Kibbitz Room II live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker
Ep. 217
Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the second live Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server.
Conner Habib
Ep. 216
Author of Hawk Mountain, podcast host of Against Everyone with Conner Habib, Conner Habib shows us how shared stories and identification with each other’s trauma can help us find a new level of solidarity with one another.
Éliane Ubalijoro & David Jensen
Ep. 215
Two co-champions of the Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability (CODES) Éliane Ubalijoro (Future Earth) and David Jensen (UN Environment Programme) help us see how to marry big, top-down efforts with bottom-up reality in addressing digital sustainability.
Kibbitz Room live from the Virtual Apocalypse Bunker
Ep. 214
Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the first live Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server.
Philip Rosedale
Ep. 213
Founder of Second Life and High Fidelity Labs discusses the misguided efforts fueling Web3 and helps us retrieve the original mission for immersive social platforms.
Lisa Lovebucket
Ep. 212
Founder of The Post Apocalypse School of Teesside Lisa Lovebucket shows us how learning to prepare for the worst may give us the resilience we need to avoid apocalypse altogether.
Nick Kroll
Ep. 211
Actor, comedian, and Big Mouth creator Nick Kroll argues for the power of comedy in challenging times.
Micah Sifry
Ep. 210
The Connector journalist, activist, and author of The Big Disconnect Micah Sifry helps us find a better, healthier way to metabolize current events.
Sue Thomas
Ep. 209
Author of Technobiophilia: Nature and Cyberspace Sue Thomas helps us recognize and restore the nature in our technology.
Special Announcement: Survival of the Richest
We always knew but now we know.
The tech elite mean to leave us all behind.
Tune in for a special announcement from Rushkoff about his new book, Survival of the Richest. Available September 6, 2022.
Neşe Devenot and David Nickles
Ep. 208
Postdoctoral Scholar in Bioethics at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Neşe Devenot and Managing Editor of Psymposia David Nickles help us evaluate the current psychedelic renaissance, as well as those who may be abusing the power unleashed by the substances.
Hannah Close
Ep. 207
Writer, researcher, and curator at Advaya Hannah Close helps to bring us from mere reciprocity to true kinship.
Ari Wallach
Ep. 206
Founder and Director of Longpath and author of the upcoming book, Longpath: Becoming the Great Ancestors Our Future Needs, Ari Wallach discusses the fundamentally human need to belong, and how it will determine our collective chances for survival.
Mark Stahlman
Ep. 205
President of the Center for the Study for Digital Life Mark Stahlman explains East, West, and Digital, the three spheres he believes are shaping the future of civilization, and how understanding the way they interact can help us strategize a way forward for humans.
Laurie Segall
Ep. 204
Journalist, founder of Dot Dot Dot Media, and author of Special Characters: My Adventures with Tech's Titans and Misfits, Laurie Segall tells us what it’s like to interview people like Mark Zuckerberg, and why she holds out faith that their humanity may still rule the day.
David McRaney
Ep. 203
Science journalist, author of the forthcoming book, How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion, and happy mutant, David McRaney helps us understand the circumstances under which people can change their minds - and what it means for all of us.
Vicki Robin
Ep. 202
Author of Your Money or Your Life and Blessing the Hands That Feed Us Vicky Robin explains what it means to be a town cryer - and how to maintain our friendships and civil interdependence.
Divya Siddarth
Ep. 201
Political economist and social technologist at Microsoft, and a researcher at the RadicalxChange Foundation, Divya Siddarth introduces us to the Pluriverse and challenges us to consider just how many worlds are possible.
Renee Hobbs
Ep. 200
Founder of the Media Education Lab and author of Mind Over Media: Propaganda Education for a Digital Age Renee Hobbs joins Rushkoff to discuss how the enlightenment project can work without gatekeepers.
Jamie Cohen
Ep. 199
Head of Education at Digital Void and cultural theorist Jamie Cohen walks us through — and hopefully to the other side — of our fascist media environment.