{"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 433 — Piero San Giorgio Has Just Returned from Russia","slug":"kunstlercast-433-piero-san-giorgio-has-just-returned-from-russia","published_at":"2025-11-09T18:47:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kunstlercast-conversations-converging-catastrophes-of-the-21st-century-160680/kunstlercast-433-piero-san-giorgio-has-just-returned-from-russia","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kunstlercast-conversations-converging-catastrophes-of-the-21st-century-160680","url":"https://kunstlercast.libsyn.com/kunstlercast-433-piero-san-giorgio-has-just-returned-from-russia","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/kunstlercast/KunstlerCast433.mp3?dest-id=14822","summary":"Piero San Giorgio is one of Switzerland's best selling authors. After 20 years as an executive in the software business, Piero decided to write essays about the future. His first book Survive —The Economic Collapse was in the top-50 best selling books of 2012 in France and has sold over 200,000 copies, with translations into English, Italian, Russian, Arabic, Romanian, Polish, Turkish etc. and has a foreword by JHKunstler. His other books are , CBRN (How to Survive Nuclear, Radiological, Biological,and Chemical events) , and Giuseppe: A Survival Story , a biographical novel about his grandfather's ordeals in WW2. The KunstlerCast theme music is the beautiful Two Rivers Waltz written and performed by Larry Unger","meta_description":"Piero San Giorgio is one of Switzerland's best selling authors. After 20 years as an executive in the software business, Piero decided to write essays abo…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4034,"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-433-piero-san-giorgio-has-just-returned-from-russia/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-433-piero-san-giorgio-has-just-returned-from-russia.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}