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This Marks the End of Season 1.

American Origin Stories with Matthew Cooke - May 16, 2023 07:00 - 57 seconds ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Thank you for being with me on this journey! See you soon... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

American Origin Stories with Matthew Cooke artwork

The Origin of the Climate Crisis

American Origin Stories with Matthew Cooke - May 09, 2023 07:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
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

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The First American Bank Robbery

American Origin Stories with Matthew Cooke - May 02, 2023 07:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
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...

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The Real Symbol of America

American Origin Stories with Matthew Cooke - April 25, 2023 07:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
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

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Why America Has Such Terrible Leaders

American Origin Stories with Matthew Cooke - April 18, 2023 07:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
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

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America's David vs Goliath

American Origin Stories with Matthew Cooke - April 11, 2023 07:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
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 ...

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The Ghost Who Wrote The Constitution - Part 2

American Origin Stories with Matthew Cooke - April 04, 2023 07:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
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 perspecti...

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The Origin of Junk Food - and the Impact

American Origin Stories with Matthew Cooke - March 28, 2023 07:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
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

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Founding Fathers of Freedom

American Origin Stories with Matthew Cooke - March 21, 2023 07:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
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

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Mastering the Media Matrix

American Origin Stories with Matthew Cooke - March 14, 2023 07:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
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, beckon...

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Slaver Nation

American Origin Stories with Matthew Cooke - March 07, 2023 08:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
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/adchoices

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Should Society Own Its Social Media

American Origin Stories with Matthew Cooke - February 28, 2023 12:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
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/a...

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MLK's America: Reparations & Glory

American Origin Stories with Matthew Cooke - February 21, 2023 13:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
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...

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The Most Interesting Man in the World

American Origin Stories with Matthew Cooke - February 14, 2023 13:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
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 illega...

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The Ghost Who Wrote the U.S. Constitution

American Origin Stories with Matthew Cooke - February 07, 2023 13:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
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. ...

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1. The Ghost Who Wrote the U.S. Constitution

American Origin Stories with Matthew Cooke - February 07, 2023 13:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
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. Written and Narrated by Matthew C...

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Minisode 17: Charles Dickens on the Perversion of the U.S. House of Representatives

American Origin Stories with Matthew Cooke - January 30, 2023 16:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Charles Dickens describes the utter insanity of the US House of Representatives just prior to the US civil war in this rivetting reading of an excerpt from Jill Lepore's "These Truths" - my top recommendation for a general US history book. 

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Minisode 16: What does it mean to be "Anti American"?

American Origin Stories with Matthew Cooke - January 23, 2023 08:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
“America Hater”? There’s a lot of silliness being spread around like “teachers are teaching kids to hate America! ...when they’re told about some of the terrible things that have been done to Americans... by other Americans. The premise is preposterous. Why would showing the horrors many Ameri...

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Minisode 15: Dr. King's Agenda

American Origin Stories with Matthew Cooke - January 14, 2023 04:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
We often talk about Dr. King but rarely about his full agenda.

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Minisode 14: Lady Liberty

American Origin Stories with Matthew Cooke - January 10, 2023 14:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
The symbol of the Unites States represents something truly profound.

American Origin Stories with Matthew Cooke artwork

Mini-Episode 14: Lady Liberty

American Origin Stories with Matthew Cooke - January 10, 2023 14:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
The symbol of the Unites States.

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Mini-Episode 13: How the Constitution Stopped the Revolution

American Origin Stories with Matthew Cooke - January 04, 2023 00:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
In many ways the U.S. constitution stopped the revolution, before it unseated the authority of those who started it. Here's to new beginnings, deeper understandings, greater compassion and a renewed committed to progress.

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Minisode 13: How the Constitution Stopped the Revolution

American Origin Stories with Matthew Cooke - January 04, 2023 00:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
In many ways the U.S. constitution stopped the revolution, before it unseated the authority of those who started it. Here's to new beginnings, deeper understandings, greater compassion and a renewed committed to progress.

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Minisode 12: Santa & Scrooge, Human Rights Heroes

American Origin Stories with Matthew Cooke - December 26, 2022 21:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Our modern image of Santa and the character of Scrooge are icons of Christmas that were born of the era of the civil war and workers rights. Charles Dickens and Thomas Nast were artists in service to human values.

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Minisode 11: Slavery & Independence

American Origin Stories with Matthew Cooke - December 19, 2022 17:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
American slavery was different, as is our true independence day. Tracing roots of evil back to Nathaniel Bacon and George Washington's Great-Grandfather John Washington, 100 years before 1776.

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Mini-Episode 11: Slavery & Independence

American Origin Stories with Matthew Cooke - December 19, 2022 17:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
American slavery was different, as is our true independence day. Tracing roots of evil back to Nathaniel Bacon and George Washington's Great-Grandfather John Washington, 100 years before 1776.

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Mini-Episode 10: William Lloyd Garrison

American Origin Stories with Matthew Cooke - December 12, 2022 17:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
A free press works for human values. And it can never afford to quit. William Lloyd Garrison was one of our free press founding fathers. He showed us the power of speaking with integrity for the good of our whole American family. Universal voting rights are a bedrock of freedom. Until we have t...

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Minisode 10: William Lloyd Garrison

American Origin Stories with Matthew Cooke - December 12, 2022 17:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
A free press works for human values. And it can never afford to quit. William Lloyd Garrison was one of our free press founding fathers. He showed us the power of speaking with integrity for the good of our whole American family. Universal voting rights are a bedrock of freedom. Until we have t...

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Mini-Episode 9: Founding Mother Of American Truth

American Origin Stories with Matthew Cooke - December 05, 2022 16:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
She helped lead America to its 2nd Independence Day. She was an inspiration to social reformers everywhere. And she took the women's movement to a whole new level. Her name was Truth.

American Origin Stories with Matthew Cooke artwork

Minisode 9: Founding Mother Of American Truth

American Origin Stories with Matthew Cooke - December 05, 2022 16:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
She helped lead America to its 2nd Independence Day. She was an inspiration to social reformers everywhere. And she took the women's movement to a whole new level. Her name was Truth.

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