This week Tim welcomes a new ultimate cycling villain into his heart. We talk Pogs amazing year, we design our Mount Rushmore of cycling trophies and start importing Euro stuff. This podcast is supported by Duer. Go to shopduer.com/slowride and save yourself 20% on DUER’s great stretch performance denim and lifestyle apparel. Sustainably made from …

It's the most wonderful time of the year if your Matt, Italian classics season. We talk Emilia and this glorious week that leads up to Lombardia. Plus, a gravel race with a jersey, Taco wins a race and Spencer wants a Brompton. This podcast is supported by Duer. Go to shopduer.com/slowride and save yourself 20% on DUER’s great stretch performance d…

This week we discuss the good and the tragic at this year's worlds road races. We talk Yogurt, diy paint jobs and why we love Rivendell. Plus, we find the last 2 unsaleable bikes. This podcast is supported by the generous and amazing donors to the Wide Angle Podium Network, and but Hammerhead cycling! Visit hammerhead.io to check out the Karoo cycl…

TSC News TV host Fred Richani interviews Dr. Layal Issa MD about her fantastic work with nonprofit organization Karma-Lebanon, which helps children suffering from cancer, thalassemia, and chronic illnesses, especially in these trying times of war. Donate today to support their cause: https://karma-leb.org/?product=donate-to-karma-lebanon Note: This…

We've got deja vu this week as the Olympics are already back with Remco and Grace winning more medals and custom kit. Tim reads some old magazines, listeners love 2 week grand tours and another hot take from Derrick. This podcast is supported by Duer. Go to shopduer.com/slowride and save yourself 20% on DUER’s great stretch performance denim and li…

Meet Dr. Erin MacDonald, astrophysicist and official science advisor of Star Trek! Dr. MacDonald chats with TSC News host Fred Richani about getting involved with Star Trek, astrophysics, her love for Bioware video games, her production company Spacetime Productions, and getting cast as a voice actor for Star Trek: Prodigy on Netflix and Star Trek …

This week we bask in the glory of a Micheal Matthews win, inflate our own Montreal results and wonder about Tudors finances. We talk more floor pumps, invent new grand tours and plan a suburban paradise. This podcast is supported by the generous and amazing donors to the Wide Angle Podium Network, and but Hammerhead cycling! Visit hammerhead.io to …

Positively Trek 284: Book Club - Logic Without Empathy is Illogical Strange New Worlds: The Scorpius Run While investigating uncharted space in the Scorpius constellation, the U.S.S. Enterprise under the command of Captain Christopher Pike is captured by a megalomaniacal dictator named Zyphyx. He forces the Enterprise crew to take part in an inters…

This week we finish up and rate the Vuelta. Tim has thoughts and Matt has the same thought as always. We look forward to worlds wherever they are and do our best to match listeners with the perfect bike. This podcast is supported by Duer. Go to shopduer.com/slowride and save yourself 20% on DUER’s great stretch performance denim and lifestyle appar…

This week Spencer sells Tim on this Vuelta thing, Tim watches some mountain bikes and Matt looks for Ecuadorian flags. Plus, Tim makes an offer that anyone can refuse and some great debate sparking emails. This podcast is supported by the generous and amazing donors to the Wide Angle Podium Network, and but Hammerhead cycling! Visit hammerhead.io t…

TSC News TV host Fred Richani interviews Saving AlGeneina Initiative manager Sadeia Hamid about her grassroots organization helping Sudanese refugees and internally displaced peoples within Sudan and Chad, the Sudanese crisis encompassing war, genocide, famine, and occupation, the instability before/during/after former President Omar al-Bashir, as …

Positively Trek 283: The First Week of September, 2024 The Week Everything Changed - “Past Tense” Parts 1 & 2 It’s the morning of Monday, September 3rd. Podcasters Dan and Barry have decided to record Positively Trek in the early morning hours before work. However, they don’t realize that events have taken place thousands of kilometers away that wi…

This week it's time for our annual realization that the Vuelta is the best. We figure out why O'connor won't win, unicycle into Bemidji and talk cereal. This podcast is supported by the generous and amazing donors to the Wide Angle Podium Network, and but Hammerhead cycling! Visit hammerhead.io to check out the Karoo cycling computer, and use code …

This week we discuss the Tour de France Femmes and the greatest finish ever? We transfer the SRP belt, talk the smallest amount about Poland and the Vuelta before Tim and Spencer work on Matts fall race calendar. This podcast is supported by the generous and amazing donors to the Wide Angle Podium Network, and but Hammerhead cycling! Visit hammerhe…

Remastered From 2022: TSC News TV host Fred Richani interviews legendary voice actor Josh Keaton about filling Chris Evans' giant shoes in What If...? on Disney Plus, getting his big break as a kid, playing young Hercules, being canonically part of the MCU, his roles in Young Justice Phantoms, becoming synonymous with the animated Spider-Man, his i…

Positively Trek 282: Star Trek in the Wild Making Trek Connections in Unexpected Places Sometimes as Star Trek fans, it can feel like we’re all alone in our fandom. Certainly, online spaces have changed this quite a bit, but in our day-to-day lives, it often feels like we are the only Star Trek fan around. But then, the unexpected happens and you m…

This week we win the gold medal for incomplete and rambling Olympic coverage. We try and decide if we like or like like Pidcock, make 16th place officially cool and what's that bunch of recumbents called. This podcast is supported by the generous and amazing donors to the Wide Angle Podium Network, and but Hammerhead cycling! Visit hammerhead.io to…

Positively Trek 281: Book Club: Martha Landon Does Do a Judo Flip Greg Cox - Lost to Eternity In 1986, Dr. Gillian Taylor of the Cetacean Institute in Sausalito, California, seemingly disappeared off the face of the Earth. In 2024, a true crime podcaster tries to get to the bottom of the nearly 40 year-old cold case. In 2268, a missing scientist th…

This week we talk about the amazing Olympic road races. We get more patriotic than we've been in a long time, wonder if Eddy and Pat are still disappointed and nominate a lot of people for the championship belt. Plus, Canadian rat facts. This podcast is supported by the generous and amazing donors to the Wide Angle Podium Network, and but Hammerhea…

TSC News TV host Fred Richani interviews filmmaker Gauthier Raad about his critically-acclaimed documentaries, tackling LGBQT topics in the Arab entertainment space, and his fantastic work as director of multiple film festivals including LIFF - Lebanese Independent Film Festival in Beirut! Plus: They discuss uplifting diverse voices in times of tra…

Positively Trek 280: The Stars Go To the Stars! Actors We’d Like to See on Star Trek (And a Few We’d Like to See Back!) With nearly 1000 episodes and films over the course of nearly 60 years, there have been scores of actors who have appeared in Star Trek, both before and after they “made it big.” But there is always room for more! In this episode …

This week we all have Olympic fever. Unfortunately, Tims fever is making him mad (again) that we don't have downhill or the kilo in the Olympics. But we do enjoy the racing we have and read some hilarious emails. This podcast is supported by the generous and amazing donors to the Wide Angle Podium Network, and but Hammerhead cycling! Visit hammerhe…

Positively Trek 279: Book Club: Why Can’t We Have the Bajoran Orb of Candy Canes? Star Trek: The Motion Picture: Echoes The V’Ger incident has left Kirk in command of the U.S.S. Enterprise, shirking his responsibilities back at Starfleet Command to remain aboard the ship for her shakedown cruise. The cruise is interrupted by the sudden appearance o…

The Tour is done and Pod reigns supreme. We discuss the good and bad of Pog's utter domination, why we stayed interested and we finally learn where Spencer wants to rail bike. This podcast is supported by the generous and amazing donors to the Wide Angle Podium Network, and but Hammerhead cycling! Visit hammerhead.io to check out the Karoo cycling …

Positively Trek 278: Beautiful Star Trek Starships Our Favorites, and the People who Designed Them Over the past 58 years, Star Trek has presented us with a gorgeous vision of the future. A huge part of that Trek aesthetic is the design of the starships that carry their crews boldly to the stars. From the very beginning with Matt Jefferies’ iconic …

We are finally back and talking about the tour. Who's going to win, who's won and who paid who for what. Plus, French jorts, team names and wheels no one needs. This podcast is supported by the generous and amazing donors to the Wide Angle Podium Network, and but Hammerhead cycling! Visit hammerhead.io to check out the Karoo cycling computer, and u…

Positively Trek 277: Book Club: Curiosity Killed the Cat … But Satisfaction Brought it Back! Star Trek: Celebrations While the Star Trek universe has recently made great strides in pushing the current societal boundaries of representation and inclusion, it hasn’t always done so. However, with the current slate of new Star Trek shows since the debut…

TSC News TV host Fred Richani interviews BLOOM co-founder Amina Shams about her top-rated grassroots nonprofit organization, currently helping children in Morocco, as well as Gaza, in collaboration with HEAL Palestine's Steve Sosebee. Amina discusses how BLOOM was formed and various resources provided to Palestinian and Moroccan children, including…

Positively Trek 276: 20 New Episodes of Must-Watch Star Trek! Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2 is Out Now Dan is flying solo in this episode of Positively Trek with a quick update episode this week as we wanted to encourage everyone to watch the new season of Star Trek: Prodigy that just dropped! Trust me: it’s more than just a kid’s show, and it deserv…

It's the American 4th of July again, and that can only mean one thing: Tradition. It's time for our annual re-watch and discussion about American Flyers, the 1985 cycling classic staring Kevin Costner, David Grant, Rae Dawn Chong, Alexandra Paul and everyone's favorite cycling baddie Luca Bercovici. Let's hurt a little. Be sure to check out returni…

This week Matt misses what can only be the greatest week of French cycling in recent history. Oh well. Tim defends Gainesville Florida's honour, and Spencer hits play on the DVR to re-watch the 2024 Giro. Or did he? This podcast is supported by the generous and amazing donors to the Wide Angle Podium Network, and but Hammerhead cycling! Visit hamme…

Positively Trek 275: Book Club: It All Comes Down to This… Star Trek: Day of Blood The Star Trek and Star Trek: Defiant ongoing comic series from IDW are featured in an epic crossover when the crews under Sisko and Worf come together to finally take on Kahless and his Red Path devotees. Fighting for the freedom from his particular brand of tyranny,…

Positively Trek 274: Breaking Bread with Starfleet Officers Food and Drink in the Star Trek Universe Throughout its 58-year history, food and drink has played a significant role in the Star Trek universe. Food can be a cultural touchstone, from the Klingons and their gagh, bloodwine, and rokeg blood pie, to the Vulcans and their plomeek soup, and t…

This week with the Tour right around the corner we talk rail bikes, Zwift bikes and mountain bikes. And of course, we perfectly break down all the Swiss action and why it means a Austrian on a French team will win the TDF. This podcast is supported by the generous and amazing donors to the Wide Angle Podium Network. Find us, and other fantastic cyc…

Positively Trek 273: Book Club: The Story We Didn’t Know We Wanted Dayton Ward: Pliable Truths When Star Trek: Deep Space Nine hit our television screens in 1993, we were introduced to the planet Bajor, the end of the Cardassian Occupation, and a cast of colorful characters that were very different from the sanitized Starfleet environment of the En…

This week Tim visits Matt in the city beautiful Minneapolis for a very special episode. Will Roglic win the tour, where did Gee come from and Socks. Plus, Tims racing program revealed. This podcast is supported by the generous and amazing donors to the Wide Angle Podium Network. Find us, and other fantastic cycling podcasts on the Wide Angle Podium…

Positively Trek 272: One Last Time… Let’s Fly Star Trek: Discovery’s Final Episode: “Life, Itself” After five seasons, this flagship show of the new era of Star Trek has come to an end. Star Trek: Discovery ushered in a renaissance of the Star Trek Universe, and we are very sad to see it go. Join host Dan Gunther as he shares his thoughts on this p…