Is it just us or is it getting a little crowded in here? This is Motley Full Money.

Welcome to Motley Full Money with the Hidden Gems team.

I'm Tyler Crowe and today I'm joined by longtime Fool contributors, Matt Frankel and Lou Whiteman.

Earnings are still trickling in at a much slower pace where they're still on their way,

but not a whole lot going on this week in that regard. And much of the headlines

out there today are about the conflict in the Middle East. But the Monday crew touched on that

on yesterday's show. So we're going to do a little bit of a theme today that we're calling,

hey, this space got pretty crowded awfully fast. And the theme is basically industries that used to be devoid

of competition that are now all of a sudden a hotbed of startups and IPOs and investing

opportunities that clearly a lot of investors are interested in today. Now, this isn't a new

phenomenon. We often go through periods where a new technology captures the hearts and minds

of the market, and we see a rush of new companies into that space. One that comes to mind for

me as an investor and somebody who's been writing about the markets for a while was there was this

period in the early 2010s where we thought natural gas was going to displace diesel engines

in semi-trucks and trailers for transportation

of goods because diesel was so expensive, natural gas was so cheap because of the shale

revolution, and that just kind of sputtered out over time. Guys, are there any other phenomenon

like that that come to mind for you guys? 3D printing just a couple of years ago, maybe quantum

computing now. The Bitcoin miners, yeah, I mean, that's a weird one, but yeah, lots of times this happens. I'm going to go in a little bit of a different direction. I'll say ETFs. There are more ETFs now than there are individual stocks in the market, especially when it comes to these leveraged ETFs, these single stock ETFs that you can,

you know, get two at two times exposure to them. That's really blown up and it's something that,

you know, how do you choose ETFs at this point? There's a lot to unpack there. Yeah, it's much like more mutual funds than the 1990s than there were individual stocks as well.

One place in particular, and this is kind of where

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