Hello, welcome to the episode podcast podcast.

I'm Matt the moderator, DeAndre here with Alastair Weaver.

Hello.

Hello, Matt. How are you?

You look at a daze.

I was in a days.

I just got, you know, like I was just, but we started, I was just looking at my Slack messages.

Terrible. Just, you know, like, the thing is, every day, you know, especially when you work in automotive and, you know, like you've got cars and logistics and having to move around. Like, I feel like, you know, a hundred times a day, something like happens on my Slack. I'm like, Oh, okay.

I know the problem to solve.

You have to put your real

job aside for for a few minutes to do this is this is like my little bit of light relief.

You know, I like I you know, I'm kind of most of the time I'm dealing with problems that I'm a dad.

And this is my, this is almost this is my vacation. So yeah, a little hour, 45 minutes of an hour a week where you get to.

I just get to talk to you, Matt.

Yeah, just hang out and talk.

I've noticed some interesting things in the automotive news.

We saw the Accura ZDX, EV, which has been out for a couple of years, just like two

years, is going to be ending pretty soon and a couple of Lexus models. It's been out for one year,

the ZDX. I mean, this is, you know, it's kind of an interesting twist on the whole whole eve thing i mean the zdx was the

accurate version of the honda prolog which it was in itself the honda version of the chevi blazer

and all the all the gm products that have spun off that so you know one year and i think it's

you know like less than 20 000 units later um you know, one year and I think it's, you know, like less than 20,000 units later,

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