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Revolting

The Cycling Independent

211 episodes

4 days ago

Revolting is a cycling podcast that isn’t about bikes, or even cycling really. Hosts Robot and Stevil sift through topics vaguely related to cycling, looking for what’s good, what’s better, and dwelling sometimes on what’s confusing. The guys are looking, and almost never finding, answers. But the fun is in the looking. This a cycling podcast for those not defined by racing, high-performance, or any performance at all really. It’s a podcast for people who just like to ride bikes, and do other stuff, because it’s fun. Revolting is another fine production by The Cycling Independent.

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Revolting is a cycling podcast that isn’t about bikes, or even cycling really. Hosts Robot and Stevil sift through topics vaguely related to cycling, looking for what’s good, what’s better, and dwelling sometimes on what’s confusing. The guys are looking, and almost never finding, answers. But the fun is in the looking. This a cycling podcast for those not defined by racing, high-performance, or any performance at all really. It’s a podcast for people who just like to ride bikes, and do other stuff, because it’s fun. Revolting is another fine production by The Cycling Independent.

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Episodes (20/211)

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1 week ago

1 hour 4 minutes 21 seconds

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2 weeks ago

1 hour 3 minutes 57 seconds

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3 weeks ago

1 hour 8 minutes 24 seconds

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People have a funny way of plowing their energy into bad ideas, and once they’ve made that initial investment, they keep going just to prove to themselves that the original idea wasn’t a bad one. We do this with jobs, relationships, and religions. The fear of change is one factor. Ego is another. Just think about how much more Candy Crush Saga we could play if we had that time back though.

4 weeks ago

1 hour 14 minutes 23 seconds

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Whether you’re rich or poor, sick or well, lazy or really, really lazy, you have to figure out what to do with your day. That seems like the fundamental conundrum facing humanity, and sure, the less money or health you have maybe the more of those choices get made for you, but it doesn’t alter your relationship with meaning. In other words, everyone has the same shot at finding meaning in their daily life, and that is both a blessing and a curse.

1 month ago

1 hour 7 minutes 53 seconds

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Whether you’re a street junky or not, you spend a lot of your day looking for the next little bump of dopamine. Whole oligarchies have grown up around the business of selling you small doses of your own brain chemicals. You hate that, but keep scrolling, because ultimately we’re all addicted to that buzz. Of course, there are good ways and less good ways to get what we need, and today we’re going to talk about some of them.

1 month ago

1 hour 9 minutes 53 seconds

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You’re a grown ass person with decades of life experience and refined tastes, and yet, somewhere in your mental closet you’ve got an array of awkward nostalgic loves for people, places and things that no longer fit your view of yourself as a person, like when you smoked weed and thought the Dead were good, or when you wore a Catholic school girl uniform to the office potluck because Britney, bitch.

1 month ago

1 hour 10 minutes 22 seconds

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The common consensus is that the male population of Earth is experiencing an epidemic of loneliness, which leads to climbing rates of depression and suicide. We both have lots of friends, including being friends with each other, so today we’re going to explain how to be friends with other men, how to properly hug a man, and how to, when they’re least expecting it, knock the phone out of their hand, and then, when they scramble after their phone, to knock their hat off.

1 month ago

1 hour 15 minutes 14 seconds

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We express a lot of opinions on this show, and opinions are like smart phones. Everyone has one and they all destroy your brain. Even if we’re right that Foo Fighters make terrible music, how do we hold real and genuine space in our minds and hearts for people who think otherwise? How do we take our own opinions much, much less seriously?

2 months ago

1 hour 8 minutes 12 seconds

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In our wildest dreams, which include bank robberies, alien abductions and making out with our third grade teacher, we never imagined recording 200 podcasts. Is that a failure of imagination, hope or executive function? Hard to say. But to celebrate we’re going to spend a whole hour answering listener questions. The listeners, without whom we’d just be another pair of yutzes arguing over a can of Pringles.

2 months ago

1 hour 42 minutes 58 seconds

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Adulthood is a scam. You think, “Oh, I can vote and drink a beer,” but those minor luxuries come with a lifetime of work and the sorts of responsibilities and challenging relationships that wear a body down. We all have coping mechanisms. We’re not all soft little kittens. We can do anything we need to with just a little love and a little encouragement, and definitely not any cocaine.

2 months ago

1 hour 13 minutes 25 seconds

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Humans need downtime, time when they don’t need to respond to emails or perform labors or be responsible for stuff generally, time away from the great grinding wheel of late stage capitalism, the non-stop kabuki theater of politics, and the soul-muting effect of the daily ritual. Americans don’t get or take enough of them. We’ve somehow made a virtue of driving ourselves into early graves, a million martyrs to the cause of making already rich people even richer.

2 months ago

1 hour 15 minutes 49 seconds

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This episode of Revolting is completely dedicated to a show-by-show analysis of the late ‘80s MTV game show Remote Control with Ken Ober and Kari Wuhrer. Just kidding. What it’s actually about is the time we all spend, while not at work or getting paid, thinking about work, and how sitting and thinking is a critical task that no one assigns any value to.

3 months ago

1 hour 1 minute 17 seconds

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In the appendix to Einstein’s paradigm-shifting 1905 treatise on special relativity, he mentions this little known law that states: Your level of irritation may vary within a given range, described by an infinite sine wave, but basically it always stays the same. Even if nothing much is going on, you will map irritation onto SOMETHING in your environment to maintain a sort of grouchy equilibrium with the outside world.

3 months ago

1 hour 4 minutes 31 seconds

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In 1902 Charles Horton Cooley came up with this idea that our sense of self is formed in this sort of ricocheting set of judgments. Basically, you aren’t who YOU think you are, and you aren’t who other people think you are; you’re who you think other people think you are. This goes a long way to explaining the deep craving for approval on social media platforms and the nattering voice of self-doubt we all deal with, especially because, despite the theory’s obvious elements of truth, most of us are only ever really thinking about ourselves.

3 months ago

1 hour 11 minutes 13 seconds

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There’s a subtle difference between being anti-establishment and anti-authority, but we’re both. Also, anti-boredom. Anti-fascist. Yes. Obviously. We’re against greed and avarice, whatever that is. We’re against eggplant and zucchini, unless they’re fried. We’re against work and wage slavery, human trafficking, racism, sexism, size-ism, transphobia, homophobia and Strava. We could go on and on, so we will.

3 months ago

1 hour 11 minutes 25 seconds

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Humans are social animals. We only make sense to ourselves in a larger context, and we spend the years of our lives trying to surround ourselves with good or interesting people, sometimes both. But the world is large and diffuse. The best people are scattered to the wind, like a thousand Monster Energy cans flung from pickup truck windows. So, we reach out, by email, by snail mail, using apps or using airplanes. Is it worth it? What would a truly solitary existence even mean?

3 months ago

1 hour 11 minutes 45 seconds

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Even if you’ve been doing your thing for a good long time, you have these moments where you wonder if you can pull it off again. Like you start a story or a painting with a bright and crystal clear idea, and in the back of your mind you have the faith you can make something good of it, but that nagging doubt never leaves. And of course, sometimes you hit the water flat and the wind leaves your chest and your face and body sting like the universe has just bitch-slapped you, but you climb the ladder again the next time anyway.

4 months ago

1 hour 11 minutes 50 seconds

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Even the most unserious athlete occasionally overdoes it. If you’re like us, then sometimes you even overdo overdoing it. Maybe you’ve been there, dead in the saddle, dehydrated, cramped, contemplating your imminent death, praying for it even. And then you drink a full gas coke and feel much better.

4 months ago

1 hour 9 minutes 4 seconds

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Everything and everyone is competing for your attention. What most people don’t realize is that they’re ALSO competing for their own attention. What are we losing? How are we fighting back? Or are we all just blithely accepting that our minds are no longer our own?

4 months ago

1 hour 11 minutes 29 seconds