On the Roof

Yehuda Gittleson

"On the Roof" is a short-form solo podcast hosted by Yehuda Gittelson, a NABCEP-certified solar installer based in Portland, Maine. Each episode runs 10–18 minutes. Yehuda narrates from the perspective of someone who spends his days on ladders, in attics, and on job sites across southern Maine — not a pundit, not a policy wonk, just a guy who knows what a roof actually looks like before and after a system goes in. The tone is candid and specific. Think a trades version of a field notes journal: what he saw on a job that week, what homeowners get wrong, what the industry doesn't talk about, what changes from one roof to the next. No interviews, no panels, no sponsored segments. Just Yehuda, a microphone, and whatever he's been thinking about on the drive back from a job site. The show lives at the intersection of craft, climate, and working life in rural-to-coastal New England.

Episodes

  1. From Wind to Wire

    Mar 31

    From Wind to Wire

    Most people assume Yehuda Gittelson grew up wanting to work in solar. He didn't. He grew up in Bangor, studied mechanical engineering at UMaine, and took a job doing wind farm site assessments in Aroostook County because it was the renewable energy work that existed. When that ended, he drove south to Portland, got hired as a junior installer, and learned the trade from the roof down. This episode traces the full arc, from a college lecture hall to a wind ridge near the Canadian border to a rooftop in South Portland, and what he figured out along the way about the gap between a good energy resource and a working energy system.

    17 min
  2. Why I'm Doing This.

    Mar 25

    Why I'm Doing This.

    Yehuda Gittelson is a solar installer based in Portland, Maine. In this first episode, he explains what the show is and what it isn't, how he got from a mechanical engineering degree to wind farm development in Aroostook County to residential solar installation across southern Maine, and what the job actually looks like from the roof up. No panels, no pundits. Just the work.

    22 min
  • 2 Episodes

About

"On the Roof" is a short-form solo podcast hosted by Yehuda Gittelson, a NABCEP-certified solar installer based in Portland, Maine. Each episode runs 10–18 minutes. Yehuda narrates from the perspective of someone who spends his days on ladders, in attics, and on job sites across southern Maine — not a pundit, not a policy wonk, just a guy who knows what a roof actually looks like before and after a system goes in. The tone is candid and specific. Think a trades version of a field notes journal: what he saw on a job that week, what homeowners get wrong, what the industry doesn't talk about, what changes from one roof to the next. No interviews, no panels, no sponsored segments. Just Yehuda, a microphone, and whatever he's been thinking about on the drive back from a job site. The show lives at the intersection of craft, climate, and working life in rural-to-coastal New England.

Information

  • Creator
    Yehuda Gittleson
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    2
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Yehuda Gittleson 2026
  • Show Website
    On the Roof