{"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":"The Hypocrite’s Guide to the Galaxy: Muddling Toward a Sustainable Footprint","slug":"the-hypocrite-s-guide-to-the-galaxy-muddling-toward-a-sustainable-footprint","published_at":"2026-06-03T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crazy-town-1164162/the-hypocrite-s-guide-to-the-galaxy-muddling-toward-a-sustainable-footprint","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crazy-town-1164162","url":"https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-06-03/crazy-town-episode-126-hypocrisy/","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/5ea591c6-78e2-47a2-a822-79b35aa73cbd.mp3","summary":"Is hypocrisy the one thing that can grow infinitely on our finite planet? When you learn that humanity’s fossil fuel burning, including your own, is contributing to climate chaos, what can you do? When you understand that economic growth and consumption are causing habitat loss and the sixth mass extinction, can you opt out? As long as you are embedded in an unsustainable society, it’s hard not to be a hypocrite. At the same time, dropping out seems isolating and ineffective, if you can even do it. Join Jason, Asher, and Rob as they hit the confessional to examine the challenges and psychology of hypocrisy. Originally recorded on 4/23/26. Sources & Links Hassan Fathy A Short History of Endurance by Charlotte Del Signore Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution by Peter Kalmus Nature’s Best Hope by Doug Tallamy Homegrown National Park \" What Is the Window of Tolerance, and Why Is It So Important? \" Psychology Today, May 23, 2022. Asher recommends taking 20 minutes to sit down with this worksheet to better understand triggers/signs for when you’re either in hyperarousal (fight/flight) or hypoarousal (freeze). Related Episodes Episode 16, “The 10,000-Mile Cod and Insane Global Trade” 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":"Is hypocrisy the one thing that can grow infinitely on our finite planet? When you learn that humanity’s fossil fuel burning, including your own, is contr…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3899,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/crazy-town-1164162/episodes/the-hypocrite-s-guide-to-the-galaxy-muddling-toward-a-sustainable-footprint/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/the-hypocrite-s-guide-to-the-galaxy-muddling-toward-a-sustainable-footprint.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}