Revolting
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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.
Location:
United States
Description:
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.
Language:
English
Website:
https://cyclingindependent.com
Episodes
Revolting 131
6/10/2024
Lightning in a Bottle, Thunder in a Can. We’re taking a break from the deep, philosophical explorations this show is known for to reengage with our monkey brains. It’s another lightning round of questions that don’t really deserve answers, though those are exactly the questions this podcast was designed for. Music pick of the week: […]
Duration:01:02:25
Revolting 130
6/3/2024
Stapling Bananas to the Wall. This one is partially inspired by a question from listener Oliver Beckers and partially by the deaths of Rick Froberg, Gary Flloyd and Steve Albini, and partially by the #MeToo movement and partially by the complicated business of consuming art in the information age. This week we’re talking about what […]
Duration:01:03:33
Revolting 129
5/27/2024
Emerging Patterns from the Swirling Chaos. Ain’t it just the case that you reach these points in your life where you think you have some things figured out, you can see the way forward, and you feel hopeful and optimistic, but as sure as the sign rises in the East, chaos comes to scatter your […]
Duration:01:11:20
Revolting 128
5/20/2024
When the Wedding Band Stretches Out. This is a show about Steve Albini, who is probably really dead, despite both of us hoping the news of his passing was some elaborate prank he was pulling. When people think about the pure ideals of punk rock, they usually think of Ian MacKaye first, but they should […]
Duration:00:55:53
Revolting 127
5/13/2024
Karma Is a Failure of Both Pattern Recognition and Ligaments. We musta said and done some pretty not cool stuff to deserve the level of negative physical consequences doled out by daily life lately. Today we’ll talk about the possibility that there actually is justice in the universe, or whether we’re just ignoring the normal […]
Duration:01:05:13
Revolting 126
5/5/2024
If Dungeons and Dragons Was Real, Metal Would Make a Lot More Sense. Listen, not everything has to be so literal. You don’t have to talk about your heart to express your love for another human being. Maybe that’s why Candace left you. You’re boring and predictable. Today, we’re talking about ways to open your […]
Duration:01:08:15
Revolting 125
4/29/2024
The Women Without Whom We Would Not Be Us. Roughly half the people on the planet are women, and a very high percentage of them are smarter, funnier, more beautiful, wiser, and more emotionally stable than a high percentage of the other half of the people, all of this notwithstanding the people who are neither […]
Duration:01:08:55
Revolting 124
4/22/2024
The Internet Stole My Mind and My Wallet. Sometimes you marvel at how much easier things are, because you can email your grandmother and pay your debts online, but then you realize you don’t seem to have any more time in your day and your attention span has been smashed into a million pieces, leaving […]
Duration:01:04:23
Revolting 123
4/15/2024
Pep Talks from Chronic Depressives. When you’ve been through some hard times, you learn things that might be useful to other people. At the very least, you come to understand the value of a sympathetic ear. There’s a real case to be made that chronic depressives are much better at pep talks than shiny happy […]
Duration:01:13:14
Revolting 122
4/8/2024
My Body Is a Temple, Abandoned by the Gods. All things fall apart. Order tends toward chaos. The entire universe gets colder and colder by the picosecond. And our bodies, strong and capable for a shining moment, eventually let us down. Today we’re talking about how cadaver parts and stubbornness keep us on the right […]
Duration:01:12:59
Revolting 121
4/1/2024
Don’t Wear Sandals to a Bar Fight. Life is full of rules, both useful and made to be broken. There are bike rules. There are rock show rules. There are a million reasons to follow them and just one to punch them in the face. Today we talk about the rules. Music pick of the […]
Duration:01:13:05
Revolting 120
3/25/2024
The Real House Husbands of Whatever Zip Code This Is. Both of us are home bodies and at one time or another have been home makers. Today we’re talking about what it means to have and make a home, and how that lets us create great works of art and philosophy and impress other people […]
Duration:01:08:33
Revolting 119
3/18/2024
The Re-Arrangement of the Deck Chairs on the Titanic. There comes a time in everyone’s life when they realize they’re on the wrong path. Maybe you’ve let Leo DiCaprio make periodic-specific nudies of you, only to let him drown after the boat hits an iceberg. Wake up calls like that can be valuable. Music pick […]
Duration:01:10:08
Revolting 118
3/11/2024
Other Things We’re Not Good At. We try to stay humble. We’re not great at podcasting, mountain biking, skateboarding or orthopedic surgery, but actually, there’s a ton of other stuff we’re also not very good at. Sometimes it’s helpful to remind yourself what you’re really best at is mediocrity. Music pick of the week: Robot […]
Duration:01:09:45
Revolting 117
3/4/2024
Coffee and Sugar, Cigarettes and Weed. Everyone loves drugs, even the people who say they’re against drugs, and we love them too, even if only pretty specific ones. Today we’re talking about our relationship with vice and the dumbest things we’ve done to get high or get away with getting high. Music pick of the […]
Duration:01:12:23
Revolting 116
2/26/2024
The Joys of Being Single. It takes a special kind of bike rider to ride a single-speed, the kind of rider who really only likes to pedal going uphill, the kind who appreciates making everything harder for themselves. But simplicity has a certain charm to it, and anyone who’s married maybe knows what we’re talking […]
Duration:01:05:27
Revolting 115
2/19/2024
The Year Punk Rock Went Broke. I don’t know what happened, but it was probably Green Day’s fault. Everyone went from making fun of us for listening to weird music to elbowing us out of the way, so they could buy Red Hot Chili Pepper’s t-shirts at Target. We went from saying this music should […]
Duration:00:58:24
Revolting 114
2/12/2024
The Unbearable Lightness of the Corrosion of Conformity. Life has this odd tension between wanting to fit in, go along and get along, be a good teammate or co-worker or whatever, and then at the same time, fully inhabiting your own identity (whatever that is) in order to stand out and remind yourself that you’re […]
Duration:01:09:35
Revolting 113
2/5/2024
The No Good, Very Bad Words. Every week we rewrite our content warning because we’re required somehow to warn people that we use profanity and sometimes talk about the immense size of horse penises. At the same time, folks are bumbling about their everyday lives using terrible words that we find more offensive than all […]
Duration:01:08:13
Revolting 112
1/29/2024
Sometimes 2+2=5. The basic premise of today’s show is the basic premise of the show, by which we mean that we’ve been hearing from people who find whatever it is we’re doing here helpful. They’re inspired or encouraged or they learn something about themselves as we talk about ourselves and our challenges. It’s weird. Neither […]
Duration:01:01:46