How to pronounce “gearshift” in English

movies one night, and one of them showed all these cute little furry animated whatevers collectively driving a car. It’s a really old sight gag, I mean, like racial memoryold. I’d seen the Little Rascals do that same bit, with Alfalfa on the wheel and Buckwheat and Spanky on the brake and clutch and the doggy working the gearshift. “And I thought,Shit, I could do that with Elmos. They don’t have any networking capability, but they can talk and they can parse spoken commands, so all I need to do is designate one for left