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Holy Spirit of Gravelwhat REALLY happened at LEADVILLE!We weren't there and don't know a whole lot about Mountain Bikes but that doesn't stop us from talking about the most gravel-coded MTB race in the world. Or maybe its just X-Treme Gravel? Holy Spirit and her Gravel Dad cohost ate at a really activated pizza spot featured on Barstool Sports and then just decided to pod before she went back home because even tho the vibes were off, the pizza was really good! Also Holy Spirit briefly mixed up Heathland Gravel and Latvia's Gravel Weekend, she should resign from the Core4 media team. Also Holy...2025-08-111h 14Holy Spirit of GravelI watched da FEMMES for nine days straight, Gravel Neutral Service Bikes and moreAlternate title for the podcast episode is: Did Axelle Dubau Prevot’s INSANE Leadville Block inspire her sister to win TdFF??Your favorite unhinged Gravel podcast breaks down the paved race called Tour de France Femmes avec Whoop Cycling and DESTROYS the critiques of “women don’t know how to ride bikes”. Also Megre Gravel was happening during the queen’s stage and apparently pro cycling stats has a hidden tab for gravel races. Topics include:celebrities in the gravel paddock (aka grassy parking lot)this Sarah Gigante video is lowkey amazing Sarah Gigante did nothing wron...2025-08-0454 minHoly Spirit of GravelThe Rift, Foco Fondo, Leadville Stage Race and forgetting your shoes (not us)The Holy Spirit of Gravel digs in on two weeks of gravel and whatever the Leadville stage race is because we were getting sick of the Tour (hommes) (we love it but). Gravel Earth Series seems to be winning the aesthetics war currently with their women’s Rift coverage… I think the men’s was in there somewhere. Foco Fondo had a dialed, grassroots-coded livestream where we could see some normie style aid station usage. Leadville stage race was stacked but does Holy Spirit even care about MTB? Will Daxton Mock/Lance Haidet’s family break th...2025-07-291h 05Holy Spirit of GravelNBC Sports & Lance Armstrong are ‘Joe Rogan-coding’ the Tour De FranceHoly Spirit of Gravel DESTROYS NBC Sports' coverage of the Tour De France. As much as we enjoy this time of year, why does the Peacock coverage in America feel disconnected from the things that we love about cycling in America? Are we too gravel-pilled, or is the broadcast disengaged from the best parts of cycling in America?-guys in suits-Bradley Wiggins and George Hincapie working out-track cycling to UCI British Olympic pipeline-ketones and veteran owned podcast products-the fallacy of having an...2025-07-2158 minHoly Spirit of GravelGravel Mexico recap, TdF peacock coverage, shambolic UCI Gravel race and ignorant Utah takesPresented by The Feed presented by Nathan’s hot dogs presented by San Luis Potosí tourism board presented by Campaign for Nick Blouin for Utah Presented by Crusher in the Tusher presented by 2025-07-141h 15
Holy Spirit of GravelPaul Sandmann - Beyond the Privateer Chronicles ep 1Today marks our first ever interview on the Holy Sprit of Gravel podcast. We are calling this series the Beyond Privateer Chronicles (until I think of something better). We're joined by German pro elite hitter Paul Sandmann. You might know him for his 38th place result in Unbound 2025. He pulls back the curtain on life as a lesser-known gravel hitter, if the privateer model is worth it, and the differences between Euro gravel and American prestige gravel. Oh and he's Rosa Kloser's boyfriend.We here at HSOG productions make...2025-07-081h 16Holy Spirit of GravelSBT GRVL + Oregon Trail + BWR Montana and other riffsThe Holy Spirit talks about SBT GRVL for way too long. It ends up being a podcast about lap races in gravel, neutral feed zones and MAURTEN's nutrition. (Not to be confused with Morton's Steak House or Morton's salt). The Cooldown with Alexey Vermuelen and Keegan Swenson provided insight into a race weekend of narrow tires and champagne gravel from the perspective of the gravel elite.Eventually, there is a vibe check on Oregon Trail Gravel Grind. We talk about the camping vs Airbnb wars among privateers and the future of the spirit of...2025-07-011h 17Holy Spirit of GravelThe Emergence of Prestige Gravel Videos (reupload)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...2025-06-261h 20Holy Spirit of GravelPSA from a Gravel Race localThe 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. 2025-06-2402 minHoly Spirit of GravelChildless Gravel DadsFather'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 con...2025-06-171h 06Holy Spirit of GravelHow to Gravel-code Tulsa Tough"Is American crit racing WASHED?" -some one way too into gravelThe Holy Spirit touches grass after getting TOO activated at UNBOUND. She documents going on a ride without her Wahoo. Then she starts reading about Gravel Earth's Festivus Gravel, attended by Lifetime Grand Prix hitter Simon Pellaud.The PD SQD (pod squad privateer team) accidentally starts talking about crit racing in America because Tulsa Tough happened. They are incredibly uninformed, but talk about Le6ion, The Golden State Blazers fka the Miami Blazers. Does it need a dirt crit or a Midsouth gravel crossover...2025-06-091h 12Holy Spirit of GravelUnbound Gravel recap: 2 Fast 2 ActivatedHoly Spirit ventured to Emporia, Kansas to get ACTIVATED. The 200 mile pro field race was full of ruts, dangerous riding by non-elite riders, and clogged with normies on the course. Is it time to redefine the spirit of gravel? (aka the discussion that happens after every race)More importantly, did the Holy Spirit almost end the race of an unnamed privateer (named John Borstelmann).Lifetime Grand Prix is actually good this year because of Pas Racing, Cecily Decker, and Simon Pellaud. Also, Cam Jones might not be able to...2025-06-061h 41Holy Spirit of GravelUnbound Preview: The Calm Before the ActivationThe Holy Spirit prepares to head to the most ACTIVATED city in the world--Emporia, Kansas. There's activations, there's GU wrappers, and there's apparently a gravel Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. The PD SQD (pod squad) previews the UNBOUND 200 with no information or data. More importantly, will normies be taking selfies with privateers at shakeout rides? The event will be livestreamed, but will we get more vibes than people shouting "let's go Keegan." The only true narrative about UNBOUND is the Mud vs. No Mud binary.-Did Holy Spirit finish all her packing?...2025-05-2757 minHoly Spirit of GravelDylan Johnson to Miss UNBOUND (DNS-Hit By Truck)EMERGENCY POD to discuss Dylan Johnson's accident--he was hit by a truck and details are scarce. All we know is that he won't be at UNBOUND--not even an activation. His absence will be felt, but will it lead to a revolution of DJ content? Is it time to break up the Bonk Bros? Alexey Vermuelen was on Payson's "With Pace" episode where they talk about gravel mortality. Unbound is going to have a livestream! Gravel is being 'perceived' by the masses? Well, at least we like livestreams. Also Holy Spirit does a FOMO Gravel Locos preview because Pas Racing i...2025-05-221h 01Holy Spirit of GravelUnbound Block PartyThe Holy Spirit's Unbound Block Party is going hard and she balances training load with activations. What is the future of Emporia, Kansas? Will it be filled with youtube CREATOR HOUSES in 2025?Elsewhere, the gravel calendar never sleeps as Giro Stage 9 featured 29.9 km of CERTIFIED GRAVEL, The Gralloch was a CERTIFIED UCI gravel race (they're real?) where the livestream didn't work and Pete Stetina's Paydirt ACTIVATED the Nevada grassroots gravel scene. Most importantly, our Vibes Based Coaching Protocol begins to define what makes a block and how to be as annoying as possible when you are deep in...2025-05-191h 24Holy Spirit of GravelGravel True Crime: our theories on the GCN Robbery and other musingsToday, we talk about the GCN crew getting carjacked by Catalonian gangsters when they left Traka. By the way, who watches GCN? The Holy Spirit begins to document her Unbound Block, including a fall and an extreme stroad ride. We breakdown some of Traka's best content from Maddy Nutt and vc letsgetit. Musings include neglected greenways, Girona work permits, Sepp Kuss privateer arc, and a future where all bikes have insta360 cameras on them for insurance and surveillance purposes. Feel free to email us if you have any comments or questions: holyspiritofgravel@gmail.comFollow on ins...2025-05-121h 14Holy Spirit of GravelTraka 2025 recap: PAS is not NORMAL!Sorry Lifetime Grand Prix-- but is the Trakka was the greatest gravel race of all time? We digitally travel to the streets of Girona, attend some sick afterparties and activations, and embedded ourselves in the 10 hour Trakka livestream to bring you the best race and culture analysis available. It was a huge day for Pas Racing aka Pas Normal Studios. Will this increase their market share in America, and are they on their way to Rapha normie status? riffs include:Who is winning 2025: Gravel Earth Series Vs Lifetime GP360 distance vs 200 distance explainerBen Dela...2025-05-051h 08Holy Spirit of GravelGentrifying Gravel cycling, from rural America to GironaRiffs Include:New chain ringAm I an influencer?Recapping roadie coded grass roots gravel raceDad Watt ExpressToo much pavement?Wife yelling at husband for not pullingPsychology of hitter-coded normiesBathroom etiquette in rural communitiesHitters with changing closet robesBen Delaney unfollowed Holy Spirit of Gravel rumorK Hole at a Trakka AfterpartyDaxton Mock Fantasy Gravel DraftWhat happened to Keegan at Whiskey Offroad?Sofia and Matt Beers won BWR ArizonaCastelli SOG cabalTour of Gila non-recapBest Shape Of Your Life Theory FallacyGuys with dogs on their backs"Cycling is all about cumulative load"Road LARPING in a gravel raceFiling a formal protest with a...2025-05-0158 minHoly Spirit of GravelLevi's Gran Fondo is a gravel race on pavementHoly Spirit and Gravel Dad recap The Growler, a pro race during Levi's Gran Fondo. Is this the salvation of American road racing in America? Or just a road race re-skinned as a gravel race? Americans got to turn on Youtube and watch a pro race called by British prestige cycling voices Matt Stephens (NOT Lauren's husband) and the pride of greater manchester Hannah Walker. We're a long way from a cafe ride and the spring classics.Riffs include:Local Elitist Roadie Group Rides that make team jerseysA local hitter saving watts on your wheel on a...2025-04-2258 minHoly Spirit of GravelGravel Privateer Tax SeasonWe hit many riffs, they include:Tertiary city greenbelt trail KOMsMountain bike drafting brosNormie bike crash rehab Depressing used bike marketplace Social politics of Canyon bike sizingJoey Pidcock finishing last at Paris RoubaixValterri Bottas bike-fluencer eraGravel Earth Series vs Lifetime Grand Prix video productionPete Stetina jump scareWhat images from Santa Vall and The Hills mean to usMainstream Cycling Media's hype of Rosa Kloser's Paris-Roubaix to Unbound arcIz King badass ridePaige Onweller the medical professionalAlexey Vermeulen understandswe love Justin McQuerry videosBike Tech?Wanting a ColnagoColnago tire clearanceThe Barista to privateer pipelineMid-South beansHow to file your taxes if you are a...2025-04-1736 min
Holy Spirit of GravelSea Otter Gravel 2025 Recap - Lifetime Grand Prix DESTROYS road cycling in AmericaWe were not anywhere near the Sea Otter Classic elite field Gravel race this Thursday but the Holy Spirit was locked into the instagram live feed and we had to talk about it to Gravel Dad. Today's Riffs include...-Simon Pelluad + Tudor Cycling team is taking over American Gravel Cycling?-unhinged normies projecting Matt Beers vs Keegan Cape Epic drama-Lifetime production team killed it with their DIY livestream and rapid uploads even though it wasn't always working and wasn't a real stream-Deranged gravel fans in comment sections2025-04-1154 min
Holy Spirit of GravelCastell Grind 2025 -- How I got on a normie gravel podiumThe Holy Spirit of Gravel travels to Castell, TX and ends up on the podium of the normie distance of a normie race. She continues to add to her normie palmares in order to pitch sponsors in her inevitable meme admin to privateer arc. Gravel Dad and the Holy Spirit discuss the rise of hitter-coded normies, watt pushing gravel dads, and cycling body dysmorphia when you are an American non-hitter in Pas Normal.It was a muddy weekend in Castell that resulted in slower times, but yielded higher results. This pod has to be about as...2025-04-0931 min
Holy Spirit of GravelThe Hills gravel race and Gravel Earth Series vibesThe Holy Spirit stumbles into instagram coverage of The Hills race in Italy and discovers that Europeans have their own gravel multiverse. They also get to see Lachlan Morton DJ Sets at their races. European gravel is festival coded Millennial programming--but do normies participates in mass starts in Euro Gravel?Hot topics include:-Privateers dominating local races-The world tour dropout to gravel to DJ pipeline-Pan Normal, the hottest new bakery in your dumb american city-John Borstelman, Matt Beers, Daxton Mock and Alexis Skarda2025-04-0148 min
Holy Spirit of GravelRattlesnake Gravel GrindThe Holy Spirit traveled to the Rattlesnake Grind in Sweetwater, Texas. We do a vibe check on the weekend. Participants included Lauren Stephens, Joe Laverick and a bunch of normies. Some gravel dad brought rollers to warm up in the parking lot. Does the Spirit of Gravel live exclusively at Lifetime Grand Prix events or just your local regional grind? No one has recognized my Pas Normal International Cycling Club cap and I'm having an existential meltdown. 2025-03-2731 min
Holy Spirit of GravelMidsouth 2025 & Race Cancellation CultureWow what a loaded title!WILL MIDSOUTH 2025 END UP BEING THE CULTURALLY DEFINITIVE RACE OF 2025?Wildfires in Stillwater, Oklahoma and surrounding communities led to the cancellation of Midsouth 2025. The situation escalated quickly, as did the online discourse around air quality index, rider safety, and community resources. Not to mention thousands of normies who were planning a fun weekend and had to ship their bike back home.Once again, the relationship between gravel culturalistas who descend upon small towns once a year and the communities that host them was highlighted with the reaction to...2025-03-1741 min
Holy Spirit of GravelValley of Tears RecapThe Holy Spirit travels to Turkey, Texas to recap the Valley of Tears Gravel Race.A recently launched grassroots race, funded by Fairos insurance has attracted the talent of many gravel privateers. Let's just say it was the type of race where Dylan Johnson and Ben Delaney could collab. The weather was terrible and park rangers had to rescue all of the gravel normies off the course.Also zoomer legend Daxton Mock (who we assume is a zoomer) won the men's race. Sofia Gomez Villafane won the women's race...2025-03-1435 min
DataAgenda Datenschutz PodcastFolge 36: Datamining in der Strafjustiz? Die „hessen-Data“-Entscheidung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts auf dem PrüfstandAm 16.02.2023 hat das Bundesverfassungsgericht mit einer Entscheidung Regelungen in Hessen (§ 25 Abs. 1 Alt. 1 HSOG) und Hamburg (§ 49 Abs. 1 Alt. 1 HmbPolDVG) zur automatisierten Datenanalyse oder -auswertung aus aggregierten Quellen („Data Mining“) für die vorbeugende Bekämpfung von Straftaten und die Gefahrenabwehr allgemein für verfassungswidrig erklärt. Das BVerfG hat den Beschwerdeführern teilweise recht gegeben. Positiv gewendet ist die automatisierte Datenanalyse oder -auswertung „zur vorbeugenden Bekämpfung schwerer Straftaten” nämlich grundsätzlich legitim. Deren Verhältnismäßigkeit hängt von den Ausnahmen ab.
Ein DataAgenda-Podcast über die Auswirkungen des Urteils für die Praxis mit Paula Cipierre, Leiterin des Bereichs Datenschutz und Dateneth...2023-04-181h 03
Die Lage der Frauen*Starke Frauen von Heute: Kämpferin für die Rechte von Migrant*innen, María del Carmen Orbegoso AlvarezHeute zu Gast haben wir María del Carmen Orbegoso Alvarez. Sie ist eine peruanische Pädagogin mit umfassender Erfahrung in Projektentwicklung und Ausbildungsprogrammen für Menschenrechte und die Bekämpfung der Armut, von Communityorganizing bis zum Projektmanagement. Nachdem sie mehrere Jahre in verschiedenen Regionen ihres Landes unterrichtet und Projekte geleitet hatte, zog sie nach Berlin.
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Du bist 1968 in Lima, Peru geboren und hast auch dort am Pedagógico Nacional Monterrico, Linguistik und Literatur auf Lehramt studiert. Warum hattest du dich damals entschieden Pädagogin zu werden?
Wie ich schon in der Einleitung sagte, warst du in...2022-02-251h 30
Berlin Security BeatEpisode 10: “20 Years of ‘War on Terror’”
Julian Wucherpfennig, Professor of International Affairs and Security at the Hertie School, and an expert on ethnic civil war and terrorism, joins Dr. Katharina Emschermann, Deputy Director at the Centre for International Security, on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks to talk about terrorism. They discuss:
• what terrorists want,
• what went wrong in the so-called war on terror,
• the effects of domestic counter-terrorism measures, and
• the policy implications of terrorism research.
Bibliography
Bapat, Navin A. (2019): Monsters to Destroy: Understanding the War on Terror, Oxford University Press, https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190061456.001.0001/oso-9780...2021-09-1024 min