Human Nature Odyssey

By Alex Leff

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Subscribers: 15
Reviews: 2
Episodes: 24

LH
 Jun 27, 2025
Making ideas that are otherwise excluded under the defining worldview of the 2020s more engaging and thoughtful. Monopoly episode is A++ audio and storytelling

Lisa Gaunky
 Jul 31, 2024
This really resonates with me as someone who has always looked at society as somewhat of an outsider looking in. I absolutely love the way this is presented.

Description

Human Nature Odyssey: a podcast about humanity, civilization, and the fate of the world. You are living the latest chapter in a 10,000 year story. Join storyteller Alex Leff on a search for better ways to understand and more clearly experience the incredible, terrifying, and ridiculous world we live in. The first stop on our quest through a landscape of ideas and stories is the 1992 novel Ishmael by Daniel Quinn about a telepathic gorilla with great hope for humanity.

Episode Date
16 - How To Survive A Zombie Apocalypse
Oct 30, 2025
Andor, Star Wars, Rebellion, and the Reality of Our Global Empire
Oct 16, 2025
15 - Are Hunter-Gatherers Liberals or Conservatives?
Sep 25, 2025
And On The Eighth Day God Created AI
Sep 11, 2025
Sex at Dawn, Civilized to Death, and Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan
Aug 28, 2025
14 - The King Is Dead, Now What? The 250-Year Struggle for Democracy (Part 3)
Jul 24, 2025
13 - The King Is Dead, Now What? The 250-Year Struggle for Democracy (Part 2)
Jun 26, 2025
12 - The King Is Dead, Now What? The 250-Year Struggle for Democracy (Part 1)
May 22, 2025
Astrophysics for a New Stone Age with Tom Murphy
Dec 19, 2024
11 - Capitalism & Monopoly: Why The Best Board Games Make The Worst Reality
Nov 26, 2024
10 - Against Leviathan: An Anarchist Fairytale of the Origin of Civilization
Oct 24, 2024
9 - Out of Society and Into the Wild: The Legend of Christopher McCandless
Sep 19, 2024
Can We Escape Modern Civilization? A Conversation with the Hosts of Crazy Town
Aug 29, 2024
Death in the Regenerative Garden: Rethinking Food, Farming, and the Cycle of Life
Jul 25, 2024
Worldbuilding and Experience Design for Society with Abraham Burickson
Jun 13, 2024
8 - A Conversation with Rennie MacKay Quinn (wife of author Daniel Quinn)
Dec 14, 2023
7 - After 'Ishmael' by Daniel Quinn
Nov 16, 2023
6 - A Civilization That Flies
Oct 05, 2023
5 - Adam, Eve, and the Agricultural Revolution
Sep 07, 2023
4 - Takers and Leavers
Aug 10, 2023
3 - Imaginary Games for Grown Ups
Jul 06, 2023
2 - Your Call To Adventure
Jun 08, 2023
1 - Self-Help Guide for Society
May 04, 2023
Human Nature Odyssey Trailer
Apr 13, 2023