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Full Spectrum Cycling #139 – Event Chatter – The Rock Polisher Saga Continues
Nov 19, 2021
Full Spectrum Cycling #139 – Event Chatter – The Rock Polisher Saga Continues
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0:00
[rock music] [bell rings] [rock music] Huh. That's weird.
0:17
I don't think I ever noticed that bell in the intro sound. It's like a little- A bing. Is it like a little cowbell or something? Mm-mm. I don't- Or is it the bell- I gotta-... from the other room?
0:25
I gotta have more- Hey, hey... a cowbell. Hey, hey, everyone. A- after 139 shows of Full Spectrum Cycling, you should probably recognize, you know, what's going on here. But, uh- Right... it's JK. Hi.
0:37
With, the phoneless JK. Yes. We'll talk, we'll talk about that a little later. [laughs] All right. Uh, Tony over there. Yep. And then the, uh, the Don Nettobeck cat's kinda looking at us from the corner.
0:46
Oh, that's creepy. Oh. You know, that thing was, uh, so- Free? Uh, well- [laughs]
0:52
But, okay, Don Nettobeck was a great artist in Milwaukee, and he did a thing at Wendy's school many, many, many years ago, where they had the kids and he painted while they were watching, and it's an original thing.
1:03
Oh, okay. That's cool. And, uh, somehow they learned that we knew the Nettobecks, and they decided that they were cleaning shit out, and they're like, "Would you like this?" And we're like, "Yes, we would.
1:13
Thank you very much." Mm-hmm. And I even got Patrick's blessing, who is, is, is, we know Patrick from down at the tiki bar- The tiki, tiki, tiki, tiki... slash palapa. Oh, yeah, yeah, okay. Yeah, yeah.
1:24
Yeah, the tiki, tiki, tiki, tiki. With massive facial hair. And, and yeah, he does. I, I- And delightful board vehicles... speaking of bars, um, I'm, we're diverging into bars right off the bat, but what about
1:34
downtown getting closed up? Um, uh, what, which downtown getting closed up? [laughs] Duke's. Yeah, it's, it's a, it's an aldermanic- Purfuffle?... shove it in your face thing, 'cause- Ah...
1:47
today, it just- I was wondering what happened... they've always had a kind of a hard-on for the, basically the cheapest and the, you know, it's the blue collar as cheap as bar on Water Street, and- Right...
1:56
they, they want that to be more of a very expensive, exclusive, get everybody out here that doesn't have money kinda area. That's true. So- That's true... you know.
2:04
And but it, it was related to some incidents over the summer when there was a bunch of fuckery going on around here. Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah. So yeah, yeah. There's shootings and stuff.
2:13
20, 20 days, 20 days, can't go down there for 20 [laughs] I don't know what I'm gonna do. [laughs] It's like, where am I gonna go? I mean- What, the library? What? Yeah, well- What, what do I do?
2:23
[laughs] Actually, we should probably open a bar called The Library, would be a really good one. There is one in Oshkosh. There was one on- My gosh... North Avenue. Yeah, yeah. Oh. Yeah. All right.
2:31
But now it's Nine Below. Oh, that's that stupid golf club, isn't it? Yep. Yeah, golf bar.
2:36
Uh, speaking of golf bars, it's not gonna be a bar per se, but upstairs from where we are, which is going to be across from us when we move upstairs, 'cause we're moving the studio upstairs for sure now.
2:46
I got, I, I got the, the blessing from the powers that be- Oh, boy... to move our thing upstairs so we can be a little bit more isolated from the goings-on in the building. But, um- Ding...
2:58
they're, he's gonna put in a, a nine-hole course so that when people are up there doing whatever the theater stuff is, they've got something to kind of commiserate around and do, and then there'll be the performances and other stuff.
3:10
Nice. It's actually gonna be pretty cool. Yeah. And, uh, we're also having some kinda marketplace here, I believe December 12th maybe or something. Yeah. I'll, I'll find out the date. Yeah.
3:19
But they're gonna have a bunch of vendors, and, uh, all local makers of things- Nice... that are going to populate this area with their, their wares. Nice.
3:29
Uh, so probably we should have our dump open too- Yeah, probably... just in case. Probably. Not a bad idea. That would be Everyday Cycles, the dump I refer to at this point. Right, right. But yeah, so I don't know.
3:40
Uh, freaking warm again, and I still didn't get the motorcycle over here, but, uh- Actually, and it cooled off in, like, the past- And it's-... hour and a half... yeah, it's gone pretty all of a sudden. Yeah, yeah.
3:50
It was, I was taking all my layers on the way here. But it was almost 60 this morning. I was like- Yeah... wow, that's pretty nice out there- It's gonna be like-... November-wise...
3:55
it's gonna be 50 on, like, Tuesday, dude. Yeah, I still have to move the bike, and I'm still pretty sure we're gonna get a 70 d- 70-degree day before Christmas. I'd almost lay money on it.
4:05
[laughs] Almost, is what I said. I didn't say I'm going to. Shiny nickel. Yeah. Shiny nickel. [laughs] Shiny nickel or... But the- That, that's, that's, I don't know... treacherous, shiny nickel. Oh, boy.
4:16
Uh, there was a, I, there was something on the, uh, the show notes from last week that we didn't get to, and I, I don't know why, and I'm not sure what it was about, and I didn't write it, so I'm like...
4:25
Relating to Bronc and a State Bicycle's fatbike. Was that you, JK? No, uh, that was you. Oh, see? I must have been, like, in La La Land or maybe on a- It was-... maybe on a chocolate mushroom trip or something.
4:38
[laughs] Maybe. But, um, well, Bronc is a, a dearly, uh- Departed... departed friend, and he had a State Bicycle fatbike, which was really cool, and I just kinda wonder what happened to that thing. Mm-hmm.
4:52
Oh, yeah, for sure. 'Cause it was a really cool one. It was one of the black and, it was kinda the black and gray version versus the- The megalith... versus the pink and, and brown Neapolitan ice cream version- Yeah...
5:01
that, uh, that JK's significant other has. Kimberly. [laughs] Kimbo. Kimberly. The Napoleon? Yeah, Napoleon. Yeah. Or Neapolitan, whichever. Right, exactly. Oh, it was, uh, article off, uh, Drunk Cyclist. That was it.
5:19
What? It, you were referring to- Well, it was Drunk Cyclist Day too, like, last week or something, but- Right... I kinda forgot about it and- It, it, it kinda dovetailed with that. Right on. Okay.
5:29
It was like- Well, sometimes my brain works faster than my brain works... you know, like, hey, hey, instead of it being the, you know, make every day, you know- Oh... or, or it was, like, tribute, like- Yeah...
5:38
tribute ride- Yeah, there was something there... for a friend or something like that. Yeah. And then it's like, no, hell with it. Yeah, that was like a Yo- [laughs]... that was like a Yogi Berra-ism.
5:45
My brain works faster than my brain works. There you go. [laughs] That, that, that was pretty good. That was pretty deep. I do like some Yogi Berra stuff.
5:52
Yes, the annual post started as an exercise in healing and gratitude for a fallen friend. Right on, okay. In some ways, it still is. And then, well. Yeah, it was a good article.
6:00
I mean, Drunk Cyclist- Every day is Drunk Cyclist Day. Well, some, they do still have some good content on that site.
6:05
I'd certainly, it's on my, uh, it's in my newsfeed, so if they post something new, I always check it out. [laughs] And the degenerates. Yeah, well, you know.
6:13
[laughs] Not everyone can be an upstanding citizen, for Christ's sake. Right, right. Including yours truly, I guess. I don't know Uh, ha- have you ridden up the bridge on, uh...
6:25
well, Van Buren and the bridge, the Holton Street bridge? I love it. New, new lane markings. I'm not sure that the...
6:31
Okay, so diverging from that a little bit, the, uh, Locust Street always gets all clogged up going towards the old shop coming from the east. Mm-hmm.
6:39
And some jackass goes around the things into the bike lane, and is just blasting, like, 40 miles an hour in the bike lane. What? Which is- Yeah... you know, protected by not only sticky up things, but concrete crap.
6:50
I don't know how he even got in. When was this? This, today. I was... when I went to get the 30-pack of hams that we're, [laughs] we're gonna have tonight. You're kidding me. No, he was just, like, going, like, 40.
7:00
I mean, the, it was lines of c-... I was just like, "What the fuck is going on here?" Uh, yeah, on my approach here tonight, I was like, [sighs] "I don't really wanna go across Locust.
7:11
I really don't, I really don't," for s- for r- those reasons, 'cause it's just shrapnel all over the shit place. Yeah. You can just see where, uh- So he must've knocked down all the poles. No, I don't think... no.
7:21
There are just those little tiny- He was inside the poles... wingy, wingy, wingies. He may have knocked one down or something, but. Oh. But I, honestly, when I ride across- It's fucking nuts...
7:28
that bridge, I ride on the sidewalk- Right... because that thing is, like, 12 inches above the road bed. Right. So I'm pretty safe up there.
7:34
And I just don't, I mean, I like that there's a bike lane on it, but I don't like that there's no respect for the bike lane. Right. Wow. Yeah. It, it's crazy. So yeah, so that was, that was, uh, that was fun today.
7:45
Yeah, I gotta check out the Holton. I have not been that way for a little bit. That's cool. Yeah, it's now down to a single lane both ways. It's not- Yeah. Oh, nice...
7:53
and I'm not sure- Which makes sense, because if you were northbound, that lane ended right at the end of the Holton Bridge. Right. So people would be idiots, and- Yeah... you know?
8:02
Like- And then there's the liquor store right there, where there's already people parked in the middle of the road anyhow. Right. So it's like, well, you're gonna have, you know- Pueblo Foods.
8:08
But they have- Is that what it is? Yeah, it's Pueblo Foods. Pueblo. I don't go in there, but- Oh- Oh, you should go in there... especially their hot food. Oh, okay. Well. Mm-hmm. You know.
8:15
It's, it's an awesome [laughs] little place. And their, and their tacos don't slouch. No, they're, they're- I mean, they're not, they're not over, they're not super memorable, but they don't suck.
8:25
The, the neat thing is you can go in there and ask for chorizo, and it's a sausage, but they ask you how much you want, and they make it- [laughs]... while you're there, and tie it and bring it to you.
8:33
Oh, that's pretty cool. Yeah. They're, they're- Yeah, okay... it's a, it's a- That occurred to me at, uh- That's all right. I like that... at Sardina's once.
8:39
I was like, "Oh, I was gonna get some chorizo, but it seems like you're out." "What? W- who needs chorizo? Hey, give me five minutes." Make us some now. [laughs] "Give me five minutes. I got it."
8:47
[laughs] Oh, yeah, if you... when I f- actually, the, the funny part is the second time I went there before Damien knew me, I'm like, "Yeah, uh, you know, you're out of chorizo." He's like, "Someone just bought it all."
8:59
He's like, "Do you live in the neighborhood?" I'm like, "Yeah." He's like, "Give me your phone number, and I'll call you when it's ready." [laughs] Nice.
9:04
And literally, like, a half hour later, he's like, "Hey, I got your chorizo for you." I cannot wait till they're open again. Yeah, no kidding.
9:09
Damien, please hurry if you're listening, 'cause man, I want some of them sammiches. They're not open? Damien. So I was wondering what the, like, I always notice half- Well, the building's condemned.
9:18
Oh, well, there's that. 'Cause of that bad weather we had a while back, and now- Oh, yeah... he's moving on to Locust Street. Yeah, he's, he's got a place. It's just they have to build it out.
9:26
How'd that work out for you, JK? [laughs] A little slap in the face there? [laughs] So it's a lot different than the hams. [laughs] Whee. Yeah. Oh. [laughs] I know we, uh, we, we talked about the rock tumbler last week.
9:37
Remember that? Yes. I don't remember if I went in- It's continuing, huh?... to the full saga because now it has, it, it has, it has relocated in the basement. Oh, no.
9:45
Which is, is kind of all right, 'cause it, it was at the, the base of the stairs to the basement.
9:50
So it was kinda like, you know, came up, and even though the door's closed, it was a little noisy with the rock crunching and the polishing.
9:56
But now it's back in by the fuse box in the back corner of the basement, which is cool, except when the washing machine's running, I can usually just open the clothes chute and tell if it's on or off, but now I can't- [laughs]...
10:06
'cause the rock polisher's making all this racket down there. [laughs] So you gotta go look. So I gotta go downstairs and see if the, the dryer, it's ac- either one is done.
10:16
And it's like, well, I'm getting my exercise 'cause of the rock tumbler, I guess- Yeah, and I'm-... going up and down the stairs.
10:20
I'm digressing, but I happened to notice while shopping for, because I gotta buy appliances at some point this time when my house is ready, that Samsung is now making a washer-dryer that somehow the washer drops the load into the dryer.
10:36
You said- [laughs]... you said drops the load. [laughs] I did. I did. But, and then, you know, I'm like, how are they pulling that off? Well, it sounds like a good idea, though. I, yeah.
10:45
And then, so you literally can start a load, and it... I mean, they do make combination washer-dryers. Sure. Europe- Europeans are, you know, there's a bunch of them.
10:53
But this is literally, like, a washer that stacks on top of a dryer, and boom, it- Huh. Is it, like, seven grand? I'm, it's gotta be, like, 28 grand, you know. Yeah. It's something stupid.
11:03
I would think that's not that- It's like the, the LG refrigerator with the camera inside so you can check to see if you're low on something. [laughs] That's where our helium miners- Yes, we're gonna, oh, yes...
11:11
are gonna come in handy because, uh- Where you have the, uh-... they use the Internet of things- Mm-hmm... that the, the- If they ever fricking get here. Well, they'll get here.
11:18
Also, I did, uh, I got, I, I signed up for crypto.com 'cause I've seen it all over the- I'm gonna do that so you can get the-... freaking place. It was up 28% today. Nice. Right? They just bought a stadium, that's why.
11:29
I know, or named a sta- Well, yeah, yeah... got naming rights to something in LA, but, uh, and they have- I know. Hey... and they have Matt Damon, so that's, that's cool. Matt Damon. Matt Damon.
11:39
I guess we, I guess- We are just here... well, we thought Sam D was gonna come in tonight, but I guess he's not. However, due to my very, uh, skillful phone dialing skills,
11:50
I have lined up guests for the next couple weeks. So if, if, if, if listening to us isn't good enough for you, we'll have- Wait. Speaking of next week. What? Are we doing a show next week? Why not? Wednesday?
12:01
That's not... Why? Why wouldn't we? Well, I, that's- Are you combo breaker-ing it just 'cause of Thanksgiving or?
12:07
N- no, I happen to know someone that has a day off who said they might be willing to make the trip to do a podcast. Oh, okay. Well, that'd be cool. Someone with a dune buggy. Oh. [laughs] Sh- Shannon. Shannon.
12:18
Well, Shannon's welcome anytime. Yeah. Uh, we also have either, I don't know if it's gonna be George or Matt, I'm gonna assume it's gonna be George from Broken Smoke, and they- They're running the Snow Crown- What?...
12:28
the Snow Crown Fat Bike Series Man Bear Pig? Yeah, Man Bear Pig. Uh, [laughs] they're running the Snow Clown, Snow Clown [laughs]
12:37
up there, which is, uh, I think five or five races, I believe theirs is, and starts, like, the 12th of December, so really soon.
12:45
So we're gonna talk to him, and then the following week we got Amelia Kegel from- Yes, yes... Wheel & Sprocket. Is she coming in or is she calling in? I think she's gonna call in, although she's certainly welcome.
12:54
[laughs] She lives, like, three blocks away. Well, she sh- maybe she should come in then. [laughs] I gave her the option. Um- She literally does live right up the street. Yeah, uh, so- 'Cause she's cool...
13:02
and, and they do the Huge Ass Series, and- Huge Ass...
13:04
you know, there's a lot of stuff kinda starting to populate the calendar, and this is the time of year, like, I literally ride more in the winter than in the summer for some reason. Totally. I don't know why.
13:15
'Cause it's more fun. Yeah, pro- possibly.
13:18
Um, and I think Wisconsin, I don't know, if you look at the calendar, maybe 'cause we're located here, we have a little bit more events or something, but there's an awful lot of events in Wisconsin, and then there's a bunch all over.
13:31
There's, there's just tons of stuff, and the... If you, if you feel like going to fatbike.com for some reason, you can probably check out the calendar over there. Probably.
13:40
I just, we just got renewed on our license for the calendar for the year over there, so, uh, I don't know. Maybe we should- That's pretty cool...
13:46
maybe we should put that calendar on the old fullspectrumcycling.com- Maybe we should... and that's in there. You know. Bang. But, uh, yeah, yeah. You can...
13:54
There's a, in the show notes there's a bunch of stuff, and or you can check the fatbike.com calendar out. There's site, there's Santa rampages all over, and I... It is confirmed now. Oh, wait. What's confirmed?
14:05
We can- That Tony is going to [bell rings] ring the bell. It's confirmed we're at the top of the hill.
14:10
[laughs] I, I had such a head of steam going there, I, I, I didn't, I didn't even know we- You had to just break that up... I didn't even know we got to the top of the hill. We did. You were busting it.
14:18
I'm at the top of the hill now. Yeah, and- What are we... JK- J- I think JK is the- JK-... guilty party on this... second week in a row bringing a killer six-pack in. It is of the Hazy O of the Dogfish Head.
14:31
Oh, one of my favorite brews. I went to Down- I went to Downer Liquor, and that's like, shit, man. I, I'm like, that's like a candy store. Yeah.
14:38
'Cause they just, they just have, like, a lot of good offerings, and I was just like, "Oh, which one? Which one?" I was gonna grab one, and it would've been a complete kneecapper. Oh, yeah.
14:50
I looked at it and it was like 9.3 or something like that. Oh, yeah. That'll kill you. And I'm like, I'm like, "Ooh, I'm not sure if I can put anybody through that." This is Hazy O. Hazy O, Hazy IPA. It's oh, so juicy.
15:03
It is juicy. Made with four types of oats they say. My, uh, my mouth is watering. That's pretty tasty, man. I, I, I don't think I've had a Dogfish Head- It's very citrusy... that I don't care for. Right. Right.
15:14
And I just haven't, I haven't had a, I haven't had a Dogfish Head for a while. Did you ever hear their hops cannon? No. Mm-mm. That they... So they created this, I, I don't know who perfected it, but they created this...
15:26
You could take a, I think it was a pound of fresh hops, and it screwed into a canister, and then you pulled the beer, the tap line through it.
15:38
So literally the tap line got pulled through a pound of fresh hops, so your beer came out just like a bouquet of flowers. Wow. Huh. When, when you said- They had them at bars...
15:49
when you said hops cannon, I was thinking that hops is flammable so that maybe it was- [laughs]...
15:53
uh, you know, actually, like, my buddy w- we were talking today before the show, and he has a place up in Shawano, northern Wisconsin area, and they have an actual golf ball cannon.
16:03
And it's like a, it's a, I don't know, whatever size golf ball. Like a potato gun? But no, but it- [laughs] No, it's a, it's a black powder cannon.
16:11
It's, like, super loud, and it moves, and it's awesome, and they shoot golf balls from Wisconsin to Michigan with it. [laughs] I'm in artillery. Yeah. I can't hear that well.
16:21
[laughs] Yeah, no, I was thinking, he said, he said it's like, it's as loud as if we had a shotgun in this room and we set it off, it's twice that loud. Yeah. Shit. Shit.
16:30
So it's like, I don't know, but I think black powder cannons are pretty cool. That's what my dad w- My, my buddy had one growing up... my dad, my dad was, uh, artillery in the, uh- Oh, yeah...
16:38
military reserves before, um- Earplugs... earplugs. Yeah. So he would u- Oh... he would use, uh, cigarette butts. My, uh- [laughs] My, uh- I was like, "That's thinking."
16:48
[laughs] My dad was a gunner on an SBD, so he couldn't hear shit when he left World War II. Oh, yeah. Yeah, my dad was on the Iowa with the 16-inch guns, and- Yeah, you ain't gonna hear shit...
16:57
ri- [laughs] Well, what, he said when they w- 'cause I think there was three, there's three in a turret and three turrets on the ship, and when they would broadside something, 'cause basically they shelled, like, infrastructure, railroad bridges and stuff, the whole ship would m- would ac- It'd move...
17:12
and that's a thousand foot long ship. Right. And then- And it would move, right? And it would move. Yeah, it's like, wow. [laughs] That, and I don't know if you wanna be on deck when they go off. That seems kinda loud.
17:21
Yeah. Thank God battleships are yesterday's tech. We got drones and- Right... Tomahawk missiles and all sorts of crap now. Right. What, what was the, uh... Wow, why are we getting into such a deep subject?
17:34
But- Well, it was Veteran- Well, this was- It was Veterans Day last week, so- The super, not the supersonic missile that China launched that went all the way around the world? We're talking about hops, hops and cannons.
17:42
Yeah. Um, yeah, I did digress. Yeah. [laughs] Not a supersonic- Segued right into it... some other- I'm invoking my Irishness- There's a-... I can know, I know how to work it back on track [laughs]...
17:51
a missile, um, it's a missile that can make a full trip around the world. But what good is that? You're just gonna blow yourself up when it comes back. Well, yeah, it means you can get- It's like a boomerang...
18:00
you can launch a missile that can go anywhere. It's like a boomerang. Well, in that case it would be- It comes back to you. [laughs] That means they can get to any other place they want to.
18:08
I'm pretty sure everybody can get to any place they want to now. Yeah, probably. Right. For like 49 bucks on Southwest or something. [laughs] Good one. [laughs] So this is 7.1%. Wow. Oh. Oh, okay.
18:20
But it drinks like a five. It does kind of. Yeah. It's not, it's not old. That's not good. Doesn't really seem that drink-y. I don't want it to drink like a five 'cause I'll drink more.
18:29
I understand that It is dog fishhead though. They are beautiful Yeah. Yeah, I didn't, I didn't really feel like it was that powerful Only 45 international bitter girlfriend units.
18:40
The bitter girlfriend [laughs] Golden and hazy, citrus, mandarin, orange, grapefruit, mango, pineapple aromas. Is she oot and aboot today? I don't know. [laughs] I don't have a phone. I'm not... Oh. [laughs] Yeah.
18:55
They- Yeah, we should segue into that... yeah, we didn't talk about JK's phone saga yet. Yeah. Well, had a very excellent time at the show. The show. Nitzer Ebb- Was fab... North America 2022. Two steps, getting closer.
19:11
Getting closer. It was actually a really enjoyable show. It was very entertaining for us. Yeah, it was very entertaining. I hadn't seen 'em- Good way to put it... hadn't seen 'em since 1990... 1990. Summerfest. Yep. Wow.
19:19
We were all there. It was funny. It was just, yeah, it, uh, looking around the room, just checking out the room, it was just like, I feel like I, I've run into everybody here- Yep. It was very-... somewhere in my life.
19:30
D- no- not on a first name basis or even whatever- But knew y'all... but it's like, "No, I saw you in the back room at fucking Landmark on Import night," or something like that [laughs] you know?
19:38
It's just little shit like that. Oh man, that, that's a long time ago. Oh, exactly. Yeah. Well, the, the crazy part about this, not to, but, but- No, no... um, I...
19:47
Von Munns mentioned, you know, the last time I saw Nitzer Ebb was at Summerfest in 1990 when their tape machine broke. I sent him a text message. I'm like, "Me too."
19:56
[laughs] And I win the tickets, and I said to Molly, I'm like, "We got tickets to see Nitzer Ebb," and she's like, "The last time I saw Nitzer Ebb was at Summerfest when the tape machine broke."
20:04
I'm like, "We weren't even dating." [laughs] Oh. I'm like, how freaking crazy is that? I'm like, that's the year before we met. Wow. That's how far back we go.
20:15
That's, that's Nitzer Ebb, uh, trill, uh, uh- Bringing the world together, right? Yeah. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah, no. And they are honor- honorary Milwaukeeans. [laughs] But go on. After the fantastic show we saw. Yeah.
20:27
Yeah. Uh, ended up getting my Black Cancer T-shirt, which I'm very proud of- Cur-... 'cause I did it... I can't take it. Take a picture of that. I can't take a picture. I can't take a picture. I got, I got no damn phone.
20:35
You got no, you got no phone. We're talking about phones now. [laughs] This is the sound of JK getting his photo taken. Yes, this is me posing. Oh, yeah. [laughs] And that, my friends, is the sound of sex.
20:49
[laughs] Let me have it no other way. [laughs] Give it to me hard and fast. Ah. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Then slow it down and let me touch it. [laughs] Okay now, boys. All right then. Uh, no, and then on my way home,
21:06
uh, stopped off for a nightcap, and... Well, I don't have my backpack, so I, I may- Yeah, 'cause they won't let you take it into the venue. Right. Right. Right.
21:16
So I'm, I'm kinda just compartmentalizing everything into my bag and- Sorta free balling, kind of, sorta... yeah.
21:21
So I had my phone in my zipper upper pocket, but not zipped up, and okay, it, I've been imbibing a bit, and I did a little swerve and fall on my knee, and ah, shit. Boom.
21:37
Phone goes dinga-dinga-dinga-dinga-dinga. Little fucking kid, mm, picks it up, starts running away with it. You had a, and you- And I catch him, I, I catch up and then- Yeah, he's on a bike.
21:52
I mean, he's on foot and you're on a bike. Yeah. But then he jumps in car. Oh. So was he, was he casing you out or following you or- I guess. I don't know. I can't speak to, you know, what it was... you know. But
22:04
yeah, so it was a little bit of a head wringer, and I didn't, you know... Who knows what people have in their pockets- Yeah, for sure... these days. Right. Especially these days...
22:12
and I don't want to overstep- It's just a phone. Yeah, exactly. So- Uh, by the way, folks-... long story long, got it ba- or didn't get it back. Tracked it to where it is residing down the road.
22:26
Not far away from here, but- No, not at all... but not where you necessarily wanna go either. Yeah. Not, not the place you wanna knock on the door, ding, ding. Mm-hmm. "Hello. I believe you have me phone."
22:36
[laughs] I was just... Yeah, we were talking about- Boom... I was just thinking that like if- Castle law in effect there. [laughs]... like nobody, why are people stealing phones anymore or computers or anything? Yeah.
22:45
But if you can track your phone and then you take it upon yourself not to use the cops or just to go there and get it, maybe it's like a setup just to rob you the second time, 'cause they already got your phone. Maybe.
22:56
And now you're gonna show up, and you're gonna be like, "Where's my fucking phone?" Yeah. And they're gonna be like- Well, yeah. Well, and, uh-... "Oh, where's your fucking money?"
23:01
Are you gonna show up with a Gatling gun? My, my, my f- Uh, well, that would be when we get the Lloyd project going. Lloyd. We gotta get- Lloyd... TNT. Lloyd. Lloyd. Lloyd.
23:12
My, my first instinct was to, and then- Call Lloyd? [laughs] Yeah, well, there it, uh... You know what? I, I think that, that, that, like, that thought had even floated through there.
23:22
He had offered to clear blocks for me if I ever wanted to buy stuff in the undesirable areas, so I don't know that that would be totally politically correct, but you know. But I did find a very...
23:35
Well, and, and, okay, long story long again on this, is the, uh, you know, like oh shit, now I gotta, like... Of course I didn't have a screen lock on it, so- Oh, yeah... everything's open and blah, blah, blah, blah.
23:50
So I mean, it's just easier for me to play my music when I'm riding my bike. That is the actual only reason. Yeah, but- That's the only reason... yeah, but so that was gonna be my public service announcement, folks.
23:59
Uh, uh, lock your screen- Do it. Yeah... and use your freaking face- Yeah...
24:02
or your thumb to get into your phone, 'cause it's pretty easy now, and by cracky, your data's important to Google and Facebook and everybody else out there. [laughs] Right. Exactly.
24:11
I mean, you know, how are they supposed to make a living if everyone keeps their data consolidated? Right. I set up my, uh, I ca- But I was able-... I got my NAS working really well. Super happy- Yeah... with that.
24:23
Just trying to figure out how I can- Did you figure out how to plug it in? Well, I can actually run email server. I can do everything. Oh, yeah. You know, I mean, I'm like, I can do a WebDAV server off of it.
24:31
Is this the, the- The, the Synology Synology? Okay. Yeah, I just got- Okay, okay... so, okay, so I bought the smaller 220 Plus, it's, which is a RAID 1, so it's got two drives and redundant.
24:42
But now I'm thinking I need, like, a four drive one, so I can- That's why I'm just going four... run RAID 6 and be happy. Also, uh- Or RAID 5... the tech portion of this show is brought to you by, uh, Nerd Tony- Whoa...
24:53
and Nerd, uh, Sven. Mm-hmm. Uh, semi-nerd JK over there, but, uh, he's the one that didn't have his freaking screen lock. Exactly. Man, dude. But I did find something where in the Android world, um,
25:09
everything is based on the goo-goo. So once I figured out, hey, I don't have to change all my damn passwords, I can just lock it out remotely, boom, cool.
25:22
I can blow up all the, everything on that thing remotely, but I won't be able to track it. And option three, I can signal to noise five minutes of chirping. Even when the phone is actually off. Turned off. Right? Yes.
25:38
Yep. Yeah. Unless the battery's totally dead. Yeah, yeah. Okay. So yes, you got my phone, but I'm gonna get mine, man. I am gonna... I, there's got to... I have to get payback.
25:47
They should make that- And, and this is the way I can get payback [laughs]. Yeah. They should make that, like, 120 decibel noise- Mm... so that it, like, just, there's no way. It's like, what is that sound?
25:57
It'd be cooler if they could make it, like, 50 decibel, and then when you pick it up, it gives you an electric shock.
26:02
Yeah, that's, like, kind of like w- in the old car stereo days when we used to install car stereos, you'd, like, put, like, razors on the back of it, so when somebody tries to- Totally illegal, but yeah...
26:10
try to steal your radio, they'd reach in back- Yeah... and cut their fingers off. Yeah, whatever. Yeah. [laughs] Where is it now? Is it still over there? Oh, yeah. I don't know. We can call Lloyd.
26:25
He's right down the block [laughs]. 15th and Burleigh. Well- Oh, I thought it was 12th and Burleigh. Oh, that's still... It, it moved three blocks. Uh, I dunno. I don't know.
26:36
Tony, what's this latest email from Showers Pass shows models on e-bi- oh, it's not e-bike specific clothing. It i- no, it's not. It's not, but I thought- But-... it was really funny.
26:45
We were just talking about e-bike specific clothing last week, and then all of a sudden, my email feed has Showers Pass and- That's because you have an Android and Google's listening. Uh, well, f- Or you have a Google.
26:55
It's listening to you. Of course it is. I have five. They're, they're- Yeah... implanted in me. Yeah. You've been- Still not motherfucking magnetic, though. Well, that's good. Got my booster, still not magnetic.
27:05
Ooh, I get that. Well, that's another thing. I'm booster eligible. I'm so happy about that. Yeah. Hey, everybody, I don't care what you think about it, get your fucking shots. Jesus Christ. Arrogant Rogers. Okay.
27:14
Yeah, right. Where have you been- Oh, it's a-... for the past two fucking years [laughs]? Yeah, right. [laughs] Yeah, no, so- We're crawling out from a pandemic for fuck sake.
27:21
But I was, but after we talked about that before- Jesus... I was thinking about, like, really, there are some unique needs for e-bikers. Yeah, there are. First of all, you're not pedaling.
27:31
For most people, I mean, you and I and- The lazy fucks... we, we use it as a, an e-bike assist. Right.
27:38
But I just saw several people today, they pull away from the sign, three or four pedals to get going, and they just lay on the throttle. So really, it's more like motorcycle clothing. Right.
27:48
'Cause w- when you're working hard and you're pedaling, you're getting warm, and you don't need that. You need wind protection and water protection. When you're a slacker on an e-bike.
27:56
Then you need, like, a snowmobile suit. Although I think- And with, with, with elbow guards and, like, a back brace... wait, uh, wait, we're making some assumptions here.
28:02
Well, with all the idiots getting run over in LA and stuff, what about- Okay... what about getting back braces and, uh, elbow pads and knee pads built in? Because you're making one huge, huge stretch here.
28:15
These are the people that are gonna actually ride their bikes in the winter, and they're not. Well, I don't know. Some people- Maybe on a nice day...
28:22
some people can't drive their cars in the winter 'cause they done got them license taken aways. Well, there's that, and if those people, those people will not spend money to look cool and- Yeah, they-...
28:32
stay warm in the winter- Well, they'll get the Carhartt-... even though they look like a bitch... from Fleet Farm probably- Right, exactly... or something. Exactly. Maybe Carhartt should look into this. Yeah.
28:38
I'm just thinking, like, when you fall down with a cotton Carhartt, like a, a onesie Carhartt thing, it's gonna wear through. But if it had some Kevlar in there, it wouldn't wear through and you'd be fine.
28:48
I'd have to fall a few times with a Carhartt. It's pretty freaking strong. Yeah, two. And there's the e-bike. [laughs] And that, my friends- Is the-... is the picture of e-bikes... is e-bike.
28:59
One in the arse, one in the moof [laughs]. Oh, boy. Okay, so hey, okay, okay, okay.
29:05
So hey, so coming up next week, hopefully, I'm pretty sure George or Matt from Broken Spoke, week after that, Amelia, so we'll have a lot more interesting stuff to talk about and, uh- What about Cranksgiving?
29:15
I don't even know when that is. Oh, I thought it was- Is it... I don't have it on the calendar. Okay. So it's not happening. I, I, I forgot about it too then. Well, it's, someone should get it on the calendar then.
29:23
Urban Jungle Cross? Urban Jungle Cross, November 27th, which is the Saturday after Thanksgiving, uh, along with the Yukon Fat Bike Rally up there in Whitehorse in case you're up that way.
29:35
Uh, and then of course, weekend after that, Cycle- Santa Cycle Rampage. Rampage. Cranksgiving is tomorrow. Oh. Oh. Well. The 20th. What? How would it be tomorrow? It's a Thursday. No. Oh, that's Saturday. Right. Right.
29:50
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, showtime. I see what he did there [laughs]. Right? [laughs] God, hell, I even missed that one. Whoo, man. Super, super, super JK on that one. Yeah, dude, you were butterflying it on that one.
30:00
Um, that's a fun one. I, I do love Cranksgiving then. And it's also for a good cause- It is. It is... 'cause for getting food for peoples that, uh, don't have no foods. Oh, yeah.
30:10
And, uh, I don't know, if you had a cargo bike, you could probably get a lot- Mm-hmm... a lotta points doing that, riding around city of... There's, that's, like, nationwide now. Yes, it is. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm.
30:20
Pretty awesome. Cranksgiving, I guess, is the, uh, tomorrow thing. Yep. Yep. It looks like it's starting at the Daily Bird. Oh, there you go. I got a daily bird for you [laughs]. You want me to churn it up?
30:35
I have some- [laughs] Oh, I found this in my pocket for you. Mm. Oh, yeah. There you go. All right. Well- Thank God we managed to fill another half hour of your ear holes and, uh, I don't know.
30:48
I actually thought it was [laughs] rather entertaining myself. [laughs] You guys, I brought snacks, and I'm not... Anyway, the show's not ending, but we're gonna snack. Well, we're gonna...
30:55
Yeah, we're gonna eat the snacks. We're gonna snack. Let's eat the snacks. Post pod. We got... We still have beer. We still have 30 beers left, so, uh, not sure we'll drink them all today, but- 33, don't we?
31:04
Well- 'Cause we only had three. Yeah, I know. I lied Two beers That dogfish head was good. All right, everybody. I know. Uh, look, look, I hope it's George.
31:11
I mean, Matt was cool to- I talked to him today, but, uh, George is the- Matt Bear Pig... I think came... By the way, s- the, uh, the, uh, Snow Crown series,
31:19
I think the Shell Track race, which is the first one, has been going on for 10 years now. I think it might even be more. Yeah, I think it's 10, but I'm...
31:27
He, he, he wants to call it the longest running fat bike race in the country. I'm gonna go with that until somebody else- It might, he might be right... until somebody else calls in and corrects me because- Yeah.
31:35
Right... hey, if you think you have a race that's been going more than 10 years, call in- All right... and let us know about it, but I kinda doubt it. 'Cause that's a really fun race, too.
31:44
And it's a, it's a great race course. Yeah. It's super fun. Uh, yeah, the, the... If you're in anywhere- And-... near Wisconsin, that would be something to go to.
31:52
And because it's Mantwonk, it could be, like- Man-twonk... 70 and, and sunny riding in a brook, or it could be 10 below and in the snow. Yeah, and if, if Lon- Just crazy heavy weather...
32:03
if Lonze is still out of town working in California, it'll be awesome. Yeah. Stay in California, motherfucker. [laughs] Stay in California, Dave. Peace.
32:13
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