Robert Armstrong

So it's like, okay, we can live like this, the world is saying.

You know what I mean?

This is a bearable equilibrium.

Now, that can, of course, be wrong.

oil nerds keep telling us, if the blockade of the blockade stays in place for a long time, that it's not going to be a linear increase in oil prices, that oil prices will move in spiky ways suddenly and kind of geometrically rather than arithmetically.

Right.

But the market persists in believing that this piece of water is so important to global commerce

that one way or the other, people will figure it out and get this thing open.

They'll figure it out.

So Allbirds made some kind of hippie sneaker made out of wool or hemp or something like that.

I don't know.

It's a shoe.

They were quite a hit for a while, and then it all went wrong and the stock collapsed.

Do you approve of them stylistically?

I have never worn them.

I've heard our colleague Robin Wigglesworth likes an Allbird.

Okay.

This explains why the trend came crashing to an end.

Everything Robin wears is doomed to die.

We shouldn't be.