Crazy Town
Hosted by Asher and Jason and Alex Leff and Rob and Jason Bradford and Asher Miller and The hosts of Crazy Town · Post Carbon Institute
4.8from 363 ratings
- 180
- Episodes
- 59
- Transcribed
- 363
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
- 3M
- YouTube views
About Crazy Town
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 using a gas-powered blower to move leaves from one spot to another. Rob Dietz - Jack-of-all-trades environmental scientist, conservation biologist, and ecological economist with a penchant for relating planetary overshoot to the catalog of movie scenes that play on a continuous loop in his colonized brain. Known for inserting random ecological facts into casual conversation, often in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s voice. His friends call him “pessimistically hilarious.” Jason Bradford - Activist farmer and former encyclopedia salesman with a PhD in plant ecology who gets genuinely excited discussing soil microbes and societal collapse in the same breath. Morally opposed to doomsday prepping, but predisposed toward sharing everything he keeps in his bunker, er root cellar, including potatoes, wine, and a 47-month supply of scientific esoterica and embarrassing anecdotes. These guys are the Three Stooges of sustainability podcasting, although they tend toward scientific analysis, righteous outrage, and self-deprecation rather than beating each other up with hand tools. How can they have this much fun while contemplating collapse and navigating the Great Unraveling? Heartfelt thanks to the team at Post Carbon Institute, our volunteers, and all our fellow Crazy Townies out there who help bring this podcast to life.
- Publisher
- Post Carbon Institute
- Category
- science · science · science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 14 Mar 2019
- Latest episode
- 21 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
59 of 180 episodes have a transcript.
21 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Cheerful Pessimist: The Life and Legacy of Richard Heinberg
7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Finding Crazy Town Part 6: Facing the Future
23 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Finding Crazy Town Part 5: Adapting to the Adaptive Cycle
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Cheerful Pessimist: The Life and Legacy of Richard Heinberg
Published 21 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And then he wrote a book, you know, he wrote, he wrote Power Down and then he wrote Peak Everything. You know, he is known mostly for that stuff, but he really was a limits of growth guy. Yeah. Right. So he was a new college for a while, new college shut down. And then he joined Post Carbon Institute as a full time fellow. Well, we could talk about how we all crossed paths with Richard, but he was with PCI for the rest of his life. So he joined at, I think, the end of 2007, early 2008. And he was, you know, our full-time fellow ever since. Wound up publishing 14 different books. He created an online course that we published that tens of thousands of people took. […]
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- Emily Schoerning
- Chris Smaje
- Michael Hebb
- Kyle Ritland
- Trevor Ritland
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- YouTube views
- 3,469,955
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 218 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 145 ratings
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- 93
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 95
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