Streets.mn Podcast

Let's talk bike accessories! Over his years of bike commuting, Ian has found a few items that he keeps with him at all times. Here are his recommendations!

00:00 | Intro 00:26 | Current news 02:07 | Ortlieb panniers 17:05 | Pizza Rack Carrying yard waste on the Pizza Rack DIY splash guard 28:11 | Abus Bordo folding lock 34:08 | PDW Ninja Pump Ian's full bike toolkit 39:46 | Rokform phone mount 51:56 | Lights Outro Attributions

Our theme song is Tanz den Dobberstein, and our interstitial song is Puck's Blues. Both tracks used by permission of their creator, Erik Brandt. Find out more about his band The Urban Hillbilly Quartet on their website.

This episode was hosted, edited, and transcribed by Ian R Buck, with a news segment by Tim Marino. We're always looking to feature new voices on the show, so if you have ideas for future episodes, drop us a line at [email protected].

Transcript

Find the transcript on our website.

According to Minnesota Public Radio, it's hot girl sinkhole spring. In other words, we have a ridiculous number of potholes right now in the Twin Cities, and since we can't do anything other than wait for the hardworking folks of road repair to fix them, we made a game about the whole situation. Andy and Beth Korth join for this special Nice Games Jam!

Attributions

This episode comes to us courtesy of Nice Games Club, a Minneapolis-based podcast about game development. Find more of their episodes on their website.

Our theme song is Tanz den Dobberstein, used by permission of its creator, Erik Brandt. Find out more about his band The Urban Hillbilly Quartet on their website.

Game notes

Prompt

Ellen gave us a prompt: "Create a game about patching potholes that Gabe would have fun playing"

Game type

Tabletop game

Materials

Marbles Play-Doh or alternative squishyness A very complicated custom game board Road tiles of various sizes and configurations

Setup

• Set up the custom game board
• Distribute marbles to all players
• Distribute Play-Doh to all players
• Distribute road / terrain tiles to all players
• Determine who will be the first player per the rules below

Rules

In a nutshell, the game challenges players to roll marbles down a hill. The hill is made of road tiles, but some of the tiles are pitted with potholes. Players can use Playdoh to patch potholes in the road so the marbles will make it to the finish.

The board is a grid laid over a raised pyramid where players put down terrain. Everything starts in the center (city hall); that's where you put the marbles so they roll down the hill. Each quadrant is a side of the pyramid, there's some method of tiling for the player to put pieces down to determine how the marbles will travel in that area.

Turn order

• Play starts with the player who most recently hit a pothole with their car or their bike. In case of a tie (as might happen if multiple players were in a car together), the younger player goes first.
• Play then proceeds clockwise.

Players can take 3 actions on their turn. You can do the same action more than once. The actions are:

• Rotate the board
• Place or swap a tile
• Patch a pothole
• Drop a marble

Tiles

• Each tile is worth 1, 2 or 3 victory points when marbles pass through. The rougher the tile, the more victory points it's worth.
• Players also get a bit of Play-Doh to fill up potholes in the terrain.
• Players have 5 tiles in their hand at any given time; as an action, they can play one, then draw back up to 5 tiles.

Rotating the board

• Rotating the board happens towards the left (counterclockwise), the opposite of play order, which goes to the right (clockwise). Each rotation turns the board 90 degrees.

Scoring & dropping marbles

• If a marble reaches the bottom of the hill in front of you, you get the victory points that it acquired from each tile it moved through on its journey from the top of the hill to the bottom.
• You ONLY get the victory points if the marble reaches the bottom of the hill. If you drop a marble as an action, and the marble gets stuck on the way, you don't get any points from the tiles it passed through.

Winning the game

• Play proceeds in 12 rounds. Each player gets one turn per round.
• Play ends when the turn counter reaches zero (game starts at the start of winter, ends at the start of the next winter)
• Whoever has acquired the most victory points by the end of the "year" is the winner of Pothole Run

Fun stuff to think about for the future

• We have to create an extractor to get the playdoh out.
• Cooperative play mode? Roles for each player? Someone who's better at filling potholes, someone who can put more marbles down, etc. Maybe two teams?

Links

• GLOM preorder through Miniature Market
• GLOM preorder through GameNerdz
• ✨ hot girl sinkhole spring ✨ - Minnesota Public Radio
• Uptown washout leaves 8-foot-deep sinkhole in Minneapolis intersection - Tim Nelson and Kerem Yücel, Minnesota Public Radio
• The Korths are back! They were first on episode #002 Steam Greenlight
• Episode #102 with Beth & Andy Code Comment: "Verdant Skies"
• Episode #204 with Beth & Andy Families in Games
• Episode #132 with Beth Narrative Design

Transcript

Read the episode transcript on our website.

Both Minneapolis and Saint Paul are conducting rezoning studies. One is focusing on missing middle housing, the other allowing business uses in more places. Let's learn more from advocates in each city!

Episode summary 00:00:00 | Intro 00:00:58 | Luke Hanson, Sustain Saint Paul 00:26:39 | Zach Wajda, Neighbors for More Neighbors 01:05:06 | Outro Resources

• Sustain Saint Paul
• Neighbors for More Neighbors
• Minneapolis Land Use Rezoning Study
• Minneapolis allowed uses chart

Attributions

Our theme song is Tanz den Dobberstein, and our interstitial song is Puck's Blues. Both tracks used by permission of their creator, Erik Brandt. Find out more about his band The Urban Hillbilly Quartet on their website.

This episode was hosted by Ian R Buck, and edited by Ian and Tim Marino. We're always looking to feature new voices on the show, so if you have ideas for future episodes, drop us a line at [email protected].

Transcript

See the transcript on our website.

At the Streets.mn Contributors' Workshop in February, managing editor Amy Gage hosted a panel titled Show and Tell, featuring several contributors ranging from newcomers to veterans. That discussion was recorded, and we are pleased to present it now on the Streets.mn Podcast feed!

Connect with us

• Amy Gage
• Pat Thompson
• Dan Gjelten
• Lisa Nelson
• Ed Steinhauer
• Ian R Buck

Attributions

Our theme song is Tanz den Dobberstein, and our interstitial song is Puck's Blues. Both tracks used by permission of their creator, Erik Brandt. Find out more about his band The Urban Hillbilly Quartet on their website.

This episode was hosted by Amy Gage, edited and transcribed by Ian R Buck. We're always looking to feature new voices on the show, so if you have ideas for future episodes, drop us a line at [email protected].

Transcript

See the transcript on the Streets.mn website.

What if I told you that there is a long-distance bicycling sport that encourages participants to stay together and socialize during rides? It's true!

Episode summary 00:00 | Intro 04:55 | What is randonneuring? 26:20 | Kate Ankofski 42:13 | Justin Tan 57:28 | Outro Pictures

Connect with us

• Minnesota Randonneurs Website
• Register for April 8 Spring Conference
• RUSA Permanents Finder
• Email Minnesota Randonneurs
• "Type II Fun"

Attributions

Our theme song is Tanz den Dobberstein, and our interstitial song is Puck's Blues. Both tracks used by permission of their creator, Erik Brandt. Find out more about his band The Urban Hillbilly Quartet on their website.

This episode was hosted by Ian R Buck, and edited by Ian and Tim Marino. We're always looking to feature new voices on the show, so if you have ideas for future episodes, drop us a line at [email protected].

Transcript

See the transcript on our website.

A newly signed state law sets Minnesota on course to use 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2040. In this episode, Minnesota House Majority Leader Jamie Long describes the decisive legislating that took an ambitious climate bill from introduction to the governor's desk in the space of one month.

Attributions

This episode comes from the Volts Podcast with permission of David Roberts. Check out his show for more national coverage on moving our energy systems away from fossil fuels!

Our theme song is Tanz den Dobberstein, and our interstitial song is Puck's Blues. Both tracks used by permission of their creator, Erik Brandt. Find out more about his band The Urban Hillbilly Quartet on their website.

This episode was transcribed by Ian R Buck. We're always looking to feature new voices on the show, so if you have ideas for future episodes, drop us a line at [email protected].

Transcript

Read a transcript of the episode on our website.

Bicycles can be a wonderful tool for bringing people together, but that doesn't happen without somebody putting in the effort! Today we chat with Patrick Stephenson about how 30 Days of Biking and the Joyful Riders Club got started, with tips for people looking to start their own group rides.

Episode summary 00:00 | Intro 01:40 | How Patrick got into bikes 06:08 | 30DOB origins 11:44 | Fostering inclusivity 14:56 | Shifting ride themes 22:06 | Tips for starting a group ride 28:31 | Logistics of a successful group ride 35:30 | Wintertime challenges Tips for Utilitarian Cycling, Part 2 39:14 | "Final" thoughts 40:47 | How to find group rides 44:53 | Outro Attributions

Our theme song is Tanz den Dobberstein, and our interstitial song is Puck's Blues. Both tracks used by permission of their creator, Erik Brandt. Find out more about his band The Urban Hillbilly Quartet on their website.

This episode was hosted, and edited by Ian R Buck, with transcript by Tim Marino. If you're interested in helping to create the show, we're looking for people to take on transcriptions and editing for occasional episodes.

Copyright

The Streets.mn Podcast is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Feel free to republish the episode as long as you don't alter it and you aren't profiting from it.

Join Elissa Schufman and Ruby Levine for a discussion of the novel The City & the City by China Miéville. It starts off as a murder mystery police procedural, but the themes go much deeper than that.

Connect with us

• The interview mentioned in the episode
• Streets.mn articles by Elissa
• Ruby's profile on StoryGraph
• May's book club: The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd

Attributions

Our theme song is Tanz den Dobberstein, and our interstitial song is Puck's Blues. Both tracks used by permission of their creator, Erik Brandt. Find out more about his band The Urban Hillbilly Quartet on their website.

This episode was hosted by Elissa Schufman, and was edited and transcribed by Tim Marino, who just joined the podcast team. Everybody say hi to Tim in the comments! We're always looking to feature new voices on the show, so if you have ideas for future episodes, drop us a line at [email protected].

Copyright

The Streets.mn Podcast is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Feel free to republish the episode as long as you don't alter it and you aren't profiting from it.

The Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota works on state-wide efforts to make biking better. They have a list of priorities for this year's legislative session, and you can help them bring them about!

Episode summary 00:00 | Intro 02:50 | Bike Walk Summit 10:44 | Bill Dooley Bicycle Safety Act BikeMN legislative agenda 29:09 | Funding 34:13 | eBike subsidy 39:04 | Speed cameras 42:02 | Misc 49:36 | Outro Attributions

Our theme song is Tanz den Dobberstein, and our interstitial song is Puck's Blues. Both tracks used by permission of their creator, Erik Brandt. Find out more about his band The Urban Hillbilly Quartet on their website.

This episode was hosted, edited, and transcribed by Ian R Buck. If you're interested in helping to create the show, we're looking for people to take on transcriptions and editing for occasional episodes.

Copyright

The Streets.mn Podcast is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Feel free to republish the episode as long as you don't alter it and you aren't profiting from it.

Today we're presenting an episode from the Active Towns podcast! They discuss the transformation of a 5,000-acre stripped-out area of iron ore mines into a gold mine of opportunity and a community-wide activity asset that supports both a culture of activity and economic vibrancy for the small towns in the area.

Episode summary 00:00 | Intro 01:00 | Cold Open 02:49 | Start of the episode 05:34 | Overview of the property 11:50 | Intro of the initial Cuyuna team 17:34 | Size of the property 19:23 | Timeline of buildout 20:42 | Economic Impact on the communities 23:37 | Cuyuna website 28:46 | Family-friendly orientation 31:00 | All abilities facilities 34:01 | Women and girl riders rock in Cuyuna 40:43 | Paddlesports and other activities 44:58 | Active culture transformation 49:21 | Final thoughts 51:57 | Outro Images

Show notes

Watch the video version of this episode to get the full effect.

Helpful Links (note that some may include affiliate links to help me support the channel): – Cuyuna website – Ride The Range

Four Easy Steps to Support My Efforts: 1. Become an Active Towns Ambassador by "Buying Me a Coffee" or by pledging as little as $1 per month on Patreon 2. If you enjoyed this episode, please give it a "thumbs up," leave a review on Apple Podcasts, and share it with a friend. 3. Subscribe to the podcast on your preferred listening platform and the Active Towns YouTube Channel 4. Pick up some Active Towns #StreetsAreForPeople Merch at my store

Credits: All video and audio production by John Simmerman

Music: Epidemic Sound

Resources used during the production of this episode: – My awesome recording platform is Ecamm – Adobe Creative Cloud Suite

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Background: Hi Everyone, my name is John Simmerman.

I'm a health promotion professional with over 30 years of experience and my area of concentration has evolved into a specialization of how the built environment influences human behavior related to active living and especially active mobility.

In 2012 I launched the non-profit Advocates for Healthy Communities as an effort to help promote and create healthy, active places.

Since that time, I've been exploring, documenting, and profiling established, emerging, and aspiring Active Towns wherever they might be, in order to produce high-quality multimedia content to help inspire the creation of more safe and inviting, environments that promote a "Culture of Activity" for "All Ages & Abilities."

My Active Towns suite of channels feature my original video and audio content and reflections, including a selection of podcast episodes and short films profiling the positive and inspiring efforts happening around the world as I am able to experience and document them.

Thanks for tuning in; I hope you have found this content helpful.

Creative Commons License: Attributions, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives, 2022

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