Bet the Process - End of Year Sports Cheetah Preston Johnson

Podcast Release Date: 2025-12-31
Podcast Link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1IoS8jgU4QkcYOdP2S9O76
hagrinBPR Review Date: 2026-01-02
Rating: 4.00

Notes:
Bias going in - looking at the summary for this podcast, doesn't seem like there's going to be a ton of highlights in this one. Likely to be very light on notes for this one.

Summary - it's fine, you can absolutely skip it and go on with your life though.

7:00 - Cheetah been out of betting for 4 years now, would feel like playing catch up now.

Some talk about human connections being important, so far this pod is one big Live, Laugh, Love kitchen sign.

17:00 - "Wrexham they funded through the TV show, Ryan Reynolds now their in the Champions League ... that was basically our thesis but around NFTs ...". Look, I don't mean to pile on here, but it was absurd at the time, it's an absolutely wild sentence with the gift of hindsight and that's coming from someone who owns many, many NFTs. We also need to stop blaming the war for this, all it did was accelerate the timeline and shift the curve left.

Talks about stepping back from the club when the ownership / coaching starts moving away from data driven decisions to other process based decisions.

34:50 - Most Important Sports Story - Rufus gets the question right, its the CFTC / PM stuff (other right answer is likely tax change). Jeff says ND getting left out of the playoffs, then follows it up with the "return of Boston sports" lol.

42:45 - Crazy 2026 Sports Prediction - no one prepared lol. Jeff eventually says 3 Boston championships. Cheetah eventually says a 2026 housing crash.

44:00 - Rufus states that NCAAB is their #1 sport "by a mile". All credit to Rufus' group just absolutely killing it at the moment and if NCAAM is a mile ahead of their NCAAF stuff, good for them.

50:00 - CFB picks - IND ML a lot of shares (winner). IND makes it 10 (raw number before regression). Rufus mentions some edge sometimes on PMs with MLs (interesting). Lean on MIA (winner), lean Oregon (winner), don't think he ever mentions if he had any Georgia fills. Ole Miss/Georgia under (made it 49 before weather in the Superdome). Jeff has GA, TT and IND futures (1/3).