Ep. 625: "Sixteen-Hour Train"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Thelongwinters, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Merlinmann, Johnroderick

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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The Problem: Loved ones are always the weak point.

(Recorded on May 4, 2026.)

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:06.3	Hi, John.
0:08.6	Hi, Merlin.
0:10.0	How's it going?
0:11.5	Oh, super dupes.
0:13.1	I'll bet you're busy right now.
0:15.0	I'm a little busy.
0:16.5	I'm a little bit.
0:16.9	I just had a Zoom call or a Google call.
0:22.8	That's part of my busyness and then Delta Airlines talk about it okay to talk about this the Zoom the Google call
0:29.6	your upcoming adventure. Oh, oh we can for sure talk about the upcoming. I didn't want to interrupt
0:35.0	but like I just want to make sure I'm not going to blow up your spot, you know. No, the Google call was about a live show that I'm planning to do at the Library of Congress in the fall. Oh, that's here. That's back here in the States. That's in the United States. But on Thursday, I'm flying to the Great Nation of, or no, I'm sorry, flying to the great nation of Poland, and then taking a
0:56.5	16-hour train to the great nation of Ukraine.
1:00.6	16-hour train, huh?
1:02.8	16-hour...
1:04.5	Tennessee Army 4 did that song, I believe.
1:09.6	I got pig iron. I got pig iron.
1:11.9	I got all pig iron.
1:16.8	Yeah, I'm going, I think a Soviet-era train.
1:20.4	It's got three beds in the cabin.
1:23.7	I'm traveling with my host, and then I think some kind of professor of,
1:30.3	of archaeology and, and,
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