Thrilling Tales: The Peloton Story

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🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Peloton thought it was selling boutique at-home fitness to busy parents. Instead, it created an entire community. But it also hit a few bumps on the road to success. Podcast production by Jess Miller and Cleo Levin. Slate Plus members get ad-free podcasts and bonus episodes of shows like Dear Prudence and Slow Burn. Sign up now to listen and support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Just Between Us.
0:02.0	Us.
0:04.0	If you're looking for a new podcast, might I recommend our podcast?
0:09.0	Hi, I'm Gabe Dunn.
0:11.0	And I'm Allison Raskin.
0:12.0	We have a weekly show called Just Between Us where we explore every kind of topic out there
0:18.0	From mental health to sexuality to animal behavior to science. We love to interview fascinating people about
0:27.0	their various expertise. We also answer listener questions and play a very
0:32.2	silly game called
0:33.1	hypotheticals.
0:34.3	You're not going to want to miss it, it's unhinged.
0:37.1	And if you don't want to trust our word for it because it's our show,
0:40.2	you should know that the I-Heart Podcast Awards nominated us for Best Ensemble for 2023.
0:46.5	That means that we are good at our jobs.
0:49.2	Or we have good chemistry?
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0:57.0	My name is Matthew Coffey and I am a Peloton writer now for about a little over a year.
1:04.0	And you're my brother-in-law.
1:06.0	Also true, I'm your brother-in-law.
1:08.0	After my brother-in-law, Matt, got a peloton, that fancy home exercise bike that has an internet connection and a touch screen.
1:14.4	He started raving about it. It was a super fun workout. He was getting in great shape.
1:19.4	He was battling with friends over who could post the fastest times.
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