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Curious Worldview Podcast - #172 w/ Michael Hilliard On Apple
Curious Worldview Podcast - #172 w/ Michael Hilliard On Spotify

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Micheal Hilliard is a geopolitical analyst host and creator of 'The Red Line Podcast'… and! a fellow Aussie coming to us today from Australia’s glorious West coast capital, Perth.

Micheal and his team with the 'Red Line' take a deep fortnightly dive into a eclectic mix of narrow geopolitical topics … everything from the second hand market for nuclear weapons to the growth of Chinese private military groups...

And so therefore, and needless to say, the 'Red Line' is brilliant and if you have anything geopolitical populating your new episodes feed you'd be smart to too add the red line to your subscriptions.

This is michael’s second appearance on the pod… in his first appearance he hinted a time in his life when he was living in Kazakstan ghostwriting geopolitical analysis and this tidbit has been on my mind ever since.

Therefore this pod we do Michael Hilliard…
Touring as a bass player in a rock n roll bandTid bits on TurkmenistanTop to bottom the world of geopolitics ghostwritingIndonesia from Australia’s perspectiveSerendipity… and much more

• 00:00 – Who Is Michael Hilliard
• 03:15 – Michael's Early Story (Touring As A Base Player)
• 17:05 – Turning Geopolitical
• 19:15 – Turkmenistan Is Worse Than North Korea
• 29:31 – Transitioning From Rock n Roll To Journalism
• 32:35 – Geopolitical Ghostwriting (Top To Bottom)
• 47:05 – 'The Red Line Podcast'
• 1:00:32 – Indonesia's Geopolitics
• 1:16:06 – Who Are The Journalist's You Most Admire
• 1:19:59 - The Business Of The Red Line
• 1:23:55 - Podcasting Landscape In Australia
• 1:30:45 – Final 3 Questions… Serendipity, Fictional Character, Country Bullish On

Curious Things Mentioned During The Episode

• Geopolitics Starter Pack
• Michael Hilliard First Appearance

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Curious Worldview Podcast - #170 w/ Ernest Scheyder On Apple
Curious Worldview Podcast - #170 w/ Ernest Scheyder On Spotify

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Ernest Scheyder runs directly towards the impossible trade-offs of mining in the ‘War Below’...

The electrification of the economy is on the one hand very good. It means we can move away from consuming the carbon rich oil into our atmosphere… but it also means that we are going to need way more other stuff from the under the ground than we currently even know about. It will require mining 100’s of more sacred sites and 100’s of more beautiful vistas.

Copper, lithium, cobalt and literally 100’s of other rare earths are all necessary components of batteries, electric cars, trucks, boats, even leaf-blowers… and this for a scale for 8 billion, soon to be 9 billion people…

If a sacred religious sight is built atop enough copper to secure your domestic supply… should you mine it?

If thousands of tonnes of lithium is built under a unique flower, almost certain to go extinct if you extract… should you do it?

And if you decide to play by environmental rules while everyone doesn’t… are you doing what’s right in the short term at the cost of whats best in the long?

These questions consume the book, and as well, this conversation.

So here is a veteran energy journalist for Rueters, and author of the War Below… Ernest Scheyder.

War Below – Ernest Scheyder

• 00:00 – Understanding Ernest Scheyder’s ‘War Below’
• 02:54 – Daniel Yergin & Geothermal Energy
• 05:21 – It’s Trade-Off’s All The Way Down (Mining, Policy Hypocrisy)
• 28:08 – Ernest’s Hesitation To Offer His Opinion
• 36:10 – Waste, Death & Bi-Products Of Mining
• 54:19 – Greenwashing & Child Labour
• 1:06:16 – Appreciation For The Miners
• 1:08:58 – Economic Protectionism
• 1:11:18 – Robert Friedland
• 1:12:36 – Final 3 Questions… Serendipity, Fictional Character, Country Bullish On

Curious Things Mentioned During The Episode

• Geothermal Starter Pack
• Erik Townsend – Energy Transition
• Investigative Journalist Starter Pack

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Curious Worldview Podcast - #169 w/ Jon Lee Anderson On Apple
Curious Worldview Podcast - #169 w/ Jon Lee Anderson On Spotify

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I once responded to a question in a grant application that the people I admired most were great adventurers, great writers and great journalists… the kicker naturally being, that the best was a combination of all three!

Well, in Jon Lee Anderson we have an exemplar for all three of those labels.

Listens past 10 minutes and you will see the adventurer, listen to the details of how he put together Che’s biography and you will understand the journalist but then to top it all off, read anything Jon Lee’s written and you will understand the great writer.

This was a mighty moment for the podcast. I managed to hide my nerves behind a facade of professionalism… but Jon and I ended up spending more than 4 hours together as we inhabited a closed, cold, empty drinkers club on a January London morning.

Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker Staff Writer

Che: A Revolutionary Life

• 00:00 – Who Is Jon Lee Anderson
• 02:20 – On The Same Stage Julian Assange Launched Wikileaks.
• 05:50 – 13 Year Old Runaway Vagabond In East Africa.
• 22:15 – Is Risk Necessary For It To Be An Adventure?
• 26:03 – Discovering A Part Of The World For The First Time.
• 32:44 – Serendipity & Jon Lee On Religion & Evil.
• 40:20 – First Bi-Line At The Lima Times.
• 47:37 – Jon Lee Reflects On His Upbringing & How He Thinks About Being A Father.
• 53:54 – Che Guevara.
• 1:24:00 – There’s No More Revolutionaries, Only Narcos…
• 1:32:45 – Haiti.
• 1:35:48 – What Does Jon Lee Admire Most & Least About Che Guevara?
• 1:45:48 – What Doors Do The New Yorker Open?
• 1:46:47 – Christopher Hitchens.
• 1:51:50 – Next Generation Of Journalists & Media Landscape They Inherit.
• 1:58:07 – Jon Lee Anderson Autobiography.
• 2:00:24 – Country Jon Lee Is Bullish On.

Curious Things Mentioned During The Episode

• Journalist Starter Pack – All Journalists Who Have Appeared On The Podcast
• Explorers Starter Pack – All Explorers Who Have Appeared On The Podcast
• David Grann – Lost City Of Z, New Yorker

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