WET RACE MAYHEM! 2026 Bahrain in Malaysia GP Recap | The Red Flags Podcast

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Brian Muller (1:58)

What's up, Venkas?

Matt Elisofon (2:00)

Greetings, Venkas. We're live from the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia by way of the Park MGM. We are live from Park MGM at the Park MGM studios. They're very graciously hosting us during my bachelor party because we plan to host a bachelor party around the conflict in the Middle East and the cancellation of the Bahrain Grand Prix. But you know what? Formula 1 says we race. We're in Malaysia. No days off. And you know what? There's no days off for us at the Red Flags podcast.

Brian Muller (2:35)

That's right. That's right.

They came to Bahrain. Bahrain came to Malaysia completely prepared for the weather. This is a top flight organ. F1 is the pinnacle of motorsport, guys.

Matt Elisofon (2:47)

Yes.

Brian Muller (2:48)

We witnessed today the pinnacle of motorsport. I mean, MAX came out on top.

Matt Elisofon (2:54)

Yes.

Brian Muller (2:55)

So obviously these regs are now awesome, right?

Matt Elisofon (2:58)

These regs rock. Okay.

Brian Muller (3:00)

These regs rock.

Matt Elisofon (3:00)

These regs. Okay. Yeah. You know, he might have been complaining about what happened in the formation lap, but look what happened during the race.

Brian Muller (3:06)

Yes. The regs are awesome. Officially.

The regs officially got good.

Matt Elisofon (3:10)

Yeah. Yeah.

Brian Muller (3:12)

What a, what a, like you know, my, my, my wife is always like, like my wife is like, aren't you worried about the AI revolution?

Matt Elisofon (3:23)

Yeah.

Brian Muller (3:23)

Aren't you always worried about the AI, AI revolution? And I'm like, no, why not? I'm like, because I have like day to day shit to deal with. Like the AI coming for me, it's like, it's like, I, what am I going to do about it? What am I going to do?

Talk to chat GBT about this problem that like, you know, leave me alone. This was the first time that I was like, we've gone too far. Like the machines have too much control.

Matt Elisofon (3:51)

Oh, sure. See, I had the opposite reaction, which I was like, these machines don't know what the fuck is going on. These machines are like, oh, this is, this is intelligence. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_1 (3:59)

This doesn't look very intelligent to me. Okay. It looks pretty artificial.

Brian Muller (4:03)

No, but I was like, I was like, I had this, because I was watching this at 5 a.m. Because I was just like out at Hockesson. Shout out to fucking Hockesson.

SPEAKER_1 (4:12)

Shout out to Hockesson.

Brian Muller (4:13)

Best restaurant slash nightclub in the world.

SPEAKER_1 (4:15)

That's right.

Brian Muller (4:16)

That's right. But, but anyway, I was like, is this the beginning of the takeover? You know, like, right, right, right. Like, I'm sorry, MAX, I can't do that.

I was like, this is scary that we've seeded this much control. Like, it's like, yeah. Why have we seeded this much control to these fucking machines?

SPEAKER_6 (4:36)

Like, it's so dumb.

Brian Muller (4:38)

It's so dumb. Like, this is supposed to be the pinnacle of motorsport and these cars can't go slowly in the rain.