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Crazy TownAuthor: Post Carbon Institute
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 were 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 youre 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, youll 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 Schwarzeneggers 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-mo Language: en Genres: Earth Sciences, Nature, Science Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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We Dug Digger, or Why Tom Cruise Is the Most Famous Crazy Townie
Episode 136
Wednesday, 4 November, 2026
What happens when an A-list director and the biggest Hollywood star of the last 50 years team up to create the perfect Crazy Town movie? It bombs. Intentionally going in cold, Rob, Jason, and Asher met up to watch Digger. And now, without revealing too much about the film, they reflect on the themes, legacy, and most especially how the negative reactions to the film mirror society’s inability to look honestly at our climate predicament, let alone offer any reasonable responses. Don’t worry, the hosts did their best not to spoil the film!Originally recorded on 10/16/26.Sources & LinksCrazy Town Episode 56, The Stopwatch of DoomIMDB trivia for DiggerNegative review from GristPositive review from GristNegative review from New York TimesPositive review from New York TimesInterview with the director, Alejandro Innaritu, in the New York TimesPositive review in the New YorkerCreditsProduction and editing by Alex Leff. Editorial assistance and transcripts by Taylor Antal.Theme music is “Way Huge” and “Don’t Give Up” by Midnight Shipwrecks, used with permission.Thanks to all the Crazy Townies, our listeners who are trying to understand humanity's overshoot predicament and do something about it.
