{"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":"Burned by Billionaires, with Chuck Collins","slug":"burned-by-billionaires-with-chuck-collins","published_at":"2025-10-08T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crazy-town-1164162/burned-by-billionaires-with-chuck-collins","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crazy-town-1164162","url":"https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-10-08/crazy-town-episode-111-burned-by-billionaires/","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/638e0362-4f80-443e-b06d-90c845bfd670.mp3","summary":"Billionaires. They should be objects of scorn rather than envy. While they ride around in their super-yachts and private jets, producing the climate-damaging pollution of entire nations, they’re doing things to extract even more wealth, harm your health, diminish democracy, and rig the whole system in their favor. How did this happen? Why do we tolerate it? How can we stop the billionaires? And can we get a hold of our own super-yacht for Crazy Town pleasure cruises? Chuck Collins returns to Crazy Town to offer insights from his new book, Burned by Billionaires: How Concentrated Wealth and Power Are Ruining Our Lives and Planet . Originally recorded on 10/3/25. Sources/Links/Notes: Chuck Collins, Burned by Billionaires : How Concentrated Wealth and Power Are Ruining Our Lives and Planet , The New Press, October 2025. Chuck Collins, Born on Third Base : A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good , Chelsea Green Publishing, September 2016. Chuck Collins, The Wealth Hoarders : How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions , Polity, January 2022. Related episode(s) of Crazy Town : Episode 10 , \"Tackling Inequality, One Pair of Lederhosen at a Time\" Episode 43 , \"Overproduction of Elites and Political Upheaval, or... the Story of Rich People Doing Stupid Things\"","meta_description":"Billionaires. They should be objects of scorn rather than envy. While they ride around in their super-yachts and private jets, producing the climate-damag…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2686,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/crazy-town-1164162/episodes/burned-by-billionaires-with-chuck-collins/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/burned-by-billionaires-with-chuck-collins.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}