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Full Spectrum Cycling 328 – Bob Weir’s 1990 Teesdale – Short Cranks – Food Experiments – Support Local
Jan 16, 2026
Full Spectrum Cycling 328 – Bob Weir’s 1990 Teesdale – Short Cranks – Food Experiments – Support Local
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0:00
Away we go.
0:03
[rock music] Hey, welcome to Full Spectrum Cycling.
0:21
This is show 328. 28? Oh, it did recharge itself. Okay, cool. It, it seems like last month was just 327 for some reason. My gosh. It's the, uh, it's the old crew. It's the JK, it's the Tony, it's the Sven.
0:38
It's the, uh, kick-ass Stanley beer steins. Thank you, Tony. That was a- Merry New Year, Xmas... merry Christmas New Year present from Tony. Happy beef jerky. Yeah, I don't know how to...
0:50
Okay, here, w- we're gonna do it like this. Yar. I just was watching, uh, Beowulf. Mm. Well, the weird CGI'd son of a gun- Mm... with Angelina Jolie as the mother of the Grendel.
1:07
It was- That's-... something... not something I've seen. Eh, it's, uh- I don't think... it's, it's kinda tough watching. It's like watching Polar Express. It's kinda got that kind of- That is hard...
1:16
it's got that kind of animation, so it's kinda unsettling to watch or- It's like quasi animation. Yes. It's like CG- Yeah... CG-I, CGA- Yeah... computer-generated- It's like you know-... animation... it's Angelina Jolie,
1:28
but Beowulf, I think the voice actor is, uh, uh, Ser Jorah from Game of Thrones. "Yes, Khaleesi." Ah, yes. That guy. It, it just, I, I think it's his voice, but there. Game of Thrones has been, it's a has-been show.
1:46
Wouldn't know. I'm trying to remember. Never watched it. Never watched it. Mm-hmm. Trying to remember. Although, Strongman Sam apparently hung out with that guy they call The Mountain. Yes, that is true.
1:55
He showed me a picture of him working out with that man. The third mountain, the biggest mountain. Apparently he lived- The mountain mountain. Yeah, apparently he lived in New Zealand for a minute. Could be.
2:04
Ta-da-da-da, yes. Well, in theory, I'm gonna go out and visit Wyatt to see what his MAV hunts are about, 'cause Sam keeps asking about that bike. Mm. In LA Cross?
2:16
Yeah, it's Bangor, which is a little bit this side of there. Problem is, I just went out that way the other day to go to Toma, so like, eh, it's a three-hour drive each way. Do I wanna make that whole six-hour trek or...
2:32
I tried to- I don't... I tried to- I don't, so have fun... I tried to go over to Decora and Chewy's like, "Yeah, don't bother. There's not a thing going on over here today." [laughs] So I was like, "All right.
2:41
Well, maybe next week I'll, I can make a Decora stop." [laughs] Sorry for my sucking sound as I enjoy my jerky. [laughs] Yes, we have the bison jerky today courtesy of, uh, Tony and Joe Nadalsky- Mm...
2:56
who has been on the show before, known as The Butcher. Ta-ta. Gosh darn. I love that man. Yeah. So a month since the last show, basically. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. We had Christmas. We had New Year's. Mm.
3:11
We had our New Year's Day ride- Mm-hmm... which for me, turned out to be a solo affair. It was really actually awesome. New Year's Day, no pants for me. No. [laughs] There you go.
3:19
Yeah, but not- Entire fucking day taking no pants... taking after the boy. But not- [laughs] You and I roll well... but not outside the house much. Just- I did not leave the house. Not much. Other than to the sauna.
3:30
[laughs] Yeah, much. See? Sa- sauna talk with Tony. [laughs] Well, and I'm a grandpa. Oh, that- Whoa... that happened too. Jesus. Holy mackerel. I jumped, jumped in line here, guys. Sorry. Jumped in line.
3:45
[laughs] Wowsers... with the grandpa. Oh, yes. Leave it. Uh, what's, what, what- It's like, it's like Benjamin Button kind of sudden... what's the, uh, what's the, the wee lad or wee lass- Silas... Silas. Silas.
3:55
Silas James. That's a good name. Got the same middle name as I do. Right on. Silas. Is that right? That's Daniel's playmate at work, at school now is Silas. That's awesome. With a Y.
4:05
It's just not a name you heard- Oh, no... in my generation much. With a Y. Okay. Had, had to be a little different- Of course... why not? Yeah. 'Tis the season, 'tis the generation to, you know- Cool name...
4:16
yeah, my na- my name is Michael and the Z is silent, you know, kind of thing. It's like, what? [laughs] Just had... [laughs] Yeah, I s- uh, I haven't actually ridden a lot of bike.
4:29
It's kind of been a weird not snowy winter time again and- I, I sent you guys that message that I took a, a break for, like, a week and a half, two weeks, and I got on my bike and I was a demon.
4:39
[laughs] Like, holy cow- Yeah... it's really fun to ride this bike right now and I- Well, depending on the steed, that is- Yeah... I would say. I mean- You must have, you must have needed the rest days...
4:46
oh, by the way, I, uh, today on my way to campus I channeled my inner Michael, and I had, I was riding my single speed and I came up to a big hill, and I'm like, "I gotta think Michael now," and I started- [laughs]...
4:57
sprinting for that hill, and it made that hill way- Hell yeah... very bearable. Exactly. I'm like, "I did it. Cool." Get it up- You get up there quick... you get about, you get about 66% up there and it's like, ah.
5:05
And then the rest of it's like, "Okay, I'll do it." All right, now I actually- Yeah, no, totally knew that... really have to pay attention and- Yep... so yeah. Right on. [laughs] Uh, so what's been going on around town?
5:19
I made a, I made a, I made a ham mold. Oh, yeah, that was good. The jambon persille. It was- Parsleyed ham... it was actually- It didn't taste-... very tasty. There is a- Yeah... there's a g- It's a texture thing...
5:31
there's a short jiggly video on my, [laughs] on my Facebook page if you want- Nice... see what it looked like... I made the broth as flavorful as I could. Nice.
5:39
And I didn't know if the gelatin would mute it or enhance it. I thought it was gonna be like a salt bomb and people- This-... would be, like, going, "Whoa, dude. Seriously, you trying to kill people here?"
5:50
[laughs] I was like- Is it good?... I was like, "Michael, what would it, what would it be like if we heated it up?" And he said, "Soup." Slap. Soup. [laughs] Slap. It'd be soup. It would be soup.
6:00
Did you ever melt Jell-O? Mm. It becomes soup. I- Soup... try to stay away from Jell-O. There's not much- Yeah... I really care for about it. Well, this is, I know, it was, I, I was using- Savory Jell-O, though.
6:10
That's different. It's weird. It was fun to do, just 'cause it was a, like, on a total dare. Yeah, and, uh, Sarah gave free beers to anybody that tried it Yeah. Nice.
6:20
If you have a slice, but it was hard to get a slice out. Like, I get slices. I'd have to over-gelatinize- I actually went back for seconds. It was pretty decent I did see that, yeah. And the drummer from the Wilson band.
6:29
Mostly 'cause there's a shit ton of ham in it. That's why. [laughs] Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And that was a w- Can't go wrong with ham... a way to dispatch the Christmas ham. I was sitting on a lot of it. Mm-hmm.
6:37
'Cause, yeah, it was like a big-ass ham, four people. That- [laughs] That should be a tattoo. You can't go wrong with ham. And two of them, two of them are over 90. I totally agree.
6:45
So they shouldn't eat that much damn ham [laughs] in the second waist. Yeah. Stay away from my ham. [laughs] Damn it. But it was with a Sprecher glaze. Okay. So it was really good. Not a root beer or a- Yeah, yeah...
6:57
oh, a Sprecher root beer glaze. Yeah. Gotcha. I don't know. They, they sent... Me, sometime- I'm telling you- No, no, no, no, no, no... marketing does work at times. Even- Yeah, 'cause I-...
7:05
the annoying text message, and that's where I got it from. It was like, "Hey, so Sprecher bl- bl- bl- glaze for ham." I'm like, "You... I'm intrigued." Yeah. Dude. 'Cause you've done, like, Dr.
7:16
Pepper before and- Mm, and Coke... probably... Yeah- Yeah, yeah... Coke or something. Any- anything sugary, obviously. Exactly. So it made sense when you break it all the way down. Mm.
7:25
But with the Jell-O mold, it was funny because every s- preparation I went back to was, like, the elevated French dish. Parsleyed ham. Mm. And like, oh, it's a nice tureen and da, da, da, da, da. The...
7:36
Normally it's, like, the natural gelatins or whatever come out of the bones, 'cause you're making your own damn stocks- Oh, sure, sure... or shit like that. And it was like, "No, no, no, no, no, no."
7:46
I'm like, "I just want to... Give me the fucking instructions. I ju- [laughs] How much gelatin to how much water, when, whatever." And let go.
7:54
And then put it in the goddamn, uh, bundt pan and see if the experiment worked, which it did, and I'm happy about that, but... It seemed, uh, it seemed to have worked. Stuff, uh- And a good way to get rid of holiday ham.
8:08
[laughs] So hack for next year, everybody. Uh, Glorioso's open again. Yeah. I don't know if it's fully open again, but at least had a s- semi-soft open. It seems like it.
8:18
And they're supposed to have the Christmas sausage all month long. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Which is cool, because one of the old Christmases we had was... When Kim goes for the making a lasagna. Right on. I,
8:32
I saw a- And I was like... I'm like, "I'll just have a big vat of
8:36
the Christmas sausage, other sausages from Glorioso's, a bunch of their meatballs, and a bunch of their sauce, and just put it into couple Crock-Pots- I-... and have that on the side."
8:47
I saw their interview where two people, two families said they delayed Christmas- Mm... to have Christmas sausage, so they're, like, putting Christmas- Oh, right on... into January because- Hell yeah...
8:58
because they've done it so long. Yeah. I get it. Exactly. Oh, I... Mm-hmm. I mean, I- I get it... I'm with it. It's not me, but I get it. You know what might go good with Michael's saucy sausage concoction?
9:09
Sausage concoction. The pizza bread. Jerky. The pizza bread. Oh, my God. The pizza bread. My God. It is so good. Thomas, we're gonna... I'm gonna send you a link to this We Love You.
9:18
That- Oh, this is from the farmers market. Farmers market. Yeah. This- Okay. 'Cause you say that, and I saw that, and you spoke of that, and I'm thinking, like, Stouffer's pizza bread. No, no, no. No. No. Um, but yes.
9:30
Whatever. But no. Yes. But no. But it's amazing. But no. We toasted it, like, yesterday and put cheese on top of it. For the love of fucking God. I got marinara in the fridge, and it goes with marinara real good.
9:39
Oh, it'll go great with marinara. So piggybacking on that, when I had stopped to drop off the she for her road trip and girls weekend down in Louisville,
9:54
at Balistrieri's on Blue Mound, I'm like, "Oh, I'm not really that hungry." I look down onto the, uh, appetizers of the pizza menu, and they had, you know, garlic bread, pizza bread, cheese bread, anchovy bread.
10:06
Oh, I saw your picture. And I'm like, damn, dude. Salty anchovy. Well, you... Okay. That was a picture after it was drowned in freshly grated Parmesan. Okay. But, like, when it comes out, it is like
10:20
seven anchovies per slice. It's garlic bread with- You, you know what you're saying to me there, right? Anchovies shoven in there. It's hard pass. I'm not an anchovy guy. I get it. Whatever.
10:27
I'm talking to the per- I'm talking near you, through you- [laughs]... uh, over there. Through the anchovies. [laughs] You've just become vapor now. Talk to the, talk to the bubblegum head over there. [laughs] Right?
10:38
With the anchovies. Does that take actual pennies? It did look good, though. Um, it actually works without them, but I discovered that I got the balls. You always get the white ones- The little small-...
10:47
so it's like, "Oh, God, these taste like Trident." They're a little tiny- I don't want Trident, Mom. I want the orange or the blue. Yeah. There's like eight flavors in there. I know. It, it takes me back.
10:59
It's a little time machine. Yes, it is. That is a bubblegum machine. Mm-hmm. But we're talking about farmer market- Yes... farmer's market Tom's. I understand. He grounds red peppers in there.
11:11
He puts in, um- Sun-dried tomatoes... sun- yeah, there's... Oh, my God. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. That shit's crack. Parsley. Basil. It, it's totally edible just by itself with nothing on it. Basil. It is. It totally is.
11:21
But it's just a little oregano. But when you twist it or throw- Yeah. Um, I did, I did say to him- See, I haven't even seen it. I haven't even seen it and I know it.
11:27
I did say to him this week- Neither has anybody else watching and/or listening to the show. Right. I did say to him this week, I'm like, "You know what you can do with the leftovers?"
11:33
[laughs] "If you don't sell all of your bread, like fucking croutons." Ooh. Can you imagine that pizza to- that pizza bread as croutons? You know, Caesar salad with a lot of anchovy in the dressing. Yeah.
11:47
No, I was thinking in a taco salad without any of that. A taco salad in a bowl? Oh. Oh, oh. Oh. Could be a bowl of- You take all that bread and you form all that bread into a taco bowl, man. Yeah. I don't know.
12:01
Oh, I think we'll do a show be- [laughs] We'll do a show before this, but, um, it is... What is today? Oh, I got my Standull. That's something- 13... that's important to you.
12:10
So almost exactly two months from when this show airs, or close, will be the, uh, Milwaukee Bike Bazaar back at Riverside High School. Yeah. Finally. Right on. Yeah. So that's a... That's your swap meet situation
12:26
That's your bike swap kinda thing- That stuff-... here in, here in Milwaukee. That's where I got my, uh- I, okay-... that's where I got my ostrich seat That's where I got my, uh, my, uh- Which has since been-...
12:34
handlebar koozies... fucking stolen. Yeah. I'm, I'm quite, I mean, I have a lot of stuff I would like to get rid of, but I'm like, "Maybe I should just put it on eBay instead." Yeah.
12:43
'Cause everybody there is just trying to beat you up for- Yep, absolutely... like no money. Oh, yeah And you can stand firm, but you can only stand firm for so long before money is in your face.
12:53
Well, it does, it's got bazaar in the name. True. So- Yeah. Okay... I mean, you're, mm-hmm, yeah Haggling and heckling and- Yeah, haggling at the bazaar. I mean, da, da, da, da, da. And you gotta listen to newborn.
13:06
Well, I don't have to listen to him. You know, I, he's there. I mean, you can hear him- Is he there?... no matter where you are.
13:10
Well, everything, everything at times of that, especially that place, 'cause there is a cacophony. I just- This is like-... everything just, like, pops and buzzes. I'm just like, "This is... I'm..."
13:19
It like doesn't ever get empty. It just, it's the, it's the never-ending- Mine is empty... awesome filling- Well, they are kinda big... 24 ounces. Ah, there is a, oh. [bell dinging] Ah. It stays so cold in there.
13:37
It is nice. Yeah, good call. And I'm thinking coffee tomorrow is gonna be really nice. I don't know if anybody noticed this, but it's got a, it's got a can bottle opener thingy right there. Well, okay.
13:48
Where's the- Which actually looks like it's in a useful spot compared to like- I, I agree... on a bike frame when- Oh, yeah...
13:53
people try to- Well, that's what I was thinking when- People are all the time putting- When you, when you said it...
13:56
bottle opening things on bikes, and they just are usually in spots where it does not really work very well. When you were saying it, I was like, "I'm not, I haven't really investigated it." Wise Cracker works well.
14:06
Yeah, if you- I've opened many a bottle on my Wise Cracker... if you turn your handlebar in the proper orientation or something. No, I turn the Wise Cracker to the side. [imitates cracking] You can turn that.
14:13
And then you whack your knee on it, so then that's not that great. Oh, you ride like a Nancy or something.
14:18
[laughs] Well, let's see if the, well, these all- Hey, speaking of Nancy's riding, this might be kinda interesting. It's not for a can there. [laughs] It's not gonna do it. Um- It's not gonna do it...
14:30
so here's a new thing. Well, it'd be prudent. Here's a new thing in the cycling world; short cranks. Like what? 160s? No. No. Shorter? Hamsters? Yes. Hamster wheel. As short as 150s. Come on.
14:45
SRAM makes every five millimeters from 150 to 175. I'm sorry. There's always something new in the bike world. Is that shelf space? What the fuck would you use that for? I- Circus bears?... I don't know.
14:56
Supposedly, yeah, you, I don't know. Maybe you can- What does 150- It's for that ti-... someone that's, like, 4'6"? Yes, the little, tiny, um, the little, tiny bicycles- I mean, that's like, that's like-...
15:05
da, da, da, da, da... the little bear with the fez... da, da, da. And the fez, and the fez. Well, you know, I mean- The fez and the bear go...
15:09
I went to 170s a while back, and I thought those were a little on the short side. I, I agree- Now I'm thinking-... with that... now I'm thinking 165s. No. [laughs] There's some, uh- So-...
15:20
there's some physiological stuff, 'cause I, I mean, if you watch the Tour de France these days- Tour de France...
15:25
or any, any pro race, they're sitting way differently on their bikes than they did even during the Lance era. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. To me, they look lower, and their crankies look shorter. So I decided to get my belt drive
15:40
old bike out, and I haven't ridden it for a while, and I was surprised the bottom bracket had suddenly become a fixed gear. Huh? I had to bust the br- [laughs] bearings free. Oh, of the bottom bracket?
15:54
Of the bottom bracket to get it to roll again. [laughs] Which bike is this? My Soho that I rode tonight, my prototype. Oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah, yeah. My little single speed. Belt drive? Low in the dark. Yeah.
16:05
Daniel loves it. It glows. It glows. I keep telling about The Simpsons. Did we talk about... You, you rang the- [laughs] You rang the bell. [laughs] I bring you low. Oh, yeah. You, yeah. Yeah. You rang the bell, dude.
16:16
Well, hey, man. Well, I'm not gonna overstep. I mean, there was a flow here. You always overstep. Well- Step, step, step off, son... it is, it is Dogfish. We've had this before. Yeah. It's a, it's a- It's a rerun.
16:28
Bob Weir passed away from Grateful Dead. Mm-hmm. Boom, ba, boom. Grateful Dead Juicy Pale Ale. It's a- And for all... Yeah, I know- It's a-... people are like, "Who? Dude, he-" It's an eas- At least, like, uh-...
16:39
it's an easy 5.3. Yeah. Yeah. It's a good tasting beer. That's the beauty of it. Yeah. It's easy drinking. Well, let's, uh- The annoying part is finding this place was more expensive than I was...
16:49
It ticked me off in a way. Uh-oh. Well, it's- Were they- So you think they did it- It's Syndic... on purpose? Yeah, Syndic's. Fuckers. [laughs] I don't th- no, I don't think it was a death, uh, price surge. Oh, okay.
16:59
[laughs] I think it was just a Dogfish. It was just the fact that- Yeah, it was Syndic's... Syndic's charges too much. Just, y- yeah, exactly. So I'm, I'm sure- And I was like, "Ah, no, no, no."
17:06
But it was the one place that had it, and had it on ice, so I was like, "Oh, sweet." I'm sure that- After I worked, it was gone... a lot of cyclists know- I'll, I'll pay the extra $4 [laughs] for it. Yeah. Okay.
17:13
Well, thank you- Or wait, three... for bringing it. Hell, tax is fucking... Whatever A lot of cyclists probably know that Bob Weir was a pretty avid cyclist. With those damn short shorts. Yeah.
17:23
And he- [laughs] I mean, that he would, he, he, you know, they grew up around Mount Tam, and they knew a, they knew Gary Fisher and whatnot, and he'd ridden with Gary Fisher.
17:32
And he had a Fish- I got one picture of him with a Fisher. I found another picture of him today with just the bike, but some guy's like, "Oh, yeah, he had a Tom Teasdale mountain bike frame." Ah, sweet.
17:44
That, that, uh, what's his name, Prairie Prince, their artist painter guy for the Dead- Yeah... did this custom paint job on this Teasdale frame for Bob Weir. Oh, that's fucking awesome. What? I did not know that.
17:54
Isn't that great? Yes. Yeah. No, I didn't either until I ran across it today. So my, my boss- 'Cause that was 1990... my, my boss is- '90... a big Deadhead, and a, you know, all the
18:07
ancillary- I don't know which to- Jam banders... jam bandies. Sure. And I can't wait to tell him that tomorrow. Yeah. I, uh, I- Um, hey, Bob Weir-... I sure haven't-... has a Teasdale. You know who else has a Teasdale?
18:17
This guy. We guys. We all have Teasdales here. [laughs] I have a bunch. And mine is festooned in- Grateful Dead. Oh, yeah... I didn't ride it today. Yeah. To be fair- I don't know why... he, his is a 1990.
18:31
Mine's a 1987, my original race bike So- Now you're Ralph... yeah... now you're Ralph. You're two-step Ralph's would have been just slightly after that, I think.
18:41
That might have been, like, that could have been late '80s, early '90s
18:45
I also have Ralph's I do have- Don't ever sell that Ralph, and if you do, sell it to me [laughs] Yeah, that's going along with the River West 24 bike, and you're getting quite the stack that I'm storing here for you [laughs]
18:55
Look, dude, anytime you wanna throw me a price at the 24 bike, I'm buying it. [sighs] As long as it's not... I, y- [sighs] All right. Drunk Greg once, I told him I would buy that for five grand, and you said no.
19:10
I said- I think drunk Tony- No, I didn't say no... I think drunk Tony tried to- Yes, you did... I think you tried to buy the, uh, Neapolitan State from Kim at one point. For, like, 900 No, not the Neapolitan...
19:22
I remember something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I wanted her, um- No, no... Mossi. Oh, the Mossi. Oh, it was the Mossi. I want the Mossi, and yes- You offered her-... I would pay good money for that...
19:30
you offered her some ridiculous [laughs] amount of money for it. [laughs] Could have happened. It w- yeah, it was, like... I'm just like, "Uh, yo, Kim, [laughs] that might just strike while the iron's hot, man." Yeah.
19:42
Yeah. Don't say anything. [laughs] Just, like, I don't know. He's insane, right? [laughs] I mean, I don't know.
19:45
I mean- No, I was, I was inebriated and averaging- When, when it come, when it, when it, when it comes to the table-... a lot of money... it'll work out the right way. We were at that bullshit airport bar- [laughs]...
19:53
during the... It was that Biketoberfest or something, where we were right near the airport and- Oh, with the fire and the whatnot? And I didn't wanna go in, 'cause I didn't want our bikes stolen, and I was...
20:03
You went in and had beers, and I'm like, "Oh, man, he's in there having beers." And I looked down, I'm like, "There's a flask." I'm like, "Greg's probably still got whiskey in this flask." [laughs] Oddly enough.
20:17
So, so while you were inside having fun, I'm like, I'm outside drinking your whiskey [laughs] And I was outside in the spirit world, if you were talking about Biketoberfest [laughs] No, it was, like, 10 years ago [laughs] Oh, no, yeah, this was, like, quite a while ago.
20:28
Yes, that was hilarious. I loved that day. Here's a perfect Tony thing. Have you seen these, these, uh, Arc Light Pro flat pedals yet? Uh-uh.
20:38
There's a link in the show notes for you to check 'em out because- Must have just missed 'em-... I think you'll-... because I checked the show notes earlier...
20:43
so, so they have a, a pretty bright light that faces- He likes to do it-... forward and back... while o- we're on our way here... and when you flip the pedal over- They, they change the light... it changes...
20:49
okay, I've seen these. Yeah, they're not new. I just ran across 'em again. Yeah, they're cool. I'm like, "Oh, that's fucking cool." Yeah, they, they alternate white to red as you rotate.
20:59
Yeah, when you flip your pedal- Yeah... it changes. Well, as you, as you're rotating, it, you know, because- It's always gonna be-... your pedal changes. Oh. So it's red in the front, and it's always r- uh, red- So-...
21:08
in the back, and white in the front. Right. It's a cool fucking idea. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're cool. I, I... It seemed like a really good idea. They're, like, 200 bucks, but- Yeah... it still seems like a good idea.
21:18
Safety first, man. And there's a fancy- Hmm... fancy charger for all four of the lights to go in, and they're, they look like decent pedals to me. I, with- You know what are decent pedals? Yeah. No. Inverse. Yeah.
21:32
Oh, yeah. I've been thoroughly enjoying those. It's that time of year to have your Inverse pedals out. They are fantastic. So you- They grip like... It, it's just eerie.
21:41
What do you do, take, like, a pair of, uh, shoes so you can leave your boots in- I have some, I have some Keen- Uh-oh... shoes with, with studs in them. What, what is going on, Michael?
21:52
Oh, he said, he said the word once. Oh, yeah, don't say it again. Zillow? No. Hang on. Oh, no, no, no. As you were. No, no, no. As you were. Keep, keep moving along on your story. Um- Don't tell us what kind- No...
22:02
of shoes you had. They- Train keeper rolling. Oh, not now [laughs]... they, they cleat so well. And then at work, I just have a pair of shoes to change into. Right on. But they grip. I can be at a stoplight and
22:15
backpedal, like, from a dead stop [laughs] and my foot stays- It is... stuck to the pedal. That's actually super handy. It is very handy. For sure. Yeah, I love them.
22:24
[laughs] I'd like to actually give away a pair of Inverse pedals. We tried to give them away, but nobody wanted to play on thefatbike.com contest page, so you know what? I thought I was gonna be exempt. No joy.
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And I should be exempt. Do you wanna just sell them to me? Do you have any [laughs] Inverse pedals yet? No. But [laughs] it was funny, 'cause I remember seeing that, going like, I, I, mm, I'm not part of this program.
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You- Or, no, no... could be part of the program... I just know, I know my, I know my role when it comes to promotions. Right on.
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It comes, it comes from dutiful and- It comes with- But- I'm gonna put another one of these in here- Well, it was burned-... because this can hold 24 ounces... it was burned to, uh... Yeah, that's funny.
22:58
[laughs] Uh, well, you sent me those pictures from the, uh, 1021- Oh-... sayonara party... yes, I had, I did spy Michael. 'Cause I have, I, well, yeah, 'cause I'm, like, sitting on a,
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like a parrot on a Adler's shoulder [laughs] in that picture. I mean, just from spatial. Yep, yep. [laughs] I was like, "Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah."
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Although, the funny thing is there was one with the grumpy girl sitting down, and then there was another with the grumpy girl standing up.
23:23
Well, one of those pictures, like, on the left side of the picture, it's, like, one-third of a person, and that's a dude I used to work with. It was, like, the one real person I knew there- Oh, yeah... that was funny.
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I mo- I mostly cropped it- I did-... so we can see the Michael. Yeah, yeah. It was funny. Yeah, Nate. And he's like, [laughs] he's got the side eye looking at you like, "Dude." Yeah.
23:43
[laughs] I, I would throw a picture of that in the show notes- He's hilarious, man... but it's actually, I, I didn't take the photo, so I kinda don't feel that's- Copyright infringement.
23:50
Yeah, I don't know who did that Well, I took a picture of the picture. Oh, there you go. Yeah. So you're an artist. Yeah. Well, no, you take a picture of the picture. Whatever.
23:58
[laughs] I'm a subject of this, and- Please... needs to be reported- Well, I'm going to make-... in alternate media- I'm gonna just-... and not part of this- I will make it art... stagnant group...
24:04
I will put a thing that says Shakespeare and point it right at him. Then it's art. [laughs] Then it's art. Right. [laughs] Oh, man. Or M- MS Paint [laughs] or whatever you wanna call it. [laughs] We got Printshop.
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I'm gonna do my eight bit stuff for you. We got, yeah, yeah, we got this on Printshop on an Apple IIe. Speaking of stuff that needs to get tested, we got new junk coming in from Handup that should be good.
24:29
They have a- It's like-... they have a cold weather glove I'm real... You remember the- Ooh... you know the Beardmore gloves? Okay. Yeah. They make, they make the ones with the clever handy things.
24:36
Oh, I'd like to check those out. Oh, yeah, yeah. We're, we're now- Carson Coffins had one... yeah... I had those. Yeah, yeah. And I can't remember what I did with them.
24:40
We're now in a, we're now an affiliate for them, so if, if you see a thing on fatbike.com and you buy something, we get a couple of bucks to keep the site going, which ain't nobody- Okay...
24:49
been spending no money on no cycling stuff. At least not through fatbike.com, you're exactly right Use fatbike.com- Economy's hard for everybody... use fatbike.com as your portal to get to the place. Yeah.
24:59
Let it meet where- This is how you do it Yes You play the guitar, you know, and all the- Please, take, take the tollway [laughs] All the River West establishments sending out messages saying, "Hey,
25:09
support us or we're gonna go out of business." You know- Well, a lot of places... I had a nice, reasonably long chat with Schlabowski the other day, and
25:18
the, even the big sites now, uh, Radavist and Bike Packing are all on the, it's pinned on the top of their page, "Things aren't going well for us, folks. Could you please send us some shekels?" Yeah.
25:29
Fuck it, uh, w- Those guys make more shekels than we do Wikipedia's been doing it for fucking years Yeah, but they're- So much-... much more m- adamant about it [laughs] now Whatever But yeah.
25:38
Yeah I mean, it makes sense. So yeah, Wikipedia and, um, The Guardian does it too. Yep, Guardian does it- Yeah... for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Huffington Post. That's your thing? [laughs] Wow.
25:49
They're also- I don't know where- I thought Ariana was rich. She could just make it last forever Isn't she dead? She's not a part of Huffington Post now anymore Oh, isn't she dead? Could be. Ariana? Really? Huffington?
26:00
Don't know. I don't know, she was a very Zsa Zsa Gabor, Paris, Eartha Kitt voiced. Mm. I remember her on- Mm... like Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher- Did he [laughs]... before he, like really lost his fucking mind.
26:14
Yeah. And there's- And he's like, "Oh my God, you, you took the Dennis Miller pill. [laughs] You're g- you're gonna fly- Oh, Mon-... way to the right son." [laughs] Oh, Mon-
26:23
And then s- Monday n- Burn your wings on them... Monday Night Football with Dennis Miller? That's right, baby. [laughs] Jesus Christ Jesus Christ Can't believe how smart he tried to sound on that show all the time.
26:32
It's like- Oh... "I'm the smartest guy on TV right now." How you doing?
26:34
Dude, you know, I mean, I thought about it in, like, in, at the time as just dumb ass folly, but it was like a absolute omen of what the fucking world is right now. Mm.
26:44
'Cause it was him- I hate it when they're talking... and then Rush fucking Limbaugh- Mm, on the- Was- He's dead, though... he, yeah. Whatever. So it was- Mostly... so it was- He's mostly [laughs] dead.
26:56
Body-wise, his, his minions of, uh- Yeah. Uh, it's- All right, I'm not gonna dove too deep into that I, I might, I might get us banned, but I wake up every morning hoping Donald Trump's not alive.
27:09
It'll happen soon enough. I think so. I mean, m- m- nature will take its toll. Not s- I'm not saying- Ma- ma-... I'm not advocating for any bullshittery, I'm just saying. No, I'm not, like threatening him or anything.
27:20
No. I'm just looking forward to when he's gone. Yeah. You know? I hope McDonald's catches up with him. Old McD- I had McDonald's today. I was so pissed off. Dirty, Dirty Ronnie.
27:30
I haven't had a McDonald's in- Just a little-... fucking-... just a little double cheeseburger... 25 years... maybe some s- a six piece McNuggy It's not quite that long. It's, like, it's, like eight No fries. No.
27:38
It's not like I go and like, "Oh, this is a delicious menu." I don't even know- Okay, we're talking about food... what to choose. It's consistently- But-... mediocre, which is awesome Okay, yeah. Yeah.
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Just I want a shi- But-... I want a shitty $1.89 cheeseburger. Or no, it's $2.19 now- Ooh... but whatever. Well, having recently been there- [growls] Have you done Double Double?
27:56
No, I used that, I used that for the beach ride. I was like, I, I bought five of them and I [laughs] was like, "You know what? I'm just gonna keep these," 'cause they're gonna hold. Oh, yeah.
28:04
Those are probably old in 10 years. Yeah. They do. And, but yeah. Oddly enough. But they fill, they fill a hole. It's almost like- I used Dirty-...
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getting a pork chop at Bernie's, but Bernie's isn't open on Sunday when you go for a beach ride, so you can't put a pork chop in your pocket But that pork chop will probably, like, survive nuclear war- Yeah, but you'd have to go out-...
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and still be delicious... and get the pork chop the day before or something. Just, they don't, they're not open on Sunday, so you can't get a pork chop. Okay. [laughs] Okay. Well, it's n- it's, yes.
28:31
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Yeah. Here's something if, if anybody, next Christmas or whatever, notwithstanding that this is one of the best gifts this year. Thank you, John. Oh, you are very [laughs] welcome, you guys.
28:42
Cheers. Uh- Enjoy your beers... there's a new, um- Oh, bing, bing. There's a- Thanks, I just saw it some more. Yeah.
28:47
There's a few of these out there now, but there's a punk and hardcore flyers, Flyers on the Wall art book, and there's over 400 different punk rock flyers in this art book- [laughs]...
28:59
which sounds like I would like to go through that. Yeah. Well, damn it. It, th- they had it on ex- uh, on display over by MK Ultra, MK Ultra. Was, was that this exact book, or is that- Are any of them- I, I don't know.
29:11
Yeah, it could be... Von Bondes? Yeah. That, oh, I'm curious about that. How many of them are- It, that one is... 'cause there's, there's two volumes of it.
29:17
I think they only had that e- exhibit up until the end of last year, which- Yeah, so I got-... unless they just left it up, which would be awesome 'Cause that's my jam. I, I want Von Bond stuff. Yeah.
29:25
So I got, uh- I can only imagine... so this year I got, for Christmas, I got, and we didn't talk to, this isn't on the show yet, I got the, uh, Die Kreutzen book. Oh, book. I saw you on set. Yeah.
29:35
The year before, Wendy got me an old, uh, '80s super bike motorcycle racing book which had all my heroes in it, and it was autographed by the guy that did the book and stuff, and it was, like, super awesome.
29:48
I like getting stuff like that that I wouldn't waste, I mean, spend the money- [laughs]... on for myself. Right. But somebody getting me that gift is awesome because, I mean, this book is 40- Yeah, think about me...
29:59
this book is- Like, when I order my headset... 47, this punk rock one's, like, 47 bucks. It's not terrible. So whenever DJ Bow Eyes, AKA Billy, mentions the weather, he always refers to
30:16
General Mitchell International Airport. He has changed his ways. So I said to him this week when he sent it to me, I'm like, I said to him, I'm like, "Lies. That airport doesn't exist.
30:28
I'm finding it hard to believe that Sylvan Esso is not MIA." And I go on and on, and I'm like- [laughs]... I'm like, "Damn, this is a great cover." And I go on [laughs] I'm like- As a- "You think of me every time"...
30:41
there is a lot of time [laughs] "Every..." So I said to him, I'm like, "You think of me every time, admit it." And he responded back, "I totally do."
30:49
[laughs] Every time he says General Mitchell International Airport- Yeah... 'cause that's not the name- You've got it... of the fucking airport. What are you gonna call it?
30:57
It's Mitchell International Airport now It, it's Billy General Gomer Pyle- It, no it has nothing to do with Billy or-... Captain-... General or-... Mitchell... you know. It used to be.
31:07
It used to be General- And then I asked him- Yes... this week, I'm like, "Do, are you gonna have any, uh..." We're gonna segue. I'm like, "Are you gonna have any pictures?" You're gonna segue.
31:15
"Are you gonna have any pictures- He has a royal we... from this year's WMC art, art, you know?" Oh, that's happening before- Oh... our next show. Right. So I said to him, like, "Billy- Or in, uh-...
31:25
are you gonna have any pics-... consoles... you know, any pictures?" Mm. 'Cause Billy is a good, he just- Yeah... he, his, he's a good artist. I'm interested, I'm not interested if you're interested, though.
31:36
I don't wanna, I don't wanna usurp your buying of my- We'll talk... of my $900 Mark- We'll talk... Mark Winter piece. [laughs] Oh, have the, uh, the pieces gone live? They have not gone live yet.
31:45
No, they have not gone live. That's, that's our deal. Okay. I, and I do not know- 'Cause I don't think it's until- Currently I don't have a budget... well, it will between now and the n- here and yon.
31:54
I, I don't have a budget either. I don't have a, I- Well, Trump's gonna give us all two grand each, right? He forgot about that. Oh, fuck, I heard that. He totally just said, "I totally, I said what?"
32:02
[laughs] But he's cognitively totally, totally, you know, he's a genius. No, he just doesn't even know what comes out of his mouth. It must be nice- Oh. [laughs]...
32:13
to not understand- I'm just excited about his, the, the, you know, half-inch foot-long hot dogs he's gonna sell. I thought you said, you know, no, his half-inch micro hamburgers. Oh, he thinks those are big. Oh, yeah.
32:27
I do love me a shitty hot dog, though. Oh, God, I love a shitty hot dog. Oh, that's what I did, uh, was my- Good hot dog, too. It was my mom- I know. No.
32:34
Yeah, I said- Whoo, switch gears and cool, fun, ha-ha, and not a fan of yon, of the whatever, my mom's, uh, 91st birthday, which was fun. Ended up going to... Well, she's been watching The Bear, like binged that.
32:52
Oh. So she kinda has that in, on her brain, talking about it, and it was like, "Oh, yeah, yeah." I'm like, "Oh, hell, go to Portillo's." I mean, I know it's just, it's the most close by Italian beef kinda zone. Ah.
33:04
And whatever, uh, make it something clever. Very cool. Go see Hungry Williams over at Ope do swing dancing with a 91-year-old, and my aunt, the 92-year-old. So- Well, there you go... they, they kept it up. It was fun.
33:19
Good. And Hungry Williams always puts on a entertaining show. I just noticed something. You're rubbing yourself. I'm worried. These are, these are Swerve pants, and they have- Swerve?...
33:29
a pen pocket on this side and, and one on this side too. Oh, look at that. Swerve is sweet. They also have a coin pocket in this. I knew that they had a pen... I didn't know they had a pen pocket on this side.
33:37
That's so sweet. You have a doper? You got a doper? And, and fortunately- [laughs] He's got a doper... at least as far as we know, somebody is going to take Swerve- Buy Swerve, man...
33:45
over and however that's gonna work out, because they're my favorite pants. [laughs] You know, I just found my doper. [laughs] My, my favorite pants.
33:57
All right, that'd be, that, that, that's signaling it's time to get out of this show because, uh- [laughs] Because we're talking about favorite pants... [laughs] and also dopers- And his doper pants... and also dopers.
34:07
All right, everybody. Well, next month I guess we'll do it again. If you're still listening, that's, uh, that's great. I might add a bison jerky, though. Sorry. Well, probably have something. Hopefully.
34:16
I probably will leave this mug here for just such an emergency. I might take it next door for another beer. Uh, another [laughs] another 24. Another tank. No, I'm not doing 24. Can I get a 24 ounce filled, please?
34:27
Another tank and a ale, please. We haven't talked about sauna, but I'm doing a sauna- There's a hayern up there tomorrow... so there'll be no 24. All right. All right, everybody. We'll be at point.
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We'll be here next time we get here. Meow. We're gonna do that. Bye. Meow.
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[rock music]
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