Buckle up, buttercups, we’ve got a long one this week! After last week’s summer-break-headlines-only-episode, both cj & Jeff were just overflowing with words and insisted on sharing them with all of their listeners.
This week we’ve got a double-header segment covering the history of Elon Musk’s X.com, including its improbable (but necessary) merger with Confinity (the creators of PayPal) and the successful coups of not one, but TWO CEOs before ultimately being sold to eBay. The guys both thought they knew most of the story, but as it turns out, there is way more crazy in this saga than your favorite classic episode of Jerry Springer.
But before X.com, we’ve got AIs performing sports broadcasting, Android phones detecting AirTags, Cacti in Phoenix dying from the heat (!!!), and British Airways serving KFC in a pinch.
21 Reasons Mutts Are Better Than Purebreds
That sports broadcaster you hear could be AI
Android phones can now tell you if there’s an AirTag following you
Phoenix’s record heat is killing off cactuses
British Airways Just Served KFC on a Flight From the Caribbean to London
Why is Twitter called X now? Elon Musk's rebrand explained and where it's going next
Sandy Weill and the Story Behind Citigroup
A brief biography of 'X,' the letter that Elon Musk has plastered everywhere
Single-letter second-level domain
Elon Musk's 25-year obsession with 'X' explains what he did to Twitter
