Curious Worldview Weekender

Tim Ferriss & Succession

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October 19, 2024

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Tim Ferriss Podcast

Truly one of the podcasting GOAT’s. Tim was likely the guy who got me into this racquet in the first place. I made this (amateurish) video breaking down Tim’s podcasting business well over 4 years ago, but today, onto why he’s featured here, TIm has published with someone I am very keen on interviewing myself, one of Britain’s most prolific historians, Andrew Roberts.

Principally, in this discussion a focus on two figures he’s biographied, Napoleon and Churchill.

Succession - HBO

This is nothing new to anyone here, but a show I started again during the week. It’s so weird, so funny and Brian Cox as Logan Roy is just so fucking good.

Much habaloo is made about Succession being a parody of the Murdoch family. There is lots of evidence of this. But while it might feel like Kendal Roy is the real life Lachlan Murdoch (the eldest boy), according to Paddy Manning, a biographer of Lachlan Murdoch, he is in fact closer to Roman Roy.

Something I’ve produced …

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Gareth Gore - How The Collapse Of Banco Popular Revealed Opus Dei, A Global Catholic Conspiracy

You may have seen Paul Bettany’s Silus in the Da-Vinci code, the albino, catholic priest assassin who whipped himself to bed and wore the barbed wire celice across his left thigh…

He plays a fictional character alongside Mance Rayder as members of the catholic cult, Opus Dei.

And while it’s easy to right off a fictional depiction of Opus Dei as imagination, the organisation itself is not - Gareth Gore has 1000’s of pages of sourced documentation which peaks under the hood of a real world secret society, a true metamorphosis from conspiracy to reality. 

Opus Dei are a predatory catholic cult that started in Spain in the early 20th century and grew and grew over the years into a global organisation that set out with the singular vision to re-christianise the entire world. 

They go about this through extremely manipulative recruitment tactics, lobbying the most influential halls of power and although they are not an organisation of assassins like in the Da-Vinci code, they are nonetheless a powerful influence to Vatican politics, US politics, Argentinian politics and anywhere catholicism has cultural influence the world over.

Gareth Gore stumbled into this story when researching and writing the collapse of one of Spains largest financial institutions, Banco Popular, which turns out was the bottomless kitty financing Opus Dei’s international ambitions. It’s a story of money laundering, fraud and financial opacity that made possible the scale of one of if not the most influential and pernicious and influential catholic organisations int he world. But it’s not just a benign organisation that creates a welcoming community for catholics the world over, it is an organisation which has been accused of 100’s if not thousands of incidents of human trafficking, sexual abuse and drug abuse and are attempting to influence their worldview through the rewriting of legal systems. A worldview that reflects the most conservative and man made fundamentalist interpretations of the bible. 

This book by Gareth Gore is an immense achievement that proves an otherwise held conspiracy, of financial fraud at the scale of hundreds of millions of dollars, political corruption and a secret society exerting their influence on the halls of power that you and I are subject to. 

‘Show me the incentive and I’ll show you the outcome’ - Charlie Munger (goat of pithy quotes)

I want to grow this newsletter and I want to grow this podcast. Typically, fellow creators in my position will offer you (my dear reader/listener) some reward whereby, if you refer x amount of people I will send you y reward.

For every 5 people you bring to the newsletter, I’d send you custom merch (or something along these lines)

Now, as you know, I work full time at Quartr which means after a long days work, I am booking, researching, recording, editing and publishing a podcast plus (everything on this newsletter), and therefore only left with a few minutes for everything else that makes up a life.

And as such, setting up some type of rewards program hasn’t eventuated. BUT with that being said, I would nonetheless try to do something to incentivise you to share the show.

For the sake of transparency - about 5000 people follow the podcast across both Spotify & Apple, and several hundred subscribe to this newsletter. Not everyone listens to every episode, but so far in a 4 year lifetime I’m extremely chuffed with every new person - and I notice every. single. new. person…

To get to the point where things are monetised I’d say tripling both of those metrics is necessary.

But for now, all I can offer is camaraderie - if you are reading this now you are, and will remain the most important viewership I will ever get… and this is because you are the early adopters. So all I can do is ask… if you enjoy this and if you know anyone who think might enjoy it as well - share it with them one at a time and share it on your socials to the masses. Follow the podcast wherever you listen to it and subscribe to this newsletter and bare with me, not everything will be directly interesting to you, but I endeavour that some of it definitely will be.

So pump your juice, send this to all your mates - and one day you’ll be able to say you were onto all this ‘Curious Worldview’ stuff from day 1.

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