Curious Worldview
Interviews featuring a mix of investigative journalists, affecting writers, economics, geopolitics, explorers and fascinating life stories. 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... Check out the 'Starter Packs' I put together for the best place to start with the pod... economics, Subscribe to the Substack: https://curiousworldviewpod.substack.com/subscribe
Episodes
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Podcast Starter Packs
- Offshore Finance/Kleptocracy & Money Laundering
- Geopolitics/Economics/Economic Development
- Explorers & Adventurers
- Investigative Journalists
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Dennis Voznesenski is an Australian analyst who has spent his career deep in the world of global agriculture. H...
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Podcast Starter Packs
- Offshore Finance/Kleptocracy & Money Laundering
- Geopolitics/Economics/Economic Development
- Explorers & Adventurers
- Investigative Journalists
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When Irish journalist Jeff Farrell arrived in Venezuela during the Chávez years a...
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Previous guests on the podcast similar to this!
Podcast Starter Packs
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Previous guests on the podcast similar to this!
- Nicolas Niarchos First Appearance On The Pod
- Tim Butcher - Blood River (CLASSIC EP)
- Adam Hochschild - King Leopold's Ghost
- Jon Lee Anderson - New Yorker Staff Writer, A Life Of Adventure
Podcast Start...
On The Trail Of Genghis Khan - Tim Cope (Book)
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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.
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Tim Cope underwent a three year journey...
The Men Who Killed The News (Book)
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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...
Gareth Gore | Unveiling The Conspiracy Of Opus Dei (his first appearance)
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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 ban...
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...
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 im...
“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 ...
“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 cop...
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 insi...
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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 auth...
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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... bureau...
Geothermal Energy Starter Pack (Geothermal Interviews On A Curious Worldview Podcast)
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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 ...
Sam Roggeveen - The Echidna Strategy
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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, the...
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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 unique relationshi...
Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast
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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 interviewed everyone from t...
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Arne Anderson, Three Tours In Afghanistan For The Swedish Military #46
Swedens Elite Police Unit, Piketen #146
Christopher Neijd Police Lieutenant in Södertälje & Southern Stockholm #165
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Because of my old mate, Arne Andersson - I’ve been incredibly lucky to have gotten to know several of his old military buddies. There are those ...
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Colin Thubron (Link's to all books)
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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 years ago. He’s a...
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