Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the Auto Alex podcast episode 32.

We're going to do this slightly differently.

Nothing has been scripted.

There is literally no plan.

But as you will see, from the title of this podcast, we've got to talk about Shedfest.

Or hashtag shitfest, as it was also known.

But before we get into that, I just want to say a massive hello to everyone who actually made it to Shedfest.

I think we were all completely overwhelmed by the love and the support that we had.

And the most surreal thing for me was standing on stage with you guys and Gareth, looking out at, I think it was about

7 or 8,000 people. It was just a massive meat fest. I think it was more than that, genuinely.

Yeah, it potentially was. I've never seen so many people in my life. It was, it was incredible. Yeah,

it was like so surreal. But in the center of all of that was Rory's mom, Jackie. And, yeah, we, you know, we did a little kind of podcast, not podcast. We were standing up and we were just chatting, you know, the usual thing, saying hello to people. And then I kind of built up to the whole, and Rory's mom, Jackie. And about five or

six thousand people all shouted Rory's mom, Jackie. And how did your mom feel about that?

My mom loved it all. Did she? Yeah, she was going. She was absolutely loving the whole day.

There was a Land Rover that had a flag that said, where's Jackie? What you call

me? There was two people who had hoodies on that just said, I'm only here for Rory's

mom Jackie. Jesus Christ. She's got loads of photos throughout the day of just people. She's

got a whole photo with the whole merch team that were all wearing Rory's mom Jackie t-shirt.

She genuinely was having the best day of her life.

That is amazing. That is really, really amazing. And the funny thing, or maybe you would call it an

awkward thing, is that your dad, Rory, was standing probably about two or three feet away from her

in this crowd of 8,000 people. Your parents aren't together. No. So I'm glad to you mentioned for this. My mom was

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