Best Paul Carruthers Podcasts (2025)

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Control, with Paul Schütze 55:42

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6d ago55:42

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In this episode, Paul Schütze and I pick apart the inherent contradictions of “sustainable AI”, marketing language that aims to convince the public that one of the most extractive industries can be used to solve climate change. We delve into the layers of control embedded in the logics of AI, when technology becomes the fix that needs fixing. Recor…

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#329 JD Beach 45:04

9d ago45:04

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Real Steel Honda rider JD Beach is in his happy place, and it's not just at the racetrack. He's on a team with his brother Hayden Gillim, he's an uncle to Gillim's two kids, as well as other Gillim brother Frankie Lee's two kids, and he's continuing to do what he's always done and what he does best: racing motorcycles. For this episode of Off Track…

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#328 Sam Moses 57:31

16d ago57:31

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Sam Moses worked for Sports Illustrated for 18 years, the majority of which as its motorsports writer, covering events like the Indy 500, the Daytona 500 and the Long Beach Grand Prix back when it was a round of the Formula One World Championship. But his first love was motorcycles, and motorcycle racing, so Moses pitched those stories to Sports Il…

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#327 Tim Estenson 1:07:18

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From fighting alcoholism as a young man who actually did hit rock bottom, to building a start-up trucking company into a $360 million success story with 3000 employees, Tim Estenson has most definitely lived. Having sold Estenson Logistics in 2017, Estenson is now "retired," and focusing his efforts on Estenson Racing, which encompasses the highly …

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Water, with Rebecca Kilberg, Mary-Clare Bosco and Jonathan Gilmour 52:46

1M ago52:46

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In this episode I speak with Rebecca Kilberg, Mary-Clare Bosco and Jonathan Gilmour who together use policy approaches to solve problems related to data center water usage and the various planetary and health outcomes that emerge from water consumption and extraction. They talk about how you get such data and what to do with it, and the importance …

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#326 Joe Karvonen 41:11

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Motorcycle companies aren’t normally owned by engineers, but maybe they should be. Joe Karvonen is the owner of Krämer Motorcycles U.S.A. and he’s an engineer who learned his trade at the Motorcycle Mechanics Institute. He’s also a club racer and a track-day rider. A perfect fit for a company that manufactures track-day and race bikes, including th…

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Solidarity, with Shannon Wait 52:58

2M ago52:58

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In this episode, Shannon Wait — Alphabet Workers Union-CWA organizer — speaks with me about the labour conditions for data center and AI workers. We talk about contracts, sub-contracts, sub-sub-contracts, NDAs, invisible labour -- and how all of this leads to unions, solidarity, and a fight for tech workers’ rights globally. Recorded May 8, 2025. R…

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#325 Cameron Beaubier & Josh Hayes 1:02:29

2M ago1:02:29

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Five-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion Cameron Beaubier and four-time champion Josh Hayes are tied at the top of the all-time AMA road race win list with 89 wins apiece. That’s a combined total of 178 career wins between the two former rivals and fast friends. We wrangled both of them to join us on this week's episode of the Off Track With Carrut…

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Remade, with Allison Carruth 1:02:12

2M ago1:02:12

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Allison Carruth and I talk about her new book which gets at some of the material infrastructure and social systems that have made the US a settler state ever obsessed with new frontiers, including space. We talk about tech imaginaries, worlds remade, and better futures — a vision that invites confronting the state of things head-on, a slower redoin…

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#324 John Ewert 46:57

2M ago46:57

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It's hard to argue against Road America being one of the best racing facilities in the world. The track itself is long, it's fast, and it always produces close races. As for the rest of it... well, you'd have to look long and hard to find even a blade of grass that's out of place. A favorite of MotoAmerica's racers, teams and fans, the series is ex…

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#323 Dr. Carl Price 49:57

2M ago49:57

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It would be difficult to find a more suited MotoAmerica Chief Medical Officer than Dr. Carl Price. Who better to assist an injured motorcycle racer than a doctor who has been riding and racing motorcycles since his childhood? We got the chance to chat with the personable Dr. Price on this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice to talk…

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Hype, with Dani Shanley and Gemma Milne 1:00:06

3M ago1:00:06

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In this episode, Dani Shanley and Gemma Milne walk me through "hype" -- what it means in various technological contexts, how it works, what it is definitionally, how it feels in the body, who it serves, who it harms, and how we might need to nuance our relationship to it, especially as critical (tech) scholars. Recorded May 1, 2025. Released May 5,…

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#322 Bradley Smith 39:46

3M ago39:46

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Damage, with Dustin Edwards 57:24

3M ago57:24

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Dustin Edwards and I discuss the damage caused by digital infrastructure and its extractive requirements. We talk about data centers and copper mines, but more than this, we delve into the what a decolonial, feminist, anti-racist approach can look like for white settler scholars grappling with their inheritances and obligations to the landscapes an…

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#321 Dominic Doyle 43:44

3M ago43:44

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Laid-back South African Dominic Doyle, who now calls Columbus, Indiana, home, is a bonafide championship contender in the 2025 MotoAmerica SC-Project Twins Cup Championship. With two rounds and four races in the bank, Doyle is third in the championship with three podiums out of the four races. Unfortunately, mechanical issues kept him from scoring …

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#320 Mallory Dobbs 46:28

3M ago46:28

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Mallory Dobbs is living the dream. Despite getting a late start to motorcycling and ultimately motorcycle racing at the age of 22, Dobbs is most definitely making up for lost time. In 2023, Dobbs raced in both MotoAmerica Supersport and the Mission Super Hooligan National Championship. And the next thing you know, she's off racing in Europe in the …

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Consent, with Jasmine McNealy 52:10

3M ago52:10

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In this episode, I ask Jasmine McNealy about the role of consent online, from social media exchanges to the circulation of deep fakes. Who gets to define harm? Who is responsible for the damage? Does anyone have to take accountability? We also talk about surveillance, sonic privacy, and the many data trails the body leaves behind. Recorded Apr 4, 2…

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#319 Peter Clifford 32:51

3M ago32:51

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Peter Clifford is the director of rider development and media for the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup, or, as he refers to it, the "Headmaster." Prior to being the man in charge of the Rookies Cup program, Clifford was a motojournalist who covered MotoGP before it was called MotoGP. He was also the team manager for Bob MacLean's World Championship Moto…

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#318 Roger Hayden - 2025 Superbike Preview 42:26

4M ago42:26

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The 2025 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship gets started this week with two races at Barber Motorsports Park, April 4-6, so who better to talk to than MotoAmerica Live+ lead analyst Roger Hayden to see what he thinks about the coming season. To listen in and see what Hayden, Paul Carruthers, and Sean Bice have to say, watch and/or listen to this we…

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#317 Kenny Roberts 32:51

4M ago32:51

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The statement "needs no introduction" is somewhat overused. But in the case of this week's guest on Off Track With Carruthers And Bice, it's accurate. Three-time AMA Grand National Champion and three-time 500cc GP World Champion Kenny Roberts truly needs no introduction. We were fortunate enough to catch up with Roberts at Circuit of The Americas w…

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Together, with Collin Bjork 58:38

4M ago58:38

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Collin Bjork and I discuss the double (triple?) meaning of "extractive AI". Collin explains Otter.ai -- an AI powered voice-to-text transcription software, and the capitalist logics that enable it -- vs. Maori-led Te Hiku Media, based on principles of stewardship, community and collaboration. Collin also explains how rhetoric is about togetherness …

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#316 Chase Black 53:46

4M ago53:46

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In a class that's sure to be full of surprises in its debut season, Chase Black threw the first Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul curveball when he came out on top of the timesheets in the two-day Dunlop preseason test at Motorsport Ranch in Cresson, Texas, this week. Black and his Chase Black Racing Krämer APX-350 MA led the way on both days and…

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Deskill, with Hagen Blix 1:04:59

4M ago1:04:59

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In this episode Hagen Blix and I talk about how the fear of AI, from the non-billionaire CEO class, comes from the threat of deskilling workers. Recorded Mar 5, 2025. Released March 17, 2025. Tech Workers Can Still Fight Silicon Valley’s Overlords by Hagen Blix and Ingeborg Glimmer https://jacobin.com/2025/02/tech-workers-silicon-valley-trump/ Why …

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#315 Jake Lewis 46:09

4M ago46:09

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Jake Lewis's 2024 MotoAmerica season was what you could call sneaky good. Until you look at the results, you probably don't know that Lewis ended the season ranked fourth in Supersport (with four podiums and a win), third in the Mission Super Hooligan National Championship (with a win), and seventh in the Mission King Of The Baggers title chase. An…

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Unlearning, with Kane Murdoch 1:02:39

4M ago1:02:39

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In this episode I speak with Kane Murdoch about the perils of contract cheating. As an integrity officer, he frames what's happening with "cheating" as an unlearning that we should all be paying attention to if we care about education. Recorded Feb 6, 2025. Released March 10, 2025. Guerilla Warfare https://www.guerillawarfare.net/ Ellis, C., & Murd…

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#314 Richie Escalante 40:05

4M ago40:05

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Richie Escalante is hoping everything falls into place for this year's Daytona 200 after a few years of bad luck for the Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki rider. We caught up with the popular Escalante on the eve of the 83rd running of the Daytona 200 at Daytona International Speedway to talk about the 200, the upcoming MotoAmerica Superbike Championsh…

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#313 Josh Herrin 42:17

5M ago42:17

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Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati's Josh Herrin will be going for his fourth Daytona 200 victory and his third in a row on Saturday, March 8 when the MotoAmerica season opens at Daytona International Speedway. We caught up with Herrin at the recent MotoAmerica/Dunlop test at the Podium Club in Arizona to talk about all things Daytona and more on this wee…

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Indexicality, with Roland Meyer and Gillian Rose 1:02:39

5M ago1:02:39

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AI images are circulating more and more online and sometimes we can't tell the 'real' from AI-generated. But as I discuss with the inimitable Gillian Rose and Roland Meyer, we need to think about AI images beyond their indexicality, i.e. the idea that a photograph is a direct representation of the subject it captures. In this episode, we grapple wi…

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#312 Loris Baz 37:51

5M ago37:51

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Loris Baz was a MotoAmerica Superbike winner in 2024 with the Frenchman riding his Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati Panigale V4 R to victory in the final race of the season at New Jersey Motorsports Park. Fast forward a few months and Baz is preparing to do something completely different in 2025. Beginning at Daytona in a few weeks time, Baz will be com…

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#311 Andrew Lee & Jayson Uribe 53:56

5M ago53:56

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It's two for the price of one week with Off Track With Carruthers And Bice as they welcome both Orange Cat Racing's Jayson Uribe and Andrew Lee to the podcast on the lead up to this coming weekend's official MotoAmerica/Dunlop test at the Podium Club in Arizona. The pair talk about the seasons past, the season ahead, and how they believe the two-pr…

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Asymmetries, with Jathan Sadowski 1:00:36

5M ago1:00:36

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In this episode Jathan Sadowski discusses the 'risk industry' as imagined by FIRE (finance, insurance and real estate) and the asymmetries they create. Recorded January 15, 2025. Released February 10, 2025. The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite/pape…

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#310 Matthew Chapin 45:03

5M ago45:03

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Matthew Chapin earned the 2024 MotoAmerica Junior Cup Championship by 81 points after going on a run that included six wins in the final eight races of the season. Chapin was fast, consistent and he always seemed to put himself in the right place. Now, heading into the 2025 season, Chapin has again put himself in the right spot at the right time as…

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#309 Jayson Uribe 56:28

6M ago56:28

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Jayson Uribe finished second in last year's MotoAmerica Stock 1000 Championship, and, for many, that was a surprise. Uribe started the season with a sixth, a fifth and a fourth in the first three races of the season. In race four, Uribe won his first race of the series when his title rival Hayden Gillim crashed out of race two at Brainerd Internati…

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Lessons, with Charles Logan 55:08

6M ago55:08

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Charles Logan is the go-to person to talk to about how AI is infiltrating the many layers of education, from K-12 to universities. In this conversation, we learn our lessons; we talk about what Ed Tech is, its promise and hype, and (ultimately) how to refuse it as professors and teach students to resist it as well. We also wonder about 'AI-proofing…

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#308 Cory Ventura 51:40

6M ago51:40

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Since his crash at Barber Motorsports Park in 2023, Cory Ventura has been to hell and back with leg injuries that have required five surgeries. But guess what? Ventura is fit, healthy and ready to get back on the horse that threw him. We chatted with Ventura about his recovery, his hopes of a 2025 MotoAmerica comeback, his quest to get his pilot's …

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Storying, with Dillon Mahmoudi and Anthony Levenda 56:46

6M ago56:46

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In this episode I speak with Dillon Mahmoudi and Anthony Levenda about the relationship (feedback loop) between data and urban planning. We focus on the idea of 'storying' data to make it compelling and to get past the inertia of data delivered as mere stats or numbers that have little resonance and don't (or no longer) move people to action, towar…

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#307 Cameron Petersen 49:25

6M ago49:25

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After three years in the Yamaha family, Cameron Petersen will be getting a fresh start in the 2025 MotoAmerica Championship with a new manufacturer, a new team and a new class. The South African, who now calls Corona, California home, will join the Celtic/Economy Lube & Tire by Warhorse HSBK Ducati team for a run at the Supersport Championship. We …

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Defining, with Ali Alkhatib 55:02

6M ago55:02

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I got to speak with the brilliant Ali Alkhatib about his blog post "defining AI" -- an object, subject, metaphor, and discursive formation used amongst all of us trying to figure out how to grapple with AI's ownership, deployments, and impacts. Who gets to define AI? Is it just computer scientists? What are the stakes of having it defined only tech…

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Colonialism, with Ulises A. Mejias and Nick Couldry 1:00:14

6M ago1:00:14

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I start the new year with an episode on "data colonialism". I had the great pleasure of speaking with Ulises A. Mejias and Nick Couldry about our contemporary relationship to corporations, about the idea that there’s no capitalism without colonialism (and vice versa), about how human lives are being exploited these days, and about data being a chea…

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#306 Owen Williams 55:30

7M ago55:30

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Seventeen-year-old Owen Williams has gone from kid speedway racer to MotoAmerica Junior Cup racer to MotoAmerica Supersport racer, and in 2025 he will be back for a third season of Supersport racing. And this time he will will have more help with recent announcement that he will be joining the experienced, championship-winning Altus Motorsports. We…

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Investigative, with Déborah López and Hadin Charbel 1:02:00

7M ago1:02:00

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Such a delight speaking with Déborah López and Hadin Charbel, incredible artists-architects-scholars as investigators of future possibilities in light of climate change rapidly changing arctic (and other) landscapes. We discuss a range of art projects, from large installations to projections to speculative fiction, and how these modes and condition…

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#305 Bobby Fong 1:00:25

7M ago1:00:25

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Bobby Fong has finally achieved a "life-long dream" as he is now a full-on factory Superbike rider. It was was announced this week that the 2019 MotoAmerica Supersport Champion and five-time MotoAmerica Superbike race winner will join Jake Gagne on the Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing team, winners of three of the last four MotoAmerica …

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Collaborative, with Chris Gilliard 1:03:24

7M ago1:03:24

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In this episode, I spoke with Chris Gilliard (@hypervisible) about AI’s encroachment on universities and what this means for collaboration — i.e. learning, writing, thinking and feeling. This conversation puts out a warning of sorts to universities adopting AI given that, as a technology, it is built off of stolen materials, relies on extraction an…

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#304 Blake Davis 44:20

8M ago44:20

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Blake Davis first showed up for a MotoAmerica race at the ripe young age of 14 at Road Atlanta in 2020. Polite, funny and tiny, Davis was an instant hit. Fast forward four years and he's now he's a two-time MotoAmerica Twins Cup Champion and a factor at the sharp end of MotoAmerica Supersport races, In fact, Davis earned his first Supersport victor…

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#303 Ron Heben 1:04:48

8M ago1:04:48

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Simply put, Ron Heben has been around the block a few times in the world of motorcycle racing. From the early days of racing motocross, to being a race mechanic for several of the sport’s top stars, to working as a team manager for the likes of American Honda’s road racing team, Heben has done it all and always with a smile, a smart-ass reply, and …

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Regulated, with Jennifer Holt 59:10

8M ago59:10

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It was a real honour and joy to speak with someone whose work has so significantly shaped my own (and many of us writing about data centers): Jennifer Holt joined me for a chat about US cloud policy. The Cloud is understood in this episode through the lens of policy, which means we grapple with who owns data, its infrastructures and our data future…

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#302 Sonya Lloyd 56:43

8M ago56:43

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Former Royal Enfield Build. Train. Race. and current Twins Cup racer Sonya Lloyd is our guest on this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice where she catches us up on her plans of hopefully racing in the FIM Women's Circuit Racing World Championship (WorldWCR) in 2025 in addition to some one-off rides in the MotoAmerica Championship.…

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Frequencies, with Trent Wintermeier 47:57

8M ago47:57

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Listen to the data center's hum with your feet first... on this episode, Trent Wintermeier and I discuss what it means to absorb sound through the body and "hear" vibrations with and through your limbs and ears. We discuss what this means for folks living near data centers, especially in places imagined as kinds of sacrifice zones. Recorded Oct 9, …

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#301 Brandon Paasch 45:07

8M ago45:07

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Brandon Paasch is hopeful that the Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki team has him back for a second full season in the MotoAmerica Superbike wars. Paasch was ninth in last year's title chase with a best result of fifth, a spot he earned twice in 2024. He also made some rookie mistakes and crashed a few times along the way. We caught up with the 23-year…

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#300 Kayla Yaakov 57:57

9M ago57:57

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Welcome to our 300th episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice, and we can't think of a better guest to share the milestone episode with than Rahal Ducati Moto's Kayla Yaakov. When we started this podcast in 2018, Yaakov was 11 years old and now she's a top-level racer in the MotoAmerica Supersport Championship. Yaakov has moved up through the …