Ryan Faulkner

Curious Worldview

Society EN ↓ 230 episodes

Interviews featuring a mix of investigative journalists, affecting writers, economics, geopolitics, explorers and fascinating life stories. Check out the 'Starter Packs' I put together for the best place to start with the pod... https://curiousworldview.notion.site/Curious-Worldview-Podcast-Guide-412b6a244ebe42b4b46994ed9e4823b5 Subscribe to the Substack: https://curiousworldviewpod.substack.com/subscribe Whether it's the supply chain of semi-conductors, a 25 year cold-war CIA veteran, negotiation with Chris Voss, Warden of Sweden's biggest prison, Lawrence Krauss and the universe, Cricket wit...

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Ryan Faulkner

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Society

Latest episode

Jun 30, 2026

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105: Chris Sparks | Poker All The Way Down, Poker's Black Friday, High-Stakes Poker & Thinking Probabilistically 08.09.2022

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/chris-sparks/ 🍻☕: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanhogg The following is a conversation with Chris Sparks, one of the OG’s of online poker. Chris has been ranked in the top 20 online cash players in the world, and is now, in addition to many other things, the founder of Forcing Function , which teaches elite poker frameworks to investors and executives in meaning...

104: John Perkins | Debt Traps & Confessions Of An Economic Hitman 30.08.2022

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/john-perkins-confessions-of-an-economic-hitman/ 🍻☕: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanhogg The following is a conversation with John Perkins, the author behind Confessions Of An Economic Hitman. As the former chief economist of the consultancy firm, Chas. T. Maine, John had an incredible career flying into and then out of a myriad of developing countries facilitat...

My Experience On The Polish Border With Ukrainian Refugees 25.08.2022

DC Report - https://www.dcreport.org/2022/03/13/inside-a-polish-refugee-center/ Atlas Geographica Post - https://atlasgeographica.com/my-first-person-perspective-of-ukrainian-refugees/ My experience in Poland in early March 2022, 5 days after Russia invaded Ukraine. 🍻☕: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanhogg 00:00 - Introduction 04:00 - My Experience With Ukrainian Refugees

102: Dick Smith | Legendary Adventurer & Australian Icon 22.08.2022

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/dick-smith/ 🍻☕: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanhogg The following is a conversation with one of the great adventurers of Australia’s history. Dick Smith. Dick is also consequentially one of Australia’s greatest entrepreneurs, aviators, cultural figures, the 1986 Australia of the year, and interestingly as well, a multiple world aviation record holder. Dick foun...

101: Christopher Turner | 25 Years A Spy – Lessons In Espionage From A CIA Veteran. 16.08.2022

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/christopher-turner/ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanhogg The following is a conversation with Christopher Turner, a 25-year veteran of America’s Central Intelligence Agency. During these 25 years, Turner completed sensitive assignments in the Far East, South Asia, and Europe and those locations are intentionally vague for reasons you will discover during the conve...

100: Stephen Hicks | The Life & Philosophy Of Friedrich Nietzsche 09.08.2022

Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/curiousworldview (Mates, Good Mates & Best Mates) 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/stephen-hicks-friedrich-nietzsche/ Who better to celebrate the 100th episode of The Curious Worldview Podcast than Stephen Hicks.  This audio thing only became a podcast after Stephen agreed to sit down with me back in the trailing months of 2020. That was episode 3 - and now, 97...

99: Angelica Oung | A Taiwanese Journalist’s Response To Nancy Pelosi 05.08.2022

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/angelica-oung-taiwan-nancy-pelosi/ Angelica Oung | The Curious Worldview Podcast #99 The following is a conversation with Angelica Oung on Taiwan & Nancy Pelosi. This is Angelica’s third appearance on this podcast. In This Podcast About Taiwan & Nancy Pelosi, You Can Expect To Hear About… Why Did Pelosi Do This? What Is The Taiwanese Response? How Does This...

98: Matthew Dicks | The Key To Hosting A Wedding, Toxic Productivity + A Bit Of Serendipity & Nassim Taleb 01.08.2022

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/matthew-dicks-productivity/ The following is a conversation with Matthew Dicks. This is his second appearance on the podcast. Matthew Dicks first appeared on episode #44 . Tune into that episode to hear some original stories from Matt and as well hear him explain the playbook for how to tell a good story. Matthew has won more Moth championships than anyone else. Th...

97: Paul Cleary | How To Beat The 'Resource Curse' - Lessons From Norway, Australia & Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund 25.07.2022

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/paul-cleary/ The following is a conversation with author and journalist, Paul Cleary. Paul has authored several books about natural resources and focuses on the differing methods by which governments have either capitalised or squandered their natural resource windfall.  This is a podcast about Norway’s success, Australia’s failure, and the overall issue of balanci...

96: Nicholas Shaxson | Treasure Islands – The Cancerous Plumbing Of Offshore Finance & Financial Secrecy 19.07.2022

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/nicholas-shaxson-treasure-islands/ Nicholas Shaxson is a British author, activist, journalist, investigator, former guest on the podcast and most importantly, author of the wonderful book and subject of this podcast, Treasure Islands . Shaxson is one of the most influential people to have blown the lid off the cancerous influence tax havens and offshore finance hav...

95: Ben Burgis | The Life & Legacy Of Christopher Hitchens 28.06.2022

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/ben-burgis-christopher-hitchens/ The following is a conversation with Ben Burgis and this podcast is about the life of one of the most influential people on my life… Christopher Hitchens.  Hitchens’s politics was enormously divisive, and his position as one of the most prominent new atheists was so controversial, but my interest in this great man actually lies else...

94: Carlos Araque | Could Quaise Capture 20% Of The Worlds Electricity? 21.06.2022

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/carlos-araque/ Carlos Araque, the Co-Founder and CEO of Quaise . Quaise Energy are on a singular mission to dig deeper holes than we have ever dug before. Carlos is one of the best communicators of the promise, potential and limitations of geothermal energy in the world. Hands down. Carlos is a physicist at heart. He hails from Colombia and holds both a bachelor’s...

93: Stephen Hicks | Will To Power & Nietzsche On Modernity (Part 3/3) 14.06.2022

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/stephen-hicks-nietzsche-on-modernity/ This is Stephen Hick’s 4th appearance on the podcast and as well the 3rd and final episode in our series on the “Life & Philosophy Of Freidrich Nietzsche”. Episode 1 here , and episode 2 here . Stephen hicks is a Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, the Executive Director of the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneur...

92: John Redfern | The Promise Of Geothermal Energy & The Company To Realise It - Eavor 07.06.2022

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/john-redfern/ The following is a conversation with John Redfern who is the CEO of Eavor Technology which is one of the most exciting businesses in one of the most exciting industries in the world right now. John Redfern has an extensive resume. He’s been described as an expert investor, advisor and serial entrepreneur in the data analytics, oil service and energy t...

#UkraineRussiaWar (+100 Days) - Alexander Kucherenko | Checking In From Eastern Ukraine 04.06.2022

Alexander Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd8Rbv4NfQ_/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/alexander-kucherenko-ukraine-war/ On The Ukraine War From A Ukrainian Perspective. Alexander Kucherenko is a Ukrainian located in Poltava, a large city in the east of Ukraine between Kyiv and Kharkiv. In this conversation, Alexander and I speak about how he smuggled his family out of...

90: Sean Kelly | A Portrait Of Scott Morrison, Australia's 30th Prime Minister 31.05.2022

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/sean-kelly-scott-morrison/ The following is a conversation with Sean Kelly, the author of The Game, A Portrait Of Scott Morrison.  Scott Morrison is the recently defeated, 30th Prime Minister of Australia. He was described in Sean’s book as someone with a core ideology of deep confusion. All Australians have their own idea about who Scott Morrison is, but for those...

89: Magnus Brandberg | Family Offices, Swedish Exceptionalism & The Potential Of Geothermal Energy 24.05.2022

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/magnus-brandberg/ The following is a conversation with Magnus Brandberg, a founding partner of Gullspång Invest, a family office based in Sweden. They are investing patient capital on a generational timeline, focusing on issues core to the transformation of society towards sustainability. Magnus has a background in renewable energy and cleantech with an MBA from In...

88: Thomas Pettersson | The Assassination Of Olof Palme & The Unlikely Murderer 17.05.2022

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/thomas-pettersson/ The assassination of Olaf Palma shook Sweden to the core. This is the podcast with Thomas Pettersson journeying through the Olaf Palma case from top to bottom. After 12 years of research that resulted in the book The Unlikely Murderer , journalist Thomas Pettersson brought the case to an end. His findings renewed the police investigation of suspe...

87: Patrick Hanson | The Mighty Promise & Potential Of Geothermal Energy 03.05.2022

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/patrick-hanson/ The following is a conversation with Patrick Hanson who is the Director of Sales and Marketing at JRG Energy Consultants. Patrick has 15 years of marketing, brand management, communications, and sales enablement experience, with over 13 years specific to the geothermal industry. This includes 5 years working in Houston, TX with Scientific Drilling I...

86: Jim Henry | Russia Sanctions Efficacy + Elon Musk Twitter Takeover 29.04.2022

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/jim-henry-elon-musk-twitter/ The following is a conversation with Jim Henry, on among other things, the Elon Musk twitter takeover. Jim Henry is the author of Blood Bankers – an investigation into the capital flight of the developing world during the 80’s and 90’s. Jim’s book serves as a prequel to what has become the investigative industry of tax evasion. In This...

85: Harley Rustad | The Disappearance Of Justin Alexander & India As A Guru Destination 26.04.2022

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/harley-rustad/ The following is a conversation with Harley Rustad, the author of Lost In The Valley Of Death . A story about the life and disappearance of Justin Alexander, a wonderfully inspiring traveller who shocked everyone in the know when he went missing in the Indian Himalayas in 2016. Justin’s disappearance is shrouded in mystery, corruption and misfortune...

84: Prashant Kidambi | How Cricket Defined India As A Nation & An Expression Of Raucous Hyper Nationalism 20.04.2022

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/prashant-kidambi/ The following is a conversation with Prashant Kidambi. Prashant is an Associate Professor in Colonial Urban History, at the University of Leicester. His work is largely on the history of British imperialism and the geographical expression that we today know as India. It is in this interest that Prashant overlapped another great interest of his, cr...

83: Bryan Bashin | The Blind Traveller, One Histories Greatest Adventurers & The CEO Of Lighthouse Foundation 12.04.2022

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/bryan-bashin/ Bryan Bashin is The CEO of Lighthouse, an organisation in San Fransisco that empowers the blind. The subject of the chat is, among other things, James Holman, one of the greatest travellers in history. James Holman overrepresents as an exemplary figure for everything that is possible to you when you are blind. For these reasons, Bryan Bashin, who is h...

82: Ken Pucker | ESG Top To Bottom & The Myth Of Sustainable Fashion 05.04.2022

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/ken-pucker/ The following is a conversation with Ken Pucker.  Ken is an Advisory Director to Berkshire Partners, and currently teaches Sustainability at the Boston University Questrom School of Business. In addition to this, and among many other things as well, Ken also formally served as Chief Operating Officer of Timberland. This conversation is broken down into...

81: Chris Miller | Chip War... The Geopolitics Of The Semi-Conductor, The Most Complex Technology Ever Created 29.03.2022

✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter - the ultimate compliment to the podcast... Jos Benschop – SVP Science ASML - Episode #56 Marc Hijink - ASML The following is a conversation with Chris Miller. Chris Miller is the Assistant Professor of International History at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, a Jeane Kirkpatrick Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute,...

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