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Interviews featuring a mix of investigative journalists, affecting writers, economics, geopolitics, explorers and fascinating life stories.
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Whether it's the supply chain of semi-conductors, a 25 year cold-war CIA veteran, negotiation with Chris Voss, Warden of Sweden's biggest prison, Lawrence Krauss and the universe, Cricket with the GOAT Gideon Haigh, Taiwan, China, the great adventurers and explorers the list goes on...
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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 he is afraid 'the black armband view of history' has erased. Tony makes the case that Australian...
Link's To Eric Jorgenson ejorgenson.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 make the biggest dents often pay the steepest personal price. Eric also reflects on his own journey ...
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 Australian Bureau of Statistics for an answer to the countries population, Planet will refe...
RampartThe Chairman's LoungeCurious Worldview Substack*Leave a review on Apple or Spotify* (nothing does more to help grow the show) Podcast Starter Packs Investigative 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 The Chairman's Lounge, a forensic and damning account of Qantas. But for anyone international, put simpl...
War & Wheat - Dennis VoznesenskiMy Substack (Subscribe)*Leave a review on Apple or Spotify* (nothing does more to help grow the show) Podcast Starter Packs Offshore 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 global agriculture. He is the author of 'War & Wheat'. In this conversation, Dennis explains h...
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 Packs Offshore Finance/Kleptocracy & Money LaunderingGeopolitics/Economics/Economic DevelopmentExplorers & AdventurersInvestigative Journalists--- When Irish journalist Jeff Farrell arrived in Venezuela during the Chávez years as a Latin American correspondent, he couldn't have chanced a more serendipitous encoun...
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 Packs Offshore Finance/Kleptocracy & Money LaunderingGeopolitics/Economics/Economic DevelopmentExplorers & AdventurersInvestigative Journalists--- Jeremy Dicker is a co-founder of International Intrigue, a daily geopolitics newsletter delivered to ...
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 Offshore Finance/Kleptocracy & Money LaunderingGeopolitics/Economics/Economic DevelopmentEx...
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 World Robyn Davidson - Australian Living Legend. Documenter Of Nomads. Jon Lee Anderson - New Yorker Staff Writer, A Life Of Adventure. --- Tim Cope underwent a three year journey traversing the entire Eurasian steppe, starting in K...
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 these, both an employee and employer as the business models were repeatedly shaken and reca...
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 investigating the ruins of the Spanish bank, Banco Popular. It began as a routine story but...
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, they destroy it.”On new media: “It’s amazingly empowering to write something and press publish — n...
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 gather supplies for the impending trip. She figured $1000 would do, and serendipitously met the National ...
“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 and incredible clarity about what he learned from that world. The moral grey zones, the ...
“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 extracting them. We cover the story of copper — the wire of empire. Beiser reveals why humanity ...
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, arguing that our cosmic insignificance is precisely what makes life meaningful. Along ...
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 best selling author, but as well… a best subscribed substacker! 'Chris Arnade Walks The World...
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, institutions and in a word... bureaucracies. From his creation of the HALE Index to his decades inside Australia’s public in...
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 alternative to costly traditional drilling methods for accessing those critically hot depths. It...
Sam Roggeveen - The Echidna Strategy Curious 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 size and vulnerability, they have evolved this incredible defensive system. Their bodies are c...
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