Let’s talk about goons baby, let’s talk about goons and me. Let’s talk about all the good things and the bad things goons could be. Our guest this episode is Joseph Campbell (@detectivejoe88), a journalist for Reuters Video News in Beijing. Lugging around his camera to report the biggest news of the day, Joe has become an expert on the goons who seek (not very successfully) to intimidate him. But it’s not all serious. This is probably the most colorful interview to date: we discuss his features on dog cloning and people living in caves.

We discuss growing up in Indiana (4:30), studying in Japan in high school and traveling in Asia (12:25), sketchy border crossings (18:35), starting at Reuters and the evolution of China reporting (20:45), his story on cave dwellers in China (28:21), his story on dog cloning (36:10), dealing with goons (40:26), his planned move to Singapore (46:00), and THE LIGHTENING ROUND (48:52).

Here are links to some of the things we talk about:

Joe's story/video on Chinese cave dwellers - https://reut.rs/2XXYrJ6

Joe's story/video on dog cloning - https://reut.rs/2JsvlcB

Battles of the New Republic by Prashant Jha - https://amzn.to/2xPxKY5

Crimetown podcast - http://bit.ly/2G7fjCM

Photojournalist Robert Capa on Wikipedia - http://bit.ly/30sS4ej

Ace in the Hole movie with Kirk Douglas on IMDB - https://imdb.to/32oXCIo

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