Tests From The Future

Today's episode is all about the yearly World Relay Heart Route. Our guest Sarah, its initiator and the founder of Cycle Your Heart Out, tells us all about it! But before we get to that part, we have to clarify one thing; how can she be our guest when she was born over 200 years ago? After clearing up that mystery, we move on to ask insightful questions about trivial details, as you've come to expect from us. Sarah also shares some new information about life and heartful cycling in the 21st century, while we bring her up to speed on some of the special 23rd century features. As a bonus, Sarah's dog, who sat in the corner quietly for most of the recording, joins us when we're wrapping up.

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Chapters

00:00 - Hello

00:24 - Introduction

00:53 - Special Guest

11:58 - World Relay ♥ Heart Route

32:15 - Outroduction

32:48 - Goodbye

Credits

Sarah: CycleYourHeartOut.com

Theme Music: Over 100 Jaar by Klein Orkest

Almost Everything Else: Simon & Dirk

When you're saving something for a rainy day, you might as well actually use it when that day comes! In our case, that means taking Simon's old 'magic' carpet for a spin. You'll find out why we're a little sad that it's not actually raining, how the carpet knows where we want to go and of course… where we're actually going! Because we fly to a well-known city and visit some of its sights from above. Hint: they have double decker space shuttles!

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Chapters

00:00 - Hello

00:25 - Introduction

00:36 - Magic Carpet

07:18 - Flying Carpet Ride

12:31 - London

27:32 - Listener Email

29:28 - Outroduction

29:51 - Goodbye

Credits

Theme Music: Over 100 Jaar by Klein Orkest

Almost Everything Else: Simon & Dirk

Be prepared to have your view of the world changed dramatically! In this episode we'll explain that everything you thought you knew about lightning and rainbows is not just wrong, but that there has been a centuries old global conspiracy that has kept the truth from you all this time. Luckily you have us, your personal reliable source of information from the future. Now, if only the people in our time would believe us…

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Chapters

00:00 - Hello

00:54 - Introduction

03:49 - At the End of the Rainbow

14:46 - Outroduction

15:14 - Goodbye

Credits

Theme Music: Over 100 Jaar by Klein Orkest

Almost Everything Else: Simon & Dirk

We take a listener email as an opportunity to tell you a little more about work in the 23rd century. We answer Kasper's questions about Dirk's current work at the city council, but also answer a few other work related questions from other listeners. You 21st century people seem to be very obsessed with work! That is not normal, you know. You should work less and listen to podcasts more! Luckily Simon tells us how his current sabbatical is going, to make sure this episode has a proper work life balance. Also: "efficiently".

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Chapters

00:00 - Hello

00:23 - Introduction

00:44 - All Work and No Play

24:59 - Outroduction

25:37 - Goodbye

Credits

Theme Music: Over 100 Jaar by Klein Orkest

Almost Everything Else: Simon & Dirk

Today it's time to discuss technology that may not even exist. We investigate the urban legend of The Amazing Rollertoaster, a rollercoaster that is so amazing that it had to include that fact in the name. For a bit of variation, we did not research beforehand, but first discuss what we know, and then take a break for some ad hoc research! We find out a few pretty interesting things, including hints about mushrooms, cheese and red pepper. You'd almost think it is a food product after all! And who knows, maybe one of these hints will lead us to the real thing!

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Chapters

00:00 - Hello

00:24 - Introduction

00:47 - What We Know So Far

04:51 - The Amazing Rollertoaster

16:56 - Let's Move On

17:10 - Listener Email

17:33 - Outroduction

17:58 - Goodbye

Credits

Theme Music: Over 100 Jaar by Klein Orkest

Almost Everything Else: Simon & Dirk

Thanks to a little help from our alien friends, we've started to work on the technology that'll allow us to travel much further in much less time. With 'we', we obviously don't mean us personally. We'd much rather just talk about it. And then of course use it once it's ready! Today our listeners will find out what the technology is exactly, how it's shared with us, and what we think to accomplish once it's all working. Because we were already expecting it to be one of our longer episodes, we even insert a little game of space travel bingo at the beginning.

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Chapters

00:00 - Hello

00:25 - Introduction

00:49 - Space Travel Bingo

02:08 - Space Travel Breakthrough

36:32 - Listener Email

40:02 - Outroduction

40:31 - Goodbye

Credits

Theme Music: Over 100 Jaar by Klein Orkest

Almost Everything Else: Simon & Dirk

We get completely carried away when we discuss the possibility of parallel dimensions. The UN set up a new division to find out if they actually exist and we discuss the practicalities of such dimensions. We don't have any answers, but we ask important questions, like "Do these dimensions include everything ever?", "Do the people there also wonder if we exist?" and "Can you purchase something that's sold out in one dimension in another?"

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Chapters

00:00 - Hello

00:38 - Introduction

00:59 - Parallel Dimensions

21:29 - Listener Email

23:02 - Outroduction

23:35 - Goodbye

Credits

Opening Theme: Over 100 Jaar by Klein Orkest

Closing Theme: Out of Space by The Prodigy

Almost Everything Else: Simon & Dirk

In this week's episode we desperately try to pronounce "particle accelerators" several times before resorting to the name everybody uses; "Por". Listeners will learn what computer games, making mustard, and LCLS have in common, what our favourite Por models are and what a Dyson swarm has to do with anything. And if that wasn't enough already, we also clear up the mystery of the strange title of episode 105!

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Chapters

00:00 - Hello

00:24 - Introduction

02:15 - Particle Accelerators

20:27 - Listener Email

22:05 - Outroduction

22:31 - Goodbye

Credits

Opening Theme: Over 100 Jaar by Klein Orkest

Closing Theme: War by Edwin Starr

Almost Everything Else: Simon & Dirk

What do you call it when you use a lot of technology in your daily life, even by 23rd century standards? Exactly, you're living on the edge! This week, we dive deeper into the wonderful ways that can make your home a true example of modern living. We skim over the stuff you already know, like teleporters and pods, to make sure we have enough time for home technologies we haven't mentioned much so far, like grappling hooks and waterfalls. We start out with some sad news though!

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Chapters

00:00 - Hello

00:25 - Introduction

03:56 - Living on the Edge

05:43 - Old Things on the Edge

10:22 - New Things on the Edge

32:49 - Are We on the Edge?

35:06 - Outroduction

35:44 - Goodbye

Referenced Episodes

31: Teleportation

32: Food Conglomerators

33: Personal Assistants

34: Pods

65: Portals

80: Holodeck

83: The Chorus-Verse

87: Zero-Grav

91: Youngstar 1

Credits

Opening Theme: Over 100 Jaar by Klein Orkest

Closing Theme: Livin' on the Edge by Aerosmith

Almost Everything Else: Simon & Dirk

Do you feel tired after a long three-day work week? Then there's nothing like a holoday to get you all freshened up! In this episode we explain where holodays take place (in empty halls), how they take place (with holograms) and what our favourite destinations are (mountains, forests and cookie dough). We fondly remember our tree-climbing, pool-jumping, getting-shot-at-with-a-slingshot times in Million Oaks…

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Chapters

00:00 - Hello

00:25 - Introduction

02:28 - Holodays

25:42 - Listener Email

27:50 - Outroduction

28:13 - Goodbye

Credits

Theme Music: Over 100 Jaar by Klein Orkest

Almost Everything Else: Simon & Dirk