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Blinded by the Light - Facing Reality with Renewable Energy
Episode 106
Solar panels and other modern energy technologies can be really useful, but the belief that we can technologize our way to a bigger and better societ…
1 year, 1 month ago
Who Can Fix the Housing Crisis - NYT Pundits, German Shepherds, or Bilbo Baggins?
Episode 105
Jason, Rob, and Asher are taking out a huge, unaffordable mortgage on the housing crisis. What’s behind the shortage in housing? Why is it that no on…
1 year, 2 months ago
Bunkers, Bazookas, and Bespoke Moats: How to Be Safe in an Unsafe World
Episode 104
The world has gone bunking mad. The bespoke security industry is burying bunkers stocked with arsenals of automatic rifles and surrounded by flaming …
1 year, 2 months ago
It Was Never Your Democracy Anyway: Thomas Linzey on Rethinking the Constitution
Episode 103
Democracy and environmental protection have two things in common: (1) they’re both supposed to be enshrined in the laws of the United States and (2) …
1 year, 3 months ago
Going #2: The Dueling Rules of Nature That Every Good Earthling Needs to Know
Episode 102
Happy Earth Day! There are two concepts that every person should understand to be a better Earthling: entropy and self-organization. It seems like a …
1 year, 3 months ago
Even AI Chatbots Hate Us: The Rise of the New Luddites, with Brian Merchant
Episode 101
Who knew that the breakthrough moment of AI sentience would come from interacting with an annoying neo-Luddite?
After failing to raise a single dollar…
1 year, 4 months ago
A Temporary Techno Stunt: Tom Murphy on Falling out of Love with Modernity
Episode 100
Recovering technology booster Tom Murphy visits Crazy Town to discuss his journey from shooting lasers at the moon, to trying to "solve" the energy p…
1 year, 4 months ago
Eating the Future: The NY Times Goes Full Ecomodernist on Food and Farming
Episode 99
How will we feed people living in the megacities of the 21st century, especially while confronting climate chaos and the depletion of fossil fuels an…
1 year, 5 months ago
Bargaining With Collapse: A Superabundance of Lab Grown Meat and Dryer Balls
Episode 98
Do you contemplate topics like climate change, biodiversity loss, and the risk of civilizational collapse? If so, then you probably understand someth…
1 year, 5 months ago
The House Is Quite Literally on Fire: Peter Kalmus on the Climate Emergency Hitting Home
Episode 97
Peter Kalmus, climate scientist and returning friend of Crazy Town, used to live in Altadena, California, where one of the disastrous Los Angeles wil…
1 year, 6 months ago