Russillo Summer Book Club: ‘From the River to the Sea’ With John Sedgwick, Plus Life Advice

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🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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For the second chapter of his Summer Book Club, Russillo welcomes in John Sedgwick—author of ‘From the River to the Sea’—to learn more about the history of transit and railways (0:35). Plus, Life Advice with Kyle and Ceruti (32:18)! Should I coach my son’s youth soccer team? Check us out on YouTube for exclusive clips, live streams, and more at https://www.youtube.com/@RyenRussilloPodcast The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please check out rg-help.com to find out more, or listen to the end of the episode for additional details. Host: Ryen Russillo Guest: John Sedgwick Producers: Steve Ceruti, Kyle Crichton, and Mike Wargon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From the river to the sea, John Sedgwick, if you like railroads, you'll love this book, if you like the history of railroads, the history of transit.
0:17.0	Maybe you're a huge public transportation guy.
0:20.0	Maybe you just love Colorado and you want to know how Colorado Springs got started.
0:24.4	Well, this is the book for you two massive figures battling it out, the future of the railroad,
0:31.0	the future of their legacy.
0:35.1	The book is From the River to the Sea,
0:37.4	John Sedrick joins us now.
0:38.8	And John, I'll admit I saw this book a few times.'d like going to the bookstore I would see it displayed
0:46.2	an employee's choice and I'd go and that might be interesting I like the cover so great job by the publishers
0:55.6	and I just finally I think the fourth or fifth time I saw it John I was like okay I'm getting it and I blasted through
1:00.3	it in a couple of weeks it's a really fun read so thank you so much for joining us and I can't
1:04.7	wait to talk about the railroads.
1:06.0	It's so kind of you to have me and anybody who wants to talk about the railroads is my friend for life.
1:12.0	So, you know, I'm here for 30 minutes, but I'm here for you for the
1:16.0	rest of my life and you for me. So let's get cracking.
1:19.4	All right, quite the commitment. So let's get into this great story here.
1:23.9	So you can correct anything that I may have
1:27.2	that's off in the notes, but we're looking at kind of the 1860s,
1:31.7	maybe all the way to the 1890s of the course of the story, and I know you. the two main characters battling it out.
1:43.0	Tell us about these two guys,
1:44.4	the focus of the story.
1:46.0	Well, there are two wonderful figures
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