Well, you know what? Happy Eve of Christmas Eve. Isn't that right?

Something like that. I am wearing my favorite Christmas shirt.

It is a Christmas shirt. For those you can't see it, for those you can't see it. It's a Christmas

movie. It's a Christmas movie. It's a Christmas shirt. I am there wearing the Nakatomi Plaza

Christmas party shirt that is black with white lettering. It is my favorite Christmas morning

shirt. My wife years ago also bought me a black and white Santa hat that I wear with pride

when everybody's required to wear Santa hats on Christmas morning.

I am Bah-Humbug.

There I am.

But anyway, we hope you actually have some downtime this week.

Merry Christmas, happy holidays, happy New Year, all that stuff.

We are missing next week's podcast. So the last week of the year, we will not do a podcast. We'll be back shortly thereafter, which is all good. We're very excited actually to be back with you guys. So we will skip one week and then we'll be back with a vengeance. We are going to cover kind of an end of year, a little bit wrap up on this podcast. Of course, car debates. There's some news up front. Car conclusions. There's lots of stuff coming at you. We're excited to wrap up the year with you guys. Thank you for all your patronage, your support this year. We're excited to keep bringing you some amazing 2026 events, both on the everyday driver and the hooked on driving side we've got so much

planned we've got a big year planned for us for filming for filming schedule we're

excited by the success of the podcast please keep sharing we're excited that you can

find it more places and now video and just share a time to to hang out and talk

cars we yeah we absolutely love it so thank you all for tuning into the live stream last time as well. Really appreciate that. We will definitely get gear sorted for that. So the camera wasn't as great, but we're back for this. And then, yeah, skipping an episode and then we'll be back for 2026. You'll be a surprised to hear I'm already solving problems for our next live, which isn't

for another 25 podcast, but that's okay. No, it's not just, there's going to be software and gear and we're going to solve it. We're going to get it solved. But anyway, we'll get back into that. Let's dive into some news and then we have what we're calling our end of year awards. We haven't done an awards thing before, but we have, we created some, I mean, let's be honest, completely

made up categories. We're going to talk about our end of year awards. That's coming up very shortly.

There's been, uh, really done an awards thing before, but we have, we created some, I mean, let's be honest, completely made up categories. We're going to talk about our end of year awards.

It's all good.

There's been some topics with designers, and you know I love to cover design personally

for various car companies, and that is a topic that came up about Jerry McGovern, the head

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