A very isale and zuka and welcome to Shift F1, a podcast about speedy race cars.

That by the way is Italian for to have salt in a pumpkin.

It is roughly analogous to the idiom not the sharpest tool in the shed and apparently

comes from Roman times when people stored their very valuable salt in a gourd.

Nice.

Does F1 have salt in its pumpkin for foisting these sprint sessions upon us?

Depends on who you ask.

I'm Drew Scanlon joining me, Danny O'Dwyer.

How are you Danny?

I'm good and also my pumpkin is great.

I was sitting next to a child and the child's parents at a restaurant a few days ago.

And the child looked over and I said, oh, I saw you playing with your gourd and all

of them looked at me like I had three heads because the child was playing with a mandron

orange.

I was also joining us Rob's acne area you're up.

Not bad.

That is an awkward misidentification.

Yeah.

It was a bit like kind of what is this crazy man?

You know, you're opening salvo with strangers, you kind of need to keep it on the even

key.

The child's involved.

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