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abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast
abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast guides listeners through immersive audio fantasies, recreating host Blake Pfeil’s experiences exploring abandoned spaces across the United States. Along the way, abandoned asks critical questions about American history and culture, community, capitalism and economics, the environment, and mental health while encouraging folks to activate their imaginations as a tool for healing.
Blake Pfeil
Blake Pfeil is an Ambie Award-winning multidisciplinary artist. His latest body of work, All-American Ruins, has been the recipient of numerous accolades for its genre-bending, multimodal storytelling, including a recent UK Press Gazette Future of Media Awards nomination for Podcast of the Year (Regional). The project has seen multimedia installations worldwide, including England, Wales, Peru, Croatia, Italy, France, Sweden, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. In 2025, the podcast arm of the project, abandoned, reached no. 1 on Apple Podcasts Travel & Places charts.
Outside All-American Ruins, Blake most recently served as a guest producer for season 5 of History Colorado's Lost Highways while also working his "day job" as the Operations & Digital Programs Manager at TMI Project and "night job" as co-host of Cinema Kingston! on Radio Kingston / WKNY. Blake is an alumni of SUNY Stony Brook's Audio Podcast Fellowship, a DisctopiaTruePlay Innovative Podcaster Award Finalist, and a 2025 Green Box Resident Artist.
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Blake Pfeil
Blake Pfeil is an Ambie Award-winning multidisciplinary artist. His latest body of work, All-American Ruins, has been the recipient of numerous accolades for its genre-bending, multimodal storytelling, including a recent UK Press Gazette Future of Media Awards nomination for Podcast of the Year (Regional). The project has seen multimedia installations worldwide, including England, Wales, Peru, Croatia, Italy, France, Sweden, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. In 2025, the podcast arm of the project, abandoned, reached no. 1 on Apple Podcasts Travel & Places charts.
Outside All-American Ruins, Blake most recently served as a guest producer for season 5 of History Colorado's Lost Highways while also working his "day job" as the Operations & Digital Programs Manager at TMI Project and "night job" as co-host of Cinema Kingston! on Radio Kingston / WKNY. Blake is an alumni of SUNY Stony Brook's Audio Podcast Fellowship, a DisctopiaTruePlay Innovative Podcaster Award Finalist, and a 2025 Green Box Resident Artist.