Kassia St Clair

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380 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 9 Aug

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No One Saw It Coming · The prince, the liar, and the race to save cars · 9 Aug 2026 podcast

But actually, the roads have really suffered in Russia since the advent of the train.

So the train has kind of really strangled the resources that were going towards roads.

So roads haven't really been.

Being kept up for the last, you know, thirty thirty years or so.

The cars will have to take the fuel with them in some way.

So in order to get across the Gobi Desert and get from Beijing to into Russia, they'll need to sort of load fuel onto camels and donkeys and kind of dump it at sort of regular intervals along the route.

And in fact, they're so rutted in places and they're so overgrown in places that they're having to kind of hack back vegetation in order to make them passable.

And in some cases they just aren't possible at all, even with axes.

While these cars do do the the journey, they're they're helped a lot by animal power.

It wouldn't have been possible without camels and donkeys taking the fuel and dropping it in strategic locations in the Gobi Desert.

It wouldn't have been possible without horses and oxen dragging the cars through rivers.

They basically send out panicked telegrams saying it's too much.

We don't want to embarrass the industry.

We think this is a bit of a mistake.

So they s they send out in a telegram, but by that time it's it's too late.

The Prince Borghese has already sent his car, it's already on the boat and it's gone with his manservants and he basically says, I'm going.

And they don't want to be embarrassed by calling the whole thing off.

So they telegram everyone else and say, Okay, it's on and off they go.

Some of the other competitors think about it more as a trial and they are wondering how much cooperation there'll be, but there seem to have been some misunderstanding about whether or not they're all meant to stay together and help one another, or whether it's just kind of every man for themselves.

They have agreed in advance the kind of the stops they're gonna take on the way, at least until they get to Russia.

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