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Jack Weatherford is an American author and academic who has positioned the relevancy and importance of Genghis Khan front and centre of Western consciousness and pop culture.

Jack is the recipient of the 'Order Of The Polar Star' which is Mongolia's highest national honour for foreigners. He is the author of many brilliant books, the most notable of which is half the subject of today's conversation - Genghis Khan & The Making Of The Modern World.

My conversation with Jack Weatherford can be broken down into three sections.

A Bit About Jack, Mongolian Culture, Economy & Politics.
A Bit About Genghis Khan & How He Shaped The Modern World.
A Bit About Genghis Khan & A Bit About Mongolia - How Do They Influence One Another?

Ultimately I am extraordinarily humbled by this opportunity I had with Jack Weatherford. He was generous with his time and also with his candidness. He is an inspiration to me and also I imagine anyone else out there with a lofty ambition to write something that genuinely leaves its mark.

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Time Stamps

00:00 - Introduction
03:18 - Why Did You Go To Mongolia At The Collapse Of The USSR?
05:32 - How Did Your Experiences Travelling The Silk Road Inform Your Understanding Of Genghis Khan?
11:25 - How Do You Pronounce Genghis Khan?
12:11 - How Were You Received As An American In The Former Soviet Union In The 90's?
17:40 - What Else Contributed With You Falling In Love With Mongolia?
23:55 - What Are Mongolian Crime Rates?
26:14 - Does A Nomadic Culture Create Trust?
31:00 - More On The Great Jewel Of Mongolia Being Its Culture.
34:39 - Are The Mongols A Proud Culture?
42:50 - How Did You Manage To Learn Mongolian?
47:22 - How Do You See Mongolia Overcome Their Bad Economic Hand?
54:37 - How Did They Secure The Ger?
56:58 - What Does Jack Make Of China's Attempted 'Cultural Genocide' Of Mongolian Culture In Inner Mongolia?
1:06:51 - A Broad Macro Take On China's Ongoing Relationship With Mongolia.
1:14:33 - The Anti-Mongol Propaganda That Has Carried On Through The Centuries Since Genghis Khan - Starting With Voltaire...
1:33:05 - Comparing Genghis Khan With Other 'Great Men' Of History.
1:38:00 - Genghis Khan & Meritocracy.
1:45:05 - How Good Where The Mongols On Horseback? How Good Of Warrios Were They?
1:52:08 - Revisionist History: Did The Mongols Decimation Of 13th Century Islamic World Change The Course Of Relgious Influence In History?
1:57:39 - What Cultural Themes From Genghis Khan's 13th Century Exist Through To Today's Current Day Mongolia?
2:05:08 - What Is One Example Of A Good Thing The USSR Did For Mongolia?
2:07:15 - More On The Cultural Themes From Genghis Khan To Today: Environmental Worship?
2:16:45 - Cultural Themes Carried From Genghis To Today: An Abhorence For Speaking Of Sickness & Death.
2:29:30 - Jack Weatherford's Great Analogy For Genghis Khan That Puts Into Perspective His Exceptionalism.
2:37:37 - A Message Of Inspiration
2:45:30 - A Reflection On Genghis Khan's Surging Popularity.
2:49:40 - Jack Weatherford On The World Not Having A Vision
3:04:00 - What Are You Writing Now?
3:06:00 - What Country Are you Most Bullish On & What Are The Two People You Wish You Could Witness A Conversation Between?
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Links To Jack's Books

Genghis Khan & The Making Of The Modern World - amazon.com/gp/product/B000FCK206/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0
Links To The Rest Of Jack's Books Found Here - https://atlasgeographica.com/jack-weatherford-genghis-khan/

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Irina Slav is a freelance writer for many organisations and an expert on oil, energy, geopolitics and more.

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Time Stamps
00:00 - Introduction
03:05 - Do We Still Need The Oil Exploration Business?
08:54 - What Are The Oil Byproducts?
13:58 - Irina's Worldview
34:35 - How Does The Renewable Transition Effect Geopolitics?
44:36 - What Country Are You Most Bullish On?
48:06 - Conversation Between Any Two People Of History.
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Vince Beiser joined me on the podcast recently. He is the author of The World In A Grain: The Story Of Sand.

Sand is the most important solid substance on Earth. It is not an exaggeration to assert that without it we don't have our modern civilisation.

Sand is the building block of modernity. It is the foundational input for cement, glass and even silicon, the stuff that builds our computer chips. Without sand, we cannot construct the awesome buildings that we do. We would not have the wonderful aesthetics and functionality of glass that we have. And we would, one could argue most importantly, not even be able to produce the semi-conductors which are so integral to our computers and therefore modern civilisation.

"Sand is to cities, what flour is to bread" Vince Beiser, author of the book - The World In A Grain: The Story Of Sand.

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00:00 - Introduction.
01:20 - How A Murder Drew Vince To Write A Book About Sand.
06:21 - How Sand Is The Most Important Substance On Earth.
08:54 - Different Gradations Of Sand.
12:06 - Does Sand Limitations Stifle The Promise Of Solar?
17:01 - Explaining How Sand Mining Decimates The Environment.
21:06 - Examples Of Where Sand Mining Has Caused Environmental Damage.
31:05 - Vince's Experience In One Of China's Largest Ghost Cities.
35:07 - How Much Sand Is There In The World?
38:20 - Do You Have Any Insight Into Why Spruce Pine Are So Secretive? 
40:15 - What About Sand Is Vince Most Passionate About?
43:12 - A Quick Word On What The World Would Look Like If We Never Invented Concrete.
48:13 - The Role Of Sand In Fracking.
52:35 - The Geopolitics Of Sand In The South-China Sea.
58:24 - What Country Are You Most Bullish On?
59:11 - Which Two People, Dead Or Alive, Would You Like To Witness A Conversation Between?
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Links To Vince Beiser's Work

Vince Beiser Website - vincebeiser.com 
The World In A Grain: The Story Of Sand & How It Transformed Civilisation - https://www.amazon.com/World-Grain-Story-Transformed-Civilization/dp/0399576428
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Tom Raftery is the Global VP, Futurist, and Innovation Evangelist for SAP, an inspirational keynote speaker and global influencer on how digitization and innovation are creatively disrupting our world.

I first heard Tom feature on Smarter Markets with Erik Townsend and was blown away by his optimistic worldview. True to his Irish roots, he communicated a narrative with charisma that is so often bumbled and fluffed around by his scientific comrades.

Renewable energy has a lot of bad PR working against it. There is certainly merit to being sceptical in the face of change, but since we know that our current energy consumption is destroying the planet why is the green message so hard to swallow?

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00:00 - What Is A Futurist?
03:20 - Information Consumption
05:16 - Tom's Renewable Energy Worldview
22:30 - If Renewables Are Already More Efficient, Why Are They Not Cheaper?
33:54 - What Do You Estimate Is Most Unlikely To Transpire According To Your Worldview?
39:20 - What Is The Most Exciting Innovation You See?
44:07 - What Country Are You Most Bullish On?
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Links To Tom Raftery's Work

Tom Raftery Website - https://tomraftery.com/
Climate 21 - https://tomraftery.com/podcasts/
Digital Supply Chain Podcast - https://tomraftery.com/podcasts/
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James has returned!

James P Dowling third go around we spoke exclusively about the Internet Guru, the Fallacy of Self Help and some of the interesting tangents this line of questioning takes one down. 

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00:00 - Market Forces V. Peer-Reviewed
09:50 - Instincts Mate
17:20 - They're Not All Bad
24.10 - Is James P Dowling A Guru?
30:40 - How Do You Manage The Critics?
39:37 - Superficial Behaviour Changes Are Not The Answer
44:05 - Personal Myth Guide
52:50 - James Meta Public Development
54:00 - Track Your Guru Worship Over Time
58:53 - Nature V. Nurture
1:07:00 - Joseph Campbell Closing Statement
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Links To Jung To Live By

Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzxP4O0AtAXDVMaqcqCVkGQ
Website - https://www.jungtoliveby.com/
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Noel Bagwell is a man of many hats. He is the president of ExecutiveLP and the host of the Profit From Legal Podcast.

This podcast was a touch different to the usual, where instead of a free-wheeling discussion about Noel and his interests I instead ask him 4 very targeted and specific questions. I am really happy with how the episode turned out and hope you enjoy it as well.

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Tim Marshall is the author of many books and many articles. 

He spent almost 30 years as a foreign journalist including holding the post as the diplomatic and foreign affairs editor for Sky News.

He is the author of the international bestseller 'Prisoners Of Geography' which is the subject of the conversation we had on the podcast. Tim is a fascinating bloke with endless insight into the happenings around the world.
 
The conversation was wide-ranging including all the following topics.

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00:00 - Introduction
02:50 - Did You Romanticise The Foreign Journalist When You Were A Boy?
06:07 - Getting Into Foreign Journalism Back In The Day
09:19 - What Are The Downsides To Foreign Journalism?
15:39 - Explaining The Wonderful Complexity Of The Arctic.
29:12 - What Would Your Australian Chapter Say?
39:05 - Discussing Taiwan & Therefore Inevitably, China...
44:23 - The Changing China Narrative.
57:08 - What Two People Would You Witness A Conversation Between Dead Or Alive?
57:56 - What Country Are You Most Bullish On?
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Vestergaard is the most amazing company you've never heard of.

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Michael Joos is the CEO of Vestergaard which is one of the worlds most important and innovative companies. Our conversation was wide-ranging but yielded three distinct chapters.

• A Brief History Of Vestergaard
• Vestergaard & Conscious Capitalism
• Future Opportunities For Vestergaard

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00:00 - Introduction.
02:13 - Vestergaard Impact.
12:15 - 800,000,000 Malaria Nets.
13:53 - Vestergaard Pivoting From Clothes To Malaria.
23:13 - How Does Vestergaard Generate Revenue?
30:22 - Is Vestergaard A Conscious Capitalism Company?
43:02 - Huge Opportunities In Africa.
46:09 - 5 Factors For Agricultural Success.
51:06 - Protectionist Subsidies Killing African Demand.
54:00 - Financing For Future Vestergaard Projects.
56:20 - Complexities Of African Geography & Specific Countries.
1:02:00 - Back To The Food Trading Platform.
1:06:55 - Does Foreign Aid Cause More Harm Than Good?
1:10:30 - Back To Geographical Complexities In Africa 
1:14:30 - Are There Any Other Big Opportunities In Your Purview?
1:18:25 - Greenwashing & Dishonest Supply Chains + Is Fair Trade Good?
1:24:45 - Explain The Vestergaard Digital Health Venture?
1:32:27 - Appreciation.
1:32:58 - Would You Eliminate The Mosquito?
1:34:39 - Any Two People You Could Witness A Conversation Between?
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This episode is an interview with Colin Wright of many fames including serial author, speaker and creative producer.

We spoke about highlights from his travels, the upsides and downsides of the digital nomad surge, we touched on minimalism and then ended the chat with a bit of geopolitics.

Colin Wright is the author of dozens of books and all of his work is found here at Colin.io

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00:00 - Introduction
02:37 - Hello Colin!
03:41 - Travel That Changed You The Most - Calcutta
16:30 - Making Money Online In The Early Days
19:38 - Let's Talk About Digital Nomads
23:33 - Downsides To The Digital Nomadic Lifestyle
32:00 - Big Changes To Digital Nomads Last 10-15 Years
41:00 - What Are Great Unknown Digital Nomad Destinations?
47:30 - A Transition Into Minimalism
54:57 - The Taiwan Question?
58:39 - If You Could Witness A Conversation Between Any 2 People Of History
1:01:27 - What Country Are You Most Bullish On? + Geopolitics Of The Arctic
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Alex Marcon returns after his earlier interview (2020) explaining his Covid-19 portfolio - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkzL9BxQ9sI

🎙️ Listen to this on youtube as well: https://youtu.be/RzQ6MOoor6g

Alex has some really interesting insights into just what the hell is going on at the moment. He does not get too distracted by the news and is rather just compounding his knowledge and money every day in the financial markets.

Alex has some great thoughts about China and also helps me understand better what infinite stimulus means for USA, the world and how it will cause the gradual but nonetheless inevitable shift of geopolitical power.

Twitter @alexmarcon9

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00:00 - Introduction
04:26 - China!
11:39 - Chinese Malinvestment
17:48 - Corrupt Accounting
30:36 - US Funds Military Through Debt
34:36 - Shifting Geopolitical Power
40:56 - Did Covid-19 Help Or Hinder China?
50:51 - China/Nicaraguan Canal
58:38 - Australia & China
1:03:45 - Infinite Stimulus
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