Collapse talk with a crooked grin.
Crazy Town is a fast, unruly conversation about ecological limits, capitalism, death anxiety, AI panic, and the strange habits people build around denial. The show uses jokes, mock arguments, and digressions to make heavy subjects feel discussable without sanding off their seriousness.
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Crazy Town is an ecological, cultural, and psychological argument disguised as a rowdy panel hang. Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, and Asher Miller talk like people who have compared worst-case scenarios before breakfast and still found a way to make each other laugh. The show moves fast. A bit about a birding app can turn into a critique of status competition, technological mediation, and the strange human urge to optimize even the act of standing quietly in nature. A story about an electric vehicle left cooling in a parking lot becomes a way into the Jevons paradox and the limits of efficiency as a climate answer. AI shows up as both absurd theater and genuine threat. Death anxiety becomes a route into terror management theory, political identity, legacy building, and the fantasies people use to dodge finitude. The tone is loose, but the interests are serious. Crazy Town keeps circling ecological overshoot, energy use, social design, capitalism, empathy, resilience, and the possibility of saner ways to live. It is not a tidy explainer. It is a conversation that wanders through jokes, analogies, mock drafts, guest exchanges, and sudden moral clarity. Douglas Rushkoff brings a Team Human frame to questions about late-stage capitalism and right relationship. Emily Schoerning appears in a resilience conversation shaped by anxiety and the need for practical groundedness. Alex Leff helps frame a future-facing collaboration about low-energy life, food, community, and changed expectations. The show’s best trick is making bleak material feel communal rather than isolating. It does not soothe listeners with easy optimism. It also refuses the pose that despair is sophistication. Crazy Town is for people who suspect the official story is broken, but still want humor, friendship, and sharper thinking on the way through.
Made for: For collapse-aware listeners, climate realists, systems thinkers, and anyone who wants serious ecological critique delivered through lively panel banter. It fits people who can handle dark subjects when the room still has jokes in it.
What sets it apart: Crazy Town stands out by treating denial, technology, consumption, and mortality as everyday comedy material without turning them into throwaway bits. Its panel chemistry lets the show move from absurd riffs to grounded critique faster than a conventional interview or policy podcast.
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 we’re 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 you’re 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, you’ll find community and plenty of laughs in Crazy Town.Bro...
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Crazy Town makes ecological limits legible through sharp three-host conversation, comic escalation, and practical attention to community life.
Crazy Town turns ecological limits and social strain into a lively argument among Asher Miller, Jason Bradford, and Rob Dietz. Their conversations move between energy use, technology, economic growth, preparedness, and life within natural systems, with humor keeping the analysis…
A flaming moat meets a rutabaga, and your apocalypse plan suddenly needs neighbors.
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A playful, pointed critique of how birding can tip from curiosity into status-chasing.
Crazy Town treats birding as more than a pastime, showing how a quiet habit can get bent toward competition, apps, and status. It is at its best when it stays with the simple work of being outside: listening, watching, and remembering that nature is not there to be conquered.
A lively case for leveling down, thinking socially, and doing it with friends.
The episode treats modern life as a question of who is really out of step, and how much of the world is built by people rather than fate. Douglas Rushkoff gives that argument a clear, easy shape, while the hosts keep pushing it toward a practical issue: how to talk across…
A lively ecology episode that uses AI, animals, and overshoot to make limits feel real.
The episode uses the maximum power principle to frame a sharp conversation about how organisms and companies press harder on energy use when constraints loosen. It moves briskly from AI hype to hummingbirds, hibernating animals, and the St.
A funny, unruly look at Bhutan, cryptocurrency, and modern incentives.
Crazy Town uses Bhutan as a sharp counterexample to growth-first economics, treating gross national happiness as a serious effort to center well-being and environmental health.
A funny, skeptical look at bunker culture that ends up arguing for community over solo prep.
Crazy Town treats bunker living and bunker accessories as a quick, sharp take on what people mean when they talk about safety. It starts with fireproof suits and a flaming moat, then keeps widening the joke until it points at consumer wish fulfillment, shaky planning, and the…
Crazy Town's Rob Deeds, Jason Bradford, and Asher Miller remember Richard Heinberg, who died of pancreatic cancer on July 19, 2026, two weeks after diagnosis.
Crazy Town producer Alex Lef closes the six-part "Finding Crazy Town" series by looking to the future for missing hosts Jason Bradford, Rob Dietz and Asher Miller.
Crazy Town uses ecology’s four-phase adaptive cycle—growth, conservation, release, and reorganization—to consider modern civilization’s stresses.
Crazy Town takes birding and pokes at everything it can touch.
Jason Bradford, Asher Miller, and Rob Dietz bring Douglas Rushkoff into Crazy Town and make the room feel half roast, half reckoning.
The hosts of Crazy Town discuss immortality projects and legacy building through a fantasy football-style draft, building on their previous episode about fear of death and climate denial.
This episode of Crazy Town explores terror management theory and how circles of empathy relate to political affiliations, featuring an upcoming interview with Michael Hebb.
The hosts of Crazy Town discuss personal texts about AI anxiety and mental health concerns in a candid, humorous conversation about resiliency.
The hosts humorously discuss AI data centers and Elon Musk's vision of exponential compute growth, critiquing societal delusions and environmental impacts.
The hosts discuss the Jevons paradox and how efficiency gains often backfire, using electric vehicles as an example, and propose a new political platform to address environmental issues.
A discussion about envisioning a positive future if humanity transitions to a low-energy, sustainable lifestyle within planetary limits.
A collaboration episode introducing energy literacy basics and the challenges of renewable energy transition through edited highlights from Crazy Town.
The hosts discuss the role of social clubs and community organizations in modern society and their potential resurgence as modernity fails.
A biologist interviews conservationist brothers about their new book on the search for a lost species in Costa Rica's cloud forest, exploring biodiversity and human-nature connections.
The hosts introduce a fantasy football-style draft to pick the pundits who most influenced their thinking on environmental and social issues.
The hosts interview Chuck Collins about his book on how billionaires concentrate wealth and power, harming society and the planet.
Crazy Town gathers Asher Miller, Jason Bradford, and Rob Dietz for a riff-heavy run at the maximum power principle.
Crazy Town opens by joking its way into a bigger complaint about growth-at-all-costs thinking.
The hosts humorously propose a future museum to critique today's consumerist and wasteful society.
The hosts discuss plastic pollution and microplastics, interviewing author Matt Simon about systemic solutions.
The hosts critique the techno-optimism of the Green New Deal, arguing that clean energy alone cannot solve systemic environmental and social problems.
The hosts discuss the housing crisis and its roots in capitalism and energy-blind policies, proposing a change of course.
The hosts open with fireproof-suit and moat jokes, then roll into a sharp, funny look at bunker living, bunker accessories, and bunker mentality.
Host Asher Miller interviews lawyer Thomas Lindsay about legal and political developments in environmental rights and community activism.
The hosts discuss the rise of new Luddites in response to AI chatbots and share personal updates about career transitions and the closure of a project called Tipsy.
The hosts discuss climate change, overshoot, and runaway capitalism with humor and analysis, and preview an upcoming conversation on navigating the end of modernity.
The hosts discuss their policy of avoiding news and critique the New York Times' coverage.
The hosts discuss a dryer ball as a symbol of sustainable living while probing societal delusions about environmental and social collapse.
Climate scientist Peter Kalmas discusses his New York Times article about leaving Los Angeles amid extreme wildfires and the broader climate emergency.
The hosts discuss environmental issues and societal unraveling with humor and analysis, starting with a reference to Stanford professors.
The hosts introduce a new episode with a humorous warning and tease big news involving Alex Jones.
The hosts of Crazy Town introduce Season 6's theme of exploring escape routes from capitalism, starting with a light-hearted sports discussion about top track and field venues in the US.
The hosts of Crazy Town discuss escaping speedism by analyzing implausible car jumping scenes in movies as a metaphor for slowing down and enjoying societal collapse.
The hosts discuss escaping urbanism and the cultural clash between urban and rural life, using 60s TV shows as a lens.
The hosts of Crazy Town discuss escaping industrialism while sharing a personal story about searching for a rare plant species in New Caledonia.