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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Odd Lots podcast.

I'm Jill Wiesenthal.

So Tracy, we're still rolling out shows from our live show on May 28th in New York City at City Winery.

As we discussed in our last episode from this show, it had a sort of future of markets, future of trading theme to the night's conversation.

Yeah, that's right.

So in addition to the fact that there is the, quote, AI trade, unquote, the other big thing going on in markets is the sheer explosion of instruments with which people can trade.

Right.

So it's like you have stocks and bonds and options.

And then the options started getting more exotic, like zero day options, which you love and so forth.

But now it's like if you could think of something that would resolve in some way, whether it is snowfall in New York City, Tesla deliveries or how long a halftime show is at the Super Bowl, there probably is a way to bet on it.

Yeah, but you really said the key thing here, which is we know there's like a ton of liquidity for like the sports betting, et cetera.

Like that's not the problem that needs to be solved.