Toto Wolff

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484 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 16 Jan

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard · Toto Wolff (team principal of Mercedes F1 team) · 4 Dec 2024 podcast

Let's see what he's up to.

Ask him if he's heard of it.

This is a good idea.

Benedict? Oh, I'm good. This is Dax. You're going to USC? Yeah. And what are you majoring in? In business. In business. You didn't get pulled towards film and television? No. I don't know if I like this. I don't know if that was the right move. Oh, boy. My sister was in the car. She's doing comms. She's doing comms. What's your name? I'm Rosie. Hi, Rosie. We've got a whole plan laid out.

Your dad's going to start spending a ton of time here in L.A. at my guest house. So, obviously, you guys will be in the mix quite a bit. You're living downtown. Benedict, you're doing everything wrong.

You need to major in film directing. And you need to live in Los Feliz. And we got to get you straightened out. And I know we're running out of time. This is your senior year. I'm going to turn you over to your dad now. Your dad's getting frustrated. This is his time and not your time. That's the one phrase Dax knows. How much does your shirt cost? Yeah.

Okay, great, great, great. Okay, you need to be stimulated. What about sleep? How on earth do you deal with that?

Every hour and a half. They're going 17,500 miles an hour around a 24,000 mile object.

Right, right. Or makes you get up and make a grilled cheese in the middle of the night. It's not ambient. And not, no. Or walk to the subway with your shoes off. Yeah, and when you're like, and you can't pronounce it. Well, I take a second one of these. Yeah.

I know breakfast is two pieces of pumpernickel toast, extra crispy, tomato cheese? No, tomato ham. Ham, ham, ham, ham. And an espresso and a sparkly water. I don't do it anymore. What don't you do? I don't do breakfast anymore. That's done.

Half a glass of regular Coca-Cola. Yeah, not your half pregnant diet Coke. Right, right. You're disgusted by that. You're smarter than Bill Gates and I, but continue. You got me on that one.

Okay. I have just a couple of remaining questions. These are just curiosities. March 15, March 16. These are the names of your two companies. Are those people's birthdays?

Okay. Just by coincidence in 2004, it happened to be March 16. No, I took the next date. Okay, so it had a reason at the beginning and then it didn't have a reason at the end. Breakfast we talked about. Yeah, working out because you're a gym person. I'm not a cardio person. Are you a cardio person? I hike. That's the extent of my cardio. I can't get on a treadmill. I can't jog. Cycling. Cycling.

We're too tall for bicycles. We're looking like huge gorillas on this tiny little thing. Even me on the race motorcycle, I look ridiculous. People comment when I post pictures, I think I look so cool. And they're like, is that a normal size bike? Exactly. Normal size bike.

But in that dock, Valentino's my God. I mean, that is number one. People have Jordan, I have Valentino Rossi, the doctor, 46. He's everything. The spirit of him. He's so elegant. Everything's so great. He was not terribly far off Lewis in the car. I thought what he did in the car was...

I think the braking on a motorcycle takes some real work. But my favorite part of that doc is Valentino Rossi. There's this great documentary where these two come together. They're both Monster Energy athletes, so I think it was sponsored by Monster. And Valentino gets to drive his F1 car.

And then Lewis rode Valentino's MotoGP bike, which is a fucking handful. This is like a 320 pound horse power one. Goes much faster than a car, but doesn't brake because obviously you have no contact.

And the corner speed's lower, but yeah, they're going 225 miles an hour at every track. It's nuts. But anyways, Valentino Rosso, he's got the cutest personality imaginable. And he is a Formula One nerd. He's been watching and he loves Lewis and he loves Bono. Lewis's race engineer who's always in his ear. So he's been watching for years and he's hearing Bono say to Lewis, push, push, push.

So Valentino gets in the car and he goes, hello, Bono? And he goes, yes, Valentino. And he goes, will you tell it to me? A push, push, push. And Bono says, push, push, push. And he's like, ah!

Yes, it was the purest moment.

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