{"podcast":{"title":"KunstlerCast - Conversations: Converging Catastrophes of the 21st Century","slug":"kunstlercast-conversations-converging-catastrophes-of-the-21st-century-160680","podcast_index_feed_id":160680,"rss_url":"https://kunstlercast.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://kunstler.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/d/d/9/d/dd9d3eb65b730270/KC-iTunes.jpg","author":"James Howard Kunstler","episode_count":452,"summary":"James Howard Kunstler, author of \"The Geography of Nowhere\" and \"The Long Emergency,\" takes on suburban sprawl, disposable architecture and the end of the cheap oil era each week with program host Duncan Crary.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-12T20:20:09.235437+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kunstlercast-conversations-converging-catastrophes-of-the-21st-century-160680"},"episode":{"title":"KunstlerCast 430 — Charles Hugh Smith, blogger at \"Of Two Minds,\" Talking Finance and The Ultra-Processed Life","slug":"kunstlercast-430-charles-hugh-smith-blogger-at-of-two-minds-talking-finance-and-the-ultra-processed-life","published_at":"2025-09-30T19:02:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kunstlercast-conversations-converging-catastrophes-of-the-21st-century-160680/kunstlercast-430-charles-hugh-smith-blogger-at-of-two-minds-talking-finance-and-the-ultra-processed-life","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kunstlercast-conversations-converging-catastrophes-of-the-21st-century-160680","url":"https://kunstlercast.libsyn.com/kunstlercast-430-charles-hugh-smith-blogger-at-of-two-minds-talking-finance-and-the-ultra-processed-life","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/kunstlercast/KunstlerCast_430.mp3?dest-id=14822","summary":"Charles Hugh Smith founded his blog Of Two Minds in 2005 after 17 years of free-lance journalism in the San Francisco Bay Area. His 4,600 posts on the economy, society, housing and technology have logged over 150 million page views. He is the author of 9 novels and 20 non-fiction books on socio-economic-political dynamics, including The Mythology of Progress and Ultra-Processed Life . His work can also be found on Substack and Patreon. The KunstlerCast theme music is the beautiful Two Rivers Waltz written and performed by Larry Unger","meta_description":"Charles Hugh Smith founded his blog Of Two Minds in 2005 after 17 years of free-lance journalism in the San Francisco Bay Area. His 4,600 posts on the eco…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3619,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/kunstlercast-conversations-converging-catastrophes-of-the-21st-century-160680/episodes/kunstlercast-430-charles-hugh-smith-blogger-at-of-two-minds-talking-finance-and-the-ultra-processed-life/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kunstlercast-conversations-converging-catastrophes-of-the-21st-century-160680/kunstlercast-430-charles-hugh-smith-blogger-at-of-two-minds-talking-finance-and-the-ultra-processed-life.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}