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Mika Torkkola and Samantha Morgan established their friendship with bike rides and a shared love of doing things without fully thinking them through. When Mika moved to Finland, they decided to create a podcast as a way of taking a virtual bike ride. The duo discuss topics involving their shared love of bike rides and the environment. Yes, the two things are related. Join them on a mostly useless but otherwise entertaining auditory adventure.
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WE'RE BACK! Let's call this season 3
You can breathe, we’re back! Oh, I know it’s been far, far, too long. But here’s the problem, we’ve both been out doing the thing, which is kinda our…
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DO THE THING: Let the good times roll… again!
After being shut down for a year due to the pandemic, Louisiana is letting the good times roll once again. Carnival Season is officially in full swing…
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Do The Thing: Mika's better Half
You got one email from me already, now another?! No, it’s not your birthday, I’m just trying something new. Substack, the host of this newsletter, is…
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Mika and Sam go for a bike ride!
My bestie is back in town for a visit, so you know we’ve been out on some bike rides. In fact, we recorded one of them for you! This week’s episode is…
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Mika goes to Copenhagen
On this episode Mika talks about his trip to bike Mecca with our good buddy Dominic. He shared some of the really neat things Copenhagen did to make the…
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Jobs: When it's time to move on to something new
I quit my job! Well, not just my job, but I quit my career, too! I'm leaving traditional media and I'll announce my future employer at a later date. For…
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Finland bunnies vs American trash pandas
We’ve spent so much time talking about biking in America, but Mika has been living in Finland so I thought it was about time we finally talked about…
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How to start your own group bike ride
Because both Mika and I have started/led group bike rides, we were nominated to tell all you folks how to start your OWN group bike ride. And let me…
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Friendship and beans
Is friendship important? Duh! But what does modern day friendship look like? Thanks to technology, friends can remain friends even if they decide to put…
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The world we're all living on
This episode starts with a discussion about the book How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates and ends with an explanation about the concept of…
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Why bad decisions make good friends
In this episode we discuss our origin story, which begins with a bang... literally! Mika discovers his hidden rage, and Samantha uncovers she is full of…
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