Get the scoop on a variety of area news and summer happenings, plus a report on the recent block party celebrating Richard Skorman and Patricia Seator passing the torch for Poor Richard’s to Joe Cole and Sarah Gibeau. Also, how many bikes do you think Carrie and Al each own? The role John Crandall and Old Town Bike Shop have played in the community. Are we ignoring Briargate? And what is the Meanwhile Block, anyway?

1:30 – Kids riding bikes to school

3:30 – Ditching the car and bicycling around town

4:26 – Bike to Work Day June 24

10:08 – Block Party for Poor Richards

15:47 – Farmers markets downtown

19:30 – Ride of Silence and safety for bicyclists

23:16 – Tacos & Tequila Passport

27:22 – Air Force Academy Visitors Center

28:49 – United We Rock festival

30:21 – City accepts Pikeview Quarry land

32:00 – News Update with Pikes Peak Bulletin

46:00 – What WE love about the Springs

50:39 – What is happening at Studio 809 Podcasts

LINKS:

Bike to Work Day: https://coloradosprings.gov/biketowork

Gazette photos of block party: https://gazette.com/2026/05/03/photos-poor-richards-retirement-torch-passing/

Ride of Silence May 20: https://www.bikesprings.org/

https://www.meetup.com/colorado-springs-cycling-club/events/313247489/?eventOrigin=group_events_list

Meanwhile Block: https://www.meanwhileblock.com/

Tacos & Tequila Passport May 15 – 31 (with May 14 kickoff at Golden Hour in the Mining Exchange Hotel): https://www.downtowncs.com/tacos

Feb 25 2025 – Planning to Make the World a Better Place – episode of LTS featuring Maréa Janae of Dream Catcher Weddings: https://studio809podcasts.com/dreamcatcher/

Support Studio 809 Podcasts: https://www.patreon.com/join/studio809

MENTIONED:

Generation Wild

PikeRide

La Casita

Lionel Rivera

Yemi Mobolade

Steve Bach

John Suthers

Buffalo Lodge Bicycle Resort

Trails & Open Space Coalition

The N+1 Theory

Pikes Peak Center

Joe Cole

Sarah Gibeau

John Weiss

The Catalyst Fund

John Crandall and Old Town Bike Shop

Tubby’s Turnaround

Stephanie Vigil

Julie Ott

Lauren Ripko

Colorado Springs Cycling

Colorado Farm and Art Market

Acacia Park

Meanwhile Block

Norwood Development Group

Side Dish with Schniper

Kelsey Swen

SoCo Insider

Colorado Craft Social

The Golden Hour

Icons

Jax Fish House

Latin Social

Red Gravy

T-Birds Tacos and Tequila

The Brit Pub

Wobbly Olive

Zocalo

Pikeview Quarry

Carlos Perez

Briargate

Banning Lewis Ranch

Manitou Springs

WestFax Brewing Company

Cerberus Brewing Company

ICE

Mel Flores

Smokebrush Foundation

Colorado Springs Utilities

Ciara Guerrero

Pikes Peak Diversity Council

UCCS Black Student Union

Dream Catcher Weddings

League of Women Voters of the Pikes Peak Region

Homeward Pikes Peak

Pikes Peak Area Agency on Aging

El Paso County Progressive Veterans

Pikes Peak Women

Colorado Spring Chamber & EDC

Corvus Technologies

Digital Beachhead

Loving the Springs celebrates the best of Colorado Springs and elevates the rest.

Plug into what’s happening in the Pikes Peak region, learn about awesome people, places and happenings, and explore opportunities to make life here even better. Longtime Springs booster Carrie Simison co-hosts with local gadflies Al Brody and Dave Gardner. All three love our two springs – Colorado and Manitou, so they give them the mic in this twice-monthly podcast. Nothing’s off the table – recreation, the arts, government, business, politics – if it touches your life, they’ll talk about it. We’ll invite the movers and shakers, conspiracy theorists, NIMBYs, YIMBYs, yaysayers and naysayers to join them.

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