🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736
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Nicholas Niarchos is journalist who has been published in The New Yorker, The Nation, TIME, The Guardian, The NY Times, Die Welt and many, many more.
In a podcast that could have been separated into two distinct chapters you can expect to hear some of the following.
- The Congo in Nicholas’s words
- A brief history of kleptocracy and the plundering of Congos natural resources
- An explanation of Cobalt
- What its like meeting Alec Baldwin
- Getting arrested in the Congo
- And more…
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- 00:00 – Introduction.
- 02:37 – Introducing The Congo & A History Of Kleptocracy.
- 20:39 – Robert Freidland.
- 22:55 – What Is The Current State Of The Congo?
- 32:57 – What Is Cobalt? Where Is It From? The Problem Of Greenwashing.
- 47:57 – Nicholas Niarchos New Yorker Article & Freelance Mining In The Congo.
- 58:47 – Child Labour & Abuse.
- 1:05:22 – Nicholas Writing A Book & New Yorker Status.
- 1:15:54 – Nicholas’s Journey. Freelance Journalism. Advice For Me.
- 1:26:09 – Meeting Alec Baldwin.
- 1:28:45 – Serendipity & Being Arrested In The Congo.
- 1:35:10 – Country Nicholas Niarchos Is Bullish On.
- 1:36:37 – Conversation Between Any Two People Of History.
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