Growth Machine

The Disconnect: Power, Politics and the Texas Blackout [https://kutkutx.studio/category/the-disconnect-power-politics-and-the-texas-blackout] is back for a third season, and Growth Machine host Audrey McGlinchy will be co-hosting some of the episodes with Mose Buschele. In this season of The Disconnect: Power, Politics and the Texas Blackout, the podcast explores the history of oil and gas regulation, how the industry became essentially self-regulating — with the help of compliant state regulators — and how some Texas officials continue to see natural gas as the future of electricity production, despite the rapid rise of renewable sources like solar and wind. In the first episode, you’ll hear the story of a con man and a group of hardscrabble East Texas farmers who uncovered the biggest oilfield in U.S. history — and how that discovery forced an obscure state agency to confront the destructive forces of unrestrained oil drilling. Listen and Subscribe to The Disconnect: Power, Politics and the Texas Blackout [https://kutkutx.studio/category/the-disconnect-power-politics-and-the-texas-blackout] The post Introducing Season 3 of The Disconnect: Power, Politics and the Texas Blackout [https://kutkutx.studio/growth-machine/introducing-season-3-of-the-disconnect-power-politics-and-the-texas-blackout] appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts [https://kutkutx.studio].

The Growth Machine podcast would like to introduce you to the new podcast 24 Hours in Austin tries to answer the question: What does a day in the life of Austin, Texas sound like? A team of audio producers from KUT spent the last several months documenting a handful of days in the life of Austin. They spent 24 hours straight in one location, talking to anyone who’d talk to them. They found that as big as Austin has gotten, standing still, it gets a little smaller. Subscribe to 24 Hours in Austin [https://kutkutx.studio/category/24hoursinaustin] The first episode is 24 hours on 6th Street during SXSW: Part 1. Sixth Street in downtown Austin is wild enough on a regular night. But for two weeks every March, it gets even crazier when South by Southwest brings thousands of people to town. We spent 24 hours straight on 6th Street, between Congress and I-35 on March 14-15, 2024. Hear the first half of the day in this episode. The post Introducing: 24 Hours in Austin [https://kutkutx.studio/growth-machine/introducing-24-hours-in-austin] appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts [https://kutkutx.studio].

(Episode 7) Now that the machine has done its job, what now? We explore some of the existential questions that Austin’s housing market has wrought. The full transcript of this episode [https://kutkutx.studio/growth-machine/grow-or-die#transcript] of Growth Machine is available on the KUT & KUTX Studio website. The transcript is also available as subtitles or captions on some podcast apps. The post Grow or Die [https://kutkutx.studio/growth-machine/grow-or-die] appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts [https://kutkutx.studio].

(BONUS — Deleted scene!) We go back 100 years to tell the origin story of modern zoning. The post Pigs in a Parlor [https://kutkutx.studio/growth-machine/pigs-in-a-parlor-euclidian-zoning] appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts [https://kutkutx.studio].

(Episode 6) Austin last re-wrote its land development code in 1984. Sounds boring, right? Well, that rewrite made it harder to build denser forms of housing. We explore the history of zoning in Austin and the opposition to changing the rules today, which could make the biggest difference in fixing Austin’s affordability crisis. The full transcript of this episode [https://kutkutx.studio/growth-machine/there-go-the-neighborhoods#transcript] of Growth Machine is available on the KUT & KUTX Studio website. The transcript is also available as subtitles or captions on some podcast apps. The post There Go The Neighborhoods [https://kutkutx.studio/growth-machine/there-go-the-neighborhoods] appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts [https://kutkutx.studio].