Curious Worldview

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/nikolas-badminton/ The following is with Nikolas Badminton, the chief futurist at one of the oldest futurist consultancies in the world, futurist.com . In the conversation, Nikolas broaches topics such as… Determining Signal From Noise Nassim Taleb The Problem Of Water Scarcity A Pessimistic Future? The Role Of Serendipity & More! ----- 00:00 – Introduction 01:...

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/john-perkins/ 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 economic hitman and the key experience...

🎙️: 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 ho...

🎙️: 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...

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/matthew-houde/ The following is a conversation with Matthew Houde.  Matthew is the co-founder of a business that is developing a new drilling technology that could allow the world to access the deep geothermal heat beneath our feet.  This is best consumed alongside the episode with Carlos Araque , Matthew’s co-founder at Quaise energy. The subject of geothermal ene...

🎙️: 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. 0...

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/ami-vitale/ Ami Vitale is one of the worlds great photographers.  She has lived in mud huts, war zones, battled malaria, donned a panda suit, was with the last living northern white rhino as he passed and has reported with intimacy from communities all over the world. She is a Nikon ambassador, National Geographic photographer and just one of the coolest people I h...

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/david-liu/ David Liu is Taiwan’s unofficial ambassador to Sweden. He’s lived in Sweden for 11 years and is writing a book which explains the Swedish culture and mentality in a way through which the Taiwanese people and audience can relate. He is a cultural bridge between these two magnificent cultures and countries. ----- 000:00 – Introduction. 02:11 – Where Did It...

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/nicholas-niarchos/ Nicholas Niarchos is journalist who has been published in The New Yorker, The Nation, TIME, The Guardian, The NY Times, Die Welt and many, many more. In a podcast that could have been separated into two distinct chapters you can expect to hear some of the following.  The Congo in Nicholas’s words A brief history of kleptocracy and the plundering...

THE SOUND w/ Project Brazen & Nicky Woolf- https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-sound-mystery-of-havana-syndrome/id1662594800 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/nicky-woolf Nicky Woolf is the host and investigative journalist behind Project Brazens latest investigative podcasts series, a story, which much to the consistency of the Project Brazen tagline, is one where again we are reminded t...

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/ha-joon-chang/ Ha-Joon Chang is a developmental economist who has been named among the worlds top 20 thinkers. He has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the European Investment Bank, Oxfam and the United Nations. Ha-Joon Chang is the author of many books, the most notable of which are 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism...

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/charlie-walker/ Charlie Walker has… rode his bike through a winter Tibeten plateau. Rafted the hippopotamus dwelling backcountry of the Congo. Cycled his way through India, China , Iran, Africa, Kazakstan. Walked the length of Mongolia . Completed a 8000km triathlon from the Russian Urals all the way down through to Turkey. In Papua New Guinea, he stumbled upon som...

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/mikael-syding/ Mikael Syding is one of the most interesting people I’ve ever had the opportunity to speak with on this podcast. In 2010, his hedge fund, Futuris, won European hedge fund of the decade. Mikael is an extremely popular voice in the Swedish investment community and as erudite and eclectic in his interes...

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/patrick-alley/ Patrick Alley is a cofounder of an organisation called Global Witness which weeds out abuses of corruption, the environment and human rights across the world. Patrick recently wrote a book documenting these experiences and it all starts with the illegal timber trade in South-East Asia funding the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and making possible all the ho...

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/walt-bogdanich/ The following is a conversation with Walt Bogdanich, an investigative journalist for the New York Times, author of many books, and 3x recipient of the Pulitzer Prize. Walt Bogdanich co-authored a book titled ‘When McKinsey Comes To Town’ which documents 14 different examples of McKinsey poisoning, muddying and consulting the waters of big industry,...

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/rory-sutherland/ 🍻☕: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanhogg The following is a conversation with Rory Sutherland. He founded the behavioural science team within the Ogilvy group and is one of Europe’s most powerful advertising executives.  To get a sense for his thinking and his incredibly interesting worldview he wrote a book called Alchemy, that argues great mar...

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/misha-zelinksy/ 🍻☕: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanhogg The following is a conversation with Misha Zelinksy. Misha Zelisnky is a Fulbright scholar, national security expert and currently war correspondent for the Australian Financial Review. In this chat Misha speaks about some of the follwing… What Its Like Living In Ukraine. Travelling Throughout A Warzone. M...

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/diamant-salihu/ 🍻☕: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanhogg The following is a conversation with Diamant Salihu. In 2021, Diamant Salihu published a book called ‘Until Everyone Dies’. This is a book about gang violence and crime in Sweden. This is a conversation about gangs, drugs, violence in Sweden, Swedes , Swedish culture, immigration, integration and how it ca...

https://cardsofqatar.com/sv/ 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/martin-schibbye/ 🍻☕: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanhogg Martin Schibbye is one of Sweden’s most incredible investigative journalists, the founder of blankspot, and author of too many extraordinary stories to mention. This podcast with Martin breaks down into three distinct chapters… Chapter One – Cards Of Qatar (FIFA World Cup 2022...

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/bill-browder/ 🍻☕: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanhogg The following is a conversation with the CEO and Founder of the Hermitage Fund, Bill Browder. The Hermitage Fund was at one time, the largest source of western capital in Russia and in 1997 the best performing fund in the world. Bill is also one of the sharpest thorns in the Russian oligarch's side. He...

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/alexander-richter/ 🍻☕: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanhogg The following is a conversation with Alexander Richter.  Alexander Richter is the founder of ThinkGeoEnergy, which is the geothermal industries largest source of industry news. Alexander Richter is also the director of the international geothermal association and overall, one of the geothermal industrie...

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/tim-hickson/ 🍻☕: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanhogg The following is a conversation and podcast with a Kiwi of note, the host of the ‘Hello Future Me’ youtube channel… Tim Hickson. Tim is a writer, worldbuilder, video essayist, bread connoisseur, and person who talks about The Last Airbender probably a little too much. Tim is also an immensely successful self...

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/equity-mates/ 🍻☕: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanhogg The following is a conversation with Alec Renehan and Bryce Leske, who together host Australia’s number one finance and investing podcast, Equity mates. These two fellas and equity mates has been very influential to me. I have learned pretty everything I know about investing through them, but as well, they a...

Hadi Matar was charged with attacking and stabbing Salman Rushdie on a lecture stage in western New York on August 12, 2022. Salman has lived under the threat of death and attack ever since 1989 when the Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwah and a €3,000,000 bounty. The fatwah was issued because Salman wrote a novel called 'The Satanic Verses' which had a pa...

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/nathan-lynch/ 🍻☕: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanhogg The following is a conversation with Nathan Lynch about Australia, its economy, its culture and how both are being eroded by an abundance of dirty cash laundering throughout the Australian economy.  Nathan Lynch is the author of 'The Lucky Laundry: How the Aussie Economy Got Hooked on the World's D...