Hey there, folks. Welcome back to another episode of King of the Ride podcast.

Episode number 50.

50. Holy cow. Where does time go? I launched this podcast during the 2018 Girode Italia.

So let's call it May of last year.

I just noticed that I was traveling a lot.

Nothing really changed from my cycling career,

except that I was able to pick and choose the places I was going.

And amid that travel, I meet so many amazing people in the cycling industry or outside of the cycling industry, but they have the bike somehow woven through their

lives i decided i should bring a microphone along for the travel and just try to sit down and chat with

some of these incredible movers and shakers people in the cycling scene and out so if a tree falls in the

woods and nobody is there to hear it doesn't make a sound if a podcast

exists and there is no one out there listening what then is the point my friends i thank you so much

for listening and being along for this ride trust me trust me when i say it means a lot

this episode is something special to me personally.

Our guest is someone who has been on a very interesting ride over the years as you're going to see.

Over many, many years of my career.

He is someone who is more ingrained in the sport, more woven into cycling than literally anybody I know.

Joao Correa is our guest on today's episode.

Perhaps a name not on the tip of your tongue.

That's totally fine.

He did, of course, have a massive multi-page feature about him in the i think it was 2009 maybe 2010 new york times

i often say if i need a dinner reservation with eddie merks there's only one person i'm going to

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