In this week's episode, we chat with Rick Pialet - a retired USAF and United Airlines pilot . Shortly after trading in his wings for spin shoes, Rick came face to face with a life changing event - long COVID. Meredith and Abe chat with Rick about this long road to recovery, and his experiences as a pilot.

Happy Memorial Day to our American friends!

In this episode, Meredith recaps her visit to The Flying Pig Bed 'n Breakfast*, and all the fun things she did while in Missouri. We have some cruise news, as well as our usual segments to round out this episode.

00:55 Meredith thinks she's a princess!

2:25 Meredith recaps her Missouri trip

7:59 Aquarium yoga

10:36 Watcha listenin' to?

14:40 Hillbilly Handfishin' (and yes - we googled it)

19:04 Color Guard, Harry Potter, and Meredith

22:23 Is Abe a robot?

24:06 Echelon news - Who's cruisin' who?

28:47 Meredith, the world traveller

34:33 More Echelon news

37:35 Do you chunk or chuck?

40:26 Fun LB names

46:24 Shoutouts

51:10 Did You Know?

*Disclaimer - the Flying Pig Bed 'n Breakfast is not an actual Bed 'n Breakfast

Welcome to this special 100th episode of the Bike That Goes Nowhere podcast! To help us celebrate this milestone, Alex Zelin (Hufflepuffle), and Kelli Quinn (Pig Mom) join us for some "pre-arranged by Meredith" shenanigans who is recording from the Flying Pig Bed and Breakfast in Missouri!

[3:15] Meet Hoss

[7:40] Who is going on the Margaritaville cruise?

[11:00] "Relics" - Antiquing with Alex, Kelli, and Meredith

[14:59] Putting our special guests to work

[15:37] Abe flips the tables on Meredith on the Q&A which includes questions like "Who would win in a bar fight if Meredith and Abe fought each other", and "What is your Roman Empire"

[37:55] Alex's OD adventures with her cat stroller

[40:56] What is Kelli training for?

[42:13] Spring into Action challenge

[43:00] Watcha watchin'/readin'?

[48:41] Fun LB names

[53:45] Shoutouts

[1:00:44] Did You Know

*The show Abe was referencing at the end is "The Boy from Oz"

Recorded May 9, 2024

This week, Meredith and Abe chat with triathlete and former figure skater, Pam Rosenberg (aka PamChicago). To say the hour flew by is an understatement! Pam does so much for the Echelon community, that we just couldn't pass up an opportunity to get to know her better!

Recorded May 3, 2024

It's been almost a full year since Abe joined the podcast (May 15, 2023), so not only will we be celebrating Abe's "podiversary", but we are one episode away from our 100th podcast! So, we thought we'd open it up to your questions. Have anything to ask Meredith or Abe? Anything at all? Reach out through IG or FB, or email [email protected] and we'll answer your questions in our 100th episode! As always, we appreciate you listening to our podcast!

2:15 - The $15 surprise from the estate sale

8:35 - An apology to Abe....what???? And...grading

17:53 - What was Abe doing in Toronto?

18:43 - Watcha watchin'?

27:42 - Echelon News, a Correction Corner, and Meredith creating drama!

46:06 - Fun LB names

50:00 - Shoutouts

54:20 - Experts segment - HRZ

1:07:30 - Did You Know

(Recorded April 16, 2024)

Where in the world is Janet Adams? She's on the Super Excellent, Not TOO Serious, Bike That Goes Nowhere podcast, of course!

Join us this week as we catch up with Janet Adams. We talk about her upcoming (now past) surgery, hiking, Ollie, cooking, traveling, and her experience in fostering.

If you're missing Janet on the bike, load up one of her classes OD, and tune in to this week's podcast!

The title of this episode should be "Jump Around", because that's what Meredith and Abe do quite a bit of in this episode! From flashbacks to her college days, to learning new words, we suggest you jump right in with both feet into this week's episode!

[1:55] Meredith was IDd!

[7:44] Correction Corner...from a future episode. What???

[11:09] Echelon News (part 1)

[13:15] Gardening with Meredith, or, a lesson in organization

[15:48] Just Like Mom

[17:21] Pawning off pickle flavored jelly beans

[19:08] Watcha Watchin'?

[24:34] Other Echelon News (part 2)

[25:12] Accountability Update

[27:03] More Echelon News (part 3)

[28:51] Words! Some new, some Canadian

[31:33] Fun LB names

[34:09] Shoutouts

[37:48] Meredith is joining the carnival

[39:09] Experts Segment with Jama Oliver

[52:22] Did You Know

Recorded April 9, 2024

It's been nearly two years (August 2022) since Ryn has been on the podcast, so Meredith and Abe thought it would be a good idea to catch up with this beautiful person of Echelon and see what's new. We talk a bit about Eche-hubby, cheese straws and Big Parma (yes, you read that right), and instant Correction Corner for Abe, and we even talk about possible ways to redeem all your Ryn points! In addition to all the laughter throughout the episode, the lesson learned here is "Don't yuck someone's yum"!

Recorded April 4, 2024

We're back with another episode of tomfoolery and shenanigannery. In this episode, we talk about Meredith's bloomers (take a breath...we mean her blooming flowers), fun with Peeps, Echelon news, an Experts segment, and we round out the episode with a dad joke!

[00:40] - Intro, flowers, Mother Nature, and Cilantro

[3:57] Ponca City - the little town with a big town attitude

[5:16] Catch up with Abe - spoiler alert - little did Abe know that at the time of this recording, he was incubating a flu bug and had to miss the show he talked about

[8:25] Fun with Peeps

[16:15] Most likely the best segue on the face of the planet! Okay...in all honesty, it was a bit of a stretch, but Abe tried!

[20:43] Meredith's training update

[24:09] Echelon news

[28:54] Fun LB names

[31:45] Shoutouts

[37:51] Experts segment

[43:57] "Height" matters!

[46:15] Did You Know

[49:04] We close out the show with a fabulous dad joke!

This is no April Fool's joke, but the laughs are aplenty! We finally nabbed the elusive Sparkyroo, and may have held him against his will to be a guest on the podcast. Truth be told, Meredith had to do some unconscionable things just to secure him as our guest! In this episode, we talk about Lionel's Echelon journey, cats, and....clogging (?) - not what you may think it is...or at least not what Lionel thought it was! Grab your side because it's sure to ache from all the laughing from this episode!