{"id":3494792,"date":"2023-02-23T18:19:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T18:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/?page_id=3494792"},"modified":"2025-04-21T16:21:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T16:21:00","slug":"episodes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/crazy-town-podcast\/episodes\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Town Episodes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Crazy Town: Episode 105. Who Can Fix the Housing Crisis – NYT Pundits, German Shepherds, or Bilbo Baggins?<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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Crazy Town: Episode 104. Bunkers, Bazookas, and Bespoke Moats: How to Be Safe in an Unsafe World<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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Crazy Town 103: It Was Never Your Democracy Anyway: Thomas Linzey on Rethinking the Constitution<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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Crazy Town 102: Going #2: The Dueling Rules of Nature That Every Good Earthling Needs to Know<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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Crazy Town 101: Even AI Chatbots Hate Us: The Rise of the New Luddites, with Brian Merchant<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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Crazy Town 100. A Temporary Techno Stunt: Tom Murphy on Falling out of Love with Modernity<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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Crazy Town 99. Eating the Future: The NY Times Goes Full Ecomodernist on Food and Farming<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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Crazy Town 98. Bargaining With Collapse: A Superabundance of Lab Grown Meat and Dryer Balls<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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Crazy Town 97. The House Is Quite Literally on Fire: Peter Kalmus on the Climate Emergency Hitting Home<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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Crazy Town 96. The Frequent Flyer Tree: Losing the Last Bit of Sense in the Climate Emergency<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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Crazy Town 95. \u00a0Shotgunning Hedwig: The Dilemma of Invasives and the Bizarre Decision to Slaughter Barred Owls<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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Crazy Town 94. Breaking News: Crazy Town Joins the Newly Formed Department of Entropy<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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Crazy Town Bonus Episode: Human Nature Odyssey<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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Crazy Town 93. Escaping Escapism: What a Bizarre Rodent Ritual Can Teach Us About Navigating a World We Can’t Really Escape<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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Crazy Town 92. Escaping Otherism: Why Dr. Seuss Could Never Find a Rhyme for Genocide<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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Crazy Town 91. Escaping Extremism: Slap Fighting Our Way to a More Civil Society<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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Crazy Town 90. Escaping Humanocentrism: Why a Slime Mold Will Be President in 2028<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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Crazy Town 89. Escaping Individualism: Why Rickey Don’t Like It When Rickey Feels Lonely<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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Crazy Town 88. Escaping Imperialism: Where Does Darth Vader Get His Lithium?<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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Crazy Town 87. Escaping Capitalism: How to Replace the “Logic” of Psychopaths, Pharma Bros, and Private Prisons<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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Crazy Town: Episode 105. Who Can Fix the Housing Crisis – NYT Pundits, German Shepherds, or Bilbo Baggins?<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t

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Jason, Rob, and Asher are taking out a huge, unaffordable mortgage on the housing crisis. What\u2019s behind the shortage in housing? Why is it that no one, except canine Tik Tok influencers with billion-dollar bank accounts, can afford to own a home??<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t

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Crazy Town: Episode 104. Bunkers, Bazookas, and Bespoke Moats: How to Be Safe in an Unsafe World<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t

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The world has gone bunking mad. The bespoke security industry is burying bunkers stocked with arsenals of automatic rifles and surrounded by flaming moats. Is there a better way to prepare for the polycrisis, the zombie apocalypse, or whatever hard times are on the horizon?<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t

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Crazy Town 103: It Was Never Your Democracy Anyway: Thomas Linzey on Rethinking the Constitution<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t

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Democracy and environmental protection have two things in common: (1) they\u2019re both supposed to be enshrined in the laws of the United States and (2) they\u2019re both under severe attack right now. Asher speaks with Thomas Linzey of the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights to uncover how the source code of the U.S. Constitution and the body of environmental laws that follow it are actually designed to allow corporations to override the will of the people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t

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Crazy Town 102: Going #2: The Dueling Rules of Nature That Every Good Earthling Needs to Know<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t

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After dropping the kids off at the pool, Asher, Rob, and Jason cover the interplay of entropy and self-organization and contemplate how to manage the inevitability of entropy with elegance (beyond morphing into a lizard person).<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t

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Crazy Town 101: Even AI Chatbots Hate Us: The Rise of the New Luddites, with Brian Merchant<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t

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After failing to raise a single dollar for PCI\u2019s newest initiative \u2014 the $350 billion Transdisciplinary Institute for Phalse Prophet Studies and Education (TIPPSE) \u2014\u00a0 Jason, Rob, and Asher devise the only profitable pitch for raising capital: using AI technology to cure the loneliness that technology itself causes. Author Brian Merchant joins Asher this week to discuss the rise of the neo-Luddite movement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t

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Crazy Town 100. A Temporary Techno Stunt: Tom Murphy on Falling out of Love with Modernity<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t

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Recovering technology booster Tom Murphy visits Crazy Town to discuss his journey from shooting lasers at the moon, to trying to “solve” the energy predicament, to falling out of love with modernity itself. <\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t

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Crazy Town 99. Eating the Future: The NY Times Goes Full Ecomodernist on Food and Farming<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t

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How will we feed people living in the megacities of the 21st century, especially while confronting climate chaos and the depletion of fossil fuels and fossil water? According to the mainstream media: ecomodernism!<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t

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Crazy Town 98. Bargaining With Collapse: A Superabundance of Lab Grown Meat and Dryer Balls<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t

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Do you contemplate topics like climate change, biodiversity loss, and the risk of civilizational collapse? If so, then you probably understand something about bargaining \u2013 a psychological defense mechanism that\u2019s one of the five stages of grief. <\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t

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Crazy Town 97. The House Is Quite Literally on Fire: Peter Kalmus on the Climate Emergency Hitting Home<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t

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Peter Kalmus, climate scientist and returning friend of Crazy Town, used to live in Altadena, California, where one of the disastrous Los Angeles wildfires struck on January 7th. Get Peter’s take on this historic wildfire, what nature is trying to teach us, and how to think about unnatural disasters now and in the future. <\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t

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Crazy Town 96. The Frequent Flyer Tree: Losing the Last Bit of Sense in the Climate Emergency<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t

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In the world of college sports, money talks and the volleyball team walks, er, flies 33,000 miles to play games. Who cares, as long as we can wring a few more dollars out of the TV deals — am I right?!? Jason, Rob, and Asher propose a new plan for college sports and for taking the climate emergency seriously.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t

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Crazy Town 95. \u00a0Shotgunning Hedwig: The Dilemma of Invasives and the Bizarre Decision to Slaughter Barred Owls<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t

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The US Fish and Wildlife Service decided to “manage” barred owls by shooting half a million of them over the next three decades. Jason, Rob, and Asher (along with the postal workers at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry) are upset about this plan for addressing the predicament of invasive species. <\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t

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Crazy Town 94. Breaking News: Crazy Town Joins the Newly Formed Department of Entropy<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t

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Rob, Jason, and Asher talk about joining the new Trump Administration, at least until Elon Musk eradicates it. They explore the implications of Trump 2.0 through three reality-bending lenses \u2013 shifting baselines, entropy, and the upside of down \u2013 and three ways of responding: resistance, resilience, and regeneration. They decided they couldn\u2019t stomach a fourth R \u2013 respect.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t

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