Ep. 109 ~ Emma Flukes, Round 2
Bikes or Death
Patrick Farnsworth
4.8 • 563 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2022
⏱️ 142 minutes
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Summary
Almost two years ago to the day Emma Flukes came on the podcast for the first time. You may remember that we were at the very beginning of a global pandemic that you change our lives more than we could have imagined at the time. She is a Tasmanian native and the founder of Tassie's Gift. When she's not pedaling her bikes or petting wombats she's busy monitoring the decline of our habitable world as a Marine Scientist. I took this opportunity to ask her "How fucked are we?". After detailing the decline of our species we cheerfully switch gears to bikes, bikepacking, murder shanties, and wombats.
Visit www.bikesordeath.com for a gallery of images from Emma's rides in Tasmania!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Bikes for Death podcast. As always, my name is Patrick, |
| 0:05.1 | and I'm your host. And on today's episode, I've got Emma Flukes who joined me all the way |
| 0:11.0 | from the future in Tasmania, which is a real place. I googled it. If you're not familiar with |
| 0:17.8 | Emma, it may be because she goes about her business without much fanfare. |
| 0:22.2 | She doesn't seek much attention for her efforts or accomplishments or even for the route that she creates. |
| 0:30.9 | She just kind of does her thing and is quite content over there in Tassie. |
| 0:36.9 | And behind all of her bike packing stuff, she is a real-life scientist. |
| 0:41.3 | And I've always personally enjoyed her Instagram account, |
| 0:46.3 | which is the main way that you can follow along with whatever she's got going on. |
| 0:53.3 | Sometimes it's some crazy bike route there in Tasmania |
| 0:57.3 | that'll take you right past murder shanties and little cult worshiping installations. I'm not |
| 1:04.2 | really sure what to call them, but freaky shit out in the middle of nowhere. And she just |
| 1:09.6 | pedals her little bike all over her state there in some pretty crazy places. |
| 1:15.6 | She has created a route there called the Tassie Gift. |
| 1:19.6 | And you may remember that Emma was on the podcast two years ago, episode 41. |
| 1:38.7 | So when you're done listening to this episode, if you want more Emma, you can go back in time and check out our conversation that took place in March of 2020. |
| 1:41.8 | So we were right in the beginning of the pandemic. |
| 1:49.9 | And it is kind of interesting to have our two conversations kind of bookend the pandemic, |
| 1:50.9 | so to speak. |
| 1:53.5 | So anyway, I'm a big fan of Emma. |
| 1:56.7 | I really always enjoy our conversations. |
| 2:21.7 | Unfortunately, she only had a two-hour time window, but maybe that was good because I feel like we could have chatted for several more hours. But I guess that means we'll just have to have her back on again soon. Maybe we shouldn't wait two years before the next chat. We cover a whole lot of variety of topics. My favorite is the Wombat segment of this podcast. So if you don't know what a Wombat is either, you're in luck. I'm just going to say that and leave it right |
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