Best UnBuild Podcasts (2024)

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116 - Special Guest: Daniel Glauser--Phius Core Revive Remodeler Extraordinaire 28:36

1h ago28:36

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Daniel Glauser is the Executive Project Manager for Risinger Build in Austin, TX. And he really puts his money where his mouth is. This episode focuses on his deep energy retrofit of a 1977 home in Austin, TX, which will be certified per the Phius Core Revive program. And get this: this soup-to-nuts retrofit is being done while he, his wife, 3 kids…

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Not Built For This #4: Unbuilding the Terrace 48:20

22d ago48:20

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All across the country thousands of people are living in locations that regularly flood, and many of these places will only get more flood-prone as the climate continues to change. Residents who live in these danger zones are often trapped in a demoralizing loop—flooding, rebuilding, and praying each time that the pattern doesn’t repeat. However in…

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Teaser - Unbuild Walls w/ Silky Shah (08/26/24) 25:11

18d ago25:11

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/110836544Beatrice speaks with Silky Shah about the harsh immigration and border detention rhetoric on display at both the DNC and RNC this summer, the historical and material links between the rise of the immigration detention system and mass…

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The Power Broker #9: Majora Carter 2:32:17

24m ago2:32:17

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This is the ninth official episode, breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power Broker by our hero Robert Caro. This week, Roman and Elliott also sit down with Majora Carter, an urban revitalization strategist and real estate developer from the South Bronx. Growing up, she always viewed the neighborhood as a place she had to leave…

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Abolish Rent w/ Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis (09/19/24) 1:35:39

5h ago1:35:39

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Beatrice speaks with Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis about the demands of the growing tenants movement, why so-called “affordable housing” policies fail to keep people in their homes, and why we need to abolish rent once and for all.Tracy and Leonardo are the authors of Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis, out next week: https…

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Planet Money: Zombie 2nd Mortgages 33:16

3d ago33:16

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Karen MacDonough had paid her mortgage for years, raised her family, and lived a quiet life in her Quincy, Massachusetts home—until one day, a group of strangers appeared on her lawn, claiming her house was up for foreclosure. What followed was a surreal discovery of “zombie mortgages,” forgotten second loans from the housing bubble era that have c…

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Teaser - Abortion Stigma and the 2024 Election w/ Ja’Loni Owens (09/16/24) 23:25

2d ago23:25

23:25

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/112179324Beatrice speaks with Ja’Loni Owens about what we can learn from the discussion of abortion in last week’s Harris/Trump debate and how much of the subsequent fact checking of debate statements leaned into anti-abortion stigma.Find Ja'…

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The Political Economy Of Covid (DP x S24) (09/12/24) 1:18:50

4d ago1:18:50

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Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss the political economy of the pandemic and how organizing around covid and long covid intersects with priorities in movements across the left, including labor struggles and economic justice, disability justice, and abolition.Transcript forthcoming.This episode was recorded live at the 2024 Socialism Conference in Ch…

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Medellin, Revisited 33:44

8d ago33:44

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Once considered the most dangerous city in the world due to drug cartel violence, by the early 2000s Medellin had reinvented itself. But gentrification is allowing criminal gangs to reap large profits from a shadow economy powered by the tourist boom. Medellin, Revisited Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ on Apple Podcasts to listen to ad-free new epi…

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Teaser - Corridors of Contagion w/ Victoria Law (09/09/24) 20:02

3d ago20:02

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/111673467Beatrice speaks with Victoria Law about how prisons and jails have acted as vectors of covid transmission throughout the pandemic, the experiences of people on the inside from early in the pandemic through fights happening now over l…

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Not Built For This #6: Maximum Temperature 41:06

6d ago41:06

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The impacts of climate disasters are often measured in terms of property damage. But in places like Phoenix, Arizona, and in hot places all over the world, climate change is wreaking a very different kind of havoc – on living things. In the final episode of Not Built for This, we reckon with the biological limits of climate adaptation. Not Built Fo…

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Storming Bedlam w/ Sasha Warren 1:39:51

7d ago1:39:51

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This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on April 15th. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpodBeatrice speaks with Sasha Warren about the lessons we can take from the history of anti-psychiatry movements, and other movements aligned against earlier form…

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From Green Beret to Border Human Rights Activist: A Podcast with Mike Wilson and José Antonio Lucero 57:35

8d ago57:35

57:35

Tohono O’odham Mike Wilson’s story gives us a compelling, personal, and geopolitical glimpse into the borderlands across a history of militarization, resistance, and transformation. How does one go from a U.S. Special Forces Green Beret in El Salvador to doing humanitarian aid work on the border? This is where Tohono O’odham Mike Wilson begins this…

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115 - Innovative or Alternative Foundation Materials & Systems 35:40

8d ago35:40

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This week's podcast is a discussion about slab-less slabs AND some new projects in which Steve & Jake use alternative or innovative foundation materials or systems. The three boys get off on substantial tangents regarding the environmental profile of foundation materials and construction waste management but hold on: there are great resources below…

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Not Built For This #5: The Little Levee That Could 48:48

14d ago48:48

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Most of the stories in this series have been about places that are ill-prepared for the extreme weather that is coming their way. But this story is about a place that managed to get the kind of infrastructure that will actually help it survive climate change. How after more than two decades of tireless work, the residents of Hamilton City, Californ…

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116 - Special Guest: Daniel Glauser--Phius Core Revive Remodeler Extraordinaire 28:36

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Not Built For This #4: Unbuilding the Terrace 48:20

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Teaser - Unbuild Walls w/ Silky Shah (08/26/24) 25:11

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The Power Broker #9: Majora Carter 2:32:17

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Abolish Rent w/ Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis (09/19/24) 1:35:39

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Planet Money: Zombie 2nd Mortgages 33:16

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Teaser - Abortion Stigma and the 2024 Election w/ Ja’Loni Owens (09/16/24) 23:25

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The Political Economy Of Covid (DP x S24) (09/12/24) 1:18:50

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Medellin, Revisited 33:44

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Teaser - Corridors of Contagion w/ Victoria Law (09/09/24) 20:02

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Not Built For This #6: Maximum Temperature 41:06

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Storming Bedlam w/ Sasha Warren 1:39:51

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From Green Beret to Border Human Rights Activist: A Podcast with Mike Wilson and José Antonio Lucero 57:35

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115 - Innovative or Alternative Foundation Materials & Systems 35:40

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Not Built For This #5: The Little Levee That Could 48:48

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