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Well, I'm here just for the vibes. That's it. No business talk. Because really what I found is that, especially with covering Tesla and looking at how the stock market reacted to like a 71% decrease in its profits and yet stock going up, it is vibes. It's just all vibes.

Yeah, I felt like I was going insane because I remember seeing

the first wave of sort of posts where they were just like, oh my God, like this is like a brutal,

brutal quarter for Tesla and then immediately going to like Yahoo Finance and then seeing that

the stock was up and it was so confusing. Yeah. So if you look at the fundamentals of the present

business, 71% you know% down on profits. You look at

automotive revenues down year over year. Energy business actually kind of did okay. It grew,

but it's small. And also, by the way, like the most vulnerable to tariffs. So we'll see how that goes.

And the stock market reacted to the, you know, put your galaxy brain on the future.

So Elon saying, hey, I'm going to step back from Doge.

Hey, I'm going to allocate more time to Tesla.

And AI, AI, AI, AI, Cybercab, Robotoxy, cheaper

EV models.

Of course.

None of these things that actually are commercial yet, but yeah, like, you know, vibes.

And this is that what was so interesting to me.

So the market reacted and a lot of media paid attention to how Elon was

like stepping back from Doge. But he also said he was willing to stick around through the entire

Trump administration, which is new. That's actually an escalation of commitment. I mean,

we'll see if he actually does it. TBD. The part that I think investors were reacting to was he said, you know, I'll be stepping back in some way.

But right, he also said he's going to stick around with the administration.

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