February 26th 2020 Bicycle Talk Episode 187 Ron’s Rant of the Week: Bikes and parking garages. So what’s the big deal here? Why don’t parking garages have a safe space for parking your bike? On a p...
This episode features a "best of the blog" commentary from UConn History Phd candidate and Archives student employee, Shaine Scarminach. Shaine has worked in the archives to unearth potential research topics ...
Mike Chambers has worked on many major Hollywood motion pictures in his career: Die Hard, True Lies, Strange Days, Inception, Babe Pig in the City, I am Legend, and the upcoming Tenet and Greyhound to name a ...
I wasn’t on last week because of bronchitis! Will I get to have a year that I don’t catch this malady? Anyway, I rested, ate soup and drank tea, and took immune and lung herbs, and mucolytics. Joe from Covent...
Annie Wandell stands before her self portrait painted on wood
Windham CT area artist Annie Wandell and I discuss her work as a painter, how she learned to paint, the different phases she’s been through, and...
February 12th 2020 Bicycle Talk Episode 185 Ron’s Rant: The unprepared Cyclist. Tubes, tools, pumps, and dressed poorly for the conditions. Are you that rider? Do you show up for rides unprepared?&...
A Tale of Two Migrations: A French Canadian Odyssey
My conversation with Patrice Kaneda focuses on her book about her family and the great family of French Canadians who came to the new world via Canada and...
The whole Coronavirus thing is scary. It’s a new strain that hasn’t been seen in humans before, 2019-nCoV. It likely came from an animal vector from a market where exotic animals are purchased for food. T...
February 5th 2020 Bicycle Talk Episode 184 Ron’s Rant: Stop putting bike lanes in the door zone. Dooring is real! On a positive side: World Cyclocross Championships. How the US riders and others fa...
Mark Wahlberg and Dr. Oz got into it! I think it’s pretty funny but it’s a topic worth discussing. They both got into their corners and said Everyone Should Do Things This Way. The thing is, they’re both rig...