{"podcast":{"title":"Crazy Town","slug":"crazy-town-1164162","podcast_index_feed_id":1164162,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/crazy-town/","website_url":"https://www.resilience.org/crazy-town-podcast/","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/845024c0-9628-4c20-8cf7-f9edbab29e82/5wd9dbkdqdiv608mpluosrwkpl4j.jpg","author":"Post Carbon Institute","episode_count":173,"summary":"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 us…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-15T18:23:28.514961+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crazy-town-1164162"},"episode":{"title":"Artifacts of Collapse: Touring the Crazy Town Museum","slug":"artifacts-of-collapse-touring-the-crazy-town-museum","published_at":"2025-08-27T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crazy-town-1164162/artifacts-of-collapse-touring-the-crazy-town-museum","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crazy-town-1164162","url":"https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-08-27/crazy-town-episode-109-museum/","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/807ab45d-e4b2-4b49-a979-8295bd111dc6.mp3","summary":"In this episode we travel in time to the year 2125, to visit the Crazy Town museum, which showcases today’s world of wanton consumption and profligate waste. How will humans in 2125 – if there are any of us left – judge the things everyone sees as normal today? Jason, Rob, and Asher take turns serving as expert curators of this future museum, nominating items that best encapsulate how foolish and environmentally ruinous our priorities are. At the end we call on you, dear listener, to share wh...","meta_description":"In this episode we travel in time to the year 2125, to visit the Crazy Town museum, which showcases today’s world of wanton consumption and profligate was…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3771,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/crazy-town-1164162/episodes/artifacts-of-collapse-touring-the-crazy-town-museum/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crazy-town-1164162/artifacts-of-collapse-touring-the-crazy-town-museum.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}