This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Wednesday, soviche Wednesday, April 29th, and today's

pod is the best one yet. This is a T-boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today.

Oh, yet he's grabbing extra set of napkins because we got a heavy serving of earnings today, Jack.

Four of the Mag 7 are announcing earnings today at the same exact moment.

The biggest of the big tech, they're all going to shake the markets at the same time later this afternoon.

Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta all are like, yeah, me too, me three, me four.

It's the spaghetti and meatballs of earnings days, yeties.

But Jack and I got three fantastic pop-biz stories for you, Jack.

What have we got in the capital of capitalists, maybe?

For our first story, Birkenstock, the sandals company, now also sells foot lotions,

foot scrubbers, and toenail polish.

So Jack and I will tell you why Birkenstock's growth strategy is a foot fetish.

For our second story, the United Arab Emirates

just quit OPEC, the cartel that controls oil prices, lost a lover. It's like Kyle and Amanda

breaking up on Summerhouse, but we didn't see this coming, guys. We didn't. And our third and final

story is New York City. They just debuted a flying electric taxi cab. They went from Manhattan to JFK in seven

minutes, and it was hailed on the Uber app. Because the next economic frontier isn't Mars, it's

1,000 feet above us. But yeties, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. I mean, what a mix.

No one else doing that mix. Love the mix, Jack. The world's first AI store just opened in San Francisco.

So we went, we saw, and we got to talk about this, besties. The store is called Anden Market on Union Street in Cowhollow. It's a small store, but this is potentially a big deal.

Because this store says it was designed, it was

operated, and it is managed entirely by AI. If you want to speak to the manager, Karen, you're

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