Mood boarded to death - 8 September 2025

Welcome to the Motoring Podcast, your week's discussion of Motoring News, this episode 648

on Monday, the 8th of September, 2025.

Hello, I'm Alan.

Hello, I'm Andrew.

And this week you'll hear one story that reiterates that security is not a dirty word, as Black

Adder found out.

In new car news, you'll learn that two cars have to die for one to be born.

And in points of interest, you get recommended a video featuring tumbleweed.

And we go straight into new news, and it is towards the start of the month, therefore that

means that Alan is going to break out the discs and not, for copyright reasons, the

intro.

Yes, exactly.

New Car Registration figures, everyone, in August it declined 2% compared to last

year.

It was then to 82,908 units, but it is worth mentioning that August is traditionally the

quietest month of the year.

It's also worth mentioning that there was also the introduction of the electric car

grant, where it was introduced at the start of the month, but everything that was actually

allowed and qualified to it wasn't introduced until much later in the month.

We can imagine that quite a lot of people were going, well, if I'm waiting that long

before I can find out what anything is, and whether or not I'm going to get a

car grant, I'm going to wait a little bit longer and get myself the new registration

number as well.

Yep.

To put that in perspective, though, that was the sixth best August back to 2009.

That's not bad, really, is it?

So it's not dreadful.

It's not dreadful at all.

Different types of vehicle, let's run through those, of the 82,908 new car

registrations, 37,373 or 45.1% of them were petrol, 4,307 or 5.2% were diesel,

9,456 or 11.4% were hybrid electric vehicles, 21,969 or 26.5% were battery

electric vehicles and 9,803 or 11.8% were plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.

Petrol, diesel and hybrid were all down by somewhere between 13 and 17% each.

Battery electric vehicles were up 14.9% year on year and plug-in hybrids were up 69.4%

year on year.

Plug-in hybrids are a funny one because for years they just sat there with a

very low market share and all of a sudden they went, whoosh!

Well, let's not forget they were demonised.

They were demonised for a long time, exactly.

They were demonised as the wicked and evil car and then certain vocal members of the

commentary decided, oh, hang on, but we can claim they're electrified, so that's good

and we need to boost battery electric numbers because it was all very silly and childish

back then.

So much has changed on it, so much.

Yes, all of the other reindeers, et cetera, et cetera.

Yes.

From the figures, private buyers are up 0.7%.

Fleets down 4.6% and business up 41.6%.

Overall, as we say, down 2% on the total numbers year on year.

Just to give you an idea what that actually means, that 2%.

In 2025, 82,908 registrations, 2024, 84,575, so about 1,500-ish, under 2,000 registrations

difference.

The top models for the month, a couple of new faces in here, some familiar ones not

there and a couple of returners.

Number 10 is the MGHS with 1,138 units registered.

Number nine, the Mini Cooper, number eight, the Vauxhall Courser.

Number seven, they're welcome back to the ODA3 with 1,290 units registered, so just

over 100 more than the MGHS.

Number six is a new entry for the JQ7 with 1,367 units.

Number five, Vauxhall are going to take one with 1,526 units.

The numbers four and three are the Tesla Model 3 and the Tesla Model Y.

Number two is the Kia Sportage with 1,785 units registered and in at number one is

the Ford Puma with 2,457 units registered, 700 units, roughly, of the Kia Sportage.

The manufacturers, Andrew, he's going to be ages folks, there's a lot of red here.

Yep, spreadsheet of doom and what did we call it last month?

I can't remember.

There was something cheerful we put on the end as well, so that's why we can't remember

it.

Anyway, doom side of things, our bath is down 92%, Audi is down 22%, Citroen is

down 38%, DS is down 91%, Fiat is down 70%, Genesis is down 65%, Honda is down 38%, Ineos

is down 35% just to put that in context.

Last year, Ineos registered 23 vehicles this year, 15.

We can, I was on the M6 and I saw quite a lot, I have seen a lot of these around.

There seem to be quite a lot of Meccano fetishists out there at the minute.

I feel like I've seen quite a lot of them, which is just weird.

I think they're in certain locations where they've had or still got dealers.

I know one of the dealers local to me, because I can see a few around me, that has shut

down, is now a used car lot, but I don't know what they've done to make up for that

shortfall.

So I don't know if they've opened something else nearby.

There's certainly plenty of PCP deals, or 0% PCP deals on them right at the minute, but

I seem to notice a lot, but as you say, it was north of England and into Scotland.

Moving on to KGM and they're down 18%, Maserati is down 22%, Mazda is down 42%, Nissan is

down 18%, then we move on to Saat is down 52%, Smart is down 54%, Subaru is down 29%, Suzuki

is down 47%, Toyota is down 22%, Vauxhall down 17%, Volvo down 28%, but the British

down 30%, and other Imports down 39%.

Now, that wasn't all the number of manufacturers that were down, because there are some high

profile names that we would have expected to have done better that they were down, but

they were underneath our 15% threshold that we stick to.

He could have been even longer.

Otherwise, it would just be so much less.

Well, the same works for the increases as well, to be honest, because obviously

in that bid in between, there was a bit of a blur.

Alfa Romeo up 20%, Alpine up 764%, that new Renault 5 is doing a great job, isn't it?

Bentley up 30%, BYD up 302%, Cooper up 33%, GWM up 70%, that means 17 instead of 10 of

them registered, by the way.

Mini up 143%.

Amoda win the MG award for ridiculous percentages.

They're up 2258.7%, so from 46 cars registered in August last year to 1,085 registered in

August this year.

Peugeot up 19%, Polestar up 95%, and that's about it.

Yep, it is.

Mike Hawes just to round out this piece.

Mike Hawes, as ever, has a statement once a month and he said that August was the best month

yet this year for EV market share and while it is often volatile due to low overall volumes,

the overall trend is positive.

September will be critical with the new number plate factor typically driving around

one in seven new car registrations for the year.

Now, I've seen an increasing number of articles to do with dealerships and that side of things

saying September is less important than it used to be, a lot less important.

Yeah, but it used to be a massive spike for August.

Yeah.

Anyway, a quiet month that was down a bit.

How much the fast that has been the electric car grant affected that we don't know.

We'll see in September.

The other fast that could have affected it though is JLR and the cyber hack that it has suffered.

Yes, last week news started to creep out that dealers could not register new JLR products,

which was a bit of a blow because that was the first of September.

Yeah.

And this is then spread on to their production facilities as well as parts.

And it is really a giant mess for JLR last week.

And I haven't seen any update to this this week, which is a bit of a theme with this story.

JLR have not updated on this, but they told employees not to bother coming into work

until the 9th of September unless we tell you different.

I don't honestly think because those claiming responsibility are the same people who act M&S

and other retail elements in the UK.

They are also using the same exploit once they are in the system.

And I bet my bottom dollar they use the same exploit to get into the system,

which is not a software side of things.

And only last month, four months after M&S was hacked initially,

did they get their online ordering system back up and running for the public

to think that within a week JLR will have sorted all their problems.

Well, if they have absolutely superb work,

but from experience, I will be utterly astonished if that is the case.

The technical part of this is in a technology called SAP Netweaver,

which forms part of many organizations, ERP systems,

and is quite core to the whole SAP setup,

which is used by all sorts of organizations all over the world.

Who have all been panicking since this started to first happen.

And in the US, everyone was told to update and there was an update released,

but we have no idea whether JLR have implemented the update,

had managed to get around to all systems or whether it was a phased in thing.

We know nothing because there is a serious lack of communication from within the company,

which I sort of understand at the moment because their main priority

is to focus on stopping the extent of the issue

and then getting things back up and running in a meaningful way

where they are not hemorrhaging money horrifically.

The hackers also claim to have got hold of customer data.

JLR said previous to that announcement that there was no evidence

that customer data had been stolen, so who knows what's going on there.

Again, soon I hope JLR can come out and make it very clear

what has gone on, what is going on and what they're doing about it.

Yeah, absolutely.

Next up then, Porsche is reorganizing its battery activities

and halting some projects according to the article linked in the show notes on ElectriVe.

They have Porsche being they officially confirmed the expected job cuts

at its battery subsidiary called Cellforce are going to go ahead.

Cellforce Group is all going to be reorganized.

Porsche is also withdrawing from another battery project in Germany.

We were having a chat about this before we started recording the show

and they've just got a lot of stuff all at once with this one.

Declining, obviously, America, need I say more.

Declining demand in China as well for European EVs.

And the lack of overall lust for luxury EVs out there.

Totally, it's one of those things you try a petrol car to show off

that you don't have to buy an electric one.

Similarly, the E-Macam didn't have a great reception on its first launch as well.

And I'm sure that some of the other jiggery-pokery going on at Volkswagen Group

won't be helping either.

Well, we've talked about at least two recalls recently as well and their major ones.

All of which are not really very helpful.

No.

I can understand why this is happening and why this is...

Yeah, absolutely.

I mean, it's a shame for everyone that's been working hard.

The announcement in themselves, Porsche acknowledged that everybody at Cellforce Group

has been working really hard to make the high-performance batteries.

That's what they've been targeting.

And now they're just going to cut it off and make it an independent R&D unit.

And they expect 200 of those 290 employees to be made redundant,

although Porsche tends to make the upcoming job cuts socially responsible.

That's okay.

Yeah.

There's all sorts of other bits and pieces.

So, for example, as part of all of this Finnish tier one supply of Valmet automotive,

they built a new facility in Germany and now that's not going to...

where they were meant to be assembling the packs for Porsche,

they're now not going to be yet.

And of course, as we're going to talk about a little bit later,

but the electric Cayman and Boxster have been delayed somewhat as well.

Yeah.

Well, NorthVault was their preferred supplier and they've gone belly-ups.

Well, yes.

They've had to adjust how they're going to manage that.

Anyway, let's go into something a bit more positive.

It's still to do with EVs.

However, this is one of those when you hear it, you go,

why hasn't that been done before?

And this is the news that Zoopla has teamed up with Voxel

and they are now putting on Zoopla's property search website

the locality of public EV charging infrastructure

and how close that is to any particular property that you select

and are having a little look at.

And also whether or not there's a home charger as well.

Yes.

And you go, oh, yeah, that makes total sense.

Why haven't we been doing that?

And I think that's really interesting for two perspectives.

One is obviously there is that fact that as the buy-in to EVs

expands across the full British public,

the number of people who can charge at home drops dramatically

because the number of people who have a driveway

or whose electrics are suitable.

Or the percentage of people.

Yes, this is the percentages.

And it goes further into people who or properties that do not have

the ability to do home charging.

And I think if we can map that data as much as we hear,

oh, there's 75,000 public chargers now, that's brilliant, etc.

Yes, numbers-wise it is.

However, how well are they positioned?

Yeah.

How well have they been thought out?

And to a certain degree, not all of that is lack of thought.

Sometimes it is because the local infrastructure cannot cope

more than the 7 kilowatt charger.

And the local council have just gone,

we need to chuck something in.

So at least we've got something.

Yes.

But equally, it will hopefully prompt more careful installation

and rollout as we can see this information is out there.

In the early days, there was a far more scattergun approach

in the case of, well, we need to get some charges out there.

So let's get them to places where we think they're going to be used,

but we're not really sure.

And then that then informs what the actual usage data is,

then informs where you put them in the future

and which ones are worth investing in

and upgrading and which ones aren't and all of that kind of stuff.

Lots of complex stuff going on in the background.

I mean, there was the potential to use

where vehicles are registered with the DVLA,

which as we know, and we've explained on this show,

is a very flawed methodology

because you are then targeting where lease companies are based.

And that does not necessarily mean there is, you know,

20,000 EVs in Stockport as some were trying to sit,

well, not that many, but you get the impression

that there was an awful lot of people in Stockport

suddenly driving an EV and then you realise

that auto lease is based in Stockport and you go, ah, right.

But that hadn't actually broken down

because people weren't aware and weren't thinking it through.

Hopefully we can use this data

and tie it into how stuff is being rolled out

and we can do it better than we have done,

which then means the ownership side of things

is so much more simple, so much easier for people

and that is not a complaint

because I'd love to not complain about that personally.

Especially if you've got an EV this week

and another EV next week, goodness,

we'll all be sick of it by the end of it.

But well done, Voxel and well done, Zoopla.

There you are.

Look at me being all positive and cheerful.

Well done, Andrew.

Yes.

Thank you.

That must be the end of the first part at that point.

That was in no way condescending, was it?

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Awesome.

Yes, you rock.

Right, new car news, Alan.

Take us to the EV5, please.

Yes, the Kia EV5.

Ahead of its launch at the...

whatever it's called in motor show in Munich next...

IAA.

...which is kind of starting.

It's IAA.

I had the wrong set of...

But I don't know what that means.

...initials in my...

it's international, automobile,

something or other in German, I'm sure.

I don't speak German.

Can you tell?

Before it's properly launched,

the price and specification has been revealed

for the Kia EV5.

It will cost from 39,295 pounds

when it goes on sale later this year.

The idea is that the EV5 is an electric equivalent

to the Sportage, which sells very well for Kia,

certainly here in the UK.

It's also priced to compete directly with the Skoda Enyaq,

the Ford Explorer, and the Renault Scenic,

and all of the other things that are in that segment.

Because there are many of them.

And we strongly suspect that this is going to...

this is going to immediate become one of the best sales

most registered does.

Absolutely.

If you think of the EV9 and shrink it down

so it doesn't have three rows of seats,

that's what you've got with the EV5.

And it looks great.

I love the clean design they've got

and how they've differentiated their EVs from their

internal, well, their hybrid and petrol hybrid

and diesels.

We know how decent the tech will be

on the inside, but we also know how

close the actual usage mileage

is to that of WLTPs and that side of things.

So you can have some faith in it.

There's an entry level air model,

and then there's a GT line, a GT line S trim.

I imagine GT line will be the one we see everywhere.

All the versions at launch will come with an

81.4 kilowatt-hour battery.

Same ones in the EV3 and the EV4.

Front-mounted 214 brake horsepower motor.

I'll give you not to see.

62 in 8.4 seconds and 329 miles of range.

You should be able to top up from 10 to 80%

in 30 minutes as well.

There is expected to be an all-wheel-drive version

which I have more than 300 horsepower

and it'll be the GT performance model as well

which will be even more powerful too.

But those aren't going to be along until 2026.

I would read through the specs,

but you can probably imagine exactly what you're going to get.

It is standard amounts of trim for a well-specced modern car.

Looking at the picture of the interior here,

there'll be a link to the article by evpowered.co.uk

in the show notes.

I'm amazed how similar the steering wheel is

to the original Range Rover one.

That's what it makes me think of

with that inbox line across the middle.

All versions of the U5 are going to come

with a 12.3-inch main touchscreen

which offers new entertainment options.

Monthly entertainment packages

costing between £7 and £18 per month

will unlock everything from music streaming

and new to YouTube and Netflix

and in-car karaoke.

I can see him shaking his head as we speak.

It's 4.61 meters long, 1.87 meters wide.

That makes it slightly bigger than the Sportage

or Explorer, it's slightly smaller than the ENYAC.

500, 6.6-litre boot, small 44-litre trunk

at front, pardon me, fruit.

And 16.5-litre storage space in the center console.

Yeah, it's going to be popular.

It's going to be really popular.

Right, well, moving on from a car

that I completely get to a car

that I really don't get at all

and this is the Audi Concept C,

which was inspired by the TT

but is not a TT, let's be clear.

And it's not a new TT

because lots of headlines were saying that.

Yes, it is not the new TT.

It is going to be its own thing.

And...

Yes, okay, if we think

similar-ish in execution

to the Jaguar Concept that came out

in terms of...

It's got no back window, everyone.

It's very bold look, it's very clean

for a lot of it.

There isn't the slashes and swoops down the side.

It's got a very blunt front end

even though it is angled as well.

It is a very bluff, tall front end

and it's not actually that smaller vehicle

so hence it's not a TT.

No, well, there's two things.

This is a concept and a show car

according to this also car news article here.

And it says,

this new show car is confirmation that the firm

will make a grand return to the segment

with a compact electric two seater.

Which is interesting because this isn't very compact.

If you scroll down, if you do follow the links

in the show notes and you scroll down

you'll get to where the concept is surrounded by people.

I don't know if it's just a wide-angle lens or what

but it does look very large indeed.

Again, it's one of these things.

I think it's very difficult to judge

unless you see the actual car in the,

in the flesh, in a context

and not just in a photo studio

with heavily touched up.

Thanks, I'm not a huge fan.

I don't really like it.

As a slight counter to your bit about it being a show car

the head of design for Audi said

that this will make production

in almost this exact form in two years time.

Well, let's see.

He said he is quoted as the car that you see here

is a preview of a production car

almost literally.

Oh well.

And when he was pushed on what were the changes

he didn't go on into any details.

I mean it does have wing mirrors everyone.

That's two years down the line.

That's a long time

if that's supposedly production ready.

Let's see what happens.

So it's not production ready.

It's a preview of production.

But this is apparently

tie in with the

it's going to be the system model

for the 718 electric.

Okay, fair enough.

Which we just discussed is delayed

for a variety of power plant issues.

Yeah, I don't like it.

It's like the Jag, I don't get it.

I don't understand what it's trying to do.

So therefore I struggle to...

I just don't like it.

Okay, I'm not a huge fan either.

I'm waiting for Frank Stevenson's hot take.

Yes, exactly.

Well it can't be really as crucial as it was.

But I would love any designers out there

that do like it

or can appreciate it to explain it to me

because I know a part of my problem is ignorance

and I very much am a

I like it, I don't like it type of person.

I get that.

And anyone who's listened for some time

will be well aware of that.

And Alan has to grit his teeth

and roll his eyes at me often

which you don't get to see.

So if someone can explain

what are the good bits of this

I'd love to hear it

because then it would help my education.

Well good luck folks.

I've never really been a TT fan

as I've said before

because it came out right when I was starting my design degree

and everyone wanted to do it

like a TT.

I was going to say you mood boarded to death.

Yes, I was.

That's actually what turned me off the IDTT

was it was such a thing.

That and then the word Bauhaus would appear seconds later

and so I've always had this bit of a thing

about early TTs

and this form of styling

it just gives me shudders

to third rate mood boards.

I'm so sorry.

I preferred the Mark II to the first.

Same here.

And you know

I'm sorry for the people we know that do have Mark I know

because they are going to design purity for doing it.

Yeah, I know I get all that.

But just for me, I preferred the shape

of the Mark II.

I am delighted they came out with the Mark I

because otherwise we wouldn't have had

small

2-seater

premium sports cars like that.

No, because they would have moved in a different way.

Maybe.

They helped

make that happen.

Got to thank them for that.

Anyway,

talking of

small premium 2-seater sports cars

maybe not longer.

The 718 came in a boxer.

I'm dead.

Long live the 718 came in a boxer.

This was actually planned to happen at the end

to last year

because of changing cybersecurity

regulations

at one point of the irony is crashing

that we're talking about that

but they managed to survive

and cling on a little bit longer.

They were of course meant to

lead straight into the electric 718

so the replacements

that as we said earlier on is not going

to be happening for some time.

So there's going to be a considerable gap

in the Porsche lineup.

I'm a huge fan of these.

I like them an awful lot.

Cayman is my favorite shape

of modern Porsche.

That for me was absolutely

the epitome of what a sports car could be.

It wasn't

outrageously overpowered

but it was small.

It was a gorgeous shape

all they just seemed

great to me.

And I had a great time driving one last summer as well.

Don't forget there's a special edition about that

which I'm sure will be linked in the show notes.

Yeah, we've driven that and

a 911 GTS as well

and yeah, it's

it's just the right size for so many people.

Great cars.

They're going to be missed and I think everybody

has their fingers crossed

that whatever replaces them is just as awesome.

Yep, please Porsche, please.

Please, I'm sure.

All that extra development time

it's going to be awesome.

Yes.

Okay, moving on to points of interest

and we have a lunchtime read

and this one is from quite a while back

almost a year ago on petrol blog.

However, it's that good

we're still going to recommend it.

It is titled, frankly, we don't talk about the

Peugeot 309 enough.

And it's

obviously major calve.

So therefore it's wonderful to read

and we're talking about a car

that was actually

really important and

I reckon quite a good looking car

back in the day.

It's no 405.

But for a

small family hatch

smaller midsize family hatchback

as opposed to going full saloon

or the 205

I think they did a cracking job.

I love the rear window which no one would do

today because it would cost too much

because it's curved

around and follows the line of

the roof.

Apart from Cadillac.

Yeah, but how much are they charging?

Oh yeah, they're charging a lot more than a 309.

This is

absolutely a fantastic read.

Do click it and then obviously underneath

that when you get to the end of that article

you then fall down the rabbit hole

that is the rest of Petrolblog's

website. If you haven't read anything for a while

have fun.

But yeah, there's a bunch of new stuff

on Petrolblog

too. So do have a click through

some of the rest of the site as well.

A list of the week this week comes

from AutoCar as they seem to

so often these days and it's called

the highlights of the largest car museum

in the world. France's National

Automotive Museum houses over 500

cars and they've given us

23 to choose from.

None of which are my

highlights. I would like to make a complaint

I would like to make a

complaint you have 500 cars to pick

from and dear AutoCar you

only gave us 23 slides to select

from. I am outraged

that this free content was

not more what I wanted.

Yes well there's only so many Bugatti

they can put in a list really isn't there

they have of course missed

my favourite. Why Alan have you been there?

The Type 35 B. Well yes

I've been there a couple of times Andrew

in fact one of the times I recorded a special

edition of all about it.

He put that he put today. Oh well I'll make sure there's a link

in the show notes then. Thank you

it wasn't me who

put together today's running order okay

it just happens that somebody hit

a whole load of topics that we

have maybe covered before.

Yes

Andrew what's your choice?

Okay if you can move to

slide 18 of your pack.

Oh not the one I thought.

Yes it's quite cool. I'm going to

butcher the pronunciation here.

It's a Panadinavia.

Thank you. From

1948

which is remarkable when you look

at it because it looks like it's

from the Jetsons

and you remember the optimism

of the atomic age.

Yes this is the French

it's just wonderful.

French atomic age.

Yes it's

quite strange to be perfectly

honest. The thing is we knew

it was a concept because there's no wing mirrors.

Oh that's right I know

or wipers.

All 28 horsepower

going to the front wheels yes.

There's a theme

here because the one that I've chosen

from here is the Alzon

Uff from

1942 so we really are

jetting it. Slide 16

in your handout. Thank you. It was

the... Oh I nearly picked that.

The work of I thought you might.

The work of a chap called Paul Alzon

better known for designing

trains obviously for SNCF

than for designing

cars and it's

a tiny micro

car.

It was originally electric but that didn't

really work very well so he

replaced it with a single cylinder

125cc Peugeot engine

after the war

and he used it until his death. His death

was not in it by the way

because that is actually a believable

situation. But yes

it is very much ovoid. If you ever

think that a Mitsubishi I

or IMEV is egg shaped

it has nothing

on a car literally called

the Alzon egg.

So have a look at that. There are

also when you're there the Bugatti

Royals none of which are

included in this list are

absolutely magnificent

the

007 spy

who loved me special

edition 2CV is

wonderful. There are so many great

cars there. If you happen

to be passing through western

France then

it's absolutely excellent.

That is a good list

and whilst my

complaint was slightly tongue in cheek

bought a car I really

would be very happy to try and get through

50 or 75 slides

as you have done previously.

But thank you for putting that out there for us to share.

Share my photos from the last

time I visited if you're really that bored.

Yes.

Right

that takes us now to the and

finally and we bring you

the latest episode

from C90 Adventures and Ed

March. And we

continue with the Will the Mini Jeep

make it to Area 51

Episode 4 as I said

Mud, snow and the end of

Utah. Another fabulous

episode of

just

astonishing

environment he's in

but also how insane he is

frankly

to go off and try and do this.

However

in this episode there

are moments where he

shows some

some growth as a person because he

decides he won't continue

pursuing a certain

action because it won't

lead to any success so he turns around

and goes back which I thought was lovely

to see because previously we had not

seen that.

No this is true

and yeah no it

it's a great series and the

one of the things about

that part of the world it's

it's the part of the US

I'm most sad I didn't get

to go see I was going to and then

the trip got pulled out from under me sadly

is all of that area out

in Utah because

it's quite something if you want to see more of that

in between watching it

then stuff like trail meter

off road recoveries and stuff

one of the chaps on there

is very good at pointing out wildlife

and scenery and all sorts

of things as a

as a recovering stuff it's a

gorgeous part of the world

don't know that I'd want to cross it in a

mini Jeep but it's a gorgeous part

of the world much rather

my own car but it's also

amazing seeing the

the hospitality and

giving spirit of the people that he encounters

that's really refreshing and lovely to see

particularly when the world

in general is pretty grim when you look

at the news it's lovely to see

some charitable and

just people doing

things without any expectation of anything

in return you find that in America

though despite all the headlines despite all of

that there are lovely people

as well

that's that for this weekend

it really is next week

Tuesday night courting isn't it

I don't think we've decided on that time yet

we shall let

the appropriate people know who can

see or whatever the live stream

yeah the

the upcoming

schedule is a little bit up in the air at the moment

as we try and work out a new schedule

as things have changed

in life somebody was

inconsiderate enough to go off and get a

job after six months

so now we have to

work around a job again as opposed to go

yeah let's just do it during the day

makes me feel productive I've done something

today

that's less

funny than you might think well you're talking

about me yeah but all right you're talking about you

that was me

there's going to be some changes there

sorry but it will

find a level again next week

the audio might not be as good

because it's very much old school

it's Alan recording

from a laptop in a Scandinavian

hotel room with a minimum number

of soft coverings so just

be aware of that now

but I think that that really brings back

some fond memories

for the old school listeners

of the show as we

do approach our 10th anniversary Alan

well that was it that was still not decided

anything we're going to do no I know

that's good didn't know what was happening

with this kind of stuff

so yeah yeah yeah

back to Scandinavian hotel rooms folks

sometimes and

what else was I going to say rust of all

the other week it was awesome

so nice to meet a whole load of you

who I had met before

or who I'd never met before

should have been a better sentence there

but yes it was

it was great to meet some of you for the first time

and catch up with some of you that I already know

thank you everyone

it was a lovely day out

good I'm glad you had a good time

they did look a cracking event

it really was it was fantastically

just everything I don't know

it was just nice

that takes us to the end of the show though

as far as I'm aware

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what's the best way for them to do that

well I don't have to rely on LinkedIn

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