Best Turtle Tracks Podcast Podcasts (2025)

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SPECIAL ANNOUNCENT: TMNT 1990 Back in Theaters Nationwide 8/17 & 8/20 2025 from Fathom Entertainment 1:30

5d ago1:30

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“Cowabunga!” - Turtlemania is Back! - Celebrate the 35th Anniversary of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; Fathom Entertainment, Saga Arts, and Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group Bringing The ClassicMovie Back to the Big Screen August 17 and 20Rediscover The Iconic Film - Exclusive “Turtles Unmasked” Featurette OffersNever-Before-Seen Footage from the Tu…

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Protecting ‘Jaws’ – Aotearoa’s rarest freshwater fish 25:31

5d ago25:31

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Speckled, pencil-thin and sporting an underbite: the lowland longjaw galaxias is New Zealand’s rarest freshwater fish species. With just seven known populations, this species is considered nationally endangered. Join producer Karthic SS at a spring-fed stream in the wild Mackenzie Basin to meet the tiny fish, hear from a researcher studying trout-p…

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161 — Douglas De Azevedo: Animation Director on Tales of the TMNT 1:14:08

6d ago1:14:08

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In this episode, host Brian VanHooker chats with Douglas De Azevedo, an animation director on Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which is now on Netflix. In their discussion, Douglas takes us deep into how the animation of Tales of the TMNT is produced and how the look of TMNT: Mutant Mayhem was adapted for the small screen.Sound engineerin…

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160 - Sue Blu: Voice Director for TMNT 1987 34:35

12d ago34:35

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This week, host Brian VanHooker welcomes a genuine animation legend onto the Turtle Tracks Podcast, Sue Blu. Having played characters like Arcee in 'Transformers' and Nanny Smurf, Blu moved over to voice direction where she became one of the most prolific voice directors of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. Among the many, many shows she's been a part of…

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New insights from an old vaccine 26:34

12d ago26:34

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Since the 1800s, tuberculosis (TB) has been responsible for an estimated 1 billion deaths. In New Zealand today, we don’t get many cases of TB, but worldwide it is the leading infectious disease killer. In the early 1900s a TB vaccine was developed. Called the BCG vaccine, it’s still used today. While it is the best TB vaccine we have, it’s not act…

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Getting ready for H5N1 bird flu 26:24

19d ago26:24

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2020 saw the start of two global pandemics. Covid-19, of course, but also H5N1 bird flu. The latter has swept around the world leaving millions of dead wild birds and marine mammals in its wake. It has reached everywhere – except Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. Alison Ballance has been finding out why this strain of bird flu is so deadly, a…

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Depeche Mode - Speak & Spell (1981) Part 3 1:48:41

21d ago1:48:41

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Episode 186: Depeche Mode – Speak & Spell (1981) Part 3 In this episode, Brian and Sarah resume their look back at Depeche Mode’s debut album. As a reminder, they’re using the US track listing as they talk about the album, but for the songs contained in this episode, the track listing is the same on both sides of the pond. The next songs up for dis…

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Wild Sounds: The new podcast feed for nature 0:33

24d ago0:33

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If you like Our Changing World, you should find and follow Wild Sounds: RNZ's new podcast feed dedicated to incredible natural science stories from New Zealand! Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more detailsBy RNZ

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Tracking turtles 28:47

26d ago28:47

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In late 2024 a cluster of sick green sea turtles washed up around the Rangaunu Harbour on the east coast of the Far North. It was just another mystery in a long line of all the things we don’t know about these ocean taonga. But a new telemetry study, using these very turtles, could change all that. The study has officially kicked off with the relea…

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159 — Sean Sevestre: Visual Development on TMNT: Mutant Mayhem 54:39

26d ago54:39

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In this episode, host Brian VanHooker chats with Sean Sevestre, an artist who was in the visual development department of the 2023 film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. Sevestre talks about creating the first painted representations of the characters designed by Woodrow White like Superfly, Bebop and Rocksteady and designing the Laird b…

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Bonus Episode: Colours of Ever - Live at Stone Turtle House Concerts (June 5, 2025) 45:28

28d ago45:28

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Bonus Episode: Colours of Ever - Live at Stone Turtle House Concerts (June 5, 2025) In our last episode, we mentioned that Brian and his life-long friend Jason would be opening for Vicki Peterson (The Bangles) and John Cowsill (The Cowsills/Beach Boys/Smithereens) at Stone Turtle House Concerts in Bucks County, PA. The two Rock/Pop legends (Vicki a…

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The Chatham Island tūī translocation 26:00

1M ago26:00

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One from the archives! By the 1990s Chatham Island tūī had all but disappeared from the main island. Slightly different to their mainland counterparts, these songbirds had survived on nearby Pitt and Rangatira islands. So a local conservation group decided to try bring them back. In this episode from 2010, Alison Ballance joins the ‘tūī team’ taske…

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158 — Khary Randolph: Artist on TMNT 2003, Turtle Forever & IDW Comics 50:44

1M ago50:44

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In this episode, host Brian VanHooker welcomes artist Khary Randolph onto the podcast. Randolph wore several different hats for the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, originally working on licensing art and then on the series and its finale movie, Turtles Forever. Years later he returned to the TMNT via IDW comics working on a variety of pro…

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Wildfire science heats up 25:53

1M ago25:53

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Smoke explosions. Fire tornadoes. Burning couches. It all happens in the fire lab: a purpose-built facility where researchers can safely set stuff on fire and study how it burns, for science. New Zealand experiences 4,500 wildfires every year, with the risk ramping up due to climate change. We visit the fire lab to watch a large gorse bush go up in…

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157 — TurtleCon Burbank, CA - 6/21/2025 - with Julio Galvez 38:09

1M ago38:09

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In this episode, host Brian VanHooker chats with Julio Galvez, owner of WE CAN BE HEROES COMICS in Chatsworth, California and founder of COMICS & COCKTAILS, a quarterly event in Burbank, CA. On June 21, 2025, Comics & Cocktails will be themed as TURTLECON 2025 bringing fans together with TMNT creators from the past and future, including Ken Mitchro…

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Dissecting the world's rarest whale 26:09

2M ago26:09

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How do you go about dissecting the world’s rarest whale? In December 2024, images from a concrete room in Mosgiel, just south of Dunedin, spread around the world as a team of people spent a week doing a scientific dissection on a spade-toothed whale that had washed up five months before. Claire Concannon joins them to find out what’s involved, what…

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156 — Kyle Wlodgya: Super7 Associate Art Director on 2003 TMNT Line 44:40

2M ago44:40

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The second of two back-to-back Super7 interviews with Associate Art Director Kyle Wlodyga. In this interview with host Brian VanHooker, Wlodyga goes through the new 2003 TMNT line by Super7 including wave one of the four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the recently revealed Wave Two. Sound Engineering by Ian Williams. Follow TURTLE TRACKS PODCAST …

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April 2025 Concert Report (Kylie Minogue, Alison Moyet) and State of the Podcast 1:19:08

2M ago1:19:08

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Episode 185: April 2025 Concert Report (Kylie Minogue, Alison Moyet) and State of the Podcast Where have Brian and Sarah been these last few weeks? Well, for one thing, they’ve been to several concerts! They started and ended the month of April by attending amazing performances given by a couple of musical icons—Kylie Minogue and Alison Moyet! The …

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The missing black petrels of Great Barrier Island 28:01

2M ago28:01

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For nearly 30 years, researchers have been banding black petrel fledglings before they make their maiden migration to Ecuador. Only a handful of birds have ever come back. RNZ’s In Depth reporter Kate Newton travels to Aotea-Great Barrier Island to meet the birds, and the dedicated team trying to figure out the mystery of where they go. Sign up to …

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155 — Kyle Wlodgya: Super7 Associate Art Director on Playmates-Inspired TMNT Line 1:09:38

2M ago1:09:38

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The first of two back-to-back Super7 interviews with Associate Art Director Kyle Wlodyga. In his interview with host Brian VanHooker, Wlodyga goes through a series-by-series breakdown of the toys highlighting the unique challenges and experiences with each wave. And, he talks about whether we'll ever see Undercover Donatello and Heavy MEtal Raphael…

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The 2024 Prime Minister’s Science Prize winners 26:46

2M ago26:46

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Each year, five Prime Minister’s Science Prizes are awarded in the most prestigious New Zealand science awards. We explore the AgResearch science that got the top recognition this year and catch up with two of the other winners. Science Communication prizewinner Professor Jemma Geoghegan talks about the hundreds of interviews she’s done about virus…

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154 — Tom Waltz & Ben Bishop: The Last Ronin II: Re-Evolution 1:29:12

2M ago1:29:12

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In this episode, host Brian VanHooker is joined by writer Tom Waltz and artist Ben Bishop who discuss IDW's The Last Ronin II: Re-Evolution. In a spoiler-filled discussion on the entire five-issue series, Waltz talks following The Last Ronin with this next chapter and that shocking death at the end of the series. Meanwhile, Bishop shares the proces…

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Fiordland's underwater world 26:15

2M ago26:15

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With its steep sides, forested slopes and heavy rainfall, Fiordland has interesting ecosystems both above and below the water. Below the surface of the inner fiords, a variety of sponges, corals, and other filter-feeding animals cling to the cliff-like reefs. Claire Concannon heads to Doubtful Sound with a research team who are habitat-mapping the …

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153 — Tokka: Artist and OG TMNT Super-Fan 1:45:51

2M ago1:45:51

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In this episode, host Brian VanHooker chats with TOKKA, an artist and a die-hard Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Super-Fan. In addition to his artwork being featured in Mirage's second volume of "Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," TOKKA has been dubbed "The Jackson Pollock of the Ninja Turtles" by Nickelodeon. Here he talks about his journey …

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March Episodes Trailer: High Fidelity and Saturday Night Fever, with Bobby Big Wheel and Jesse Hawken (of the Junk Filter Podcast)) 45:59

2M ago45:59

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Sorry for the delay on this, school is approaching the final lap and it's busy as hell. But here it is: the preview for the March episodes, which you can only find exclusively at www.patreon.com/soundtracker this season. I covered HIGH FIDELITY, with Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social) and SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER with Jesse Hawken (@jessehawken, @…

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Helping New Zealand’s understated orchids 26:19

2M ago26:19

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Cooper’s orchid is New Zealand’s rarest and most elusive, with fewer than 250 plants left in the wild. It belongs to the group of potato orchids, which grow mostly underground as tubers – except for a brief period every few years when they push out a leafless stick with a few flowers. This largely subterranean lifestyle already presents a challenge…

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152 — Christopher Yost: Showrunner and Co-Executive Producer of Tales of the TMNT 30:04

3M ago30:04

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In this episode, host Brian VanHooker chats with TMNT veteran Christopher Yost, a writer on TMNT 2003 and 2012 and the showrunner/co-executive producer of the new series Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, now available on Netflix. Yost explains how they adapted the Mutant Mayhem Turtles for the small screen and including characters like Bis…

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Keeping up with the kākahi 26:23

3M ago26:23

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Kākahi are a keystone species in lake and river ecosystems, keeping the water clean by filtering one litre of water every hour. These native mussels once blanketed lakebeds across Auckland – but recent surveys found an alarming decline and disappearance across many lakes. A team of scientists and divers have mounted a rescue mission for one of the …

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Bonus: RNZ climate correspondent Eloise Gibson 47:13

3M ago47:13

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Claire Concannon spoke to RNZ's climate correspondent Eloise Gibson for the last episode of the Voice of the Sea Ice series. Listen to the full interview between Eloise and Claire in which they talk about the Paris Agreement, New Zealand's international climate commitments, and what we can do as individuals. Sign up to the Our Changing World monthl…

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151 — Lloyd Goldfine: Executive Producer of TMNT 2003 & Turtles Forever 53:03

3M ago53:03

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In this episode, host Brian VanHooker revists the era of TMNT that many fans find to be their favorite: TMNT 2003 and the wonderful film "Turtles Forever." Lloyd Goldfine was the executive producer and showrunner on the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series and in this interview he details the early development of the show with Peter Laird and h…

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Voice of the Sea Ice 06 | Where to? 33:53

3M ago33:53

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Human-induced climate change is impacting Earth’s global systems, including ice melt in Antarctica. What is the world doing to combat it? Signed in 2016, the Paris Agreement is the current global plan to tackle it. Countries pledge different emission reduction targets and then produce their workings and homework about how they are going about it. W…

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150 — Greg Cipes: Voice of Michelangelo in TMNT 2012 18:23

3M ago18:23

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For the very special 150th episode of Turtle Tracks, host Brian VanHooker invites voice actor Greg Cipes onto the program. Cipes provided the voice for Michelangelo in Nickelodeon's 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series and here he talks about some of his favorite episodes, his love for ice cream kitty and he reveals that he will soon be returni…

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Voice of the Sea Ice 05 | Changing times 28:28

3M ago28:28

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In February 2025, the world hit a new low for global sea ice extent. Arctic sea ice has been declining for several decades now, but Antarctic sea ice had been holding steady, until recently. With low summer sea ice extents for four years in a row, it appears that Earth’s warming has kicked Antarctic sea ice into a new regime. Claire Concannon speak…

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149 — Partners in Kryme (AKA PIK1): Turtle Power XXL Release 42:33

3M ago42:33

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Host Brian VanHooker welcomes back Richard Usher from Partners in Kryme, the hip-hop legend behind "TURTLE POWER" from the 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film. Under the new name PIK1, Richard has released the new song "Turtle Power XXL" check it out here: https://partnersinkryme.hearnow.com/ and follow PIK1 here: https://www.instagram.com/partn…

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