De Kai, the man who built the world’s first global translators and AI systems, says we better learn to parent our AI offspring before it’s too late. The author of Raising AI argues how we behave in front of AI’s matters more than whatever we tell them. Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth. Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/ Change Diapers: https://changediapers.com/ Cobi Dryer Sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/ Use the code “rush10” to receive 10% off...
Jun 25, 2025•1 hr 12 min
Playing for Team Human today, LatinX professor, and the author of Hospicing Modernity as well as the upcoming book Outgrowing Modernity, my favorite civilizational doula, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira. Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth. Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/ Change Diapers: https://changediapers.com/ Cobi Dryer Sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/ Use the code “rush10” to receive 10% off of Cobi Dryer sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/ S...
Jun 18, 2025•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 324
Playing for Team Human today, the author of TechGnosis , High Weirdness , and the just released history of the LSD medium Blotter , esoteric scholar Erik Davis. https://techgnosis.com/ Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth. Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/ Change Diapers: https://changediapers.com/ Cobi Dryer Sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/ Support Team Human on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/teamhuman Follow Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff: In...
Jun 11, 2025•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 323
Rushkoff explains the two ways we can understand magic in order to experience more of our embodied lives. Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth. Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/ Change Diapers: https://changediapers.com/ Cobi Dryer Sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/ Use the code “rush10” for 10% off Cobi Dryer Sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/ Support Team Human on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/teamhuman Follow Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff:...
Jun 04, 2025•18 min•Ep. 322
Playing for Team Human today, Canadian pop artist, author, journalist, magician, and CEO of VOID Collective, Alex Kazemi. New Millennium Boyz: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/New-Millennium-Boyz/Alex-Kazemi/9798888459539 Alex’s website: https://alexkazemi.com/ Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth. Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/ Change Diapers: https://changediapers.com/ Cobi Dryer Sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/ Use the code “rush10” for...
May 28, 2025•40 min•Ep. 321
Playing for Team Human today, activist, Blogger, and Director of the Reinventing the Commons Program at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics, David Bollier. Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth. Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/ Change Diapers: https://changediapers.com/ Cobi Dryer Sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/ Support Team Human on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/teamhuman Follow Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff: Instagram: https:/ www.in...
May 21, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 320
Playing for Team Human today, novelist, spiritualist and host of the podcast Against Everyone, my friend Conner Habib. This conversation continues tomorrow on Conner's podcast, Against Everyone. Conner's Patreon: patreon.com/connerhabib Conner's Website: connerhabib.com Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth. Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/ Change Diapers: https://changediapers.com/ Cobi Dryer Sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/ Support Team Human on ...
May 14, 2025•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 319
Has digital technology turned us all into fascists? Rushkoff explores fascism as an environment in which we live, rather than the specific ideology of one "side." He shows how technology, psychedelics, and business are all "non-specific amplifiers," yielding different results depending on what we bring to them. He asks us to consider what would happen if we stopped seeing issues in terms of "sides," and why our current media and political environment makes that so difficult. How do we break the ...
May 07, 2025•27 min
Playing for Team Human today, occult historian, author, and esotericist Mitch Horowitz, sharing the formulas that give us all access to Practical Magic. Mitch Horowitz: https://www.mitchhorowitz.com/ Practical Magic: https://www.mitchhorowitz.com/books Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth. Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/ Change Diapers: https://changediapers.com/ Cobi Dryer Sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/ 🎗️ Support Team Human on Patreon: https...
May 01, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 317
Edward Ongweso Jr., Senior Researcher at Security in Context and co-host of This Machine Kills , journeys with us into the political economy of technology and the deep crazy that is informing the collapse of the still viable, if problematic, civilization. Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth . Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/ Change Diapers: https://changediapers.com/ Cobi Dryer Sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/ 🎗️ Support Team Human on Patreon: h...
Apr 16, 2025•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 316
Radha Agrawal, Co-Founder of Daybreaker and author of Belong, helps us break from our online-induced community confusion and learn to find true connectedness again. About Radha Agrawal Radha Agrawal is a dynamic entrepreneur, Co-founder, CEO, and Chief Community Architect of Daybreaker, a global wellness movement with nearly half a million members across five continents. She’s co-founded and invested in several wellness companies, including THINX, and launched DOSE by Daybreaker, a membership pl...
Apr 09, 2025•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 315
Douglas Rushkoff recognizes the high weirdness of our circumstances, and the universal strange characterizing this moment in our shared history. He also offers four recommendations for us to take agency over our situation. Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth. Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/ Change Diapers: https://changediapers.com/ Cobi Dryer Sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/ 🎗️ Support Team Human on Patreon to gain access to an ad-free version...
Apr 04, 2025•27 min•Ep. 314
Jonathan Larsen, Founder of The Fucking News , proves there's still a path forward for the fourth estate. You can view the full video conversation: https://youtu.be/b8M4zkhtTZg Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth. Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/ Change Diapers: https://changediapers.com/ Cobi Dryer Sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/ 🎗️ Support Team Human on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/teamhuman About Jonathan Larsen: Jonathan Larsen is the c...
Mar 31, 2025•58 min•Ep. 313
Artist and writer Molly Crabapple helps us retrieve the purpose of the artist - particularly in hard times. About Molly Crabapple: Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer whose inspirations include Toulouse Lautrec, Diego Rivera and Goya’s ‘The Disasters of War.’ She is the co-author of Brothers of the Gun , an illustrated collaboration with Syrian war journalist Marwan Hisham, which was a NY Times Notable Book and long-listed for the 2018 National Book Award. Her memoir, Drawing Blood , receive...
Mar 21, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 312
Helena Norberg-Hodge, Founder and Director of Local Futures, shares the power of local connections and building resilience - even against the globally-scaled abstract monsters threatening human sustainability and sanctity today. About Helena Norberg-Hodge Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of the international non-profit organisation, Local Futures, a pioneer of the new economy movement, and the convenor of World Localization Day and the International Alliance for Localisation. Hel...
Mar 12, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 311
Rushkoff discusses what we can do in the face of political. cultural, and economic phenomena – and why the Team Human mission hasn't changed. Support Team Human 🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord community where we record monthly Q&A sessions with Rushkoff, special perks like free tickets to live events, and access to the Rushkoff archive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...
Mar 07, 2025•10 min•Ep. 310
Dr. Mara Einstein, author of Hoodwinked: How Marketers Use the Same Tactics As Cults, helps us recognize the cult tactics being used to hoodwink us into submission and get us to act against our own self-interest. This conversation was recorded February 4, 2025. About Dr. Mara Einstein Dr. Mara Einstein has written books on branding religion (Brands of Faith), cause marketing (Compassion, Inc.), and deceptive marketing practices. This last book was Black Ops Advertising, which The New York Times ...
Mar 03, 2025•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 309
Grant Morrison and Douglas Rushkoff celebrate the publication of the first biography of Robert Anton Wilson with author Gabriel Kennedy (PropAnon). Kennedy and Morrison walk us through the Chapel Perilous and land us safely back in consensus reality. 📕 Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson by Robert Anton Wilson is now available. 🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to ...
Feb 19, 2025•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 308
Rushkoff discusses the importance of looking between major global events in order to find connection and meaning. 🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord community where we record monthly Q&A sessions with Rushkoff, special perks like free tickets to live events, and access to the Rushkoff archive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 18, 2025•32 min•Ep. 307
Rushkoff shares a new monologue that makes sense of Trump's latest round of seemingly outlandish proclamations. 🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord community where we record monthly Q&A sessions with Rushkoff, special perks like free tickets to live events, and access to the Rushkoff archive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Dec 26, 2024•18 min•Ep. 306
Award-winning author and host of Discovery/HBO’s Alien Encounters: Fact or Fiction Mitch Horowitz helps us create the conditions for a tide pool where only rivers seem to flow. This conversation was recorded on December 10, 2024, at CX in New York City. 🎧 Listen to Horowitz's podcast, ESP is Real , from SpectreVision. 🎶 Live music soundscape by Steven Brent . 🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to...
Dec 18, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 305
Join Douglas Rushkoff in conversation with PEN award-winning author, speaker, and narrator Mitch Horowitz for a special Team Human Live on December 10 at CX in New York City. 🎟️ You can purchase tickets at this link . 🌍 All Team Human Patreon supporters receive complimentary tickets to Team Human Live. You can sign-up now to access the code to reserve tickets. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Nov 26, 2024•1 min
Harvard & MIT Humanist Chaplain and Author of Tech Agnostic Greg Epstein helps us understand the Silicon Valley religion. In his monologue, Rushkoff reminds us about the importance of mutual aid in our communities and the ways AI and Big Tech are fueling a return to historical norms of inequality. 📕 Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation by Greg Epstein is now available at your favorite bookseller. This conversatio...
Nov 20, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 304
Rushkoff reflects on the US election and reminds us how we can center mutual aid and community support to foster resilience. 🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord community, special perks like free tickets to live events, and access to the Rushkoff archive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Nov 11, 2024•25 min•Ep. 303
Host of The RegenNarration Anthony James makes the case for us to pause long enough for the planet to do its thing. 🌱 Learn more about RegenNarration 🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord community, special perks like free tickets to live events, and access to the Rushkoff archive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Oct 24, 2024•58 min•Ep. 302
Douglas Rushkoff celebrates the release of Program Or Be Programmed: Eleven Commands For The AI Future in a special Q&A with cultural analyst Matt Klein. Recorded Friday, October 4, 2024. 📘 Program Or Be Programmed: Eleven Commands For The AI Future is now available. ✍️ You can keep up with Matt Klein by subscribing to Zine . 🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord communi...
Oct 16, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 301
Musician, composer, and ceremonial accompanist East Forest engages with us on the occasion of the release of the movie about his work, Music For Mushrooms . 🍄 Click here to learn more about East Forest and Music For Mushrooms. 🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord community where we record monthly Q&A sessions with Rushkoff, special perks like free tickets to live events...
Sep 24, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 300
Rushkoff argues that we can confront vibe shifts through the stories we tell ourselves. 🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord community where we record monthly Q&A sessions with Rushkoff, special perks like free tickets to live events, and access to the Rushkoff archive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Sep 09, 2024•33 min•Ep. 299
Rushkoff discusses the vibe shift he has undergone and the ways we can approach situations we can't control with compassion and care. 🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord community where we record monthly Q&A sessions with Rushkoff, special perks like free tickets to live events, and access to the Rushkoff archive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informat...
Aug 20, 2024•34 min•Ep. 298
Leader of Tamera's Institute for Global Peacework and storyteller behind the new documentary Water is Love Martin Winiecki explains what water wants – and how human beings can facilitate its movement and save our planet for ourselves, and other fellow species. 📺 You can watch an excerpt of What Does Water Want? now and attend a free online summit about ecosystem regeneration from August 1-4, 2024. People mentioned in this conversation include: Sepp Holzer, James Lovelock, Vine Deloria Jr., Joan...
Jul 25, 2024•41 min•Ep. 297
