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How to Become the Winningest Winner Who Wins: The Twisted Logic of the World’s Greatest CEO
Episode 67
Meet Jack Welch, celebrated wrecker of real jobs and leading light of Wall Street wankers. Please share this episode with your friends and start a co…
2 years, 11 months ago
How to Have Sex with Yourself: The Bizarre Cult of the Singularity
Episode 66
Meet Ray Kurzweil, who combines Moore’s Law with nanobots in a faux recipe to cheat death. Please share this episode with your friends and start a co…
2 years, 11 months ago
Why the Polycrisis Is a Statistical Anomaly: The Willful Delusions of the World’s Leading Pseudointellectual
Episode 65
Meet Steven Pinker whose denial of limits increases the likelihood of his worst fear: the end of the Enlightenment. Please share this episode with yo…
3 years ago
What the Phuck Is a Phalse Prophet?
Episode 64
Meet the unelected leaders of Crazy Town, who keep our collective heads in the sand while the planet burns. Please share this episode to your friends…
3 years ago
Bonus: Drawing Insights with Stuart McMillen
Stuart McMillen is a systems thinker disguised as a cartoonist. His long-form comics condense important academic topics into understandable and enter…
3 years, 1 month ago
Bonus: An Inconvenient Apocalypse with Bob Jensen
Bob Jensen has written a book with Wes Jackson titled An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity. W…
3 years, 2 months ago
Bonus: Human Rights and Multispecies Justice with Danielle Celermajer
Asher is joined in Crazy Town by Danielle Celermajer, author and professor at University of Sydney, for a far-ranging conversation about human rights…
3 years, 3 months ago
Bonus: A Climate Scientist Goes to Jail with Peter Kalmus
Climate scientist and activist Peter Kalmus returns to Crazy Town, but this time with a green badge of courage. Earlier this year, he locked himself …
3 years, 4 months ago
Bonus: Tech Bros on Acid with Douglas Rushkoff
Douglas Rushkoff revisits Crazy Town, where he and Asher discuss why so many billionaires, academic institutions, and "serious" people are drawn to l…
3 years, 4 months ago
Bonus: Angry Birds and Hairbrained Humans with Mary Roach
In her latest book "Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law," Mary Roach approaches the topic of human-wildlife conflict with entertaining stories, scientif…
3 years, 5 months ago