Curious Worldview

Ed Cowan is an Australian test cricketer, investor, podcaster and author. He’s one of those people whose name I jotted down 6 years ago when I started the show earmarked as a ‘dream guest’. He played in a golden era of Australian cricket and did so at a time when I was obsessed with the sport myself (I had delusions about being a test cricketer) and therefore like the music of your youth those cri...

Tim Marshall is back for a fourth time. We've now done a show for every book: Prisoners of Geography , The Power of Geography and The Future of Geography . Now the book that started a whole genre has turned 10 years, and Tim has gone back and rewritten the entire thing. So the question writes itself: how do you update a guide to how geography explains the world when the geography itself hasn&...

Four years ago, almost to the day of recording, Oliver Bullough was a guest on this show for the first time to discuss his concept of 'Moneyland'. This borderless virtual country where the wealthy go to keep their wealth beyond the reach of any government, any tax office, any voter. Between then and now, I've maintained interest on this thread. Nicholas Shaxson discussed on the pod...

This podcast has returned to modern slavery three times now. Lisa Kristine showed us its face through her photography. Bruce Ladebu described what it actually takes to pull children out. And Matthew Friedman, in Episode 76 , gave us the architecture: thirty-five years working across Nepal, Bangladesh, Thailand, the UN, and eventually the Mekong Club.  That first episode opened with the story of an...

Joshua Bandoch is the Head of Policy at the Illinois Policy Institute and the debut author of ' How to Get What You Want '.  It's persuasion and communication all the way down. Josh's argues that almost everything most of us were taught about how to win an argument is wrong and now the neuroscience proves it.  Aristotle, it turns out, had this figured out 2,400 years ago. Kant,...

Tony Abbott served as Australia's 28th Prime Minister from 2013 to 2015. He is a Rhodes Scholar and among the most polarising and consequential figures in modern Australian political history.  Rather than writing a series of memoirs detailing the turbulent years before, during and after his leadership of Australia, he instead, wanted to re-introduce a pride for Australia's history which...

Link's To Eric Jorgenson ejorgenson.com (personal website) scribemedia.com (company) elonmuskbook.org (book) Eric Jorgenson, author of the Naval Almanac and the Book of Elon, and CEO of Scribe Media joins me to discuss what makes Elon Musk the most consequential entrepreneur alive.  We dig into Elon's purpose-driven risk-taking, his philosophy of attacking bottlenecks, and why the people...

Will Marshall is the CEO and Co-Founder of Planet. Planet own and operate a fleet of (200+) satellites which image daily, the entire world. Planet’s ultimate ambition is to achieve a queryable earth.  The way you might ask Google what the population of Australia is, you’d be able to ask Planet any conceivable question you might have about the surface of the world. The way Google would refer to the...

Rampart The Chairman's Lounge Curious Worldview Substack *Leave a review on Apple or Spotify* ( nothing does more to help grow the show ) Podcast Starter Packs Investigative Journalists Offshore Finance/Kleptocracy & Money Laundering Geopolitics/Economics/Economic Development Explorers & Adventurers --- Who is Joe Aston? For my Australian audience, you'll likely know him from his...

War & Wheat - Dennis Voznesenski My Substack (Subscribe) *Leave a review on Apple or Spotify* ( nothing does more to help grow the show ) Podcast Starter Packs Offshore Finance/Kleptocracy & Money Laundering Geopolitics/Economics/Economic Development Explorers & Adventurers Investigative Journalists --- Dennis Voznesenski is an Australian analyst who has spent his career deep in the wo...

Jeff Farrell 'Cocaine Diaries'  My Substack (Subscribe) Jeff Farrell Website *Leave a review on Apple or Spotify* ( nothing does more to help grow the show ) Podcast Starter Packs Offshore Finance/Kleptocracy & Money Laundering Geopolitics/Economics/Economic Development Explorers & Adventurers Investigative Journalists --- When Irish journalist Jeff Farrell arrived in Venezuela d...

International Intrigue - Newsletter 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! Robert Kaplan - A World In Crisis Podcast Starter Packs Offshore Finance/Kleptocracy & Money Laundering Geopolitics/Economics/Economic Development Explorers & Adventurers Investigative Journalists --...

The Elements of Power - Nicolas Niarchos 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! 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 St...

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 - New Yorker Staff Writer, A Life Of Adventure....

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 facebook, podcasts, now AI. Eric has been across all...

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 hidden power and financial manipulation while investi...

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...

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...

“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 humil...

“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 ext...

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 philosoph...

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 and forgotten cities of this world.  He is a...

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, the media landscape, in...

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 accessing deep geothermal energy, offering an alter...

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 eat ants and termites but despite thei...