Revolting

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Revolting episodes

October 21, 2024 Revolting 149
Natural Born Killers. There are aliens among us, people endowed with extraordinary abilities and no fucks to give. They don’t need expensive equipment. They don’t need a very tight shirt. They don’t need you to see them do the things they do. They’re just built different. Music pick of the week: Robot – Buildings – […]
1 hr 12 min
October 14, 2024 Revolting 148
The Three Body Problems. Never mind the sci-fi novel or the mini-series they made from it. Today we’re talking about the design problems with the human body, which are as obvious as the nose on your knee. Also, we can’t do anything about them, even though they’ll probably cause us to go extinct sooner rather […]
1 hr 5 min
October 07, 2024 Revolting 147
Anthony Bourdain’s Nightmares. In the night, when the hungers come, the mind capers at the culinary possibilities lurking in pantries and refrigerators. Weekend mornings, when we’re maybe not our best, we’ve contrived dishes that will never find a home at your local Applebees. Then there’s the stuff we’ve eaten on dares. Music pick of the […]
1 hr 6 min
September 30, 2024 Revolting 146
The Eventual Thoughtlessness of the Homogenized Mind. Either by algorithm, lowest-cost architecture, or the crushing weight of American cultural hegemony, we are all being rinsed clean of original thought, encouraged to communicate in memes and enjoy things like “boneless” wings. Music pick of the week: Robot – Pissed Jeans – King of Jeans Stevil –Lady […]
1 hr 8 min
September 23, 2024 Revolting 145
The Revolting Biopic Starring Danny Devito and Pauly Shore. The Revolting biopic is a comedy and a cautionary tale, a bildungsroman and a French period drama. Sure, it’s got panache and style. The costumes are outstanding, but what are the lessons we’re meant to learn from it and why does the plot seem so incoherent? […]
1 hr 20 min
September 16, 2024 Revolting 144
For a Brief, Shimmering Moment We Were Gods. We may look like only slightly abnormal human beings, but oh, you should have seen us back in the day, or rather, on that one day, when we were really good at something, so good that we remember it and base some not insignificant amount of our […]
1 hr 14 min
September 09, 2024 Revolting 143
The Motivation is the Message. Marshall McLuhan, who was Canadian and had a great name, thought the “medium was the message,” but it was the ‘60s, and apparently he also thought a mustache was a solid move. Anyway, since then media has exploded into a million little messages, and it seems more clear than ever […]
1 hr 7 min
September 02, 2024 Revolting 142
Coup d’etat! Coup d’etat! It was 1984 and Repo Man was in the theaters, a couple of them anyway. The suburban United States suddenly became aware of a little LA band called The Circle Jerks. Forty years later, some large part of the US custom bike building community converges unironically on Portland, and a whole […]
55 min
August 26, 2024 Revolting 141
How Heavy is Your Record Collection? You can measure it a couple ways. Raw weight. Number of Slayer albums. Quality vs. quantity. This is all really just an excuse to talk more about music and how we consume it and to express even more of our questionable opinions. Music pick of the week: Robot – […]
1 hr 1 min
August 19, 2024 Revolting 140
The Fine Print in the Social Contract. Just cause we’re introverted malcontents doesn’t mean we’re not on our second-best behavior when we’re out in public. Out there in the streets it’s a collaboration. Teamwork makes the dream transpire in a more agreeable fashion. So how do we get more people to understand there’s no ‘them’ […]
1 hr 6 min

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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…