![]() If they were living their values, they would have had like a chimpanzee as the CEO. Like finally put the investment into that. You know, the idea here was, they were going to try to identify all the species on Earth. And of course, I was into biodiversity there and I had a research project in Peru and I was hoping to collaborate. I actually met his wife, Ryan Phelan, who was the CEO of, it's called the All Species Foundation. Well, I had lunch with him in the context of his work. When he ran cross country, wiped his face on a shirt, and invented the smiley face emoji. Yeah, when he when he picked up ping pong and he went to the White House. Like when he survived that hurricane on the shrimp boat. And he bumped around and was so involved with some of the most iconic moments of the late 20th century, like Forrest Gump. But I had this lunch with a guy, Stewart Brand is his name. No, and I don't mean some guy bumbling around with the IQ of 75 getting lucky. I actually had lunch with a Forrest Gump-like character. Now on to the show.Īlright, guys, you of course know the movie, "Forrest Gump." If you like what you’re hearing, please let some friends know about this episode, or the podcast in general. Here in season five, we’re exploring Phalse Prophets and the dangerous messages they’re so intent on spreading. Hi, This is Crazy Town producer Melody Allison. ![]() ![]() Welcome to Crazy Town where instead of incremental change, the government is interested in excremental change. How would you rate this episode’s Phalse Prophet on the Insufferability Index? Tell us in the comments below!Īnd I'm Rob Dietz. Timothee Parrique, “ A response to Paul Krugman: Growth is not as green as you might think,” Resilience, February 28, 2023.Wolf Tivy and Matt Ellison, “ ‘Life Goes On’ With Stewart Brand,” Palladium, September 14, 2022.Anna Wiener, “ The Complicated Legacy of Stewart Brand’s ‘Whole Earth Catalog’,” The New Yorker, November 16, 2018.John Markoff, Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand, 2022.Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.įor an entertaining deep dive into the theme of season five (Phalse Prophets), read the definitive peer-reviewed taxonomic analysis from our very own Jason Bradford, PhD. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation. Meet Stewart Brand and his band of merry dematerialists, the Silicon Valley salesmen who undermined environmentalism with planet-saving fantasies that reek of technofetishism.
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