@Roadman_Podcast Hmm. 140mi road (training - 2x annually every Spring as a 20-something), 120mi road races, 100 mile MTB race (6 1/2 hr sufferfest). The 100 mile MTB race was the toughest.
@HunterBiden@ChrisCillizza Thank you, Hunter, for being real and honest. So many of us are right there with you. My brother struggled with alcohol and drugs his whole life til it ended. And I have my vices, too. But, like you and others, I’m tired of the decisive BS.
Keep going!!!
Things most Americans agree on:
Groceries cost too much.
Tariffs suck and make no sense.
Congress and Presidents shouldn’t trade stocks.
The debt is a mess.
The border should be secure, but legal immigration is good.
Endless wars are stupid, especially ones that nobody wants and have never been explained.
Americans are exhausted.
AI is like my new best friend that also might be trying to take my job, my ability to think for myself, and my humanity in the process. Yo like I love you, but WTF, but I still love you.
Diversity is actually awesome! The opposite is boring AF.
Canadians are super fucking cool.
Mexicans are chill.
Putin isn’t a good guy looking out for America’s best interest. Rocky IV and Miracle are great movies.
Good neighbors are a blessing.
Freedom of religion and coexistence without having to blow each other up is probably a good idea.
We all question, are we alone in the universe?
We all fuck up along the way.
Epstein didn’t hang himself.
The Trumps and Epstein were best friends for decades. It’s like Bert trying to tell us Ernie was just an acquaintance in the same social scene on Sesame Street back in the day.
The Cowboys suck. Go Birds!
Things we’re told to fight about:
Me.
Laptop.
Vaccines.
Transgenders in sports.
Pronouns.
That’s the joke.
Right! And we are all brainwashed to think it’s something to aspire to. I know this is old but the difference between one million and one billion is so vast I think people can’t comprehend it. One million seconds equals is 11.5 days. One billion seconds is 31.7 Years. And Elon is about to be a trillionaire. That would be 31,700 years. Now do the math in dollars. And the fact is that no one in the history of the world has ever attained that wealth by any other means then some form of domination over others. I do not begrudge financial success, but I do have a real problem when the the top 0.1% (130,000 families) hold 6 times the wealth as the bottom 66 million households combined. Put another way 905 individuals in America have twice the wealth of the entire bottom half of the country- 165,000,000 people. And it wasn’t always this way. The top 0.1 percent’s share of the U.S. wealth pie has grown 59.6 percent since just 1989.
@stevemagness I’ve seen the same with bikes. Unless there’s a specific why, such as too cold, dark, etc, every day is a good day to ride outside. But I do get that some are scared of riding in traffic.
@stevemagness It’s the same in bike racing. All the same reasons (excuses) for Lance’s success are back. Something’s up here. Maybe it’s the tech (shoes?) or something else. But it’s damn hard to buy into this 100% given how badly we’ve been burned before.
@stevemagness The US is unique for track and field, as well as basketball. But I’ll offer up as comparison the EU’s success rate for bicycle racing, road, track, MTB, you name it. Culture and club-based systems support the sport.
Stephen J. Hawking, the renowned astrophysicist regarded as Albert Einstein's intellectual successor, conceded defeat this week in a wager he made six years ago with two professors at the California Institute of Technology.
Hawking incorrectly bet against the existence of naked singularities - a mathematical point in a black hole where space and time are infinitely distorted, where matter is infinitely dense, and where the rules of relativistic physics break down.
With all due respect to Mister Hawking... what the hell were you thinking?!!
@Alan_Couzens My wife had a bike shop and was good friends with the local NFL QB. He rode a lot and would invite his NFL lineman to join the wkly group ride. Before the ride they’d scoff at the skinny little bike racers. They’d hangin for a few miles then get dropped at the first hill. 😂