abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast

Blake Pfeil

allamericanruins@gmail.com

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Booking Overview

An immersive, host-led nonfiction series focused on abandoned places, American history and culture, mental health, and personal reflection, with occasional external collaborators rather than a conventional interview-heavy format. The clearest pitchable candidates are accomplished authors, explorers, and cultural commentators with a strong connection to place, creativity, history, or marginalized-community experiences; booking is likely selective because the recent guest example is a New York Times bestselling author and most episodes are solo.

Metrics

Episodes: 67

Frequency: Biweekly

Rating: 4.7/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 3.5k subscribers

Instagram: 3.8k followers

Contact Information

allamericanruins@gmail.com

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Host

Blake Pfeil - Host and creator who explores abandoned spaces across the United States and internationally, using immersive audio to examine history, culture, community, economics, the environment, and mental hea...

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Recent Guest Discussions

Dylan Thuras - Friendship, Creativity, Abandoned Places, And The Myths People Construct Around Their Lives And Relationships.

Recent Topics

Urban Exploration, American History, Mental Health, Queer Identity, Cultural Criticism

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast
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I Remember You Well (Taney Motel - Branson, MO)

July 09, 2026

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 Futur...

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

June 25, 2026

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 friends...

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

June 11, 2026

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...

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