Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff

We are no longer waiting for the other shoe to drop: We are living in the aftermath. Rushkoff sits down with Jonathan Larsen, editor of The Fucking News, to ask the question: Now that we are soaking in authoritarianism, how do we get out? While Rushkoff worries that the screen has been placed over the boiling pot, Larsen offers a crucial reframing: what we mistake for a grand fascist strategy is o...

The other shoe finally dropped. We are no longer waiting for authoritarianism to arrive; we are soaking in it. Rushkoff argues that the time for speculation, strategizing about political optics, and "preparing for what comes next" is over. Instead, He calls for a shift from figure to ground. We must stop fixating on the abstract figures of media and politics and return to the only thing th...

Playing for Team Human today, multidisciplinary researcher and author Eric Wargo joins Rushkoff to help us decolonize our minds from the linear march of deterministic doom. Together, they explore the concept of Retrocausality: the scientific and philosophical research that the future influences the past just as much as the past drives the future. Wargo explains his theory of the "Long Self,&#3...

Artificial Intelligence researcher Cameron Berg joins Rushkoff to discuss Frontier Alignment Research and the urgent need to intervene on behalf of human (and synthetic) flourishing. Together, they explore the limitations of the term "Artificial Intelligence," proposing that we are actually building "Alien Minds" that operate more like biological neural networks than glorified calc...

If explaining the state of the world makes you feel like a conspiracy theorist, you aren't alone. In this monologue, Rushkoff argues that our built environment has become so convoluted that accepting its premises essentially means gaslighting oneself. Rushkoff recounts a recent experience as a guest on the companion podcast for the Hulu series Paradise, a show about a billionaire-funded privat...

Tom Llewellyn, Executive Director of Shareable, explores the power of Libraries of Things, mutual aid, and community-run infrastructure as practical alternatives to extraction-based economics. Llewellyn explains how tool libraries, repair cafés, and sharing hubs help communities reduce waste, lower costs, and build resilience. from rural towns to dense cities, from disaster recovery to everyday li...

Ari Kuschnir, AI storyteller and artist,  takes us deep into the alchemy of AI storytelling as a form of social practice and activist imagination. Known for provocative AI videos imagining figures like Trump, Elon Musk, and world leaders undergoing spiritual transformations, Kushnir talks about using AI as a creative collaborator and as a tool to challenge the cultural addiction to dystopia. Along...

Rushkoff discusses why the urgency and inevitability of our situation calls for us to consider the impossible. 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://cob...

Vicki Robin, author of classic books like Your Money or Your Life and Blessing and T he Hands That Feed Us , and Rushkoff seek to embrace this challenging moment by embracing one another. Robin shares how growing older shifts your perspective from the personal to the universal, and why the questions we've been asking our whole lives might matter less than how we show up for each other. Team Hu...

Jeremy Lent, author of The Patterning Instinct and integrator, helps us investigate the patterns of thought that have led our civilization to its current crisis of sustainability and develop the patterns of thought we need to get through to the other side. Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth. Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/ Change Diapers: htt...

Arden Leigh , the creator and facilitator of The Re-Patterning Project and front woman of Arden and the Wolves, helps us negotiate a new relationship to our individual and collective creative power. 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://cobidry...

Could the end of employment be the beginning of something better? Rushkoff traces the history of work from medieval markets to AI automation to find hope in the cracks of collapse. He shows how the loss of “jobs” could open space for cooperation, creativity, and real human connection. Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth. Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonese...

Jonathan Larsen, Founder of The Fucking News, joins Rushkoff to discuss the 2025 U.S. Election and the path forward for Team Human. 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 Drye...

Andrew Slack, comedian and writer of Orphans, Empires, and the Search for a Better World , discusses the hidden history of corporate power, the mythic roots of American identity, and how hope - and solar panels - might just save us all. Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth. Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/ Change Diapers: https://changediapers.c...

Cory Doctorow, author of Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It , unpacks the systemic forces behind digital monopolies, regulatory capture, the erosion of user rights, and how collective action and policy change can reclaim technology for the public good. Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth. Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://ev...

Rushkoff offers a new way to interpret what appears to be the intentional dismantling of society as we know it: an elite who have lost faith in the system that has served them until now, and who believe a controlled demolition of government and the economy will position them better for the chaos ahead. He argues that just because the elite are committed to the end of the world, Team Human doesn&#3...

Luke Kemp, author of Goliath’s Curse, explores why civilizations fall, what history gets wrong about collapse, and how distributed, cooperative societies have often thrived where empires failed. Names referenced in this episode : Jan Talon, Elon Musk, Genghis Khan, Niccolò Machiavelli, Andrew Carnegie, Francis Bacon, Harvey Whitehouse, Benedict Anderson, Audrey Tang, Edward Teller, Steve Bannon, A...

Nate Soares , computer scientist and author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies , discusses the existential risks posed by artificial intelligence, the possibility that untethered AI development can lead to catastrophic outcomes for humans, and what it might mean for AI development to outpace human control. Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth. Learn more about Everyone's...

Jonathan Larsen, Founder of The Fucking News , brings perspective, humor, and humanism to the tragic and ridiculous phenomena unfolding in the world. 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...

Rushkoff invites us to join him in metabolizing the challenges and opportunities of our AI-driven moment. In this monologue, Rushkoff highlights the dangers of treating LLMs as all-knowing beings and the ways they reinforce our biases and narcissism. Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth. Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/ Change Diapers: https://c...

R.U. Sirius, Founding Editor of Mondo 2000 and author, discusses how intentional weirdness is a powerful tool for community and resistance when the fight for reality is being waged. Names referenced in this episode : Alex Jones, Art Bell, Richard Linklater, Robert Anton Wilson, Abby Hoffman, Paul Krasner, Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Alfred E. Newman, Timothy Leary, Genesis P-Orridge, Joe Cole...

Rushkoff explains why borrowing a drill is a revolutionary act.  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/ Support Team Human on Patreo...

Writer, editor, and Founder of Pleasure-Seeking.com , and host of the Pleasure Seeking podcast Camille Sojit Pejcha explore Pejcha’s recent sex trend forecast how sex has become a new subversion.  About Camille Sojit Pejcha  is a writer, editor, and the creator of  Pleasure-Seeking , a bestselling Substack newsletter and podcast featured in  The New York Times  for its insights on sex, desire, and...

Liana Gillooly , an advocate for purpose-built ecosystems and psychedelics, joins Rushkoff for a conversation about the evolving landscape of psychedelics. Gillooly discusses how to integrate activism into psychedelic use, the importance of ritual, and why sobriety and connection might be the future of psychedelics.   About Liana Sananda Gillooly is a leading voice for the alignment of purpose and...

Douglas Rushkoff reflects on the importance of joy and human connection amid vast global suffering. He offers a poignant reminder to follow our bliss. Names cited Dan Savage, Joseph Campbell, Aleister Crowley, Ram Das 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 Shee...