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Revolting

The Cycling Independent

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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  • Monday · 1 hr 3 min

    Revolting 252

    Into the Darkness. Well, daylight savings has ended, which means we are, day by day, plunging into a darkness that will leave many of us on the brink of despair. If you weren’t taking very good care of yourself before, now is probably the time to get your head out of your ass and devise […]

  • November 2 · 1 hr 13 min

    Revolting 251

    He’s a Mouth Breather. Some people are nice. Some people are smart. Some people are funny. Some are none of the above, but we still like them. What is the alchemy of friendship? Music Picks: Robot – R.E.M. – Dead Letter Office Stevil – Afghan Wigs – Soft Control

  • October 26 · 1 hr 14 min

    Revolting 250

    OK, Fine. Bikes. It’s hard to imagine it now, but this started as a podcast about bicycles and bicycle riding. Fortunately, we agreed almost immediately that was going to be really boring, which isn’t to say that bikes aren’t awesome, but rather that we contain multitudes and so do you. But ok, for our 250th […]

  • October 5 · 1 hr 7 min

    Revolting 249

    This Podcast but Even Worse. Look, we know you’re already mad about AI, but we’re gonna pile on and explain why getting the cheat code for everything isn’t going to be as satisfying as you think. At the end of the day, you need to want to do the things you want to do. How […]

  • September 28 · 1 hr 12 min

    Revolting 248

    Are You Gonna Eat Those Fries? One of the steep downsides of consumer culture and late stage capitalism is that everyone just throws everything out the minute it doesn’t do what they want it to. Is Gen X the last generation that even pretended to care about fixing things? Do you have to be crafty […]

  • September 21 · 1 hr 9 min

    Revolting 247

    Reliable Reviews of Movies We Haven’t Seen. Maybe you’ve seen them. Who cares? We’re gonna tell you what you should think, because we are keen observers of culture and media, arbiters of taste even. Grab yourself a bucket of popcorn and dump it on your head. We do things a little differently around here. Music […]

  • September 14 · 1 hr 6 min

    Revolting 246

    Sometimes You Just Have to Blow It Up. Nine days out of ten, we’re sleep walking, so it should come as no surprise when things get tragically off-course. Maybe it’s a relationship, maybe it’s a job, maybe it’s your whole life. You pack it with kindling and douse it with kerosene. You strike a match. […]

  • September 7 · 1 hr 10 min

    Revolting 245

    You and Your Younger Self Walk Into a Bar. How much of the story that we tell ourselves is really true? Were we really that cool, that rad or that fast? Or have we spent the years telling ourselves what we want to hear, slowly filling in the gaps between who we actually were and […]

  • August 31 · 1 hr 11 min

    Revolting 244

    Meet Me at the Goat Parade. All over the world people sensed a disturbance in the force, two powerful forces colliding, as though gravity shuddered and let out a fart. What happened was Robot and I met up at the MADE fancy-ass bicycle show, and now we’re gonna tell you all about our adventures there. […]

  • August 24 · 1 hr 3 min

    Revolting 243

    The Monster Truck Jam of the Planet of the Apes. The human condition is a cage we’ve spent nearly 300,000 years trying to escape from. Can we kill a wooly mammoth? Actually, we can kill ‘em all. Can we jump a rocket car across the Snake River Canyon? No. Apparently not. Through the millennia we’ve […]

  • August 10 · 1 hr 9 min

    Revolting 242

    You can pick your nose, and you can pick your music, but can you pick your friend’s nose music? We’ve already named around 500 great albums for you to listen to, but do you even lift, bro? I mean, are we talking to ourselves here? Well, just in case anyone is listening, we’re each going […]

  • August 3 · 1 hr 6 min

    Revolting 241

    A Typewriter, a Telephone, a Silver-Plated Whistle. If the phrase ‘sentimental value’ means anything to you, then you are one of the very many humans who have invested an everyday object with value beyond its usefulness. Why are we so eager to invest things with meaning or value or even supernatural powers? Music Picks: Robot […]

  • July 27 · 1 hr 12 min

    Revolting 240

    3 records, 2 movies and a book. Most humans think they’re complicated, but in reality, pop culture captures most of our personalities and feeds them back to us in shiny packages with long credits lists. Today, we sift through the media that express our personalities most succinctly. Music Picks: Robot – Quicksand – Bring on […]

  • July 20 · 1 hr 8 min

    Revolting 239

    Don’t Kill Yourself. We’re losing too many good people for bad reasons. We get it. We’ve been there. We’ve done the math too. Life can feel like way too much. But we’re gonna be really pissed off if you kill yourself, because it takes a whole village of idiots to make the kind of place […]

  • July 13 · 1 hr 3 min

    Revolting 238

    Getting to the Point. Guys, guys, guys, listen. We know we have a hard time getting to the point and sticking to the point and staying on schedule and remembering to breathe, but we have some strategies for doing a better job, and actually we’re not even sure doing a better job is worth that […]

  • July 6 · 1 hr 16 min

    Revolting 237

    Eating Crumpets with Emily Post. You know, you wouldn’t think a couple of guys like us thinks much about etiquette, but au contraire, we’re dedicated to getting along with most of the folks who are also dedicated to getting along with us, so we try to be considerate, polite even, and today we’re gonna try […]

  • June 29 · 1 hr 12 min

    Revolting 236

    Getting Exactly What We Deserve. We complain a lot about getting old and our bodies falling apart, but we have systematically avoided all the precautionary steps one might take to mitigate the aforementioned problems. We didn’t wear enough pads or helmets. We didn’t use ear plugs. We didn’t wear the braces we were supposed to. […]

  • June 22 · 1 hr 14 min

    Revolting 235

    Support This Podcast Formative Filmography. The ‘70s, ‘80s, and ‘90s were a time before streaming, when you had to mean to watch a movie. It didn’t just happen by accident. Back then, people could sit still for 2 whole hours at a time without checking their phones or hitting their vapes even once. We watched […]

  • June 15 · 54 min

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    Support This Podcast Doomsday Prepping. As long as humanity has been new boot goofin’ around Planet Earth, we’ve been preparing for the end. Will it be an asteroid strike? Alien attack? Or will we just do the species-level equivalent of falling asleep with a lit cigarette? Questions like these sharpen the mind and help you […]

  • June 8 · 1 hr 11 min

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    Support This Podcast The Pros and Cons of Being Alive. We’ve both been alive for more than half-a-century now, and that means we know stuff. We know what’s good about it, and we know what’s less good about it. For example, we know that there’s alien life in the universe and that it too wonders […]

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