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Curious Worldview
Ryan Faulkner
213 episodes
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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, but was desperate for some money to gather supplies for the impending trip. She figured $1000 would do, and serendipitously met the National ...
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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, but was desperate for some money to gather supplies for the impending trip. She figured $1000 would do, and serendipitously met the National ...
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Curious Worldview
Robyn Davidson | 'Memoir Is The Slipperiest Genre' - Unfinished Woman, Tracks & A Life Of Nomadism
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 gather supplies for the impending trip. She figured $1000 would do, and serendipitously met the National ...
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2 weeks ago
2 hours 15 minutes

Curious Worldview
Phil Elwood | “I deserve whatever the opposite of a Pulitzer is” - Confessions of a PR Operative Who Made The Worst Humans Look Good
“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 humility and incredible clarity about what he learned from that world. The moral grey zones, the ...
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3 weeks ago
1 hour 39 minutes

Curious Worldview
Vince Beiser | 'The Wire Of Empire' Copper, Power & the Race to Mine the Future
“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 extracting them. We cover the story of copper — the wire of empire. Beiser reveals why humanity ...
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1 month ago
59 minutes

Curious Worldview
Lawrence Krauss | 'The Universe Doesn’t Care About Us... And That’s Beautiful' - Reflections On Christopher Hitchens, Physics & The Universe
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 philosophy, arguing that our cosmic insignificance is precisely what makes life meaningful. Along ...
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1 month ago
45 minutes

Curious Worldview
Chris Arnade | 'Walks The World' & Absorbs Australia In Full
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 best selling author, but as well… a best subscribed substacker! 'Chris Arnade Walks The World...
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2 months ago
1 hour 9 minutes

Curious Worldview
Nicholas Gruen | Brilliant Australian Economist On Pokies, Citizen Juries, Institutional Lethargy, Superannuation & The HALE Index
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, institutions and in a word... bureaucracies. From his creation of the HALE Index to his decades inside Australia’s public in...
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2 months ago
2 hours 46 minutes

Curious Worldview
Matt Houde | One Step Closer To Deep Geothermal Unlocking Global Energy Transition
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 alternative to costly traditional drilling methods for accessing those critically hot depths. It...
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3 months ago
1 hour 9 minutes

Curious Worldview
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
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 their size and vulnerability, they have evolved this incredible defensive system. Their bodies are c...
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3 months ago
1 hour 23 minutes

Curious Worldview
Pat McGee | Apple's Insane, Historic, Never To Be Repeated Investment In China
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. And it's all down to the special and unique relationship between one of the world's largest hardware companies, Apple and the worlds largest...
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4 months ago
1 hour 11 minutes

Curious Worldview
Josh Szeps | 'Uncomfortable Conversations' - A Journey Through Media Broadcasting, Podcasting, Writing, TV & The Career Of Australia's Best Interviewer
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 podcasting, Huffpost live, or radio, Josh has interviewed everyone from the biggest celebrities in the world, to academics, to geopolitics,...
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4 months ago
1 hour 27 minutes

Curious Worldview
Warden Of The Isolation Unit At Sweden's Largest Maximum Security Prison | The Entanglements Of Crime & Punishment
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 gotten to know several of his old military buddies. There are those listed above... And then there is my guest for this episode today, co...
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5 months ago
2 hours 6 minutes

Curious Worldview
Colin Thubron | Across Borders, Many Times, What Endures... One Of The Greatest Living Travel Writers
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 published his journey along the Amur River just a few years ago. He’s a contemporary of Theroux, Chatwin, early Dalrymple and inspiration for the ...
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6 months ago
1 hour 4 minutes

Curious Worldview
Philippe Gijsels | Shifting Economic Sands... Meditations On 'The Fourth Turning'
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-wrote a book last year called The New World Economy in 5 Trends - which within, reveals much of the new map we now inhabit, especially in light...
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6 months ago
1 hour 44 minutes

Curious Worldview
Adam Hochschild | The Congo Under The Horror Of Belgium's King Leopold II...
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 years, one man, King Leopold II, owned, as his personal property, one of the largest pieces of geography on earth. The Congo is four times larger...
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7 months ago
1 hour 6 minutes

Curious Worldview
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...
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 laundering activities with Swedbank in the Baltics. Part of the team behind the series - The Shadow War - which exposed Russian espionage activ...
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7 months ago
1 hour 13 minutes

Curious Worldview
Kerry Brown | It's Taiwan All The Way Down... 'The Greatest Geopolitical Question Of The 21st Century'
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 and expert of China, its language, history, politics, and culture - and the theme today is top to bottom the myriad questions loomin...
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8 months ago
1 hour 21 minutes

Curious Worldview
Robert Kaplan | Veteran Geopolitical Analyst On A World In Permanent Crisis
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 far with his most recent being - Waste Land: A World In Permanent Crisis. I’ve listened to many of his books at this point, I found Revenge Of Ge...
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8 months ago
32 minutes

Curious Worldview
Marcel Dirsus | Slipping Into Authoritarianism & How Tyrant's Fall
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 of tyrants. Because while the individual personas, eccentricities and reputations might make them all distinct from one another, there are more th...
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8 months ago
1 hour 10 minutes

Curious Worldview
Gregory Zuckerman | The Curious Case Of Jim Simons, The Medallion Fund & The Man Who Solved The Market
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, the big brilliance behind these masters of the universe types. None for emblematic than Jim Simon’s, the central character of todays podcast. The...
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8 months ago
1 hour 15 minutes

Curious Worldview
Bradley Hope | Blood & Oil... The Story of Mohammed bin Salman
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-GBWhale Hunting Podcast (Highly Recommend) - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whale-hunting/id1718751733 Curious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiouswo...
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10 months ago
1 hour 21 minutes

Curious Worldview
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 gather supplies for the impending trip. She figured $1000 would do, and serendipitously met the National ...