https://wethem.xyz/ Street journalism filmed by the people who live there, published free with the full transcript. en https://wethem.xyz/watch/crypto-privacy-and-global-finance-at-an-ethereum-conference-new-york.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/crypto-privacy-and-global-finance-at-an-ethereum-conference-new-york.html Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The produced piece from the ETH Global week in New York, June 2026, the one the trailer was cut from. It opens on a voice from the floor: "I do believe that New York fundamentally is the financial capital of the world," then a man at a basketball game toasting "People that love to be decentralized" and his late Shih Tzu. https://wethem.xyz/watch/you-can-get-paid-for-your-music-new-york.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/you-can-get-paid-for-your-music-new-york.html Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Eight minutes in New York with a songwriter who records under the name Hashdrown, mostly about what happens to music platforms when the money runs out. It opens with the question the channel puts to people in crypto, and the answer comes back with no pause at all: "Don't fuck this up. https://wethem.xyz/watch/verifying-income-you-cannot-see-onchain-credit.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/verifying-income-you-cannot-see-onchain-credit.html Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 If you earn on Shopify, YouTube, Upwork or TikTok, a lender has no way to see your income, so you get refused for credit that someone on a salary gets approved for. The co-founder of Credentials explains how he hit that wall himself in college, and where he found the other half of the answer. https://wethem.xyz/watch/estonia-ran-government-records-on-a-blockchain-first.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/estonia-ran-government-records-on-a-blockchain-first.html Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Estonia put e-voting, health records and citizen data on a permissioned government blockchain in the early 2000s, years before most people had heard the word. Shirley grew up there, and explains what that does to your idea of what the technology is for. https://wethem.xyz/watch/bitcoin-hedges-debasement-not-inflation.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/bitcoin-hedges-debasement-not-inflation.html Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A builder at ETH Global New York argues that almost everybody, including people who own it, is wrong about what Bitcoin actually protects you from. Not inflation. https://wethem.xyz/watch/pundits-versus-ground-reporting-channel-5-queue.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/pundits-versus-ground-reporting-channel-5-queue.html Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 In the queue for a Channel 5 show in Denver, fans explain the difference between a pundit and a reporter, name the story in Denver they think is not being told, and answer the week's question about what made them smile. The best definition in the piece comes from a man eating ice cream on the pavement, when asked what a pundit even is. https://wethem.xyz/watch/channel-5-fans-on-what-andrew-callaghan-does-right.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/channel-5-fans-on-what-andrew-callaghan-does-right.html Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Outside Andrew Callaghan's live show in Denver, fans of Channel 5 are asked what he actually does that other journalists do not, by somebody trying to learn it. Andrew is inside. https://wethem.xyz/watch/grief-journalism-and-getting-on-stage-at-channel-5.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/grief-journalism-and-getting-on-stage-at-channel-5.html Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Interviews in the line outside Andrew Callaghan's Channel 5 show in Denver that start as fan questions and end somewhere else: a young woman on how America fails people in grief, a man in a wheelchair who calls the gunshot that put him there a head start, and the filmmaker on stage with the host at the end. The opening rounds are the ones you would expect. https://wethem.xyz/watch/builder-reputation-onchain-philippe-of-talent-protocol-new-york.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/builder-reputation-onchain-philippe-of-talent-protocol-new-york.html Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 At a basketball game in New York, Philippe, originally from Lisbon, on why he is there: "for me it's the best way to meet new people network is doing sports." He has spent five years on Talent Protocol, "a platform to basically attract builder reputation so that ecosystems can find and reward the best builders and attract them to their ecosystem and to use their tech." Maceo says what he is after https://wethem.xyz/watch/art-activism-and-an-edibles-story-at-the-channel-5-talent-show.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/art-activism-and-an-edibles-story-at-the-channel-5-talent-show.html Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Two acts back to back at the Channel 5 Carnival talent show in Denver: a comedian from Atlanta with a story about eating edibles past curfew in a Christian household, and then Matter, of the art collective Chiba Kills, who came to sing and ended up explaining eighteen years of activism first. The comedian knows the room is against him and plays it. https://wethem.xyz/watch/which-denver-stories-go-uncovered.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/which-denver-stories-go-uncovered.html Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A one-minute exchange in the line at the Channel 5 Carnival, Denver, that is mostly about the question itself: what is a story in Denver that is not being covered enough, or that Andrew Callaghan could do justice to? Paul does not have one, and says so: "I have no idea." What follows is the method stated plainly, and it is why the archive keeps short answers like this one. https://wethem.xyz/watch/do-we-have-free-will-a-debate-outside-channel-5.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/do-we-have-free-will-a-debate-outside-channel-5.html Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Two fans outside the Channel 5 show in Denver, one who thinks free will is real and one who has just read Sam Harris and is not so sure, argue it out for three minutes with the interviewer in the middle. The first answer is about choosing your response. https://wethem.xyz/watch/freestyle-and-the-question-of-the-week-on-stage-at-channel-5.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/freestyle-and-the-question-of-the-week-on-stage-at-channel-5.html Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Three minutes on stage at Andrew Callaghan's Channel 5 Carnival in Denver: a Philadelphian introduces We Them Media to the room, asks the host the question of the week, and then, over a lo-fi beat from a phone, freestyles. The introduction is the pitch in one go: "I have a platform called We Them Media. https://wethem.xyz/watch/freestyle-spoken-word-and-dance-at-the-channel-5-talent-show.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/freestyle-spoken-word-and-dance-at-the-channel-5-talent-show.html Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Three performers at the Channel 5 Carnival talent show in Denver, and one piece of writing worth the whole evening: a spoken-word answer to the question of what mental health feels like for an immigrant father. The poem opens on exhaustion, "I've been running on fumes, can't run like I used to," and a car alarm that will not stop, and turns when the speaker asks his father the question. https://wethem.xyz/watch/immigration-independent-media-and-denver-subcultures.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/immigration-independent-media-and-denver-subcultures.html Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Outside the Channel 5 Carnival in Denver, a local filmmaker who is starting an entertainment-and-journalism company for the city's underground scene meets the We Them Media bounty programme, and the two pitches talk to each other for four minutes. The programme is explained as a proof of concept: what if Callaghan could pay for primary sources in a city he is not in, "I'll give $100 to my favorite https://wethem.xyz/watch/an-irish-fan-and-an-aspiring-journalist-in-the-channel-5-line.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/an-irish-fan-and-an-aspiring-journalist-in-the-channel-5-line.html Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Two conversations in the line outside the Channel 5 Carnival in Denver. Aiden, Irish, on the Kneecap content, the Irish-language revival piece and how Callaghan got Shia LaBeouf to open up; and Britt, an aspiring journalist, on the one thing the host does that anyone could copy. https://wethem.xyz/watch/documenting-war-from-all-sides-in-the-channel-5-line.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/documenting-war-from-all-sides-in-the-channel-5-line.html Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Luchi and Brody, outside the Channel 5 show in Denver, hear the pitch for the bounty programme and answer the question of what makes Callaghan different: he lets people talk. The pitch is the fullest version on tape. https://wethem.xyz/watch/landscape-or-portrait-two-filmmakers-at-the-mall.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/landscape-or-portrait-two-filmmakers-at-the-mall.html Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Eighty seconds at a Denver mall, on the way to the Channel 5 show, where two people with cameras meet and immediately film each other filming each other. "You'll film me, you'll film me filming him. https://wethem.xyz/watch/a-hitchhiker-on-a-spiritual-mission-outside-channel-5.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/a-hitchhiker-on-a-spiritual-mission-outside-channel-5.html Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Alex is sitting outside the Channel 5 venue in Denver without a ticket. Born in Texas, a year in Massachusetts, then, as he puts it, his life fell apart and he started hitchhiking across the country. https://wethem.xyz/watch/leaving-a-nine-to-five-to-build-in-blockchain.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/leaving-a-nine-to-five-to-build-in-blockchain.html Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Three minutes with a blockchain developer from Argentina, filmed on the road and starting with a small misunderstanding. The interviewer opens with the channel's exclamation and has to explain it: "That's what we like kind of say to exclaim at the end of our content." Once that lands, the interview starts properly. https://wethem.xyz/watch/eth-global-nyc-trailer-why-we-went.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/eth-global-nyc-trailer-why-we-went.html Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The opening cut from the ETH Global New York trip, and the clearest statement on the channel of what We Them Media is actually researching and why a camera was pointed at an Ethereum conference at all. It opens on a stranger at a basketball game, mid-sentence, toasting "the people that love to be decentralized" and then dedicating it to his late Shih Tzu, Sugar Plum. https://wethem.xyz/watch/streamer-university-auditions-a-message-to-east-new-york.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/streamer-university-auditions-a-message-to-east-new-york.html Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Outside the Streamer University auditions in New York, where hopefuls queued overnight for a place in Kai Cenat's boot camp for creators, Ladonna from East New York is there for someone else. "I'm here to support my bestie. https://wethem.xyz/watch/prison-is-a-young-mans-game-a-street-interview-denver.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/prison-is-a-young-mans-game-a-street-interview-denver.html Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Fifteen minutes on a street with a man who has been to prison three times, and who opens by doing the arithmetic himself. "About being in prison, three different times and three different things, for 18 months apiece." What makes it unusual is that he is not telling it as a warning or a boast. https://wethem.xyz/watch/the-curse-is-broken-street-reactions-new-york.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/the-curse-is-broken-street-reactions-new-york.html Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Seven minutes on a New York street on the night the Knicks won the championship, taken as fast as people will stop. The camera catches the first voice mid celebration: "We brought the chip home." Asked what it means for New York, the answer is one line long. https://wethem.xyz/watch/go-crazy-or-go-home-on-the-j-train.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/go-crazy-or-go-home-on-the-j-train.html Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 New York on the night the Knicks won, filmed on the J train, where a rapper who goes by Go Crazy explains his motto to a stranger and then spends seven minutes talking an eighteen-year-old into believing he has time. The motto comes first, and he wants it on the record for a specific audience: "I got a motivational quote for the kids, my boy right here, the grown folks. https://wethem.xyz/watch/post-knicks-win-brooklyn-walk-new-york.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/post-knicks-win-brooklyn-walk-new-york.html Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Nine minutes of walking and asking on a Brooklyn night, filmed the evening the Knicks won. There is no sit down interview here. https://wethem.xyz/watch/no-kings-protest-del-gomez-on-imperialism-denver.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/no-kings-protest-del-gomez-on-imperialism-denver.html Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Five and a half minutes at the No Kings protest in Denver with a man who gives his name and spells it for the camera: "my name is Del Gomez. That's D-E-L-G-O-M-E-Z." Asked to explain the day for anyone who does not know what it is, he does: "today is a protest called No Kings. https://wethem.xyz/watch/you-teach-the-kids-to-play-the-game-right-g-north-philadelphia.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/you-teach-the-kids-to-play-the-game-right-g-north-philadelphia.html Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A seven-minute conversation with an umpire on a North Philadelphia ball field, and one of the plainest pieces in this archive. Maceo stops him because he played baseball himself and never once spoke to the people making the calls. https://wethem.xyz/watch/the-last-day-of-ethconf-and-an-8000-dollar-airdrop-new-york.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/the-last-day-of-ethconf-and-an-8000-dollar-airdrop-new-york.html Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Bushwick, Brooklyn, at the end of the ETHConf week in June 2026, Maceo to camera in a public radio shirt. “Today was the last day at ETHConf here in Manhattan,” and, of the day job, “We're out here fundraising for public media. https://wethem.xyz/watch/whats-your-most-controversial-opinion-times-square.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/whats-your-most-controversial-opinion-times-square.html Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Twenty-eight minutes in Times Square asking one question, what's your most controversial opinion, with Isaac on camera. The answers run from pineapple on pizza to Iran, and the piece keeps all of them. https://wethem.xyz/watch/keeping-the-knicks-in-4-mentality-new-york.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/keeping-the-knicks-in-4-mentality-new-york.html Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Eleven minutes on a New York street after the Knicks lost and the series went to two to one, put together as a run of quick answers to one question: how do you keep the Knicks in 4 mentality when the Knicks are no longer in 4. The first answers are coaching. https://wethem.xyz/watch/pizza-day-from-islamabad-hamza-khan-pakistan.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/pizza-day-from-islamabad-hamza-khan-pakistan.html Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The ninth country on the tape. "I'm Hamza Khan from Islamabad, Pakistan with We Them Media," and what he wants to say is about a pizza. https://wethem.xyz/watch/global-pizza-party-and-the-crypto-community-ibadan.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/global-pizza-party-and-the-crypto-community-ibadan.html Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Three minutes from Ibadan, Nigeria, a painter filming himself between two subjects he likes: the work on the board in front of him, and pizza. It opens on the greeting and the introduction. https://wethem.xyz/watch/the-network-says-its-own-name-pizza-day-roll-call.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/the-network-says-its-own-name-pizza-day-roll-call.html Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The shortest way to see what this network is. Maceo opens: “this is a happy pizza day from our community to yours,” and then everybody says who they are and where they are, one after another, for three minutes. https://wethem.xyz/watch/bitcoin-pizza-day-in-abuja.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/bitcoin-pizza-day-in-abuja.html Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Bitcoin Pizza Day from Abuja, Nigeria, where most of the room has never been to a crypto event before and the questions are about pizza rather than blockchains. It is the most cheerful thing in this archive and it is doing something serious underneath. https://wethem.xyz/watch/how-pizza-dao-started-on-clubhouse.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/how-pizza-dao-started-on-clubhouse.html Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 How a global pizza party that reached a hundred countries started: two people on Clubhouse during lockdown, an art rabbit hole, and one five-hour conversation that somebody missed because they had to go back to work. The origin, in Saucy Saucier's telling, begins with street art rather than crypto. https://wethem.xyz/watch/the-tiny-phone-and-a-peer-to-peer-plugin.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/the-tiny-phone-and-a-peer-to-peer-plugin.html Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A Pizza DAO member pulls out the smallest Android phone on the market and makes an argument for it that has nothing to do with size. The whole point is that it is bad at the internet. https://wethem.xyz/watch/the-real-free-trade-and-an-arena-on-chinatown.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/the-real-free-trade-and-an-arena-on-chinatown.html Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Scarlett came to the United States from China in 2010, lives in Philadelphia, and gives two answers here that most people would not put in the same interview: why decentralisation is the real free trade, and why she does not want a basketball arena built on Chinatown. She arrives at the party through work. https://wethem.xyz/watch/crypto-mondays-philadelphia-and-crypto-taxes.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/crypto-mondays-philadelphia-and-crypto-taxes.html Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A Philadelphia organiser explains a crypto meetup network now running in seventy cities, and answers the question nobody asks at a party: what artificial intelligence has actually done to crypto tax work. Sean does crypto taxes and organises Crypto Mondays in Philadelphia. https://wethem.xyz/watch/pizza-dao-since-day-one-philadelphia.html https://wethem.xyz/watch/pizza-dao-since-day-one-philadelphia.html Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A Pizza DAO member since the very first one puts the scale of what it became into two sentences, at the Philadelphia party. The short version of a longer conversation.