{"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":"Birdbrained: When Nature and Technology Collide","slug":"birdbrained-when-nature-and-technology-collide","published_at":"2026-04-08T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crazy-town-1164162/birdbrained-when-nature-and-technology-collide","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crazy-town-1164162","url":"https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-04-08/crazy-town-episode-122-birdbrained/","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/422802a8-6f6a-429b-a6e2-039fc50a8378.mp3","summary":"What happens when technology and competition start to invade our experiences in nature? For example, what if you’re so focused on documenting a bird sighting in your iPhone app that you fail to appreciate the majestic songs of the bushtit or dickcissel on the branch in front of you? In this episode, Jason, Rob, and Asher explore the world of competitive birding, the relationship between those who love nature and the technology they use to connect to it, and how even the most gentle of shared passions can get corrupted by status-fueled competition. Bear with us through the maddening tech and over-the-top competition as we rediscover how to observe and just exist within our home ecosystems. Originally recorded on 3/5/26. Sources/Links/Notes: Holding the Fire Owen Reiser, Listers: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching , 2025 David Frankel, The Big Year , 2011 film Nature photographer Hannah Seilhan","meta_description":"What happens when technology and competition start to invade our experiences in nature? For example, what if you’re so focused on documenting a bird sight…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3070,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/crazy-town-1164162/episodes/birdbrained-when-nature-and-technology-collide/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/birdbrained-when-nature-and-technology-collide.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}