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In a very special 50th episode, host Brian VanHooker talks with TMNT co-creator Kevin Eastman all about "The Last Ronin." This is the first installment of a series of interviews done for INVERSE Magazine's "The Official Oral History of The Last Ronin" written by Turtle Tracks host Brian VanHooker.

Find the article here: https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/last-ronin-tmnt-oral-history

Sound engineering by Ian Williams.

For an in-depth look into the behind-the-scenes of the 2003 TMNT series, host Brian VanHooker talks with artist Emilio Lopez. Lopez came on the show in the early seasons as a background artist and saw his artistic duties increase over time, taking on major roles for the Ninja Tribunal season, Fast Forward, Back to the Sewers and, everyone's Favorite, Turtles Forever!

Sound engineering by Ian Williams

In this episode of Turtle Tracks, host Brian VanHooker talks with prolific television writer Mark Edward Edens, who wrote for just about every cartoon from the 1980s and 1990s. In his extensive resume you'll find "X-Men: The Animated Series," "The Real Ghostbusters," "Beetlejuice," "Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers" and, of course, the 1987 "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," for which he wrote such classics as "Mutagen Monster" and a personal favorite of the host, "Pizza by the Shred."

Sound engineering by Ian Williams

In this episode of Turtle Tracks, host Brian VanHooker talks to Jason Ybarra, who has created the coolest, life-size replica of The Ninja Turtles Party Wagon ever made — a vehicle so impressive that Ybarra and his van have become a regular part of Vanilla Ice's Entourage!

Sound Editing by Ian Williams.

In this episode of Turtle Tracks, host Brian VanHooker dives deep into the origins of the 2003 animated series with Senior Supervising Director Chuck Patton, who developed the look of the Turtles in that series and many of its other major creative aspects. Patton talks about working with Peter Laird, the origins of Utrom Shredder and how Hun was one of his proudest creations.

Sound editing by Ian Williams.

In this installment of the Turtle Tracks podcast, host Brian VanHooker chats with television writer Gavin Hignight. Hignight got his start writing a few episodes of the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon and would later return to the franchise writing several episodes of the 2012 series. Within his 2012 episodes, he introduced Slash to the series as well as Armaggon and he wrote the first episode of the Wasteland Warrior finale.

Sound Engineering by Ian Williams.

In this episode, host Brian VanHooker talks to artist, musician and voice actor Scott Williams, who played the role of Baxter Stockman on the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. He talks about how he got the role and how it became such an iconic take on the character, as well as his career working in art and music.

Sound engineering by Ian Williams

A mini-episode featuring TMNT 2007 director Kevin Munroe talking about Colorectal Cancer Awareness. In the beginning of 2021, Munroe was diagnosed with Stage 3B colon cancer. A year later, Munroe is now cancer free and he's raising awareness about colorectal cancer with the help of Andrea Goodman from the Colorectal Cancer Alliance.

Hosted by Brian VanHooker, sound engineering by Ian Williams.

Links:

Free colorectal cancer screening quiz: quiz.getscreened.org

Colorectal Cancer Alliance: www.ccalliance.org

Munroe's story: https://kevinmunroecom.wordpress.com/2022/01/24/chemo-colons-covid-cartoon-rocks-pt-1/

Munroe's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kevmunroe

In this episode of Turtle Tracks, host Brian VanHooker talks to a guy who was with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles since the very beginning: Ralph DiBernardo of Jetpack Comics in Rochester, New Hampshire. Ralph talks about his role in supporting his friends Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman with their first issue of TMNT and what they were like back in the early 1980s. He also recounts seeing Eastman and Laird reunite at Jetpack after not seeing each other in years. To visit the Jetpack website, head to https://jetpackcomics.com/ and when you do, tell 'em Turtle Tracks sent you! (this doesn't get you a discount or anything, I just want you to say it)

sound engineering by Ian Williams

In the latest episode of the Turtle Tracks Podcast, host Brian VanHooker talks to a team of writers from the 2012 Nickelodeon cartoon. Kevin Burke and Chris "Doc" Wyatt have worked on a number of great cartoons — including "Avengers Assemble" and "Spider-Man" — and in the realm of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, they've contributed some of the most fun, bizarre and memorable episodes to the 2012 series, including "Meet Mondo Gecko," "Pizza Face" and the Napoleon Dynamite-inspired "The Croaking."

Sound Engineering by Ian Williams