{"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 Lighter Side of Dark Ages with Chris Smaje","slug":"the-lighter-side-of-dark-ages-with-chris-smaje","published_at":"2026-05-20T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crazy-town-1164162/the-lighter-side-of-dark-ages-with-chris-smaje","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crazy-town-1164162","url":"https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-05-20/crazy-town-episode-125-lighter-side-of-dark-ages","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ff61d6ec-977f-4037-8855-983abbfe3b47.mp3","summary":"Chris Smaje visits Crazy Town for some farmer-to-farmer straight talk with Jason Bradford. Are these two long lost cousins? Both dropped out of academia years ago to become philosophizing farmers (can we call them “pharmers” with a “ph,” as in PhD?!?). Chris’s latest book, Finding Lights in a Dark Age: Sharing Land, Work and Craft explores how we can move from modernity’s unsustainable political economy toward a re-organization of society, driven by communities and local food systems. In this wide-ranging conversation, Chris and Jason cover everything from Viking raids to agrarian populism, from societal collapse to the practicalities of making your way in a failed state. And they can’t get away from the shop talk of gardens, livestock, and home economics. Originally recorded on 4/2/26. Sources & Links Chris Smaje’s Blog Finding Lights in a Dark Age by Chris Smaje Excerpt of the book on Resilience Second excerpt on Resilience Review: Saying NO to Ecomodermism. Smaje Versus Monbiot, It’s No Contest Related Episodes Episode 98, “Bargaining With Collapse: A Superabundance of Lab Grown Meat and Dryer Balls” 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":"Chris Smaje visits Crazy Town for some farmer-to-farmer straight talk with Jason Bradford. Are these two long lost cousins? Both dropped out of academia y…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3467,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/crazy-town-1164162/episodes/the-lighter-side-of-dark-ages-with-chris-smaje/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-lighter-side-of-dark-ages-with-chris-smaje.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}