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Full Spectrum Cycling #234 – Bikes and Music – Bikes Welcome on Amtrak Hiawatha – New Year’s Day Plans · Full Spectrum Cycling

• 0:00
  Meant to push this button [laughs]
• 0:20
  . [rock music] Hi there. Ho, ho, ho. Hi. It's almost, it's almost Christmas. Uh-huh. Most magical time of the year. Oh, is that your, uh, Buddha belly? Or your- I guess, uh-... St. Nicka, St. Nicka belly? Yep.
• 0:32
  Hey, everybody. This is Full Spectrum Cycling, show number 234. 2-3-4. 2-3-4. Been hulking around with the technology here. [laughs] Just don't know what's going on. Pushing the buzz.
• 0:44
  Push, push, push the wrong button, all sorts of stuff's happened. Happens. This i- these are one of those things- Ooh... when you do these things kinda sorta live, kinda sorta, kinda. Oh, boy.
• 0:56
  Well, what's happening, guys? We got, uh, we got JK over there. Hey, ho, ho, ho, ho. We have Tony over there. Yep. Tony brought his, his big white bike in. Have you named it yet? Chewy. Oh, Chewy.
• 1:08
  [laughs] Chewy the beluga whale. [laughs] It's, uh, it just, you know, it's just so fitting. Chewy, Chewy had a broken hoof or something. Yeah. Or a, a loose hoof. A lo- a, a bad shoe.
• 1:21
  The wind blew her over 'cause I had a cover on it. Oh, you cover it at work? No, at home. Oh, okay [laughs]. I rode it, uh, I, I rode an acoustic bike on Monday, which I'm gonna say right now, uh, [laughs]
• 1:35
  riding my e-bike, I've got, like, 70-some miles on it in a week, week and a half. Um, it makes me a faster acoustic rider. I've heard that. It, it literally, my Stumpjumper is light as a feather now,
• 1:53
  and I can... You know, and I've got power grips on it. It, it's just an absolute dream to ride. It's hilarious. How was the power grip again? Oh, that's the pedal thing. Yeah, where you put your foot in and turn it.
• 2:02
  It's awesome. God. It's awesome. Who came up with that goofy idea? I don't know. Dave Lunz and I agree. Awesome, awesome, awesome. [laughs] So yes. I missed Dave Lunz today.
• 2:12
  I was, uh, gonna get him some Packer pool money, but he pulled out before I pulled in. Mm-hmm. Uh- Saw the Lunz on the Sunday. Saw you on the Sunday. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 2:28
  [laughs] Yeah, we were watching some football game. And I was racing, chasing, chasing bands at halftime. Yeah. Oh, yeah, you went down to the, uh- World In Action at Cactus Club. Yep. So it was, uh,
• 2:41
  three minutes left in the second quarter, so, you know, just before halftime. Yeah [laughs]. I was like, "But how long does that really take, and are you gonna make it?" Yeah.
• 2:49
  'Cause it, it ended up taking pretty close to 20 minutes to finish- [laughs]... those three minutes- Yep... before the halftime started. And I got my ass- Oh, my God. Yeah [laughs] That's hilarious.
• 2:57
  I, it was a little behind. I know they had- And you were at Highbury? Is that where you were that- Cactus Club... when we were watching football? Oh, no, we were downtown. Oh, okay. On Water Street, so. Water and Juneau.
• 3:07
  Gotcha. Water and Juneau. Gotcha. Boom. With the Matt Lunz and the Dave Lunz. It was funny. Dot com. It was a little later than I wanted 'cause that, I, I knew that that was...
• 3:17
  You, you have to watch game flow for something like that if you're not gonna be there right at the halftime, you know? Then you made really good time getting over to Cactus. Yeah. Nice.
• 3:25
  I was really overheated when I got there [laughs]. I had to peel, like, two layers off before I could go into Polite Society. So the deal is they only play during the halftime? Yeah.
• 3:35
  So it's a 15-minute- Oh, yeah, 15, 20 minutes. Yeah, so, okay. I mean, sometimes they'll bleed over, you know, into the first few minutes of the third- Which is fully acceptable in my mind... yeah.
• 3:46
  And I mean, they're broadcasting the game against the band. They should just keep playing- So you-... through the whole thing... so essen- you can see a lot of the game while you're watching the band.
• 3:57
  Is it shining right upon them? Yeah. With a very large screen? Yeah. Yeah. Or if you- I think m- I think to their- If-... chagrin at times, like- If you think about it, if they played through the set,
• 4:08
  through the game- Mm-hmm... you'd appeal to both crowds. Yeah. Oh, I- 'Cause how many people watch the game to listen to the commentators? I went there about- Eh, well, it depends on where you go.
• 4:16
  A lot of people like listening. Ugh. Oh. I don't understand that. Yeah, but it's true. But- That doesn't make it not true... wouldn't you rather be listening to a- [laughs]... you know, a cool rock and roll band- Yeah...
• 4:25
  and watching a cool rock and roll band while also glancing at the game? A few weeks ago- If you're me, I don't give a rat's ass about football. Right.
• 4:32
  But I would love to see the band, and I'd go there if it was a full show. [laughs] A few w- weeks ago was, uh, Holy Mary Motor Club, a band that hadn't played a gig together for, like, close to 20 years- [laughs]...
• 4:44
  or something like that. So they got together, boom, they do the halftime, and they're like, "Well, we're just gonna keep playing for a while 'cause we haven't done this in, like, 20 years, so if, you know, whatever."
• 4:52
  That cool. Yeah. So they essentially played a, like, the whole third quarter. Yeah. And- And no one complained, right? No.
• 4:57
  No, no, and you can see the game, like, broadcast against the- Especially since you're at the Cactus Club already. Yeah. I mean, it's a music venue. Oh, yeah. It, it works out very famously.
• 5:05
  She used to manage- And I bring this up-... the, uh, Public House... because the, whenever the Green Bay Packer football organization's team, they're, they have a flexed schedule on J- January 6th or 7th.
• 5:21
  The NFL hasn't decided what, when this is, but that halftime show is November Criminals. Oh. So- From Polka Riot fame. Yeah. Mm-hmm.
• 5:30
  So- I can't believe they're gonna flex the Packers because I don't, they're not- I don't even understand the politics or the shit of that.
• 5:37
  I just think it may be the- I just want there to land on a freaking time so I can plan accordingly. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
• 5:42
  You know, when it's a, ugh, night game, that makes it all the more annoying- 'Tis true... logistically. Daytime, hey, yeah, let's do this. So get that in their NFL- I'm-... scheduling committee.
• 5:55
  I'm, uh- [laughs] You know, right there... I'm changing subjects completely, partially 'cause I don't care about football, but also because by the time everyone's listening to this in internet time,
• 6:06
  I may have siding on my house That sounds exciting That's, like, crazy Yeah. That sounds exciting. Expensive. [laughs] It's, it's also expensive, but it needs to be done and- So they'll work in the cold? Yeah.
• 6:19
  It's supposed to be warm again. It was cold for a day here. It's gonna be in the 40s tomorrow- Yeah, it's supp-... or, well, yesterday Mm-hmm.
• 6:24
  Going up to Christmas, I think we're in the 40s the, the, the whole way there. They're talking mud for Christmas. Mud. Wet, rain, bad weather. I mean, come on, if it's gonna be dreary- Ooh...
• 6:36
  throw some snow in the mix, man. We'll have a little fire. We'll have a little, little bonfire in the front yard. Mm-hmm, maybe. Maybe. It's a little far out to see what New Year's Day is gonna look like. Right.
• 6:47
  Are we, are we skiing? [sighs] Or- Should we ski at all? Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. I mean, there's always the fallback. Right. But we talked ab- Okay... did we talk last week about going to South Shore? Uh.
• 6:59
  South Shore, or not South Shore- Did we?... uh, South Milwaukee, South Milwaukee Yacht Club. Is that the one that's just over the bridge, or is that the one that's way the hell out?
• 7:07
  That's the one that's right n- on the south side of Grant Park- Yeah... just across that little river. Like that, yeah. So right out by- And it's one... by Bay View-ish, where I almost was married, right?
• 7:17
  Is there a beer garden there? South. Way south of there. South, way south. Grant Park South. Oh, geez. Okay. Like, the pavilion you're thinking of is the way north. This place is the way south of that- Oh...
• 7:28
  that, that park system along there. You know what I'm saying? Sure. Know what I'm saying? I mean, the deal is they, they're opening up just for polar plungers, 'cause they were normally not open on New Year's Day.
• 7:39
  But Casey, Merlin Buchanan, and friends have been going there for a couple years. Mm-hmm. And they keep getting more people showing up, and they keep being happier with the polar plungers, so [laughs] Mm. Polar plunger.
• 7:52
  [laughs] Yeah, yeah. I mean, we- I mean, yeah, we- Yeah, I remember seeing some videos of that and yeah... keep, keep an eye on the weather and- That's a possibility. Yeah. Does the Hop go that far? [laughs] No.
• 8:06
  No, but I, I could add two ba- batteries and take a passenger holding their bike. Nice. Just- Might be kinda fun... we gotta get a carabiner and lash onto that thing. You know? Right, skitch it up. Right? Yeah.
• 8:17
  That'll work, too. We could try that in the snow with, with like- Nah, I'm gonna go down. Were you a skitcher? Oh, yeah. [laughs] All the time, man.
• 8:24
  So I don't know if you remember the very best shoes, but the ones that I used to get were from Kmart. They had, like, the hardest plastic sole. They were so slippery- No, I, I don't, but-...
• 8:36
  that you couldn't really gain traction to walk, but once you got skitchin', boy. Hey, just get cruisin'. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, man.
• 8:42
  'Cause we used to get so many, we used to get so many guys on the back of a bumper that the car wouldn't move.
• 8:46
  [laughs] And then we'd, like, pop up and push the car and get it going and then just jump back down on there and get the ride. [laughs] Nice. Yes. Yeah, good stuff.
• 8:54
  No, we were generally just three or four of us doing it, so it was u- the car could usually get a move going. Yeah, yeah, as long as it gets rolling. God, that was fun. Yeah, good stuff. Didn't die. Mm-mm.
• 9:03
  [laughs] Uh, I, I made it to Riverwest Pizza on Friday. Mm. I'm, I'm guessing you don't normally eat at the restaurant, right? You normally take it to go. It's almost always to go, yes. Yeah. Well, the food was good.
• 9:17
  Loud? The... It wasn't very loud. It was pretty much full. The problem was they didn't have any actual beer selection really.
• 9:27
  They have all those tappers, but they must have had something happen because anything that resembled an IPA, starting with, I think Wendy wanted a Spotted Cow. Goes over there and comes back. "Oh, that won't...
• 9:37
  That's tapped out." "Okay, what else do you have?" Huh. "420." "Okay." Tapped out. Comes back. "That's tapped out." It's like, don't you have a list of all the stuff that's tapped out?
• 9:46
  They have a, maybe they had a party or something the night before or- Maybe, but there was, like, six or seven beers that were tapped out. What day was it? Friday.
• 9:52
  Oh, 'cause I was in on Sunday, and I had two beers waiting for my pie and, and wings. Yeah, we ended up having a, whatever that Edmund Fitzgerald-y beer is, 'cause that wasn't tapped out. Okay.
• 10:01
  But I was just- What was the pizza?... Great Lakes. What kind of pizza? No pizza. Oh. I had a, a, a Italian beef, and Wendy had the meatball sandwich. Oh, interesting.
• 10:08
  We went there for s- sandwiches specifically, not pizza, so. Oh, interesting. And they were good. They were good? Oh, yeah. Yeah, very good. Just to...
• 10:15
  It w- it wasn't so much that they were out of beer, it's that they were so unorganized that they couldn't- Tell... say- Hey... "Here's all the ones we're out of right now"- Right... in one swoop, not go back five times.
• 10:26
  Well, and that could be the server's douche move, too. I think she may have been new. I mean, you know? I, you know, I, I try not to let that bother me, but- [laughs] Oh, my. That just reminded me of... And over at the,
• 10:39
  the good, the good food of the tracks, but when you hit, like, some weird service vortex- Yeah. Mm-hmm...
• 10:45
  where everything is just horrible, and if you n- if you didn't know better, if that was, like, your first time there and you thought that's how that place would operate, you'd be souring. Yeah.
• 10:54
  I'm, I'm fortunate- But it was one of those going like, "No, I know it's not like this ever," and, uh, what is happening? Sometimes once in a while they're- And why am I getting all the bad luck right now?
• 11:03
  [laughs] It is... I do find it's funny 'cause they all know who we are now because we had to restrain Daniel from running, repeatedly running in the kitchen to hug the, the cook.
• 11:13
  [laughs] And then whenever we show up, we gen- we don't have him now, and sooner or later someone's like, "So where is he?" We need... Yeah, sorry. Yeah. Hugs and affection. So, you know. But anyway, um, bikes. Bikes.
• 11:26
  So thank you for the assistance on getting my, my Chewy back on two legs. Yeah, I think we need to check if there's a lock washer in there maybe. Yeah, we will, but when it's warmer. Yeah.
• 11:37
  [laughs] And for ferrying the Kim, the Kim Mossy mobile- [laughs] Oh, yeah, that's-... and, and human back. [laughs] Yeah, it's actually still in the van, but we'll get to that.
• 11:45
  [laughs] But I was gonna, I was gonna pick up the other bike, too, 'cause she wants to do that wheel swap, too. Oh, yeah.
• 11:50
  Which will, which will have the added benefit of getting you your fat bike wheels back for your fat bike instead of the 29er plus wheels on there. True, true. Although the 29 is a nice setup, isn't it?
• 12:01
  Yeah, I guess as long as it's not being used as a fat bike, they are pretty sweet. Well, it's a- We also still have a set of, of studded snow tires hanging in the other room, so. Right. Aren't those 26s?
• 12:12
  Yeah, they go on the fat bike wheel that's- Yeah, I'd like those, yeah... Kim has stolen those for, like, two years. Yeah, yeah. They're really nice. 'Cause that was, like, an experiment for, for lightness- Yeah...
• 12:22
  to try- And it was, and it worked... to try to gram shave that behemoth of a bike. Of a Pudge monster. Yeah, it was, it was pretty big.
• 12:30
  I- if, if we had a couple more shekels in the old, uh, checking account, I'd order that new State and see how it compares to the original, 'cause I think having both of them would be kinda cool.
• 12:40
  [laughs] Although, I, I don't even know where the wheels are from that bike, 'cause- Oh, I th- yeah. Oh, no... they probably got- Hopefully thrown away, 'cause they were horrid...
• 12:47
  like, probably there's a boat somewhere that's using them for an anchor- Right... somewhere, I guess. Yeah, they were, they were- I don't know... ungodly heavy. I'll take a look at them right in the bike room.
• 12:55
  I have, for some f- reason, I think I still have the rims. Yeah. And I don't know why, but I think- It's-...
• 13:03
  yeah, just in the, "Whatever, let's just put the damn things back on there, and if we're getting rid of it," or something like that [laughs]. Yeah, yeah. I don't know. 'Cause I think it, that, that bike's time may be a-
• 13:16
  approaching its- I know, with these new s- narrower three-inch, 26x3 tires. Right. It might just be groovy. See how that rides. That might be- Oh... might be pretty groovy. Yeah. I didn't know those were coming around.
• 13:27
  Well, yeah, we, it's- Sounds fun... I don't know if they're, that's what's on the, uh, the low side, too. Or no, those- Yeah... are 27 fives, or are those 26? No, those are 26. 26x3s also. Oh, big old knobby.
• 13:39
  Yeah, they're not- Yeah... super big knobs, though. Yeah. I think- Dirt Lizard or- No, I suppose I've-... we got them stuck out in the other garage though... I have those 26 inch Holy Rollers. Those are 2.8.
• 13:47
  They're pretty big. Yep. That might be what makes that bike, 'cause she doesn't go beach riding. She didn't- No... really care for that too much. No, no.
• 13:55
  It was- Just make it a urban assault vehicle that can, she's like, "As long as it can take potholes on and I don't crash, that's what I want." I'm like, "This might be the perfect bike- Yeah... for you." Thank you.
• 14:05
  Thank you for, so I don't have to translate in, on the in between. [laughs] It's like, you two, get in a damn room. Fight it out. Yes, exactly. ThunderDome this decision-making.
• 14:17
  Got to hang out at the, uh, JK and, uh, Kim's place and watch a little bit of Elf. Elf, wow. Elf. Yeah. "I know him. I know him." [laughs] And, and the screeching cat after hours.
• 14:31
  Oh, yeah, when I was, uh, kinda reclining for a couple minutes before I went home, it was like [purrs]. Yeah, [laughs] it was like a wild animal in the background. [growls] Jesus.
• 14:42
  Yeah, it's kinda noisy for a little, tiny cat. Yeah. It's not very big. I know. I'm in the other room going like, "Oh, my God. Drigs will be pulling his hair out of his fucking head right now."
• 14:51
  [laughs] Yeah, as long as it didn't jump on my belly and proceed to- Let's put it this way-... lay on my belly... where you were laying, the, the animal is want to jump up and nuzzle with you right there.
• 15:02
  [laughs] I'm surprised it didn't.
• 15:03
  [laughs] I have one of the greatest River West 24 memories of you laying on our purple couch at our duplex, and I can, like, tell you're trying to sleep, but you know that Mariposa, as a puppy, is about to pounce you.
• 15:17
  [laughs] And you catch her midair. [laughs] It was like, your eyes were closed, but I'm like, "He's not asleep." [laughs] And all of a sudden she pounces up in the air, and you're just like, and set her down.
• 15:28
  [laughs] It was freaking- We all jump on the sleeping human. Yeah. [laughs] It was definitely like, like, "I'm waiting for him to fall asleep. Is he asleep?" [laughs] "Then I'm gonna jump on him."
• 15:38
  "I'm gonna make sure he's not asleep." Yeah. Yeah. Man, that's digressed.
• 15:42
  Um- No, so, so here's something that we talked about several shows back, I don't know when it was, that the Amtrak Hiawatha from, from Milwaukee to Chicago was no longer gonna put bikes on the train. Mm-hmm.
• 15:54
  I saw the new bike- Bikes are back. At least to some extent you can get your bike on the train again, 'cause they have some of the new cars
• 16:01
  that you basically, I don't know if it works j- exactly like the Hop, but you walk in the door and you hang your bike. Yeah. And it's right there. That's kinda cool. Yeah. Yeah.
• 16:10
  I mean- Yeah, it would be, yeah, the in theory of the Hop where you just- I wonder if I could hang the cargo, the electric. Yeah. [laughs] Be a fun ride back. Be a fun ride trying to get it up. [laughs] Right?
• 16:21
  Kick the, kick the front of that up. Will take a- I'll bring Sam... bit of an effort. Yeah, there you have it. Yeah. Well. Good picture of him, Sam, up there at the, uh, Shell track race. I don't know if I saw that one.
• 16:31
  A good wheelie, a good wheelie picture- Yeah, that's Sam... from, from, from whatever, you know, event/pro photographer they had up there- Yeah... that he had to pay money to get, I guess. Ah.
• 16:41
  That said, since he paid money, we can put it on the website, I believe. Wow. So, we'll, we're gonna do it, because it's a good photo. Great. And it doesn't have the watermark on it, so it must be fine.
• 16:54
  Uh, yeah, so Hiawatha, Milwaukee to Chicago, Chicago to Milwaukee. Check it out. It, I've got a link in the show notes from the Chicago Street Blog.
• 17:03
  I should- Uh, but there's, I'm sure there's other information on it out there. That's a really nice date night maneuver if you really wanted to. Get bikes, train to Chicago, get a hotel, have a bunch of fun,
• 17:18
  reverse process to come home. Do you think most of the hotels downtown there would let you take your bike in? I can't imagine they wouldn't. To your room? A nice bike? Yeah. You know?
• 17:28
  I think they'd be- I don't know, they're, I forgot where we were staying. It was, uh, I think it was in La Crosse. Went last time I went to La Crosse. Really? And, yes, please.
• 17:37
  Oh, um, last time I went to La Crosse, there was a sign right on the, on the, uh, where you check in that said, "Please take your bike into your room." Whoa, nice.
• 17:49
  And I asked, I was like, "Dude, is it really, is there that much crime here?"
• 17:53
  'Cause this is, I guess, on kinda the northern end of La Crosse where there's a bunch of hotels there on Rose Street, and I thought, "This is pretty safe."
• 18:00
  It, and mine's inside the vehicle, so I'm not too worried about it.
• 18:03
  But, um, he said something about, I think they did it when there was a NICA race there, and there was, like, a bazillion people with bikes, and they were like- Just, yeah... hmm, target rich environment. Right. Mm-hmm.
• 18:15
  So yeah, power to you guys. [bell ringing] Ding, ding, ding. Didn't have to use the e-bike this week to get to the top of the hill. Nope. Took a time.
• 18:23
  Well, we're, uh, we're, we're, uh, since we had the crap beer last week- Oh, God. It was terrible... this is in exactly the same vein, the All Day- But totally drinkable... All Day IPA from Founders- Yeah...
• 18:35
  which, yeah, we had a couple weeks ago. I mean- Glad it's still in the fridge because it is good. It, it is like... Oh, look. [beer fizzing] What? What's wrong with you? Oh. What's wrong with your thumbs?
• 18:47
  It's very effervescent. [laughs] I'm gonna tap mine, see, see if that works. It's also really cold. I tapped the crap out of mine, and yes, it is very cold. Um, maybe I should turn the fridge down a little.
• 19:00
  I was thinking that whatever the crap beer we had last week, which we don't... What was it again? Hmm. Lagunitas. A Lagunitas something. So- something horrible. Something with a session idea to it. Yeah, that was bad.
• 19:10
  I was, I was wondering if it was one of them that was, you know, like, had a very, very small leak that got me back when I opened the cooler from last week. It was all moldy in there. Oh, God.
• 19:19
  I'm like, "Oh, one of those beers got us." Oh, I don't know. Yeah. That was not a good beer. [laughs] You know, it's like after we talked- Wasn't even remotely close to a good beer...
• 19:26
  after we talked shit about it, it just decided to take a leak in the- Yeah... freaking cooler, [sniffs] so. It's just 'cause the Sh- beer cans are spying on us. Yeah. Much like birds aren't real.
• 19:37
  Yeah, Sydney's into the birds aren't real thing. I know. Anything that flies. The flag's sold out. I can't get it. Anything that flies.
• 19:43
  So if anybody's out there listening and they can get their hands on a birds aren't real flag, let me know and I'll send you my address, 'cause that motherfucker's flying. Ten-four to that.
• 19:54
  Uh, one of those, one of those websites I check every once in a while, uh, Singletracks. I don't know if you guys go to that site, singletracks.com. Sometimes they have good stuff.
• 20:01
  What they had that was interesting was a groomed fat bike trail survey, which there's a link in the show notes. Okay. And I would say do it and see where it's at.
• 20:13
  It was 127 people had already done it, which not a ton, but- Uh-huh... 75-plus percent of them said they had a groomed trail within two hours of where they lived, and 68% said they had
• 20:28
  one within an hour of where they lived. Huh. Pretty much tells you where the people that are doing the survey live, I would imagine. Right. But, uh- North? I would think it would be Midwest mostly- Right...
• 20:39
  but Grand Tahre was in there, which is in Idaho. Oh, okay. You know? So is this like a wide path groomed? I... It could be anything that- Okay. Interesting...
• 20:48
  you could ride your bike on and it's not bushwhacking basically- Gotcha... would be my- Oh, interesting. Interesting... somewhat, somewhat groomed. And you know, it goes anywhere from- That'd be fun...
• 20:56
  12-foot wide, you know, cross-country- Yeah, race tracky type things to-... classic, right, to, to the stuff they do up in Hayward up there near Sealey Dave where they basically do it single track width and- Wow...
• 21:10
  many, many, many miles. So, uh, just an interesting thing. I, I would ex- expect it if, uh, maybe people
• 21:17
  don't do the survey if they don't fat bike, and then that would account for the other 75% of the country or something. But- Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm... anywho, are you gonna do the survey? [laughs] Click on that link too.
• 21:30
  I'm looking at that survey. [laughs] We'll put that survey in the show notes. Uh, so race, race stuff's coming up. There's a bunch of stuff starting in January. No snow though. And blah, blah, blah. No snow yet.
• 21:43
  I, I don't really see any snow in the forecast- There's not any for a while... for another 10 days or so. I'm not even putting on my snows yet on my car. Yeah.
• 21:52
  Mine are sitting right out on the other side- I know, I mean-... of that curtain right there waiting for- Why would I put on mine when it's 45 degrees out? Yeah. You know? I got my, I got my, uh...
• 21:59
  I got blizz- I have blizzaks now- Me too... but, mm. Yeah, me too. I would go back to the hockey pucks if I could, but. Me too. They were so expensive during the pandemic. I could not... I got quoted, uh,
• 22:13
  on a steel wheel, almost 300 bucks a tire. With the wheel? Uh, may- With- With the wheel, yeah, but the wheel's a steely. I got... I ended up finding online, 'cause it's a weird bolt pattern, for 50 bucks piece.
• 22:29
  Let me, let me see that napkin in b- in case this thing sprays- There you go. See, see... in my face over here.
• 22:32
  So I'll spray it all over the computer and- We'll be trying to open another one of them there All Day- All Day. I'm gonna be-... Frozen. [laughs] Oh, look at him. He's just manning up there. [laughs] Oh.
• 22:44
  Oh, oh, oh, baby, baby, baby, baby. And, uh, talking big there, and then all of a sudden- What'd you do? What'd you do, boy?... it happened. Ah, it didn't even make it over the rim. Mine didn't on the second one.
• 22:52
  The first one- [laughs]... I wasn't paying attention, so. Or not, I don't know. They... I... You think it's 'cause it's too cold? Probably. Turn that, turn that fridge down just a little bit. Hmm. Yeah.
• 23:05
  That's one thing about this nice weather, it expands the size of the outdoor refrigerators. And that's- So refrige-... that's the Polish porch is what we call it...
• 23:14
  yeah, for refrigerator space, cars, and out in porches, and the vestibule. Keep your cold and... Yep, yep. It's right about the- Polish pantry. Excuse me. There we go. Yep.
• 23:23
  [laughs] Well, I had to make a purchase of the roast beast, making a prime rib for the old holidays. Doing the nice and simple. Now the only thing I have to do is monitor that nobody touches the fucking oven
• 23:42
  for two hours. No touching the oven. Don't even look at it. Stand in front of it. Yeah, or put fricking locks, make it look like goddamn Jacob Marley or something. Right, right. Yeah. Just leave it be.
• 23:53
  Do you think it's ready? Oh, I, like, I, I kinda wanna, like- Stop opening the door. Yep. Yeah. Never open the door. Don't interrupt it. Oh, it's gonna be a test. I believe that. Test, test, test. I believe that shit.
• 24:05
  Yes. I don't know how many people actually check the show notes, but everyone should at some point. Do it. Put a lot of effort into it. I do. I believe, I- You know what we also put on there? Pictures
• 24:15
  I always peru- I always peruse the pictures So, some you, some that you will see this week. One is, uh, Tammy from formerly Fixation when they were on Van Vredenburgh. Van, yeah.
• 24:28
  So she's- She never worked there, I don't think... well, she, and she- I think she just shopped there a lot... oh, she had a Fix- she still, I think, has a- She still has a couple of Fixations... Fixation fat bike.
• 24:35
  Yep, yep Um, I don't know who she went up there with to port, but she got a beautiful picture of a newly, freshly, newly fresh painted, uh, Dark Side of the Moon rock, which is, now has
• 24:47
  20-some feet to the water before the rock. Nice. When the rock used to be underwater. Underwater. So, this is just- We can ride that. Oh, yeah. You can get definitely to Sucker Creek- Good... which Mike, uh- Sven...
• 24:59
  Gledowski already said... Sven... wad. Bring back the full moon ride. Full moon ride. I gotta put the, I gotta put my old tires back onto my Tatanka- Yeah, you could use-... to do that then...
• 25:10
  you could even use studded ones. It won't, it won't care that it's on sand. Ah, they're studded? We have the studs. Uh-huh. Bud. Yeah, I will tell you that, let's bring that back, 'cause that is...
• 25:20
  The nicest thing about it, it's 4:00 in the afternoon sometimes, 5:00. True that, yeah. So you can roll up there, do a ride, get done. It's dinner time. [laughs] I mean, literally it's what? 6:00- Yeah... ish.
• 25:36
  Tallows is pretty decent. You know, stop at Tallows, or stop somewhere. We, one time we went to that, uh... Actually, that was a different time, but we went out to that Harley thing that was pretty good near Sheboygan.
• 25:48
  Mm. Um- Mm... I think that's when we went out with Ernie and the crew. Could be. It was a long time ago. Ah, been a long time ago. Uh, but yeah, um, I actually think it's long gone, it's out of business.
• 25:56
  But, and then get home, and it's like, I can put the kid to bed. You know? It's like a midday great ride. It's not that far. I can always sucker you to give me a ride in your, [laughs] in your minivan.
• 26:09
  [laughs] Long as Zito doesn't get there first. Uh. [laughs] Oh, yep. Oh, geez. [laughs] Oh, God. Oh, geez. Lead with the crotch. All right. Here's another one. I, I don't know if either one of you saw this.
• 26:21
  [laughs] You know our, our buddy Mike that worked at Zuzu Pass not long ago, and- I did hear that...
• 26:25
  I don't remember who it was that had these old pictures of the bands he was in, but this picture cracks me up, so make sure you check it out. [laughs] Oh, yeah. You were showing this. [laughs] It's from probably
• 26:35
  20, 30 years ago probably. Mm. And t- one, uh, they're just classic- [coughs]... classic Mike stuff. I wish that guy was still around.
• 26:45
  Uh, I'm also gonna recycle that Tony and, and Sven picture from, uh, Santa Rampage many years back. That was good. Was that, uh, was that, uh, Mr. Cagle take that picture? Or who took that picture? Uh, yeah, it was Mr.
• 26:57
  Cagle. Uh- Yeah... Young Cagle. Young, young Noel, or young, uh- Um, do you, do you know what happened sh- after I was looking at that picture for a minute, do you know what happened pretty much directly after?
• 27:06
  We got beer? I crashed. [laughs] Oh. [laughs] That's where I wiped out on the, on the RW24 bike. Oh, that's when- Mm-hmm... going down into the Schlitz. Yeah, I remember that. It was kinda slid out and bammo.
• 27:16
  Although, that might not have been the year, because the reason why I'm thinking that is, uh, I swapped bikes with you for that little bit and crashed, and you're clearly riding on one of your bikes in that photo.
• 27:27
  That's true. And I don't, I, I, I definitely showed up with one of my fat... Well, at that time, my only fat bike. Right on.
• 27:34
  But, yes, that picture's awesome, and it's funny 'cause everyone knows fat bikes are just a fad. Right. Well, make sure you check the show notes. There's some links in there. There's some pictures in there.
• 27:43
  There's information we don't even talk about in there a lot of times. Yeah. So. 'Cause we blather. Yeah. And you- Yeah... it's, yeah, it's like the deleted scenes of a movie, man. Yeah. Uh. Right. Yeah, man. That's true.
• 27:54
  Behind the scenes scenes. Dude, yeah. Behind the scenes. Scenes. All right. Gotta catch 'em all. Anything before we get the heck outta here today? Happy holidays, y'all. Merry Christmas.
• 28:04
  We'll talk about, uh- Right there... we'll talk about Christmas presents next show. [laughs] I got some stuff to talk about. Merry mother [censored] Christmas. All right, everybody. Bye. Bye.
• 28:17
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