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Crazy Town — 173 episodes
Finding Crazy Town Part 1: The Straight of Everything
Gaslit by the Four Horsemen: Maddening Signs of the Apocalypse
What Lies Beneath: AMOC, El Niño, & Climate Chaos with Emily Schoerning
Join the 2026 Crazy Town Hall
The Hypocrite’s Guide to the Galaxy: Muddling Toward a Sustainable Footprint
The Lighter Side of Dark Ages with Chris Smaje
Take Me to the River: Getting Rid of Deadbeat Dams
Mailbag: The Crazy Townies Speak!
Birdbrained: When Nature and Technology Collide
Being Team Human in Crazy Town
You Ain’t Gonna Live Forever: The Dos and Don’ts of Legacy Building
Crazy Town Classics - Terror Management Theory
Getting Real about Resiliency with Emily Schoerning
Choose Your AI Adventure: Immiseration or Extinction
EVs on Speed: The Jevons Paradox Strikes Again
Sane Town: A Realistic Vision of Life 100 Years from Now
Toasting Bread Is WAY Harder Than You Think: The Challenges of a Renewable Energy Future
Worried about the Future? Join the Club
Searching for the Golden Toad with Kyle and Trevor Ritland
Unsung Heroes: Sustainability Gurus Who Influenced the Crazy Town Worldview
Burned by Billionaires, with Chuck Collins
Crazy Town Classics - Maximum Power and Scarcity, or... the Story of the Birdbrained Backhoe on the Beach
Et Tu, Bhutan? Cryptocurrency and Late-Stage Capitalism
Artifacts of Collapse: Touring the Crazy Town Museum
Crazy Town Classics - Net Energy and Sustainability, or… the Story of the Overstuffed Strongman
Just One Word: Microplastics, with Matt Simon
Crazy Town Classics - Lord of the Swans: The Tragedy of the Enclosure of the Commons
Will Trump's Tariffs Fuel or Foil the Degrowth Movement?
Blinded by the Light - Facing Reality with Renewable Energy
Who Can Fix the Housing Crisis - NYT Pundits, German Shepherds, or Bilbo Baggins?
Bunkers, Bazookas, and Bespoke Moats: How to Be Safe in an Unsafe World
It Was Never Your Democracy Anyway: Thomas Linzey on Rethinking the Constitution
Going #2: The Dueling Rules of Nature That Every Good Earthling Needs to Know
Even AI Chatbots Hate Us: The Rise of the New Luddites, with Brian Merchant
A Temporary Techno Stunt: Tom Murphy on Falling out of Love with Modernity
Eating the Future: The NY Times Goes Full Ecomodernist on Food and Farming
Bargaining With Collapse: A Superabundance of Lab Grown Meat and Dryer Balls
The House Is Quite Literally on Fire: Peter Kalmus on the Climate Emergency Hitting Home
The Frequent Flyer Tree: Losing the Last Bit of Sense in the Climate Emergency
Shotgunning Hedwig: The Dilemma of Invasives and the Bizarre Decision to Slaughter Barred Owls
Breaking News: Crazy Town Joins the Newly Formed Department of Entropy
Bonus: Human Nature Odyssey
Escaping Escapism: What a Bizarre Rodent Ritual Can Teach Us About Navigating a World We Can't Really Escape
Escaping Otherism: Why Dr. Seuss Could Never Find a Rhyme for Genocide
Escaping Extremism: Slap Fighting Our Way to a More Civil Society
Escaping Humanocentrism: Why a Slime Mold Will Be President in 2028
Escaping Individualism: Why Rickey Don't Like It When Rickey Feels Lonely
Escaping Imperialism: Where Does Darth Vader Get His Lithium?
Escaping Capitalism: How to Replace the "Logic" of Psychopaths, Pharma Bros, and Private Prisons
Escaping Growthism: Wendigo Economics, Mystery Houses, and Becoming the Bear
Escaping Globalism: Rebuilding the Local Economy One Pig Thyroid at a Time
Escaping Technologyism: Dreams of AI Sheep and the Deadliest Word in Film History
Escaping Speedism: How to Slow Down and Enjoy the Collapse
Escaping Urbanism: Green Acres, Climate Migration, and the End of the Megacity
Escaping Consumerism: Why Crocheted Codpieces Are the Perfect Antidote to Fast Fashion
Escaping Industrialism: How to Avoid Pancakes on a Stick and Other "Miracles" of the Industrial Age
Escape Routes: Let's Get the F**k out of Crazy Town
Crazy Town Season 6 Trailer
Bonus: Grief and Making Connections with LaUra Schmidt
Bonus: New Year's Dissolutions
Bonus: Vanilla Andreessen, Pygmy Marmosets, and Hi-Tech Delusions
Bonus: Bundyville and Stories that Need to Be Told with Leah Sottile
Bonus Riff: Infinite, Unlimited, Forever - Water in the Desert
Bonus: Holding the Fire - Indigenous Voices on the Great Unraveling
Bonus: Going Wild with Rae Wynn-Grant
Bonus: Bagdhad Bob Visits Climate Town
Bonus: Choose Your Own Adventure in the Great Unraveling
The Surest Paths to a Hard Collapse: The Delusional Doctrines of the Phalse Prophethood (Season Wrap-up)
The Elon Musk Episode about Elon Musk Brought to You by Elon Musk
How to Fast-Track Collapse: Manipulating the Masses While Massaging Megalomaniacs
How to Lose Friends and Demoralize People: The Science (sic!) of Near-Term Extinction
Prepping for the Apocalypse: Elites' Foolish Fantasies for Surviving a Collapse of Their Own Creation
Announcement: 2023 Crazy Town Hall
How Longtermism Became the Most Dangerous Philosophy You’ve Never Heard of
Sucking CO2 and Electrifying Everything: The Climate Movement's Desperate Dependence on Tenuous Technologies
How Ecomodernists Hijacked the Environmental Movement: Technotopian Bullshit and a Raging Case of God Complex.
Kinder, Gentler Colonialism: Bungling Billionaires and Their Arrogant Adventures in "Saving the World"
Hot, Flat, and Totally Phucking Wrong: The Perilous Platitudes of a Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Propagandist
How Boomer Politicians Found a Third Way to Phuck Over the Working Class
How to Become the Winningest Winner Who Wins: The Twisted Logic of the World’s Greatest CEO
How to Have Sex with Yourself: The Bizarre Cult of the Singularity
Why the Polycrisis Is a Statistical Anomaly: The Willful Delusions of the World’s Leading Pseudointellectual
What the Phuck Is a Phalse Prophet?
Bonus: Drawing Insights with Stuart McMillen
Bonus: An Inconvenient Apocalypse with Bob Jensen
Bonus: Human Rights and Multispecies Justice with Danielle Celermajer
Bonus: A Climate Scientist Goes to Jail with Peter Kalmus
Bonus: Tech Bros on Acid with Douglas Rushkoff
Bonus: Angry Birds and Hairbrained Humans with Mary Roach
Announcement: Power Podcast with Richard Heinberg
Bonus: Boys and Oil with Taylor Brorby
Bonus: The Stench of Neoliberalism with Noam Chomsky
Skyrocketing Population and Carbon Dioxide: Watershed Moments Wrap-up
Buying and Dying: How Online Shopping Grew from a Small Weed Deal into a Global Environmental and Societal Disaster
Greed over Need: Why Neoliberalism Sucks and How It Sabotages Community
Chillin' and Killin': How Air Conditioning Has Altered Human Behavior and the Environment
Throwing Superman through a Cigarette Truck: The Insidious Manipulation of Advertising
Highway to Hell: How Road Infrastructure Traps Us in an Unsustainable Nightmare
Hippos in the Bayou: Human Hubris and the Ecological Mayhem of Introduced Species
The Stopwatch of Doom: How the Cult of Productivity Torpedoes Sustainability and Equity
It’s the End of the World’s Fair as We Know It: Why Technology Won’t Save Us
Colonizing the Sky: The Untold Environmental Toll of Skyscrapers
The Bright Side Through Rose-Tinted Glasses: How Positive Thinking Undermines Sustainability
Lord of the Swans: The Tragedy of the Enclosure of the Commons
Bonus: The Legal Legacy of Colonization with Sherri Mitchell
A Load of Papal Bull: Greenlighting Colonization and the Mindset of Extraction
Injustice for All: The Invention of Racism to Justify a Putrid Power Hierarchy
Bonus: Patriarchy and the Cultural Roots of the Climate Crisis with Amy Westervelt
A Day at the Zoo Is No Walk in the Park: Overexploitation of Animals and Nature
The Taming of the Slough: Humanity's History of Trying to Control Water
Bonus: Climate Sabotage with Tim DeChristopher
Season 4 Announcement
Bonus: Stop Saving the Planet with Jenny Price
Bonus: Holiday Guide for the Perplexed
Bonus: It's All Paradox with Douglas Rushkoff
Bonus: Oceans of Knowledge with Sylvia Earle
Bonus: What Could Possibly Go Right with Vicki Robin
Bonus: Galactic-Scale Energy with Tom Murphy
Bonus: Climate Craziness with Peter Kalmus
Hidden Drivers Wrap-up, or... the Story of the Throbbing Amygdala
Maximum Power and Scarcity, or... the Story of the Birdbrained Backhoe on the Beach
Feedback Loops and Climate Catastrophe, or... the Story of the Baseball Bloodbath
Net Energy and Sustainability, or… the Story of the Overstuffed Strongman
Overproduction of Elites and Political Upheaval, or... the Story of Rich People Doing Stupid Things
Runaway Money and Overconsumption, or... the Story of Monetary Mischief in Madagascar
The Attention Economy and Nature Depletion, or… the Story of Einstein Watching Cat Videos
Nature Detachment and Ecocide, or... the Story of the Marauding Mountain Lion
The Myth of Progress and Limits to Growth, or... the Story of the World's Largest Shovel
Complexity and Armageddon, or… the Story of the Hemp Microphone
Discounting the Future and Climate Chaos, or... the Story of the Duelling Economists
Conspiracy Theories and Collapse, or… the Story of UFOs and Free Energy
Self Domestication and Overshoot, or… the Story of Foxes and Russian Melodrama
Fear of Death and Climate Denial, or… the Story of Wolverine and the Screaming Mole of Doom
Crazy Town Trailer
Relative Status and Environmental Breakdown, or... the Story of Bartenders and Bird Feathers
Cognitive Bias and Global Warming, or... the Story of Cattle Prods and Ice Cream Shops
Season 3 Announcement
Bonus: Green Dreamer with Jason Bradford
Bonus: The Practical Stoic with Richard Heinberg
Bonus: Decolonizing the Mind with Sherri Mitchell
Tis but a Scratch: the Insanity of Getting the Economy "Back to Normal"
A Time to Speak up, but Also a Time to Shut up: White Privilege and Systemic Racism
Mailbag: Dark Humor and Sustainability from Listeners around the World
Breaking the Brady Vase: Coronavirus and Fault Lines in American Politics
Poked by a Porcupine: the Politics of Contraction as We Encounter the Limits to Growth
Doors and Deck Chairs on the Titanic: Reimagining Lifeboat Ethics in the Age of Overshoot
Koala Butts Ablaze: Growth, Conservation, and Collapse in the Adaptive Cycle
Announcement: Luciferian Mailbag Call
Banana Town: Where Michael Moore Stokes Controversy over Renewable Energy
Mayor McCheese & Modern Medicine: Squandering Energy and Rethinking Technology
An Ecofascist and a Social Justice Warrior Walk into a Bar: Extremist Politics and Censorship
Foreclosing on the Frackers: Coronavirus and the Future of Energy
Delusion to the Left, Denial to the Right, and the Environmental Reality Caught in the Middle
I Can't Drive 35: the Politics of Rationing and its Potential to Shift the Economy
Coronavirus and the Three Bears: the Right-Sized Crisis for a Transition to Sustainability?
Our Naked Emperors Catch Coronavirus: How to Think about Collapse with Nafeez Ahmed
Announcement: Keeping up with Coronavirus
The 10,000-Mile Cod, Insane Global Trade, and the Path to a Resilient Local Economy
The Long and Shart of Extreme Travel as Climate Chaos Reigns
The Adventures of Bill and Lou: the Obscene Politics of Climate Change and Overshoot
Band-Aid Town and the Psychology of Climate Change
Helicopters and Kick the Can: Money in the Real World of Energy and the Environment
My Dinner Is Stuck in Traffic: Fossil Fuels and the Food Transition
Tackling Inequality in the Economy, One Pair of Lederhosen at a Time
They'll Think of Somethingisms: Is Technology Really the Answer to Overshoot?
Mosquito-Flavored Popcorn: When Climate Scientists and Economists Go off the Rails
Deer Sinew and Beetle Biscuits: Raising Kids in the Age of Climate Chaos
Zombies, Magic Rocks, Collapse, and Other Fun Sustainability Stories
Solar Freakin' Roadways: How Technological Optimism Undermines Sustainability
My Car Is Bigger than Yours: Consumerist Dreams and Environmental Nightmares
1.21 Jigawatts: Energy Literacy and the Real Scoop on Fossil Fuels
Punching Ronnie in the Mouth: Limits to Growth and Economic Lies
Orangutans and Santa Suits: Who's Crazy When It Comes to Climate Change?