All Episodes

Circumambulating the Food System | BONUS EPISODE

The Odyssey: An Ancient Story with Modern Implications | BONUS EPISODE

The Score: How Quantification Has Shaped Society | BONUS EPISODE

28 Years Later: Embracing Zombies, Death, and the Gilmore Girls | BONUS EPISODE

#65 Allan Savory - Our Collective Need to See the World Holistically

Starting a Cosmic Commune: Inside Spaceship Earth and Biosphere 2 | BONUS EPISODE

Andor, Star Wars, Rebellion, and the Reality of Our Global Empire | BONUS EPISODE

#64 Helena Norberg-Hodge - Resisting the Machine World and Turning Toward Life

And On the Eighth Day, God Created AI | BONUS EPISODE

#63 Thomas Doochin & Tess Sherrow - Our Yearning for Belonging in an Alienating Age

#62 The Infinite Game of the Garden - A Discussion of Finite and Infinite Games

#61 A World Made in the Image of the Left Hemisphere - A Discussion of The Master and His Emissary

#60 Who Were the Luddites, and What Can We Learn from Them in the Age of AI?

#59 Premium: Circumambulating Our Civilizational Monolith with Alex Leff (Human Nature Odyssey)

#58 The Tales that Really Matter - a Reading by Maren

#57 The Dam and the Canal: A Parable - A Reading by Maren

#56 Chris Smaje - Being a Good Keystone Species

#55 The Cultural Significance of "Barbenheimer" - A Conversation Between Jake, Maren, & James

#54 Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen - Recovering Connection through Animism in the Age of Ragnarök

#53 The Quantitative Cosmology - A Reading by Maren

#52 Helena Norberg-Hodge - Resisting the Global Monoculture Through Localization

#51 Andy Campbell: The Proud Boys - A 30,000 ft. View with James Connolly

#50 Owning the Creative Process, Accepting Limitations, and the Generative Qualities of Growth - An Update from Jake and Maren

#49 The Terrible and the Tantalizing: Grappling with AI, Machine Learning, and the Future of Art - A Reading by Maren and Jake

#48 Ilse Köhler-Rollefson - The Beauty and Importance of Pastoralism in the Modern Age

#47 Stephen Corry - There is No One "Right" Way to Live (Part 2)

#46 Derrick Weston - How Food Connects Us to Creation and Liberation

#45 The Legacy of the Men Who "Pulled Bread from Air" - A Reading by Maren

#44 Daniel Griffith - How Should We Define Regenerative Agriculture?

#43 Paul Kingsnorth - “What if We Were Wrong?” and Other Questions We Can’t Face (Part 2)

#42 Dr. Aby Sène - Fortress Conservation: the Tip of the Iceberg (Part 1)

#41 Kate Kavanaugh - Sex, Birth, Death, and Other Desired Nutrients

#40 Isabel Ramirez - Is Civilization Compatible With Our Biology?

#39 Frédéric Leroy - The Science, Politics, and Economics of Anti-Meat Discourse

#38 Anders Oskal - Those Who Follow Reindeer

#37 Stephen Corry - The Manipulation of Climate Narratives (Part 1)

#36 Tyson Yunkaporta - An Irish Wake at the End of the World

#35 They Let the Greater Villain Loose, Who Stole the Common from the Goose - An Update from Jake and Maren

#34 Richard Manning - How Agriculture Has Highjacked Civilization

#33 Wild Quetzal - Viewing Food as a Lifeway & the Undomestication of Humanity

#32 Daniel Firth Griffith - Releasing Control to Foster Emergent Abundance

#31 Julia Barnes & Joshua Clinton - Deep Sea Mining, the Scottish Wildcat, and Bright Green Lies

#30 Sheldon Solomon - Denial of Death in the Anthropocene

#29 Dr. Tro Kalayjian - Reversing Obesity and Diabetes with Holistic Low-Carb Animal-Based Diets

#28 Nina Teicholz - A Deep Dive Into Dietary Science and Dogma

#27 Simon Counsell - The Authoritarian Corporatocratic Commodification of Nature

#26 Dr. Mordecai Ogada – A Case for Scrutinizing the Climate Narrative (Part 2)

#25 Fiore Longo - The Fallacies of the Big Green Lie

#24 Will Falk - Defending Thacker Pass and the Ecological Price of Electric Vehicles

#23 Dr. Sylvia Karpagam - The Problem of Ideology in Food Policy

#22 Death with Dignity - An Update from Jake and Maren

#21 Terry Collingsworth - Child Slavery and the True Costs of Our Cheap Commodities

#20 Dr. Mordecai Ogada - The Big Conservation Lie and Other Fallacies (Part 1)

#19 Charles Eisenstein - Climate Change and the Myth of the Separate Self

#18 Jesse Smith - The Complex Framework of Regeneration

#17 Steven Donziger - The Battle for Accountability Against Chevron

#16 Paul Kingsnorth - Wisdom from a Recovering Environmentalist

#15 Abbey Smith - The Pitfalls of Industrial Thinking in a Living World

#14 Bobby Gill - Understanding the World with a Holistic Context

#13 Unpacking Cultural Memes about the World with Jake and Maren

#12 Dr. Greg Stone - The Ocean Renaissance

#11 James Connolly - On Science, Education, and Our Modern Mythology

#10 Evan Walbridge - Designing Our Lives Closer to Life and Death

#9 Connor Jones - A Culture of Permanence & Following Your Innate Sensibilities

#8 Growth, Crisis, Breakdown, & Renaissance - The Patterns of Civilization with Jake and Maren

#7 Christopher Ryan - Our Hostile Human Zoo & How to Escape It Through Understanding Prehistory

#6 Derrick Jensen - On the Collapse of Civilization and the Sentience of Nonhuman Beings

#5 Anya Kaats - What it Means to Be a Young Person in a Collapsing Society

#4 Lierre Keith - On Veganism, Civilization, and Death

#3 Veganism and Other "Easy" Answers, and the Metabolizing of Grief with Jake and Maren

#2 Cody Spencer - The Magic of Bison and Their Role in Restoring the Land

#1 In the Presence of Death - Witnessing a Bison Slaughter at Roam Ranch with Jake and Maren