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Today on the Playbook podcast, we have a dispatch from the Detroit Auto Show.

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Hello, I'm Megan Messerly. And I'm Adam Wren, and it's Friday, January the 16th.

Happy Friday, Adam. We've made it through another week of January.

Happy Friday, Megan. I'm so glad to be back after a brief break.

Yes, well deserved, Adam. I almost don't know anyone harder working than you. You had a

wild year last year. Thank you. Thanks for filling in while I was out.

Well, after your break, you

dove right into work and you were at the Detroit Auto Show this week. I was following your

Instagram stories keenly. I saw P. Buttigieg, the former Transportation Secretary,

pop up in there. Tell me a little bit about why you were in Detroit this week, Adam. Yeah. Well,

Megan,

you know, as the son of an Ohio auto worker, I've always wanted to go to the Detroit Auto Show.

And I think it's interesting whenever we can sort of get upstream of politics into culture and

what's happening in the world of business. And so I decided to go to the auto show to write about,

I think, one of the most important states on the

2026 map, which is Michigan. You've got a number of open seats there, a three-way race for

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