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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The El Niño in the tropical Pacific is unlike anything in the historical record, and it's arriving on top of decades of warming. Today, Nate is joined by climate scientist @zekehausfather.com to break down the numbers and translate what they will actually feel like for humanity.

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The Coolest Year for the Rest of Our Lives? with Zeke Hausfather | TGS 236

YouTube video by Nate Hagens

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Military historian and political scientist Robert Pape describes something he often found himself having to explain while teaching students at the US Air Force's School of Advanced Airpower Studies.

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In this episode, Nate welcomes military historian and political scientist Robert Pape for an in-the-moment breakdown of the Iran war's trajectory.

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Is America’s Strategy in Iran Backfiring? with Robert Pape | TGS 235

YouTube video by Nate Hagens

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Philosopher and author Sarah Wilson explains how prepping alone doesn’t work, and that we should instead be working toward a radical simplification: an intentional shift toward a slower, more communal way of living.

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In this episode, Nate is joined by philosopher and author Sarah Wilson for an exploration of the emotions that come from learning about, processing, and then embodying the full extent of the metacrisis.

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The Opportunities of a World in Collapse with Sarah Wilson | TGS 234

YouTube video by Nate Hagens

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What would it actually take to reach a global agreement to ban the development of superintelligence, and are we already out of time?

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This video is not offering mental health advice. If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. Call or text 988 or chat 988lifeline.org

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In this episode, Nate is joined by Dr. Roman Yampolskiy, one of the earliest researchers in AI safety, to lay out why “controllable superintelligence” is a misguided goal, destined to lead to an entity smarter than all of humanity – and possibly our own extinction.

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One AI Risk to Rule Them All with Roman Yampolskiy | TGS 233

YouTube video by Nate Hagens

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If domination isn’t an aberration but a predictable output of the game board we’ve built, what does that mean for how we try to fix it?

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

In this episode, Nate welcomes author and philosopher, Charles Eisenstein, for a long-requested conversation on the mythologies underneath civilization.

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Can Humanity Choose What’s Next? with Charles Eisenstein | TGS 232

YouTube video by Nate Hagens

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The stories we tell to better understand ourselves rhyme and align across time and tradition.

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

In this episode, Nate is joined by Greg Elliott, a systems theorist and author of the Psychopathic Selection Hypothesis (PSH), to unpack why our institutions themselves have become so psychopathic, and how that affects the behavior of the average human.

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The Rules of the Game Keep Us Trapped with Greg Elliott | TGS 231

YouTube video by Nate Hagens

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

As we continue through challenging times, how can we balance critical physical and policy work with the internal work of healing our relationship to the mental parts we shy away from?

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The era of the standard deviation is here. Biologist Olivier Hamant suggests we learn jazz.

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Current geopolitical events continue to expose just how complex and fragile our global economic system is. As such, The Great Simplification team is re-releasing this episode with @edconway.bsky.social, which covers the critical materials that underpin everything from your phone to your house.

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The Key Resources Underpinning Modern Economies with Ed Conway | Archive TGS 127

YouTube video by Nate Hagens

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

As cheap, abundant energy becomes less accessible, are there other -isms we should be considering?

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Today, Nate is joined by Internal Family Systems founder, Richard Schwartz, and climate psychologist Steffi Bednarek to explore what might become possible if we stop smothering uncomfortable parts of ourselves and begin embracing them as critical pieces of our own mental ecologies?

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Internal Family Systems for a Turbulent World | RR 27

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Could balancing our focus on performance and robustness be the key to reframing our relationship with the entire Earth, bringing more stability, rest, and meaning to our lives?

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

In this episode, Nate is joined by biologist and biophysicist Olivier Hamant to explore why living systems prioritize robustness over performance, and what that means for a civilization built almost entirely in the opposite direction.

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Why Too Much Efficiency Makes Us Fragile with Olivier Hamant | TGS 230

YouTube video by Nate Hagens

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

What might it mean for ordinary people if the credit and dollar system that has funded American consumption for eighty years starts to break down?

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Is the world entering a new commodity supercycle driven by scarcity and deglobalization, or is the market going to keep shrugging off these shocks?

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

How would it feel to be truly at one with the planet, and how might it change the way we act?

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

In this episode, Nate is joined by Jeff Currie for a wide-boundary look at what happens when the buffers that have suppressed energy price signals for fifty years finally run dry.

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Why Abundance Is an Illusion with Jeff Currie | TGS 229

YouTube video by Nate Hagens

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A growing chorus of psychologists, contemplatives, and systems thinkers argue that most of us, and most of our institutions, are running an outdated psychological and spiritual “operating system,” one never built for the converging ecological, economic, and cultural crises we face.

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Is “might makes right” becoming the central pillar governing the world’s oceans, and if so, what does that mean for the cost of everything that arrives by ship?

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

In this episode, Nate welcomes Dr. John Churchill, a psychologist and former Buddhist monk, to explore a map of human development that runs from “first-person” perspective of the isolated self all the way to a felt, embodied sense of interdependence with the planet itself.

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How Love & Wisdom Shape Human Development with John Churchill | TGS 228

YouTube video by Nate Hagens

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Why does the volume and velocity of modern trade make a conflict like the one in the Strait of Hormuz so much more consequential than at any other time in history?

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

In this episode, Nate is joined by maritime historian and former merchant mariner, Sal Mercogliano, to break down what the ongoing events in the Strait of Hormuz reveal about the state of global shipping and trade.

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The Chokepoints Changing Global Shipping Forever with Sal Mercogliano | TGS 227

YouTube video by Nate Hagens

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

What would it take to build financial infrastructure that actually gets capital to the people already doing the work of healing land and community?

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

In this episode, Nate is joined by Matthew Monahan, co-founder of the nonprofit @maearth.com, to explore the emerging field of regenerative finance.

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How to Fund Communities Doing the Real Work with Matthew Monahan | TGS 226

YouTube video by Nate Hagens

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The acceleration of global heating is just one of many critical "shifting baselines" that go mostly unnoticed in our everyday lives.

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

What would it mean to live, even briefly, at a metabolic rate closer to what your body actually requires?

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Is the projected Super El Niño a signal of more extreme climatic swings to come?

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

If energy is the invisible labor force underlying every product and service in your life, does that change the way you see the economy?

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

This year’s projected Super El Niño forming in the Pacific could become one of the strongest climate oscillations in over a century. What do we know about the trajectory our climate is currently on, and what gaps of knowledge still need to be filled?

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

If the work performed by a single barrel of oil is worth orders of magnitude more than its price, what does it say about the systems we have built on top of it?

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Drawing on research showing that creativity and imagination scores have been declining for decades, author Rob Hopkins argues that our collective inability to vividly picture a better future may be the deepest barrier to building one.

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

In this episode, I welcome Rob Hopkins, co-founder of the Transition Network and author of “How to Fall in Love with the Future,” for an exploration of what tips people over the edge and into action to build more livable futures, and what role imagination plays in cultural motivation and agency.

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Complex living systems researcher Nora Bateson explains how subtle changes in our lives can affect how we perceive and engage with the world around us.

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

In this episode, Nate is joined by Michael Every, Global Strategist at Rabobank, for an unflinching analysis of the Hormuz crisis and the fundamental principles pointing toward the Strait’s closure for several more months.

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The Dust Bowl of the 1930s is one of the worst ecological disasters in American history. What if we could name and replicate the techniques used to rehabilitate this once inhospitable landscape and use them to restore and regenerate local ecosystems across the planet?

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

In this episode, Nate is joined by Nora Bateson, creator of Warm Data Labs, alongside her colleagues Jonathan Goldsmith and Lucas Jackson, for a rich conversation about what it actually takes to build community and why so many of our attempts fail.

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The desolation of foundational, life-supporting ecosystems has resulted in our planet now operating at roughly half its biological productive capacity.

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Could confronting fear – by learning to move through it rather than avoid it – be one of the most practical preparations for navigating future uncertainty and social fracture?

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

In this episode, Nate is joined by regenerative change practitioner Brett KenCairn for a conversation that reframes the dominant narrative about climate change, emphasizing that it was never just a carbon problem but also one centered on living systems degradation.

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Who will we be as The Great Simplification unfolds, and how do we prepare our inner terrains for what’s coming?

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

What are the effects on critical thinking and development as a result of years of memorization and high stakes testing?

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

In this episode, Nate is joined by meditation practitioner, Andrew Holecek, for an exploration of the concept of dark retreats, periods of extended time in complete absence of light, as a practical path toward reflection and reconnection with ourselves and others.

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How Constant Stimulation Has Shaped our Consumption with Andrew Holecek | TGS 221

YouTube video by Nate Hagens

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Today, Nate is joined by developmental psychologist Dr. Theo Dawson and philosopher of education Dr. Zak Stein to explore the history of educational testing and show how we’ve progressively narrowed our definition of learning while stunting the very mental capacities we most need.

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Petroleum geologist Art Berman explains how not every barrel of oil is equal.

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