Best Phil Stepp Podcasts (2025)

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Tim Cope | In The Shadow Of Genghis Khan - 10,000km & 3 Years On Horseback Across The Mongol Empire's Eurasian Steppe 2:59:19

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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 -…

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Eric Beecher| The Rogues Gallery Of Media Moguls & The Men Who Killed The News 52:29

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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 fac…

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Gareth Gore | Political Fallout & 'Smear Campaign' From Opus Dei 50:37

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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 hidd…

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Gideon Haigh | The Love Of Cricket, Archives & Eclectic Curiosities - Doyen Of Cricket History & Correspondence 1:45:27

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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 becom…

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Robyn Davidson | Among Australia's Most Mythologised Lives... 'Memoir Is The Slipperiest Genre' - Unfinished Woman, Tracks & A Life Of Nomadism 2:15:31

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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, b…

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Phil Elwood | Confessions of a Public Relations Operative 1:39:09

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“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 plen…

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Vince Beiser | 'The Wire Of Empire' Copper, Power & the Race to Mine the Future 59:00

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Lawrence Krauss | 'The Universe Doesn’t Care About Us... And That’s Beautiful' - Reflections On Christopher Hitchens, Physics & The Universe 45:41

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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…

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Chris Arnade | 'Walks The World' & Absorbs Australia In Full 1:09:52

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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…

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Nicholas Gruen | Brilliant Australian Economist On Pokies, Citizen Juries, Institutional Lethargy, Superannuation & The HALE Index 2:46:11

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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, …

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Matt Houde | One Step Closer To Deep Geothermal Unlocking Global Energy Transition 1:09:34

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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 a…

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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 1:23:59

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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 …

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Pat McGee | Apple's Historic, Never To Be Repeated Investment In China 1:11:13

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Pat McGee - Apple in China Curious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe ----- 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. An…

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Josh Szeps | 'Uncomfortable Conversations' - A Journey Through Media Broadcasting, Podcasting, Writing, TV & The Career Of Australia's Best Interviewer 1:27:54

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Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast Uncomfortable Conversations Substack Curious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe ----- 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…

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Warden Of The Isolation Unit At Sweden's Largest Maximum Security Prison | The Entanglements Of Crime & Punishment 2:06:58

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Curious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 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 ----- Because of my old mate, Arne Andersson - I’ve been incredibly lucky to have got…

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Colin Thubron | Across Borders, Many Times, What Endures... One Of The Greatest Living Travel Writers 1:04:24

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Watch on Youtube instead - https://youtu.be/RinLuTi04cI Curious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe Colin Thubron (Link's to all books) ----- 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 publish…

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Philippe Gijsels | Shifting Economic Sands... Meditations On 'The Fourth Turning' 1:44:15

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Watch on Youtube instead - https://youtu.be/w6Vpcy2cdRk Curious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe Philippe Gijsels Book - https://www.amazon.com/World-Economy-Trends-superinflation-hyperinnovation/dp/9401409013 ----- The following is with Philippe Gijsels, the Chief Strategy Officer at BNP Paribas Fortis - he co-…

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Adam Hochschild | The Congo Under The Horror Of Belgium's King Leopold II... 1:06:00

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Youtube Episode - https://youtu.be/fXVZCUR_Row Curious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe Tim Butcher Episode - https://open.spotify.com/episode/6QIQLYuwbA2cFLCzJc8TGl?si=nKU21dGrRX-Z-otWklpxgw King Leopold's Ghost Book - https://www.amazon.com.au/King-Leopolds-Ghost-Adam-Hochshild/dp/0618001905 From 1885, for 13 …

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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... 1:13:24

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Youtube - https://youtu.be/gQa204zHovU Curious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe Axel Humlesjö is a Swedish journalist against which money laundering, the plumbing of offshore finance and the cancerous nature of dark money, continuously crash up against. Axel was a part of the team that uncovered systematic money…

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Kerry Brown | It's Taiwan All The Way Down... 'The Greatest Geopolitical Question Of The 21st Century' 1:21:27

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Youtube - https://youtu.be/4MWFzPXQPY8 Curious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe Taiwan is the greatest geopolitical question of the 21st century says Kerry Brown, sinologist, and former Diplomat to the British Embassy in Beijing. He is, I am thrilled to say the guest on todays podcast. A sinologist is a scholar …

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Robert Kaplan | Veteran Geopolitical Analyst On A World In Permanent Crisis 32:47

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Youtube - https://youtu.be/G6EIYURdSOA Curious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe Robert Kaplan has been sighted as one of the most influential geopolitical thinkers of the modern era. The Revenge Of Geography, Surrender or Starve, Balkan Ghosts, Asias Cauldron, The Tragic Mind, and so on, I counted 18 books so fa…

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Marcel Dirsus | Slipping Into Authoritarianism & How Tyrant's Fall 1:10:31

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Youtube - https://youtu.be/MntDK3kWRek Curious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe The following is with german political scientist, former beer brewer in the Congo, and author of How Tyrants Fall - Marcel Dirsus Marcel interviewed coup leaders, dissidents and soldiers to write about the workings and malfunctions o…

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Gregory Zuckerman | Jim Simons, The Medallion Fund & The Man Who Solved The Market 1:15:16

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Youtube - https://youtu.be/uPU6hJsvMcM Curious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe Gregory Zuckerman is one of the Wall Street Journal GOATS and as well has authored plenty of wonderful books. He pulls back many of the hidden curtains of wall st. The big egos, the big enigmatic personalities, and naturally as well,…

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Bradley Hope | Blood & Oil... The Story of Mohammed bin Salman 1:21:35

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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.apple.com/se/podcast/51-bradley-hope-billion-dollar-whale-blood-oil-project/id1540424160?i=1000539362238&l=en-GB Whale Hunting Pod…

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Christopher Marquis | Negative Externalities... How Corporations Privatise Their Upside By Socialising The Downside 1:19:14

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Youtube - https://youtu.be/TQVWUdFibC8 The Profiteers - https://www.amazon.com/Profiteers-Business-Privatizes-Profits-Socializes/dp/1541703529 Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe Christopher Marquis spent 10 years as a professor at the Harvard Business School, he’s also worked as a professor at Cornell, the Harvard Kennedy S…

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Zhala Bayramova | Azerbaijan Human Rights Lawyer Fighting To Free Her Father 1:15:22

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https://freegubad.com/ Zhala X - https://x.com/BayramovaZhala Zhala 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, Magnitsky Awards, where Zhala won youth activist of the year. Her legal status is that of a political refugee in Sweden, having b…

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James Robinson | 'Why Nations Fail' - 2024 Nobel Prize Winner In Economics 1:04:40

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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… because in episode 24, James Robinson was one of the first people I ever interviewed for this podcast. James co-wro…

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Jack Weatherford | How Genghis Khan's Grandson (Kublai Khan) Further Expanded The Mongol Empire 1:55:38

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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 favourite podcast I’ve ever recorded. These are links to the first appearance. Jack Weatherford #19 on Spotify Jack Weatherfor…

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Nat Eliason | From Crypto To Copy: Exit Liquidity, Crypto Confidential & Writing Worthy Of Posterity 1:18:12

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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 book, a memoir of a crypto side quest he spiralled deep down into which is serves as revelatory for the sheer insanity that is …

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Levison Wood | The Discipline To Take Big Risk: Life in Adventure, Serendipity, Writing & Photography 1:46:45

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Levison Wood is an author, journalist, tv star, photographer, film producer, script writer, fellow of the Royal Geographic Society and as well to top it all off… former Officer in the British Army’s Parachute Regiment. If you’ve never heard of Levison Wood, he’s written books that have taken us all across the world. He was propelled into fame with …

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David De Jong | Nazi Billionaires Addendum: Kuehne + Nagel 34:45

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David De Jong First Appearance On The Pod - Nazi Billionaires, #127 - Apple David De Jong First Appearance On The Pod - Nazi Billionaires, #127 - Spotify David De Jong is a Dutch historian and investigative journalist. Early in his career, he found himself in New York reporting for Bloomberg on hidden fortunes and the power of family offices all ac…

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Patrick Watts | The US Election 59:32

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✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe https://atlasgeographica.com/patrick-watts/ The following is with Patrick Watts who is one hell of an interesting fella and in this podcast we discuss the various outcomes and implications of the 2024 US election contra Trump & Harris. The End Of The American Empire…

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Stephanie Baker | Oligarchs, Sanctions & The Global Economic War With Russia 1:23:17

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Stephanie Baker is a journalist whose been writing between the intersection of business and politics for almost 30 years with Bloomberg. Stephanie's just published her first book and it is just amazing and the consequence of covering these topics for a lifetime. The network, the knowledge, the weird language of sanctions of financial opacity. It’s …

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Gareth Gore | Unveiling The Conspiracy Of Opus Dei 1:44:34

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Opus Dei are a predatory catholic cult that started in Spain in the early 20th century and grew and grew over the years into a global organisation that set out with the singular vision to re-christianise the entire world. Gareth Gore stumbled into this story when researching and writing the collapse of one of Spains largest financial institutions, …

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Johan Norberg | Author Of 'The Capitalist Manifesto' - Negative Externality & Where Markets Fail 1:34:18

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Youtube - https://youtu.be/iCNiZfMASNs Subscribe To The Curious Worldview Newsletter ---- Johan Norberg is a prolific author and academic, he’s one of the most notable members of the Cato Institute and as well someone who has recently bronzed in the blinding spotlight of both Javier Milei and Elon Musk. Johan is a staunch defender of globalisation …

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John Christensen | How Offshore Finance Corrodes Culture, Politics & A Globalised World 2:29:32

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Subscribe To The Curious Worldview Newsletter Curious Things Mentioned During The Episode Offshore Finance Starter Pack 'Curious Worldview Podcast' Episodes Follow me on Instagram – @ryanfhogg ---- Just how cancerous and pernicious to culture, politics and a globalised world is offshore finance and financial opacity? Few if any people in the world …

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Bruce Ladebu | This Man Has Rescued +2,400 Children From Slavery 1:16:11

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Subscribe To The Curious Worldview Newsletter Curious Things Mentioned During The Episode Matthew Freidman -Human Trafficking Lisa Kristine - Photographing Modern Slavery Lisa Kristine Ted Talk Follow me on Instagram – @ryanfhogg Out Of The Slave Fields - Bruce Ladebu (Book) The Children's Rescue Initiative (Donate) ---- At this very moment there a…

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Chris Voss | The Power Of Open Questions… Never Split The Difference 1:04:14

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Subscribe To The Curious Worldview Newsletter Never Split The Difference Book Review (Things To Know If You Do Sales) Curious Things Mentioned During The Episode Christopher Turner – 25 Year CIA Veteran, Lessons In Espionage Sam Leith – It’s Rhetoric All The Way Down Never Split The Difference Book Review (Things To Know If You Do Sales) Follow me …

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Rory Sutherland | An Hour Surveying The Worldview 57:18

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✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter - the ultimate compliment to the podcast... I am stoked to welcome back one of the most out there and interesting writers, thinkers and speakers, Rory Sutherland. He founded the behavioural science team at the Ogilvy group, he is one of Europe’s most powerful advertising executives and author many many books and…

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Tom Chivers | It's Bayes All The Way Down... Probability & Bayes Theorem 1:21:07

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✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter - the ultimate compliment to the podcast... Other episode of the podcast that suit this episode... Brian Klaas – Fluke & Randomness Russ Roberts – EconTalk Luca Dellanna – Ergodicity All The Way Down Scott Patterson – Chaos Kings Nassim Taleb & Incerto Podcast Follow me on Instagram – @ryanfhogg Everything Is Pr…

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Ash Bhardwaj | Author, Journalist & Adventurer On 'Why We Travel' 2:04:31

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✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter - the ultimate compliment to the podcast... Jon Lee Anderson Charlie Walker Follow me on Instagram - @ryanfhogg Why We Travel - Ash Bhardwaj Ash Bhardwaj is an author, journalist, film-maker and former british army who amongst his many expeditions has ventured the likes of journeying 8500km along the Russian Eur…

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Victor Haghani | Missing Billionaires, An Ode To Jim Simons & Top To Bottom Index Investing 1:30:04

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✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter - the ultimate compliment to the podcast... Bill Browder Nassim Taleb Follow me on Instagram - @ryanfhogg This is an interview with Victor Haghani who is among many other things… the Co-Founder of LTCM (long term capital management), the Founder of Elm Wealth and the author of Missing Billionaires. In this inter…

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Samo Burja | The Wallenberg Family Of Sweden, Nassim Taleb & Why Organisations Thrive & Fall 58:42

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✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter - the ultimate compliment to the podcast... Russ Roberts – Taleb & Hitchens Scott Patterson – Taleb & Chaos Kings Magnus Ranstorp – Terrorism & Political Violence James Robinson – Why Nations Fail Follow me on Instagram - @ryanfhogg Samo Burja founded Bismarck Analysis, of which Bismarck Brief has spun off, whic…

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Marc Hijink | 'Focus'... ASML, The Dutch Behemoth 1:13:39

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✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter - the ultimate compliment to the podcast... Jos Benschop – SVP Science ASML - Episode #56 Chris Miller – Chip War - Episode #81 ASML Bloody Good Business Follow me on Instagram - @ryanfhogg Watch on youtube - https://youtu.be/Kxmf6P-JHa8 ASML is certainly among the most critical businesses to the modern economy.…

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Sam Leith | De-Coding The Worlds Best Speeches & World’s Greatest Talkers... It’s Rhetoric All The Way Down… 1:50:12

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✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe Follow me on Instagram - @ryanfhogg Watch on Youtube - https://youtu.be/Kx8N66hK8kI Sam Leith is the literary editor for the oldest surviving weekly magazine in the world, an organisation which started publication in 1828 which means… the magazine for which he is th…

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Michael Hilliard | From Geopolitical Ghostwriting To 'The Red Line Podcast' 1:39:23

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✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe Follow me on Instagram - @ryanfhogg Watch on Youtube - https://youtu.be/ZzsFPOUzlHg Micheal Hilliard is a geopolitical analyst host and creator of 'The Red Line Podcast'… and! a fellow Aussie coming to us today from Australia’s glorious West coast capital, Perth. Mi…

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Podcast Update! (... and job opportunity?) 7:35

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✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe Link to example of clip I am looking for - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibLyjkpYY_E Link to example of infographic I am looking for (halfway down) - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/p/update-1 Write to me at [email protected]…

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Ernest Scheyder | The Real Costs Mining The Cobalt, Lithium, Copper & Rare Earths That Will Dictate The 21st Century 1:16:27

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✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe Follow me on Instagram - @ryanfhogg Watch on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@curiousworldview/videos https://atlasgeographica.com/ernest-scheyder/ #170 - Ernest Scheyder runs directly towards the impossible trade-offs of mining in the ‘War Below’... The electrifi…

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Jon Lee Anderson | Che Guevara Biographer & New Yorker Staff Writer - A Life in Adventure, Conflict Zones & Journalism 2:03:42

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✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe https://atlasgeographica.com/jon-lee-anderson/ #169 - 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 a…

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Patrick Watts | The End Of The American Empire & The Scorecard For Previous Empire Collapse 1:50:44

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✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe https://atlasgeographica.com/patrick-watts/ #168 - 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 T…