Crazy Town
119 Episodes • By Post Carbon Institute: Sustainability, Climate, Collapse, and Dark Humor •
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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.
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Escaping Consumerism: Why Crocheted Codpieces Are the Perfect Antidote to Fast Fashion
If American consumers ever come up for air under the...
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Mar 27 2024 1h 3m
Escaping Industrialism: How to Avoid Pancakes on a Stick and Other "Miracles" of the Industrial Age
Jason, Rob, and Asher take a tour of New Caledonia, ...
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Mar 20 2024 57m
Escape Routes: Let's Get the F**k out of Crazy Town
Escape Routes! That's the theme of the sixth se...
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Mar 13 2024 51m
Crazy Town Season 6 Trailer
Join us on March 13, 2024 for the launch of our sixt...
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Mar 6 2024 1m
Bonus: Grief and Making Connections with LaUra Schmidt
LaUra Schmidt visits Crazy Town to discuss her work ...
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Feb 15 2024 47m
Bonus: New Year's Dissolutions
Asher, Jason, and Rob reflect on 2023 – a year fille...
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Jan 17 2024 34m
Bonus: Vanilla Andreessen, Pygmy Marmosets, and Hi-Tech Delusions
The most vomit-inducing document of 2023 has to be t...
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Dec 13 2023 1h 3m
Bonus: Bundyville and Stories that Need to Be Told with Leah Sottile
Investigative journalist Leah Sottile writes article...
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Nov 15 2023 57m
Bonus Riff: Infinite, Unlimited, Forever - Water in the Desert
Just how much has the extractivist growth mindset co...
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Oct 19 2023 31m
Bonus: Holding the Fire - Indigenous Voices on the Great Unraveling
We are pleased to share the new podcast from Post Ca...
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Oct 16 2023 25m
Bonus: Going Wild with Rae Wynn-Grant
Wildlife ecologist and communicator extraordinaire R...
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Sep 20 2023 50m
Bonus: Bagdhad Bob Visits Climate Town
What do Saddam Hussein’s information minister and th...
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Aug 30 2023 40m
Bonus: Choose Your Own Adventure in the Great Unraveling
After hearing a story of woe on the streets of Portl...
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Aug 9 2023 51m
The Surest Paths to a Hard Collapse: The Delusional Doctrines of the Phalse Prophethood (Season Wrap-up)
Asher, Rob, and Jason explore the lessons and danger...
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Jun 21 2023 1h 24m
The Elon Musk Episode about Elon Musk Brought to You by Elon Musk
Meet Elon Musk, the Muskian mogul who Elon Musks his...
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Jun 14 2023 1h 9m
How to Fast-Track Collapse: Manipulating the Masses While Massaging Megalomaniacs
Meet Steve Bannon, the Molotov mixologist who wants ...
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Jun 7 2023 55m
How to Lose Friends and Demoralize People: The Science (sic!) of Near-Term Extinction
Meet Guy McPherson, the extinction enthusiast who un...
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May 31 2023 54m
Prepping for the Apocalypse: Elites' Foolish Fantasies for Surviving a Collapse of Their Own Creation
Meet Barrett Moore, the bunker-building bullshit art...
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May 24 2023 1h
Announcement: 2023 Crazy Town Hall
How would you like to hang out with Asher, Rob, and ...
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May 18 2023 1m
How Longtermism Became the Most Dangerous Philosophy You’ve Never Heard of
Meet William MacAskill, the puerile professor who he...
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May 17 2023 1h 3m
Sucking CO2 and Electrifying Everything: The Climate Movement's Desperate Dependence on Tenuous Technologies
Meet Mark Jacobson and David Keith, the leading tech...
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May 10 2023 1h 22m
How Ecomodernists Hijacked the Environmental Movement: Technotopian Bullshit and a Raging Case of God Complex.
Meet Stewart Brand and his band of merry demateriali...
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May 3 2023 1h 2m
Kinder, Gentler Colonialism: Bungling Billionaires and Their Arrogant Adventures in "Saving the World"
Meet Bill Gates, the philandering philanthropist who...
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Apr 26 2023 1h 6m
Hot, Flat, and Totally Phucking Wrong: The Perilous Platitudes of a Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Propagandist
Meet Tom Friedman, the mustachioed metaphor maven wh...
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Apr 19 2023 1h 15m
How Boomer Politicians Found a Third Way to Phuck Over the Working Class
Meet Bill Clinton, who converted the Democratic Part...
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Apr 12 2023 1h 10m