The ElCycle Podcast

Honestly, we don’t know what happened this week.  Despite featuring a guest who is seriously awesome (and has already proven her podcasting chops), something about this week’s podcast is off.  We apologize in advance, and recommend you listen to Podcast #9 instead.  In fact, I’m just gonna write this post about that podcast.  Around 15 weeks ago on the ElCycle Podcast…

…AIDS seeped in through headphones in airplanes…

…We talked about Crazy Christians…

…We fawned over CycleCast…

…We talked about a movie we saw earlier that day, The Pineapple Express…

…People failed to meet deadlines…

…We discussed the upcoming presidential election…

…And much more.  And if you’re actually interested in this week’s crapfest, everyone but me has a wrong opinion of Kristen Bell, Justin Patchin gets cyber-bullied, and much, much more…ish…

 

 ElCycle Podcast - Episode 017 [31:40m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This week on the ElCycle Podcast:

…A Thanksgiving bonanza with pie, turkey, and live venison…

…A man is trampled to death in a Wallmart.  Is he still alive?  Find out…

…NWA stands for Niceguys Wording Awfully…

…FORGETTING YOU OWN FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL…

…Find out where Karl’s going to college!  Hint: he would not like Sienna Miller…

…Find out where Mike is going to college!  Hint: it rhymes with schnitzel…sort of…

…Learn about ChanuKKKah with our resident Jew, Zach Haldeman…

…We go metaphorical cow-tipping…

…And so much more you’ll fall over with laughter/death!  It’s all here on the 16th charming ElCycle Podcast.  So come on, ElCyclers, what are you waiting for?

 

 ElCycle Podcast - Episode 016 [50:02m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Holy shit, we’ve been gone a while.  I know all of you have been checking this page every day since our last podcast, waiting with staggering anticipation for what you knew would be a glorious podcast, and, much to your disappointment, it never came.  You sat at your computer, day after day, year after year, itching for the next time you would get to hear our four squeaky voices again.  At one point or another you may have given up on us entirely, blocked us out of your memory.  But then one day, you saw our podcast on your iPod, and you just couldn’t help but give a listen to that charming “CycleCast” once more.  And you were sucked back in.  But still no fifteenth podcast!  Until today.  We are proud, oh so very proud, to present…PODCAST #15!!!!!!!!!!!!  Here’s what to expect from this week’s podcast:

…Coverage of a hard, strong election…

…We get into some funky positions on Ricky Gervais…

…Full-frontal picks…song picks…

…So many movies you could shake a one-eyed snake at them…

…Tons of tolerance and acceptance - or T&A, as we like to call it…

…And two jugs worth of further nonsense!  It all happens THIS WEEK on the ElCycle Podcast!  And you know what else?  You might only have to wait until NEXT FRIDAY for Podcast #16!!!  We’re done slacking off!  From now on, it’s full speed aheaKABOOM!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 ElCycle Podcast - Episode 015 [49:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This week, on the infamously sketchy ElCycle Podcast:

…Karl Hickey’s AMAZING segment This 2 1/2 Weeks In the Eastern Bloc…

…FOUR, count ‘em, FIVE song picks…!

…Celebration of all the great holidays going on about this time, some created by Jews, some created by the ElCycle Founders (hint, Cover Month, hint), and ALL awesome…

…DEBATE CENTRAL!…

…Nah, not really, but we do bring them up…

…Finally, all four of us have cell phones…

…We find ourselves needing to know the plural of apocalypse…

(…I just made a Buffy reference!…)

…Not really, but some of us did go see an Apocalyptica concert, so that’s apocalypse-relevant…

…And so much more it’ll make your head EXPLODE in a way that keeps it intact for future podcasts.  And all of it happens in a reasonable amount of time, as compared to the twin pinnacles of LENGTHINESS AWESOMENESS that were #12 and #13.

 

 ElCycle Podcast - Episode 014 [47:19m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Today, experience the shocking conclusion to Wednesday’s unbelievable cliffhanger.  The final piece of this epic two-parter includes:

…Arguments…

…Love…

…Male-bonding…

…Television in the Eastern Bloc…or something like that…

…The word “bitch”…

…Raps about safety…

…And more!  You simply don’t want to miss it.  Or do you?  Find out!

 

 ElCycle Podcast - Episode 013 B [43:17m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

So this week we set a record for longest episode (second podcast in a row we managed that), but it’s SOOOO long we’re cutting it in half.  So here’s what to expect from Part One, and possibly Part Two also since I really don’t remember which things were discussed which half.  (The decision to split it up was made after we finished recording.)  Here we go:

…Lots of John McCain talk…

…Possibly only John McCain talk…

…Song picks…

…John McCain…

…The other guy…

…Uh…

…Patriotism…

…Un-patriotism…

…John McFace…

…er, McCain*…

…A kickass special guest…

…And more, possibly…actually, probably not.  This might just be John McCain discussion.  But in Part Two, we talk about A LOT more nonsense, only some of it involving John McCain.

 

 ElCycle Podcast - Episode 013 A [38:44m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Apparently there’s very little John McCain discussion, but whatevs, I have no idea what’s in either half-episode.

Three weeks in the making, here’s what you can expect from this week’s podcast:

…Earth-shattering political analysis from the uncompromising Karl Hickey…

…The lethal silence of Pennsylvania’s favorite source of internet knowledge, Mike Dankanich…

…Stimulating coverage of the scientific community from the reliably thorough Shane Garrity…

…And groundbreaking entertainment news reporting from the man who always lets his opinion be heard, Zach Haldeman…

…Plus, reviews of Before Sunrise and others…

…A new cell phone enters the family…that’s three out of four…

…A guest who won’t be you…

…And a whole lot more, since this is our longest podcast ever at 75 minutes…

Aw, don’t be angry with us, we just missed you is all.

 

 ElCycle Podcast - Episode 012 [75:49m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This week in the ElCycle podcast:

…The most thorough Olympics coverage of any media outlet…

…Discussion of the trials a certain teenager has faced in completing college applications…

…I forget how M.I.A. pronounces “Bamboo Banga” and I say she pronounces it “Bonga”…

…Stimulating reviews of classic films like Back to the Future…

…Coverage of the new season of Weeds…

…Our views on the two of the biggest films in theaters right now…

…The shittiest audio I believe I’ve ever heard…

…And more…

 

 ElCycle Podcast - Episode 011 [55:19m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Hey, you.

It’s time for the tenth ElCycle Podcast.  Reaching ten podcasts is one of those barriers that every good or powered-by-a-group-of-relentless-teenagers-who-think-it’s-good podcast someday crosses, and we cross it today.  In our tenth podcast, we discuss everything from China to motorcycles.  Our guest this week is a dashing young motorcyclist, and having him on makes us cooler.  So you may be wondering how you should help us celebrate reaching this landmark number of podcasts, and the answer is simple: just listen.  Your ears for 57 minutes are all we ask for.  And I guess we’ll give you the world in return or something like that, I don’t know.  Who the fuck put a pen under my keyboard?

-Zach

And without further ado, here’s a podcast with fangs that are so sexy you won’t care if it bites.

 

 ElCycle Podcast - Episode 010 [56:47m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Hey, man.

Welcome to another ElCycle Podcast.  A month of inconsistent podcasting is happily ended with this podcast.  We apologize for being a day late, but it would have been impossible to do it on time.  We even warned you in CycleCast that it would be a day late.  Anyhoo, this week we talk about everything from the Old Testament to the New Testament to Pineapples.  We also have a very special guest with us this week.  I’ll leave you these two clues to try to guess who it is.

Hint #1: She’s the girlfriend of one of the core four.

Hint #2: Shane’s girlfriend’s name is Ellen.

Kudos if you can guess it from those two.

-Zach

And without further ado, here’s something you can listen to:

 

 ElCycle Podcast - Episode 009 [44:44m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download