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Andrea Wulf | Around the World With Cook at 17, Dead a Traitor at 39, Forgotten for 200 Years.

Ed Cowan | Australian Test Cricket... “The output's objective. There's nothing subjective about a twenty-ball duck”

Tim Marshall | 'Despite It All... We Remain Prisoners Of Geography'

Oliver Bullough | The Awful Consequences Of Moneyland Are Compounding

Matt Friedman | Modern Slavery Is Getting Worse

Joshua Bandoch | The Science of Persuasion - Why We Feel First Then Reason Later

Tony Abbott (Australia's 28th Prime Minister) On "Our Countries Remarkable History"

Eric Jorgenson | What We Can Learn From Elon

Will Marshall | CEO Of Planet - Creating A Queryable Earth

Joe Aston | From Rear Window to Rampart

Dennis Voznesenski | How Agriculture Explains Geopolitics

Jeff Farrell | Venezuela... Latin American Correspondent & 'Cocaine Dairies'

Jeremy Dicker | 10 Geopolitical Predictions For 2026

Nicolas Niarchos | Cobalt, China & The Congo... The Elements Of Power

Tim Cope | In The Shadow Of Genghis Khan - 10,000km & 3 Years On Horseback Across The Mongol Empire's Eurasian Steppe

Eric Beecher| The Rogues Gallery Of Media Moguls & The Men Who Killed The News

Gareth Gore | Political Fallout & 'Smear Campaign' From Opus Dei

Gideon Haigh | The Love Of Cricket, Archives & Eclectic Curiosities - Doyen Of Cricket History & Correspondence

Robyn Davidson | Among Australia's Most Mythologised Lives... 'Memoir Is The Slipperiest Genre' - Unfinished Woman, Tracks & A Life Of Nomadism

Phil Elwood | Confessions of a Public Relations Operative

Vince Beiser | 'The Wire Of Empire' Copper, Power & the Race to Mine the Future

Lawrence Krauss | 'The Universe Doesn’t Care About Us... And That’s Beautiful' - Reflections On Christopher Hitchens, Physics & The Universe

Chris Arnade | 'Walks The World' & Absorbs Australia In Full

Nicholas Gruen | Brilliant Australian Economist On Pokies, Citizen Juries, Institutional Lethargy, Superannuation & The HALE Index

Matt Houde | One Step Closer To Deep Geothermal Unlocking Global Energy Transition

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

Pat McGee | Apple's Historic, Never To Be Repeated Investment In China

Josh Szeps | 'Uncomfortable Conversations' - A Journey Through Media Broadcasting, Podcasting, Writing, TV & The Career Of Australia's Best Interviewer

Warden Of The Isolation Unit At Sweden's Largest Maximum Security Prison | The Entanglements Of Crime & Punishment

Colin Thubron | Across Borders, Many Times, What Endures... One Of The Greatest Living Travel Writers

Philippe Gijsels | Shifting Economic Sands... Meditations On 'The Fourth Turning'

Adam Hochschild | The Congo & King Leopold's Ghost In The Heart Of Darkness

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...

Kerry Brown | It's Taiwan All The Way Down... 'The Greatest Geopolitical Question Of The 21st Century'

Robert Kaplan | Veteran Geopolitical Analyst On A World In Permanent Crisis

Marcel Dirsus | Slipping Into Authoritarianism & How Tyrant's Fall

Gregory Zuckerman | Jim Simons, The Medallion Fund & The Man Who Solved The Market

Bradley Hope | Blood & Oil... The Story of Mohammed bin Salman

Christopher Marquis | Negative Externalities... How Corporations Privatise Their Upside By Socialising The Downside

Zhala Bayramova | Azerbaijan Human Rights Lawyer Fighting To Free Her Father

James Robinson | 'Why Nations Fail' - 2024 Nobel Prize Winner In Economics

Jack Weatherford | How Genghis Khan's Grandson (Kublai Khan) Further Expanded The Mongol Empire

Nat Eliason | From Crypto To Copy: Exit Liquidity, Crypto Confidential & Writing Worthy Of Posterity

Levison Wood | The Discipline To Take Big Risk: Life in Adventure, Serendipity, Writing & Photography

David De Jong | Nazi Billionaires Addendum: Kuehne + Nagel

Patrick Watts | The US Election

Stephanie Baker | Oligarchs, Sanctions & The Global Economic War With Russia

Gareth Gore | Unveiling The Conspiracy Of Opus Dei

Johan Norberg | Author Of 'The Capitalist Manifesto' - Negative Externality & Where Markets Fail

John Christensen | How Offshore Finance Corrodes Culture, Politics & A Globalised World

Bruce Ladebu | This Man Has Rescued +2,400 Children From Slavery

Chris Voss | The Power Of Open Questions… Never Split The Difference

Rory Sutherland | An Hour Surveying The Worldview

Tom Chivers | It's Bayes All The Way Down... Probability & Bayes Theorem

Ash Bhardwaj | Author, Journalist & Adventurer On 'Why We Travel'

Victor Haghani | Missing Billionaires, An Ode To Jim Simons & Top To Bottom Index Investing

Samo Burja | The Wallenberg Family Of Sweden, Nassim Taleb & Why Organisations Thrive & Fall

Marc Hijink | 'Focus'... ASML, The Dutch Behemoth

Sam Leith | De-Coding The Worlds Best Speeches & World’s Greatest Talkers... It’s Rhetoric All The Way Down…

Michael Hilliard | From Geopolitical Ghostwriting To 'The Red Line Podcast'

Podcast Update! (... and job opportunity?)

Ernest Scheyder | The Real Costs Mining The Cobalt, Lithium, Copper & Rare Earths That Will Dictate The 21st Century

Jon Lee Anderson | Che Guevara Biographer & New Yorker Staff Writer - A Life in Adventure, Conflict Zones & Journalism

Patrick Watts | The End Of The American Empire & The Scorecard For Previous Empire Collapse

Bill Browder | State Of Russian Culture, Russian Economy + Global Despots & Bill Browder's Rogues Gallery

Brian Klaas | How To Think About An Unlimited Future Of Possibilities - Flukes, Chance, Randomness & Nassim Taleb

Christopher Neijd | Police Lieutenant - Södertälje & Southern Stockholm

(Re-Upload) 'Big Mike' Salbro | Growing Up Aboriginal In Sweden From The Stolen Generation

2023 In Review (Stats, Highlights & Peeking Behind The Curtain)

Elizabeth Kolbert | Sleep Walking Into The Sixth Extinction…

Lisa Kristine | Witness & Photographer Of Modern Day Slavery

Marlene Laruelle | Russia... Peaking Behind The Curtain - Russian Demographics, The Russia-Ukraine War & Global De-Secularisation

Óscar Cabello | It’s Paraguay All The Way Down

Magnus Ranstorp | An Encyclopaedia On Modern Terrorism & Political Violence Reflects On His Career

Matt Breen | Behind The Scenes With The Creator Of The Explorers Podcast

Heidi Blake | The Great Cash-For-Carbon Hustle... Plant A Tree, Offset Your Carbon, It's Greenwashing All The Way Down

Zeke Faux | Into To The Belly Of Crypto Mania.. Number Go Up?

David De Jong | First Hand Reporting On The Ground From October 7th Israel

Duncan Mavin | Lex Greensill's Billion Dollar House Of Cards & Scandalous Collapse

Matthew Friedman | The Horrific Realities Of Modern Slavery & Human Trafficking

Luca Dellanna | It's Ergodicity All The Way Down

Russ Roberts | Nassim Taleb, Hitchens, Ergodicity & Reflecting On 15+ Years Of EconTalk

Desmond Shum | Climbing The Peak Of China's Elite & Fleeing Before Being Disappeared

Scott Patterson | Inside The Worldview Of Nassim Taleb... And Patterson's Fellow Chaos Kings

Tim Butcher | A Journey Into Liberia... Chasing The Devil In The Footsteps Of Graham Greene

146: The Life & Lessons Of An Elite Swedish 'Piketen' Police Officer

145: Tim Marshall | The Future Of Geography, Europe & Sweden + Re-Visiting Prisoners Of Geography

144: Ed Conway | The Unbelievable Efficiency Of Globalisation - Material World

(Re-Upload) Chris Williamson | Being Pigeonholed, Cricket & Jordan Peterson

142: Norman Ohler | Blitzed - Meth, Nazi's & Hitler In WWII

141: Mitchell Prothero | Grenades, Cocaine & Dirty Money In Europe

140: Kevin Kelly | Wisdom, Tim Ferriss & Serendipity

139: David Grann | Killers Of The Flower Moon - Working With Scorsese & Leo DiCaprio & Being The GOAT Of Narrative Non-Fiction

138: Paddy Manning | Biography Of Lachlan Murdoch - The Real Life 'Roman Roy'

137: Alan Krell | Maverick & Pioneer Of Deep Sea Saturation Diving

136: Me Being Interviewed For The Spectator's Profile On Nassim Taleb

135: Anna Sundberg | Wife Of A Jihadist Terrorist - From Radicalisation To Atheism In Extremist Islam

134: Thomas Erikson | Surrounded By Idiots - Sweden's Greatest Selling Author

133: Danny Miranda | Podcasters Podcasting About Podcasts

132: Rosie Gray | What's It Like Writing A Profile About Nassim Taleb?

131: Erik Townsend | The Don & Doyen Of Macrovoices

130: Nikolas Badminton | A Futurist's Worldview

129: John Perkins | Chinese Economic Hitman

128: Miki Mistrati | Child Slavery In The Chocolate Supply Chain

127: David de Jong | The Nazi Billionaires Of The 21st Century

126: Matthew Houde | Co-Founder Of Quaise Energy - The Solution To Deep Geothermal

125: Bolor Lkhaajav | It's Mongolia All The Way Down

124: Ami Vitale | One Of America's Great Photojournalists

123: David Liu | Taiwan’s Unofficial Ambassador To Sweden

122: Nicholas Niarchos | Mining In The Heart Of Darkness - Cobalt & The Congo

121: Nicky Woolf | What Is Havana Syndrome?

120: Ha-Joon Chang | South Korea's Greatest Economist

119: Charlie Walker | Lessons From The Ultimate Rite Of Passage Adventure

118: Mikael Syding | Life, Lessons & Experiences From The European Hedge Fund Manager Of The Decade

117: Patrick Alley | Blood Diamonds, Kleptocrats, Very Bad People & The Investigations Of Global Witness

116: Walt Bogdanich | 3x Pulitzer Prize Winner On Consultants & When McKinsey Comes To Town

115: Rory Sutherland | Alchemy: How Great Marketing Ideas Are Built Around The Profoundly Irrational

114: Misha Zelinsky | Ukrainian War Correspondent & Aussie Legend.

113: Diamant Salihu | Gang Violence, Drugs, Immigration & Integration In Sweden

112: Martin Schibbye | Lessons From A Life Of Adventure & Investigative Journalism

111: Bill Browder | Freezing Oligarchs Assets & The Chaos Of Soviet Russia Market Transition

110: Alexander Richter | The Founder Of ThinkGeoEnergy & One Of The Most Important Voices In Geothermal

109: Tim Hickson | ‘Hello Future Me’ – Journey To One Million Subs On Youtube

108: Equity Mates | The Story Behind Australia's Biggest Finance & Investing Podcasters

Thoughts On Salman Rushdie

106: Nathan Lynch | How Australia Became The Home Of The Worlds Filthiest Money... It's Money Laundering All The Way Down

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

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

My Experience On The Polish Border With Ukrainian Refugees

102: Dick Smith | Legendary Adventurer & Australian Icon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

80: Angelica Oung | The Glories Of Taiwan, Taiwanese Culture & What’s It Like To Live In Taiwan?

#UkraineRussiaWar (+20 Days) - Ghaidaa Hetou | How The War Affects The MENA Region

78: Oliver Bullough | Moneyland & The Cancer Of Kleptocracy

#UkraineRussiaWar (+11 Days) - Michael Smith | Xi Jinping Territorial Ambitions For Taiwan

#UkraineRussiaWar (+7 Days) - Alexander Kucherenko | A Ukrainian Perspective. Checking In From Poltava, Eastern Ukraine

#UkraineRussiaWar (+5 Days) - Tim Harcourt | Russia's Commodity Heavy Economy, Sanctions & How It All Affects Australia

#UkraineRussiaWar (+2 Days) - Michael Hilliard | Conflict Journalist & Geopolitical Analyst Explanation Of This Moment

#UkraineRussiaWar (+1 Day) - Jim Henry | Impotent Sanctions & Explaining SWIFT

#UkraineRussiaWar 24/02 (Invasion Day) – Jim Henry | The Efficacy Of Sanctions, Russia’s Lousy Economy, Russia’s Incredible Capital Flight

71: JJ Ramberg | Goodpods, Tackling The Podcast Industry Head On

70: Thomas Werner | The Business Of Fine Art Photography + Artistic Expression In China & Russia

69: Danny Miranda | NFT's Explained, NFT Winners & Losers + Talking About Podcasting & The Industry

68: Ryan Delany | It's Coffee All The Way Down, Coffee Economics, Coffee Supply Chain, Coffee As A Commodity & The Ethics Of Coffee

67: Spencer Roberts | Unpopular Science On The Horrors Of Agriculture From Soy To Fish To Cows To The Rest!

66: Tim Butcher | The Congo & Africa's Broken Heart Through The Eyes Of A War Journalist - Blood River

65: Vijay Vaitheeswaran | The Economist's Global Climate & Energy Editor On Why Energy Is At The Heart Of The Ukraine/Russia Crisis

64: Marsel Van Oosten | Wildlife Photography Mastery, How To Take A Photo People Care About & The Economics Of Photography

63: Leonard Mlodinow | Emotional Intelligence, Head Transplants & How Emotions Affect Your Behaviour

62: Bjorn Persson | How Beauty Will Save The World - Swedish Wildlife Photographer & Anti-Poacher

61: Bill Homewood | A Voice Acting Masterclass From One Of The Greatest Of All Time & Speaking About The Count Of Monte Cristo

60: Whatifalthist | The Mandate Of Heaven, Ancient China, Frightening Global Demographics & Great Adventurers Of History!

59: Stephen Hicks | Zarathustra, Beyond Good & Evil & The Genealogy Of Morality (Part 2/3)

58: Jordan Schneider | ChinaTalk, Communism In The CCP, Bridgewater, Ray Dalio & China

57: Peter Pomerantsev | This Is Not Propaganda, Churchill's Take On Russia & The Link Between Populism & Identity

56: Jos Benschop | VP Of Technology At ASML & The Promise Of Moore's Law

55: Scott Rank | The Great & Famous Explorers Of History

54: Lachlan McGrath | Understanding Cyber Security & The Realities Of Cyber Warfare

53: John Kaag | Hiking With Nietzsche & The Journey To Becoming Who You Are

52: Dan Paech | Journeying From Perth To Stockholm & Entrepreneurship In Sweden

51: Bradley Hope | Billion Dollar Whale, Blood & Oil - Project Brazen & Narrative Journalism

50: Nicholas Shaxson | The Pandora Papers Explained & Famous People Implicated In The Leak

49: Jim Henry | Blood Bankers - Cancer Of The Developing World

48: Justin Scheck | Blood & Oil – MBS Ruthless Quest For Global Power, Saudi Arabia & Narrative Journalism

47: Christian Busch | How To Invite & Cultivate Serendipity Into Your Life, Nassim Taleb & The Serendipity Mindset

#46 Arne Andersson | Three Tours In Afghanistan Through The Eyes Of The Swedish Military

#45: The Last Correspondent - A Geopolitical Allegory For Deteriorating Australia/China Relations | Michael Smith

#44 Matthew Dicks | A Storytelling Masterclass From The GOAT Of Storytelling

#43 Benjamin David | Nietzsche Philosopher Going Deep Into Nihilism... It Nihilism All The Way Down

#42 Alexander Lee | Understanding Machiavelli Through The Eyes Of His Biographer

#41 Chris Martinez | The Myriad Cultural & Political Differences Between Mexico & The USA

Some Things That Actually Matter!

#39 Peter Murimi | Documentary Film Maker, LGBTQ In Kenya + 'Baby Snatching' & Human Trafficking

#38 Alex Soojung-Kim Pang | Rest, Shorter & The Case For Better Productivity At Half The Price

#37 Geoffrey Cain | Uyghur 'Re-Education' Camps Are The 'Greatest Humanitarian Disaster Of This Century'

#36 Geoff Raby | Former Australian Ambassador To China, China's Grand Strategy & Australia/China Geopolitics

#35 Angelica Oung | The Complexity Of The Taiwan & China Relationship & Understanding TCMS

#34 Stephen Hicks | Nietzsche's Early Life & Defining Influences (Part 1/3)

#33 Mike Salbro 'Big Mike' | Growing Up Aboriginal In Sweden From The Stolen Generation

#32 Preston Martin & Aleksa Burmazovic | The Incredible World Of Special Economic Zones

#31 Tim Marshall | Power Of Geography, Geopolitics, Saudi Arabia & Space

#30 David Roberts | Writing For Vox, Volts Substack & (My Favourite) Everything Geothermal Energy

#29 Thomas Kanze | Global Digital Nomadic Trends With Nomadific CEO

#28 Chris Lovett | Author Of The Discovery Of Less

#27 Angus Fletcher | The Absolute Wonder Of Stories & What They Teach Us

#26 Chris Williamson | Escaping The Pigeon Hole & Hosting Jordan Peterson On The Modern Wisdom Podcast

#25 Whatifalthist - Rudyard Lynch | Youtube's Biggest Geopolitics & Alt History Channel

#24 James Robinson | 'Why Nations Fail' - Institutions Are Everything

#23 Ghaidaa Hetou | Geopolitical Expert On The MENA Region - Middle East North Africa

#22 Dan McDougall | One Of The Great International Journalists Of Our Time

#21 Eco-Curious Conversations | Katherine Kearney & Sarah Monroy

#20 Paul Dillon | On The Surging Cocaine Influence In Australia

#19 Jack Weatherford | Mongolia, Genghis Khan & The Making Of The Modern World

#18 Irina Slav | Oil & Energy Expert Sceptical About The Green Revolution

#17 Vince Beiser | Sand: The Most Important Natural Resource In The World

#16 Tom Raftery | The Case For Renewable Energy To Usurp Oil & Gas

#15 James P Dowling | Internet Guru's & The Fallacy Of Self Help

#14 Noel Bagwell | The Intersection Between Religion & The Law

#13 Tim Marshall | Prisoners Of Geography, The Taiwan Question & The Arctic

#12 Michael Joos | CEO Of Vestergaard, Endless Opportunity In Africa & Conscious Capitalism

#11 Colin Wright | An Original Digital Nomad, Minimilist & Author Of Exile Lifestyle

#10 Alex Marcon | China's Questionable Economy & Who Will Be The Next Super Power?

#9 James P Dowling | Understanding Complexes & The Shadow | Carl Jung & Depth Psychology

#8 Nima Koucheki | Crazy & Wild Poker Stories From The Early Days

#7 Alex Hickman | Exploring The Esoteric & Tirading Against Antidepressants.

#6 Victor Lu | AI, Machine Learning In Financial Markets, Generalists & Gurus

#5 Ludvig Sunstrom | Investing In Sweden, Success Theories & Homeostasis

#4 James P Dowling | The Anima, Jordan Peterson & Uberboyo

#3 Professor Stephen Hicks | Postmodernism, Nietzsche, Aesthetics

#2 Jono Tan | Flirting With Death & The Importance Of Struggle

#1 Davis Cutter | Wild Experiences In India & James Joyce