S13 Ep1: The Speculation Episode 2025
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2025
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
With suggestions from some familiar voices, Daniel Friebe, Lionel Birnie and Rob Hatch look at some of the stories and trends we think may shape the 2025 professional cycling season.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the cycling podcast. Hello and joining you for the first episode of 2025, a year when Nostradamus, yes him, |
| 0:29.7 | podcasting way back in 1555, predicted that an asteroid called the Harbinger of Fate would wreakish |
| 0:34.9 | devastation on planet Earth, or was he just talking about Tadei Pogacchar? |
| 0:39.7 | My name's Daniel Freiber, and I'm the host of this, |
| 0:41.8 | our own annual attempt to foretell the future of professional cycling, |
| 0:46.0 | aka our speculation episode. |
| 0:50.1 | Joining me in the obstructed view, not hot but very tepid seats, |
| 0:53.8 | are the Babavang of Blackburn, |
| 0:56.2 | aka 2024 commentator of the year. Robert Hatch. |
| 1:01.1 | Hello, hello. |
| 1:02.0 | And making the most surprising comeback since the controversial Lance Armstrong in 2009, |
| 1:06.8 | the Nostradamus of Not Watford, Lionel Burnie. |
| 1:10.7 | Hello, Daniel. Rob, happy new year |
| 1:12.7 | Welcome back |
| 1:13.3 | Thank you |
| 1:14.1 | Happy New Year, welcome back yes |
| 1:16.1 | Thank you |
| 1:16.6 | How we all doing? |
| 1:18.1 | Very well |
| 1:18.9 | Yeah my year long attempt |
| 1:20.5 | To create an AI version of Lionel Burnie |
| 1:22.8 | To take over the podcast for me |
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