In this episode, we explore brutal logistics of the pony express. Imagine you need to send like an incredibly important time sensitive document all the way across the country right like a matter of national security or something exactly or you know a massive financial contract, but instead of just clicking a button on your phone or Paying a few bucks for overnight shipping you have to pay five dollars for a half ounce piece of paper Which is, I mean, in today's money, that is about $180. Yeah. It's the equivalent of two and a half days of labor for a semi -skilled worker back then, just to send one single letter. Wow. And the craziest part is, you aren't trusting this to some secure fiber optic network. You're giving it to a teenager riding a horse. alone at a dead sprint through the absolute wilderness. And you're essentially just gambling that nei ...