Team Human

Playing for Team Human today, musician, producer, and inventor of the music video, Michael Nesmith.

Nesmith will be sharing his insights about what it was like to live inside the reality television show that we’re all living in today. Nesmith discusses his self-awareness of existing in a television environment, the influence the Monkees' music had on the Beatles, and the psychic effects the show had on a generation of technology and psychedelic icons...

Playing for Team Human today, author of “Goliath: The Hundred Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy,” and Director of Research at the American Economic Liberties Project, Matt Stoller.

Stoller disinters the ground of neoliberalism and looks at how we can reclaim democracy from the market...

Playing for Team Human today, psychiatrist and author of "Good Chemistry: The Science of Connection, from Soul to Psychedelics," Julie Holland, M.D.

Holland explores how people can bring elements of their psychedelic experiences into their everyday lives. She looks at the role compassion plays in the psychedelic experience and how developmental disorders can be aided by these experiences...

Playing for Team Human today, counterculture icon and Editor of Dangerous Minds, Richard Metzger. Metzger envisions what life might look like on the dole and what that means for the future of the counterculture...

Playing for Team Human today, senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University in Melbourne and author of "Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World," Tyson Yunkaporta

Yunkaporta helps us apply an indigenous lens to see our global crises in a more actionable and inclusive way...

Playing for Team Human today, co-worker at the Tamera Peace Research & Education Center, writer, and activist, Martin Winiecki.

Winiecki discusses the underlying societal causes of Covid-19 and looks at the values people will need to hold in order to heal. He explores the need to transform and integrate the economic, conscious, and erotic structures to help create values like mutual support, solidarity, and trust within a community...

Playing for Team Human today, national baseball writer for the Wall Street Journal and author of "Swing Kings" Jared Diamond

Diamond discusses how technological advancements have changed the fun and quirky ways that baseball organizations construct their teams and play the game...

Playing for Team Human today, activist and a Founder of the Yellow Vest Movement, Priscillia Ludosky

Ludosky will be showing us how a movement uniting the agendas of the people transcends the sensibilities of both the left and the right...

Playing for Team Human today, Graduate Assistant at the Polarization Extremism and Radical Innovation Lab at American University, Brian Hughes.

Hughes shares with us the underlying drive fueling so much of today’s more violent extremism along with how we can mitigate some of its impact...

Playing for Team Human today, artists, activists, and writers Reverend Billy and Savitri D.

Reverend Billy and Savitri D discuss the origins of the Church of Stop Shopping and the desire to create a tradition of a post-religious American future. Reverend Billy and Savitri walk us through the evolution of the Church of Stop Shopping as a satire into a group that addresses the challenges and needs of their local community...