Abandoned Places w/ Blake Pfeil
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever been haunted by an abandoned place? We are joined by multidisciplinary artist Blake Pfeil to talk about his experiences exploring abandoned places, how abandoned places are inherently queer, and why they haunt us the way they do.
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Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of religious trauma, religious persecution, child abuse, imprisonment, Nazis, homophobia, imperialism/colonialism, and Gaza.
Guest
Blake Pfeil is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist. In his “day job,” Blake steps into the role of Operations & Programs Manager at the nonprofit storytelling organization TMI Project, where he also serves as a producer for The TMI Project Story Hour, winner of an International Women's Podcast Award. He hosts The Pfeil File on Radio Kingston/WKNY (107.9 FM/1490 AM in the Hudson Valley, NY) where he also manages the Community Podcast Program. In all his non-existent spare time, Blake is an associate producer for season 5 of History Colorado's Lost Highways, a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities. His current passion project is All-American Ruins, a multimedia travelog in which he fantastically recreates his experiences exploring abandoned spaces through multimodal storytelling. The podcast arm of the project, abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast, was an Official Select at On Air Fest 2023, winner of the Top of the Rockies – Best of Podcasts (2023), and recently nominated for Best Indie Podcast at the Ambies (2024). All-American Ruins was also shortlisted for the Elevate Creatives Fund, the UK International Radio Drama Festival, and Hrvatska Radiotelevizija's 27th Prix Marulic. MA, Purchase College; BFA, Emerson College; Alumni, SUNY Stony Brook's Audio Podcast Fellowship.
Stuff we talked about:
- Blake’s interview in Atlas Obscura
- His appearance on American Hysteria
Housekeeping
- TOUR: Get tickets for our Rolling Bones Tour!
- Recommendation: This week, Julia recommends getting tickets for our tour before it’s too late!!
- Books: Check out our previous book recommendations, guests’ books, and more at https://spiritspodcast.com/books
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Sponsors
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Find Us Online
- Website & Transcripts: https://spiritspodcast.com
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Cast & Crew
- Co-Hosts: Julia Schifini and Amanda McLoughlin
- Editor: Bren Frederick
- Music: Brandon Grugle, based on "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod
- Artwork: Allyson Wakeman
- Multitude: https://multitude.productions
About Us
Spirits is a boozy podcast about mythology, legends, and folklore. Every episode, co-hosts Julia and Amanda mix a drink and discuss a new story or character from a wide range of places, eras, and cultures. Learn brand-new stories and enjoy retellings of your favorite myths, served over ice every week, on Spirits.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Conspirators, I have amazing news. Spirits is coming to a city near you with the Rolling Bones Tour, |
| 0:06.7 | seven cities, 10 days, end of March, 2024. We are performing with your other favorite podcast, |
| 0:12.4 | join the party as we play games, roll dice, make monsters, learn stories, and a whole lot more. |
| 0:18.3 | Come see us on March 21st in Seattle at the Hereafter, March 22nd, Minneapolis at Granada, March 24th in Chicago at Reggie's, March 25th in Boston at the Rockwell, March 26th in New York City at Littlefield, March 27th in Philly at the City Winery, and March 28th in D.C. at Atlas Brew Works. Get your tickets right now at |
| 0:41.4 | spiritspodcast.com slash live. That's spiritspodcast.com slash live. You can see all the ticket |
| 0:48.0 | links there and find the city that works for you. Spirits in your city. Us buying drinks, |
| 0:53.8 | drinking the drinks, talking about stories. Gosh, |
| 0:56.2 | we're so excited. We're coordinating our outfits are ready. Julia and I cannot wait. When you're |
| 1:01.5 | rolling the bones, your future is looking good. Join us. |
| 1:04.6 | Music I'm Welcome to Spirits podcast, a boosy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 1:38.4 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 1:41.6 | I'm Amanda. |
| 1:42.4 | And I'm Julia. |
| 1:43.7 | And today we are joined by the incredible multimedia artist, interdisciplinary friend. |
| 1:52.5 | Someone I talked to for about 45 minutes and thought, yeah, this is about right. |
| 1:56.2 | Blake File. |
| 1:57.0 | Blake, how are you? |
| 1:57.8 | I'm doing well. |
| 1:58.5 | How are you, Amanda and Julia? |
| 2:00.0 | Doing great. |
| 2:00.8 | Doing great. Can't complain. And I'm really excited to talk to you this week. But first, |
| 2:07.0 | can you introduce yourself a little bit about who you are and what you do? |
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