{"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":"Take Me to the River: Getting Rid of Deadbeat Dams","slug":"take-me-to-the-river-getting-rid-of-deadbeat-dams","published_at":"2026-05-06T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crazy-town-1164162/take-me-to-the-river-getting-rid-of-deadbeat-dams","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crazy-town-1164162","url":"https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-05-06/crazy-town-episode-124-take-me-to-the-river/","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/737ce435-e211-402f-b2dd-e066ec6c67b5.mp3","summary":"People REALLY love their impervious surfaces. Concrete structures practically permeate human-built landscapes. Rather than layering ever more concrete on top of living soils, in waterways, and all over the countryside, what if we re-established our connection with natural ecosystems and put a stop to the concrete madness? One of the most inspiring developments of environmental and cultural restoration involves the cleanup of tons and tons of concrete. We’re talking dam removal today. So grab a sledge hammer, a few sticks of dynamite, and a wrecking ball, and come along as we explore the battle between concrete placement and concrete removal. And don’t miss our interview with Tara Lohan, author of Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life. Originally recorded on 3/17/26. Sources/Links/Notes: The Reef Line “Underwater ‘traffic jam’ off Miami beach, CBS News, November 3, 2025 Miami Beach’s New Traffic Jam Frolics With the Fishes, New York Times, December 1, 2025 We Finally Know Why Ancient Roman Concrete Stood The Test of Time, Science Alert by Michelle Starr, October 29, 2025 L“Concrete: From Ancient Origins to a Problematic Future” by Mary Soderstrom. University of Regina Press, 2020. “Concrete: From the Ground Up” by Larissa Theule. Candlewick Press, 2022. “This is the total weight of everything humans have created since 1990” World Economic Forum, December 6, 2021 “Global human-made mass exceeds all living biomass” Natu r e.com , December 9, 2020 “Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life” by Tara Lohan. Princeton University Press, 2025 Map of U.S. Dams Removed Since 1912 “Ten years after Oregon’s largest dam removal” Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, 2017 “ ‘Salmon Everywhere’ One Year After Klamath Dam Removal ” California Depar…","meta_description":"People REALLY love their impervious surfaces. Concrete structures practically permeate human-built landscapes. Rather than layering ever more concrete on…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3486,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/crazy-town-1164162/episodes/take-me-to-the-river-getting-rid-of-deadbeat-dams/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/take-me-to-the-river-getting-rid-of-deadbeat-dams.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}