Curious Worldview
Interviews featuring a mix of investigative journalists, affecting writers, economics, geopolitics, explorers and fascinating life stories. Check out the 'Starter Packs' for the best place to start with the pod. Subscribe to the Substack for more content.
Episodes
Ed Cowan | Australian Test Cricket... “The output's objective. There's nothing subjective about a twenty-ball duck”
Ed Cowan is an Australian test cricketer, investor, podcaster and author.He’s one of those people whose name I jotted down 6 years ago when I started the show earmarked as a ‘dream guest’.He played in a golden era of Australian cricket and did so at a time when I was obsessed with the sport myself (I had delusions about being a test cricketer) and therefore like the music of your youth those crick
Tim Marshall | 'Despite It All... We Remain Prisoners Of Geography'
Tim Marshall is back for a fourth time. We've now done a show for every book: Prisoners of Geography, The Power of Geography and The Future of Geography. Now the book that started a whole genre has turned 10 years, and Tim has gone back and rewritten the entire thing.So the question writes itself: how do you update a guide to how geography explains the world when the geography itself hasn&apo
Oliver Bullough | The Awful Consequences Of Moneyland Are Compounding
Four years ago, almost to the day of recording, Oliver Bullough was a guest on this show for the first time to discuss his concept of 'Moneyland'. This borderless virtual country where the wealthy go to keep their wealth beyond the reach of any government, any tax office, any voter. Between then and now, I've maintained interest on this thread. Nicholas Shaxson discussed on the pod
Matt Friedman | Modern Slavery Is Getting Worse
This podcast has returned to modern slavery three times now. Lisa Kristine showed us its face through her photography. Bruce Ladebu described what it actually takes to pull children out. And Matthew Friedman, in Episode 76, gave us the architecture: thirty-five years working across Nepal, Bangladesh, Thailand, the UN, and eventually the Mekong Club. That first episode opened with the story of an 1
Joshua Bandoch | The Science of Persuasion - Why We Feel First Then Reason Later
Joshua Bandoch is the Head of Policy at the Illinois Policy Institute and the debut author of 'How to Get What You Want'. It's persuasion and communication all the way down. Josh's argues that almost everything most of us were taught about how to win an argument is wrong and now the neuroscience proves it. Aristotle, it turns out, had this figured out 2,400 years ago. Kant, the
Tony Abbott (Australia's 28th Prime Minister) On "Our Countries Remarkable History"
Tony Abbott served as Australia's 28th Prime Minister from 2013 to 2015. He is a Rhodes Scholar and among the most polarising and consequential figures in modern Australian political history. Rather than writing a series of memoirs detailing the turbulent years before, during and after his leadership of Australia, he instead, wanted to re-introduce a pride for Australia's history which h
Eric Jorgenson | What We Can Learn From Elon
Link's To Eric Jorgensonejorgenson.com (personal website)scribemedia.com (company)elonmuskbook.org (book)Eric Jorgenson, author of the Naval Almanac and the Book of Elon, and CEO of Scribe Media joins me to discuss what makes Elon Musk the most consequential entrepreneur alive. We dig into Elon's purpose-driven risk-taking, his philosophy of attacking bottlenecks, and why the people who
Will Marshall | CEO Of Planet - Creating A Queryable Earth
Will Marshall is the CEO and Co-Founder of Planet.Planet own and operate a fleet of (200+) satellites which image daily, the entire world.Planet’s ultimate ambition is to achieve a queryable earth. The way you might ask Google what the population of Australia is, you’d be able to ask Planet any conceivable question you might have about the surface of the world. The way Google would refer to the Au
Joe Aston | From Rear Window to Rampart
RampartThe Chairman's LoungeCurious Worldview Substack*Leave a review on Apple or Spotify* (nothing does more to help grow the show)Podcast Starter PacksInvestigative JournalistsOffshore Finance/Kleptocracy & Money LaunderingGeopolitics/Economics/Economic DevelopmentExplorers & Adventurers---Who is Joe Aston?For my Australian audience, you'll likely know him from his debut book T
Dennis Voznesenski | How Agriculture Explains Geopolitics
War & Wheat - Dennis VoznesenskiMy Substack (Subscribe)*Leave a review on Apple or Spotify* (nothing does more to help grow the show)Podcast Starter PacksOffshore Finance/Kleptocracy & Money LaunderingGeopolitics/Economics/Economic DevelopmentExplorers & AdventurersInvestigative Journalists---Dennis Voznesenski is an Australian analyst who has spent his career deep in the world of glob
Jeff Farrell | Venezuela... Latin American Correspondent & 'Cocaine Dairies'
Jeff Farrell 'Cocaine Diaries' My Substack (Subscribe)Jeff Farrell Website*Leave a review on Apple or Spotify* (nothing does more to help grow the show)Podcast Starter PacksOffshore Finance/Kleptocracy & Money LaunderingGeopolitics/Economics/Economic DevelopmentExplorers & AdventurersInvestigative Journalists---When Irish journalist Jeff Farrell arrived in Venezuela during the Ch
Jeremy Dicker | 10 Geopolitical Predictions For 2026
International Intrigue - NewsletterMy Substack (Subscribe)*Leave a review on Apple or Spotify* (nothing does more to help grow the show)---Previous guests on the podcast similar to this!Robert Kaplan - A World In CrisisPodcast Starter PacksOffshore Finance/Kleptocracy & Money LaunderingGeopolitics/Economics/Economic DevelopmentExplorers & AdventurersInvestigative Journalists---Jeremy Dicke
Nicolas Niarchos | Cobalt, China & The Congo... The Elements Of Power
The Elements of Power - Nicolas NiarchosMy Substack (Subscribe)*Leave a review on Apple or Spotify* (nothing does more to help grow the show)---Previous guests on the podcast similar to this!Nicolas Niarchos First Appearance On The PodTim Butcher - Blood River (CLASSIC EP)Adam Hochschild - King Leopold's GhostJon Lee Anderson - New Yorker Staff Writer, A Life Of AdventurePodcast Starter Packs
Tim Cope | In The Shadow Of Genghis Khan - 10,000km & 3 Years On Horseback Across The Mongol Empire's Eurasian Steppe
On The Trail Of Genghis Khan - Tim Cope (Book)My Substack (Subscribe)*Leave a review on Apple or Spotify* (nothing does more to help grow the show)---Previous guests on the podcast similar to this!Jack Weatherford - Genghis Khan & The Making Of The Modern WorldRobyn Davidson - Australian Living Legend. Documenter Of Nomads.Jon Lee Anderson - New Yorker Staff Writer, A Life Of Adventure.---Tim
Eric Beecher| The Rogues Gallery Of Media Moguls & The Men Who Killed The News
The Men Who Killed The News (Book)My Substack (Subscribe)* Consider leaving a review on Apple or Spotify * (nothing does more to help grow the show)---Eric Beecher is a veteran journalist, editor and entrepreneur whose experienced first hand the dramatic evolution of the previous 40 years of media. From broadsheet’s to TV to the internet to facebook, podcasts, now AI. Eric has been across all thes
Gareth Gore | Political Fallout & 'Smear Campaign' From Opus Dei
Gareth Gore | Unveiling The Conspiracy Of Opus Dei (his first appearance)Gareth Gore - Opus (Amazon)Subscribe To The Curious Worldview Substack---This is Gareth’s second appearance on the podcast. It is the political fallout from everything covered in our first episode where he told the story for how he serendipitously uncovered Opus Dei’s hidden power and financial manipulation while investigatin
Gideon Haigh | The Love Of Cricket, Archives & Eclectic Curiosities - Doyen Of Cricket History & Correspondence
A probe into Gideon Haigh's worldview, someone I've anticipated interviewing ever since this podcast began. Some highlights from the podcast.On cricket: “Cricket marches backwards into the future — always haunted by its past.”On Warne: “He had perfect superficiality and the gift of putting everyone at ease.”On journalism: “Legacy media has become mindlessly negative. If they can’t own it
Robyn Davidson | Among Australia's Most Mythologised Lives... 'Memoir Is The Slipperiest Genre' - Unfinished Woman, Tracks & A Life Of Nomadism
I've anticipated this interview for 6 years. Robyn Davidson has lived one of the most mythologised lives in Australian memory.She famously and unintentionally burst onto the scene with Tracks in 1988, which was a 2,700km camel trek across the Simpson desert. She'd never intended to write a book or document anything of it's kind from the journey, but was desperate for some money to g
Phil Elwood | Confessions of a Public Relations Operative
“I deserved whatever the opposite of a Pulitzer is.”Phil Elwood is the author of All the Worst Humans, a confessional memoir from the dubious world of public relations.As a PR operative. He helped Qatar win the 2022 World Cup. He spun the release of the Lockerbie bomber into a “positive headline.” Had the Gaddafi family, the Assad regime and plenty more among his clients. Phil speaks with humility
Vince Beiser | 'The Wire Of Empire' Copper, Power & the Race to Mine the Future
“In the next 25 years, the world will need more copper than in all of human history.”Amendment - I said 3.2 billion kg of copper in opening question, I should have said 320 million kg. In this episode, journalist and author Vince Beiser returns to the podcast to discuss his book Power Metal, a sobering look at the metals that make modern civilization possible — and the extraordinary cost of extrac
Lawrence Krauss | 'The Universe Doesn’t Care About Us... And That’s Beautiful' - Reflections On Christopher Hitchens, Physics & The Universe
Theoretical physicist and bestselling author Lawrence Krauss (A Universe from Nothing, The Known Unknowns) explores the biggest questions we can ask: How did the universe begin? Why is there something rather than nothing? What is consciousness? And what will remain when every star has burned out?Krauss moves seamlessly from the hard science of the Big Bang and dark energy to existential philosophy
Chris Arnade | 'Walks The World' & Absorbs Australia In Full
Subscribe to Chris Arnade's Substack - https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/Who is Chris Arnade!He started as a physicist, earning a PHD from Johns Hopkins and then took to Wall St spending two decades on an elite trading desk at CitiGroup before disillusioning his well dressed allies to engage in the photography, walking and writing of the great and forgotten cities of this world. He is a be
Nicholas Gruen | Brilliant Australian Economist On Pokies, Citizen Juries, Institutional Lethargy, Superannuation & The HALE Index
Subscribe to Nicholas Gruen's Substack - https://nicholasgruen.substack.com/I joined the Australian economist Nicholas Gruen recently in his Melbourne home to host his first 'long-form' podcast (although I'm not sure at what hour it goes from short to long)At the core of Gruen's worldview is the “un-seriousness” he levels at Australian politics, the media landscape, instit
Matt Houde | One Step Closer To Deep Geothermal Unlocking Global Energy Transition
Geothermal Energy Starter Pack (Geothermal Interviews On A Curious Worldview Podcast)Curious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe-----Quaise are on the other side of the most exciting week in their companies short history. They use millimeter wave energy from a gyrotron to vaporise rock and create boreholes for accessing deep geothermal energy, offering an alternat
Sam Roggeveen | 'The Echidna Strategy' - How Australia Can Become Defensively Self-Reliant, The Implications Of China's Military Rise & The Role of the US In The Region
Sam Roggeveen - The Echidna StrategyCurious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe-----Sam Roggeveen coined The 'Echidna Strategy' - which is an on the nose metaphor for thinking about Australian Defence policy. Echidna’s are a tiny, cute little animals native to Australia. They are essentially harmless, they only eat ants and termites but despite their si
Pat McGee | Apple's Historic, Never To Be Repeated Investment In China
Pat McGee - Apple in ChinaCurious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe-----Each year, Apple sells more than 100 million unit's of it's various products, with some factories capable of producing up to 500,000 iPhones (alone) per day. This scale of quality and quantity is not replicated anywhere else in history. And it's all down to the special and uni
Josh Szeps | 'Uncomfortable Conversations' - A Journey Through Media Broadcasting, Podcasting, Writing, TV & The Career Of Australia's Best Interviewer
Uncomfortable Conversations PodcastUncomfortable Conversations SubstackCurious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe-----Josh Szeps is a broadcaster, political commentator, and in my opinion, Australia's best interviewer. He has, afterall, conducted thousands of them… and from many different pulpits. Whether it’s podcasting, Huffpost live, or radio, Josh has in
Warden Of The Isolation Unit At Sweden's Largest Maximum Security Prison | The Entanglements Of Crime & Punishment
Curious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribeArne Anderson, Three Tours In Afghanistan For The Swedish Military #46Swedens Elite Police Unit, Piketen #146Christopher Neijd Police Lieutenant in Södertälje & Southern Stockholm #165 -----Because of my old mate, Arne Andersson - I’ve been incredibly lucky to have gotten to know several of his old military buddies. T
Colin Thubron | Across Borders, Many Times, What Endures... One Of The Greatest Living Travel Writers
Watch on Youtube instead - https://youtu.be/RinLuTi04cICurious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribeColin Thubron (Link's to all books)-----Colin Thubron is one of the greatest living travel writers. He started with the Mirror To Damascus in 1967 and with more than half a century and 18 travel books later published his journey along the Amur River just a few ye
Philippe Gijsels | Shifting Economic Sands... Meditations On 'The Fourth Turning'
Watch on Youtube instead - https://youtu.be/w6Vpcy2cdRkCurious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribePhilippe Gijsels Book - https://www.amazon.com/World-Economy-Trends-superinflation-hyperinnovation/dp/9401409013-----The following is with Philippe Gijsels, the Chief Strategy Officer at BNP Paribas Fortis - he co-wrote a book last year called The New World Economy in
Adam Hochschild | The Congo & King Leopold's Ghost In The Heart Of Darkness
Youtube Episode - https://youtu.be/fXVZCUR_RowCurious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribeTim Butcher Episode - https://open.spotify.com/episode/6QIQLYuwbA2cFLCzJc8TGl?si=nKU21dGrRX-Z-otWklpxgwKing Leopold's Ghost Book - https://www.amazon.com.au/King-Leopolds-Ghost-Adam-Hochshild/dp/0618001905From 1885, for 13 years, one man, King Leopold II, owned, as his pe
Axel Humlesjö | 'Money Laundering Is The Biggest Societal Issue Facing Europe' - It's Honey Traps, Kompromat & The Cancer Of Offshore Finance All The Way Down...
Youtube - https://youtu.be/gQa204zHovUCurious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribeAxel Humlesjö is a Swedish journalist against which money laundering, the plumbing of offshore finance and the cancerous nature of dark money, continuously crash up against.Axel was a part of the team that uncovered systematic money laundering activities with Swedbank in the Baltics.
Kerry Brown | It's Taiwan All The Way Down... 'The Greatest Geopolitical Question Of The 21st Century'
Youtube - https://youtu.be/4MWFzPXQPY8Curious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribeTaiwan is the greatest geopolitical question of the 21st century says Kerry Brown, sinologist, and former Diplomat to the British Embassy in Beijing. He is, I am thrilled to say the guest on todays podcast. A sinologist is a scholar and expert of China, its language, history, politic
Robert Kaplan | Veteran Geopolitical Analyst On A World In Permanent Crisis
Youtube - https://youtu.be/G6EIYURdSOACurious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribeRobert Kaplan has been sighted as one of the most influential geopolitical thinkers of the modern era. The Revenge Of Geography, Surrender or Starve, Balkan Ghosts, Asias Cauldron, The Tragic Mind, and so on, I counted 18 books so far with his most recent being - Waste Land: A World I
Marcel Dirsus | Slipping Into Authoritarianism & How Tyrant's Fall
Youtube - https://youtu.be/MntDK3kWRekCurious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribeThe following is with german political scientist, former beer brewer in the Congo, and author of How Tyrants Fall - Marcel DirsusMarcel interviewed coup leaders, dissidents and soldiers to write about the workings and malfunctions of tyrants. Because while the individual personas, ecc
Gregory Zuckerman | Jim Simons, The Medallion Fund & The Man Who Solved The Market
Youtube - https://youtu.be/uPU6hJsvMcMCurious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribeGregory Zuckerman is one of the Wall Street Journal GOATS and as well has authored plenty of wonderful books. He pulls back many of the hidden curtains of wall st. The big egos, the big enigmatic personalities, and naturally as well, the big brilliance behind these masters of the univ
Bradley Hope | Blood & Oil... The Story of Mohammed bin Salman
Youtube - https://youtu.be/EF-yONBmGa8 Bradley's #51 Curious Worldview Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/episode/4cHyTyId6UbBrBM1nbDt9q?si=faZKIDlQRGCH8iQW4k2uwQ Bradley's #51 Curious Worldview Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/51-bradley-hope-billion-dollar-whale-blood-oil-project/id1540424160?i=1000539362238&l=en-GBWhale Hunting Podcast (Highly Recommend) - https://pod
Christopher Marquis | Negative Externalities... How Corporations Privatise Their Upside By Socialising The Downside
Youtube - https://youtu.be/TQVWUdFibC8 The Profiteers - https://www.amazon.com/Profiteers-Business-Privatizes-Profits-Socializes/dp/1541703529Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribeChristopher Marquis spent 10 years as a professor at the Harvard Business School, he’s also worked as a professor at Cornell, the Harvard Kennedy School and is currently a professor at the Judge Busi
Zhala Bayramova | Azerbaijan Human Rights Lawyer Fighting To Free Her Father
https://freegubad.com/Zhala X - https://x.com/BayramovaZhalaZhala Bayramova is a human rights lawyer and child of political prisoner and human rights defender Dr. Gubad Ibadoghlu. I met Zhala recently at Bill Browders, Magnitsky Awards, where Zhala won youth activist of the year. Her legal status is that of a political refugee in Sweden, having been horrifically beaten during protests in Azerbaija
James Robinson | 'Why Nations Fail' - 2024 Nobel Prize Winner In Economics
James Robinson is winning the Nobel Prize for Economics this year alongside his co-author Daron Acemoglu and fellow economist, Simon Johnson.This is obviously extremely exciting for him, but as well selfishly, rather exciting for me… because in episode 24, James Robinson was one of the first people I ever interviewed for this podcast. James co-wrote an outrageously successful book in 2012 called -
Jack Weatherford | How Genghis Khan's Grandson (Kublai Khan) Further Expanded The Mongol Empire
Jack Weatherford returns to the pod which marks a pretty sentimental moment for me (links are at the bottom of this email, before the transcript snippet).Jack’s first appearance was #19 of the podcast. To this day, it’s my favourite podcast I’ve ever recorded. These are links to the first appearance. Jack Weatherford #19 on SpotifyJack Weatherford #19 on AppleJack Weatherford #19 on YoutubeBut fou
Nat Eliason | From Crypto To Copy: Exit Liquidity, Crypto Confidential & Writing Worthy Of Posterity
Nat Eliason is an absolute legend. I’ve been subscribed to his newsletter, following his tweets, and listening to his interviews for what feels like years now.He’s a prolific online writer who recently published his debut book, a memoir of a crypto side quest he spiralled deep down into which is serves as revelatory for the sheer insanity that is crypto. It’s meme coins, making loads of money, los
Levison Wood | The Discipline To Take Big Risk: Life in Adventure, Serendipity, Writing & Photography
Levison Wood is an author, journalist, tv star, photographer, film producer, script writer, fellow of the Royal Geographic Society and as well to top it all off… former Officer in the British Army’s Parachute Regiment.If you’ve never heard of Levison Wood, he’s written books that have taken us all across the world. He was propelled into fame with his debut 'Walking The Nile' back in 2015
David De Jong | Nazi Billionaires Addendum: Kuehne + Nagel
David De Jong First Appearance On The Pod - Nazi Billionaires, #127 - AppleDavid De Jong First Appearance On The Pod - Nazi Billionaires, #127 - SpotifyDavid De Jong is a Dutch historian and investigative journalist.Early in his career, he found himself in New York reporting for Bloomberg on hidden fortunes and the power of family offices all across the world - it was during this job he discovered
Patrick Watts | The US Election
✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribehttps://atlasgeographica.com/patrick-watts/The following is with Patrick Watts who is one hell of an interesting fella and in this podcast we discuss the various outcomes and implications of the 2024 US election contra Trump & Harris.The End Of The American Empire – UK AmazonThe End Of The American Empire – US A
Stephanie Baker | Oligarchs, Sanctions & The Global Economic War With Russia
Stephanie Baker is a journalist whose been writing between the intersection of business and politics for almost 30 years with Bloomberg. Stephanie's just published her first book and it is just amazing and the consequence of covering these topics for a lifetime. The network, the knowledge, the weird language of sanctions of financial opacity. It’s a book about the global economic war with Rus
Gareth Gore | Unveiling The Conspiracy Of Opus Dei
Opus Dei are a predatory catholic cult that started in Spain in the early 20th century and grew and grew over the years into a global organisation that set out with the singular vision to re-christianise the entire world. Gareth Gore stumbled into this story when researching and writing the collapse of one of Spains largest financial institutions, Banco Popular, which turns out was the bottomless
Johan Norberg | Author Of 'The Capitalist Manifesto' - Negative Externality & Where Markets Fail
Youtube - https://youtu.be/iCNiZfMASNs Subscribe To The Curious Worldview Newsletter----Johan Norberg is a prolific author and academic, he’s one of the most notable members of the Cato Institute and as well someone who has recently bronzed in the blinding spotlight of both Javier Milei and Elon Musk. Johan is a staunch defender of globalisation and author of‘ The Capitalist Manifesto’ which was b
John Christensen | How Offshore Finance Corrodes Culture, Politics & A Globalised World
Subscribe To The Curious Worldview NewsletterCurious Things Mentioned During The EpisodeOffshore Finance Starter Pack 'Curious Worldview Podcast' EpisodesFollow me on Instagram – @ryanfhogg----Just how cancerous and pernicious to culture, politics and a globalised world is offshore finance and financial opacity?Few if any people in the world are better suited to answer this question than
Bruce Ladebu | This Man Has Rescued +2,400 Children From Slavery
Subscribe To The Curious Worldview NewsletterCurious Things Mentioned During The EpisodeMatthew Freidman -Human TraffickingLisa Kristine - Photographing Modern SlaveryLisa Kristine Ted TalkFollow me on Instagram – @ryanfhoggOut Of The Slave Fields - Bruce Ladebu (Book)The Children's Rescue Initiative (Donate)----At this very moment there are over 40,000,000 people around the world trapped in
Chris Voss | The Power Of Open Questions… Never Split The Difference
Subscribe To The Curious Worldview Newsletter Never Split The Difference Book Review (Things To Know If You Do Sales)Curious Things Mentioned During The EpisodeChristopher Turner – 25 Year CIA Veteran, Lessons In EspionageSam Leith – It’s Rhetoric All The Way DownNever Split The Difference Book Review (Things To Know If You Do Sales)Follow me on Instagram – @ryanfhogg* Chris Voss 'The Edge&ap
Rory Sutherland | An Hour Surveying The Worldview
✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter - the ultimate compliment to the podcast...I am stoked to welcome back one of the most out there and interesting writers, thinkers and speakers, Rory Sutherland.He founded the behavioural science team at the Ogilvy group, he is one of Europe’s most powerful advertising executives and author many many books and articles, his most recent book, Alchemy, coming hig
Tom Chivers | It's Bayes All The Way Down... Probability & Bayes Theorem
✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter - the ultimate compliment to the podcast...Other episode of the podcast that suit this episode...Brian Klaas – Fluke & RandomnessRuss Roberts – EconTalkLuca Dellanna – Ergodicity All The Way DownScott Patterson – Chaos KingsNassim Taleb & Incerto PodcastFollow me on Instagram – @ryanfhoggEverything Is Predictable – Tom ChiversTom Chivers is a prolific s
Ash Bhardwaj | Author, Journalist & Adventurer On 'Why We Travel'
✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter - the ultimate compliment to the podcast...Jon Lee AndersonCharlie WalkerFollow me on Instagram - @ryanfhoggWhy We Travel - Ash BhardwajAsh Bhardwaj is an author, journalist, film-maker and former british army who amongst his many expeditions has ventured the likes of journeying 8500km along the Russian European border. Retraced secret missions of WW2 through A
Victor Haghani | Missing Billionaires, An Ode To Jim Simons & Top To Bottom Index Investing
✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter - the ultimate compliment to the podcast...Bill BrowderNassim TalebFollow me on Instagram - @ryanfhoggThis is an interview with Victor Haghani who is among many other things… the Co-Founder of LTCM (long term capital management), the Founder of Elm Wealth and the author of Missing Billionaires.In this interview we focused on Victor himself... his experiences at
Samo Burja | The Wallenberg Family Of Sweden, Nassim Taleb & Why Organisations Thrive & Fall
✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter - the ultimate compliment to the podcast...Russ Roberts – Taleb & HitchensScott Patterson – Taleb & Chaos KingsMagnus Ranstorp – Terrorism & Political ViolenceJames Robinson – Why Nations FailFollow me on Instagram - @ryanfhoggSamo Burja founded Bismarck Analysis, of which Bismarck Brief has spun off, which is a consulting and research firm that inv
Marc Hijink | 'Focus'... ASML, The Dutch Behemoth
✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter - the ultimate compliment to the podcast...Jos Benschop – SVP Science ASML - Episode #56Chris Miller – Chip War - Episode #81ASML Bloody Good BusinessFollow me on Instagram - @ryanfhoggWatch on youtube - https://youtu.be/Kxmf6P-JHa8ASML is certainly among the most critical businesses to the modern economy. They make the machines that make the microchips which m
Sam Leith | De-Coding The Worlds Best Speeches & World’s Greatest Talkers... It’s Rhetoric All The Way Down…
✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribeFollow me on Instagram - @ryanfhoggWatch on Youtube - https://youtu.be/Kx8N66hK8kISam Leith is the literary editor for the oldest surviving weekly magazine in the world, an organisation which started publication in 1828 which means… the magazine for which he is the literary editor of, The Spectator, are on the doors
Michael Hilliard | From Geopolitical Ghostwriting To 'The Red Line Podcast'
✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribeFollow me on Instagram - @ryanfhoggWatch on Youtube - https://youtu.be/ZzsFPOUzlHgMicheal Hilliard is a geopolitical analyst host and creator of 'The Red Line Podcast'… and! a fellow Aussie coming to us today from Australia’s glorious West coast capital, Perth.Micheal and his team with the 'Red Line&a
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Ernest Scheyder | The Real Costs Mining The Cobalt, Lithium, Copper & Rare Earths That Will Dictate The 21st Century
✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribeFollow me on Instagram - @ryanfhoggWatch on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@curiousworldview/videoshttps://atlasgeographica.com/ernest-scheyder/#170 - Ernest Scheyder runs directly towards the impossible trade-offs of mining in the ‘War Below’...The electrification of the economy is on the one hand very good. It
Jon Lee Anderson | Che Guevara Biographer & New Yorker Staff Writer - A Life in Adventure, Conflict Zones & Journalism
✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribehttps://atlasgeographica.com/jon-lee-anderson/#169 - I once responded to a question in a grant application that the people I admired most were great adventurers, great writers and great journalists… the kicker naturally being, that the best was a combination of all three!Well, in Jon Lee Anderson we have an exempl
Patrick Watts | The End Of The American Empire & The Scorecard For Previous Empire Collapse
✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribehttps://atlasgeographica.com/patrick-watts/#168 - The following is with Patrick Watts who is one hell of an interesting fella, this was a really fun episode to record!The podcast is about the themes from his debut book, The End Of The American Empire. The End Of The American Empire – UK AmazonThe End Of The American
Bill Browder | State Of Russian Culture, Russian Economy + Global Despots & Bill Browder's Rogues Gallery
✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribehttps://atlasgeographica.com/bill-browder-russia/#167 - Bill Browder is back for his #2 appearance on the pod!This was recorded in his London offices, and builds upon the themes from our first conversation.Bill discusses the very real threat of assassination by both Putin and China. He lays out his Rouges Gallery of
Brian Klaas | How To Think About An Unlimited Future Of Possibilities - Flukes, Chance, Randomness & Nassim Taleb
✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribehttps://atlasgeographica.com/brian-klaas/#166 - Brian Klaas is an associate professor in global politics at University College London, author of several books, host of a really good podcast, creator of a huge substack and someone who has created a life for himself for which I wish to emulate many parts…We recorded t
Christopher Neijd | Police Lieutenant - Södertälje & Southern Stockholm
✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe#165 - Christopher Neijd is a police lieutenant for Southern Stockholm, he’s been in the force for more than 14 years, and is a close mates of Rhino who was episode #146 as a member of Sweden’s SWAT force, called Piketen. This is an interview about Christopher's experiences on the police force, how Sweden has o
(Re-Upload) 'Big Mike' Salbro | Growing Up Aboriginal In Sweden From The Stolen Generation
✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/mike-salbro-aboriginal-in-sweden/Originally uploaded July 2021, episode #31 of the pod! Today, over 130 episodes later, I am re-uploading this ep to bring it the top of the feed!Mike’s story is full of twists, turns, tragedies and inspiration. He was adopted at just a few months old
2023 In Review (Stats, Highlights & Peeking Behind The Curtain)
✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter!! https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribeThe podcast's year in review!Check out stats of the podcast, reflection on best. episodes of the year, dreams and ambitions for the future. Pump the good juice! And see you next year mate ;)
Elizabeth Kolbert | Sleep Walking Into The Sixth Extinction…
✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter!! https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/elizabeth-kolbert/#162 - Elizabeth Kolbert writes about science, and the environment. She is staff writer at the New Yorker and now, the second pulitzer prize winning journalist to have joined this podcast.Elizabeth was awarded the pulitzer prize for her 2015 book, the Sixth Extinc
Lisa Kristine | Witness & Photographer Of Modern Day Slavery
✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/lisa-kristine/#161 - Lisa Kristine is an adventurer, humanitarian & fine art photographer. She’s taken some of the most devastating but as well beautiful photos you are ever likely to see. She recorded an incredibly moving a TED talk about her work photographing modern slavery. It’s an absolute must view. Her wo
Marlene Laruelle | Russia... Peaking Behind The Curtain - Russian Demographics, The Russia-Ukraine War & Global De-Secularisation
✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe#160 - Marlene Laruelle is a Research Professor of International Affairs and Political Science at George Washington University in Washington DC. She is an expert on the culture and anthropology of Russia and many of the Stan central asian countries. She’s written 10 books on these subjects and was just the most incredible guest to have had on the s
Óscar Cabello | It’s Paraguay All The Way Down
✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/oscar-cabello/#159 - How do I introduce Oscar Cabello, other than to say, he is a great Paraguayan…Oscar is the former ambassador for Paraguay to Austria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia ,Greece, Italy, Spain, Morocco and Andorra. He was both the Chairman and Vice Chairman, for the UN Commission on C
Magnus Ranstorp | An Encyclopaedia On Modern Terrorism & Political Violence Reflects On His Career
✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/magnus-ranstorp/#158 - Magnus Ranstorp is a Swedish academic, hostage negotiator, teacher and author who has been researching and writing about terrorism for more than 30 years.He is an encyclopaedia on modern terrorism and political violence. He was also the first author to seriously map out the Lebanese Hezbollah
Matt Breen | Behind The Scenes With The Creator Of The Explorers Podcast
✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/explorers-podcast/#157 - Matt Breen is host of the Explorers Podcast, which focuses on the great explorers and adventurers of history.I think I’m right in asserting that this is unlike you will have heard Matt before. He hasn’t done a dedicated long form podcast elsewhere, and so this exploration into the history o
Heidi Blake | The Great Cash-For-Carbon Hustle... Plant A Tree, Offset Your Carbon, It's Greenwashing All The Way Down
✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/heidi-blake/New Yorker Article - Great Carbon-For-Cash Hustle#156 - Heidi Blake is a writer at the New Yorker, author of two books, and recently wrote the most amazing magazine piece about the carbon offsetting market and some of the greenwashing schemes at its core. In this podcast we cover top to bottom Heidi’s st
Zeke Faux | Into To The Belly Of Crypto Mania.. Number Go Up?
✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/zeke-faux/Number Go Up - Zeke Faux#155 - The general consensus for Zeke’s book is that is that it’s the better half of Michael Lewis’s ‘Going Infinite’. ‘Number Go Up’ documents, first hand, from the Bahamas to Cambodia to El Salvador to the halls of power of US, the wild mania of crypto and the insanely eclectic, d
David De Jong | First Hand Reporting On The Ground From October 7th Israel
✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/david-de-jong-oct-7th/#154 - The following is with David De Jong who is the Middle East Correspondent for the Dutch Newspaper, FD. He lives in Israel, and has been reporting from the ground since the early hours of October 7th.Some of you may recognise him from an earlier appearance he made on this podcast, talking
Duncan Mavin | Lex Greensill's Billion Dollar House Of Cards & Scandalous Collapse
✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/duncan-mavin/#153 - Lex Greensill's Pyramid Of Lies by Duncan Mavin.What if I told that you that Credit Suisse, one of finances most foundational banks was helped brought to it’s knees by a charismatic bogan playing posh from Bundaberg…This podcast is about a fella called Lex Greensill… who, among many other th
Matthew Friedman | The Horrific Realities Of Modern Slavery & Human Trafficking
✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/matthew-friedman/Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/#152 - This is a podcast about human trafficking and modern slavery.The guest is Matthew Friedman, and he is the CEO of the Mekong Club, which is an organisation that mobilises the private sector to take action against human trafficking and modern slav
Luca Dellanna | It's Ergodicity All The Way Down
✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/#151 - The following is with the debut Italian on this podcast, the one and only Luca Dellanna.Luca is the extremely successful author of 9 books, and he writes these alongside his day job, as an independent consultant advising businesses across the world at the inters
