Brian Stewart, welcome back to the show.

Always great to have you.

Great to have you on a Thursday edition of Wall Street lunch.

Tesla, which is something that we have talked much, much about,

mostly due to Tesla's numbers,

also to do with Musk and his appearance in various lanes of the industry and market and government.

What are you seen out of Tesla?

How's the market responding?

What should investors be aware of?

And would you concur that that's the top

stock story of the day? Yeah, I think of the week, really, even during our heavy earnings week,

I think Tesla takes the prize as the most prominent stock story. And I think that it has a lot to do,

not just with sort of Tesla's market position and the attention it gets from investors,

but also it's spilled over into a political story, a general news story. I think there are people,

not investors, people who have no money at stake in Tesla who are kind of either rooting for

or against Tesla numbers. You know, you have sort of a political connection there that makes

the story much more interesting.

Just to kind of drill down on the specific.

So Tesla missed earnings and revenue expectations for Q1.

It was predicted that this was going to be a bad quarter, but it was worse than people had kind of come to expect.

So just focusing on automotive revenues, so sale of Tesla cars, down 20% year

every year, down 29% from the fourth quarter.

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