviously got this month break as well in April.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Which, you know, hasn't really been a thing in Formula One and, and obviously that might give teams, I don't know as an engineer, how you would have felt if you'd had three races down, you then get a whole month. And I know that's not a huge amount of time with obviously development, you know, it's not, it's not an overnight thing, but it does give you a bit of time to catch up, doesn't it? A bit of time to take stock.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And I guess Imola in mid-May is probably going to be the acid test, right? Coming back home in front of the Tifosi is going to be when they're going to want to be able to be challenging at the front. Alright, I think that's kind of everything for Ferrari.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Thus far, uh, hopefully we've managed to paint some positivity at the end there.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, of where they, where they could, could go this season. I want to get your guys thoughts just on one other thing as well before we, before we let you go. Um, Stefano Domenicali has been in, been in the news the last few days saying that he's a supporter of cancellation of free practice sessions, which are great for the use of engineers.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But that the public doesn't like. So I thought as we have an engineer and


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Member of the public, if I could call you that, Matt. I'm not sure. I've been called a lot less, thanks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not sure, not sure if we'll quite get down that route, but uhm, go on Rob, make the case for, uh, for practice sessions as an engineer, because I, look, from the outside, I'm going to guess if you could have 10, 12, 14 hours of practice, you'd want them, is that right?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] No. What would? What would? My idea was that you could have, uhm,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You could have, you know, like the wind tunnel time gets, uhm, tapered depending on where you finish in the championship. Well, maybe depending on where you finish the race before is how much practice time. And maybe actually you only get a certain amount of practice. If you finish first in the race, you barely get any practice time for the next race. Rebel get one lap. That's why.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You wouldn't be saying that though if you only got one lap of, if your team are winning and you only got one lap of practice. I'm sure that would be very, very frustrating. Um, yeah, Rob, I guess it is that.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That's the thing that everyone has, isn't it, right? The sport of the entertainment. That's the thing that it will always come down to. Is it, is it a sport or is it entertainment? And I guess you, you sit and, you know, most of us would sit on the, on the sports side. It's gotta be primarily there to be a sporting event.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, no, I would agree. Uh, great, well thank you, thank you very much for both of your company. Uh, Matt, you're gonna be up early I assume for the Australian Grand Prix?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's going to be an early start for sure. That's all we've got time for for today. Thank you very much for your company. Thank you, Matt. Thank you, Rob. We will be back next Tuesday after the Australian Grand Prix. Until then, bye for now.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I like to think I'm pretty good. I tend to order on the spicier side and I tend to gravitate towards spicier foods, so.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I don't know, I've seen your show and I've seen how people think they can do it, so I'm not making any claims.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, okay. Where do we start with that one? Does it ever inform the skate session? No, uhm.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] They wanted to do it, uhm, well she wanted to do it more like actual prosthetics on my face and make it really real.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I love that, uh, that mockumentary, what we do in the shadows, and my oldest son Riley is in a...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Is in a band, and they name themselves Peter after him.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And when he said that, I was considering a Halloween costume right then and I thought, that's what I want to do. Fate. Yeah. Kevin Staab here.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, Kevin's been one of my best friends since I was about 12 years old. And uh, Kevin has a very iconic look. So his was not hard to duplicate. All I had to do was dye my hair and get his girlfriend to steal all of his clothes. So that's literally I'm wearing his clothes. Body to mall.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, that's pretty much what we, we put top tier on almost everything at home, so I hope I'm right.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I honestly just like a kind of a mouthful of dirt that's crunchy.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, mealworms, they are just kinda squishy and not a lot of flavor. Not very good. What about crickets?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, well, the bread was good, so, just kind of melt. I don't think, I think they were trying to hide it. You know? Trying to hide it. Yeah.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, at some sushi restaurant, I can't remember, they, it was kind of like the secret, you know, the chef was like, hey, this is what we have. And I actually dipped it into the dish, and my mouth stopped functioning when I put in it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And they relate, they spruce it up a little bit, but they don't overdo it with, you know, different flavors. Uhm, I mean the best fish fish was in, uh, was at Tsukiji in Tokyo where they actually bring the fish in, like the,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That's pretty much where the sushi bars here are getting it from, but you go there and


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And there's already a line out there, out the door, so you gotta get there at like 4.30am to get in.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And then you go sit down and they just serve you the freshest fish that just came off the boat. Sushi hype beast. And pretty much kick you out right afterwards, yeaah.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And got super sick afterwards, and you know when you just associate a sickness with something you ate?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The blood rushes out of your head, you get sick to your stomach. I just, I just feel like I don't, I don't wanna go there.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That one's got flavor. You like it? Yea. This is the one. Pain is good as a great hot sauce. This is the next three I love.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So, but this one really like, it's not just hot, it actually has some flavor. It's kind of, yeaah, it's profound. It's profound. It's profound.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But I've been doing my radio show over 10 years now and I've learned


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, just cause I found myself in these crazy situations where...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And, and having access to, to people that I find really interesting and, and, and having questions on my, my own. So I just started kind of doing it on the fly. I mean, it wasn't like.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Wasn't like I was setting out to have some career as an interviewer, it was just more, uh,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I'm interested in the process for sure, uh, and I'm in the background a bit but all that stuff's usually been told by them already. Right. So many times that it sounds rehearsed when they say it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So it's more like, like I got to talk to Louis C.K. about internet haters.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And being on the other side of that and how you deal with that and how sometimes you can call them out and then they're, you know, they back off. Exactly.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That's an interesting subject to me and that's not like coming from the perspective of someone that is just watching it from afar. It's someone who experiences that.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] On the daily. Right. You know, and so I think that's an interesting perspective to have for someone that's watching.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And that's exactly middle of the road. But, that is, that is a pleasant sauce.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] No, I'm never, I didn't really have a bucket list, like it was more that I found myself in those places. And I had...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That was good. That was not as flavorful as yours. Tony.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, not really because all the challenges I've created myself. So, it was more like, for me it was what's next. So, you know, for instance, 900, like,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uhm, and so it's, it was more like what is next, what's progression? And then I did the loop and we built a loop for our Boom Boom Huxham tour. And I always thought like, what if you turn that thing sideways?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And it's weird because that would seem easier than going all the way upside down, but really sticking to a wall, a 90 degree wall. The physics of that? The full 360, uhm, it was painful.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And I was making the same mistakes that I made the first time trying the loop. Like I could not get my mind and my body to co- coordinate that. Uhm, I mean it took a while, it was like...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] These people who you're like, woah, they're actually legitimately good skateboarders? So, I mean, like, this generation grew up skating, so I can't, you know, the field is huge now.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, we did a thing with this chimp that skated and then we were all dressed like chimps and then we were at Bob Burnko's house and we were trying to get some skate footage and the chimp costumes and then uh, we tried to do his loop and his loop was weathered and slow and I paid the price, getting cocky and uh, broke my pelvis. Oh no! But I don't blame them.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well when you're on set, especially at Jackass, when you're on set, you see everyone standing around like this. For real, like when they're off camera. Covering their crotch. Or if you have a drink, you just stand like this. Because they've all been there.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Because someone's gonna pour something in it, or pee in it, or-


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You can't, they don't really, I mean I couldn't get it put back together. So you have to just sit.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And you can't make any sudden movements, you can't cough, you can't sneeze, going to the bathroom is like insane task.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Oh, we got a ride channel. That's uh, that's our skate, that's our skate site, YouTube channel.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We haven't done a video in almost 10 years and, uh, the other guys literally in Oklahoma right now shooting Jaws, Ben, Clint, David Loy, Sean Hale, Lizzie Armanto, and, uh, I'm super excited that's coming out next year and, uh, thanks for having me.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] There's a big University of Kentucky collector in town who reached out to me about some basketball items he may want to sell. Knowing how big UK sports are in Lexington, I'm taking some time away from this event so hopefully this is a slam dunk.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] No, I'd have to ask him. Okay, uhm, cause if he did wear that suit and you could tie it to a particular game, that would be pretty cool. It's kinda like...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, it's the best thing you can have from a coach. Game-worn suit. No question. Okay, well that's pretty cool. I mean, you have a good collection of stuff. What are you looking to get for everything?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I need to get some information on this stuff, so let me call someone down to come take a look at this right now. Sounds great to me. Alright, I'll be right back.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, alright, I'm a little more confident after Jess stopped by, but I still have some more questions that need to be answered.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Do you mind if I go make one more phone call? No, not at all. Take your time. Alright, I'll be right back.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Everything seems to be legit. Now, the sooner I'm gonna be honest with you, it's-


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] My favorite thing here, but I think you'll get a lot more money for it here in Kentucky than I could ever offer you for it. So I'm guessing that's probably off the table right away.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, Jess is saying it's worth 2,500. Mhm. Would you take 1,500 for it?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, and what about the shoes? Uhm, she's saying four thousand...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I'm thinking 2500. I'd say it's just


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You do 3,500 for the pair and throw the ball in just cause you can get another one for free.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Then it's my suit. But let me tell you, I'll be able to tell you.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, I have worn it in the game. I didn't wear it in the National Championship in 12 because that one's in the Hall of Fame. But this was in a bunch of big games and may have worn it in the semi-final of a Final Four. That's pretty cool.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yes, but I've signed a lot of these. After the game, if you have a ball and we win, I'll sign all the balls before I leave. What I'm saying is...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] They signed Babe Ruth. Babe Ruth was the greatest ever. Not the greatest. Ty Cobb was the best baseball player ever. Joe DiMaggio. No, Ty Cobb. DiMaggio. Over 10 years, batting over 400.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] What you got here? I've got a pair of Lebron Autograph shoes. That's pretty cool. These are actually the Weed Edition ones. They're the 2004 All-Star Game ones. And, uh, they're a limited edition. I've never actually seen these in person.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The rare shoe itself, the autograph's rare, and I think LeBron, statistically, will go down as the number one player in NBA history.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Back in 2004, when I was a kid, I was at one of the Cavs games. I saw him coming, didn't have anything to sign, so I took him right off my feet, tossed it to him, he signed him, and tossed him right back. Sweet.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I'm excited that the expert's coming in. Hopefully he can appraise it to something higher than I expect it to be. And I'm excited to see what he has to say.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I want to take this shoot back to Cleveland and just hold onto it for a couple more years until Lebron wins the championship and Cleveland brings it home and then I'll see what it's worth then.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I came into the pawn shop today to sell my 2016 Chicago Cubs base. This is the granddaddy of baseball memorabilia. I'm looking to sell the base because I'm not a big Cubs fan and I think that there's Cubs fans out there that would really appreciate this probably a little bit more than I do.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Correct. This is actually the first base from the 7th through 9th innings of Game 2, which marks the first time that the Cubs won a World Series game since 1945.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Okay, uhm, how much you want for it? I'm looking to get $30,000 for it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uhm, there was another one also from game two that went for 16,000. But this base is from innings seven through nine. This is the base that you want. The other one was more third to fourth innings. So that's why I think that the value of this is unprecedented.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It can go nowhere near that. I mean, this is a, it's a one of a kind. It's baseball history. It's one of a kind, but just in that series alone, there was


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I'm gonna hold onto it because this $7,000 offer isn't even in the ballpark from what I'm looking for.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] What's up? Check this out. This is supposed to be from one of the band members of ZZ Top.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Let's see here. Well, it definitely looks right. I mean, I feel like Shaq's waist was bigger than that.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Shaq is one of the greatest basketball players of my time period. This is before LeBron, you know, this is in the Kobe era.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Shaq was just this massive seven foot one basketball player who had a huge presence on the court. He couldn't really shoot the ball too far away from the rim, but when you're that size you don't need to.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] They do say his name on there and they're big, but someone could have easily just wrote that right in there. I'm gonna come around and check this out. Wow, it's, uh...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Pretty big here. Let me try it on here if you don't mind. Yeah, no worries.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I actually kinda like it. It fits. I might get the sleeves and wear this thing.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I mean, this right here either gotta be Shaq's or Paul Bunyan's. What are you looking to do with it? No, I'm looking to sell it. And how much are you looking to get? Uh, a thousand bucks.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, uhm, I have no idea. If you don't mind, I'd like to call Buddy down to come take a look at it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's custom made, it has a tag inside that says custom made for Shaquille O'Neal.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, you heard what he said. He thinks it's worth, you know, $500 in a retail setting. With that being said, what are you willing to take for it?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uhm, yeah, uhm, that's still gonna be too much for me because I'm gonna need to be able to make a profit on it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's really cool. It's Shaq's. Appreciate you bringing it in.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] This is my buddy Matt. I'm a Marine Corps F-18 pilot with 18 years of experience, a graduate of the Naval Fighter Weapon School, Top Gun, and former U.S. Navy Blue Angel pilot.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So Rick, you really wanna try and buy this airplane? I wanna get an airplane. I'm just, uh, trying to figure out the right one. Well, the Texan's an awesome plane.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It basically was the workhorse to train all the cadets in World War II. This aircraft was great for training not only our fighter pilots, but also our bomber pilots, the B-17, the B-24 pilots. During World War II, we dominated the skies, whether that's Europe or over in the Pacific region, this aircraft helped train those pilots.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, you know, it's a great trainer plane. I know, but you're trying to sell it to me. It is, but that tail wheel right there makes it a little difficult. So is it harder to land with the tail wheel? You got it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Land in a tail dragger, that airplane can swap ends pretty quickly. Where it doesn't have the tricycle gear, where you have a nose gear and two tail gear, you actually have it in the back. It's a little unstable with that. Land in a tail dragger is kinda like going from learning to ride your bike, where you have training wheels on it, and then all of a sudden you take those training wheels off.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] How many hours do you have on your engine? You know, it only has about 20 hours since the engine has been completely overhauled. The engine's on here, 1600 hours, uh, and as you get closer to that mark, you need to overhaul, and that is a big ticket item. So that's actually a plus. On the front, he's going to have a spinner.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Not all Texans have a spinner. It adds about $5000 in value. Just for that little cap on the front.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] He's got a clean cockpit set up. This aircraft is fairly basic to fly. Landing and takeoff is a little hard with the tail wheel, but literally with the stick it's up, down, left, right to maneuver the aircraft. You've got a pretty easy throttle.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So the last thing to do here is to take this airplane flying. Dennis and I should go airborne. Yeaah, let's take her up. Alright, let's do it. Do your stuff.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I'm super excited to fly this aircraft. I spent most of my time in jets and this will be really kind of a throwback. It'll be fun to fly this.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, right now, current market, what we're looking at. You know, I think it's fair value. It's about $170,000 on the spot. Okay.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So what does it cost to own one of these things? First thing is you need to hanger it. That's about $300 a month.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Then this aircraft needs to fly. It needs to get lubricated, oil through the systems, fuel, everything's about $275 an hour to fly it. Seems like this thing's gonna cost me a grand a month just to own until I can sell it. Yeah, that's a, that's a safe number. Alright, well thanks Matt. Okay, you bet. Great to see you. Matt, you're the man, dude. Okay, see ya. Thanks a lot, Matt. Nice job, Des.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] How you doing? Good, how you doing today? Oh, pretty good. What do you have here? It's a suit owned by Shaquille O'Neal that outgrew me and I'm ready to sell it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I have no problem with an expert coming in today to take a look at my suit. And I think when he comes in, he'll see all the labels and realize that it's real. Hey Chum.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, I'd probably go 900. I mean, it was, you know, during the year that he won the championship. Uhm, I think you guys would sell it in a hurry.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I couldn't pay over the value for it. Yeaah. The lowest I'm probably willing to go is 500 bucks.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Unfortunately we weren't able to come to an agreement today on price. I feel like it's worth a lot more. I'd rather just keep it at the house.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That's correct, 1992. This is Joe Montana and Emmett Smith, both signed also. You know all those guys, Rick?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yes, sir, I did at another show, uh, and it's got Joe Montana's personal hologram stamp, but Emmett's agent had run out of his hologram.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I'll do you a favor, let's go 1922 for Emma Smith. Alright, 1922, sounds like a deal. Thank you.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] What do we got? Got something very special here. I have the Olympic torch from the 1984


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I came to the pawn shop today to try to sell my 1984 Olympic torch. The least amount that I would take is probably between 3,000 and 3,500. I'd really like to get $5,000.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] What made you so special you got to run with a torch? Well, interesting enough, my dad got to choose three runners. And of course, being his son, I got nominated as one of the runners. I was 17 years old. It was the most phenomenal thing I've ever done in my life. And I even signed autographs after.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We weren't able to make the deal on the torch today.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But I think I'm gonna put it back up in the closet for another 28 years.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, so you got a COA from Steiner Sports memorabilia. I don't think they're in business anymore. Uhm, there's limited edition of 500, so uhm, obviously Steiner Sports lined up 500 helmets and eventually got them all to sign them, which is really cool. I mean, it's the Heisman Trophy.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So the Heisman Memorial Trophy is for the most outstanding player in college football. Okay, it's given out right before the bowl games. It's a big deal. You know what the original name of the Heisman Trophy was? No idea.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The trophy started out as the Downtown Athletic Club trophy. It was an athletic club in New York. I think it started in 1935. A year after they came out with the trophy, the director of the Downtown Athletic Club passed away. His last name was Heisman. So they renamed the trophy the Heisman Trophy. So how much you want for this thing?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I'm trying to get 800. Okay, uhm, sounds like it's probably a decent number. Not only is it college football, it's also NFL. I mean, you got both of them there. There's a ton of people that would want to collect this thing. My problem is, I don't like your COA. That company's out of business.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Let me get my buddy down here. He'll take a look, make sure the signatures are good, and uhm, help me figure out a price, because I have no idea what it's worth. For sure. Alright, I'll be right back. Heisman Trophy Pose.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I guess it was my bad by calling it Steve. Uhm, I couldn't go 18 on it. It's one of those things, I don't know how long it's gonna sit on the shelf, but uhm, I'm thinking more like 1200. 1600?