The Moth Podcast: Cycling

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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On this episode, in celebration of the Tour de France, we’re taking a ride with three stories all centered around biking. This episode is hosted by Emily Couch. Storytellers: Noa Gilbert organizes a protest to save a protected bike lane. Rebecca Sacks got into a bike accident and discovers something about her community. On his way to a meeting at Warner Bros., Gbenga Akinnagbe ends up stranded on the side of a mountain. Podcast # 927 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.7	information, go to amazon.com.uk.U.K.S. Prime. Welcome to the Moth. I'm Emily Couch,
0:36.4	and in this episode, we're taking a ride, with three stories all centered around biking.
0:41.3	The Tour de France has us thinking about cycling, and even though I know I'll never ride up a mountain with calves of steel or get one of those cute yellow jerseys, there's something special about being on a bike.
0:50.3	Something that, pun intended, you never forget.
0:53.3	First up, we have Noah Gilbert, who told this at a Boston story slam where the theme was grown.
0:58.7	Here's Noah, live at the mall.
1:05.1	I'm in Boston doing college tours.
1:08.4	And the thing that I noticed walking around Boston is the protected
1:12.7	bike lanes. Because I come from Omaha, Nebraska, which is a small, medium-sized city
1:18.8	in Nebraska. And we have one. It's about two miles long. It kind of sucks. There's plastic bollards glued onto the ground and cars
1:31.1	run into it and parking it often. But I love this bike lane because it's the only one and it's
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