🎙️: https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/share Curious Worldview Podcast - #170 w/ Ernest Scheyder On Apple Curious Worldview Podcast - #170 w/ Ernest Scheyder On Spotify https://atlasgeographica.com/ernest-scheyder/ 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 means we can move away from consuming the carbon rich oil into our atmosphere… but it also means that we are...

🎙️: https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/share Curious Worldview Podcast - #169 w/ Jon Lee Anderson On Apple Curious Worldview Podcast - #169 w/ Jon Lee Anderson On Spotify https://atlasgeographica.com/jon-lee-anderson/ 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 exemplar for...

🎙️: https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/share Curious Worldview Podcast - #168 w/ Patrick Watts On Apple Curious Worldview Podcast - #168 w/ Patrick Watts On Spotify ✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe https://atlasgeographica.com/patrick-watts/ 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...

🎙️: https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/share Curious Worldview Podcast - #167 w/ Bill Browder On Apple Curious Worldview Podcast - #167 w/ Bill Browder On Spotify ✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 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 both...

🎙️: https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/share Curious Worldview Podcast - #135 w/ Anna Sundberg On Apple Curious Worldview Podcast - #135 w/ Anna Sundberg On Spotify ✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe Anna Sundberg co-authored a book of memoirs titled ‘My Beloved Terrorist’. This book is an incredible and rare story of how a young woman from Halmstad, who is otherwise your ABBA stereotype of a blonde swede with blue eyes, became radicalised in Islam and ultimately...

🎙️: https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/share Curious Worldview Podcast - #158 w/ Magnus Ranstorp On Apple Curious Worldview Podcast - #158 w/ Magnus Ranstorp On Spotify ✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 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...

🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 ✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 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 show. The podcast...

🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 ✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/heidi-blake/ New Yorker Article - Great Carbon-For-Cash Hustle 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 story in the New...

🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 ✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/matthew-friedman/ 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 slavery. In this conversation, Matthew reveals unsettling story...

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe David De Jong Twitter🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 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 about his book Nazi Billionaires, but for this...

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 After climbing the peak of China's Elite, Desmond Shum had to flee his country of birth out of fear of being disappeared.   He was on the inside of the political apparatus along with his former wife, a multi billionaire who would later go on to be disappeared, and together, but in the years before they built their empire of the backs of being cosy with the...

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 Tim Butcher returns to the podcast with another incredible journey through an African nation. The first time Tim appeared he spoke about his adventures through the Congo, weaving a story of an incredibly rich and beautiful country that is nonetheless un-developing.  It remains easily one of my favourite episodes I’ve ever had the privilege to record.  Tim,...

🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/tim-marshall/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ This is his third appearance – he is the king of geography writing, he is the great and powerful Tim Marshall. This interview covers everything from Tim on what makes good writing, the success of prisoners of geography, a prisoners of geography observation of Sweden, the long term effects of immigration in...

🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/norman-ohler/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ Norman Ohler is a German screenwriter, author and journalist. Norman is most widely known as the author of Blitzed, an incredible book that documents the role of Pervatin (methamphetamine) and drugs during Nazi Germany and WWII. In this podcast with Norman, you can expect to hear about… The moment of serendipity...

🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/ed-conway/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ The following is with Ed Conway, who has written one of the most intensely curious books, it is called Material World and looks at some of these raw ingredients that have shaped the world we live in. Namely, these materials are sand, salt, copper, oil, iron and lithium.  Nothing will give you a greater appreciation...

🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/mitchell-prothero/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ Gateway By Project Brazen - Listen Now Mitchell Prothero is a war correspondent and two time bureau chief in Iraq for both UPI and McClathcy Newspapper’s. He is a senior writer at VICE news, has written for Buzzfeed, and is now, the host of gateway, Project Brazen’s latest series which is guns, cocaine and...

🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/paddy-manning/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ The following is with Paddy Manning an Australian journalist who has just published an unauthorised biography of Rupert Murdochs oldest son – Lachlan Murdoch This is such a good book. The story of the Murdochs is even better and more dramatic than succession would have you believe. The drama of the deals, the...

🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/john-perkins/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ The following is with John Perkins. This is John’s second appearance on the podcast, he has just published a new edition of the Confessions of an Economic Hitman, this time with a heavy emphasis on the role of China’s debt traps and chicanery among the belt and road initiative. To hear more about John, what is an...

🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 ✍️: https://atlasgeographica.com/erik-townsend/ When I started this podcast I made a list of 20 or so names that were titled ‘Dream Guests’.  Erik Townsend has dipped his toe into several disparate worlds. He made millions as a software entrepreneur in the 90s, retired onto a yacht in his 30s, has lived all over the world, even managed a hedge fund, and has since built one of the strongest media platforms in...

🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/miki-mistrati/ The following is with Miki Mistrati – a Danish investigative journalist who has spent a career uncovering cases of child slavery and the child labour rife throughout the chocolate supply chain. He just released his new film on the matter titled ‘Chocolate Wars’ which is available on Amazon Prime. Something horrific at the core of chocolate is just how easily and...

🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/david-de-jong/ The following is with David de Jong, a Dutch historian and investigative journalist. After growing up in Amsterdam during the 90s, David de Jong found himself on the billionaire’s desk in New York reporting for Bloomberg on the hidden fortunes power of family offices. During his time at Bloomberg, David made a discovery that led him to move to Berlin and...

🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/bolor-lkhaajav/ Bolor Lkhaajav is a researcher specialising in Mongolia, Northeast Asia, East Asia, and the Americas. Her research interests cover foreign policy, security, governance, economy, and social issues. Bolor’s research and writing has been published by many amazing outlets and she is a researcher and writer for the diplomat. ----- 00:00 – Introduction.01:26 – Kind...

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