Podcast
Unknown Origins
Hosted by Roy Sharples · EN
Cultural Storytelling for a Braver Future: Stories that scar, heal, and build futures — fearless conversations with artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, and entrepreneurs shaping culture through creative bravery.
11episodes
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The Art of the Unacceptable: A Love Letter to the Unordinary
May 14, 202500:08:32Tap to summarizeThis isn’t a brand story. It’s a whispered revolution.In The Art of the Unacceptable, Roy Sharples of Unknown Origins delivers a lyrical manifesto for creative bravery—a rallying cry for the beautifully disobedient.For the misfits who won’t tick boxes.The originals who refuse to be optimized.The rebels who still choose soul over scale.This isn’t about KPIs, virality, or playing it safe.It’s about making the things only you can.The art that howls.The work that scars.The future that doesn’t arrive—it’s made.And it begins here.With you.Support the showAttitude. Imagination. Execution. Create Without Frontiers.🌐 www.unknownorigins.com
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Equity and the Future: Rewriting Humanity’s Narrative for a Just Society
May 4, 202500:08:28Tap to summarizeA lyrical manifesto for building systems that heal, not divide.What if the future wasn’t inherited—but rewritten?In this soul-stirring episode, Roy Sharples delivers a poetic and provocative call to action for reimagining humanity’s narrative through the lens of equity, empathy, and ethical systems design. From education and media to governance and the green economy, this is a manifesto for those who believe the world doesn’t need perfection—it needs courage.Explore why equity is not a utopian dream, but a real and radical decision.Discover how to build fairer systems in classrooms, boardrooms, ballots, and beyond.Unpack the myths of meritocracy, the power of policy, and the revolution that won’t be televised—but will be sustained.Support the showAttitude. Imagination. Execution. Create Without Frontiers.🌐 www.unknownorigins.com
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Tech Entrepreneurs: The Artists of Tomorrow
May 4, 202500:08:22Tap to summarizeA Manifesto for the Creators Who Code, Craft, and Conjure the FutureIn a world where keyboards replace canvases and platforms are the new punk, tech entrepreneurs have emerged as the artists of our time.In this electrifying, manifesto-driven episode, Roy Sharples reimagines the startup founder not as a disruptor—but as a cultural visionary. From code as poetry to platforms as protests, this lyrical reflection explores how the next wave of innovation is shaped by creativity, ethics, and soul.What if startups were symphonies?Can product design be a form of protest?What’s the true legacy of a tech founder: IPO or impact?From Steve Jobs to Basquiat with bandwidth, Roy delivers a poetic provocation for the creators of tomorrow—urging them to build with conscience, design with intention, and launch like artists.This is a rallying cry for the rebels with product roadmaps, for the dreamers with data, for the builders who still believe in beauty.Support the showAttitude. Imagination. Execution. Create Without Frontiers.🌐 www.unknownorigins.com
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Humanity 2.0: The Digital Revolution, AI, and the Evolving Future
May 3, 202500:07:58Tap to summarizeA Manifesto for the Species Becoming Something Else EntirelyAre we still human — or becoming something else entirely?In this poetic and thought-provoking manifesto, Roy Sharples explores the evolution of humanity in the digital age. From the first blinking cursor to AI that now thinks in pixels, Humanity 2.0 charts the journey of a species that didn’t stroll into the future — it crash-landed into it.How is artificial intelligence shaping not just our tools, but our identity?What remains uniquely human in a world of automation and algorithms?Can we reclaim creativity, conscience, and soul in the age of acceleration?From emojis to ethics, from labor to longing, Roy invites us to pause, reflect, and write a new chapter — one that doesn’t abandon awe for convenience, but dares to be messily, beautifully human.Support the showAttitude. Imagination. Execution. Create Without Frontiers.🌐 www.unknownorigins.com
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European Creativity: Creative Bravery and Resilience Forged in Time
May 3, 202500:08:03Tap to summarizeA Manifesto in Stone, Fire, and the Art of ReinventionEurope is not just a place.It’s a living myth — carved in marble, scrawled in ink, reborn in rebellion.In this lyrical and story-driven manifesto, Roy Sharples charts the creative and cultural journey of Europe across millennia — from the wisdom of Ancient Greece and the fire of the Enlightenment to the contradictions of the modern Union. Through wars and renaissances, revolutions and resurrections, Europe has endured not by clinging to the past, but by reimagining it.How did Europe’s creativity survive empire, war, and collapse?What can its cultural history teach us about resilience and reinvention today?Why is creativity still Europe’s greatest force for unity and transformation?From the Celtic edge to the startup cities of tomorrow, this is Europe as you've never heard it — brave, broken, brilliant, and always becoming.Support the showAttitude. Imagination. Execution. Create Without Frontiers.🌐 www.unknownorigins.com
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How Britain Found Its “Great” (And Lost It, Found It Again, and Keeps Trying)
May 3, 202500:07:12Tap to summarizeA Cultural Manifesto of Identity, Irony, and ReinventionWhat does it mean to be "Great" — and can a nation ever truly stay that way?In this lyrical and story-driven episode, Roy Sharples explores Britain’s ongoing identity quest: from the rise of empire to the chaos of Brexit, from punk rock to AI labs, Shakespeare to Stormzy. This is not a love letter to nostalgia, but a poetic reckoning with what greatness means in the modern age — eccentric, inventive, resilient, and gloriously self-deprecating.Why is British greatness not about power, but reinvention?What connects Shakespeare, tea, punk, and Brexit?Can a country be culturally radical while politically confused?From the fog-draped roots of its past to the technicolor contradictions of its present, Britain isn’t marching — it’s muddling through. Still trying. Still adapting. Still Great — on its own peculiar terms.Support the showAttitude. Imagination. Execution. Create Without Frontiers.🌐 www.unknownorigins.com
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America Is Not the World – And That’s Okay
May 3, 202500:07:51Tap to summarizeA Global Manifesto on Exceptionalism, Woke Culture, and Finding Purpose Beyond the PodiumIs America still the world’s moral compass — or just the loudest voice in the room?In this cultural manifesto, Roy Sharples unpacks the contradictions of American exceptionalism, the rise of woke culture, and the country’s often unconscious tendency to dominate global discourse. From the Trump-era wrecking ball to the polished rhetoric of modern political correctness, this lyrical commentary offers a brutally honest — and surprisingly affectionate — reflection on America’s place in the world.Why does America feel the need to be the moral referee of the planet?How do other cultures view the U.S.’s hyper-performative identity politics?Can America still lead by listening, not just lecturing?This is not anti-Americanism.This is a love letter wrapped in satire — a wake-up call from one voice among many.It’s time for America to lower the volume, kick off its platform shoes, and rejoin the global conversation — not as host, but as participant.Support the showAttitude. Imagination. Execution. Create Without Frontiers.🌐 www.unknownorigins.com
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We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful (And If They’re Scottish, It’s Even Worse)
May 3, 202500:07:08Tap to summarizeA Cultural Manifesto on Friendship, Success, and the Art of the Backhanded ComplimentWhy does your mate’s success make you wince… just a little?In this lyrical, story-driven, and culturally sharp episode, we explore the paradox of friendship and success through the uniquely Scottish lens of sarcasm, self-deprecation, and social suspicion. From backhanded compliments and social media minefields to the taboo of self-improvement, this manifesto unpacks why watching a friend “make it” can stir up pride, envy — and more than a few passive-aggressive jokes.Why is Scottish culture allergic to self-congratulation?How do we keep our friends grounded — often with a pint and a smirk?What happens when Gus from the pub becomes Gus from Canary Wharf?This is not just about envy — it’s about identity.It’s about success, community, and the strange intimacy of honest friendships wrapped in irony.This is friendship, the Scottish way.Support the showAttitude. Imagination. Execution. Create Without Frontiers.🌐 www.unknownorigins.com
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World in Motion | A Manifesto for the Evolution of Society and Technology
May 3, 202500:08:31Tap to summarizeWhat does it mean to evolve in a world that never stands still?In this lyrical, time-traveling manifesto, we explore the transformation of society and technology from the tactile simplicity of the 1970s to the algorithmic acceleration of today. This is more than nostalgia — it’s a meditation on what we’ve gained, what we’ve lost, and what we must choose next.From vinyl records and dial-up modems…To AI, pandemics, and the digital mirror of social media…This is the story of how we became digital citizens — and where we go from here.How did the internet become our mirror?What do we risk when tools begin creating themselves?Can progress still serve purpose in a world driven by speed?With every decade, we’ve been reshaped by machines, systems, and screens. But the pen — the power to choose what comes next — is still in our hands.This isn’t just a story of technology.It’s a call to evolve with intention, depth, and humanity.Support the showAttitude. Imagination. Execution. Create Without Frontiers.🌐 www.unknownorigins.com
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Ancient Wisdom for Modern Climate Solutions | First Nations Teachings for Planetary Renewal
May 3, 202500:09:21Tap to summarizeWhat if the key to solving the climate crisis isn’t new — but ancient?In this lyrical and story-driven manifesto, we explore how First Nations wisdom offers revolutionary answers to today’s environmental emergencies. Rooted in relationship, reciprocity, and reverence for the land, Indigenous practices have sustained ecosystems for millennia — not through extraction, but through balance.What if the Earth isn’t a resource, but a relative?What can we learn from Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) about living sustainably?How can we listen — not to lead, but to learn?From rotational farming and fire stewardship to consensus governance and spiritual ecology, this episode invites us to reimagine climate action as a cultural, emotional, and ancestral return — not to the past, but to wisdom we’ve forgotten to honor.This isn’t romanticism.This is restoration.This is regeneration.This is the revolution already written in the soil.Support the showAttitude. Imagination. Execution. Create Without Frontiers.🌐 www.unknownorigins.com
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