Curious Worldview

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/zeke-faux/ Number Go Up - Zeke Faux #155 - The general consensus for Zeke’s book is that is that it’s the better half of Michael Lewis’s ‘Going Infinite’.  ‘Number Go Up’ documents, first hand, from the Bahamas to Cambodia to El Salvador to the halls of power of US, the wild mania of crypto and the insanely eclecti...

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/david-de-jong-oct-7th/ #154 - 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, talki...

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/duncan-mavin/ #153 - Lex Greensill's Pyramid Of Lies by Duncan Mavin. What if I told that you that Credit Suisse, one of finances most foundational banks was helped brought to it’s knees by a charismatic bogan playing posh from Bundaberg… This podcast is about a fella called Lex Greensill… who, among many othe...

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/matthew-friedman/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ #152 - 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...

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ #151 - The following is with the debut Italian on this podcast, the one and only Luca Dellanna. Luca is the extremely successful author of 9 books, and he writes these alongside his day job, as an independent consultant advising businesses across the world at the in...

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/russ-roberts/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ #150 - Russ Roberts ladies and gentlemen. One of the true OG’s of podcasting and in fact so OG, that Russ is one of the mediums earliest adopters, Russ has been at this racket for nearly 20 years now since he debuted EconTalk in 2006.  And although econ...

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/desmond-shum/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ #149 - 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...

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/scott-patterson/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ #148 - Scott Patterson writes for the WSJ and is author of The Quants, DarkPools and Chaos Kings.  Anyone who has listened to this podcast for a while will be familiar with my affinity for Nassim Taleb and know just how influential he has been on sha...

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/tim-butcher-chasing-the-devil/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ #147 - 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 ea...

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ The fella who features here has been working with different divisions of Swedish law enforcement for over 20 years and this includes over 10 years with Piketen - Sweden’s equivalent of SWAT. Piketen says their work is ‘particularly dangerous and complex situations’ and  this includes hostage situations, high risk search warrants, etc. Only 8% of peo...

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/tim-marshall/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ The following is with friend of the show and one of the most popular guests from this podcasts history. 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...

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: 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, iro...

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/ chris-williamson-interview / Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ This was first published in early 2021 on this podcast. Chris Williamson is the host of the Modern Wisdom podcast, one of Europe's and quite frankly - the worlds - fastest growing and most exciting podcasts for the inquisitive mind. Chris has created something, in Modern Wisdom , th...

🎙️: 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 se...

🎙️: 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, coc...

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/kevin-kelly/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ The following podcast is with Kevin Kelly. He’s an eclectic fella with a broad array of experiences and interests, but most notably, he is the co-founder of Wired magazine, an og futurist, the photographer behind vanishing Asia, author of many many books… but most importantly to me, he wrote of one of th...

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/david-grann/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ The following is with one of the great living narrative non fiction writers, David Grann. David is a staff writer at the New Yorker and author of one of my favourite stories of all time… the incredible life and adventures of Percy Fawcett and the Lost Ci...

🎙️: 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 dea...

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ The following is with Alan Krell - who is one of the pioneers of deep sea, saturation diving - which from the outside, feels just like one of the most high stakes professions you've ever heard of. We are talking about risk and danger that few lines of work would ever expose you to, and as you hear in this interv...

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/the-incerto-nassim-taleb-podcast/ Sophie Gray recently published this profile - https://thespectator.com/topic/nassim-nicholas-taleb-anti-confidence-man-bitcoin-ftx/ - of Nassim Taleb in the spectator. Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ Are you into Nassim Taleb, Skin In The Game, Antifragile, The Black Swan? I run a Nassim Taleb podcast covering all...

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/anna-sundberg/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ 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 married the jihadist terrorist lead...

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/surrounded-by-thomas-erikson/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/ryannfhogg The following is with the man behind surrounded by idiots, surrounded by narcissist, surrounded by psychopaths, bad bosses, setbacks, and even… vampires. He is one Sweden’s most successful and influential authors of all time. He is the incredibly...

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/danny-miranda-podcasters-podcasting-about-podcasts/ Podcasters podcasting about podcasts. The following is with the infectiously optimistic and potential future hall of fame podcaster, Danny Miranda. On this episode you can expect to hear Danny open up on his dreams in a way, I suspect you’ve not heard him do so before. Specifically I am referring to an interaction...

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/the-incerto-nassim-taleb-podcast/ Sophie Gray recently published this profile - https://thespectator.com/topic/nassim-nicholas-taleb-anti-confidence-man-bitcoin-ftx/ - of Nassim Taleb in the spectator. This podcast is about the process of interviewing Taleb and putting together this piece. 🍻☕: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanhogg

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/erik-townsend/ When I started this podcast I made a list of 20 or so names that were titled ‘ Dream Guests ’.  On this list included names the likes of Salman Rushdie, Ricky Ponting, Chael Sonnen, Robert Friedland, Anne McEvoy, Alain de Button, Mads Mikelson, Jared Diamond… the names of people I deeply admire who are as well, whale-level type guests.  And among the...