Episode Details

In this episode, I reconnect with Michael "Mike" Pasternock, who has catapulted the Strong Towns YouTube Channel to new heights in the past year. We discuss his journey from a high school teacher in the Midwest to a wedding video producer in the Phoenix area to the new face of the Strong Towns YouTube Channel based in Chicago.

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Featured Strong Towns videos:
- Fix It or Move? You Don’t Have To Move To Live In A Better Place
- Conversation with an Engineer
- This Experiment Undid Our Cities. How Do We Fix It? 
- This Ponzi scheme Might END Suburban Prosperity
- Fayetteville: Are parking lots ruining your city? 
- Why is it so hard to cross the street? 

Channel Mentions:
- City Nerd
- Not Just Bikes
- Big Daws TV
- Steven Schapiro
- Colin and Samir
- City Beautiful
- Johnny Harris
- Cleo Abram
- Answer in Progress
- Film Booth
- Uytae Lee, About Here
- Ryan Van Duzer
- Faultline
- Flurf Design
- The Disneyfication of American Cities
- Studio Leonardo
- Nic Laporte
- StreetCraft
- Mr. Beast
- RM Transit

- Culdesac website
- Culdesac on YouTube
- My interesting ride to Culdesac from the airport
- A mini-tour of Culdesac w/ Alexys Still
- An interview w/ Culdesac CEO, Ryan Johnson
- My surprisingly awesome ride from Culdesac back to the airport 

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