How much of trackflation comes down to advancements in technology like shoes and training data and nutrition?

So I think honestly, the biggest one is the shoes.

And this was said to me again and again.

And a couple of people said it's pretty much 90% the shoes.

Some people thought that.

You have these carbon plated shoes and they call them super spikes, which basically return more energy to the person who's wearing them.

And they've done a lot of studies on these and they basically say they're good for about an extra second per 400 meters.

Why did that response stay with you? Yeah.

Hmm.

So in that instance, actually, the airline, TWA, made a decision to pay him $1 million.

Um, they didn't have $100 million lying around, but they thought that might placate him.

And so that really set a precedent for, well, not only can you travel somewhere other than Cuba, you can also get ransom.

You can get money and, and riches from doing this, and that kind of set off this really wild part of this epidemic.

So, you know, flash forward to 1972, uh, there's a, a young Vietnam veteran named Willie Roger Holder, and he returns from the war.

He had a, a really bad experience where he'd done several tours and had kind of had a, a mental breakdown and had gotten in some legal trouble with the, with the Army, came back to the States and went AWOL, and was kind of bumming around San Diego.

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