Coltan Scrivner
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2,167 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 23 Mar
Coltan Scrivner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's like a combination mineral, right?
The unfortunate thing is if you search my name, there aren't a lot of people with my name that is spelled C-O-L-T-A-N.
The only other thing in the world that's spelled like that is this like slave mining that happens in the Congo.
Yeah, I feel like I have people like that in my life where they do something interesting, but it's so morally opaque.
And I'm like, I don't know if I can be close to you, but they're like a lens into another part of the world.
Exactly.
You don't feel warm towards them.
You know, you're curious about them, but maybe don't feel warm towards them.
Well, I thought the same thing when I first started studying this.
I thought, oh, of course people are studying this because if you talk to anyone on the street or at a bar or wherever, and you just use the phrase morbid curiosity, you ever been morbidly curious?
People give you a hundred examples of when they've done that.
Maybe they're curious about this shady guy they met at a club who works in the Congo with coal sand mining.
I think that's a form of that, right?
And so I thought surely people have studied this.
And when I started looking into it, there was just no science on this.
And this was not that long ago, maybe five, six years ago, seven at the most.
So I thought, okay, this is interesting as a grad student, right?
I found this thing that everyone knows about, but nobody has studied it.
That's a goldmine.
Yeah.
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