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...
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Episodes
216 episodes
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 r...
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Episode 217
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52:29
Gareth Gore | Political Fallout & 'Smear Campaign' From Opus Dei
Gareth Gore | Unveiling The Conspiracy Of Opus Dei (his first appearance)
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Episode 216
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50:37
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 ...
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Episode 215
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1:45:27
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 cam...
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Episode 214
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2:15:31
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 C...
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Episode 213
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1:39:09
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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59:00
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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45:41
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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1:09:52
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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2:46:11
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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1:09:34
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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1:23:59
Pat McGee | Apple's 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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1:11:13
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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1:27:54
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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2:06:58
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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1:04:24
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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1:44:15
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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1:06:00
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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1:13:24
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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1:21:27
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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32:47
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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1:10:31
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 p...
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Episode 193
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1:15:16
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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1:21:35
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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1:19:14
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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