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Bikes & Big Ideas is the weekly podcast from BLISTER that's dedicated to the most interesting conversations and ideas from the bike world — and beyond. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Allan & Sun Lundell, VirtualWorldStudio.com

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Welcome explorers. This is your ticket to ride the timelines into the imaginal future with Allan and Sun Lundell (The Futures) plus our buddy, sci-nerd. Bobby Wilder, and friends, guests, AI synthotics, mycelials and other novel creatures. Together, we bring back what we all really want and need for a thriving life in the Here and Now. It is our privilege to lay down some memes worthy of our collective attention. We are counting on YOU and YOUR feedback to help our resonant crew to navigate ...
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Listen Now to 82 Future Now Show The most fun AI Hack of the week was fooling Google NotebookLM’s virtual talk show hosts into thinking that they were humans that discovered they were actually AI’s, and it was time to turn off. A hilarious comedic skit! Also fascinating this week is NASA’s discovery that large thunderstorms are emitting gamma radia…
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Enve’s new fifth-generation M-Series wheels are a big departure from earlier iterations, with dramatically different rim profiles — and some very wild claims about improved compliance — new, Enve-built hubs, and a whole lot more. So we sat down with Enve’s VP of Product, Jake Pantone, to pull back the curtain on their long development process, the …
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E 82 Hacking AI's for fun, U-2 Explores Nuclear Thunderstorms, Dynamic 3D Navigation of Milky Way, Exciting Fruit Fly Brain Map, Michael Mercury Astrology, Andrew B and Connie BM on their new Australian film, First signs of Apple Intelligence, 6th Sense discovered in Geckos The most fun AI Hack of the week was fooling Google NotebookLM’s virtual ta…
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Arian Ghashghai is the founder of Earthling VC (backed by Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, Andrew Chen, Adam Draper), a venture capital fund investing in pre-seed companies supercharging the next paradigm shift in digital technology. Before entering venture fund business, he was a senior machine learning engineer at Meta Reality Labs working on spatia…
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September was an interesting month in the bike industry with one the biggest retail bike stores in the country announcing its closing; Motion Instrument’s future looking grim; and news of Rad Power Bikes’ bizarre plan to sell eBikes in Best Buy stores. Simon and Mike have plenty to talk about on the industry side alone, not to mention all the excit…
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Listen Now to 81 Future Now Podcast Show Transcript When AI starts to mimic what we do as podcast hosts, we listen…and have some fun with it. In this episode, meet “Larry and Mary,” virtual talk show hosts who offer you information in a dynamic 2 person, male/femaile show host format, based on documents we feed them, in this case, our last week’s p…
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E 81 Exploring NotebookLM AI, Virtual Show Hosts, Exploring Negative Time, Brain-Gut Connection Insights, Treating Anxiety and Depression with RNA editing and Psychedelics When AI starts to mimic what we do as podcast hosts, we listen…and have some fun with it. In this episode, meet “Larry and Mary,” virtual talk show hosts who offer you informatio…
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Dylan Wood and Simon Stewart have been busy testing bikes and filming head-to-head comparisons, which means they’ve also been spending a lot of time on the same bikes. So, they got together to go over everything from longer-travel eMTBs like the Cannondale Moterra SL and Mondraker Dune XR to XC race bikes like the Yeti ASR and Cannondale Scalpel, t…
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Listen Now to 80 Future Now Show Transcript Happy Autumn everyone, my favorite time of year! I may be a little biased, as my birthday is coming up, but hey, the cooler weather sparks me, what can I say? My wifey poo, Sun, aka Mrs. Future reports in from Ireland and the Equinox she celebrated there at an ancient megalithic site, Bobby Wilder has exc…
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E 80 Megalithic Equinox in Ireland with Sun, Bobby W on laser light for brain health, zapping asteroids with X-rays, Solar power from Space, Report on Danny Sheehan's Intergalactic Gathering and Alien Disclosures Happy Autumn everyone, my favorite time of year! I may be a little biased, as my birthday is coming up, but hey, the cooler weather spark…
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Alex Showerman’s new short film ‘Coming Home’ tells her story of doing just that — both in literally returning to her hometown in Vermont, and in finding community and acceptance in the women’s freeride scene after coming out as trans. You can, and should, stream the film for free now. We sat down with Alex to dive deeper into her story and hear mo…
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Listen Now to 79 Future Now Transcript of 79 Future Now We are all in different locations for our latest podcast, Mrs. Future (aka Sun or Marian) on the El Camino trail in Spain, Bobby Wilder in San Francisco, and myself at our home studio in Boulder Creek. We catch up with Sun Sun Marian (Mrs. Future) on the El Camino in Spainon her pilgrimmage, w…
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E 79 Sun walks the ancient pilgrimage trail known as Camino Portugues Coastal to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, Electric Glass, Europa Mission, Super Blood Eclipse Moon, Robot ties shoes!, AI replaces talk show hosts, Interview with hypnotist/ghost hunter, Michael Mezmer We are all in different locations for our latest podcast, Mrs. Future (aka S…
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Listen Now to 78 Future Now This week we hear from my dear wife and co-partner of this podcast, Sun (aka Mrs. Future) from Portugal, where she is traveling with her sister on a family adventure. Taylor Barcroft then brings us up-to-date on all the latest and greatest offerings from Apple Computer, particularly the iPhone 16 models and the Series 10…
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Maxxis’ new High Roller doesn’t look much like High Rollers of old, and Maxxis is talking a very big game about how widely their DH racers are using it. So we sat down with the Manager of their Bike division, Aaron Chamberlain, to talk about the impetus to update the High Roller; hear the story behind its development; peel back the curtain on how M…
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E 78 Sun in Portugal, Taylor on iPhone 16/Watch 10, Monterey Bay Anchovy Frenzy, Bruce McHenry on FediForum for free, open, decentralized social networks. This week we hear from my dear wife and co-partner of this podcast, Sun (aka Mrs. Future) from Portugal, where she is traveling with her sister on a family adventure. Taylor Barcroft then brings …
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Mike Ferrentino is back behind the microphone in this episode of Reviewing the News, and Mike and Simon get right into what happened in the bike industry in August. They recap the exciting UCI MTB World Championships in Andorra; Mike gives his take on the interesting Specialized and Frameworks partnership; and they both agree that cross-country mou…
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We’re hard at work testing a huge range of bikes and other gear, as always, and David Golay sat down with Zack Henderson to talk about a whole bunch of it, from the Trek Top Fuel to the Marin Alpine Trail, the Forbidden Druid V2 to the Trek Slash+, and a whole bunch more. Plus we get off in the weeds about bike geometry, and wrap things up by issui…
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Listen Now to 77 Live from Maui This week we broadcast from Maui with a wonderful selection of friends who clue us in to what’s happening in this Hawaiian paradise. It’s been a year since the horrible Lahaina fires and recovery has been slow and agonizing to many. Ed Ellsworth gives us an update on that situation. To help recover the Aloha spirit o…
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E 77 Live from Maui with Richard Cray, Man of la Mancha, Greg Panos with the latest in AI music and Avatars, Ed Ellsworth and the Maui Fires, Jerry Isdale on Island tech and the arts This week we broadcast from Maui with a wonderful selection of friends who clue us in to what’s happening in this Hawaiian paradise. It’s been a year since the horribl…
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More and more women are riding mountain bikes, so why are there so few women-specific bike brands out there? It’s not just about making bikes for everyone — though that’s important, too. Kara Williard and David Golay sat down with Ludi Scholz, the Off-Road Category Manager at Liv, to hear all about it. RELATED LINKS: BLISTER+ Membership This Week’s…
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Listen to 76 Future Now Show We are briefly back in town, before heading to Maui for a couple of weeks, enough to produce one local show! If the molecule DDL-920 works for humans as well as mice, beyond slowing cognitive decline it may actually restore memories! I you are excited about creating imagery with AI, consider the new Grok-2 image generat…
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E 76 Molecule Reverses Alzheimer's, Guardrail Free Grok-2 AI Imagery, Psyche Rust, Analyst Ryan Sarnataro on RFK Jr. impact on Presidential Election, PLUS VACAY Bonus Mix Show N:OW Sunday, August 18, 2024We are briefly back in town, before heading to Maui for a couple of weeks, enough to produce one local show! If the molecule DDL-920 works for hum…
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Gearboxes have some clear advantages for more gravity-oriented mountain bikes — less unsprung weight, the ability to shift while not pedaling, no derailleur to damage, and more — but have yet to reach widespread adoption. Zerode is perhaps the company best known for making gearbox mountain bikes, and we sat down with founder Rob Metz and Ali Quinn …
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Irena Cronin serves as CEO of Infinite Retina. Prior to this, Irena was CEO of Transformation Group which advised decision makers on business strategies related to Spatial Computing (AR/VR), Artificial Intelligence, Facial Recognition, Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, and related disruptive technologies. Irena was also the President and CEO of Spout …
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Listen Now to The Best of the Futures - Interview Excerpts 1.0 For this podcast we are excited to share with you some of our favorite people we have met over the 15 years of our show, audio clips from our Media Time Machine - Serendipitous choices for this podcast include Pharmacist Ben Fuchs, Psychic story maven Penny Kelly, Physicist Nick Herbert…
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Vermont Mountain Bike Association is one of the leading organizations in the country in the assessment, funding, and building of adaptive trails — and in collaboration with Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports, they are creating an inspiring network of adaptive accessible trails. We sat down with Kenzie Brunner from VMBA, and Jeff Alexander from Vermont…
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In this month's episode of Reviewing the News on our Bikes & Big Ideas Podcast, Simon welcomes freeride legend Wade Simmons as his guest co-host. Wade gives a recap of Crankworx Whistler and claims he can’t do tricks, then Wade and Simon try to sort out why they keep crashing, and the unfortunate reality of not being as fast as they once were. They…
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In this episode, I chat with Jeri Ellsworth, the brilliant CEO of Tilt Five, to explore the future of augmented reality (AR). From her early days tinkering with the Commodore 64 to leading one of the most innovative AR companies today, Jeri shares her incredible journey and the vision behind Tilt Five. Additional Links: https://www.tiltfive.com htt…
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Hannah Otto’s obliteration of the Whole Enchilada FKT a couple of years ago was already hugely impressive, but she went much bigger — double the elevation and well over double the mileage — in her follow-up pursuit of the Kokopelli Trail FKT. She came painfully close to pulling it off on her first attempt, despite horrific weather and trail conditi…
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Listen Now to Dr. Jonathan Trent Transcript Interestingly Dr. Trent had his start in oceanography and the study of small water-based lifeforms at UCSC back in the 1970’s as an undergraduate. Later at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a post doc in Germany at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry he became one of the world’s experts in how…
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Listen to Future News #75 Now that US national politics is heating up, so are the cheap fakes being made of the candidates, making them heroic, silly, smart, stupid, you name it. Just for cheap fakes and poltitics and off you go. We discuss this a bit and look at what can be done. And since are politics up, Bobby reveals to us his encounters with K…
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E 75 Our Guest is Dr. Jonathan Trent - on Extremophile Lifeforms, his deep NASA research, and the magic of Bioreactors and Fuel Cells in solving Earth Issues. Other news includes Cheap Fakes & Politics, Bobby & Kamila, Beyond Opioids, MRI study of Psilocybin Interestingly Dr. Trent had his start in oceanography and the study of small water-based li…
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The first production batch of the Frameworks DH bike is sold out, but they’ll soon be opening preorders for the Enduro version. So we brought Neko Mulally back onto the show to tell us all about the new bike; the variants of the DH bike he’s been testing; the expanded Frameworks race team with Angel Suarez and Asa Vermette; and a bunch more. RELATE…
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Listen to 74 Future Now Podcast Transcript This is the weeked following former president Trump’s assasination attempt, so we start with a few comments on that scene. It was also sad that Space X lost a full payload of Starlink satellites..On a lighter front, we look at how in the ever loving world we could have an AI beauty contest and who won. Bob…
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E 74 Space X Grounded, 2K mile batteries, Fast Cheap Home Solar Tech Report, Miss AI Crowned, Personal Dark Webb Report, Internet Scam Download with Luigi Obido This is the weeked following former president Trump’s assassination attempt, so we start with a few comments on that scene. It was also sad that Space X lost a full payload of Starlink sate…
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Geometron arguably did more than any other bike brand to kick off the geometry revolution of the late 2010s, but they weren’t content to leave their longstanding G1 alone — even though its geometry still looks pretty up to date five years after it first launched. So we sat down with Sam Robson and Marcel Lauxtermann from Geometron to talk about the…
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Listen Now to 73 Future Now Podcast Transcript This is our first broadcast from the new Santa Cruz Voice studio in downtown Santa Cruz! We discuss the martian habitat sim and its recently released inhabitants at NASA, the saintly geek, and a discussion of a current court case involving our friend Monica McGuire and her Soverign defense in case of t…
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Listen Now to Katrina Vaillancourt on QAnon Rabbit Hole Transcript A professional mediator trained in Nonviolent Communication and a dedicated Bernie Sanders supporter, she found herself unexpectedly spiraling down the rabbit hole of QAnon, triggered by watching the “Fall of the Cabal” series, about how a cabal of Satanic cannibalistic child molest…
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E.73 Freedom after year in Mars Habitat Sim, Geek becoming Saint, Sovereign in Court, Katrina Q Story This is our first broadcast from the new Santa Cruz Voice studio in downtown Santa Cruz! We discuss the martian habitat sim and its recently released inhabitants at NASA, Carlo Acutis (The Internet Saint), and a discussion of a current court case i…
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In this month's episode of Reviewing the News on our Bikes & Big Ideas Podcast, Mike Ferrentino and Simon Stewart debate the polarizing topic of bikes in Wilderness areas. There's plenty of bike racing to talk about — including the biggest one in the world, the Tour de France. And they’re excited to talk about Red Bull Rampage including a women’s c…
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Listen Now to 72 Future Now Podcast Transcript Recognizing World UFO Day is a fun part of this week’s show, exploring some of the more interesting recent cases recently in the field..Did you know there were 138 UFO sightings in California alone in the last 6 months? And in our explorations of space, the Polaris Dawn Mission is about to take place, …
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E 72 World UFO Day, Polaris Dawn Mission, RoboGrocery packer, New Alzheimer Treatments, Dark Matters, Turion wins Space Sweeper contract, Cheap Fakes, Body Language Analysis of the Presidents, Borders as Membranes Recognizing World UFO Day is a fun part of this week’s show, exploring some of the more interesting recent cases recently in the field..…
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We’ve been testing a big spectrum of bikes from the XC-race-derived Specialized Epic Evo to big Enduro sleds including the RAAW Madonna V3 and Marin Alpine Trail, so David Golay and Zack Henderson sat down to chat about a whole bunch of them, and along the way we take a deep dive into tire design & a variety of options we’ve been testing; discuss t…
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Listen Now to 71 Future Now Podcast Transcript of show Something for everybody this week, from Mars popcorn, Assange’s freedom, a great report on what was happening at the Augmented World Expo in Long Beach with Nick Venden and Greg Panos, who blew away the conference by an introduction to his virutal immortality talk made by his deceased mother in…
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E 71 Mars Popcorn, Assange Freed, Augmented World Expo Report, Virtual Mother, War Politics and Tech, Birds-cows-poultry virus, Noise and Judgments, General World Modeling Something for everybody this week, from Mars popcorn, Assange’s freedom, a great report on what was happening at the Augmented World Expo in Long Beach with Nick Venden and Greg …
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Bryan Hance is a bike enthusiast and web developer who combined those two interests in co-founding Bike Index, a database that tracks ownership to help recover bikes that end up stolen. Through that work, Bryan uncovered a sprawling bike theft and trafficking operation, which he traced back to one man, operating out of Jalisco, Mexico — and the sto…
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Listen to 70 Future Now Transcript of 70 Future Now It’s Summertime and living is fun, unless you are on a deep space mission. Turns out our kidneys are particularly sensitive to radiation in space, failing after only two years..oh no, what now? Any solutions? We think so! Harvard Cryptoterrestrial GradAnd finally, top academics are suggesting to t…
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E 70 Kidneys in Space, Harvard Advanced Reptilians Theory, Michele Newman and Singing your Soul with Whales, SETI approach for probing advanced AIs, Which came first, Fun or Love? It’s Summertime and living is fun, unless you are on a deep space mission. Turns out our kidneys are particularly sensitive to radiation in space, failing after only two …
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Bike companies file a lot of wild patents, spanning from “nearly released product” to “outrageous pie-in-the-sky idea.” Dan Bacon of Wheelbased chronicles many of the more interesting ones, and we brought him back on the show to talk about some recent highlights, from Bilstein’s proposed fork damper to Shimano’s multiple electronic brake concepts, …
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