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Hello and joining you on a dark cold but already slightly festive feeling December the first from Berlin where the Christmas markets are in full swing and the glue vine is flowing.

My name is Daniel Freerb. I'm the host of this week's episode of the cycling podcast.

Today we're sort of going to pull into the proverbial out of grill at the roadside of our 2022 season review.

Inspired or rather somewhat perturbed by some recent events we're going to be considering the cycling media reflecting on the cycling media how it covered the season that was 2022 where it currently finds itself and perhaps most importantly where it's heading to help me with the undertaking today as usual.

I'll be calling on two exceptional guests each with their own unique insight into those subjects that I've just mentioned first at the plate today in fact taking swings from his adopted home on the cut on the cut that's all in southern France it's a professional cycle so signally easy on the mic camera probably the printed page

and one man media empire just doing Disney Netflix comcast Elon Musk at our favorite spending a few more years in the pro peloton before he's inevitable multi platform take over his format toward a Swiss stage winner and ex US American road race champion he has signed for AG to our sit when for another year

and as a podcast favorite is sealed with delivering him into your ears again this week his yours the motel my strobe lucky are you warbass and that was of course another motel reference courtesy of another Detroit native Mr. Stevie Wonder

Hey guys good to be here again for yet for another week on the second podcast Larry you sounding less and less infused by these intros

no I like them they're cool there may be one of my favorite parts of the podcast I always go to myself after that one minute

how long the last time you appeared on the podcast we were talking about your performance evaluation which hasn't happened yet has it?

I haven't had your meeting so next week how you how you feel how you feel about yourself generally Larry performance evaluation aside I mean it's going to be fine you know I think it was just a hard season in terms of like all the crashes and stuff I had so when I was racing it was going really well

and then when I wasn't racing that was not ideal so I have to say like I mean there's nothing really you can do to control like crashes that are kind of out of yeah out of your hand so yeah I think in the end it was like results wise it wasn't a great year but I would say I still was pretty content with how my season was every time I was racing so yeah

Larry the performance evaluation performance review episode went down very well little do the listeners know that we had to cut out a few things because there was some there was some fairly there was some home truths that were pinging back and forth between you and Joe Don Browski but we did we did some judicious editing to our second guest today marching empirically to the crease from bright and I think he is in England

it's the man to whom consumers of cycling media O the tedium of my presence in the street for last 20 years he is as close as the anglophone extremities of this field come to a doyen his work grace the pages of winning magazine cycling weekly before he launched pro cycling in 1999 co launched more later he's penned multiple claimed books including bad blood and Vaughn 2 he's covered more tours to France for the times and more recently the guardian than I've had

read a messages complaining about these intros he's a man of experience style taste and above all insight the name on the past sports as Jeremy Whittle but we call him jazz jazz or the gend for that is what he is Jeremy

jazz or how I'm very good Daniel thank you for such I was quite nervous and about that actually voice before you before you start nervous about as well you barbs and the cornish there I was a bit knows about how you

want to handle it was very nice let's let's let's indulge both of us for a minute and let's talk about 20 years ago when the when a very raw work experience boy

and yours truly walked into your office and demanded a job I mean we're going to be talking about cycling media today where it is today is very different place back then wasn't it was just it was a sort of thriving was a niche

very kind of offbeat but but sort of thriving cottage industry wasn't it is funny because I was thinking about this the other day and what a small pool it was as well and like how when you know we first launched pro cycling

I it was hard to find people who knew enough to write about what's happening in European racing and there was a kind of I guess there's is almost single figures you know so I was desperate to find young voices like yours you know people people who were

massive enthusiasts and who could write and you had language skills and someone so forth all of which you had of course and it was it was really difficult really difficult because I started

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