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Not the episode we were expecting to bring you today, but we're bringing you an episode nonetheless.

Of course, today was supposed to be the review of the Imala Grand Prix.

But instead, of course, the race cancelled midweek.

So no F1 this weekend.

Sam, obviously we recorded this just before the news of the cancellation, which we, yeah,

had to somewhat address thanks to Harry's preamble on Wednesday's episode.

But yeah, not the episode we were expecting, right?

I mean, small secret here.

I haven't actually listened to our midweek episode after recording it, so I don't know what you said.

Said you suck. Ah, see, that's what I was expecting anyway, so I'm not even surprised. I was actually genuinely okay and nice in that preamble. You're welcome. You do us proud most of the time. Anyway, 50% of the... No, this is not the episode that we expected. We're here discussing a cancelled Grand Prix,

the fact that a whole region of, you know,

of Italy is,

walls underwater and people have been displaced and are missing,

and some have unfortunately, sadly, lost their lives. And we are discussing the public reaction

compared to the reaction from the FIA and from Liberty about cancelling

a Grand Prix. And there have been quite a few mixed reactions about this decision online,

which I mean surprises me. I'm not going to lie because for me, and I think the three of us,

which is why we tend to gel so well, we tend to align most of the time, it makes total sense, you know, to put it on our top line view that when people's lives are actively at risk and there's being emergency service use and hotels are being used to make sure people have a bed and a shower and somewhere warm and dry to sleep with their families and make sure everyone is safe. And, you know, you don't want, I don't know, 200,000 Formula One fans

turning up for a weekend, they're going, all right, I know your life's an absolute travesty, but I've paid $200 quick for a ticket. So get out. You know, it's entirely the right thing to do to put a stop to this event. At the end of the day, everyone's going to get paid from a Formula One standpoint, right?

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