American Origin Stories with Matthew Cooke
Latest Episodes
This Marks the End of Season 1.
Thank you for being with me on this journey! See you soon... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Origin of the Climate Crisis
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/adchoices
The First American Bank Robbery
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 t
The Real Symbol of America
The incredible story of what makes the Statue of Liberty so truly representative of America.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why America Has Such Terrible Leaders
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/adchoices
America's David vs Goliath
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 al
The Ghost Who Wrote The Constitution - Part 2
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
The Origin of Junk Food - and the Impact
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/adchoices
Founding Fathers of Freedom
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/adchoices
Mastering the Media Matrix
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