Fishing Without Bait: A Full Impact Mindfulness Podcast
Jun 9, 2026 · 21 min · 10 segments
Returning guests Eamon and Merlin are back on Fishing Without Bait for Part 1 of a deeply personal and timely conversation about identity, community, and creating a life that aligns with your values…
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Jim EllermeyerHostEamonGuestYes, indeed.
Absolutely.
We talked before on our last podcast about time traveling and the importance of
being right here and being right now.
Oh,
So could you give us a little background for those of you, shame on you if you haven't listened to that podcast, where you both had talked about your making a decision to take an exodus from Texas.
Could you catch people up a little bit on that and give them a little bit of that background?
Absolutely.
So we are...
Pittsburgh Transplants came here now, I believe, close to four years ago now.
Almost four, yeah.
Yes.
It'll be four in September.
In September, right.
But we've basically lived in Texas all our lives.
Merlin, born and raised.
Yep.
I was there since I was four years old.
Kind of grew up...
And, you know... texting at heart still love a lot of the state and the uh elements of the community there um but uh we had been married for uh i believe five years at that point i would say yeah i can't math math is hard um we've been together since 2016 um and then uh basically made a big life choice to kind of just you know upheave everything and move up more north and we
had been considering it for a while but the um the fall of Roe v.
Wade is really what the impetus was because we knew that our rights to gay marriage as well as the rights to privacy even was what, the right to privacy is what Roe v.
Wade was decided on when it was established as law.
Yes, indeed.
Absolutely.
We talked before on our last podcast about time traveling and the importance of
being right here and being right now.
Oh,
So could you give us a little background for those of you, shame on you if you haven't listened to that podcast, where you both had talked about your making a decision to take an exodus from Texas.
Could you catch people up a little bit on that and give them a little bit of that background?
Absolutely.
So we are...
Pittsburgh Transplants came here now, I believe, close to four years ago now.
Almost four, yeah.
Yes.
It'll be four in September.
In September, right.
But we've basically lived in Texas all our lives.
Merlin, born and raised.
Yep.
I was there since I was four years old.
Kind of grew up...
And, you know... texting at heart still love a lot of the state and the uh elements of the community there um but uh we had been married for uh i believe five years at that point i would say yeah i can't math math is hard um we've been together since 2016 um and then uh basically made a big life choice to kind of just you know upheave everything and move up more north and we
had been considering it for a while but the um the fall of Roe v.
Wade is really what the impetus was because we knew that our rights to gay marriage as well as the rights to privacy even was what, the right to privacy is what Roe v.
Wade was decided on when it was established as law.
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