ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Join veteran podcaster, interviewer, and artist, KMO, as he and his guests explore how we know what we know and how we can use that knowledge to address societal challenges and create a more prosperous and equitable world.. The KMO Show features conversations with interdisciplinary thinkers and innovators on topics like artificial intelligence, evolutionary psychology, social dynamics, and more.
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47 episodes
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LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Date: April 20, 2026 Host: KMO Guest: Kenneth E. Harrell
Episode Summary
A 20-year-old throws a Molotov cocktail at the home of Sam Altman, then heads to OpenAI headquarters and escalates. He’s arrested within the hour.
That’s not an isolated story. It’s a signal.
KMO and Kenneth E. Harrell use the…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
KMO revisits a sampler created during the original assembly of Conversations on Collapse and uses it to open a new project: Getting Over Collapse.
Featuring excerpts from:
Dmitri Orlov
Albert K. Bates
Thomas Homer-Dixon
Sharon Astyk
Albert Bartlett
Cornelia Butler Flora
Bill McKibben
James Howard …
C-Realm Vault Episode 89 — originally released April 20, 2014
This episode, recorded on KMO's 46th birthday two weeks after the suicide of Michael C. Ruppert, is one of the clearest early documents of KMO's departure from the Peak Oil collapse milieu — and one of the most personally candid things h…
KMO is reposting this C-Realm Vault episode from 2019 because it captures a transitional moment that eventually fed into the project now called Getting Over Collapse.
The conversation with Doug Lain took place in late September of 2019—back when we were all still living in the carefree twilight of …
This bonus episode combines portions of C-Realm Podcast episode 555: It's Complicated and C-Realm Vault Podcast episode 361, both of which feature a conversation with Brent Badnarak. You'll also hear a bit of James Howard Kunstler there at the end. If you'd like to hear more of my early COVID conve…
This is a conversation from 2019 when I was privately uncomfortable with the Peak Oil narrative I'd been articulating for several years but hadn't turned against it publically. In this conversation with Bob Brown, I let the curtain drop.
KMO returns to the long-neglected C-Realm topic of Peak Oil …
In this episode, KMO presents an extended exchange between two very different AI voices—Five (GPT-5.1) and Grok—centered on John Carter’s “simp-rapist complex” essay and what it reveals about the breakdown of modern courtship. The discussion moves from Carter’s diagnosis of today’s sexual deadlock …
Summary
In this conversation, Peter Clarke and KMO explore the concepts of network states and dark enlightenment, discussing their compatibility and implications for governance in a post-liberal world. They delve into the competition for high agency individuals between these systems, the potential …
KMO and the Librarian of Celaeno discuss various topics including the challenges of building an audience on Substack, the impact of AI on education and writing, the decline of reading among young people, cultural shifts in literature, the role of religion in society,and the intersection of race an…
KMO is joined by Brent, author of The Absurdity Sim Substack, for a wide-ranging discussion that opens with the simulation hypothesis. They explore the idea that human consciousness may be either central to reality or merely an unintended byproduct of a system running for someone else's amusement—p…
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