Speaker 1: 1:30

Well, it's time for Road Adventures with Cycling Men of Leisure, the podcast for cyclists who understand that riding is not just about getting to the destination, but the experience along the way. Now here are the original Cycling Men of Leisure Adam and Michael.

Speaker 2: 1:43

Welcome to Road Adventures of Cycling Men of Leisure. As usual, I am Adam and today I am joined with a man who I, sir, am proud of. I have seen some miles on Strava by you and I am proud of you, my good friend from Central Time, mr Michael Sharp. Welcome, buddy.

Speaker 3: 2:03

Thank you very much. Greetings everyone. Thank you, sir. I don't think you were using the right words. I think you were meaning to say you were shocked the fact that you saw that I was putting some miles on Strava. I didn't want to be rude, but yes, I was. Let's just call it for what it is. He was shocked.

Speaker 3: 2:24

But you know, I have not had a lot of time to get out on the roads and actually the street that I live on is closed because they've been doing road construction for four working towards five months now. Not that there's not other roads, but they're doing a lot of stuff around my town and there's not a lot of good places to ride, which we've talked about before, and my time constraints are really difficult. So I've been trying to make it a point to get on Peloton and ride, peloton and ride, and a few episodes ago I talked about how I get. I can't do it very long because I realize I'm looking at the time or I'm looking at the distance, and I spend most of my time looking at those two points. What I found out on Peloton is you can touch those and those will go away.

Speaker 3: 3:12

And so if I'm not looking at my time or my distance, then I, if I just focus on the instructor, uh, on the music, uh, I've been doing a lot of their rides. They do rides around the world where it's like a 15 or 20 or 30 or 45 minute ride, different places. I think I told you the other day I wrote in Dublin and just so happened as I'm writing, it's like I know that play it was the Guinness distillery or the Guinness brewery. You ride right by it on the ride. So been more successful this year, been getting in a lot of 30-minute rides, so it's been good. I don't think that's going to really replace the actual road thing, but maybe it does, because I got an instructor there yelling pick it up, pick it up, pick it up.

Speaker 2: 3:55

So we'll see. And does that? Does that bike go up and down for elevation? I forget it does not. It does not you do the whole thing with resistance.

Speaker 3: 4:05

Okay, when you get to hills and you know the instructor, they have different classes for different things. They sometimes just have hills or intervals or whatever. And're telling you, okay, here's where we, I want you to be. You know, here's your little parameters you should be within and for as far as resistance, and here's your parameters for, uh, cadence. And so they're always, like you know, pushing you and that type of thing.

Speaker 2: 4:28

So so I have the um s22i, which is the um I fit Nordic track version, which doesn't mean anything. I don't use it so, um, it holds good in that room, it does look good in there and the handlebars hold hangers from stuff when I'm trying to dry something, but, um, but it does have where when you go up a Hill, uh, it extends the fork up and down and so, and that's not true, I did use it some in the winter, but I just, man, after a while, I get, you know, as everybody knows who knows me or who's been listening to the show, you know I've been on a health journey and so I've been working out every day. Sure, but it just gets so boring sitting in that room and, um, you know, I was even, you know. You know I like to go hiking in the winter and stuff and so, but even just sitting on the bike, I get what you're saying. It's just, it's difficult for me and I see, like some, some guys that were on our team last year, um, italo, man, they were doing like 100k rides on them trainers. I'm like, man, you are a better man than me, so, but I've been proud of you. So, yes, to tell you the truth, it was a little bit of a shock.

Speaker 2: 5:43

I was on Strava and I was just kind of looking at a couple of things and supporting some team members of ours. You know we do have the Cycling man of Leisure Strava page. So if you're curious, we do have a club cyclingmanofleisurecom page. So if you're curious, we do have a club and it's actually you can see the feed right from our website, cyclingmanofleisurecom. There is a feed right on there, and so I was looking at some of our team members to say, oh look, who's training, whatever, and wouldn't you know it? There was Mr Michael Sharp.

Speaker 3: 6:10

Now, let's be honest. The first thing that went through your mind is my daughter is using my sign-on.

Speaker 2: 6:21

There might have been a part of me that thought that maybe it wasn't Somebody else is logging in under his sign-on in that household. No, but it is me. It was during school hours.

Speaker 3: 6:32

You know there's been years where we went and done Georgia and Iowa and I haven't got a lot of writing in. I have been very transparent about, oh, I didn't get a lot of writing in that kind of thing and I can wing those rides and, you know, get through them a couple of times. You know sometimes I'm not looking pretty doing it, but I can, you know, if need be and I'm not saying everyone should be out there training, including myself, because that's not the way to do it, but I've done it that way before. But in July we're headed to Indiana and we're doing 165 miles in one day and we've both done those rides before. And yeah, we're going to need some, definitely need some some uh, heavy duty training for that.

Speaker 2: 7:16

So that's my you know, I've noticed that no one signed up with us yeah, hey, come on out and join us.

Speaker 3: 7:25

Where are you riding? Rain it's right across indiana. Oh wow, is that a week-long right? No, it's a day ride. One day oh man, look man, look at that, I've got something very important scheduled.

Speaker 2: 7:36

Somebody find me something to do.

Speaker 3: 7:40

I completely understand. It is not everybody's cup of tea, even within the cycling community. Those long endurance rides, single-day rides, not everybody's cup of tea, I get that.

Speaker 2: 7:53

No, it's definitely.

Speaker 3: 7:54

It's okay. You don't need to ride it, because guess what? We'll take pictures and and uh report back on how it went, so you don't even need to be there 17th and you can go to rainrideorg and check it out, and the boys of leisure won't be leisure, but they'll be there. Where's that right end? It ends on the east side of the state, do you know? Yeah, terre Haute to Starts in Terre Haute.

Speaker 3: 8:30

Richmond right, richmond. So if there's any listeners out in Richmond, you want to come out and cheer us on. I suspect we'll be coming over that line at about 7.30 in the afternoon or the evening, I should say. So come out and cheer us on.

Speaker 2: 8:45

Don't you have a box of cowbells? We could send somebody a cowbell. I have a case of cowbells in my garage.

Speaker 3: 8:53

I remember seeing those. We have a case of cowbells in my garage. I remember seeing those. We can brand those with cycling men or women of leisure and you can ring your cowbell for us, Because that's how fast we're going to be going. It's not a race and we don't do anything necessarily fast, so the important thing is we're going to get it done.

Speaker 2: 9:25

So when we were doing some prep work for the show and we've mentioned mentioned before usually the night before we record we kind of lay out an outline. We were at the rainrideorg last night and I saw that it said uh, 2024 results, results for what? It should be dnf or df. It shouldn't be a race.

Speaker 3: 9:39

So yeah, they, they keep track of this, this particular ride. You know we've done, done Michigan and others where you've done a hundred and you know 60 to 165 miles in a day and that don't keep track. This one likes to keep track of your time, right? Uh, you know, and that motivates some people, that doesn't really motivate me. Uh, I'm not trying to break any land speed records. I don't have anything to prove. I just want to get the 165 miles under my belt.

Speaker 3: 10:06

That's going to be the important thing, yeah, and I have from 7 in the morning until what 9 in the evening to do it.

Speaker 2: 10:14

I think it's 5 in the morning, is it? Yeah, probably earlier. I could be wrong, I don't know. I better not misspeak, so I think you go pretty darn early, so maybe you're right, maybe it's 7 to 9 o'clock, I think it is earlier because obviously it's July in the Midwest.

Speaker 3: 10:31

So probably be a good idea.

Speaker 2: 10:35

I'm looking, let's see here. Well, might have to look at it some other time. What are you looking for? Oh, just the time it said. Oh, oh, saturday morning schedule start time. I'm looking. I apologize, I can't find it.

Speaker 3: 11:08

Oh well.

Speaker 2: 11:09

We'll update that. It's early in the morning, it's pretty early Get them a rolling. So usually it says like the route opens up at a certain time or whatever. But all good, so we will find that we can update at the next time we get a break. Um, let's see here. I do have a graphic for this. I'm always slacking here is our not dancing santa, is it? No, no, no, this is the uh, our youtube friends, I think we all have that For our.

Speaker 2: 11:40

YouTube fans, our leisure community Got a couple updates. All right, I'm going to start with the executive director of Bragg, mr Franklin Johnson, and his wife Heather. They've been in Croatia scouting for their ride.

Speaker 3: 12:01

Yeah, now there's a job right there for their ride. Yeah, now there's a job right there. I'm in Croatia with my wife scouting for a ride. I blew it. That's the gig I should have got, not that. Now, franklin, I know you're listening, I know you're getting the job done and all that, but let me tell you, when I look at those pictures, it's like whew, looks like you are working really hard.

Speaker 2: 12:24

The one where they're jumping up and down, where both of their legs are in the air and I'm like, yeah, here I am at work and salivating over your blue water. And Heather was great. She showed pictures of their boat and accommodations and delicious food, so they're definitely living it up. So definitely check out bragorg for their international rides. So and then let's see. Oh, our friends Walter, chris, sarah and Lacey are in Lafayette, louisiana, with Ride Zydeco.

Speaker 3: 13:08

Zydeco, which is on our list, which we actually talked about this year. It's just really an early ride so we have to kind of plan it. But man, I'm a little jealous. I love New Orleans. I love Louisiana. I really, really love the food down there. I'm into crawfish and rice and that whole nine yards.

Speaker 2: 13:31

And the Zydeco music.

Speaker 3: 13:34

I got no problem with the music whatsoever, yeah.

Speaker 2: 13:40

Bruce White.

Speaker 3: 13:43

Hey, I remember that name.

Speaker 2: 13:46

He's the gentleman from the nine 11 trail that we interviewed and followed back up with, while on the while, out in the middle of the ride, he is writing Um, let me see here. I don't want to misquote, give me a second. Here I got to look at something. I believe he is riding 1,200 miles.

Speaker 3: 14:13

Isn't he riding from like? Is it Pensacola? Yeah, new Orleans.

Speaker 2: 14:17

I think they're in Destin today. Let me see here.

Speaker 3: 14:21

I don't know where he's starting. He ends up in key west. Yes, what a ride, and this is the perfect time to ride down there along the coast, not too hot. Uh, you get there before all the vacationers and stuff move in, so yeah at 1200 miles from new orleans to to key west Florida.

Speaker 2: 14:44

He's posting every day his ride, where they've been, where they're going. People are seeing along the way, so that's really really cool. His pictures look absolutely beautiful. They're having some great weather.

Speaker 3: 15:00

I've driven the coast from like New Orleans all the way down to well, I haven't went all the way down to Key West, at least driving. But I mean that is just great country down there, great country.

Speaker 2: 15:16

That is all I have for this episode for our leisure community, besides a segment we're going to do later in the show which we got a lot of interaction with.

Speaker 3: 15:27

but I feel like we should separate that which is songs to add to the playlist um, yeah, we'll we'll talk about that a little bit later a lot of people have uh have their input on that which is they sure do.

Speaker 2: 15:40

Yeah, but every time last time I kind of cool. They sure do, yeah, but every time last time I kind of blew it. So this time, yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, it is now time for Listener Spotlight.

Speaker 3: 15:55

All right, listener Spotlight, let me give you the clues to remind everybody and this one's a hard one, but I felt it very important to do this because we have had people listening from this community since, I think, our second or third episode ever and they religiously listened to our show. So I felt we needed to uh, you know, up the ante a little bit and make sure that we represented them. But some of the clues were the city is named for a community in Alabama, the railroad came through the area in 1902, and the city was platted in 1903. It started as an agricultural community, but later it developed with coal mining. Today the town is part of a larger suburban area, so it's a suburb. It is one of the largest manufacturing hubs in the state that it resides in and it is located within a native people's reservation.

Speaker 2: 17:08

St Louis.

Speaker 3: 17:10

Oh, so not close. Thanks for playing Just a bit outside. All right. Our listener spotlight is highlighting the community of Broken Arrow, oklahoma, wow.

Speaker 2: 17:31

Broken.

Speaker 3: 17:32

Arrow.

Speaker 2: 17:33

Well thank you listeners from Broken Arrow. Thank you all listeners, but, as always, thank you listeners in Broken Arrow, oklahoma. Tell me about Broken Arrow, oklahoma, well.

Speaker 3: 17:42

I'm glad you asked because I'll give you a few facts about Broken Arrow. It's named after a community in Alabama. It's actually named after an old Creek community and when I say Creek I'm talking the native people the Creek who were expelled out of their area and basically settled in a community about five miles from the original settlement of this town. It's a suburb of Tulsa, oklahoma. It is the third largest manufacturing hub in the state of Oklahoma, located within the Muskegee Creek Reservation. So there you go. Thank you guys for listening. It has not gone unnoticed that you guys are constantly listening to every episode and we certainly appreciate it.

Speaker 2: 18:37

We sure do. When you were telling me about it last night, I was like hey, all right, I didn't tell him where it was, though.

Speaker 3: 18:45

No, I just told him there are people who have been listening there for a long time.

Speaker 2: 18:50

I know Everybody sometimes will say well, does Michael ever tell you no way, no.

Speaker 3: 18:55

I want you to be genuinely shocked, or surprised or indifferent, whatever, I want the natural reaction.

Speaker 2: 19:04

Okay, I have an update. Rainrideorg, took me a little bit. While you were, I was looking too, but I couldn't find it. I found it, okay. Rain starts at 7 am. Oh, I was right then. Okay, from St Mary's Road in Terre Haute, indiana, and it finishes at Richmond At 6.55,. There is a pre-ride briefing 6.55,. There is a pre-ride briefing, 7 am there's a start and the course closes at 9 pm.

Speaker 3: 19:35

Plenty of time, so you get 14 hours.

Speaker 3: 19:37

Now there's two things that concern me. Number one the pre-, the pre-ride briefing. Get together, briefing Five minutes or less. I appreciate that. Hey, we're going to ride. We're riding across the state. Follow the markers, there's some rest stops, knock yourself out, remember, hydrate, good luck. The other thing that concerns me is we are starting at, like, st Mary's Road or something. It kind of makes it sound like they're just going to take us out alongside some road and dump us out. No, it's a college. Oh, okay, because you know. Hey, you boys get out right here and start riding. We're just in the middle of nowhere. Yeah, we, you're starting to college.

Speaker 2: 20:20

Okay, yeah, we decided that we would stay at the college. Are we staying in dorms? I think so yeah.

Speaker 3: 20:33

Oh, college. Are we staying in dorms? I think so. Yeah, we're going to relive. Well, you went to college a little later in life. We're going to relive college life as 19 year olds. How about that?

Speaker 2: 20:41

We're going to leave your toga at home this time.

Speaker 3: 20:43

No, we're bringing togas. We're going to bring some beer. We're going to do do you know, lunch races down the hallway when we flood the bathroom, things like that.

Speaker 2: 20:55

It'll be great all right, buddy, I'm I'll be happy for you, you can remember you're sleeping so that you're well refreshed.

Speaker 2: 21:03

But you can remember your, your college days. You're right, I did go to college later. I went backwards. I bought a house first and then went to school. Nothing wrong with that, no, well, thank you for always your hard work on Listener Spotlight. I know that many enjoy it. I was surprised. I was combing through the social media and this time everybody definitely jumped on board with the playlist. I think you're right. Maybe the listener spotlight was a little difficult and we did not have anybody who came out of the woodwork, so, um, it was hard I'll just say one final thing and then we'll leave it.

Speaker 3: 21:56

But I had tried to do this town before, but there wasn't a lot. I mean, there's just some towns that there's. I mean, I live in one of those towns where there's like, Hmm, nothing much historical has ever happened, you know. Or it's got two stoplights, yeah, but you know, there's just there's really not a lot to say about it. Um, unfortunately, I'm right on the Kansas border. So if we would have our town would have been founded 20 years earlier, like during the Civil War and bleeding Kansas and stuff, there would have probably been something really cool, or Well, maybe not really cool, but something historical happened here. But it just didn't happen.

Speaker 2: 22:31

So four dollar stores, three, three now, yeah, just kidding.

Speaker 3: 22:38

And we got an extra stoplight. So we're moving, progressing right along. So, all right, what do we got next?

Speaker 2: 22:44

What we got next is I'm going to give you a dealer's choice. I got something to talk about, okay? So you and I made an agreement many moons ago that this show would be, uh, non-political. We wanted to just stay even keeled, but I want to know politics, I'm not talking politics, I'm not talking politics. I promise you All right.

Speaker 3: 23:17

I'm just making sure we're sticking on that thing. This is nonpolitical.

Speaker 2: 23:22

This is just factual data. Okay, the administration has put tariffs forward and I'm watching all kinds of what?

Speaker 2: 23:33

What? No, I'm kidding. What no, I'm kidding. I'm watching all kinds of stories and articles about major bike brands increasing prices and parts, pieces, things of this nature. If you have decided based upon the current situation, if you've picked up any, any bike pieces or parts along the way, just to try to either beat the price or, you know, have you decided to put something on hold for a little bit and just to hold back? I was just curious. Either way, if you, it's a double-ended question, but I was just curious.

Speaker 3: 24:16

Well, first off, for anybody who doesn't understand, tariffs are just taxes. Just to kind of give everybody a background, they're taxes that goods coming into our country has to pay. Okay, what that means is when those goods come in, whether it be something that's been manufactured or raw goods, they get taxed appropriately and whatever that percentage is for the country. So what that means is that as tariffs rise or go up, that's going to make things more expensive. So the question you ask is a good question. Yes, that has actually affected my buying or my spending when it comes to cycling. Now, I wasn't going to make a big purchase like a new road bike or anything like that, but I had a couple of small things that I wanted to get to try out for our new ride, and a couple of them were off of our Christmas wishlist. That's like, well, you know, hey, I'll try that out, see how it is. It's something that I would really be interested in, and I will say that it was something I actually bought both of these things. It's been probably at the end of February.

Speaker 3: 25:32

Okay, I was going to wait until I got closer, but I was keeping the kind of figuring it out and it's like, ok, well, these tariffs do go into effect. Most of this stuff is coming from Asia, and I know what you know. We basically know what the taxes were then. I don't necessarily know what they're going to be or what they are now. So I did go ahead and purchase them early with the expectation that I might get hit with a few dollars more for the product, because that's what happens, you know. The taxes go up. The manufacturer then passes that on to me. So I did and a couple things I got. I believe you got one of these. We'll do a little show and tell for a second.

Speaker 3: 26:19

It's the, the light that has the little uh piece here, and if you're not watching us on youtube, it's basically a light, very bright uh. That has the clip-on connection for your uh road computer on it. We talked about these on our christmas wish list episode, uh, and I did go ahead and buy one of those. And then the other thing that I got is the cycling wallet that we also talked about, because you know, I always I generally carry that like star glass case thing, the what star wars.

Speaker 3: 26:55

Well, I do carry the star wars wallet, but, um, this is more for my gear that I put in my back pocket, like my, you know, sunscreen, lip balm, um, different things like that that I generally shove in like a glass case, and it doesn't always fit. This way I can put everything, including my phone, zip it in there, slide it right in. It's waterproof and I'm ready to go. So, um, and then there was one other thing I'm not going to talk about that online, uh, that I did buy cycling wise, um, because I haven't even talked to you about it. So, um, but yeah, I have bought some things sooner than what I was going to to try to avoid any additional costs. How about you?

Speaker 3: 27:37

Uh, yes, I picked up some uh tubes um did you get the, the lightweight ones that look like they won't hold together and yeah, yeah, the one that you and I both held away from our face when we were blowing it out. It was gonna explode, but it is one heck of a tube they're awesome they are.

Speaker 2: 27:56

I have, you know, I got to get the 80 millimeter presta, so I ordered some of those um. And then what else did I? Oh, I got, um, a pump like yours, um, so when I do rides around this area, um, so I decided to get one of those, um. And then, yeah, the light. You're right, I got the light, um, which I've been, you know, I've been out doing. Oh, yeah, I got that right, that cyplus, the big cyclops are cyplus.

Speaker 3: 28:27

Well, I figured someone likes me I could throw it out.

Speaker 2: 28:30

I'm like a, like a weapon, so um but um, and then um, yeah, that razor light or whatever they call it, riser or whatever it's called. I've been, uh, using that every night. I've been training every night, but braveman.

Speaker 3: 28:48

Yeah, did you get the, the 160 or the 300?

Speaker 2: 28:52

I think the 160, I think 160.

Speaker 3: 28:56

I got the 300. Not that it matters, but it should be kind of interesting. So do you like it?

Speaker 2: 29:03

I do. Yeah, I've been using it on the flash mode. I haven't really been using it as a light per se.

Speaker 3: 29:10

I mean like a Well, you're not riding it out in the dark?

Speaker 2: 29:12

No, no, you're just doing it for light. So I've been using it as a flash mode so I can be seen. I did find one flaw with it, but it's not the flaw of the product, it's the flaw of the person who set up the whole system with the arrow bars, aka me, because of where I put my mount for my computer. It's in between the arrow bars. So I did that so I could protect the computer arrow bar. So I did that so I could protect the computer.

Speaker 2: 29:38

But with that light in there, um, you know how it curves around the front so you people could see you from left and right. Unfortunately for me, it's right in my area, exactly if you're looking at youtube, you can see it curves around. So if you're not on youtube, it faces forward, but then it has a curvature and left and right side. Because of that curvature, where your fingers are right now it's it's flashing right up against the arrow bars as opposed to, for a safety concern, uh, flashing out to to the um yeah I thought about doing this is loosening that yeah, I don't think.

Speaker 2: 30:09

I thought about loosening it a little bit and then lowering it, so then it would be below the but is that little quarter?

Speaker 3: 30:15

of an inch light gonna make a lot of difference to your left and your right. Maybe it would, I don't know, but I don't know give it a try.

Speaker 2: 30:22

Well, I see the brim they're like. What is that boy wearing on his head? Let's run him down so well, I was thinking when you were saying that your uh sunscreen in your wallet. I'm like, well, dude, if you'd wear a brim, you wouldn't have to wear that carcinogen.

Speaker 3: 30:40

So I don't think you understand that light bounces off of things, so light can bounce off the road and go right underneath your DeBrim Just saying the other thing.

Speaker 2: 30:53

That's why I usually have a sunburn on my cheeks. That's why I usually have a sunburn on my cheeks.

Speaker 3: 30:57

The other thing that I did buy that came as I did buy some new cycling men of leisure gear from our store. I love it. Yeah, that had nothing to do with tariffs or anything I don't know where that factory is from.

Speaker 2: 31:15

Is that factory from? Oh, it's in China.

Speaker 3: 31:19

It is. Yes, here's the hat I bought Very nice. Yeah, it's in China it came from.

Speaker 2: 31:31

China. Good enough. Well, I appreciate you supporting our store. Not that we get anything from it, but thank you for supporting our store. Not that we get anything from it, but thank you for supporting our store. So, um, I do have two articles. I just wanted to quote a couple things here, just for interesting factors. So bicycleretailercom on april 17th said trek and electric electra retailers were informed thursday by email that bike prices on most models will rise immediately because of the 10% tariff surcharge announced April 2nd, increasing costs to a level that needs to be addressed. And that one goes on and says basically this does not include current stock but only new bikes coming in, which I always complain. When they raise gas prices I'm like, wait a minute. But the tank, the 10,000 gallons you have in there, yes, I'm pulling out here.

Speaker 2: 32:25

It was purchased two weeks ago Exactly At the lower price, so that was kind of cool. And then on bikemagcom on April 21st, specialized track raises prices as new tariffs take effect.

Speaker 2: 32:38

Bike companies are beginning to feel the impact of the new US imposed tariffs and consumers are too. Tariff impacts are reaching consumers. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. But I was just curious, if that's you know, since we do have a cycling and leisure podcast, I that I could, yeah, ask you some oh, the other thing I did buy is the little I bought, the smaller cyplus air thing.

Speaker 3: 33:05

Oh that'll be, nice the other thing I bought too. Um, you know, it's one of those things when, when, uh, you know, I heard that they were going to raise tariffs, I immediately knew what that meant for us. I mean, I understand how they work and that kind of stuff, and that that amount that's paid out has to be paid by somebody, and typically that somebody is going to be me if I'm buying that product. So, um, yeah, I did uh do a little bit of proactive stuff. I mean I didn't go, you know, crazy. It's like start hoarding stuff, you know, paper products from Canada. I'm going to, you know, stock up on that.

Speaker 2: 33:41

No, I mean I didn't go crazy, but a couple of things that I knew I was going to get. What's that? I apologize? I said I apologize. I think one of the most important things you just said there is you know that tariffs are going to be paid by you.

Speaker 3: 34:00

So, ladies and gentlemen, you heard it right here on Road Adventures of Cyclone man of Leeds. No, I'm not going to be paying everybody's tariffs. No, oh, sorry.

Speaker 2: 34:11

Not the way the economy works, but thanks for playing. Yeah, well, like I said, I just was curious, so let's get into something a little more fun. So our playlist, our playlist. Also for those of you who are watching on YouTube what do you think of my new lights? Back here, man.

Speaker 3: 34:33

He's got some purple changing to blue, changing to aqua, changing to white. He's got some lights going on back in the back.

Speaker 2: 34:40

Yeah, put them behind all the bourbon bottles.

Speaker 3: 34:44

I would say it looks groovy.

Speaker 2: 34:48

It looks pretty cool. So I figured I used to have these behind my TV and so then if something was red on the right side it would be red behind the TV. But I have a different version, so I had these lights and so I thought you know what? That'd be great for the podcast. So if you're looking, look right above my head, if you're on YouTube.

Speaker 3: 35:06

So are you going to show the shag rug next week?

Speaker 2: 35:09

Oh yeah, we like the old shag. It's so shagadelic. So there you go. I gotta get out my phone because you and I well, first of all you and I got in trouble on youtube but we knew we would.

Speaker 3: 35:26

Though yeah, we figured we knew we would. We were just seeing what we could get away with, which wasn't much but no, like they caught on pretty quick so they played it in the United States.

Speaker 2: 35:38

So what we did is we were playing. I played Jerry Mungo, he played, I don't know, summer bike song or whatever, I can't think of it 75 seconds of the song. Yeah, and so what they said is we'll play it in the US, but we won't play it in Egypt, we won't play it in Australia, and I'm like, well, there goes the international listeners this time, so um it in Egypt.

Speaker 2: 36:05

Yeah, egypt was one of the ones where they wouldn't play it. I'm like, uh, okay, well, good enough, buddy, um, but um, I, we, we got an overwhelming response of people willing to give us their, their playlist and songs, which I thought was really cool. So, uh, I'd like to take some time and give you a few of those. Yeah, let's hear them all right. So let's see here John Rhodes. He says that he loves long jams. Long jams are nice on bike tour, such as Stranglehold by the Motor City man man, us Blues by the Dead and this Old Cowboy by the Marshall Tucker Band. I can get on board with that. I'm a big Dave Matthews fan and so a big jam song that's, like you know, 20 minutes long. I can, I can get.

Speaker 3: 37:03

I can get on that board I can definitely the attention span for that that's a good song to listen to afterwards when you're just relaxing, but again my attention span is just like uh, okay, squirrel, I gotta. You know things have to be, you know, exactly moving fast. I get bored too easy. There's my problem.

Speaker 2: 37:24

Good friend and team member and van camper builder and the brim wearing Keith Erickson I love. I have a huge playlist. He says lots of oldies that people get a kick out of on Ragbri. Here are a few. I thought you would like this one the Bonanza theme song yes, rawhide, yeah, go ahead In the honor of your wallet. Star Wars, star Wars. What about Eastbound and Down?

Speaker 3: 37:59

Little Jerry Reid from Smokey and the Bandit Eastbound and Down. That is actually currently on my playlist. That's a great song.

Speaker 2: 38:09

Load it up and truck it. Run Boy, run Top Gun, fireball On the Road Again. Red Solo Cup. You fill me up, it's time for a party. And then Bang the Drum. Many more, he says, are on the list Spotifybroken, spokeadventures, new ride list. He's even giving you a cheat code to his uh playlist.

Speaker 3: 38:45

Well, we appreciate that. Uh, I can get on board with some of those. Um, I will admit, I do have only one song. That's instrumental, like you know, he said he had Star Wars and he had Bonanza. I only have one song on my entire playlist, that's instrumental that Liberace, one that you play no. Just kidding. Wow, no, I actually have the theme song from the Magnificent Seven, the original. Okay, you know it's one of those westerny.

Speaker 2: 39:29

You know they use that same music in like 50% of the westerns that were produced in, you know, the 1960s and 70s. So Keith has a very important person to him. He calls my wife, Melanie, our kind of member and the brim wearer.

Speaker 3: 39:41

I'm not holding that against him, please don't. I actually am.

Speaker 2: 39:45

But that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that that she says a playlist favorite is Take Me Home. Country Road by John Denver.

Speaker 3: 39:54

Little John Denver. He can't go wrong with that. I can get on board.

Speaker 2: 39:59

Rome by John Denver. Little John Denver, I can't go wrong with that. I can get on board Rome by the BB and the way she spells it, I guess I feel bad. I don't know this song, or maybe I do know, I just don't know. I don't the B hyphen, b E it's a great day to be alive by Travis Tritt, so that's a good one. Appreciate Melanie adding to the list. I'm looking to see if I have. I thought I had somebody else, but maybe not. Let's see here. Oh yeah, we do, we do, we do. That was, I believe, by Matt Robinson. Jump Around House of Pain. Jump up and jump down, jump around Getting Jiggy With it by Will Smith. Santa Monica by Everclear.

Speaker 3: 41:02

Okay.

Speaker 2: 41:04

Spiderwebs, by no Doubt, he says Shoop by Salt-N-Pepa Shoop shoop-a-doop. And I love his signature. I am what I am.

Speaker 3: 41:17

We're not judging anybody. Well, Adam is, but that's okay. I'm not judging anybody by their music. Yeah, as you said about the DeBrim, I said their music, not their fashion, completely different. But anyway, you know, everybody's got their own thing.

Speaker 2: 41:37

Do you have Ryan Reynolds Mint mobile commercials by you? Oh, yeah, yeah. My favorite commercials is like I'm not judging anyone Well, maybe I am. Maybe Exactly, if you want to pay more, that's fine. I'm not judging you Well, maybe I am. So I think that's kind of funny fine, I'm not judging you.

Speaker 3: 41:59

Well, maybe I am. So I think that's kind of funny. So, um, no, it's, it's. Uh, it's interesting to see because I will admit I have no like no rap type kind of that hip-hop stuff on my playlist.

Speaker 2: 42:10

Gotcha, gotcha, you know well, you know I I'm going to go back just to mention these jam band songs just for a second. You know it's funny. I know you're not a real big Dave Matthews band fan, which is fine, no problem. But he's got some like songs like the stone or um, you know, uh, different different variations, where some songs are like 20 minutes long and they kind of, uh, they kind of have a crescendo that goes up and then comes back down, um, he sings all along the watchtower and and I mean it just starts out real slow.

Speaker 2: 42:53

And so when I'm pedaling and I'm by myself, training um as it goes up, then of course I get that feeling. So I can, I can kind of get behind some of those, but I think if you listen to it in a large group it would be like dude, come on, let's turn to the next song. So it might, might be okay when you're you're by yourself, but, um, and some of those songs could be nice for listening afterwards, everyone's, you know. Oh, yeah, taking a shower, sitting back, having a beer or bourbon or Coke or maybe coffee or whatever strikes your, face.

Speaker 3: 43:25

I think this is what we need to do Next time we're having a speakeasy, we show up with a liquor, I think we need to say it's speake easy time and then just break out into playing theme song from bonanza I love it.

Speaker 2: 43:40

I think keith would love to start it off I.

Speaker 3: 43:43

It's a good song um, before your book.

Speaker 2: 43:50

end of listener spotlight I. I have two pieces of information about Big Brag 2025. So I have it on good authority that I'm hoping that it'll be our next show. I don't want to promise because the man is traveling back, but Franklin has a few teasers about Big Brag 2025. I'm holding on to some proprietary information that I just can't say, but it's pretty cool, and so he's going to come on this show and let the cat out of the bag on a couple of really cool things happening at Big Brag 2025.

Speaker 3: 44:30

I got a secret about Big Brag 2025.

Speaker 2: 44:32

I'll tell you Okay, go ahead, we're riding in Georgia and there's elevation, and there's elevation. Savannah said you boys better have been training, oh gosh. My other thing about Bragg is I'm curious about something, are you we? But this show is going to come out on the 27th april. 27th I'll be riding dawn farm, as as many listeners know if you, if you listen to we're on season four. If you've listened to other seasons, you know that I don't always write it because it rains or it's cold, but I definitely support um dawn farm ride for recovery, air for Recovery. He's a fair weather cyclist. I am a fair weather cyclist, I fully admit it. Last year it was cold and rain. I had a hot coffee in my hand and drove home in the heat. Yes, sir, no problem. Check.

Speaker 3: 45:32

This year the weather looks great.

Speaker 2: 45:33

Hopefully, hopefully, yeah, hopefully, we'll get the support that, no matter what, they got my, my money and, really cool, totally unexpected, don farm um and knows what it stands for and um wanted to make a donation and um, due to some personal stuff in his his life, um and helping somebody he knows, he walked into my office and put 50 bucks on my desk and said would you please make a donation? So, um, I thought that was really cool, so, but it got me thinking this is coming out on April 27th. Normally you're the guy that I'm like hey, dude, I got this packed and that packed and this packed and we're like a week out and you'll go. Yeah, I haven't even started and I never know if you're just screwing with me, if you're just doing it.

Speaker 3: 46:34

No, I'm not, I'll be Excuse me. I'll be honest with you. I am not most of the time screwing with you. I mean, I do screw with you a lot, but when it comes to packing, I tend to I'll do it tomorrow night, I'll do it the next night. Something comes up and then I'm typically the guy the night before. That's like I should have been in bed two hours ago. You know right? Um, yeah, I don't do a real good job of that most of the time, because I always think I have way more time than I have and I don't.

Speaker 2: 47:04

So saying that for the 2025 flight to Atlanta for you and I have you started throwing some stuff together.

Speaker 3: 47:18

Surprisingly enough, I have you started throwing some stuff together. Surprisingly enough, I have really, uh, you, yeah, actually that's why I was able to, you know, reach down here and pull out this other bike pump. Okay, um, hey, look at this, there's a bike helmet.

Speaker 2: 47:34

Okay.

Speaker 3: 47:35

You know, I got all sorts of my cycling. Oh, there's a bike helmet. Okay, you know, I got all sorts of my cycling. Oh, there's a cycling computer. So see, I, I'm not lying about it, I actually have that's cool a big chunk of this. And I'll tell you why. Because about six, about a week ago because we're about five weeks out now I started thinking about traveling with my bike. Which, traveling with my bike now, I mean, I remember the first time we did it was like, oh my God, this seems very too much. Now it's like old hat, no big deal.

Speaker 3: 48:06

The problem that I have is that, um, um, the bike boxes are big. They're designed to be pulled a certain way. Uh, I have a big duffel that has like backpack straps on it, things like that. Um, I absolutely hate trying to get from my vehicle to the luggage check-in because I'm carrying 70 pounds of weight on my shoulders and I've got this thing I'm lugging behind me and it just doesn't flow very well. And, of course, my bag is hitting the thing and you've got to keep the bike box at a certain angle or else it doesn't roll. It's terrible.

Speaker 3: 48:51

So I dread that part of it, and then I also dread. When I get there to our final destination, then we have to get all this stuff to the hotel. So that had prompted me to figure out new ways that I can transport my bag and my bike box in a much more convenient, non-exertion sort of way. Okay, so that got me pulling things out, and so I didn't. I have started early because I want to take some of that gear and I've got a couple ideas to maybe make this whole transport situation easier and more convenient.

Speaker 2: 49:31

Okay, so, that's why I started early. That's cool. You know I've only been to your new Kansas airport twice. I was there with you and then recently, you know, I was there for a conference. So is it frowned upon? I know it's frowned upon, I know the answer, but I'm just wondering versus practical, versus actual Sky priority? I know your sky priority, so sky priority every time, every time, the two times I've been there, there's been no line in sky priority. Have you ever considered driving up, taking a chance, risking it, walking in a sky priority, dropping off the bike and the bag and then taking and going back? Or or is that just like crazy?

Speaker 3: 50:18

No, that's actually a good idea, and here's what I did last time. Actually, I've done this a couple of times. Um, I don't trust the pull up there and park, because you park on the first, like the ground level or whatever. Yeah, uh, or you pull up there to depart and then, uh, you know you have to go in and it's quite a ways to get to get back in there. Uh, I don't trust that.

Speaker 3: 50:50

You know the 15 or 16 on, uh, you know police officers that they have on duty are not just going to immediately call the tow people and by the time I get everything back now my car is gone and it's like I got to deal with that. So I never trust that because that's going to happen to me. I'm that guy. But what I have done the last couple of times is I have went up to the the parking that's right in front of the airport and parked and generally I can get like in the lot row. It's a parking garage. I can generally get on a row on the level that's a level that I need to be right in front of the, uh, the airport.

Speaker 2: 51:24

So then I just have to walk over the two lanes of traffic and get in the building and then go from there, and I've done that a couple of times Because to be honest with you, what I asked you to do in Detroit I would not be able to get away with, because when you, when you depart, a Detroit and I've done that a couple of times ramp brings you up to the top, just like your airport, by the way. Um, if you come to the top and if I were to get out and try to go into sky priority real quick, uh, I would never make it back before my vehicle would be towed. So, um, but I I just know that the two times that I was there, I like maybe I just got lucky, I mean, maybe I just maybe things just worked out where I was able to, you know.

Speaker 3: 52:19

I don't want to chance it, that's my thing. So I'll park there, I'll take my stuff in, check it in, go back out to my car and uh, I think it costs me a dollar in the you know 20 minutes that I'm there, and then I'll drive my car over to long-term parking, hop the bus, come back over, and then I don't have to deal, I've already got everything checked in. I'll just go straight to, uh, you know the the fast, uh security line and just go right into the airport. So, um, it takes a little bit more pre-planning, but it does work out better than trying to lug that bike box and my big duffel bag onto one of those little.

Speaker 3: 52:58

You know you're a public transit guy, one of those little buses and then pulling it off and stuff.

Speaker 2: 53:03

Stand behind the yellow standee line please. So I talked about you at work today. I said every time we go on a bike trip and we go into the town where they use the shuttle buses and the yellow standee line there, I'm like get behind the yellow standee line. It's a federal line.

Speaker 3: 53:24

You do always call me out. Thank you, I appreciate that.

Speaker 2: 53:27

Well, especially the one time we were on the bus going across Michigan with Neil's ride with Shoreline, I mean, literally you were just relaxing and your leg just barely went out. I'm like, what are you doing? And the driver driver knew I was messing with you. They I thought that was great. But well, uh, I too have slowly began, and where it came from, honestly, is brag. I don't know if it's stephanie or franklin, or maybe it's a pre-pl post, but put the brag packing list on Facebook. I saw that, and so I think you saw that too, which got me thinking about starting to gather my items. I know you and I have some really cool stuff going on and we are not going to talk about that, but we are going to talk about it a little bit.

Speaker 3: 54:18

Okay, we've got some really cool stuff. And when he says really cool stuff, we have a couple of things that we're working that looks like it's gonna get together. A couple of special events we're going to be throwing, uh, during the brag ride for our team, and we've got, uh, we got some, some fun stuff to pass out to everybody too. It's gonna.

Speaker 2: 54:44

I'm excited, that's all we're saying but I'm excited, so, uh, all right. With that being said, um, will you finish us up with a listener spotlight?

Speaker 3: 55:03

I absolutely will. Well, this episode's listener spotlight. The clues are as follows this town was founded in the mid-1880s. This town was founded in the mid-1880s. The community, early on, the community was likened to Italy, meaning that they would, you know, compare it to Italy. A major development from economic point of view did not occur or did not come to the area until World War II, when the Army Air Force trained there. If you let me go back here, I didn't put these in order. If you are into golf, which I know you are, this city is for you 100%. However, if you're not into golf but you like pickleball, this is also a great town for you. Hint, the Spanish conquistadors did not find any fountains of youth or a fountain of youth. However, if they were at this community or in this, town.

Speaker 2: 56:36

today, they might feel like they found the seven cities of gold. How's that Wow?

Speaker 3: 56:50

Pickleball golf.

Speaker 2: 56:52

Someone should get this one Augusta. No, just kidding um uh wow, conquistadors, now yeah see, now here's going to be the problem.

Speaker 3: 57:06

as soon as I say conquistadors, people are immediately going to think of a couple of certain areas or states. Little known fact the conquistadors got all the way up into almost central Nebraska, just to let you know. Okay, so, and actually Coronado himself got here to the middle of Kansas, so the conquistadors had a pretty wide swath, bigger than what most people would think. So I'm just saying, when you start listening and thinking about conquistadors and things like that, you know, keep an open mind that it wasn't just like. You know Arizona, new Mexico, southern California, you know Texas and Florida or whatever.

Speaker 2: 57:55

Didn't they find this is totally off script? So was that? I didn't hear that until last I mean last night either. But didn't they find like like large boat, like in the middle of the land where there's no water, I mean?

Speaker 3: 58:11

they found a couple of those over time in a couple of different places. But what's what's interesting about the conquistadors? Um, they were all over, in fact. Um, in a little town in Nebraska where my parents used to live when I was in college, just South of that and that's like in central Nebraska, the conquistadors actually had a battle it's documented and all that actually had a battle. It's documented and all that actually had a battle with the indigenous people and the French.

Speaker 3: 58:39

You know, right there and there was just a place found I think it was just south of Wichita, here a couple of years ago where there had been rumored this huge native village that had been attacked by, you know, one of the conquistadors and his army, and they just thought it was kind of. You know, that's one of those stories somebody tells. But they've actually found the site now and it matches with the documented records of the, you know, the friars and the religious people that went along to document it. So it's cool, it's crazy, but they have found boats in a couple of places that boats shouldn't be and the question is, how did it get there?

Speaker 2: 59:23

So well, with that intriguing thought, I will say that yesterday, sir, for me was a great day for a bike ride, absolutely.

Speaker 1: 59:34

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