not to sound mean on SRAM. I do love a lot of what SRAM do and have by need, but the chains do tend to be not the fastest. This is part two of my series on drivetrain efficiency with Adam Caron of Zero Friction Cycling. In part one, we discuss bicycle chain lubricant, and while an entire video talking about chain lube doesn't seem incredibly fascinating at first, the lube that you use actually has the biggest impact on your drivetrain's efficiency and can save you a handful of watts. That being said, the other components of your drivetrain have an effect on its efficiency as well. For example, we get into the chain itself and which chain manufacturers produce the most efficient and least efficient chains. And yes, we will be explicitly naming these companies in this video. I just hope we have a good lawyer, man, because SRAM is not gonna be happy about this one. We also discussed the other components of the drivetrain, such as chain rings, cogs, bearings, et cetera. Yes, all of these components have an effect on the drivetrain's efficiency and Adam gave some very nuanced answers here that I found fascinating. Let's get into it. But moving on from chain lube, let's talk about the actual chain itself. And are there chains that are faster than other chains or are all chains kind of the same efficiency? Yeah, no, that's a great one. That's been a fun little area as well. So absolutely there's quite a big difference between chains. So it can be between sort of mostly between chain brands as opposed to chain models as such. For instance, at the fastest end, we've got chains like a Shimano Durace 11 Speed, the new Campi 12 Speed there, kind of the fastest chains tested. So now I don't do outright efficiency testing. So for chain efficiency, I rely on SRAMX Speed, the Denmark Research Lab there. So they test chains so that they know what chains to use for their UFO chains. And it took me a long time. So I always had the data, but it took me a long time to convince them to allow me to make that data public because obviously they didn't want to upset manufacturers. So only about midway through last year, they allowed me to actually publish sort of broadly the test data that they have on chains. So typically, and not to sound mean on SRAM, I do love a lot of what SRAM do and have by near, but chains, the chains do tend to be not the fastest, can tend to be super long lasting, but just not that fast compared to the ones at the top end. So like for instance, your access road chains typically will be around sort of the five and a half watt mark as opposed to a three watt mark. So you're sort of giving up a couple of, you know, sort of two and a half watts there. So it's a fair bit in just in chains. And correct me if I'm wrong, but some of the higher end SRAM chains are actually even worse than the lower end SRAM chains. And the newer, the newer flat top chains seem to be worse. Am I wrong about that? Or is that correct? The flat top chains, I guess I'd say are similar to their previous sort of your Red 22 or your 11 speed X-X1, they're just not fast. So they're still sort of staying around that sort of five and a half, six watt mark. Eagles are a bit slower again. So the eagle chains are super long lasting, just not fast. But yeah, with SRAM, so typically low friction coatings are put on more components inside the chain, the higher level the chain you go. So for instance, with Shimano, a Durace chain is going to be faster than an old Tegra because it has that silk tech low friction coating on more parts. SRAM, it has been a little bit confusing. So for instance, their force level chain for access road is faster than their Red level by half a watt and their X-01 Eagle chain is half a watt faster than their X-X1 chain. And we don't really have an explanation as to why. We've got some sort of guesses, but we don't really know why. And it is, that's really the only case we've seen where the top level is not sort of faster than the next level down. And so yeah, so if you look at like, say SRAM X-speed, their UFO chains are force level, not Red level. I don't want to pick on SRAM too much. There's a lot of things that SRAM is doing that I like. I like the fact that their electronic shifting is wireless, for example. I have Shimano on my road bikes and my gravel bikes, but I actually have SRAM on my mountain bikes. I don't use a SRAM chain, but for somebody who's got a SRAM drivetrain, do you have a recommendation as to what chain they can run? Yeah, absolutely. So Eagle off-road, that's pretty easy. So the YBN 12-speed chain is a great go fast option for the Eagle that works absolutely beautifully on the Eagle. So like the iTrain on XX1 chains, or say you run an XX1 or XO1 chain if you're on Eagle for training because they are so incredibly wear-durable. There's nothing remotely like them in terms of wear resistance.  When it comes to Axis Road, that is more tricky. So Axis Road is a new standard. They are thinner, both internally and externally, versus all other 12-speed chains, and they have oversized rollers. So obviously the cassette profile and chain ring profile is made to, I guess, run that larger roller size. So we do have, so both YBN and KMC do claim that their 12-speed chains are compatible with all 12-speed systems, including Axis Road. I'm really hesitant personally though to recommend that people do that. I mean, you can definitely try it, just be careful because my fear, aside from the fact that your tuning needs to be extremely precise because the chain is wider, my fear is that the cassette and the chain rings, when you're running a chain with normal size rollers, not oversized rollers, to the drivetrain, it is going to be like you're running a new chain on really worn components. And then you find that it's jumping under load either in a lot of cogs or worst cases, going to jump off the chain ring under stand-up power, especially like a stand-up sprint. Yeah, definitely try if you wish, but just be careful. Don't go over the handlebars, please. Have a hot date with the asphalt. So, yeah. All right, so chains are obviously probably the biggest factor in reducing friction in your drivetrain, but let's talk about other aspects of drivetrain efficiency.  How much do these other factors play into the efficiency of the drivetrain? Before we sort of delve into those, it's kind of really important, I guess, to understand that the faster your chain is, the less of the penalty you're going to have for things like cross-chaining or smaller rings and cogs. The slower your chain is, the greater the penalty you're going to have. So if you've got, for instance, just a whatever drip loop from, that's whatever was on the shelf of the bike store, and it's become a bit contaminated and you're running a 10-watt chain, when you cross-chain that, then you've got a lubricant that's quite gritty and abrasive and high loss. So you're going to pay a pretty big penalty for that. If you've got a three to four-watt beautiful wax chain, your penalty is very low. Again, just focusing on your chain efficiency is going to give you some pretty big wins. Smaller rings and cogs, it depends on what you're talking about. Like if you're talking about road and time trial, obviously, generally, you want the biggest sort of ring and cogs set up. So again, not to pick on SRAM, but then move to smaller rings and the 10-toothed cog for road. From an efficiency perspective, we strongly disagree with, and I hope that one day SRAM will sort of move away from that. And just even make their sort of 54 38 ring option, not so horrendously expensive for everyone to try to get onto. Yeah, personally, I'd like to see manufacturers go in the opposite direction, bigger cogs and bigger chain rings. Yes.  A good example is I guess more back in the early days when it was sort of 11 speed, you know, Tony Martin, he would often run an 11-32 cassette and like a 62-tooth chain ring. And it's not because he needs the 60-11 cog, you know, because it's just so tall. What he wants is to be able to hang onto that big ring really well. For the gear ratios that he's going to need on a particular course, the aim is obviously to have a fairly straight chain line, say 80% of the time, you know, for the bulk of the time. And so the cross-chain is going to be a lot less and the wider range cassette will often shift the cogs that you need. And the way this comes into play, not only to save the time trials, but even if you're on, say, a one-by-set up and you've got an event that is going to have a lot of climbing and really hard climbing. So, stereotypically, your larger rings are going to be more efficient than a smaller ring because you've got less articulation at the ring. You're going to be running a larger cog for a given gear inches, so you've got less articulation at the rear. And because there's less leverage of the crank arm over the stop point, which is the chain on the chain ring, there's less chain tension in a larger ring for the same power. If you're doing 250 watts at 100 cadence or 90 cadence in a 50-tooth chain ring versus, say, a mount bike 32-tooth chain ring, same power, same cadence, there's going to be more tension or load on the chain in the smaller chain ring for that same power because of the leverage of the crank arm over the chain. So you've got, you know, on a larger ring, you've got less articulation at both ends and it's under lesser tension. So you've got kind of three things all adding up to give you lower losses versus a smaller chain ring, which again is why they're running the biggest they can in time trial stuff. However, if it's, say, a off-road event and you're going to be doing a lot of climbing, so in theory it's like, cool, do I want to run a 34 because I want to run this nice big chain ring and I can get away with that okay because I've got a 50 or a 52-tooth cog that I can, you know, get up that hill okay, but I'm going to do a lot of climbing in that combination.  You can imagine if you had, say, like an 82-tooth ring and an 82-tooth cog, your chain line's going to be damn near 45 degrees, so the larger you're going at each end, you are making your chain line more extreme, which is going to give you greater penalty and greater losses for, you know, running that combination, so running maximum cross-chaining. So it may be that you're going to be better off running, say, a 32-tooth chain ring, which may enable you then to, you know, remain much more time in your second largest cog as opposed to your largest cog. You're going to have overall lower losses by running that combination as opposed to running a more extreme cross-chain for a lot of the time. So, for instance, running a 30-tooth or 42-tooth, you know, if you're doing an hour or two of climbing in a massive event, like, say, Leadville, that's going to quite likely work out much better than pushing it to the extreme and running like a 30-tooth or 52-tooth. So most times, larger is going to be lower friction, but then maybe cases were going smaller and having a lesser extreme chain line is going to actually work out in your favor. Interesting. Okay. And thoughts on ceramic bearings. That was the last component of that question. Yeah. So, I mean, it's one of these things where cheap ceramic bearings are going to be definitely worse than high-quality steel.  This is where you've got to kind of tend to think of your bike really as like a race machine. So your fastest ceramic bearings typically are going to be faster, not only by being, you know, sort of a high-quality ceramic, but they will have a lighter, you know, faster grease with a lower fill level and typically very light or no contact seals. So they do need more care and maintenance in general than your sort of OEM, say, Enduro AVEC-5 or AVEC-3 bearing. So faster, yes, but you need to maintain them. A lot of ceramic bearings, if you don't maintain them. So that lighter, faster grease will wear down more quickly. And when the grease also wears down past a certain point, so the grease behind the seal lip forms what's called a hydro-dynamic barrier behind that seal lip. And that is actually a large part of the protection of stuff getting inside your bearing. Once it gets to a point where that barrier is no longer there, stuff gets in super easy, especially on a wet ride, it will just go straight in. So just take note that for almost all fast ceramic bearing upgrades, you do need to maintain them. And if you don't, if you let the lubrication, they will become quite low.   And this is where your really high quality stuff, where they have very, very hardened racers, they will stand up to punishment much, much greater than your cheaper stuff that just has sort of your more stock standard, you know, steel racers. So, yeah, so yes, but with some caution. And so somebody's weighing out, you know, the cost and the maintenance and all of this, you've given out some figures on how many wide savings, certain lubricants and chains are. What kind of wide savings are we talking about by giving bottom bracket upgrade, for example? Yeah, generally not that much. So it can, it can depend. So some bottom brackets, only bottom brackets can be fairly draggy, but they're draggy, not because the bearing isn't necessarily super slow.  So an example would be like, for instance, a Durace bottom bracket. They're really sort of made by Shimano to give somebody 20,000 or 30,000 kilometers of, you know, road kilometers of service-free, trouble-free riding. But you're paying for that in drag. It's a bit like this is a passenger car bearing that's designed to go 300,000 kilometers in a passenger car, trouble-free, as opposed to a bearing that you're gonna have on your race car that's gonna get a lot more attention and be much lower friction.  And a lot of those going to literally be because they have a light or no contact seal and fast grease. But the cost of that is maintenance. So, but most bottom brackets, if you're, like a slow bottom bracket is going to be somewhere around a watt-ish and a fast bottom bracket is going to be somewhere around the 0.3 to 0.5 watt mark. So you could sort of call it half a watt to a watt max that you would save if you took a sort of worst case bottom bracket scenario and this is sort of talking new versus a fast. Things could obviously be more if the bottom bracket is not performing well. If your bottom bracket sort of gone to crap, then yeah, you've got more to have on there. Carries on, so wheel bearings, it's similar like this. If you said on average, there's gonna be about a half a watt max saving per bearing by going from stock OEM, ABEC three steel to a high quality ceramic, then you can carry that across most of the range across your bike. Caviets to that, pulley wheels tend to be, although yes, you can get to see a pulley wheel on YouTube that spins forever versus an OEM that's gonna not spin at all. Just remember that it's such a light object that there's typically in the bearings on a pulley wheel, it's not much savings there in the bearings you're talking probably point one of a watt difference between a fast bearing and an OEM. So most of the savings will be in like your oversized pulley wheel systems which are a bit more expensive.  Basically all of the savings are really coming from the lesser articulation around the pulley wheels as opposed to the faster bearings. So yes, the faster bearings help, but again, you're only saving like about point one of a watt in the pulley bearings. But this is one of these areas where again your, I guess the marketing for a lot of oversized pulley wheel systems often claim that there's like two, two and a half watts savings. That's really going to depend on what chain did they test that on? If you've got a four watt or three watt wax chain, you are not going to save two and a half watts of that in your oversized pulley wheel system. Similar thing where if you've got a really fast chain, your penalty for things like cross-chaining and so on are less, the savings for something like an oversized pulley wheel system on a really fast chain are going to be lesser as well. I like them mostly because it's a fun bling upgrade that still saves you something. So anytime I can put something cool on my bike that is still an actual performance benefit, I tend to try to go for it, but it depends on your budget. So thanks for watching. I left the link to zero friction cycling down in the description below if you want to check it out. If you enjoyed this video, be sure to give it a like, subscribe and share it with your cycling friends. See you in the next one.


Do you think it's right, or do you think we can do anything about it, or do you think we have any power in what happens to them, or what about in your own day-to-day life? Do you think there's anything we can do to stop the cruelty in our day-to-day life, or stop eating it? Probably the main thing, 98% of animal cruelty happens in these industries. Meat, dairy, egg, fishing, so by buying a burger we pay these people, we put them in work, we give them a job. That's the thing that's so hard, but everyone's got vegan stuff. Yeah, but also now 2017, vegan options everywhere. It's probably the fastest growing movement like today. It's huge man, it's vegan everything now. There's one of them. All we're trying to do is get people to stop buying stuff that hurts animals. We don't want no money from anyone. We're not selling anything. We're not trying to preach enough. We're just showing you this is what happens to animals. This is really happening.  And if you're eating this violence and cruelty, like what do you think happens to you? If you keep putting that in your body over time, you know, the people are sick, man. They're not healthy. These aren't sick vegans out. People think that vegans aren't healthy or something, but we're now nourished. We're not the ones filling up the hospitals because they're eating violence and death, you know. It's horrible. We push pigs into gas chambers, we blend baby, male baby chicks up on their first day of life alive. Yeah, chop lamb's heads off when they're still conscious. Just bolt gun cows in the head when they don't want it. Just so we can have like a quick sandwich, five minutes. Five minutes is down. It's in our body. That's it. That's the end of the cow's life. Have a look into it. Here's it. We'll get some to you. It's anonymous. Yeah, it's like I said, not selling anything, just trying to get people to stop eating animals and hurting them because we know everyone's good people. People are good people. They're not cruel. But if you've seen a dog getting kicked to death, you'd be like, what is going on to be on the news worldwide? If it's a cow, it's fine. No, no, that's food. It's a pig. Who cares? Chuck them in the gas chamber, chop them up in the pieces. You know, we just think that cow, pigs, chickens, lambs, dogs, cats are all deserve equal treatment and just their life without suffering and violence. So thanks for listening. Thank you.


The real reason why narcissists ghost you. Narcissists do not like to be wrong. They see themselves as grandiose. They think they're better than you. And while that may not be true, they expect you to support the illusion. They expect you to feed into their narrative by either adoring them or fearing them. They don't really care about respect, which is how they're able to say and do so many things that make them unworthy of respect. They just want to dominate you. They want to have a command and position over you. They want to be the most important and conspicuous thing in your life, which is how they're always trying to attract your attention. But they expect you to see yourself as being less important than they are. They expect you to be their subordinate, where you can then accommodate them and cater to their needs. But at some point, they will give you the silent treatment. They will start ghosting you and you will wonder why they're no longer talking to you. You will feel abandoned, but you will begin to question yourself. You will question if you did something wrong. And then you may try to correct it because now you don't feel safe. You feel very anxious, but those are the exact feelings that they want to induce in you. They want to keep you off balance. They want to keep you on edge. They want you to be worrying about what they think about you. When the narcissist ghosts you, they do it to dominate you. They do it to gain power and control over you. But they will play the victim. They will act as though you have done something to them. But that's just a mask for what they're really trying to do. When the narcissist first met you, they may have said that you were perfect. They may have said that you were the greatest person they've ever met. But as time goes by, they stop texting you. They don't call you anymore because they may have felt slighted by something you said or did. Narcissists are very sensitive people. Maybe you didn't say something the way they wanted you to say it. But if you question them on this, they will accuse you of being sensitive or paranoid.  Where you're constantly wondering about what they think, they're playing a game, and they want you to respond to their ghosting. They want you to try to make things right because it feeds their ego. It makes them feel important. They put you on a pedestal just so you're further away from the ground when they want you to fall. And then they ghost you when they're grooming their new supply. But if you try to get in contact with them again, they will insult you. They will devalue you, which leaves you feeling very confused. But they know that at this point, you're in a vulnerable state, which is why they're so free from restraint, which is why they're so out of control. They will say whatever they think will hurt you the most. They will punish you because it gives them supply.  But this is a problem that cannot be solved because you're not dealing with a rational person. So there's no logical reason. They ghosted you to cause you to experience instability, to cause you to experience unpredictable behaviour and erratic changes of mood, to see what your will is to tolerate, to make you insecure because if they can make you insecure, they can mould you into whatever they want you to be. They can mould you into whatever works for them. Thank you for watching. I hope this video resonates with you. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. If you would like to donate, my PayPal link is in the video description. Coaching queries. You can email me at coaching.narcsurviver.co.uk. Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon.


Hi, I'm Liz Wade for Spotlight English. This week's program is about the COVID pandemic and our stories during that pandemic, how the pandemic affected each of us and how people experienced that worldwide problem. This program was written before we knew very much about the Delta variant and other variants that are affecting populations all around the world. And while this program does have a hopeful ending, and I do think that we will get through this, we also want to acknowledge and let you know that we know there is still a lot of pain around COVID around the world. This is not a problem that is going away soon, and it needs all of us working together to make it go away and to make it better. So we hope that when you listen to this program, you hear about the experiences that people around the world have had. We want to hear about your experiences too, but we also want you to hear the hope that people do have for finally getting through this pandemic. We hope that you enjoy this program. Welcome to Spotlight. I'm Liz Wade. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand no matter where in the world they live. We begin today's program with a story from March 2020. It was almost midnight. My roommate and I had been hanging out. It had been more than a week since we had left the house because of the lockdown. So we decided to go for a walk. No one was wearing masks then. But there was also no one around. We walked to an intersection of streets. Normally it would be crowded with people. Even on the weekdays, many people went to the bars and a lot of cars traveled through. But there was no one. I remember I walked to the middle of the street and then I lay down. I lay there for several minutes. No cars came. Nothing that night seemed real. Nothing seemed real for many nights after. This is a program about the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. 2020 was unlike any other year. A new coronavirus named SARS-CoV-2 spread through the whole world. It led to the disease COVID-19 and it changed everyone's lives. Countries shut down. People had to make big changes to the way they worked, shopped and had relationships. When the pandemic began, these changes seemed strange. But soon, the restrictions seemed normal. Today's spotlight is on the coronavirus pandemic. It is about how that first year felt. We tell stories from different people around the world. We look at their experiences during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many people's first experience was not with the virus itself. They first experienced measures designed to prevent the virus's spread. Xiang Chao is a researcher from Austria. But he is originally from China. He was visiting his family when COVID-19 began to spread. Chao wrote about his experiences in the journal Health Communication. He wrote, Several apartments with infections were blocked by a thick metal bar on the door. This was an attempt to stop the virus from spreading. One night, I walked on a big bridge. I saw the new shopping mall I had not visited yet. I saw the restaurant where I had rice noodles last year. I saw the shop where I got a globe model when I was a child. All of these memories rushed into my head with the beautiful but empty night view. A strong sense of isolation came over me. I felt extremely alone. I have no previous experience with such an outbreak. I was only a high school student when SARS happened. It did not affect my life very much. Loneliness was a common experience with the pandemic. Many people also experienced how terrible the loneliness could be. June Perry lives in the United States. Her father lived in a nursing home where medical professionals would take care of him. COVID-19 was especially dangerous for older people. Someone in this nursing home caught COVID-19. The disease spread like a fire in a dry forest. And June was not able to see her father. She told NPR, We saw my father through the window. It was very, very sad. He had signs of dementia before he went to the nursing home. He did not know that people were dying around him. He did not know that three people near him had died of COVID. Six months after lockdown, he died alone with nobody beside him. The isolation affected all people greatly. Most did not go out to work. They did not see their friends or family. It was like everything in the world had stopped. Several Italian scientists studied this feeling for the journal Frontiers in Psychology. They asked almost 3,000 students about their experiences. One, a 16-year-old, told the scientists, It is bad to wake up in the morning knowing that you cannot accomplish anything with your life. You cannot do anything. I look out the window and it is all deserted. There are no more sounds of cars, buses, or people talking. It is like a changed world, like being in prison for something that you did not do. All I can do is wait and stay at home. When people caught COVID-19, they were not just afraid for themselves. Being infected meant people close to them could also be infected. This coronavirus was a very new virus. Scientists did not know very much about it. People did not know how it would affect their loved ones. Angela Brangaccio had just given birth. Then doctors told her she was positive for COVID-19. She was afraid for herself, but she was also afraid for her child. She told NPR, All I knew was that I had this three-month-old baby. I was so scared of anything happening to her. I felt so sick. I could not think how this virus would feel in a three-month-old body. The pain that you feel when you are sick. If my baby feels like this, I cannot go on. In the end, I decided I would move into a different room. I did not spend much time with my baby. I could not kiss her. I kept my mask on all the time. It was so hard.  By the end of 2020, there seemed to be some hope. SARS-CoV-2 had destroyed many lives, but countries were also developing vaccines for the virus. The vaccines would protect most people from getting seriously sick if they were infected. Scientists even believed that they might also prevent infection. By early 2021, some countries had vaccinated some of their population. In many places, COVID-19 cases began to fall, but there was still a lot to do to beat COVID. Many people still could not get the vaccines, but people began to think that there might be a life beyond the lockdown. They began to imagine a future where everyone could be safe again. How did the COVID-19 pandemic affect you? Do you remember when you first heard of COVID-19? What was your experience like? Tell us your story. You can email us at contact at spotlightenglish.com. You can also find us on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. The writer of this program was Dan Christman. The producer was Liz Wade. The voices you heard were from the United States. All quotes were adapted for this program and voiced by Spotlight. You can listen to this program again and read it on the Internet at www.spotlightenglish.com. This program is called Life and Loneliness during COVID-19. Visit our website to download our free official app for Android and Apple devices. We hope you can join us again for the next Spotlight program. Goodbye.


This is covering the spread part of the Fandall podcast network You're not gonna find many sports weekends better than this one the world series begins tonight between the Diamondbacks and the Rangers We have got all 32 NFL teams in action. We have got the semi-finals from NASCAR I know you don't care, but I do NBA and NHL also in full swing We're gonna break down three aspects of that delightful sports weekend for today talking player props with JJ Zacharyson Talking World series with Rob Friedman the pitching ninja and I'll talk about NASCAR later on to close out the show We should be a spectacular weekend This is covering the spread right here on the Fandall podcast network and Fandall research My name is Jim Sonnis I am a managing editor of digital media for Fandall research join your kick things off by JJ Zacharyson Check him out on Twitter at late round QB find his work at late round comm and the late round fantasy football podcast and JJ I pray That you've got exposure in some way to your guy Chris Godwin last night because he has been bound for a touchdown for a very long time You've had a lot of bad luck with him, but our guy finally came through last night Please tell me there was some way you benefited from his touchdown Yeah, I benefited a little bit from the touchdown, but of course it happened on a Thursday night game When I would have totally been throwing Godwin out there. He was plus 240 last night. It was awesome Yeah, yeah, I mean like but I do think that he's a really good example of sort of what we talked about on the show a lot where You know, we're looking at regression and we're looking at the markets and the markets are not baking in regression always I mean, there are sometimes like Tony Pollard this week has the the the shortest odds to score a touchdown essentially on most books, but He's someone who's actually a huge touchdown regression candidate favorably like he should have way more touchdowns And he actually has but books are recognizing that he should score a touchdown this weekend But a guy like Godwin, you know, like you said plus 240 You know, hopefully you were able to get something out of that. Yeah, it was awesome I celebrated, you know, and I probably would not have been there had we not had our discussion So I still benefited from it even if others did not so selfishly. Thank you but hopefully others were taking Taking the grains of like regression discussion we had had and applying that to their own betting And hopefully that you benefit from the chris godwin Touchdown is what we're going to talk about the week eight player prop landscape here In just one second a first day reminder to make sure you're subscribed to covering the spread Wherever you get your podcast later on this weekend tomorrow morning Tom becky will have you ready for a sunday night football charters and bears via prime time tom that is both here on the covering the spread podcast feed and fan dual tv plus to get fan dual tv plus go to fan dual dot com slash watch and log in with your fan dual account or Download the fan dual tv plus app on amazon fire apple tv or roku devices Now jg let's start things off here by talking about i think the headliner of this weekend that is the san francisco 49ers because They are a very fun team for prop betting because they've got a lot of fun guys Especially when you take out one player from that equation But now likely to have san donald starting this week as opposed to brock purdy So we talked about backup quarterbacks in an earlier show and kind of how that that meshes, but It's different. I think in a kyle shanahan scheme even if trend williams can't go like i think that's a very different situation So how do you expect things with a backup quarterback to play out when the system and the environment around him is so good Yeah, it's funny. Uh, i'm one of my podcasts called living the stream Um, you know not the lay around podcast, but on living the stream We we got a question of you know, we always answer like silly questions at the end of every show And one of the questions was who is the worst quarterback? That would be okay and kyle shanahan system Because kyle shanahan system is that good that you can throw a pretty and i think our i think our consensus answer was zack wilson like i think that was like the The sort of go to but it just goes to show you that i mean we've seen Very very random bottom tiered Quarterbacks obviously they're in the nfl. So they're good, but bottom tiered quarterbacks Do okay, and and really at least uh be able to sustain some production in this offense historically with kyle shanahan We had nick mullins in the past. Um, I mean there's been players who have stepped in Who did you bet that was below the wilson line? We found that out at least Yeah, yeah, we did we did realize that but they're you know, if you look at darnold himself I know that he's a he's a punchline at this point, but um, you know at the same time He's got the pedigree like he's had at least some production Some good moments in the nfl And now you're you're looking at him in this 49ers offense And one of the reasons why the 49ers offense can be as good as it is aside from just scheming guys open and such And kyle shanahan being so good at that Um, it's it's it's predicated on on yards after catch It's predicated on getting the ball Through their playmakers more so than most any other offense you're gonna find and so When you look at what they have even with debo samuel banged up and unlikely to go I don't think he's confirmed out right now, but you know unlikely to go You have cmc in the backfield best receiving back in the league You have george kittle one of the best yak tight ends that you can find and brandon iyuk You know, I don't think people first off. I don't think people realize how good brandon iyuk is But coming out of college like his big thing was that he was amazing after the catch And he still has been very amazing after the catch in the nfl That's why he was such an obvious fit for kyle shanahan in san francisco So I actually look at this 40. Of course, there's gonna be You know, I'm not as optimistic as as I would be if they had brock purdy under center But you can look at the line and you can see how things sort of alter and change from that And and then have that sort of trickle down in domino effect down to the rest of the team from a projection standpoint And when you look at it, it's not as big of a deal as what you're going to see with other quarterbacks I don't want to say that brock purdy is a system quarterback But I think every quarterback is a system quarterback to some degree and we have to recognize that And it's also like sam darnold's a pretty competent backup Like do you want him as your starter? Probably not but like the downgrade from Generic started to sam darnold. It's not as large. I think the big thing for me is a total coming down It kind of hints to me that the team may be a bit more conservative Maybe a bit more run having we saw mccaffrey play every snap on monday for some reason like good for him but like They clearly did not care about the oblique injury and I feel like To me whenever I see a backup quarterback in there like yes The running back may get more regent's but they're also more likely to be in a negative game script In this situation, I kind of feel like that's less true because I could see kyle shanahan Just kind of skewing towards the run Because darnold's good enough to keep them in a positive script. There's still four and a half point favorites right now And like I could see mccaffrey actually benefiting here Whereas usually I don't want to bump up the the running back when it's back a quarterback started Yeah, I think it's all logical very logical Alrighty, let's talk here about other fluid situations impacting week number eight looking across the full landscape jj Which fluid situations are you digging into as spots where you may see value once props are posted there? Yeah, you know usually and when we talk about these fluid situations We're talking backfields and I have three backfields that I think are pretty intriguing right now One of them is houston and one of the most under the radar Storylines and fantasy football in that space at least which obviously translates to prop betting Is the houston backfield and how they divvied up that backfield before their buy last week Damian pierce through the first five weeks of the season was seeing about a 72 running back rush air per game rate I mean even in the week five gave me at a hundred percent of the team's running back rushes And then the last time we saw them back in week six pierce ended up seeing half of the team's running back rushes Because they ended up using devon singletary more in that backfield Singletary saw season highs in running back rush air target share snaps row participation And they've openly talked about now the coaching staff has that this is a committee I think that they're realizing that damian pierce being a good a good player. He is a good player He just doesn't fit the scheme as well. I think devon singletary just fits a little bit better So that's something to keep in mind. I might may or may not have something more on that later on the show Uh, the carolina backfields another one in that same exact game where mile sanders has been banged up But if you look at any rushing metric, uh, advanced metric even regular metric Chuba Hubbard has been better than mile sanders this year. I mean across the board and so Uh, mile sanders has been banged up like I said, but frank rake comes out this week And he says this is a committee and chuba hubbard's been really good Is basically that that's the you know, the the short answer to what he he ended up saying Um, and so I I do think that we're gonna see Even more of a committee. I think that chuba hubbard moving forward There's a very decent chance that he's the one a in that backfield. It's not mile sanders Who you know to start the year was that guy and that's a change in tune from what we saw You know earlier in the off season in august and such and as people were drafting their fantasy teams People thinking that mile sanders is going to be a bell cow now He was never really a true true bell cow But he was seeing a decent amount of work to start the year and that's sort of trickled a little bit And gone into chuba hubbard's favor a little bit more and more and then the last one, uh, is the cardinals backfield Obviously, there's a lot of question marks could have talked about fluid situation with the quarterback there with kyler murray practicing this week Uh, but the cardinals backfield man. I mean two weeks ago We saw this team without james connor for the first time This season and without connor they had a completely split I mean they they gave damian williams some snaps out of nowhere You know kianta angriom was seeing a lot of work on the ground and then a marie d markado Who a lot of people thought was going to be sort of the bell cow in that backfield Um, you know, he ended up seeing you know the most snaps, but it really wasn't that big of a workload But last week he had 93 of the team's running back rushes and a 15 target share and then this week you look at You know, they've used d markado as a pass catching back throughout the season Slash over the last two weeks like he's been that guy for them So I think what's really favorable for him this week is that they get baltimore That could be a pretty serious negative game script of things go the way that you know most models would project And so if that's the case then we know that d markado is going to be on the field But then on top of that What if they just use d markado the exact same way as they did last week, right? And then all of a sudden he's really gobbling up a lot of a lot of yards and a lot of receptions and such So, you know, I think there's a lot to like about d markado But it is fluid because teams can just go back and forth very quickly with with how they use their running backs Yeah, and that that usage for d markado last week came when they were down by a pretty decent amount the entire game to seattle And the spread for the baltimore game is now it's nine and a half So like betting markets are saying the baltimore should be heavy favorites here So that does align well with another week for d markado Let's take a look at some yardage props over at fandall sportsbook jj. Where is seeing value there across week number eight Yeah, you know the first one, uh, brian robinson his his prop on fandall for rushing yards is 40 and a half And i'm gonna hit the under with this one Uh, I know it seems kind of low to hit the under for a guy who's been You know sort of the rb1 in his backfield this year But he hasn't actually hit this number in each of his last three games He did get to 45 the last time they faced philadelphia earlier this year But his percent of running back rushes Um in this offense was a lot more favorable than than it is now. He had a 70% running back rush air in that game He hasn't been above a 60 percent running back rush air over his last two. It was below 50 percent this past week I'm worried and the reason why this is happening I'm worried that they're going to use rookie chris rodriguez more over the last two weeks 23 and a half percent running back rush air 41 percent running back rush air this past week Eric biannemy even came out and said that they want to just see what he's about essentially And so that tells me that he's probably going to still see some work in this backfield And if he sees some work, that means brian romances not seeing it So i'm going to go under and it's a rough match up to against philadelphia Who can stop the run and then the other one that i have the other yard yardage prop This one you can get better number a better number over on draft kings. It's 53 and a half It's 55 and a half on fandall, uh, but christian kerke. I like the over uh with that number going back to kerke Did this last time when he had a really good man matchup He's really really good when defenses run a lot of man Um, and and he's actually hit this he's been over this mark Uh, 53 and a half and five of his last six games. So that's also good Uh, but the stealers run the third third most man, uh coverage in the league Um this season. So I think this could be another christian kerke game You know calvin really seems to have more of an effect You know on the team itself Um and not the stat sheet so much just because he can get vertical He can draw a lot of attention and christian christian kerke is just getting a lot of those underneath routes Um that he that he can take you know, and he's he's got a lot of yards after catchability And so in this type of matchup, um where he can line up all over the field the stealers historically Have been really bad against slot guys too. Um, and so there's just a lot to like about christian kerke this week So I think that you can hit the over there probably on both sides if you really want to The stealers against slot guy things goes back like 15 years. Yeah, it's been yes It's been a thing for as long.  Yeah Do you remember that game too? Um, I need that not to happen this week because I do the stealers money lines So if they could uh, you know, let him get his yardage, but let me get my money line. Yeah with the stealers there Which touchdown bets are you eyeing across week number eight? Yeah, look, so I mentioned the houston texans backfield, right? Um, and I like devon singletary a lot to see more work than what the market generally is is seeing whether that be Uh sports books or whether that just be like the fantasy market right now His touchdown prop on fan duel wasn't any time touched on score is plus 260 And if you look at damien pierce, it's minus 110 and that delta to me just seems way way too big What's what that's telling me is that these books think that there's a decent chance That one of these running backs is going to end up finding the end zone And it just seems like they're skewing heavily towards damien pierce But all the stuff that I talked about earlier with devon singletary seeing more work Um, you know, there's a really favorable matchup, uh against carolina. It was really bad against the run You know, I don't think that it's that improbable to think that uh, you know Devon singletary could see some work even within the 10 yard line even at the gold line Like that's a very possible thing, but even outside of that. I mean he can break a 15 yard run and score a touchdown Um, and he's also been used as the team's primary pass catcher this year too So I think there's just a lot to like with devon singletary You know versus damien pierce. Um, so I'm going to go with that plus 260 instead of damien pierces minus 110 And then the other one that I like is jake furgusson isn't any time touched on score I will say the last time I talked about jake furgusson. He scored a touchdown Uh, but he's plus 250 right now over on fandall Uh, he only had a 3 percent target share the last time we saw this cowboys offense before thereby But weirdly enough he had his highest route participation in that game of the season when they faced the chargers The rams have been really bad against tight ends this season their fifth and tight end target share adjusted target share allowed So essentially what that tells me is that teams when they're facing the rams They're throwing to their tight ends more than usual more than their average Um, and furgusson's actually a nice regression candidate. Uh, he's only scored once this year But he should have uh, about three touchdowns three or so touchdowns based on how the cowboys have used them So I really like jake furgusson this week is a plus 250 anytime touched on score You've uh, you've gotten ambitious with these. I like it You know, we used to have like, you know one like traditional like normal touchdown bad But I think because the success you've had you're just kind of letting it rip and I like it You've gone at the annual hack it was zack wilson on yourself and letting the touchdown bets rip I'll say this too. You know, sometimes I hop on the show and I'm like a six out of 10 seven out of 10 in terms of confidence I say this week with the touchdown scores. I'm like an eight out of 10 Like I think that they're very strong bets this week Okay, good vibes abound with jj for this week That is jj. Zachary's and check him out on twitter at late round qb fun is work at late round dot com In the late round fantasy football podcast jj. Good luck to you in week number eight. We'll talk to you again next week Thanks, jim Alrighty again Check out jj on twitter at late round qb to find all that work and check out the late round fantasy football podcast wherever You get your podcasts and those are props for sunday But before then we got a lot of excitement coming because tonight is game number one of the 2023 world series And who better to break it down for us then rob freeman You can find rob of course on twitter at pitching ninja find his work on mlb mlb on fox peacock and fan dual sports book as well and rob It is here the world series has finally arrived. How you do it today? I am doing great. I'm ready for baseball to come back. I know it's a weird layoff We had two game sevens and they're still a long layoff Like i'm glad it's a friday because I got to talk to you for game one like selfishly like it worked out Well for my schedule, but like what are you doing here downtime between games?  I've had much fun with those like the throwback ones Especially like that's I've had a blast with them. That's a really cool idea Yeah, you know, it's insane and and this is one of those ideas that because they don't sleep really well I woke up in the middle of night going. I wonder if people would like this. I'd like it. So let me try it Um, and it's been fun like i'm always surprised at how many times people get it with like every single one Within the first minute, maybe right somebody gets the right answer Which is absolutely amazing to me because somebody's are really hard Yeah, I mean like you've got like great baseball fans following you and I think that's been uh It's it's been a lot of fun. So i'm hoping you keep that up during the off season too I plan on it because okay, what else is there to do like we gotta have fun I agree could not agree more now the reason we have rob here for today is to break down the world series between The diamond backs and the rangers game number one begins tonight We'll talk about game one specifically here in a second but first rob I want to talk to you about these two staffs because like Honestly, we talk a lot about bullpen mattering in the post season and then somehow it's the diamond backs and the rangers facing off in the world series And like I didn't I don't know. I don't want to speak for you. I did not go into the post season being super high on these two bullpens so I'm surprised they've exceeded expectations. They've got guys going nuts in really key situations So I want to ask you overall accounting for starting rotation accounting for bullpen Which team holds the the edge as far as pitching staffs go for this series You know, I think it's really close. I would say especially starting pitching Is fairly identical. I mean, I don't know that I don't know who has an edge unless If brandon fought keeps pitching like he does then maybe I give the d-backs the advantage but I mean between montgomery and avaldi and and kelly and gallon and top two Flip a coin like I don't I whatever I say is going to be wrong. I'm pretty convinced at this point Bullpens. I probably give us this slide edge to the d-backs We've just raised their bullpen game a ton in this post season They certainly have and it's been fun to watch them It's been fun to watch individual players kind of rise in that bullpen too and pitch really well And it's not just a small sample anymore like the sample on them pitching well has expanded So like how much can your faith in those kind of surprise stars expand given that we've seen it over You know three series now Well, I'm pretty much convinced kevin ginkl is the best pitcher of all time and uh, like Like I freaking love that dude and I don't know where Maybe I just wasn't paying as good attention during the regular season But he has been on freaking fire and that dude slider is unhittable his fastballs, you know Upper 90s and he pitches with a lot of attitude and and I love everything about that guy And he's really helped carry this bullpen. Um, just he made small mechanical changes a few years ago Um, but really he's just risen to the occasion.  That's a motion I want to watch players play with emotion and buddy. Does he do that there is no doubt Does he have any awards for uh, world series mvp any odds for world series mvp? You know what let's take a look here, um Because I'm going full ginkl on this I love it. You know what if we're going to be surprised by we might as well lean into it. Um, I mean help me find there's no I can't even bet on on the man Like what is up with that? Your guy Brandon fought 70 to one though. That that might I mean, that's actually a pretty good.  That's not too bad. Let's talk here about What's that 70 to one? Yeah. Yeah, it's not bad Let's talk about game number one tonight. We got Zach Allen taking on Nathan Yavaldi and I think with Yavaldi my expectations coming in were pretty low Because he struggled me back from that injury, but then My goodness new level for him the entire post season Zach Allen is Zach Allen So what are your expectations for these two guys entering tonight's game? My expectations are they're going to be horses And they're going to they're going to go deep because they're going to want to save the bullpen for the longer series I'm hoping that they're you know I'm expecting them to to get a lot of leeway today and for them to pitch well. I mean, I have a little layoff Um, you know, I expect gallon to be back to being Zach Allen And Yavaldi's been really good really steady as usual in the post season. So I mean, I'm looking for a good bit of case today I mean, I love k's anyway, but especially today because of that matchup Well, that's kind of what you need for post season k props, which are very tough. I honestly have not that Oh, my god, dude I have been terrible this post season. So honestly if you're out there, probably do the opposite of whatever I say It's just been really really bad But I think that that you're kind of looking at from the right perspective where like you need the narrative to align With the effectiveness where you need to make sure they're going to go deep in that game And I honestly I agree with you. We're like these are kind of the guys you want to lean on in this situation So I get what you're saying for sure with them, I think that does make a lot of sense and Four and a half her gallon is low But I I feel like Rob honestly It's still a stay away from me just because like these lineups are not ones that strike out a lot I think that's kind of the key like I'm talking myself out of it, which I would love to That's the key thing I lean on is I just don't want to target k props against these offenses I don't blame you.  I expect him to make a couple of adjustments. Yeah, but Lord knows I'm not that Like the only game I mean this is how bad things are going like I I totally psyched myself out and went the under The the last game seven and both were overs I mean I I just can't buy one right now So I figured I might as well go all in with what I think will happen. It doesn't mean it's gonna Self-awareness is a better as important Rob. So proud. Definitely. That's good. That's good We talked about ginkle and he's kind of an under the radar picture We could have an eye on for this series any other guys you have like Noticed throughout the postseason you want to watch here during the world series Do you want to highlight here before we get into the actual games? Well, I mean I would say he's not under the radar But brandon fault is pitching like the best pitcher in the postseason and you know, he deserves some respect Like he just comes up big over and over again And I knew it like you watched him all season. He had the stuff. He just had to put it together And I think having his back against the wall putting that pressure on him And things just clicking for him at the same time has risen his game So what I mean, I'm not kidding when I look at those those award odds I mean, I'm I'm giving that a consideration. I also think a healthy john gray is important for the you know, the rangers I think they can put together some games that may be a Slight edge to them when they can use I mean you have the flexibility to use heaney dunning and gray So that may help some of their their bullpen issues and hopefully shorten some games for Going back to thoughts he had a point this year We got demoted back down to triple a and it seems like when he came back up Honestly, like I thought I saw it in his final start before the demotion He walked a lot of guys and that starts like I get why they sent him down But like in that start it seemed like something clicked and when he came back up He was a different guy. What changed what led to that that surge for fought But I think has honestly been over a pretty large sample at this point. It's been over. Yeah I mean it's throwing strikes. His sweeper has been outstanding. I don't know what his whiff rate The last game was something like 70 something percent on his sweeper And it looks unhittable. He marries it really well with his fast boys tunneling his pitch is great And it's just everything is tightened up. He dialed in his command So I'm seeing a lot of confidence and he's turned into the pitcher that you thought he would be But I also thought it might be a year or two off for him He's he's that pitcher right now and if he's going to get better from this Watch out league like that guy can pitch He's doing in key moments, which is really really hard to do at that age. So I've been very impressed with him Unflappable like, you know, it's I'm seeing a lot out of some of these guys And that's what I love seeing is is guys that I've been high on the whole year Actually raising their game in this situation and showing what I saw But I saw it in small set, you know, you pick up these little bits and pieces and then you see it for extended time It's been great. Yeah, and uh fought doesn't even this picture on fan dual sports But like we got pictures for all these other guys and fought doesn't even this picture So like you're talking about, you know, guys need more respect Exhibit a year on her exactly give the dude a picture. Um spores has been really good too I kind of like his game as well like give me those those emotional relievers that uh, just do their job is a lot of fun That's exactly what we want to see in the post season. All right, Rob It's Mona truth who you got winning it here for the world series between the rangers and the diamond backs You know, I think the odds should be a little closer than they are right now I mean, so I'm gonna go underdog again and I'll take the d-backs But I think it's a coin flip like this could go either way And I could talk myself into either way, frankly So I have the exact same thing as you where I have arizona fit. Well, I have the actual numbers I have texas 56.8 to win I have arizona 43.1 percent or 43.2 percent and plus 148 that means they're a value So even though I think the rangers are the better team here I think like from a betting perspective The diamond backs are the better out in this post season We've seen how volatile and weird and delightful this sport is so like I feel like you want to keep on exploiting that variance I hope like I I enjoy it.  This is not a one-sided Thing now. It could be a sweep. Sure. It could be a sweep either way. Sure. I mean, you know I I can definitely talk either, you know either side on this So the fact that I can I'm with you I I'm looking for value that doesn't that doesn't mean at all that we're shading the The rangers because rangers very what mean probably rightly so the favorites correct Yeah, it's all about price and the price in the situation is better on arizona So we both think the rangers should be the favorites. We both think that arizona is the better bet I feel like that's the recipe for a good series rob. What more could you ask for? I hope so. I hope so well rob It has been a delight talking to you each friday throughout this year I appreciate you taking time to swing by on the show educate us talk about some baseball Enjoy the entire world series. Hopefully we'll talk to you once again in the 2024 regular season. Absolutely I can't wait to be back on we'll get the intro music out to you. So you can I know I kind of miss that Like that's the one thing that I've been missing for all ship it out to you So you can play it periodically throughout the all season and kind of keep yourself limber before pictures and catchers report Awesome. I appreciate it and thank you for the gifts. Uh, the the the weird Guess the picture gifts on twitter. I need those in my life. So thank you very much for those as well Awesome. I'm glad you're enjoying it. Alrighty rob. Enjoy. We'll talk to you soon. Thanks Alrighty that is rob freeman again. Check him out on twitter at pitching ninja If you want to see those really cool gifts like I was talking about just go to his twitter at pitching ninja You can find them there and there are two delight. It's a lot of fun to see all those on his page We're gonna dig into Nascar in martinsville second to last race before the last race before the championship race In just one second but first score early this nfl season with fan duel america's number one sports But right now new customers get $150 in bonus bets with any winning $5 money line bet That's 150 bucks if your team wins if you've been thinking about joining fan duel There is no better time to get in on the action the app is so easy to use There is a wide range of betting options including spreads player props totals and more So visit fan duel and kick off the nfl season fan duel Official partner of the nfl must be 21 plus and president select states Fan duel is offering online sports waging in kansas under an agreement with kansas star casino lfc First online real money wager only five dollar pregame money line wager required first online real money wager only $10 first deposit required bonus issued is non withdrawal bonus bets that expire seven days after receipt See terms at sportsbook dot fan duel dot com gambling problem call 1 800 gambler or visit fan duel dot com slash rg in colorado iowa michigan New jersey ohio pennsylvania illinois kentucky tennessee and virginia call 1 800 next step protects next step to 5 3 3 4 2 in arizona 1<PHONE_NUMBER> Or visit ecpg dot org slash chat connecticut 1 809 with an indiana 1 805 224 700 visit ks gambling health dot com in kansas 1 877 770 stop in louisiana visit md gambling health dot org in maryland 1 800 gambler dot net in west virginia 1 805 224 700 in wyoming hope is here visit gambling helpline ma dot org or call 800 327 50 50 for 24 7 support in massachusetts or call 1 877 8 hope and y or text open y in new york Now as mentioned this is the final race of the nascar cup series Before the championship race which is next week in phoenix, which means Some drivers try to lock down that spot in the final four and one of those drivers is denny hamlin who is i think 17 points behind the cut line and You know needs a win to advance the final four He notoriously has not won a championship and he wants that this year's he's gotten past his peak Passes age 39 season so hamlin a lot of motivation here And i think that helps explain why he's three to one to win this race and my model likes him It's he's a favorite but Despite that i am still almost nine percentage points below his implied odds got him right on 16 percent so I like hamlin a lot think he should be the favorite but He's overpriced at that number So as a result i do want to showing value elsewhere. I should value and ryan blaney earlier on this week He was 12 to 1 he's down to plus 950 which is still a value for me, but it's not as good as it was before so Honestly, if you're just looking at the odds now i've not taken blaney yet Plus 950 i'd probably wait till after practice to grab that. I think that's probably Right around where he should be I don't i do have value on chase elliott 17 to 1 christopher bell 20 to 1 and kevin harvick 20 to 1 All at their current odds at fan dual sportsbook. I personally don't want to take any of those right now I may have to qualify those are kind of the three guys I am most likely to bet post qualifying are elliott bell and harvick Because i do show a bit of value right now The kind of want to see how things go in practice before biting there I do show good value in three top 10 bets right now at bandual sportsbook though So rather than talking about outrides, let's go there and those three top 10 bets. I like our chase elliott minus 110 I uh like alex bowman plus 200 and daniel swara is a plus 280 Let's start here with chase where this is a great track for chase elliott Now he has been inside the top 10 in nine of this past 11 races at martinsville So hendrick modus sports always does well here that does include chase elliott This year in the spring was not a good race for him, but it was I believe his first race back after a broken leg so I don't want to hold that too much against him And over way that in my mind. So it's not a huge concern for me He hasn't been fantastic on the short flat track so far this year but he's still going to top 10 in that first martinsville race He's been fine and I've seen him he's looked better from The beginning of the fall on so I think elliott minus 110 is a good bet I feel good about him Considering the outright of those three guys I discussed elliott's probably my favorite outright because he is the most in the line He's still in the owners championship race. So it's a big race for his team Even if he's not in the drivers championship So I do like elliott minus 110 to finish inside the top 10 Also on his teammate alex bowman a two to one bowman Not as good at martinsville as elliott, but still pretty good He's run 10 races here with hendrick motorsport and he's finished inside the top 10 for those the past two races He's finished 11th and 12th. So no top 10s there but right outside the top 10 And when you look at him on the short flat track so far this year He's still been pretty solid the overall performance for bowman has not been good Missed the playoffs not just because his back injury, but also because when he came back He wasn't really firing an all-cylinder. So It's been a down year for sure But he's two to one to finish inside the top 10 I have him at 42.4 percent to finish inside the top 10 his implied odds are 33 percent So I think bowman's a good value again second consecutive week back on bowman But I think that the value is there with where he currently stands Other one is daniel suarez and if you are an ascar fan and remember other martinsville races You're probably confused why we go here because suarez used to suck at martinsville was truly terrible Even his first race with track house. So 2011 and then the first race 2022 He finished 28th or worse in all three of those races So even when he was in decent equipment, he was still pretty terrible But the past two races have been very very different He has had a top nine average running position in both those races If it were just a one race sample, I'd write it off because You can see guys pop for a single race But it's two races both which have come in the next gen car, which is what he'll race this weekend So I put a lot of stock in those now and I think that we can not write off suarez's path struggles, but Downplay the concerns with them and once we do that. I have suarez at 35.3 percent for a top 10 His implied odds are 26.3 percent. So good value in both him and bowman I think I agree with what the model is saying on both those So for right now With the blaney outright number shortening we'll go with chase elliot minus 110 for a top 10 bowman at 200 And suarez a plus 280 to get top 10s for this weekend On the Xfinity series side of things do you have a couple outrides? I like and they're both on young guys named smith That is chanler smith and sammy smith Both have been dual sports book right now sammy smith is 12 to 1 Chandler smith is 30 to 1 and let's start with sammy because sammy is a guy my model has despised recently Because they've been at a lot of faster tracks and smith His background is in short track racing. I came up with believe the other car store Just like a late model stock cars So his background is in is in short tracks and that's where he's been his best in the xfinity series He actually won phoenix earlier on this year He struggled with the higher speed tracks, but he's been good on these He finished runner up in the first martinsville race and I buy into that I think that smith is a guy you need to to buck it off where when they're on faster tracks higher speed tracks It's okay to be away from him, but on these shorter tracks. I am very okay buying in to sammy smith So sammy smith at 12 to 1 a good bet based on my numbers for this weekend Other one has mentioned is chanler smith and if you are listening to this each week You know that I am on chanler smith every weekend. It's no different this week But again, I agree with what the model is saying here where smith chanler smith that is one richman It's a very different track from martinsville But it's another short flat track and he doesn't didn't just win richman He dominates that track whether it be in the truck series or the xfinity series And he's been good at martinsville in both series I believe he's had a top nine average running position in all three races at this track Whether it be in the truck series or an xfinity So it's a very difficult track to You know really pinned down Typically, I want to lean on the veterans And like, you know chase elliott alex bowman daniel swarras all veterans of the cuff series So we did go that way here, but With chanler, I think I've seen it enough Between truck series and xfinity on this track and on this track type where I buy into what the model is saying I have chanler smith at 6.7 to win his implied odds are 3.2 percent Kind of weird vibes here because you just got let out of his contracted colg racing for next year Likely going to replace sammy smith or john hunter nema check at joe gibbs racing So next year will be on chanler smith again for sure I can tell you that right now But I think even with the vibes being a bit off for both these guys because sammy smith is leaving Joe gives racing for junior motorsports like Neither guys with this team next year, but they also do want to be in the championship race So both these guys need wins uh this weekend And I think that both guys have a shot to do exactly that So the xfinity series will go sammy smith 12 to 1 and chanler smith at 30 to 1 In addition to the cup series top 10s from earlier on That is all that we have here for today and this week here on covering the spread But it is going to be a fantastic weekend of sports game number one of the world series tonight nfl week number eight nascar in martinsville nba nhl it is all on the dock and i am pumped for all of it Don't forget that prime time tom tom becchio going to preview sunday night football that podcast will be up In the covering the spread podcast feed on saturday morning And you have vandal tv plus as well to check that out if you want to get See some potentially value bets for the bears and chargers game on sunday night Thank you to our guests once again jjzak recent rob freiman find jj on twitter at late round qb and check out rob at pitching ninja I am on twitter at jim sonnis j i m s a n n e s you can also follow me on threads at jim dot sonnis You can follow fan dual research at fan dual research want to thank you all for tuning in forward today Good luck to you with your bets and enjoy the sports this weekend. We'll talk to you once again next week This has been covering the spread right here on the fan dual podcast network


Hello, I am Dr. Deepak Dubey, I am a consultant urological surgeon and head of the department of urology and Manipal Hospital's Bangalore and I also perform robotic urological surgery. The word robotic surgery is actually a misnomer, it should be ideally called robot assisted surgery and that's how it is known in many areas. Because the robot doesn't perform the surgery and it is the surgeon who uses the facility of the robot to perform the surgery, so essentially it is the surgeon using a tool which in this case happens to be a robot to perform the surgery.


We got it from seed, seed.com. Seed is a company based in America that have developed this revolutionary new daily symbiotic they call it. It's a probiotic slash prebiotic blend and the R&D and brain power behind this company is quite impressive. In fact, I have gone through their university course as they call it and have learnt a lot about their product and their team and probiotics and microbiome and gut health to the point where I passed and feel like I'm a bit of an expert. I feel like I know a little bit more than I previously did anyway and they have sent me this graduation pack which is pretty cool and inside that pack was this t-shirt. So I thought, you know what, let's do a quick video and go through this product and do a bit of an unboxing first impressions and then later on I'll do a deeper dive into the probiotic, sorry, daily symbiotic blend that they have created. And by the way, if you're wondering who I am and where I'm from, my name is Alex Fergus. I'm from AlexFergus.com where I do a lot of writing and blogging about health wellness by hacking and all things optimization, health optimization. So check me out over there and stay tuned for this first impressions unboxing video. And one thing I want to mention real quick, I am affiliated with C, so if you do purchase any of their products through my link, I do get a little cut back. I'm not financially invested in the company in any way, so if you decide to purchase by not clicking my link, just head into C.com yourself and making a purchase, I don't give any benefit that way. So I just wanted to be upfront with that. Alright, let's go. Alright, so let's have a quick look at this box. Again, this was sent to me because I finished the university course here. So this isn't your typical C.com delivery package, but there's some really cool stuff in it. I thought I'd show you what was in it. So we've got a Fanny Pack here, science in the C.com green, which is pretty cool and quite handy. And this here, this here is very cool. It's a little top for a baby. So I've got a six month old and I showed this to my wife and she's like, you can't wear that. I was like, why not? And she thought it said something else. I'll let you draw a conclusion on that. Anyway, so if you order your seed product, you'll get something like this. You'll get a box, and this is the refill box. So let's have a look at this and let's have a look at their true product inside because it's pretty cool. So open this up, I got your back. Now the cool thing about this packaging is this product here, all this packaging material is made out of mycelium, I think I pronounced that right, mushrooms, like a fungus. It's like grown and I don't know, they use it as a glue or something. I don't quite understand it, but it's very, very cool. Nevertheless, anyway, so open this up. We've got a little brochure. I have to check out that link later. And then of course the product. So the brochure here has a bit about, here we go, our sustainable refill system, mycelium tray, mushrooms, career tray, seriously, I've told you. And then it comes with a glass jar, which is this one. And then a glass travel vial, which is this one, because see the big on sustainability and the environmental movement, so they want to minimize plastic and wastage and everything. So the way it works is you get your initial seed order with the capsules in here, and then every month when you get your top up or your second one, instead of sending out another container or another bottle, they just send the refill package out. Anyway, so the brochure tells you a bit about the product. So if you don't know much about seed, again, head to seed.com to learn a bit about it. But it's formulated, their daily symbiotic product, it's formulated with both probiotics and prebiotics. So the prebiotics, in a way they're not necessarily help feed the probiotics, but there's more to it than that. And then the idea is you take two capsules a day on an empty stomach, and you don't have to refrigerate these capsules. Which is great. And then the travel vial is so you don't have to take the big one when you're traveling, which will be handy for me because I do a fair amount of traveling during events and whatnot. So this is what I'll be using. Now the cool thing about this product is the capsule. It's kind of like a two-in-one. Let me show you. So inside that capsule is a smaller capsule. And the idea is that it's specially designed that way. So instead of everything just being getting dissolved in your gut, the inside capsule will get all the way through to your intestines and whatnot. I'm trying to get that to focus. Anyway, all the way through. So then the microbes and the probiotics will not go to where they need to go. So that's pretty cool. I haven't even had one yet. I literally just got this. So I'll be trying it soon. They say it can cause a little bit of stomach disruption. So let's just start with one anyway. And then this travel vial, like I said, another glass container, saves having to use plastic containers, et cetera. So that's very cool. This is the replacement container. Well, no, it's not a container. The replacement package. So it's a subscription-based product. So like I said, you'll get this on. By the way, they do it both a male and a female version. So I have the male version. So the idea is you get seeing this the first time around, and then every month you'll get a package like this. And then the idea is you open that up and put this straight into your glass jar. It's pretty cool. Because to be honest, I use quality of mind. And this isn't a ticket quality of mind or anything. But I go through a bottle of theirs every month. So you end up throwing out a lot of bottles. This is what's in it. Probiotic in a capsule plus your prebiotic out a capsule. So the prebiotic gets digested first. And then the probiotic goes all the way to where it needs to go, per serving, two capsules per serving, 46 billion AFU, which is active fluorescent units.  Anyway, so that is the seed and dailiesin biotic, pro and prebiotic. I didn't want to do a review. I can't do a review yet because I haven't even taken one. And it's going to be hard to quantify.  So stay tuned for that. But I just wanted to show you more of the first impressions I'm boxing. And because they sent me this really cool stuff for finishing their course, I also I just wanted to show off that because I was very impressed with that. So I'm going to start taking these tomorrow morning on an empty stomach. And I've also got Dave, my research assistant, who helps me with some product reviews. And he's going through a big experiment where he's going to get the biome gut test done both before. And then he's going to take seed for a month or two and then do another test and see what happens with his gut health. So I'll be publishing those results maybe in 60 days, 40, 50 days. Anyway, later on this year. So be sure to subscribe either to my channel here or head over to AlexFews.com and subscribe to my newsletter. So yeah, that's it. If you've got any questions, leave them below because I will be taking this, like I said, tomorrow. So I can't let you know. All of a sudden, my hair grows thicker or I have more energy. And not that they claim to do these things. But if you do want to check how I go, I'll be seeing updates in my weekly newsletter. And yeah, like I said, keep an eye out to that comprehensive review. If there is something you want me to test or you want Dave to test, drop it below and we'll work it into the experiment as well. If you have been using seed for a while, I'd love to hear your feedback. Are you continuing with your subscription? Are you still taking it? Or did you stop?  If you know of a female taking it, I'd love to know their feedback as well because they do do that male and female specific blend. I hope this was in time for in some way. Be sure to give me a like, subscribe for those future updates and check out my other videos because there are a lot of interesting stuff on this channel. Bye.