Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019)

Before starting a family, Soozie Eastman, daughter of an industrial chemical distributor, embarks on a journey to find out the levels of toxins in her body and explores if there is anything she or anyone else can do to change them. Soozie has just learned that hundreds of...

71 min

I Must Return The Gift: How Joy Is an Essential Ingredient for Activism

Woven together with excerpts from Robin Wall Kimmerer's seminal "Braiding Sweetgrass," this immersive short film grounds viewers into concepts of indigenous wisdom, the power of spending uninterrupted time in nature, the spiritual dimension of environmental work, and how joy...

6 min

Hiding in the Walls (trailer)

Hiding in the Walls captures the complicated and devastating story of Baltimore’s lead poisoning epidemic. It takes a deep dive into the origins of lead poisoning, the failures of local leadership to stop the problem, and ultimately how it came to be a dangerous part of daily...

2 min

America's War On Abortion (2020)

Deeyah Khan investigates one of the most divisive issues in American politics - abortion, going on the frontline to meet those most affected by America's abortion wars.

66 min

What If We Just...Stopped Working?

Ever think about how the average person is orders of magnitude more productive than workers of the past, and yet our work week hasn't gotten any shorter? What's the deal? In this week's episode, we're looking at the idea of "work," and how it's been so thoroughly polluted by...

21 min

To The Ones Consumed By Darkness

Each of us needs to examine our intentions and the energy inside us. Peace is possible when we focus on meeting our unacknowledged emotional needs, both individually and collectively. When we don't do that, we project and externalize our hatred and anger - our darkness - on...

4 min

Medicating Normal: How Big Pharma Makes Healthy People Sick (2021)

One in five Americans, along with millions of children, are prescribed psychiatric drugs daily, and often for a lifetime. MEDICATING NORMAL follows the stories of five high-functioning people whose doctors prescribed pills to help with common problems such as stress, mild...

75 min

Wild Family — A Film About Parenting (2015)

Eight-months pregnant with their third child, the parents of preschoolers trail blaze across the U.S.A., cameras firing. They record the stories of 40 wild families, exploring new ways to raise kids. Through outdoor adventures and in-depth interviews, their findings reveal a...

98 min

Former NATO Soldier Destroys Official Ukraine War Narrative

Truth bombs incoming...

13 min

Hustle Culture Is Worse Than You Think

I tried "hustle culture" for 3 years, and then stopped. Here's what I've learned. - Struthless

12 min

Inaction Is A Slow Death

There's the pain of action and the pain of inaction. Here's why the second is far worse.

6 min

The Paradox of Busy

Sometimes, when people reach out to me with requests for interviews or writing, they preface the request with, “I know you must be very busy ...”

Charles Eisenstein

Raised on Porn: The New Sex Ed (2021)

Raised on Porn exposes the ways pornography has become the new sex education for children and unpacks the dangerous lifelong implications of this global phenomenon. Through riveting firsthand accounts, cinematic re-enactments, 3D animation, and interviews with the world’s...

37 min

The Story of Plastic (Animated Short)

The Story of Plastic pulls back the curtain on the plastic pollution headlines, revealing the true causes and consequences of the global plastics crisis.

5 min

How to Optimize Your Gut and Brain Bacteria | Dave Asprey

The importance of the microbiome has really come to the fore in the last five years. Viome, a company that analyzed the feces of 100,000 people, has discovered 10,000 new types of gut bacteria. Additionally, improved imaging technology led scientists to discover you don't...

7 min

Talking Masculinity with the 'Most Dangerous Therapist in the World' | Jerry Hyde

Jerry Hyde is a shadow therapist with 25 years clinical experience, who rejects many of the conventionally held views of the mainstream psychotherapy world. He works primarily with men, and has run men's groups for decades, which have years-long waiting lists to join. He has...

78 min

Fast Fashion: The Shady World of Cheap Clothing (2022)

Fast fashion has radically transformed the textile industry. These days, 56 million tons of clothing are sold every year. But cheap garments come at a high price: A precarious existence for workers and a catastrophic environmental impact. The clothing industry is currently...

43 min

Don’t Chase Happiness. Become Antifragile | Tal Ben-Shahar

Antifragility is the idea of putting pressure on a system, or human, the system or human actually grows bigger and stronger. Antifragile systems are all around us. One example of this is our muscular system. We go to the gym to lift weights. By doing so we are putting...

8 min

The Film Mark Zuckerberg Does Not Want You to See | Johann Hari

“Your attention has been stolen by some big and powerful forces”

16 min

Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes (2019)

Allergies, obesity, asthma, diabetes, auto-immune and intestinal disorders are all on the rise, with the incidence of some diseases doubling every ten years. New research points to changes in the ecosystem of microbes that live on and inside every one of us -- our microbiomes...

57 min

Six Ways to Find Your Courage During Challenging Times

Courage doesn’t have to look dramatic or fearless. Sometimes it looks more like quiet perseverance.

Amy L. Eva

The Religious Wars of the Pandemic Endgame | Rebel Wisdom

One of the biggest problems with talking about something as vast and impactful as the pandemic is to find the right level of analysis. In this epic piece, Rebel Wisdom looks at the deeper religious and theological forces playing out below the surface of our day-to-day...

131 min

Why I OPPOSE Vaccine Mandates, COVID Passports & Big Pharma | Jeremy Corbyn

And why that doesn't make me Anti-Vax - Jeremy Corbyn

7 min

Native Hawaiians Fight US Navy for Polluting Island’s Water

Under the cover of pre-dawn darkness, Native Hawaiians surprised the gates of the US Navy Command with a civil disobedience action over the Red Hill fuel leak. Empire Files producer Mike Prysner was on the ground. Support the efforts to Shut Down Red Hill!

12 min

Is It Time to Change Course on Covid? | William Eden

What are we getting wrong with Covid, and what does it mean to adapt to it becoming an endemic disease? William Eden is a biotech and healthcare investor who has been paying close attention to the progress of the pandemic from many different angles. He recently posted a viral...

30 min

What is Trauma? The Author of “The Body Keeps the Score” Explains

In Part 1, Bessel van der Kolk talks about trauma. In Part 2, he talks about 6 ways to heal trauma without medication.

8 min

First We Eat (trailer)

What happens when an ordinary family, living just south of the Arctic Circle, bans all grocery store food from their house for one year? Add three skeptical teenagers, one reluctant husband, no salt, no caffeine, no sugar and -40 temperatures.

2 min

All the Time in the World: Disconnecting to Reconnect (2014) ($5)

Three kids, ages 10, 8 and 5, spend nine months self-isolating with their family in the Yukon wilderness over a long northern winter. Small cabin, no friends, no internet, no phone, no electricity. For nine months they never once said “I’m bored”. Find out why. All The Time...

86 min

Hawaii Emergency: Navy Poisons Drinking Water

The US Navy has poisoned the largest water supply in O'ahu, Hawaii. Nobody knows how long residents have been drinking toxic water, how big the chemical leak is, or how many it will impact. But instead of urgent action to save lives, the Navy is engaging in a cover up.

10 min

Social Media Addiction - How It Changes Your Brain | Luke Burgis

By definition, mimetic desire means that we're adopting another person's desire as our own, usually without even realizing that we're doing it. Social media has given us millions of mimetic models that we now have to contend with. Some people have gone from having 10 mimetic...

5 min

Why We Won't Raise Our Kids in Suburbia (and Moved to the Netherlands Instead)

I was always told, growing up, that the suburbs (of Canada) are a good place to raise children. But I've come to appreciate the importance of independence for the a child's development, something that's nearly impossible in today's car-dependent suburbs. It was pretty clear...

12 min

Rogan, CNN, Ivermectin & Heterodox Thinking | Zubin Damania

The pandemic has stress tested all our institutions, especially those we have relied on for truth seeking and sensemaking. It's deepened the chasm between mainstream and alternative, consensus and contrarian.

88 min

Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature (2015)

Fly By Light is an intimate exploration of young people seeking to overcome the violence in their lives and create a new path for their future by connecting to a world outside their neighborhoods. In Washington, DC, where high school dropout rates average 40%, a group of...

83 min

THE GREAT NHS HEIST

Universal healthcare has been a fundamental human right in many developed countries for decades. Britain led the way in establishing the National Health Service in 1948 from the wreckage of World War II, but unbeknown to the public UK governments have secretly been removing...

96 min

Profiteering From Vaccine Inequity: a Crime Against Humanity?

Companies and rich nations are creating a deadly Covid-19 vaccine "protection racket."

Fatima Hassan, Gavin Yamey, Kamran Abbasi

Lack of Trusted Authority Is Why Covid-19 Is Kicking Our Butts

The resulting credibility vacuum has enabled unscrupulous politicians, agents of chaos, and other charlatans to position themselves as experts.

Steven Singer

Despite Our Despair, There's a Reality Worth Fighting For

Those who are enduring injustice, exploitation, and oppression—whether people, animals, or ecosystems—need us to believe that wrongs can be righted and to take action accordingly.

Zoe Weil

6 Ways to Heal Trauma without Medication, from the Author of “The Body Keeps the Score, ” Bessel van der Kolk

Conventional psychiatric practices tell us that if we feel bad, take this drug and it will go away. But after years of research with some of the top psychiatric practitioners in the world, we’ve found that drugs simply don’t work that well for many, and our conventional ways...

9 min

Beyond Trauma Informed, with Darcia Narvaez and Mary Tarsha

It could be argued that humans have never been so destructive, so violent against a living earth. How did we arrive here? We forgot the wellness-informed pathway to human wellbeing, a holistic wellbeing that leads to peacefulness. We describe the wellness-informed pathway and...

85 min

Small Scale Agroecological Approaches for the COVID 19 Response and Beyond

From the closure of markets to the interruption of agricultural supply chains, the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to disrupt food systems around the world. Many families, especially those in already fragile contexts, may soon struggle to access healthy, nutritious diets. Meeting...

67 min

Not Going Quietly (trailer)

Ady Barkan’s life is upended when he is diagnosed with ALS, but a confrontation with a powerful Senator catapults him to national fame and ignites a once-in-a-generation political movement.

3 min

Death by Pollution

Do we all breathe the same air? Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah was a nine-year-old girl who lived in south-east London and died in 2013. The cause of death was listed as air pollution, now her mother is fighting to make clean air a human right. This Novara Doc was made by black &...

10 min

COVID-19, Capitalism and the Pandemic of Endless War

If you think police budgets are out of hand, wait until you hear about the military. A Gravel Institute documentary on the links between the pandemic, power, and capitalism.

8 min

A Viral Tale

An animated story in rhyme, about these very strange times.

8 min

How We End Consumerism: The Degrowth Movement Shows a Way

How we end consumerism, explained.

12 min

Biological Warfare and the Lab Leak Hypothesis

Over the past 15 months, the official narrative surrounding the origins of Covid-19 has completely flipped...why is that? This is a complex, controversial, and convoluted topic, but here’s my attempt at a concrete analysis of the situation. I’d love to hear your thoughts in...

17 min

Grading is a Scam (and Motivation is a Myth) | A Professor Explains

Grading is a scam and motivation is a myth. Those sound like bold words, but today we're going to dive down the rabbit hole and prove, once and for all, that our current state of schooling (and of...well..._everything_) is rotten to its core. ...that's all a little dramatic...

53 min

Spirited Away - Why Work Is Toxic

Hidden in the fantastic otherwordly narrative of Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away is an allegory about society’s toxic obsession with work. The Studio Ghibli classic was released in 2001 and commented on Japan’s losing its soul to capitalism in the context of the country’s...

24 min

The Truth About Food Insecurity

We live in a world with a rapidly growing population. Some people would have you believe that food insecurity is caused by overpopulation, or that we've reached the earth's carrying capacity. Is that really the case? In this episode, Second Thought takes a brief look at the...

13 min

Why You Can't Compare Covid-19 Vaccines

What a vaccine's "efficacy rate" actually means.

8 min

20 Signs You're Emotionally Mature

However old we might be, none of us is ever quite emotionally mature - but having a list to hand of what maturity consists of might be a way of keeping score and nudging ourselves in the right direction. Here is a comprehensive list of what maturity might comprise.

8 min

8 Toxic Things Parents Say To their Children

Do you wonder about the toxic people in your life? What if your mother is toxic? What if your father is toxic? Or what if both of your parents are toxic. Regardless of whether your family members are really toxic or not, Psych2Go made this video to highlight the 8 unhealthy...

7 min

Creating the Conditions for Belonging and Breathing in a Toxic Environment | john a. powell

Bridging or breaking? That is the sharp choice we face today as a society and as individual citizens. john a. powell, Director of the Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley, has long been one of our nation’s leading and most original thought leaders. He has delved...

18 min

So You're Still Being Publicly Shamed

The Right wants you to believe that a coddled, overly sensitive left is propping up cancel culture. But punitive, hyper-surveillant ways of interacting online are built into the structure of privately owned social media companies, and they’re practiced across the political...

Ben Burgis

Bullied (2019) ($4)

From people who live with the scars of having been bullied to families who now grieve the loss of their child to suicide in the wake of brutal acts of bullying, this film examines the reasons why people bully and the fallout that occurs from that bullying.

67 min

Grief, Sacred Rage and Revolutionary Love | Bioneers

For too long women in general and women of color even more pointedly have been told to suppress their grief and rage in the name of love and forgiveness. No more. How do we reclaim our emotions in the labor of loving others? What might authentic reckoning, apology, and...

90 min

Breaking Free of Old Habits, Addiction, and Past Traumas with Dr. Gabor Maté

It’s part of the human condition to run away from pain. Most of us have habits that we acquired as a way to cope with painful childhood experiences or traumas, which unfortunately don’t serve us as adults. These habits can manifest as addiction in a wide variety of forms...

65 min

Capitalist Realism, Mental Illness and Societies of Control

Capitalist realism is the ambient all pervasive atmosphere where it's just sort of implied that capitalism is all there is. It conditions how we view the world, how we work, our social relations, even our thoughts and behaviors. When it comes to mental health, capitalist...

25 min

Nicholas Christakis - Our Common Humanity

“These wonderful qualities that bind us together, that reflect our common humanity are unbelievably unbelievable and wonderful to see. And so this is one of the reasons I'm optimistic.” Nicholas Christakis

3 min

Jane Goodall - Pandemic

“It is our disregard for nature and our disrespect of the animals we should share the planet with that has caused this pandemic.” Jane Goodall

4 min

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