{"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":"Searching for the Golden Toad with Kyle and Trevor Ritland","slug":"searching-for-the-golden-toad-with-kyle-and-trevor-ritland","published_at":"2025-11-05T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crazy-town-1164162/searching-for-the-golden-toad-with-kyle-and-trevor-ritland","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crazy-town-1164162","url":"https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-11-05/crazy-town-episode-113-golden-toad/","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/aeadafa3-cf57-4701-8ba7-7798ff9aa712.mp3","summary":"Frog and Toad Are Friends, at least according to a venerable children’s book. And so are Jason (Crazy Town’s resident biology nerd) and conservationist brothers, Kyle and Trevor Ritland, authors of The Golden Toad: An Ecological Mystery and the Search for a Lost Species. The three eco-explorers connect over wondrous habitats and critters in Costa Rica's cloud forest and swap stories that cover Lazarus species, global pandemics, self-taught naturalists, birding, and even pregnancy tests. Spliced into the nostalgia and stories are reflections on how to cope in a world where biodiversity is declining and how to regain the connections that modernity has severed between humanity and wild nature. Originally recorded on 10/9/25. Sources/Links/Notes: Kyle and Trevor Ritland, The Golden Toad: An Ecological Mystery and the Search for a Lost Species , Diversion Books, 2025. Adventure Term , Kyle and Trevor's nonprofit experiential learning initiative Related episode(s) of Crazy Town: Episode 40 , \"Nature Detachment and Ecocide, or… the Story of the Marauding Mountain Lion\" Episode 49 , \"A Day at the Zoo Is No Walk in the Park: Humanity’s Overexploitation of Animals and Nature\"","meta_description":"Frog and Toad Are Friends, at least according to a venerable children’s book. And so are Jason (Crazy Town’s resident biology nerd) and conservationist br…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3071,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/crazy-town-1164162/episodes/searching-for-the-golden-toad-with-kyle-and-trevor-ritland/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/searching-for-the-golden-toad-with-kyle-and-trevor-ritland.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}