the prism three texas cities, austin, houston and dallas so please help me welcome our author megan kimple. thank you, gilbert. thank you all for being here. it's really a delight now, megan, you as you point out the book, you were born in austin, you grew up in southern california, and california. and that that area particularly in california, like texas, has a very strong car geographically, big, very spread out. was it during that time period growing up in southern california that if you first started to question the role that urban highways have in or our society, it wasn't really growing up, but i moved back l.a. after college and i was trying to work as a journalist. so i was an editorial assistant at the los angeles times. i made minimum wage and i was tutoring high school students to like pay rent. and so as a result, i was driving all over los angeles and. it's this was the era before smartphones. so i had this like printout of, you know, mapquest and passenger seat. i would like, obsessively check. siegler econ if anybody remembers that. before i left house to to kind of navigate