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Freighthopping (Entry 500.AM0812)

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Society & Culture, History

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In which the American railroad provides a semi-legal travel network for millions of migrant laborers, and John explains how a sufficiently blond mustache on a young hobo can ward off evil. Certificate #14946.

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Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival,

0:06.0

three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized tent.

0:11.1

Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend.

0:13.1

All right.

0:13.9

Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior.

0:16.8

And don't get us started on Mel.

0:19.4

But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together.

0:22.6

All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat. Keep everyone's plans alive when you

0:27.1

travel with us. P and Dau Ferris, there is another way. We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick.

0:37.0

We are receiving this message.

0:41.0

We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick. We speak to you from our present, which we can

0:46.0

only assume is your distant past, the turbulent time that was the early 21st century.

0:51.3

Fearing the great cataclysm that will surely befall our civilization, we began this

0:55.6

monumental reference of strange and obscure human knowledge.

0:58.9

These recordings represent our attempt to compile and preserve wonders and esoterica that would otherwise be lost.

1:05.0

So whether you're listening from an advanced civilization or have just reinvented the technology to decrypt our transmissions,

1:11.0

this is our legacy to you.

1:13.4

This is our time capsule.

1:15.4

This is the omnibus. So, You have accessed entry 500.

1:45.0

A.m.0812 certificate number 14946.

1:50.0

Freight hopping. Now I know that there's kind of a well especially within the future link community

2:17.0

that lives somewhere in time a sense that sometimes we have episodes where I have a lot of personal connection to the topic and a lot of my

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