The Oh, Hello and welcome to very happy to be

fully charged with a podcast my name is Robert Llewellyn and I'm very happy to be joined today by

da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da. John E Smitha throat general lurgie.

Poor Johnny's got a bit of a bit of a lurgie.

But excited.

I have like I think my kids have brought it back from school along with their homework.

It is a time, isn't it?

As soon as you've got children at school,

you're basically ill for about 15 years.

That's how I remember it.

It's always bringing it all back. I'm very excited to be you know the

weather outside is absolutely appalling. It is grim. I've got I've got my fleece on

I've got my microphone in front of my chin.

I feel like I'm about to

I'm about to commentate on a race that is never going to happen.

I'm just looking out of the window and there's just rain pouring down here.

But the wet track.

Yeah, the wet track, yep.

But we have got some interesting little snipity stories in the

we do in the greater electric car multiverse.

Yeah we've kind of got two stories about Volkswagen.

That's bad you think we should start with them because we could start with...

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