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Full Spectrum Cycling 315 – Riverwest 24 Recap – Daikaiju – Atari Watch – Punk Rock Rummage
Jul 31, 2025
Full Spectrum Cycling 315 – Riverwest 24 Recap – Daikaiju – Atari Watch – Punk Rock Rummage
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0:01
All right then, let's do it.
0:03
[upbeat music] Yeah, man Hey, man It is full spectrum cycling.
0:22
This is show 315. Wow. Yeah, 315. Ides of March, my dad's birthday. Oh, right on. Uh, but- I didn't even look that up... yeah, it's, it's- I just didn't... yeah. No, we're not in March right now, though. No, no. Gotcha.
0:36
But 315. Awesome. Uh, weekends were made for having fun. Oh-ho. Did we have fun last weekend? I f- yeah, yeah. The body is telling me so. Yeah, right? I, uh. Uh-oh. Oh, there they are. The crickets?
0:53
The little crickets, they were there. Oh, yeah. They're gone now. Oh. Uh, yeah, yeah, yeah. River West 24 was this past Friday/Saturday. I am very glad the way it turned out. I had- I gotta, I gotta-...
1:08
no obligations at all. Yeah, I gotta, I gotta find a, a happy medium in between the no obligation at all and the internal doing it solo obligation. Probably more self discipline. Sounds like a team.
1:23
Sounds like you wanna be on a team. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. [laughs] No. As soon as I say that, it never works out. The, you, well, never works out, to, to me, in my head.
1:34
[clears throat] I made a valiant effort Friday night not to imbibe too much in the beer, you know, festivities area, and it worked pretty well for the most part. I d- I did get tired, though, so I,
1:49
I happened to take a nap right about the time it rained. That was pretty fortuitous. Ah, uh-huh. Uh, but yeah, otherwise pretty much 36 hours of being awake again.
1:59
Yeah, I, uh, I stayed up for the, the bill shift over at, excuse me, over at, uh, Husky from 3:00 to 6:00 for the sunrise- Yep, yep... type thing, which was fun.
2:14
It was, uh, Kevin and Jim Bay View, Bay Viewians. I probably should have remembered, that was basically at the same time as the checkpoint in Martin's basement. Right.
2:25
I made a, a pit stop, and I was just like, "Well, I, I'm, uh, I'm- Did you go down into the- No. No, no, no... the void of hell down in there? Well, it was, you know- I was on my way.
2:34
I was like, "I gotta go home and just take a nap." Yeah. And I did, and then- I, I did after that, basically. The, the guys from Floor Model were kind of... They were hosting it, but it was basically
2:45
you come in there and you bang on some instruments for a couple of minutes, and- Mm-hmm... you know, some of the stuff sounded all right. I got a few...
2:51
There'll, there will be at some point some video of it which I captured. Uh, uh, unfortunately, my plan to do a lot of video...
3:01
Well, I did do a lot, but a lot of it was just from the bike, and you're like, "Yeah, well, you know, there's about a minute or two- Mm-hmm... of good stuff in that 20 minutes of riding." Right.
3:10
So I, I didn't wanna sit there, 'cause I just went through all the Bikes, Boats and Goats video stuff we did last weekend. And, uh, so I, I used, uh, Insta360, uh- Mm...
3:23
uh, those guys have an app that will AI edit for you. Mm-hmm. Not, not too bad, really.
3:29
It's like it took 17 minutes and compressed it down into two minutes, and it picked out some good stuff from that, which s- saved me from having to watch 17 minutes worth of stuff to pick out stuff. So I don't know.
3:42
I'm g- I'm, I'm not necessarily saying I'm gonna fully rely on their AI stuff, and then it throws some music at it, and they only have about, I don't know, 30 or 40.
3:53
So pretty soon all your stuff's gonna sound the same if you find the one thing you like. But I just thought it was worth kind of seeing what it would do. Uh,
4:02
besides hiring editors, uh, probably pretty inexpensive these days, if you can find them. Probably overseas, I would imagine. Over there.
4:12
But, uh, you know, as far as the, uh, the video stuff, the, uh, Bikes, Boats and Goat, I, I did do... I think we had about, I had about four-plus hours, and I'm not gonna s- [laughs] Oh...
4:23
sub- subject someone to four hours of just, you know, riding on the beach. Uh, that was over four days, though. Um- Which way do we go? Yeah. Yeah. Uh, [laughs] I forgot my bike. Yeah, yeah.
4:34
Uh, so I, I compressed it down to about an hour of s- mostly watchable stuff, but then I also chopped it up into four days, so it's, you know, it's bite-sized pieces. Right on.
4:44
Uh, there were some interesting stuff, some good visuals. I do need to work on the audio.
4:50
As, as good a job as we do in the studio, I think, the audio on the road is harder to do, and I didn't get my fancy new thing before we left on the trip, so I couldn't use it. B- b- but my m- Yeah, so-...
5:03
I would, you know-... me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me... I'm gonna put, I'm gonna put one per day up on fatbike.com, and, you know- [laughs]... watch them or don't. Don't complain about the audio.
5:11
I already know, and if some- I have just told you... if some clown asks about it that doesn't, you know, listen to the show, then it's like, you think I don't hear that? [laughs] You think I'm deaf? You know? Stop it.
5:25
Oh. [laughs] Did you take a photo of that yet? No. No, no. We gotta have a, gotta have a photo. Yeah. Michael got his Atari- My Atari toy... 2600 watch. Did you just get it today? Monday.
5:42
Oh, okay, so you've had a chance to r- run it through its paces a little bit? Yeah, yeah. The band didn't want to, uh, stay on. It's a little remedial. I mean, it's just, it's a clever, it's a, a clever thing- Uh-huh...
5:54
more than... It, it just- More than a, a useful thing? Kind of. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's got a good pedometer and heart rate monitor and calorie counter, whatever the frick that does, actually.
6:05
But there's really no storage to it. Plus you already smashed your wise watch up, right? Oh, yes. Okay. Yeah. So this is the repla- hello. Boing. Boing. Hello. I wonder how I did that.
6:17
You know, how, [laughs] how did I break up that thing too? So it's kind of the replacement for the pedometer and, but it doesn't, like, keep a record of it because there's no WiFi, there's no Bluetooth.
6:30
Oh, you can't tap it into your P.ON? Mm, no. Okay. That's... It, it's like just a self-contained unit. Gotcha.
6:37
But it doesn't house any storage or data, so it's like you have to pay attention to how many steps you did that day. I don't pay any attention to steps even though my stuff does remember it.
6:48
[laughs] I just, out of curiosity, you know? I mean, that's what I dig about the Wise one where it was, "Hey, it can do da, da, da. Hey, how many did I do yesterday? Whoa, 17,000. That's insane." Yeah.
6:59
That's, that's a good, that's a good chunk of walking. I'm at 9,000 today. 9069. 9069. Nice. Steps. 10,000 or 1,000 steps away from that 10,000 goal. The,
7:16
uh, a- and this one defaulted to 5,000. Oh. Actually, I can do that simply. Good. Yeah. So. By getting out of the chair and going to the television. [laughs] Pretty much.
7:28
Good thing I didn't get it over the weekend because there wasn't a lot of moving around after, [laughs] after the 24. Uh- But it's hard to keep it on, like, one... I like that face. Oh, yeah.
7:38
But it kinda wants to change all the time. Is that, uh... Yeah. To that. Mm-hmm. And then it's like, oh, they got the Centipede and the Missile Command. Mm-hmm. The old-timey, the old-timey covers.
7:48
I like the, I like the original Atari look. Yeah. And I, I like the- Okay... the little wood paneling. Wood. And it's got the Centipede if you wanna flip it around. 1983.
7:58
And then they came with another one, I think- What?... for Missile Command. I don't know. 1983, I was, uh, 19 or 20 years old. And still playing Centipede, of course, because, well, started playing Centipede.
8:09
Well, and the Centipede game on this one just keeps going. It just, it fires for you, and you just have to move your little dude back and forth, and forth and forth- Mm-hmm... and back.
8:17
So it's remedial 2600 games- Sure... as remedial as the 2600 games were. Right. Yeah, so it's more of a slider and a button. Yeah. Missile Command is probably the most in- involved one. It looked... I, I saw it briefly.
8:32
It looked pretty good. Yeah. Breakout, or Super Breakout mind you.
8:36
For some reason, Garrett today was asking what we did when we cleaned the basement out, and where did we put the Wii games because they haven't been used in years.
8:46
[laughs] I, uh, apparently he wanted some nostalgia, so it's like I- [laughs] Wendy knew where they were, so he got to have his friends over there and play Wii remembering their- Wii...
8:56
remembering their youth these many five years [laughs] and six years ago. The video game exercise machine-ish- Oh, yeah... kinda thing... yeah, yeah, that's right. They did have the, the...
9:05
I remember at my mom's, where she lives, it's a assisted liv- Yeah... well, she lives in an apartment, assisted living. There's, you know, um, uh, out the back door and the whatever.
9:13
Uh, but they had a Wii, and then there was one dude there that just kept keeping it in his room. He wouldn't bring it back. [laughs] And he was like 85. It's like he's just a curmudgeon though.
9:22
He's like, "I'm not giving it back." No. No, no, no. [laughs] You have to come and play tennis in my room. Yes. We're bowling- [laughs] Yeah, bowling in this house, or in this room.
9:31
I went out to her place on, uh, Monday, got some plants she wanted to give me. That was nice. Uh, but yeah. Oh, and w- and, uh, I think I mentioned it maybe about the tree.
9:44
Did I mention the tree in memory of my sister, or... My sister passed away a while back, and my mom wanted a tree. And she wanted a tree... It's actually a shrub, but there's a tree version called the Rose of Sharon.
9:58
And, uh, we went to Stein/Hawk's Nursery, and they hadn't, they hadn't come in yet in May or whatever because it's a late blooming thing. Whatever. I learned more about them than I really wanna know.
10:09
[laughs] But then, uh, around the time when they were supposed to be coming into the garden centers, I... was like June, mid-June or something, I decided to go out to Miner's- Right, yeah... on 76th Street.
10:22
Uh, found a ton of them, very nice looking. Uh, these things don't actually bud until, like, right around now, uh, or even in, into, uh, into August and September. Uh, but the...
10:34
Well, it's lucky we waited because they were, like, one-third to one-quarter the price as they were at the other nursery. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Yeah. I mean, Miner's is huge. They're r- way into the, you know, the, uh,
10:48
not corporate, what do you call it?
10:49
You know, they got a corporate side of the selling stuff to big landscape companies and stuff, and apparently we reap the benefits of all that volume because I picked one up, threw it in the van, took it over there, and her groundskeeper guys that are at the place she's at planted it.
11:03
Going great. First flower came out the other, couple days ago, big old, like, reddish pink. Beautiful. Beautiful. Nice. Yeah. Miner's
11:13
was my, one of my babysitters growing up, Mary Miner, and then she ended up being, uh, my, uh, high school teacher at Pius. Wow. Huh. Yeah. Current, current, uh, current, current events in, in the history program.
11:27
Right on. 35th anniversary, 35th anniversary, 35th year anniversary or reunion. That's the word I'm looking for. Of your- High schooling... graduation? Yeah. This year. Yeah. Well- Fun, fun, fun...
11:39
have you remembered everything you learnt back then? Eh, I don't know. I'm gonna stop at left's. I mean, they're doing a in- you know, the informal one.
11:50
I'm not gonna go on, "Hey, let's do the, uh, golf outing and the go to the..." I don't know. Yeah, no. I'm not...
11:56
That's, you know, Charwood does that stuff too, and I went to the first one I'd gone to in whatever it was. But 35 is, like, one of the hot years, you know? Oh. It's not like, "Oh, hey, it's the 32nd year."
12:07
Oh, yeah, pfft. Whatever. That's like the Harley m- it's like the Harley thing that came through- Sure... a couple weeks ago. It's like, well, it's the 127th. I mean, are we really cer- whatever the number is. Right.
12:17
Are we really- Yeah. Why don't you wait till the 130th, and then the 150th will be the big thing. And then, you know, the company'll probably go under before that- [laughs]... I would imagine.
12:25
Yeah, they- But- Yeah, uh, they, they took over the Veterans Park big time. I mean, they were, they were building that out for a couple weeks ahead of time.
12:35
I don't know how I feel about all that, and the air show taking over the entire lakefront with all their b- paid for seating and stuff, and it's like- Ah, it should've been...
12:42
I w- I thought it was gonna be- This is for the masses... on the same, I thought it was gonna be on the- This is for the masses... same damn weekend, and I'd been fine with that. Yeah.
12:48
Get it all out of the way at one time. Get all of it. All of it. All Mm. Yes. Noise, noise, noise. Noise, noise, noise. [laughs] You're not gonna read it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 15 bucks. Oh, boy. Uh- Yeah...
13:02
did you- Like, every time you hear 15 bucks, you hear that. << Little man, put that shit right in my hand. >> << In my hand. >> << If that money doesn't show you owe me, oh, we owe. My jungle. >> Mm-hmm.
13:13
[clears throat] What's th- that's the Mad Note. [coughs] [laughs] Uh, did you make it to either of Mike McAbee's shows? No, I didn't, damn it. I do not recall seeing you at either one. No, no, no, no.
13:23
Uh, so that was one- That's the other thing, yeah, I know... well, that's one of the things that I would probably have changed or will change next year even, 'cause I want Mike to come back, 'cause he's fun.
13:33
I would like it if he would come Friday and not do a show, and then do a Saturday morning show, 'cause that was pretty cool at Uptowner.
13:41
But I didn't w- I mean, I didn't feel obligated, but it was kinda fun just to sit there- Yeah...
13:45
and then it was, you know, two and a half hours are gone out of my 24 because I was sitting inside and outside of that place watching his show. And,
13:54
you know, he doesn't come, uh, he, he may come through one other time a year or so. Um, and he brought, uh, he had a, an Excelsior, uh, m- I'll stay leading... an Excelsior bicycle from a long time ago.
14:08
It were, we're not, I'm not sure when it's from. Pre-war, I would say. Um, and he did, uh, ride around town on that, and had some, you know, good things to say about all the things he saw.
14:19
But, uh, yeah, I, I would not spend... And then another, uh, maybe hour and a half at the Uptowner show on Saturday because all the Iowa people were there and, and a bunch of them know him because he's from Iowa.
14:30
Right, right. Yeah. So these are all the people that are staying at Tony's house, which by the way is where- Oh, yeah... where this thingy-majigger came from. Let's, uh, let's ring the bell- Oh...
14:39
so I can- Because that- I'll take it off and you can talk about the beer, and then I'll talk about the, uh, this, the slap koozie or whatever they call this thing. Yep. Yeah. Distil Brewery. Brewery. Brewery.
14:53
It's from Normal, Illinois. We've had this once before in the, uh- I've been down to Normal. Bloomington-Normal area. Yeah. You know, I saw this over at, uh, the casino at the sewer many years ago,
15:04
and I think that's when I had grabbed it. So it's a West Coast style IPA. It's, it's good. Deadhead IPA. 7%, which is a little heavy.
15:13
I mean, it does kinda drink that, but it's not- Like the bold colors and patterns of a tie-dye shirt, this West Coast style IPA is bursting with psychedelic hoppiness, fruity aromas, and balanced bitterness from Citra, Simcoe, and Chinook hops with a vintage malt backdrop.
15:31
Cheers. Yeah. I- I was looking for a little more d- deadhead vibe... and it's not b- it's not too burpy. Not yet. No. No. And it's in the kick-ass black cans. I do, I don't know, I have a thing for black cans. Mm.
15:40
Like Foggy Geezer and a few of the other ones that are in an all-black can. For sure. For sure. [clears throat] Ah. Yeah, that's good stuff. So I don't know what the deal with these things is.
15:52
Apparently they're called slap somethingies. Slap koozies. Slap, slap koozie. Something of that nature. Anyway, the Iowa fellas, I think, uh, Jason gave this to me.
16:01
Peace in Grease from Goldfinch Cyclery, which I believe is in Cedar Falls, or it could be Cedar Rapids. I'll have to look that up. It's one of the Cedars. It's Cedar somewhere in, uh, in central Iowa, and they were,
16:16
they were kind enough to bring that along. I think they were on the RAGBRAI for a little bit. The RAGBRAI went, uh- It's a-... hit, hit a little Minnesota I hear...
16:24
yeah, yeah, and I don't know if the, there was- Tim West, uh, made a notice- [laughs]... of that on the Face Place. Yeah. And, and like, no, not the first time ever. I do believe there was one year before.
16:35
Um, Tim's been doing it as long as it's been done, I think. Right. I don't know if he's still- I, yeah, I would trust his wisdom and- Right... documentation of it... I don't know. Two people perished in the heat
16:44
at least. Did they? Literally- Oh, shit... perished. Um, I don't know if any of them were unlucky enough to have done so in Minnesota though because wouldn't that be ironic? Mm-hmm. You know? It's like, oh.
16:57
Oh, dun, dun, dun. I don't know. I mean, there's a lot of... Well, a lot of people pass away when it's 106, uh, heat index. Uh, one, a fella, uh, passed away on the Wausau 24 this year too. No shit. Yeah. Really?
17:10
I didn't hear about that. Yeah. So, you know, I don't... Hey, folks, A, hydrate, B, know your limits, C, don't ride when it's 106 heat index out there if you don't have to.
17:20
Um, but- Or at least have a hydration destination. Yeah, that's been so... Yeah. I guess I, I- 'Cause I did that a couple, like, weeks ago. It's like, "I should not go out in the world, but I do wanna stop at..."
17:33
And someone's playing music- Sure... over on that Uptowner, and they weren't. [laughs] No. So there was no damn good payoff of it. Uh, yeah.
17:43
Maybe it's 40 beers worth, and drinking water beer in Iowa, you hydrate enough possibly, 'cause I ne- I don't know, I never had a problem with it. But I, anyway, it's worth noting that, um, heat can kill, folks. Mm-hmm.
17:54
That's what I'm saying.
17:55
And, um, we did get, we did get the three minute, I think, maybe there was an extra minute or two at the beginning, but we had Mike McAbee was on it for a few days before he came here for the show and the 24, and he did his three-minute thing.
18:08
So if you get a chance, uh, listen to his, m- m- my, heh, interview with him. It, it is on Full Spectrum Cycling. I also threw it up on Fatbike.com just 'cause, you know, I did. But it's, it's worth a listen, I think.
18:22
He's, he's a very entertaining individual, even notwithstanding his show, which is pretty entertaining. Mm. He's just broadly knowledgeable and- Yeah... and yeah...
18:31
I wanted to hit the, I wanted to hit the morning, uh, Uptowner show, but- I didn't- Yeah... I did not arise until about the noon, noon 30. Oh, oh. That's a good long one. Yeah. Well, it was, eh, about 7:00.
18:44
Yeah, it was a good five-hour- I, well, I-... nap... I would... We could go in the other room. I don't have it set up anymore, but I brought my, my kick-ass Nemo air mattress, which on the Michigan trip, it was...
18:55
It's, it's, like, this big and that tall. It's like, it's not compact at all, and it doesn't weigh nothing either. I th- it probably weighs three pounds, and I'm like, "Ah, I could have taken a lighter sleeping pad."
19:06
And then when I got it set up and I'm on it, I'm like, "No way I'm gonna save a pound not to have this." Yeah. That's not for gram shaving. No. No way. It was... It's like a twin bed size thing. Hmm.
19:17
But it's also insulated, so if it's cold out and blah, blah, blah. I didn't use it one night. The second night I didn't even take out my sleeping bag or that, 'cause it was like 72 degrees or something.
19:26
[laughs] And we were on sand. I'm like, "Ooh." Ooh. "This is kinda like sleeping in a beanbag chair." [laughs] So it was, it was really nice, uh, not to, to worry about that, and I had the, the contingency plan. Mm-hmm.
19:38
Uh, you'll see that in, uh, I think day two or day three once I get the- [coughs]... once I get the boat, bike, bikes, boat, and goats- Boat, bike... uh- Bike, bike... thing up on the old, uh... You'll see.
19:47
I did a little interview in the tent of myself. I'm like, "Hi, you. How you doing?" I'm like, "Hey, how's it going? Oh, pretty good. How you doing?" [laughs] How very Megadeth of you. "Hello, me. It's nice to meet me."
19:57
[laughs] Wow. Wow. Shazow. Um, right on. Uh, so yeah, Jinxx, so Jinxx:ie at Chill on the Hill. How was that? Yeah. That was fun. Uh, I, it's a three-piece. It always has a very kinda Go-Go's- Right... kinda cru- crust.
20:10
Two, two women, two, two guys and a g- and a two gals and a guy. Exactly. Sorta Three's Company-like. Yeah. And the drummer looks... Every time reminds me of Nomad Sam. And this time more n- Come and knock on our door...
20:23
mo- more so, 'cause he had the Hawaiian shirt on- Oh... and the hat and the long hair, and, uh, it was just, it- We'll be waiting for you... I can't get my head away. It... Like, once I...
20:31
'Cause I'm always focusing on percussion, if I can. Sure. You know. Where the kisses are hers and hers and his. His. Three's Company, two. Okay. Ba-da, da-da. Da-da, da. There you go. But yeah.
20:43
Um, and they reinforce it with the... Like, you know, people are like, "Encore." "Uh, no, no. We're done. We're done." And then it's like, "No, no, no." Then, and then sometimes...
20:54
This was, like, an actual, like, "Oh, shit. Okay. We'll do one more song." 'Cause it's- 'Cause normally a lot of those are just so programmed into people. Like, no, this is a, okay, fake, fake walk off.
21:07
Come back for more. Okay. One Mississippi, two. Let's just do this... Okay, this is our last song now. Okay. You know. More, more, uh...
21:14
I gotta bring Mike up again, just because in, during the interview I asked him, it's like, "What can people expect when they go to a Mike Mackeby show? Is it, is it, like, always the same show?" He goes, "No."
21:26
[laughs] It's like, he, because he's one guy, he doesn't have to, you know, they don't have to play together. You know what I... You know, it's like they don't do songs.
21:34
He does songs, but he doesn't have to- It's all requests. I mean, well- He doesn't have to do them in order. Right. He doesn't have to do them, eh. He can interact with the crowd. He can interact with the venue.
21:42
He can interact with the city. And, uh, no two shows are the same, so you should, you should feel privileged. Yeah. It's like a show just for you. I'd... Go see Mike. He's, he's all over the Midwest. He's in Wisconsin.
21:55
He's in Iowa. He's in, you know... Yeah, Kansas. And you can try- Kansas... to stump the chef. I thought I could, but I didn't. Oh, no. It's on the playlist now. Oh, Muel Skinner is? It's on the playlist. Oh. Yeah.
22:05
Well, I feel like I've accomplished something in my life then. Yeah, yeah. It was, it was... I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. He- 'Cause it wasn't, it wasn't the last time he was in town. [laughs] No, he was...
22:11
Somebody, uh, somebody asked him for a song, and he was like, "Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-ding-ding-mm-mm-mm, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah." Whatever it was, he was like- "Come and knock on my door"... "Yeah, I got this one.
22:20
I got this one." [laughs] Give me the Three's Company theme. [coughs] So we did talk about Daikaiju today? No, we didn't. Did we? Uh, they attacked.
22:31
They attacked, uh- I think, I think we were talking about the, uh- Oh, we-... the ride. Oh, the couple of- The, the potential of the ride. A couple days ago they were here in Milwaukee. They attacked Milwaukee.
22:41
They attacked. Go. Uh, and I was like, "Eh, I'm so tired," because the weekend was rough and Monday was, like, recovery day. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And I was like, "Well, if I can get a magic carpet ride, I'll go."
22:55
You got a magic carpet ride. And then Jessica Toleman from Riverwest 24, you know, organizing crew people, had two free tickets, and she's like, "You want the tickets?" I'm like- No shit. Oh, yeah...
23:06
"Yeah, I'll take the tickets, too." And then I got the magic carpet ride, and then it, it's sort of out of my hands at this point. Mm-hmm. So, uh, good thing I didn't ride down there though, because they didn't get done.
23:16
It... So I figured out how X-Ray Arcade works now, is that if it's an all ages show, they have to be done by around 11:00. Yeah. Yeah.
23:23
If it's a 21 plus show, which this was, because maybe because of Cult of Nasty because- Oh, yeah... those, those guys are kinda nasty. I love them. Oh, it was fun. And they're, they're, they're just hilarious.
23:33
Yeah, I got- Did you- I got baptized... oh. I got baptized. And, oh, did you get the hymnal? I got the hymnal. All right. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I should have brought the hymnal. Um, uh, yeah.
23:42
W- I was, it was requested that I got nastatized. Uh, but they didn't finish until around 12:30. So if I had ridden down there, that would be a 3:00 AM return to home. Yep, yep. Oh, yeah. And also I would've been...
23:55
Yeah. So I'm glad that- Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah... I'm glad I took the opportunity to ride down with, uh, with Wiley Coyote and Erica. Yeah. Last time I rode down there was with the, uh, purple Huber build.
24:09
Oh, wow. And that was a slog. Did it, did it go this way on the way home? [laughs] Uh, it... Well, yeah. I, I... Yeah. Well, it w- yeah, it was about... Mm-mm-hmm. I made a stop h- uh, you know. You have to lily pad.
24:24
Sure. But if it's 1:30 in the morning on a Monday, there are- Well, it-... there are less pads to lily upon. Oh, exactly. And I, I mean, I'm oblivious to this because I- Yeah... I'm like, "I don't know. I
24:53
I am taking umbrage- Yeah, you're the guy that's get-... with your tone... kicked out of the bar right now. That's who you are. Never kicked out, only asked to leave. All right, Queensryche at State Fair. We'll- No.
25:04
No... we'll, we'll blow over that one. But what about- Well, well-... Great White and, and Quiet Riot? [laughs] No. Here's the damn problem with, uh, any of...
25:12
Uh, uh, uh, because they're trying to make their model Summerfest-y. Yeah. No, I get it.
25:18
Where it's like, oh, yeah, yeah, you could be on the premises for the free stages and whatever, uh, and that's the paid, uh- Yeah... whatever. It's been that way for a while. It still annoys the shit out of me.
25:30
I haven't been to the fair in over, at least 20 years, I bet. Yeah, like every five years. It's only- Or so...
25:36
because it's just- I will show up if I have a free ticket or if a, a thingamajiggy- And it's 75 degrees and it's not humid and- And that's a hard sell...
25:45
that's just, yeah, it, you're not gonna- I do appreciate that they just- [laughs] It's too Wisconsin... I, I appreciate that they keep it all days of a week. Yeah. You know, they don't break it up. Nope.
25:53
They're not trying to- That's good... do that part of the Summerfest model.
25:55
You know how y- can you imagine with the cows, chickens, horses, rabbits, all those animals that are performing there every day, what they would do if they had to come back every weekend and then go home and come back and go home and come back?
26:04
Oh, yeah. Revolt. No, they'd be like- Like Animal Farm- Yeah... Watership Down. Yeah. Just like, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa." Nope. "We're gonna go nuts." You guys are out of your minds. We're not coming- Yeah...
26:11
back to this shithole. We're gonna start communicating with the bees. What? Time to organize and take over. Yeah. All the 4-H kids would be like- [laughs]... "I got summer school. I got blah, blah, blah.
26:20
I have, uh, ax carving." Although there is some hilarious shit unintended to m- at least to my humored eye. [laughs] I, I like, I like look in, I'm like, "Okay, what's going on here? Okay, they're walking cows in,
26:33
in, in, in, in, in, in, in like dress gowns." Oh. Walking cows in dress gowns. Do they have like a drag show for cows? I don't know. It was really weird and I... Yeah, I know. So yeah, there is an, a definite...
26:51
I'm not even gonna say subculture. I mean, a culture that I, I'm just not aware of. Well, that's your, that's your rural culture there, sir. Mm-hmm. All right, so this is on my phone. I'm just a city boy. It didn't sync.
27:02
That's what my, my, my country cousin called me. Didn't sync last night either. "Michael's just a city boy." This is weird. Okay, um, I just saw this today before the show. Levis Mound Free Fall Fest.
27:15
Look at that artwork. Do you think that's AI maybe? Definitely, but it's cool. But it's cool. Um, Levis Mound Trail, September 19th and 20th, 2024. Uh, I don't know much more about it, but I will find out more about it.
27:29
I would s- assume it's a Steve Merette, um, powered event 'cause he's up there and he's kind of the custodian of the area. But I will endeavor to persevere. No, no. That, uh- [laughs] Sure. Why don't you? Yeah.
27:43
Well, it's, uh- Yeah, endeavor to persevere... it's- Don't we all? It's not for eating, it's for looking for. Through, looking through. What did you, what did you... For- Whatever. It's the Outlaw Josey Wales.
27:53
It's the Indian and I will endeavor to persevere is what Abraham Lincoln said to the, to him when he was the king, the, the, the chief of all Indian tribes or something like that. [laughs] Whoa. All right.
28:04
I will endeavor to perse- it's in Outlaw Josey Wales. Just check the movie out. You'll hear the line and you'll appreciate that I- Oh, and speaking of Jinxy, and I see in here, the Punk Rock Rummage Sale.
28:14
Yes, I did s- On Saturday. Yeah. I might- That's here at, uh- Yeah... Falcon Bowl, which I appreciate a lot more now that- So Wendy, Wendy from Jinxy is the organizer of that. Oh, that's the Wendy. Okay. Yeah. So.
28:25
Yep, makes more sense now. And so I was like- But, um... ♪ Da, da, da, da, da, da, da ♪ Uh, i- in your cycling news, uh, mm- ♪ Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo ♪ So the tour's over. Uh, I finished 69,900- Nice...
28:38
and first with 12,277 points. To be fair, the winner had 19,000 and some points, so in that spread of 66- or 70,000 people, there's not that much.
28:50
What they don't tell you is was that out of a million or out of five million or out of like- I d-... 70,000? I don't know. I- They don't tell you. I didn't go and look. I don't know.
28:59
I don't know how I- I didn't, I didn't enter it. I don't know. I only, I only offered it up- I don't know how I did... and I never entered. I think I did mediocre. Such a hypocrite. I'm a hypocrite.
29:06
Well, it was fun to pick, but, um, mm, I don't know if I'll do it again. You could be doing it for the, uh- I'll do it next year... Tour de France Femmes right now. Or I'll say it, I'll say I'll do it next year again.
29:17
[laughs] Just like last year? Yep. [laughs] Uh, we still have a- Whoopsie, poopsie...
29:21
well, I've got a pending sale, and I think hopefully it'll go through on the Copper Omnium MiniMax Acoustic, but I do have the electric Omnium MiniMax, uh, Galaxy Black Small that will be very soonly available.
29:35
Uh, and it would be awesome if you people would help out. We're, we're in a transition period here at the old studio/bike shop/uh, the things that are in my life and- Boutique...
29:47
shekels would not be unwelcome, thank you very much. Go buy something on Amazon that we get the link on our Facebook.
29:53
Go shop and find some stuff you need and use an affiliate link, and we get a couple bucks, and you don't pay any more and blah, blah. That said, I don't know how much longer I can fund this out of my own pocket.
30:05
So send me money, please. And, uh, I think- Full moon- Oh, yeah... coming up soon. It is, and I haven't made an event, so, um, maybe it's just if you know, you know. What do you think, uh, the timing of it though?
30:21
Well, the full moon starts to rise at about 8:30, and it peaks at about 1:00 something. So I'm thinking, you know,
30:28
we don't have to be out there when it peaks, but I'm thinking, you know, it doesn't even get dark till 9:00 something anymore. Right, right, right. So, um, yeah, yeah, maybe.
30:37
So just putting it in the hopper 'cause it's- I'm thinking meet up there at 7:00, mill about, you know, maybe have a beer at St. James Place or something and I, um, I can sleep in my van if I feel like staying up there.
30:49
I'm not making a big thing about Airbnbs and hotels. If you wanna stay up there, I recommend it Uh, and then we can do a, uh, we can do a, a, a s- a s- a bidiya, bidiya, Sunday morning- Bidiya, bidiya [laughs]...
31:01
uh, Sunday morning, uh, mimosa ride, which would be- Sunday morning mimosa ride... yeah, I would recommend staying up there. Sunday morning mimosa ride would be actually a really fantastic idea.
31:10
Whatever that Harbor View Hotel, motel. That thing is great. What, I haven't been there since they've, uh, like fully reopened, remodeled. Yeah.
31:18
I think the- Do they still have the ba- uh, the cool, uh, hot tub ba- uh- As far as I know... 'cause that- And, and you want- The hot tub they had there- What- As long as they didn't screw that up- Well-...
31:27
it had the perfect jets- Yeah... at the perfect position. Don't know. Well, you, and you want that fourth or fifth floor, like, um, southeast corner of the building- Mm-hmm...
31:35
because those rooms are pretty kickass on how they're laid out. For sure. Maybe, uh, maybe we just get one of those rooms and have a bunch of people in it. Right? Party, party, party. I better look into that.
31:44
I don't know. It's only a couple weeks away. Party, party. August 9th, Saturday night. Uh, plan on staying overnight and plan on mimosa-ing on Sunday morning, would be my guess.
31:54
Or bloody Caesar-ing And Shannon, because you didn't show up at the 24, maybe you should show up for the full moon beach ride. Shannon, I'm talking a-to you. To all of those. All those Shannons, baby.
32:09
Every Shannon in the world, man. Amen. All right. Well, uh- B- but- Thank gosh, golly we did it again, and, uh, next week we'll probably come back and do it.
32:21
Although, I do have some things to talk about next week about the future of what we might do down the road. Future. Kinda getting long in the tooth on this. Just so you know, we're not going anywhere.
32:31
I just got some ideas. [laughs] I'm full of, like, good ideas. Oh, I'm full of, I'm full of something. Well, it's the American Chopper I've been listening to, Paul Sr., "Yeah, I got a lot of good ideas." Yeah, you do.
32:43
Do, do, do, do, do. Okay, you stoop. Bye. Bye, Paulie.
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