abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast

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S1 ARCHIVES: “Hello, I’m Shelley Duvall” (The Nevele) — HUDSY TV Adaptation Sep 17, 2026

Show notes

To celebrate the award-winning “All-American Ruins” short film arriving on HUDSY’s YouTube channel on Sept. 24, we’re returning to the Season 1 story that inspired it. Revisit Blake’s surreal exploration of the legendary Nevele Grand Hotel—and a version of this Hudson Valley juggernaut that, after years of devastating fires, no longer exists quite as it did then.

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📡 The Signal Awards — Best Experimental Podcast (2024 & 2025)

📰 Press Gazette Future of Media Awards — Nominee (2024, 2025, 2026)

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Urbex Privilege with callie mackenzie Sep 03, 2026

Show notes

Who gets to wander freely—and who gets to decide where we belong? Blake sits down with activist, multidisciplinary artist, and social change worker callie mackenzie for a candid, exploratory conversation about race, ruins, trespassing, land ownership, and the privilege hiding inside the practice of urban exploration.

callie mackenzie (she/they) is a social change worker living at the intersections of art, music, and social justice. For her complete bio, visit calliemackenzie.com.

Songs by callie on today’s episode include:

“roller coaster” from the album “what that heart do” (2025)
“kerfuffle” from the album “what that heart do” (2025)
“i can’t talk about freedom” from the album “the wreckoning” (2022)

callie’s complete music library can be accessed at: https://calliemackenzie.bandcamp.com

bell hooks interview audio courtesy of Othering and Belonging Institute
“Kwanzaa: A Celebration” courtesy of WXXI (Rochester, NY)
“Theatre Acknowledgement” courtesy of CBC

🏆 The Ambies — Winner, Best DIY Podcast (2025)

📡 The Signal Awards — Best Experimental Podcast (2024 & 2025)

📰 Press Gazette Future of Media Awards — Nominee (2024, 2025, 2026)

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Conspiracy Theory (Green Mountain Race Track - Pownal, VT) Aug 20, 2026

Show notes

While exploring the ruins of the Green Mountain Race Track in Pownal, Vermont, Blake meets Dina (and her silent husband Mike), self-proclaimed conspiracy theorists who believe the world’s buildings weren’t built by us at all but inherited from a lost Tartarian Empire — what Bloomberg News once dubbed the “QAnon of Architecture.” As Blake tries to follow Dina's train-of-thought, he realizes that, really, there's a small conspiracy theorist living inside each and every one of us.

Dina is recreated by Terri Weagant.

🏆 The Ambies — Winner, Best DIY Podcast (2025)

📡 The Signal Awards — Best Experimental Podcast (2024 & 2025)

📰 Press Gazette Future of Media Awards — Nominee (2024, 2025, 2026)

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Stev and a Buzzard in the Ballroom (Colonial Terrace - Peekskill, NY) Aug 06, 2026

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Guest host Stev Hull-Allen (Blake's brother in a past life) guides listeners through the abandoned Colonial Terrace, a crumbling catering hall where every room seems to hold onto a different version of the past. As his imagination weaves in and out of oral histories, textbook memories, and invented folklore, Stev explores what abandoned buildings can reveal about timing, healing, and the strange feeling that some friendships don't begin so much as they find their way back to us.

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🏆 The Ambies — Winner, Best DIY Podcast (2025)

📡 The Signal Awards — Best Experimental Podcast (2024, 2025)

📰 Press Gazette Future of Media Awards — Nominee (2024, 2025, 2026)

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Lurana, You Were on My Mind (Nopeming Sanitorium - Duluth, MN) Jul 23, 2026

Show notes

Inside the abandoned Nopeming Sanatorium, Blake talks to his grandmother (Grammie), Lurana — whose dementia carried her away before she passed. Like an insistent phantom moving through its rooms and hallways, signals reverberating inside the walls of Nopeming’s medical past radiate against Blake’s cherished memories, turning the adventure into a ghostly conversation across time about forgiveness, sobriety, and the confounding kinship between grief and love.

🏆 The Ambies — Winner, Best DIY Podcast (2025)

📡 The Signal Awards — Best Experimental Podcast (2024 & 2025)

📰 Press Gazette Future of Media Awards — Nominee (2024, 2025, & 2026)

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I Remember You Well (Taney Motel - Branson, MO) Jul 09, 2026

Show notes

Blake finds sanctuary on the grounds of the abandoned Taney Motel in Branson, Missouri — a refuge tucked inside a world of risk. Wandering around the vacant property, Blake reflects on growing up queer, the quiet negotiations of safety, and the fragile, hallowed spaces that marginalized communities create when the outside world doesn't have room for them.

🏆 The Ambies — Winner, Best DIY Podcast (2025)

📡 The Signal Awards — Best Experimental Podcast (2024 & 2025)

📰 Press Gazette Future of Media Awards — Nominee (2024 & 2025)

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Dylan & Blake on a Friendship, Cemented (A.J. Snyder Cement - Rosendale, NY) Jun 25, 2026

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In the ruins of an upstate New York cement factory, Blake and New York Times best-selling author Dylan Thuras wander toward a mysterious “document storage house,” discovering they’re not just exploring a place but each other’s relationship to creativity and the myths we build to live inside it. Among empty boxes, industrial ghosts, and imagined histories, the duo considers what it means to construct something out of nothing, outgrow it, and still carry its faded transmissions — like a friendship — once it becomes memory.

🏆 The Ambies — Winner, Best DIY Podcast (2025)

📡 The Signal Awards — Best Experimental Podcast (2024 & 2025)

📰 Press Gazette Future of Media Awards — Nominee (2024 & 2025)

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Fading Transmissions from a Gas Station Altar of Shoes (Wonderland Ranch/Mojave Shoe Station - Mojave, CA) Jun 11, 2026

Show notes

Deep in the Mojave Desert, a defunct gas station has become a roadside altar of shoes, each pair carrying stories and secrets that transform a place for transients into a monument for return pilgrimages. Standing among the relics and artifacts of lives past, Blake considers eulogies, elegies, and effigies — and what it means to be remembered by strangers.

Note: Episodes 1–4 of Season 4 form “Fading Transmissions from a Republic of Ruins,” a four-part series embedded within the season.

🏆 The Ambies — Winner, Best DIY Podcast (2025)

📡 The Signal Awards — Best Experimental Podcast (2024 & 2025)

📰 Press Gazette Future of Media Awards — Nominee (2024 & 2025)

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Fading Transmissions: Glenrio Was Here (Glenrio, NM) May 28, 2026

Show notes

On the border of Texas and New Mexico, a town divided by a state line faces an identity crisis — and demands to be remembered. Wandering the empty fields and crumbling pavement of what, at one time, was a glamorous rest-stop town, Blake imagines a conversation with Glenrio itself as it bears witness to what once was, and wonders whether a forgotten ghost town might outlast us all.

Note: Episodes 1–4 of Season 4 form “Fading Transmissions from a Republic of Ruins,” a four-part series embedded within the season.
🏆 The Ambies — Winner, Best DIY Podcast (2025)

📡 The Signal Awards — Best Experimental Podcast (2024 & 2025)

📰 Press Gazette Future of Media Awards — Nominee (2024 & 2025)

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Fading Transmissions from the Shamrock Ghost House (Shamrock, TX) May 14, 2026

Show notes

When Blake stumbles into a forgotten house in the Texas Panhandle, imagined legends and headlines begin unfolding in his mind — stories of addiction, homelessness, and loss, but above all, the power of family rising from the wreckage.

Note: Episodes 1–4 of Season 4 form “Fading Transmissions from a Republic of Ruins,” a four-part series embedded within the season.

🏆 The Ambies — Winner, Best DIY Podcast (2025)

📡 The Signal Awards — Best Experimental Podcast (2024 & 2025)

📰 Press Gazette Future of Media Awards — Nominee (2024 & 2025)

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