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Crazy Town

Crazy Town

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With equal parts humor and in-depth analysis, Asher, Rob, and Jason safeguard their sanity while probing crazy-making topics like climate change, overshoot, runaway capitalism, and why we’re all deluding ourselves. Each fortnightly episode helps you understand the “Great Unraveling” of our environmental and social systems and describes how we can make the transition to a sustainable and equitable world. If you’re someone who questions the trajectory of society and struggles to understand why most people would rather eat nachos on the deck of the “SS Denial” than face reality, you’ll find community and plenty of laughs in Crazy Town. Brought to you by https://www.resilience.org/ and the unconventional minds at Post Carbon Institute, a nonprofit think tank that builds awareness of the polycrisis and prescribes community resilience-building as the most appropriate response. Your hosts: Asher Miller - Nonprofit executive director by day, apocalypse comedian by night. Feels most at home exploring insanity-inducing topics while trying not to spill coffee on his keyboard as he convulses over the latest ecomodernist fantasy. In danger of losing his mind every time he encounters someone using a gas-powered blower to move leaves from one spot to another. Rob Dietz - Jack-of-all-trades environmental scientist, conservation biologist, and ecological economist with a penchant for relating planetary overshoot to the catalog of movie scenes that play on a continuous loop in his colonized brain. Known for inserting random ecological facts into casual conversation, often in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s voice. His friends call him “pessimistically hilarious.” Jason Bradford - Activist farmer and former encyclopedia salesman with a PhD in plant ecology who gets genuinely excited discussing soil microbes and societal collapse in the same breath. Morally opposed to doomsday prepping, but predisposed toward sharing everything he keeps in his bunker, er root cellar, including potatoes, wine, and a 47-month supply of scientific esoterica and embarrassing anecdotes. These guys are the Three Stooges of sustainability podcasting, although they tend toward scientific analysis, righteous outrage, and self-deprecation rather than beating each other up with hand tools. How can they have this much fun while contemplating collapse and navigating the Great Unraveling? Heartfelt thanks to the team at Post Carbon Institute, our volunteers, and all our fellow Crazy Townies out there who help bring this podcast to life.© 2025 Post Carbon Institute Ciencia Ciencias Biológicas Ciencias Geológicas Historia Natural Naturaleza y Ecología
Episodios
  • Crazy Town Classics - Terror Management Theory

    Crazy Town Classics - Terror Management Theory
    Feb 25 2026

    What can we learn about death from the X-Men, small screaming rodents, and unwitting college students in psychology experiments? It turns out that the fear of death (or death anxiety) affects human behavior in all sorts of surprising and deeply troubling ways. Especially disconcerting is the way such fear entices people to cling to cultural beliefs so tightly that they will attack anything or anyone they perceive as a threat to their beliefs. And extra-super-duper disconcerting is how unaware most of us are that we are susceptible to such bad behavior when we’re reminded that one day we’ll die. Follow Jason, Rob, and Asher as they try not to deny climate change, vilify any out-groups, or assault one another while diving into the topic of death. In the Do-the-Opposite segment, Michael Hebb (author of Let’s Talk about Death over Dinner) shares wisdom for developing a healthier relationship with death. For episode notes and more information, please visit our website. Originally recorded on December 22, 2020.
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  • Getting Real about Resiliency with Emily Schoerning

    Getting Real about Resiliency with Emily Schoerning
    Feb 11 2026

    What if there were a news outlet that actually covered the most important environmental stories of our time? Dr. Emily Schoerning and her nonprofit, American Resiliency, translate the latest and most urgent climate science into useful information for communities across the United States. Jason and Emily discuss the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), the merits of mitigation versus adaptation, and how to take meaningful action in your own community. Originally recorded on 12/22/25.

    Sources/Links/Notes:

    1. American Resiliency
    2. Mark Rober YouTube Channel
    3. Sixth National Climate Assessment, International Panel on Climate Change


    Related episode(s) of Crazy Town:

    1. Episode 8, “Mosquito-Flavored Popcorn, or What Climate Scientists Are Getting Wrong”
    2. Episode 34, “Fear of Death and Climate Denial, or… the Story of Wolverine and the Screaming Mole of Doom”
    3. Episode 37, “Discounting the Future and Climate Chaos, or… the Story of the Dueling Economists”
    4. Episode 45, “Feedback Loops and Climate Catastrophe, or… the Story of the Baseball Bloodbath”
    5. Episode 77, “The Elon Musk Episode about Elon Musk Brought to You by Elon Musk”
    6. Episode 97, “The House Is Quite Literally on Fire: Peter Kalmus on the Climate Emergency Hitting Home”
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    55 m
  • Choose Your AI Adventure: Immiseration or Extinction

    Choose Your AI Adventure: Immiseration or Extinction
    Jan 28 2026

    Jason and Asher replace Rob with a much more humane and humble co-host, Elon Musk, to explore the feasibility of harnessing the entire sun to power AI superintelligence. We come away perplexed that not much of the excellent reporting on the environmental, energy, and financial risks of the AI boom address the googleplex-sized elephant in the room – that both AI success and failure lead to immiseration. Originally recorded on 12/3/25.

    Sources/Links/Notes:

    1. “Colossus 1” Search Engine podcast, November 21, 2025
    2. “Colossus 2” Search Engine podcast, November 21, 2025
    3. Episode 77, "The Elon Musk Episode about Elon Musk Brought to You by Elon Musk", Crazy Town podcast, June 14, 2023
    4. “Elon Musk on DOGE, Optimus, Starlink Smartphones, Evolving with AI, Why the West is Imploding” All In podcast, September 9, 2025
    5. “Is there an A.I. Bubble? And What if It Pops?” The Daily, November 20, 2025
    6. Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, “What If AI Is a Bubble?” The Atlantic, November 13, 2025


    Related episode(s) of Crazy Town:

    1. Episode 77, “The Elon Musk Episode about Elon Musk Brought to You by Elon Musk”
    2. Episode 84, “Escaping Technologyism: Dreams of AI Sheep and the Deadliest Word in Film History”
    3. Episode 101 “Even AI Chatbots Hate Us: The Rise of the New Luddites, with Brian Merchant”
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    34 m
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