Over the past 50+ years, technology has continued to provide improvements to every sport under the sun. While some of those technologies don’t last, many persist and make so much improvement that it becomes hard to imagine going back. This week, cj & Jeff chat about some of their favorite and most memorable sports/tech advances.
Then, after some mild nerdy sportsball talk, the boys thought they should cover the specifics of what “high-speed train” means currently to us in America given this week’s service launch in Florida. As it turns out, while we can’t get close to Japan or China when it comes to high-speed rail, we can at least get our choo choos into the triple-digits.
And don’t forget about more self-driving cars, the FTC and 17 states suing Amazon, Ford pressing pause on battery production (for now), and as it turns out, the hottest restaurant in New York was in fact fake. Good times!
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I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore! Speech from Network (1976)
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