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Hello and joining you on a typically grey and cold Thursday afternoon from Berlin, where yesterday,

one of the city's major newspapers that Berlin at Zitong ran along editorial maligning. Yes, maligning, the fact that the city is not as dirty as it used to be in the good old days.

My name is Daniel Freber. I have recovered from last week's Brief Encounter with COVID, and I'm the host of this episode of the Cycling Podcast in which, having already asked them to look back at their performances in 2022 a few weeks ago, we're going to ask two friends of the Cycling Podcast.

And in miseries, in the pro-Pelaton to cost their gaze forward, just as they are poised to begin their latest campaign on Cycling's front line.

Let's meet them, shall we? This sports answer to Stadler and Waldorf, or perhaps Kermit and Miss Piggy. Joining us this week from Vilforsche, where the locals are apparently, he can tell us whether this is true, they're apparently up in arms because the hit Netflix rom-com series, Emily and Paris, showcases several of the towns in the scenic landmarks,

while pretending that they are, in fact, in Santa Fe, this impeccably stylish other American Midwest emigrate as a former Tour de Swiss stage winner and US road race champion, he writes about as you do, and he's about to begin his eleventh full season as a professional cyclist.

He's competed in pretty much every notable race on the calendar with the notable exception of the Tour de France. I like most of our listeners very much hope we'll see Larry, not Emily in Paris in July.

On top, on the top step of the podium, as we know, he often passes today, Pogaccia in training.

Larry, we haven't discussed you being ashamed, this may be too strong a word, but you were certainly ribbed by today, Pogaccia on social media.

And then it was funny, because the day after I passed them in training, you're good.

Oh, really? Oh, really?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, nobody laughed, yeah.

Very good, very good. Well, he was very good sport about it, wasn't he? He's sort of, yeah, he is.

He, he milked it on social media as well. Well, Larry, how are you, Gemmily?

Yeah, doing well, just recovering from our training camp, but getting ready for the first races of the year.

So I start in Marciette's this weekend, so yeah, about to get started after seven months and no racing.

It'll be nice to be back on the peloton.

You've assumed your usual podcast in position, and, um, lately, I have a long, long, long, long, long.

Yeah. Um, but I will, I do have to comment on the Emily and Paris thing.

That was season two, not season three, but, you know, so if the locals are only up in arms about it now,

uh, they're a bit behind, but, but yeah, I was, you know, it's funny, because I had some friends visit this year,

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