PBR Trails and Public Opinion
Older & Wilder
GGW Media
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Older and Wilder, Joy and Claire talk about Claire's weekend mountain biking festival in Fruita. They delve into detailed experiences about the festival, the local attractions, and the logistics of mountain biking in the area. The conversation then transitions to broader, more serious topics including political and social issues, addressing the overwhelming nature of real-time news and social media reactions. They discuss the impact of polarized political rhetoric, the degradation of civil discourse, and the mental health tolls of constant media consumption. The hosts also explore the challenges in the current job market, especially with automated systems in the recruiting process, and stress the importance of personal connections. They conclude by reflecting on generational differences in attitudes towards aging and self-assistance, particularly within outdoor sports communities.
00:55 Mountain Biking Festival Highlights
03:58 Packing and Moving Plans
04:59 Political Commentary and Social Media Impact
11:34 Processing Tragic Events and Media Consumption
23:29 Community and Solidarity in Difficult Times
25:08 Finding Rational Voices Amidst Chaos
30:12 Navigating the Job Market Challenges
38:38 Embracing E-Bikes and Overcoming Ageism
46:36 Concluding Thoughts and Farewell
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back, everybody, to Older and Wilder. Hello. Hello. Welcome. Welcome home. Claire, you were having a fun weekend in fruta. Fruta. Yes, fruita. I feel like you have to say it in a cute way because it's just like, yeah. Fruita. Yeah. Wow, my hair is really a lot worse. I thought it was. I've been sleeping. I slept in a couch the last three nights. Oh no. |
| 0:24.0 | Too old for that. Yeah, my hair is really a lot worse. I thought I was. I've been sleeping. I slept in a couch the last |
| 0:23.1 | three nights. Too old for that. It was so. No, no, no, no. Why? Why? Because I was just like in an Airbnb |
| 0:29.8 | with a lot of people and I did not get priority for bed selection. I was at a mountain biking festival |
| 0:35.0 | in Fruta, which is almost as far west as you can go. |
| 0:39.0 | It's like the last like actual town on I-70 as you're heading west out of Colorado. |
| 0:44.6 | There are other exits. |
| 0:46.3 | I would not call them towns. |
| 0:47.8 | Like Loma still is after Fruda, but it's not a town. |
| 0:51.2 | And Fruda really even still is like kind of an extension of Grand Junction. |
| 0:54.9 | But it does have, |
| 0:55.7 | Fruda has its own gas stations and liquor stores and grocery stores and restaurants. |
| 1:00.2 | And it has one really good restaurant called Hot Tomato that makes really good stromboli and really good pizza. |
| 1:04.9 | So if you're ever driving through Fruda, pull off and go to Hot Tomato. |
| 1:09.6 | But Fruda pretty much the only reason it's on the map is because it has really good mountain biking. |
| 1:15.1 | And I was there to go to this mountain biking festival. |
| 1:18.7 | Yeah, someone in the chat says, I love going to Fruta. |
| 1:20.3 | 18 Road is so fun. |
| 1:21.7 | 18 Road is the name. |
| 1:23.5 | I mean, it's the name and number of the road. |
| 1:26.3 | The roads in town, the like north to south |
| 1:29.2 | roads are numbered and the east to west roads are lettered because it's just an old country |
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