{"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":"Finding Crazy Town Part 1: The Straight of Everything","slug":"finding-crazy-town-part-1-the-straight-of-everything","published_at":"2026-07-15T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crazy-town-1164162/finding-crazy-town-part-1-the-straight-of-everything","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crazy-town-1164162","url":"https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-07-15/crazy-town-episode-129-straight-of-everything/","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/97e05ba7-437d-41e3-81f4-787b55ffb973.mp3","summary":"What happens when the global economy depends on fish traveling 10,000 miles, oil flowing through a single strait, and enough cheap fossil fuel energy to build civilizations that previous generations couldn't even imagine? In Part 1 of our six-part summer series, producer Alex Leff begins investigating the mysterious disappearance of Jason Bradford, Rob Dietz, and Asher Miller. Following the clues leads to international shipping, global trade, and the hidden energy that powers modern civilization. Along the way, we'll revisit some of Crazy Town's foundational ideas—and begin asking how our modern techno-industrial world came to be, why it's so fragile, and what it would take to build something more resilient. Originally recorded on 7/1/26 with archival episodes. Related Episodes Episode 11, “ My Dinner Is Stuck in Traffic” Episode 16, “ The 10,000-Mile Cod and Insane Global Trade” Episode 23, “Mayor McCheese & Modern Medicine: the Good & Bad of High Energy” Credits Production and editing by Alex Leff. Editorial assistance and transcripts by Taylor Antal. Theme music is “Way Huge” and “Don’t Give Up” by Midnight Shipwrecks , used with permission. Thanks to all the Crazy Townies, our listeners who are trying to understand humanity's overshoot predicament and do something about it.","meta_description":"What happens when the global economy depends on fish traveling 10,000 miles, oil flowing through a single strait, and enough cheap fossil fuel energy to b…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2653,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/crazy-town-1164162/episodes/finding-crazy-town-part-1-the-straight-of-everything/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/finding-crazy-town-part-1-the-straight-of-everything.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}