Hi everybody. Welcome to Shift, podcasts about mobility. I'm Pete Bigelow, your host and reporter at the

Automotive News. I'm joined here today by the rest of our shift mobility team,

editor Leslie Allen, and reporter Alexis St. John, and we have a special guest as well

automotive news publisher Jason Stein. Welcome everyone.

Hi Pete. Hey Pete. you, Pete. Good afternoon.

As you guys know, it's been a remarkable week for the country, for the auto industry, and for us personally.

We are, we're taping our podcast today via Zoom for the first time and all

working from home as we navigate coronavirus. You know I think this has been a you know, challenging would be a massive

understatement to say it's been a challenging week for the auto industry, but

Jason, what are what are some of the headlines that you are seeing as everyone kind of grapples with the new economic reality?

Well, Pete, I think that the headlines, first of all, have been numerous and it,

one of our reporters had said earlier this week that numerous and we have had

we have had had our mouths on the

and we have had our mouths on the end of it trying to drink

as fast as we possibly could.

We haven't had a week like this,

at least for me, since the bankruptcy is going back to 08 and 09.

Just the velocity of the news, the severity of the news, the pace in that it has touched

every corner of our universe from obviously dealerships who are grappling with the lack of sales

to tiered suppliers who have been affected now by shutdowns that automakers have now decided to put in place.

And all you have to do is take a quick look at our home page on any given day to see that every sector of this industry has been touched. You go to Pennsylvania

showrooms closed, service departments open, California situation very unclear given the fact that all of that

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