It's Tuesday, May 12th. Welcome to Market Foolry. I'm Chris Hale joining me.

Jason Meoser. Good to see you, my friend.

Howdy. We've got some earnings. We have a surprising new player in the e-commerce space. We're going to start with the automotive industry though because a few data points coming out for the automakers and and I don't think any of them are good

Jason we've got the latest earnings results from Honda and Toyota and both

those stocks are down as a result and we also got the Consumer Price Index

for April and you go through it on a granular level and one of the biggest moves that we saw in the

CPI for April was car and. P. I. P. P. P. And all of these combined are making me wonder where we're

going as a country with the automotive industry.

Where do you think we're going?

I mean, that's a really good question.

I mean, there's part of me that, you know, we were talking about this before taping

and it does seem like as we get back to some sense of normal

whatever that is and whenever it does happen you know how attractive is it going

to be for people to take public transportation.

I mean in areas where public transportation is a great solution,

eventually it becomes such a great solution that everybody uses and it becomes less a user-friendly experience and so you have to wonder

the willingness of consumers to put themselves in those types of crowded environments again and how long that that trepidation may last and

if that does last does that play out where people decide well they want to drive

more or is it something where we feel like

hey maybe I don't need to worry about driving to work or taking public

transportation to work because I can just you know telecommute or whatever so I

mean there are a few different ways you could see it playing out. I think when you

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