Join storyteller Alex Leff, creator of the podcast Human Nature Odyssey, on a search for better ways to understand and more clearly experience the incredible, terrifying, and ridiculous world we live in.
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Human Nature Odyssey: Episode 19: Modern Myths – Flat Earth, Space Colonization, and the Stories We Tell to Escape Reality
This episode explores two powerful beliefs. One is the belief that humans could, and should, live in space: that we’re destined to leave our planet behind and colonize the stars. The other is the belief that we’re not on a planet at all—that the Earth is actually… flat.
January 22, 2026
Human Nature Odyssey: Time Machine 2126 (Part 2) – Techno-Utopia or Apocalypse?
What does a realistic and positive future look like? Alex joins the hosts of Crazy Town to imagine life in the 22nd century: walking from our family farms into communal villages, living off the land in a low-energy lifestyle, taming our pet donkeys, and resisting our local warlords.
December 18, 2025
Human Nature Odyssey: Time Machine 2126 (Part 1) – Has Green Energy Saved Us Yet?
What does a livable future look like 100 years from now? If we unlocked unlimited green energy, what would we actually do with it? And are our dreams of a renewable-energy utopia sometimes just as delusional as the fossil-fueled ‘drill baby drill’ mentality?
December 4, 2025
Human Nature Odyssey: Episode 16. How To Survive A Zombie Apocalypse
A horrific zombie apocalypse has ravaged the world—but hardly anyone seems to notice. One lone podcaster sets out to document this strange new reality: from mindful zombie retreats, to those fortifying shotgun bunkers, to others disappearing into the woods to build something entirely new.
October 30, 2025
Human Nature Odyssey: Episode 15. Are Hunter-Gatherers Liberals or Conservatives?
If 99% of human history was spent as hunter-gatherers, what can that way of life teach us about equality, freedom, and hierarchy today? We connect our foraging past to modern politics—and ask if industrial civilization is all it’s cracked up to be.
September 25, 2025
Human Nature Odyssey: Sex at Dawn, Civilized to Death, and Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan
New York Times bestselling author Christopher Ryan joins the odyssey to discuss human nature. What’s universal, what’s cultural, and what’s personal? Can we really change the culture we live in? And are some societies better suited to human well-being than others?
August 28, 2025
