Hello and welcome to the Punch Bowl News Readback podcast.

I'm your host, Congressional Reporter Max Cohen, and I'm joined by a very special guest.

We have Ben Brody here with us, fresh from Las Vegas, where he was at CES.

So we're really excited to hear from Ben. Ben, welcome aboard. How you doing?

Oh, thank you so much. I never left East Coast time. I woke up at 4 a.m. every day, so I'm feeling great.

That's bold. How did that work out for you? I was really, really tired by 8 a.m., which is a

p.m., which is a weird vibe when you're in Las Vegas.

Wow.

But it seems like the content was great.

You had an awesome time.

I did.

A lot of good reporting.

So we'll get right into it.

The 4 a.m. wake-up call produced a lot of good stories.

In your readback item this week, you talk a lot about the AI developments you saw

at CES, which is this huge tech conference. First off, tell me a little bit about the scale of this,

because that's one of the things you've been mentioning how just broad and vast this convention center

is and what you saw inside the convention center. So I'm from the New York suburbs. I know from large convention centers, and I thought I knew

what I was getting into. This place is basically four New York convention centers, kind of like

end-to-end, clustered around a bunch of hotels, clustered around a bunch of like outdoor event space.

It would make sense, I think, to basically like take a little bus shuttle around the

whole place.

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