We had to reupload this episode due to the audio being horribly corrupted on the previous one (it made it seem like we were high on uppers interrupting each other constantly but in reality the audio was desynced). We are sorry and we strive to DO BETTER. We are not perfect but we will learn from this experience. Sorry again to everyone, now on to the show. If you were late and this is your first time listening just disregard the last few sentences.

The A24 coded / Criterion Collection era of gravel videos is in full swing this gravel season with Lachlan Morton's Unbound XL video. Will the world's most artistic directors begin making spon con for gravel brands? Will EF put MUCK OFF in their TDF team's tires.

This is basically a pod about Cinéma vérité, not gravel. But only in that gravel is real life, and real life is every thing, and thereby gravel is everything. American directors mentioned include Gus Van Sandt, Ben Affleck, Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson, Greta Gerwig, the Coen brothers and Ben Affleck.

Don't you want to see spon con directed by Greta Gerwig about Paige Onweiller's former career as a physician's Assistant?

Elsewhere, the Holy Spirit does her worldwide grassroots recap on Migration Gravel and Big Horn Gravel. Let's just say PAS RACING (Cecily Decker, Karo Migon, and Emily Newsom] dominated the podium and picked up some physically HUGE checks.

-Introducing an a.i. generated farmer

-Local bike shops not knowing you are cool contemporary gravel coded

-Brady Corbet from child actor to director to gravel spon con collaborator

-The farmers are winning the War on Gravel

-Is Lachlan the most popular privateer amongst gravel dads?

-Pas Normal x JJJJound tastemaker collab

-Paul Sandmann to HSOG pod?

-GCN cringe core

-Rural Murals

-Will Keegan and Sofia launch a couples reality show?

-The Ben Delaney Ventum embargo

-Joe Goettl, a BWR Utah Specialist

-Dylan Johnson's heat training video

-Valterri Bottas's cringe gravel-coded IG privateer social media presence

-Matt Stephens is trying to Great British Bakeoff Code cycling

-Building out the Emporia State College Gravel Studies Program

-Natural Wine x gravel x Girona

-Can you do drugs and eat caffeine gels?

-SBT Gravel preview (not actually a preview)

-What happens if a bike shop hates you for thinking you are a cool gravel guy? (You probably deserve it)

The audio file episode that used to be here was horribly corrupted (that fact that no one seemed to notice is a testament to how insane we are maybe). Instead enjoy this Easter Egg from a Flint Hills local.

Father's day is done and dusted but The Pod Squad goes deeper on Gravel Dad theory and categorization. Understanding that Gravel Dads can range from ages 22-100 with different skills and vibes. Also--should sherpas stop escorting rich people up Mount Everest and help wealthy/pathetic gravel dads up climbs? Of course there is lingering Unbound banter.

Other topics include:

-The Cam Jones Media Tour

-The Karo Mignon Winning Everything Tour

-ICE going after Euro Privateers in America on Temporary Work Visas?

-Has there been Unbound Gravel 2025 content?

-UCI Gravel is not a real thing

-Paul Sandmann and Nathalie Eklund to Holy Spirit of Gravel POD?

-How many Vermuelens are there?

-Rosa Kloser in the Tour De Suisse

-Friends and Family throwing your Pas Normal / MAAP bibs in the dryer

-GCN: they are really agonizing over the whole gravel versus road bike thing, huh?

-Daxton Mock, Lance Haidet and Taylor Lideen updates

-Safari Gravel, Canadian National Gravel Championship, and Lost & Found also happened

-zone2speak