Hello, welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.

I'm Felix Salmon of Bloomberg. I'm here with Elizabeth Spires with The New York Times.

I'm here with Emily Peck of Axios.

Hello, hello. We are going to talk about all birds.

We have to talk about all birds.

It's the funniest story of the week.

So, because it's funny, we'll do it.

We're going to talk about stonks, because the stonks are stonking.

We are going to talk about Ticketmaster because everyone hates Ticketmaster.

We have a Slate Plus segment about Santa Con because everybody hates Santa Con.

And so, like, we just have a bunch of unanimous opinions on this show,

which isn't going to stop us from disagreeing with each other.

Somehow, we will work it out.

It is all coming up on Slate Money.

So sometimes something happens, which is so funny, that the jokes just write themselves,

and everyone has so much fun telling the jokes that no one wants to actually say,

well, actually, you know, there's something real going on as well.

And I feel like this is one of those situations.

And we should just get the jokes over and done with, right?

So, Elizabeth, why don't you tell us the joke? The joke and the reality is that Allbirds is now an AI company. Allbirds being, of course, Emily, what is all birds?

Well, up until recently, they made sneakers that were wool and good for the world somehow and sold to

tech people who wore them and they were made of wool. And that was what Allbirds was,

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