Hello, welcome to the Ringer F1 show, part of the Ringer podcast network.

I am your host, Megan Schuster, and we are here to talk about season eight of Drive to Survive.

I'm joined, as always, by Spaners.

And this show, we are talking about episode two of season eight, titled Strictly Business.

This one is the Alpine versus Sauber episode, and it's pitched sort of as the shark-infested

waters versus the cuddly supportive team episode,

and how those approaches translate to their respective rookie drivers.

This starts with the Flavio-Briottori House tour,

which I think we could spend a lot of time on this episode.

I'll always be amazed at the dumb stuff that rich people spend their money on.

We've got in this episode the gold-coated bears. And I think he's asked at one point,

are these bears solid gold and he lifts up? He's like, absolutely not. He didn't know. He just

lifted it. He didn't know. We also get the artwork of Flavio as various historical and

or fictional characters. So we got Flavio Brio

as Batman, Flavio Brioatorius, George Washington. There were definitely a few others in there

that I was not able to identify, but it was all, you know, these figures with Flavio Brio

Brio's face. I want the most historical figures on my wall, but imagine that I am them.

Imagine I did their great things and deeds.

Yeah, and I'll tell you what, with this episode, I'm just going to, I'm going to tell you

how it is, because I say it how it is.

I'm a straight shooter.

I don't mess around.

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