Human Nature Odyssey
Hosted by Alex · Alex Leff
4.9from 143 ratings
- 50
- Episodes
- 8
- Transcribed
- 143
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 4K
- YouTube views
About Human Nature Odyssey
Human Nature Odyssey explores the myths, systems, and stories shaping our unraveling world. Blending history, mythology, philosophy, ecology, and cinematic audio storytelling, the show uses the past to better understand the present — and the possible futures we're creating. You are living the latest chapter in a 10,000-year human story. Join documentary filmmaker and storyteller Alex Leff on a cinematic audio journey through civilization, collapse, meaning, and myth, in search of clearer ways to experience the incredible, terrifying, and ridiculous world we inhabit. A narrative audio documentary for anyone asking how we got here — and what comes next.
- Publisher
- Alex Leff
- Category
- society & culture · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 13 Apr 2023
- Latest episode
- 1 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
8 of 50 episodes have a transcript.
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
REWIND - Against Leviathan: An Anarchist Fairytale of the Origin of Civilization
3 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
26 - Can Games Save The World From Bureaucracy? With C. Thi Nguyen
6 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
25 - The Forest and the Forager
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REWIND - Against Leviathan: An Anarchist Fairytale of the Origin of Civilization
Published 1 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Now one could look at our civilization today, the supermarkets full of groceries, stores stocked to the brim with tools and appliances and every convenience. One could look at these things and think Freddy was a fool to consider this poverty, especially compared to the so-called primitive hunter-gatherers who possessed far less food and fewer tools and fewer conveniences. But Pearlman was convinced he had not been taught the true richness of this other kind of life. And that this way of life was not just for exotic other cultures. This was how Pearlman's own ancestors, all of our ancestors, lived one way or another in small communities where everyone was known and was taken care of, where life was in natural rhythms of seasons and weather, where the other creatures of the earth were known to be families. […]
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- C Thi Nguyen
- Sophie Strand
- Hajar Tazi
- Tom Murphy
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- YouTube views
- 3,802
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 56 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 87 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 60 / 100
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- Quality
- 70
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 74
- Engagement
- 51
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Who hosts Human Nature Odyssey?
Alex host the show. Published by Alex Leff.
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