# Joshua Turek
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joshua turek (born April 12, 1979) is an American wheelchair basketball player and a member of the United States men's national wheelchair basketball team.
== Career ==
Turek has represented the United States in Wheelchair basketball at the Summer Paralympics four times, finishing in seventh place in 2004, winning a bronze medal in 2012 and gold medals in 2016 and 2020.
== Personal life ==
His brother, John, and sister, Elisha, are both retired professional basketball players.
Confronting Reality w/ author Yasha Levine
Guest Yasha Levine and Host Joshua Turek discuss everything from technofeudalism to pistachios.
San Francisco! For tickets Nov 1 to see Yasha's new documentary at Roxie Theater with live Q&A hosted by Joshua Turek here
For Josh's poetry books and his weekend Zoom workshop on Nov 8 & 9 visit his sit…
Resurrecting Collections with writer/director Larry Charles
Guest Larry Charles and host Joshua Turek talk SF and LA noir, science fiction grounded on Earth, Larry's new memoir Comedy Samurai . They talk personal growth, the transformative power of literature and how reading can serve as both a source of pleasure and a means of preserving sacred knowledge.
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Mutual Aiding with Political Commentator Lily Eagle
Political commentator Lily Eagla joins host Joshua Turek to discuss mutual aid, retraining the offline world back into your brain, and books that radicalized her.
Sign up for Joshua's weekend Zoom Poetry workshop now for the Dec6&7 gathering!
books
mutual aid by dean spade
Autobiography of Benvenut…
Escaping Punitive Christianity with Brian Recker
Host Joshua Turek is joined by guest Brian Recker, author of the new book "Hell Bent" (How the Fear of Hell Holds Christians Back from a Spirituality of Love). They discuss the books Brian read while researching his own, which details redefining his own spirituality and Christian beliefs. Discussin…
"A Societal Cosmos" w/ Astrologer Liz Vazquez
Astrologer and Filmmaker Liz Vazquez joins host Joshua Turek to discuss books documenting our pressing issues and outer space and how they're all related.
originally recorded January 26, 2026
Books talked about include
Trickster makes the world by Lewis Hyde
Shiver by Junji Ito
Who I am and What …
Eels and Unions w/ Actor David Hull (Crazy Ex)
Filmmaker and actor David Hull (Crazy Ex) joins host Joshua Turek to discuss books about eels, wolves, the dust bowl, politics gone wrong and ketamine therapy.
Recorded Dec 6, 2025
Books Talked About Include:
Slumberland, Sell Out, Tuff, White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty
James, Erasure, American Fic…
Second Time Long Time w/ Amy Silverberg
Author and Comedian Amy Silverberg joins host Joshua Turek to discuss the reasons why we live creative lives, her love of books including her debut novel First Time Long Time, and Josh's impending fatherhood. Originally recorded 1/12/2026
Books Talked About Include:
The Correspondent by Virginia E…
"Humanizing the Fringes" w/ comedian Zach Pugh
Comedian and writer Zach Pugh joins host Joshua Turek to discuss Moby Dick, Don Delillo, Denis Johnson, being attracted to grimey literatrue, The Fort Bragg Cartel and Chris Hedges, the need for pretentiousness to return to our society among other things. Get Joshua's new poetry book "Ugly Whimsy" …
Groundhog's Day
Featured poem: Oracle by Joshua Turek. Featured topics: Groundhog’s Day, trucks, parking lots, cities, stars, and the natural world.
Poem read with permission from the author.
Theme song by Allegra Ritchie.
Send us your poems inspired by our topics: pokingaroundpod@gmail.com
New episode every Tue…
Will ‘prairie populism’ defeat Republicans in the midterms?
Adam Hamilton in Kansas, Dan Osborn in Nebraska, Joshua Turek in Iowa. They’re all hoping to flip ruby red states in the midterm elections next Tuesday. Jonathan Freedland speaks to Rachel Leingang about her reporting across the midwest, where she has charted the renaissance of progressive populism
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