The Great American Elevator Tragedy | The Mistakes Series
Revisionist History
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 62K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
A single line of a building code proposal filled out by a fire inspector in Glendale, Arizona has had a devastating impact on the way housing is built across the entire United States. Malcolm enlists Stephen Smith, Executive Director of the Center for Building in North America, to investigate.
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| 0:00.0 | I've been hearing for decades that the markets can solve climate change. |
| 0:04.0 | Today, we have more incentives for market solutions than ever and emissions are rising. |
| 0:09.0 | On this season of drilled, Carbon Cowboys, the story of three market solutions colliding in one multinational boondoggle. |
| 0:18.0 | You gotta get Bruce in the guys credit. They're Republican kids. |
| 0:21.0 | They don't give a shit about him. |
| 0:22.4 | It's now. |
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| 0:27.4 | plus subscription. |
| 0:28.7 | Head to the drilled show page on Apple Podcasts or pushkin.fm slash plus to sign up. |
| 0:34.8 | Thanks for supporting the show. |
| 0:52.8 | Thank you. us to sign up. Thanks for supporting the show. I am, I am proud to say, a yimbi. |
| 0:57.6 | Yes, in my backyard. |
| 1:00.1 | I have come to my yimbiness recently, so I have all the zeal of the recently converted. |
| 1:05.2 | Yimbi stands for building as much housing as is humanly possible, |
| 1:09.2 | reforming stupid zoning laws. Outdated building |
| 1:12.1 | codes. Yimbi hates minimum lot sizes, setback zoning, mandatory parking requirements, rent |
| 1:17.9 | control, anything that makes building new things more expensive. Yimbi thinks that when it comes to |
| 1:24.1 | cities, America peaked around 1910. And we should just roll back the zoning clock 100 years. |
| 1:30.2 | Yimbi walks through one of those absurdly picturesque New England villages |
| 1:33.3 | or some breezy southern California beach town. |
| 1:36.5 | By the way, Yimbi only ever walks, or maybe cycles. |
| 1:40.6 | Yimbi never drives. |
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