Join us for our live event with CityNerd at The Royale in Phoenix, Arizona from June 27th 2024, from 7pm-9pm.

Urban Phoenix Project and Strong Towns Phoenix jointly hosted the event.

The event was MC’ed by Ed Hermes with panelists Jenn Duff and Nicole Rodriguez.

Special thanks go to Kristin Heggli for being a key player in organizing the event, as well as Jamie Trufin for helping with a bike valet, helpful employees at Yum Bar, as well as many other people that stepped up to support the event.

Parents or other sensitive listeners: Please be advised that there is at least one swear word that occurs at time index 01:24:31, this is why we’ve marked the episode as Explicit.

As noted in the episode preamble, we had to overcome a few audio issues as well as severe Phoenix summer heat that caused a few devices to fail. Please skip to 00:12:51 for optimal sound quality and be prepared to periodically tweak your volume for some parts.

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Join us in the ACSL studio today as we chat with Jamie Trufin, local urbanist and creator behind Urban Avenues, as they dive into the world of living car-free in the Valley of the Sun. Learn tips and tricks for reducing car dependency, gaining financial freedom, and embracing a more sustainable lifestyle.

Please visit Jamie’s website here: urbanavenues.city

Visit the accompanying blog post here - much of the content in this podcast is contained within the blog.

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As described in our first episode, our theme jingle is lo-fi music that was generated by Meta AI’s AudioCraft/MusicGen on my own computer at home. I had a lot of fun generating 2-minute songs and eventually generated this one. I enjoyed it so much that I had to make it our theme.

This music is available for any use under public domain because it is AI generated.

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This is our first episode - no specific content, just a quick tour of what to expect.

Production note: For the first few episodes I did not use a pop filter for my microphone - I’ll do it in future episodes.

English transcription is automatically generated and may not be correct. Want to help us fix mistakes or get involved? Let us know in Discord or contact us at our email address on our website.

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