Our true origins connect us back to reality, each other, and a whole new American cinematic universe. Written and narrated by Oscar nominated filmmaker, Matthew Cooke.
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The Origin of the Climate Crisis
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Beginning with a reorientation to our habitat on earth, a short history of fossil fuels, their rise, impact and how to start doing something. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDoor Matthew Cooke | Realm
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The First American Bank Robbery
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This episode features cinematic sound. The incredible true story of working class hero Patrick Lyon vs greedy bankers, dirty politicians, a pandemic, and a corrupt criminal justice system. No, this isn't about 2023. It was 1798. Pat Lyon's story retells the first decades of life in America from a completely different vantage point. One that makes s…
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The Real Symbol of America
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The incredible story of what makes the Statue of Liberty so truly representative of America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDoor Matthew Cooke | Realm
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Why America Has Such Terrible Leaders
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This challenging episode covers the roots of our identity crisis in “whiteness,” the flag, the anthem, the statue and the dream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDoor Matthew Cooke | Realm
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America's David vs Goliath
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This episode features cinematic sound. Ben Lay was under 4 feet tall with a hunched back. He was an outcast from the quaker community. A hardened and experienced sailor, sailing the toughest waters, in the most challenging era of modern history. He was also the most moral and visionary leader in colonial, pre-revolutionary America. He relentlessly …
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The Ghost Who Wrote The Constitution - Part 2
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The almost universally unknown "ghost" who wrote the final draft of the U.S. constitution had some revelatory opinions about the failures of the new republican government to maintain liberty and honor. His critiques are as applicable now, as then. He also reveals in his diaries the real perspectives of Alexander Hamilton which will surprise most. T…
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The Origin of Junk Food - and the Impact
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The 300K year history of eating healthy, the shift into treating food as junk, and the result. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDoor Matthew Cooke | Realm
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Founding Fathers of Freedom
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Readings from Founding Fathers of Freedom: Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin on the corruption of the church, the post-racial myth, and the loss of Malcolm and Martin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDoor Matthew Cooke | Realm
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Mastering the Media Matrix
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A few billionaire-owned monopolies use unregulated secret algorithms to govern our entire experience of the digital world. It's reminiscent of how big tobacco genetically engineered their crops to have twice the nicotine levels. But this time they've even tricked us into creating the lure, beckoning us into their matrix. We're well-advised to becom…
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The battle between slavers, anti-slavers and opportunists drove the geographic borders of the nation, its economy and its culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesDoor Matthew Cooke | Realm
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Should Society Own Its Social Media
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We'd consider it tyranny to let one person decide who we see and what we do in in Boston Common. Why is it ok in our digital common? What if social media platforms were standardized to enable inter-network communication? Like our cell phones? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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MLK's America: Reparations & Glory
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MLK was a founding father of American freedom. Prior to the late 1960s, not all citizens could vote. His voting rights act was to be just the beginning... King described the social acceptance of poverty "as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism" and called for America to "civilize itself" by redistributing economic and political power more…
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The Most Interesting Man in the World
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Victor Ochoa was a gunslinger, an inventor of airplanes, a wind turbine, and the pocket protector. He was a revolutionary, a friend of President Teddy Roosevelt, and wanted by the Mexican government, dead or alive. Ochoa's ancestors came from Texas when it was Mexican territory, overrun by illegal Anglo immigrants. Victor lived through the Civil Wa…
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The Ghost Who Wrote the U.S. Constitution
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To the vast majority of America, the identity of the 35 year old man who wrote the U.S. constitution is a secret, hidden in plain sight. Knowing the identity of "The Ghost" changes the entire way we understand the nation and its character, both past and present. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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