Best Mitch Turck Podcasts (2025)

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How Do You Fly? 34:43

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We board a nonstop flight to Shameland. Our bags are packed... even the "overhead" bags, which is a term we've apparently misinterpreted.By How Do You Do?

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How Do You Use Emojis? 36:11

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We get it, we're both old... but one of us is using their emoji keyboard like the Dewey Decimal System and it needs to stop.By How Do You Do?

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How Do You Treat Your Server? 35:04

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We walk a thin line between requesting the check, throwing a gang sign, and doing a full mime performance. Also: hair there, don't care.By How Do You Do?

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How Do You Brush Your Teeth? 29:23

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We give our pearly whites a good sweeping before bedtime, how about you? And who hates their mouths enough to buy hard brushes?By How Do You Do?

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The Jobs Are Back In Town 34:52

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(1:40) Mitch introduces Greg LeRoy, Executive Director of Good Jobs First. (3:13) Greg notes that America's state and city governments spend roughly $70B/yr in economic development incentives to corporations, who often use those incentives in turn to pay no taxes on property or income over the course of their local operation, thus failing to delive…

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Let’s Make Sweet Music Alone 31:50

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(1:38) Mitch introduces Ben Sharp, the force behind progressive metal act Cloudkicker. (3:09) Ben reflects on the influences and innovations that shaped his "bedroom music" hobby -- a classification barely old enough to drink, as it references the 21st century transition from traditional lo-fi homemade music to the studio-grade technologies that pl…

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Stranded In The Food Desert 35:39

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(1:22) Mitch introduces Genevieve Miller, Director of Advocacy at Indy Hunger Network. She gives us the lay of the land regarding how millions of Americans, many of whom are located smack in the middle of high-density urban areas, find themselves unable to access food. She cites USDA's official definition of a food desert as a community with 20%+ p…

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Water On The Brain 38:00

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(1:18) Mitch introduces Dr. David Zetland, economics professor at Leiden University College. (2:16) David briskly walks us through humanity's drive to get useful water on demand, whether it be at the root of an irrigated crop, or at the 30th floor of the Bellagio in Vegas. (7:44) We approach water markets from David's "2x2" mental model: understand…

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Baby On Circuit Board 32:16

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(1:29) Mitch introduces Jenn Sydeski, Founder of Connect Wolf. She speaks to prior advancements in mommy autonomy that not only replaced the need for non-stop in-person vigilance, but also helped distribute the communal parenting load from people to objects and algorithms. (7:43) We talk specifically about Jenn's product and vision, wherein she exp…

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Add Me On Meatspace 37:22

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(1:25) Mitch introduces Alex Cherones, Partner and head of Cybersecurity at Headstorm. He paints a picture of information security before the days of cloud computing and wifi and iPhones... and how the progression of business communication tech has added more and more attack vectors to spread risk. (7:14) Mitch and Alex discuss the dilemma of ultim…

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Police In The Panopticon 33:25

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(1:24) Mitch introduces Dr. Brett Stoudt, head of the CUNY Graduate Center's PhD program in Critical Psychology. He rattles off a handful of the NYPD's latest and shadiest technologies, exponentially increasing the power with which law enforcement can bring the city to its fingertips. He points out that some of these use cases are blatant 4th Amend…

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Time Machines Are Selling Potato Chips 40:38

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(1:44) Mitch introduces Veronica Ahern, fresh off her career move at Oracle. We compress a hundred years of advertising into one brief recap -- revealing how the industry progressed from transporting their ads to physical destinations all over the built environment, to now focusing primarily on one tiny screen and the manipulative factors that dict…

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Telecommuting With (Literally) Extra Steps 39:37

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(1:30) Mitch introduces Gary Walker, creator of "Ready for Remote" and Digital Director at Distribute. (4:45) Gary lays out some of his process around aligning employers to the optimal working environment for their staff & departments... one tell-tale sign informing his consideration for taking any job remote is when 75% of its labor occurs over di…

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The Miseducation Of Educators 40:06

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(1:30) Mitch introduces Tracey Zimmerman (President of Robots and Pencils), and Ryan Gialames (education technologist at large). Thus begins a Zoom interview with so much compression it sometimes sounds like autotune. T-Pain, don't steal our hooks. (4:15) We cite the core advantages of online learning in respect to Telekinetic's technology-eats-tra…

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Democracy Beyond The Destination 38:17

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For posterity: this was recorded in mid-December, 2020. (1:55) Mitch introduces Jamie Skella, technologist and strategic advisor to the Aussie stars -- Mitch's words, not Jamie's. (5:26) Jamie explains how the blockchain-based voting technology he helped developed at MiVote, and later Horizon State, modernizes and optimizes voting to make it more e…

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Transportation Avoidance 40:28

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(1:28) Mitch introduces Carlos Pardo of NUMO. (3:52) Carlos illuminates the modern history of "transportation avoidance" as an urban planning strategy. (6:26) We consider why transportation planners and mobility agencies refuse to acknowledge teletravel as a key component of TDM. (19:30) We debate the inherent value of travel as an instinctive and …

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Trailer 3:40

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Mitch settles into his dangerously comfortable armchair to wax philosophical about the nature of human progress, and how we know we're achieving it whenever we see transportation being made obsolete.By Mitch Turck

Mitch Turck Podcasts

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Telekinetic

Mitch Turck

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How Do You Do?

How Do You Do?

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How Do You Fly? 34:43

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How Do You Use Emojis? 36:11

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How Do You Treat Your Server? 35:04

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How Do You Brush Your Teeth? 29:23

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The Jobs Are Back In Town 34:52

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Let’s Make Sweet Music Alone 31:50

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Stranded In The Food Desert 35:39

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Water On The Brain 38:00

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Baby On Circuit Board 32:16

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Add Me On Meatspace 37:22

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Police In The Panopticon 33:25

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Time Machines Are Selling Potato Chips 40:38

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Telecommuting With (Literally) Extra Steps 39:37

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The Miseducation Of Educators 40:06

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Democracy Beyond The Destination 38:17

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Transportation Avoidance 40:28

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Trailer 3:40