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Curious Worldview
Featuring a mix of the world's most adventurous authors, investigative journalists, most affecting writers, odd lots, kleptocrats, corruption and curious life stories.
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Episodes
213 episodes
Robyn Davidson | '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 cam...
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Episode 214
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Phil Elwood | “I deserve whatever the opposite of a Pulitzer is” - Confessions of a PR Operative Who Made The Worst Humans Look Good
“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 C...
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Episode 213
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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...
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Episode 212
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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 con...
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Episode 211
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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...
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Episode 210
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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 'l...
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Episode 209
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Matt Houde | One Step Closer To Deep Geothermal Unlocking Global Energy Transition
Geothermal Energy Starter Pack (Geothermal Interviews On A Curious Worldview Podcast)
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Episode 208
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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://curi...
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Episode 207
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Pat McGee | Apple's Insane, Historic, Never To Be Repeated Investment In China
Pat McGee - Apple in ChinaCurious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.co...
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Episode 206
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Josh Szeps | 'Uncomfortable Conversations' - A Journey Through Media Broadcasting, Podcasting, Writing, TV & The Career Of Australia's Best Interviewer
Uncomfortable Conversations PodcastUncomfortable Conversations Substa...
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Episode 205
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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...
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Episode 203
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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/subscribe<...
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Episode 202
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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-hyperinnovatio...
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Episode 201
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Adam Hochschild | The Congo Under The Horror Of Belgium's King Leopold II...
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-otWklpxgw
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Episode 200
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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 ca...
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Episode 199
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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 D...
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Episode 198
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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 Reveng...
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Episode 197
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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 ...
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Episode 196
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Gregory Zuckerman | The Curious Case Of 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 p...
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Episode 193
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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.app...
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Episode 192
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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...
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Episode 193
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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, ...
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Episode 192
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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… be...
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Episode 191
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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 favou...
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Episode 190
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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 boo...
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Episode 189
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