Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff

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Douglas Rushkoff sits down with scientists, activists, artists, philosophers, and researchers asking the same question: who actually benefits from the way we've built this world — and what do we do about it? Team Human is a weekly podcast about technology, power, consciousness, and what it means to stay human in a world that increasingly doesn't seem designed for us. No corporate backing. No network. No algorithm deciding what gets said. Just honest, rigorous conversation with people working at the edges of the most important questions of our time.

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1 hr 11 min

Can Psychedelics Save Humanity? w/ Rick Doblin

🔗 Go to http://groundnews.com/th to get 40% off the unlimited access Vantage plan and unlock world-wide perspectives on the stories shaping our world. Psychedelic pioneer and MAPS founder Rick Doblin joins Douglas Rushkoff to explore the future of psychedelic healing after 40 years of fighting for legalization. From the FDA’s rejection of MDMA-assisted therapy to Big Pharma’s attempts to commercialize consciousness, they examine the tension between healing and profit, freedom and control. Can psychedelics help us reconnect with ourselves and each other, or will the institutions bringing them into the mainstream undermine their transformative potential? 🌍 Support the show to receive ad-free access to videos, livestream Q&As with Rushkoff: http://patreon.com/teamhuman 👉🏻 Follow Douglas Rushkoff: http://instagram.com/douglasrushkoff http://tiktok.com/douglasrushkoff http://bsky.app/profile/rushkoff.com Our Sponsors: * Check out Quince and use my code TEAMHUMAN for a great deal: https://www.quince.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

1 hr 13 min

Here’s How We Stay Human w/ Samantha Sweetwater

🔗 Go to http://groundnews.com/th to get 40% off the unlimited access Vantage plan and unlock world-wide perspectives on the stories shaping our world. Systems thinker Samantha Sweetwater joins Douglas Rushkoff to explore how we stay human in a world coming apart. They discuss nervous system regulation, embodiment as political strategy, moving beyond oppositional activism, metabolizing grief, reclaiming joy, and building more beautiful ways of living together amid civilizational upheaval. 🌍 Support the show to receive ad-free access to videos, livestream Q&As with Rushkoff: http://patreon.com/teamhuman 👉🏻 Follow Douglas Rushkoff: http://instagram.com/douglasrushkoff http://tiktok.com/douglasrushkoff http://bsky.app/profile/rushkoff.com Our Sponsors: * Check out Quince and use my code TEAMHUMAN for a great deal: https://www.quince.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

1 hr 11 min

Here Is Worth Fighting For w/ Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor

🌍 Support the show to receive ad-free access to videos, livestream Q&As with Rushkoff: http://patreon.com/teamhuman Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor join Douglas Rushkoff to discuss their new book End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World, exploring the forces driving authoritarianism, the seductive fantasy of escape, the growing alliance between technology and power, and what it means to resist by staying rooted in the here and now. Together, they make the case for a politics of “here-ness” - choosing community, solidarity, mutual aid, and a commitment to the living world over bunkers, borders, and dreams of escape. 👉🏻 Follow Douglas Rushkoff: http://instagram.com/douglasrushkoff http://tiktok.com/douglasrushkoff http://bsky.app/profile/rushkoff.com Our Sponsors: * Check out Quince and use my code TEAMHUMAN for a great deal: https://www.quince.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

1 hr 4 min

America Is Losing Its Grip on Reality w/ Kurt Andersen

🔗 Go to http://groundnews.com/th to get 40% off the unlimited access Vantage plan and unlock world-wide perspectives on the stories shaping our world. Douglas Rushkoff sits down with author, journalist, and Spy magazine co-founder Kurt Andersen to explore what happens when a country can no longer agree on what’s real. Using Andersen’s new novel The Breakup, which imagines a near-future America fractured along political lines as a jumping-off point. They discuss conspiracy culture, the collapse of shared reality, the psychology of political identity, Donald Trump and Spy magazine, AI and technological solutionism, the possibility of American disunion, and why local communities may offer an antidote to our increasingly fictionalized online world. They also reflect on the disappearing culture of magazines, the pressure to constantly produce for platforms, and what writers are actually for in an age of algorithms and instant feedback. 🌍 Support the show to receive ad-free access to videos, livestream Q&As with Rushkoff: http://patreon.com/teamhuman 👉🏻 Follow Douglas Rushkoff: http://instagram.com/douglasrushkoff http://tiktok.com/douglasrushkoff http://bsky.app/profile/rushkoff.com Our Sponsors: * Check out Quince and use my code TEAMHUMAN for a great deal: https://www.quince.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

1 hr 1 min

Make Your Entire Life a Work of Art w/ Kenya (Robinson)

🔗 Go to groundnews.com/th to get 40% off the unlimited access Vantage plan and unlock world-wide perspectives on the stories shaping our world. Artist Kenya (Robinson) joins Douglas Rushkoff to explore what happens when the boundary between art and everyday life disappears. From earning an MFA at Yale to working as a mail carrier and training as an auto mechanic, (Robinson) reflects on class, race, ambition, institutional definitions of success, and learning to see work itself as creative practice. Along the way, she connects automotive systems to tarot, ritual, energy, and “deep magic,” while considering how artists can loosen their grip on recognition, take care of themselves, and transform the ordinary materials of life into something meaningful. 🌍 Support the show to receive ad-free access to videos, livestream Q&As with Rushkoff: http://patreon.com/teamhuman 👉🏻 Follow Douglas Rushkoff: http://instagram.com/douglasrushkoff http://tiktok.com/douglasrushkoff http://bsky.app/profile/rushkoff.com Our Sponsors: * Check out Quince and use my code TEAMHUMAN for a great deal: https://www.quince.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

56 min

The Pope Is Officially Team Human w/ Catherine Connors

🌍 Support the show to receive ad-free access to videos, livestream Q&As with Rushkoff: http://patreon.com/teamhuman Douglas Rushkoff is joined by storyteller and thinker Catherine Connors to explore Pope Leo XIV’s remarkable intervention into the AI debate. Together, they unpack his critique of transhumanism, technological inevitability and Silicon Valley’s vision of human progress and his radical case for the dignity, imperfection and magnificence of being human. 👉🏻 Follow Douglas Rushkoff: http://instagram.com/douglasrushkoff http://tiktok.com/douglasrushkoff http://bsky.app/profile/rushkoff.com Our Sponsors: * Check out Quince and use my code TEAMHUMAN for a great deal: https://www.quince.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

55 min

We Survive by Cooperating, Not Competing / w Carne Ross

What if anarchism isn’t chaos, but a way of putting human beings back in charge of their own lives? Douglas Rushkoff is joined by former British diplomat Carne Ross, for a conversation about power, democracy, mutual aid, and what it actually takes to change the systems governing our lives. Ross argues that the means are the ends: we don’t have to wait for a revolution, a new president, or some imagined future society to begin living differently. Instead, meet your neighbors. Share tools. Organize around the needs of your community. Create spaces where everyone affected by a decision has a voice. Rebuild the social relationships that an atomized society has allowed to disappear. 👉🏻 Follow Douglas Rushkoff: https:/www.instagram.com/douglasrushkoff https://www.tiktok.com/douglasrushkoff https://bsky.app/profile/rushkoff.com Our Sponsors: * Check out Quince and use my code TEAMHUMAN for a great deal: https://www.quince.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

19 min

Money is a Forever Chemical

Rushkoff breaks down why modern money acts like a forever chemical: A toxic, non-decaying asset designed to accumulate at the top of the pyramid rather than support living communities. Rushkoff traces how central currencies replaced organic, local exchange systems to enforce debt and growth mandates. He exposes how this same extractive logic links legacy finance, crypto grifts, and the current AI token bubble, burning real-world resources to convert living human thought and energy into dead digital symbols. Learn how we can resist the bullshit economy by shifting toward systems that favor flow, life, and human connection over permanent capital. 🌍 Your support keeps Team Human alive! Support the show to receive ad-free access to videos, livestream Q&As with Rushkoff, access to the community Discord and more: / teamhuman 🤝 Team Human is proudly supported by Groucho. You can take 50% off your first month by using promo code "teamhuman": https://mygroucho.club/teamhuman Download Groucho: Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/groucho/id6756526142?ct=teamhuman&mt=8 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trampoline.groucho&utm_source=website&utm_medium=landing&utm_campaign=teamhuman Follow Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff: Instagram: https:/www.instagram.com/douglasrushkoff TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/douglasrushkoff Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rushkoff.com Our Sponsors: * Check out Quince and use my code TEAMHUMAN for a great deal: https://www.quince.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

1 hr 3 min

Cooking is Under Attack. Here's How to Reclaim It.

Rushkoff sits down with renowned chef Benjamin Castro of Benjamin's Kitchen to explore the intersection of food, community, and what it means to nourish the human spirit. Chef Castro shares his journey, breaking down why food is more than just fuel. 🌍 Your support keeps Team Human alive! Support the show to receive ad-free access to videos, livestream Q&As with Rushkoff, access to the community Discord and more: https://www.patreon.com/teamhuman 🤝 Team Human is proudly supported by Groucho. You can take 50% off your first month by using promo code "teamhuman": https://mygroucho.club/teamhuman Download Groucho: Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/groucho/id6756526142?ct=teamhuman&mt=8 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trampoline.groucho&utm_source=website&utm_medium=landing&utm_campaign=teamhuman Follow Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff: Instagram: https:/www.instagram.com/douglasrushkoff TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/douglasrushkoff Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rushkoff.com Our Sponsors: * Check out Quince and use my code TEAMHUMAN for a great deal: https://www.quince.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

18 min

I Gave Up on Saving the World

Are we so focused on saving the world that we’re forgetting how to care for it? Rushkoff explores the paralyzing ambient terror of the meta-crisis, polycrisis, and impending societal collapse. Recounting a transformative personal experience sitting at the bedside of a dying relative, Rushkoff re-evaluates the urge to fix everything through abstract strategies and grand interventions. Instead of treating the future as an engineering problem to solve, what happens if we shift from being agents of change to agents of care? What if our most radical act of resistance isn't another techno-fix or activist bypass, but serving as death doulas for a failing industrial system, and birth doulas for the human-centered world waiting to take its place? 🌍 Your support keeps Team Human alive! Support the show to receive ad-free access to videos, livestream Q&As with Rushkoff, access to the community Discord and more: https://www.patreon.com/teamhuman 🤝 Team Human is proudly supported by Groucho. You can take 50% off your first month by using promo code "teamhuman": https://mygroucho.club/teamhuman Download Groucho: Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/groucho/id6756526142?ct=teamhuman&mt=8 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trampoline.groucho&utm_source=website&utm_medium=landing&utm_campaign=teamhuman Follow Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff: Instagram: https:/www.instagram.com/douglasrushkoff TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/douglasrushkoff Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rushkoff.com Our Sponsors: * Check out Quince and use my code TEAMHUMAN for a great deal: https://www.quince.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy