Friends! Listeners! We're back with updates on some exciting news from All Bodies on Bikes!

First be sure to sprint, not toodle, over to our website to be one of the first to get in on the All Bodies on Bikes Membership program! We've launched this new feature with 4 exciting tiers to choose from. There is something literally for everyone so go check it out! All members will get access to our Discord and resources, and each Tier adds more perks to help you to celebrate joyful movement.

Marley has been travelling with ABOB co-founder Kailey Kornhauser for some exciting rides, but also to begin filming with Shimano for the second All Bodies on Bikes film, a follow-up from the original.

And finally, keep your social media feeds tuned to All Bodies on Bikes this week while we wait for news of our Today Show debut!? (Kailey's mom predicted this—now it's coming true!) Marley and Kailey filmed a segment during the 5 Boro Bike Tour in NYC. We'll post it everywhere once it's broadcast so make sure you're following our Instagram and YouTube pages.

And don't forget, you can join local All Bodies on Bikes chapter events nationwide. Visit www.allbodiesonbikes.com/events for dates and details.

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Marley: Hi.

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Ellen: calling in from an airport.

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Marley: I know I'm here so early.

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I'm here three hours early for my flight.

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It's a little ridiculous.

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Ellen: Is that how you normally operate?

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Are you an early airport person?

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Marley: Um, I'm a little bit of an early

airport person, but not this early.

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I'm in Detroit.

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I was getting a ride from somebody and

they had work to do this afternoon, so

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I was like, I can work from the airport.

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So now here we are doing work.

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Ellen: Very cool.

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Marley: It's a weirdly quiet airport and

I hope that holds true because podcasting

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from an airport is like not definitely

not on the list of best practices.

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Ellen: I know.

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Well, it's better than what I

was suggesting, which is, Hey,

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I could do it from Central Park.

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It's fine.

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I would like to

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Marley: Right, right.

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You should try it.

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I mean, especially if you've got a

good mic, um, we should try it and

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then give people's feedback on it,

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Ellen: That's what I was thinking.

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I should start maybe by saying I'm

wildly jealous of what you've been

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up to for the last like three weeks.

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'cause you have been bike

rider extraordinaire.

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Marley: It has been pretty incredible.

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Um, my, my travel season is in full swing

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Ellen: Uh.

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Marley: gone every single weekend

in May, and then my summer is

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shaping up to be incredible.

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I have some fun news about that.

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Um, yeah, in the last three weeks,

I was just thinking about yesterday.

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I've ridden in Detroit, uh,

New York and where was I?

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The week before that?

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Ellen: Somewhere.

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Marley: I think I was in

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Ellen: You were somewhere.

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Marley: I think I was in Arkansas.

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But, um, it has been, I lemme

look at my calendar real quick

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'cause I don't wanna lie to you.

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Ellen: I'm not sure i'm convinced

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if you were

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actually.

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Oh, do you know what though?

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I think you were, but I do think

there was an all bodies event.

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When did you have a ride?

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There was like an art ride.

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Marley: Yes, that's exactly what happened.

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Um, that was the week before.

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Yeah.

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So,

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Ellen: Yeah.

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Marley: it has been a very

exciting, yeah, so I was in

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Ellen: Three weeks.

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Marley: Detroit.

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I'll be in Eugene, Oregon next week.

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And then, yeah, we were in, um,

Arkansas the week before and then I was

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at Sea Otter and Kansas before that.

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So it has been a wild spring of travel.

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Ellen: That's incredible.

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It was, it's like this, a different

version of what you did last summer

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where it was just tour Demarley

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made it everywhere.

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Marley: I'm, I'm kind of doing the

same thing this summer, but I won't

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be in a van, so I'm gonna take my

little Kia soul and we're gonna

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go back out to the west coast.

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Um, I mean, let's be honest, Arkansas

is kind of hellish in the summer.

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It is like oppressively hot

and humid and just not fun.

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So I'm gonna go back out to the

West Coast and um, Daisy May will

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stay with my mom for a couple

weeks and I'll do a couple events.

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And then, uh, you're going to France soon.

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I am also going to France.

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Ellen: For fun for all bodies for.

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Marley: it's for work.

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Um, so, but it's not

necessarily for all bodies.

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Uh, but it is.

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So I'm going with EF Adventures.

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They're in an adventure travel company

and they have hired me to go on their

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Tour de France, uh, femmes trip.

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Um, so it's like nine.

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Ellen: you kidding me right now?

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Marley: so it's nine days

of riding around France.

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Um, we're kind of

following the women's tour.

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We get to ride a couple

of the iconic climbs.

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We get to be at one of the stage finishes.

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Um, but I'm getting paid to go on

the trip, paid to make content.

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Um, and I'm so excited.

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I'm like, did I make it?

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Is this, is this gonna be making it?

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I think so.

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Ellen: I think so it's certainly

evidence that I would put

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in the column of making it.

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Marley: I, I think so too.

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Yeah.

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So, um, it does mean I have to miss out

on one gravel event that I was super

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excited for and really looking forward to.

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Um, but I haven't gotten to go to

Europe since I worked in corporate

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America since pre covid times.

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So I'm very, very excited

to get back out to France.

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I.

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Ellen: Yay.

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Are you going to do any different

training as you approach that event,

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knowing that you'll be climbing

climbs that are in the Tour de France?

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Marley: That's a great question.

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Um, probably not, um, because I'm

gonna be on an e-bike, so because it's

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EF Adventures, they're partners with

Cannondale, which is perfect because

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Cannondale is my sponsor, and so

I'm gonna be riding an E road bike.

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Um, which I think will

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Ellen: Oh

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Marley: it way more enjoyable.

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Ellen: yeah.

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I don't think I realized

that E were a thing.

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Marley: yeah, yeah.

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So I'll be on their, their

synapse, their synap, neo synapse.

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Um, so it's kind of an all road bike.

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It's got clearance for up to 48, so

I could throw some gravel tires on

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there, but, um, I'm stoked at it.

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Ellen: Yeah, that's exciting.

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And I wonder too, that might

become an opening for us to do

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a really good e-bike episode.

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'cause we've been wanting to do a like

proper, how do you e-bike on longer trips,

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episode.

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We haven't had a good opportunity

to figure that out yet.

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So if that's what will be pieces

of it, then maybe we do that.

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Marley: Yeah, I mean, I'll find

out when I go on this adventure.

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I mean,

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Ellen: Yeah.

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Marley: I think the longest day that

we have riding is like 50 miles.

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So

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Ellen: Okay.

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Marley: like a ton.

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I mean, it is a ton of riding,

um, but it's, it'll give me a

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good chance to test out this bike.

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So I'm excited about that.

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Ellen: Yay.

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Oh my gosh.

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This is great news.

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Well, let's talk about what

you've been doing as well and

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why it's exciting and important.

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so

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Marley: last week we were in, I say

we, Kaylee came on this trip and we

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went to New York City for the five

Borough tour, which we've talked

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about on here, and I think folks have

probably seen it on the newsletter and

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seen it on our socials, but also had.

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A camera crew following us around because

we are making all bodies on bikes.

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Part two, documentary.

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Ellen: Like an official

follow up to the og.

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Marley: Yes, So, uh, we got the green

light from Shimano this spring and

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then, um, we picked a production

crew and we met them in New York

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and it's super, super exciting.

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Um, so I don't really know what the

story's gonna be this time, that's like

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the filmmaker's magic, but they followed

us around New York for a couple days,

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and then next month in June, um, they're

gonna come down to Bentonville and we're

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going on a bike camping trip together.

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Ellen: Okay.

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Marley: Yeah.

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Um, so actually it's more than that.

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So they're coming to Bentonville.

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We are doing a pilot project for

a bike industry certification.

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So I think we've talked about this on the

show a little bit before and we'll talk

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about it more, but essentially, um, one

of the big requests from bike shops is we

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want to be better to people of all sizes.

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How do we do it?

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And it's like we figured out we're

gonna do a certification program.

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Ellen: This is great.

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Marley: we're gonna run the pilot

program in June while the camera crew's

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there, um, to kind of show the breadth

and the depth of what all bodies

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on Bikes does as an organization.

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Um, so while we are in New York, oh my

God, I can't believe I'm saying this.

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Um, we also filmed a

segment with the Today Show.

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Um, it's, it's so.

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Ellen: Tell me, well talk me through this.

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'cause this is all, I'm like, watch

this all happening from over here.

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And I was like, wow,

how did this come about?

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Did they find you, did you apply to them?

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Marley: So they found us.

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Last winter when I was named an outsider

of the year by Outside magazine,

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Ellen: Yeah.

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Marley: that was the catalyst.

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Um, so I, we got an email in

January from the producer and

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she said, Hey, we saw you guys.

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Like in Outside magazine, we would

love to do a segment on the Today Show.

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Can you guys come to New York?

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And this was in January.

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And we're like, yeah, totally.

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It's gonna be a little challenging to plan

a fun group ride in January in New York.

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And she was like, oh yeah.

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Let's do it later in the year.

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So once the, uh, the five tour was

solidified and that we are gonna have an

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all bodies on bikes presence there, we

let the Today Show know, like, Hey, we're

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coming out for this, would this work?

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And they were like, oh yeah, definitely.

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Um, so it was really funny though.

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They were like.

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We wanna film a group ride, but it needs

to be like 45 minutes outside the city

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so that we way we can get a drone up.

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And me and Kayla are like,

uh, we don't live there.

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We have no idea.

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But thank God we have a couple

friends of all bodies on bikes.

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He's actually been on the show before

Andrew Schneider from Party Size cycling.

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so we reached out to him and we were

like, Hey Andrew, any chance you

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wanna help us plan a group ride?

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And he is like.

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The saint of All Saints

and he put together this

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incredible group ride for us.

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And so on Friday, oh my God,

an an Escalade picked up Kaylee

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and I at our hotel in Manhattan.

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Ellen: it black

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like

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Marley: Escalade and we.

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Ellen: Uber, like the Uber xl, not

Uber xl, like the Uber fancy version.

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Marley: Yeah, exactly.

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And so we, we walked out with

our bikes and the driver's like,

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I didn't know you had bikes.

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And so he was totally cool about it.

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And like, we put the seats down and

so then we drove like an hour out.

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It was like an hour and a half

out to, uh, hybrid New Jersey.

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Um, and then there was, um, a camera

guy and a sound guy and the producer.

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And we set up and did a bunch of

interviews and like B roll, and they had

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GoPros on us and taking all these shots.

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And then the correspondent came out.

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So she was on the air in the morning

and then she came out to New Jersey and

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we took her for a short little ride.

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Ellen: Okay.

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Marley: first time she'd been on a bike

in a couple years and it was really cute.

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And then, um, they followed

us around for the group ride.

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Ellen: Nice.

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Marley: the morning and then we had

the group ride in the afternoon.

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I, I'd say like 25 people

came out, which was awesome.

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Um.

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But sadly, which is really ironic, they

were getting the drone up for the group

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shot and it flew straight into a tree.

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So,

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Ellen: Oh.

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Marley: so I don't think they are

gonna have any drone shots unless they

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were able, like we left, um, 'cause

the group ride was still going and

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they were like, I guess we're gonna

come back for the drone at some point.

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So I don't know what their plan is there,

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Ellen: Oh wait, like

it's stuck in the tree?

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Marley: it was stuck in the tree.

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Yeah.

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Ellen: No, I just ran into the tree

and fell literally like a kite,

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like a modern day kite

is stuck in the tree.

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Marley: yep.

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Ellen: Oh.

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It is really sad.

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Sad.

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Especially given that you like went

all the way out to Jersey just to

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have the drone

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to get stuck on the tree.

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Marley: pretty funny though, but, um.

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Gotten a couple emails today

asking us for like, some digital,

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some pictures of group rides.

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Ellen: Yeah.

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Marley: sounds like they're

putting together this segment

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now and it'll air at some point

maybe this week, maybe next week.

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Ellen: When do you know when

will we be able to shout that?

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To tell people to go watch to,

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Marley: I'm hoping.

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Like today or tomorrow.

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Ellen: so when we know,

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know.

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Marley: all bodies on like social

media and then we'll of course put

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links to it and all that jazz, so,

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Ellen: Oh yeah.

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I'm so excited.

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Marley: thank you.

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It's like such a weird thing to have it

be a normal part of my lexicon to say, oh

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yeah, I did a segment with the Today Show.

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Ellen: Sure.

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Normal things,

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Marley: what the heck?

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Ellen: normal influencer things.

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Marley.

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This is incredible.

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Marley: I dunno.

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It's funny though, because like

when this all started, Kaylee's

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mom predicted that you guys are

gonna be on the Today Show one day.

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And we were like, nah, you're crazy.

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Ellen: Because it's important, to

me, that's the signal of, once it

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catches fire, it's gonna really

make a big difference because it

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is, it's so needed and just like

nobody on this podcast is going to be

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surprised to hear me say this right.

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But it's just not that revolutionary

of an idea to say that all

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bodies belong on bikes and yet

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today's show worthy.

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Marley: movement.

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Ellen: Yeah.

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So,

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Marley: and that's what

The Today Show Loved.

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Ellen: okay.

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Marley: there's so much

negativity out there and like.

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Ellen: Hmm.

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Marley: falling apart right now.

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Um,

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Ellen: What do you mean?

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Whatever could you mean?

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Marley: Lord, um,

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Ellen: Yes.

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Marley: honestly, I do feel kind of bad.

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Like I feel like I'm a Pollyanna, like

kind of ignoring all the negative stuff

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because my life is so focused on joy

and cultivating joy for other people.

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It's just, it's kind of

a weird juxtaposition.

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Ellen: It is absolutely a

juxtaposition and joy is resistance.

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I struggle with this a lot.

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The same way that you, I

think just described, right?

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I don't watch the news and I don't

go searching for, how bad is this?

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I know that it is bad.

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I know that my role in this is

organizing and building community and

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finding the joy so that people can

continue to do the important work.

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So don't discount your role in the joy and

the health and the mental health benefits.

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There's a lot.

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There's a lot at play here beyond,

look at this girl riding bikes.

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She's so happy.

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Like, let's be real here, Marley.

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Marley: Thank you, Ellen.

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Yeah, it's, it's easy to doubt

yourself, but um, I think you're a

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hundred percent spot on with that.

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Ellen: It's an important piece of it.

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We, this, we're all in this for the

long haul as far as the, uh, macro

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economic, political environments.

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And so we need to find these pockets

of joy so that you remember that

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we're building something better.

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Marley: Exactly.

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Ellen: Yeah.

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Marley: But go back.

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Going back to the Today Show, um,

you know, it was a similar mindset

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to when the film first came out of

kind of like an, oh crap, we need

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to get ready for the influx that's

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Ellen: I was just gonna

ask, so be even more famous.

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Marley: Well, um, this is, so

Kaylee has had her Instagram

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private for years and she set it

back to public, which is exciting.

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Um, so she's going public.

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Um, I'll probably put up

some more bikini shots.

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No, I'm just kidding.

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Uh, I'm not changing anything on the

personal side, but there has been kind

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of a, I wouldn't call it a mad dash,

but like a, let's get really serious to

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make sure that everything, all bodies

on bikes, public facing is ready to go.

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And we have started a membership program

essentially to ensure that we take as much

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advantage of this opportunity as possible.

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Um, you know, I think we've talked

about this before, but, funding

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for a nonprofit is so uncertain.

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We've been really lucky to get a

couple of awesome grants, but those

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grants aren't renewing for next year.

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And so I don't know how

I'm gonna pay my salary.

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And so we've had the goal to have

a membership program for a couple

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years now, and this was kind of the

catalyst to say, okay, time to get

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our ducks in a row and make it happen.

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So I'm excited to announce that

we now have a membership program.

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So now, regardless of where

you live in the world.

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or not there's a chapter near you,

you can officially be part of the

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All Bodies on Bikes community.

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And really importantly,

we have a free tier.

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So yes, we are using the membership

as a way to fund our endeavors and

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make sure that we can still have

awesome programming and make sure

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our chapters like have the support

and safety equipment that they need.

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So we have the community membership,

which is free and will always be free and

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gets you access to all of our resources.

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Um, the, the big thing that changed is

we just kind of redesigned the website

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a little bit and essentially put our

resources section behind a paywall.

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Um, and that's really the

only thing that's changed.

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Ellen: And it's not a

paywall in the literal sense.

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It is a we, we want you to be part

of this if you're accessing these.

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'cause there's the community

level's free is what you just said.

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Part of building a community

is bringing you in.

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We wanna know who you are.

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If you love all bodies

on bikes, so let us.

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Marley: Let us bring you in and you

get access to our Discord community.

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Um, so we've started a public discord

community where people can ask

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questions, share resources, share

wins, um, share photos of their bike.

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We all love to do that.

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And so we

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Ellen: Yeah.

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Marley: Discord community that

we would love for you to join,

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uh, by becoming a member.

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yeah, we've got the free membership.

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We've got, we're calling it

the Cruiser membership, which

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is $5 a month or $50 a year.

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So if you sign up at the annual

level you get two months free.

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we've got the Trailblazer membership,

which is $10 a month or a hundred

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dollars a year and then the Pacesetter

membership, which is for folks who

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have a little bit more to give and

that's $25 a month or 250 bucks a year.

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And then we also did a, we're calling

it a bike industry membership for like

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shops or brands or anybody that's not

like an individual that wants to be an

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all bodies on bikes member and for all

the paid membership, we're gonna have

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special stickers coming out that say like.

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Proud all bodies on Bikes member.

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Um, the other really cool thing too

is if you become a member, um, you can

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suggest topics to be on the podcast,

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Ellen: Nice.

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Marley: is really, really fun.

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So.

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Ellen: I am absolutely a fan of this.

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I wanna know, are there different

benefits for the different tiers?

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Marley: There are.

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There are, yeah.

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And we've got 'em all outlined on the

website, but primarily it's, you know,

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the community membership just comes with

like the free resources and the discord.

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And as you go up, you get more swag,

you get a little bit more access for

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folks who are doing the Pacesetter

membership, which is like the 25

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bucks a month or 250 bucks a year.

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We are gonna have, and this is a

surprise to you, uh, we are gonna have

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like a Meet the Members podcast where

we invite a couple folks, um, and we

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interview members of all bodies on

bikes, um, to get their perspective and.

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Ellen: Oh my gosh, I

can't wait to meet you.

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Whoever you are prospective members.

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Marley: So it should be super fun.

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Ellen: I won't lie to you.

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Part of my brain is constantly pretending

like I'm being interviewed by like

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Stephen Colbert so I will be happy to

set that up and just be like, you've

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got stories and we wanna hear 'em.

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Marley: Yeah.

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Because we do and.

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I don't know if you got to experience this

at Mid-South Ellen, but like when I travel

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places, people tell me their stories and

it's probably one of the most joyful parts

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of this work is to hear how they got into

cycling or back into cycling or how they

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found out bodies on bikes and how they

see themselves reflected in our work.

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Um, and that really keeps me

motivated and keeps me going.

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Ellen: I love it too.

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And I guess to me it's just the

smallest ways of seeing what

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all bodies is accomplishing.

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And again, that the, that

juxtaposition of like, this is

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not revolutionary and yet it is.

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It's that, it's that perfect little

point of the spear stories that

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really illustrate what we're doing.

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I love this.

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My gosh.

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Marley: you.

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Yeah, I've, I'm excited about it.

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I was a little bit nervous, uh,

but I'm also excited and I think it

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really will help, make all bodies on

bikes sustainable into the future.

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Um, 'cause I've talked

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Ellen: Yeah,

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Marley: before, but we really

want this movement to go on.

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Long after Kaylee and I are kind of

at the front of it, we wanna be able

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to pass this on to somebody else,

so that'll, that'll help us a lot.

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Ellen: I like this so much.

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Congratulations Marley, and I am excited.

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Our new today show listeners.

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Marley: Oh my God.

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I can't take myself seriously when we

say that, but yeah, seriously, uh, if you

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found us from The Today Show, welcome.

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Ellen: Hello?

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We

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Marley: We did, oh my

gosh, this is really funny.

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So we sent them a care

package to Al Roker.

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'cause Al Roker is a big cyclist.

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And so we were, we meant to

give it to the production team

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that was there and we forgot.

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And so we sent them a little care

package with water bottles and stickers

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and notes, um, to say like, welcome

to the all bodies and bikes family.

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So we're hoping that when it

airs, Al Roker will say something.

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Ellen: I hope so.

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Oh my gosh.

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Can you imagine, also think of

like the perfect idea of all

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bodies on bikes representation.

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Like he is great.

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Does he just wanna come

be our a bob uncle?

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Marley: Oh, I would love that Abu Daddy.

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Ellen: I mean, I was going for

something that didn't sound

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like my romance novels, but yes,

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whatever he wants to be.

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If it comes with more

exposure, I am here for it.

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Marley: Oh my God.

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Speaking of, okay.

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Totally switching topics right now,

but I saw this incredible thing.

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Somebody sent it to me on Instagram

and it's like, you know, those

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harnesses that people wear?

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Um, yeah.

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Like sexy harnesses

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Ellen: Like a leather sex.

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Marley: Yeah, it's, yeah.

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But they make it now there's a company

that's making it like reflective, um, as

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like a bike safety reflective harness.

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And I am

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Ellen: It's,

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Marley: with that.

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Ellen: it really opens up

the door for naked bike rides

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to have more representation.

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Marley: Oh my God, I love that.

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Have you ever done a naked bike ride

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Ellen: I have not, I have gotten

really close and then I wanna say that

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like the date switched or something.

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I was like nuts.

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Um, I will say I'm probably, if I ever get

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pun, definitely not intended for that one.

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Shoot.

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Um, but I will say, I've thought about

this and I think I will always be a,

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I'm gonna wear underwear kind of rider.

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Not for the non nakedness, but

just for the comfort level.

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Marley: Same.

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About my boobs, like I have

very large breasts and it

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Ellen: oh,

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Marley: fun to have 'em just

like swinging, swinging free.

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I.

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Ellen: that can be a logistics

problem at that point.

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Marley: I did get on my trainer one time

this winter without a sports bra on, and

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I made a reel about it and I got a lot

of people saying, yep, I've done that.

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Not fun.

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So

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Ellen: Good to know.

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Good to know.

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It's like I feel like,

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I

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think they did.

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I will say we are also for the podcast

news, hoping to be a bit more, um,

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consistent in getting episodes out

every couple of weeks, which means

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you'll get a little bit more back

and forth as we are not, we're

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being a little more casual about it.

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So let us know what you wanna hear

us riff on, whether it's boobs

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or butts or um, membership fees.

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Marley: Yeah.

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And if you sign on as a member,

you get all access and there's a

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little thing that pops up that's

like, suggest a podcast topic.

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So we would love to hear your

feedback and see what, what

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y'all wanna hear us jabber about.

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Ellen: We can jabber

about a lot of things.

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It's more interesting if it's

something you wanna hear about.

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Marley: Yeah, people care about it.

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Yeah.

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Um, so, um, what else is going on?

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So we're go getting into

full, full swing of summer.

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Um, we have so many

events from our chapters.

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Um, I can't even list them all.

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There's probably 10 or 15

coming up in the month of May.

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So folks should just

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Ellen: Good plug for head over.

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Marley: bookmark all

bodies on bikes.com/events.

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But yeah, there's, there's

bike camping trips.

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There's.

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rides, there's all sorts of cool

stuff happening and there's gonna be

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more, um, added throughout the summer.

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Ellen: Especially with the new

chapters, we cover a good chunk of

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the country, and that is by design.

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So even if you are someone who's eager to.

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Go somewhere or to get involved

and we might not be, might

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not have felt close before.

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Be sure to check on because

we've got new not episodes.

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That's what I'm used to saying.

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We have new chapters located all

around the country, so hopefully

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you can get to something somewhere

and if not, you can be a member.

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Marley: We have a growth plan for more.

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I know folks are constantly asking,

how do I get a chapter in my city?

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It's coming, I promise.

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Um, we got some feedback from our existing

chapters that they needed more support.

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They really wanted to

feel a good foundation.

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And um, so we've been working to build

up that infrastructure and build up

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that support for our existing chapters.

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But we will continue to grow and so

we'll do a call for new chapter leaders.

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Um, so there is an opportunity to get

involved in all bodies on bikes if you

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think you want to have a leadership role.

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Um, and we'll have more info on that soon.

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Ellen: Very cool.

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Um, are there any big.

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Kind of all bodies on bikes,

national level, places that you will

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be, that people might travel to.

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Marley: Yeah, we've

got a couple coming up.

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So we'll be at Gravel Locos in Texas.

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Um, our DFW chapter will

be there for that event.

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Um, we'll be at Unbound Gravel in June.

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I guess it's May and June.

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It's on the weekend of, um, and then.

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I know there's more coming up, especially

as we get into spring and summer.

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Um, I'll be at Joy Ride in Oregon, which

is a women's specific event, women,

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trans, non-binary, femme presenting.

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We'll have an all bodies

on bikes presence there.

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Um, and that's

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Ellen: Three.

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Marley: for now.

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Ellen: Those are three great ones.

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Are those all gravel rides?

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Marley: Uh, joy Ride is not Joy.

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Ride will be a pavement ride.

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Ellen: Nice.

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So lots of places to catch us coming

up this summer, and we will of course

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continue to update for those two.

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Instagram's.

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A great place to follow to

know where Marley's gonna be.

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You can follow all bodies on bikes,

but you can also follow Marley herself.

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And then the website's also updated

with the various places and.

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Things that you can find us at,

and then we'll do it here too.

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Marley: Yeah.

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Ellen: And

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we're gonna start, yeah, we're gonna

start beefing up our YouTube page too.

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It's gonna happen.

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, Marley: I guess our big ask

for you in closing out this

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episode is become a member.

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Um, it's free or you can give

us, toss us a couple bucks.

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We've had a lot of folks asking

for a Patreon, and this is our

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version of a Patreon without

dealing with yet another platform.

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Ellen: Beautiful.

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I love not having another

app, so thank you for that.

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Marley: You're welcome.

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I can't keep up with them all.

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Ellen: Same.

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Uh, very exciting.

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Thanks Marley.

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Marley: Thank you, Ellen.

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It is so good to see your face.

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Ellen: Yeah, same.

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Glad we got this little, like

48 hour overlap so that we

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could record some things.

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Marley: Yes.

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tu to Lou for now.

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Ellen: TTFN.

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I like that it's tulu instead of Tata

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TT f.

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Bye.

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Marley: Bye.