Hello everyone and welcome back to the Auto Alex podcast.

I believe this is now episode 33, something like that.

It might be 34.

33, 34, either way.

As you will have seen from the title, yeah, a bit of a bit of a different one.

Well, a very, very different podcast.

I think there's no way to

make things pretty than they are, but we, we lost one of our friends on the weekend. Today is

Tuesday. And we lost, yeah, we lost our friend Matt Pollard on, on Saturday afternoon. So yeah, really, really sad.

And yeah, we feel very, very much for the family, for Andy, for live, for Lisa as well,

mum Lisa.

And yeah, we just thought that we wanted to dedicate a podcast to Matt, our friend Matt.

And share some of the good memories that we had.

Yes, yes.

Before we get into our good memories with Matt, maybe a bit of a backstory would be quite good, wouldn't it?

Yeah.

So what are we now?

We're 2024, mid-20204,

pretty much a few weeks or a couple of months after I started, or we started Auto Alex in

2022, I received an email from a lad called Matt Pollard. And the subject line of that email was, I want to help my dad.

And I read the email.

I think it was like 11 p.m. or so I was in bed.

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