Hello, welcome to the Carcast and Deadbys podcast.

I'm Matt B. Andrea here with Alastairweaver.

Happy New Year. How are you?

Happy New Year, too. I'm a little bit jet lag, but a nice Christmas vacation in Europe.

Good to see the family. So if I sound a little bit woozy, that's because I am.

Yeah.

And you're kicking off the new year in an exciting way, I guess.

You've got a lot of travel coming up.

It's not good for my carbon footprint.

But yeah, I came back from Europe on Saturday, Paris to Dallas, Dallas to LA, including a mass sprint through a suit through a DFW to catch the connection.

Never easy with two kids.

And then this afternoon I go to CES in Vegas, which I'm excited about.

We can talk more about what we're going to see there.

Back tomorrow night.

And then Thursday night off to South Africa, which is a bit nuts from the West Coast of the

US.

So I fly back to the UK, have like a two-hour connection in London, and then do another

11 hours, which is straight south down to Cape Town.

But it is exciting that that's the, that's for the new Land Rover

Defender. I don't say Land Rover anymore. They say Defender, Octor, which is, which sounds a bit

James Bondish, and I'm sure that's deliberate. But that's the 600 plus horsepower new Defender,

which is kind of going up against the AMGG wagons. So I've got a couple of days in. But I'm back next Wednesday. By next Wednesday morning,

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