The Shawn Ryan Show
#231 Gerard Barron - CIA Project Azorian & Deep Sea Mining That Could Change the World
28 Aug 2025
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Jared Baron, welcome to the show, man.
Such a privilege to be here.
It's a privilege for me. Thank you. Thank you for coming. You first popped up on my radar from a mutual friend, Cole Fackler from GBRS. And so we started looking at India and I've been interviewing a couple of different guys that have been mining different
areas of the universe i guess and um and uh so haven't talked to anybody doing it under the sea so i thought this would be i'm just fascinated by innovators and what you guys are doing so i really appreciate you coming well appreciate the chance to talk to on your platform to a new audience perfect well everybody starts with an introduction here we go
Jared Baron, entrepreneur hailing from a Queensland, Australia dairy farm. Built global companies across media, technology, battery manufacturing, and resource development. Chairman and CEO of The Metals Company, leading the charge in deep sea mining. A first principles thinker committed to resource extraction with minimal impact on people and nature.
A global traveler splitting time between London, California, and Tonga. Where the fuck is Tonga?
Well, I should correct that a tiny bit. It's more, you know, Tonga is a beautiful Pacific Island country, but I should mention Tonga and Nauru, which is also an even smaller country, little island in the Pacific. But, look, it's a pretty – I'm a pretty frequent traveler, that's for sure. And I'm Australian, of course, as you said.
But over the last 14 years, I've been working with Pacific Island countries. And I mean, they are amazing people. I mean, Tonga is beautiful. Nauru is really special. It's where the birds used to stop when they headed south. No kidding. And so it was discovered about 80 years ago that it was rich in phosphate. And so the Germans and the English and Australians and Kiwis came and took it all.
And, you know, it was discovered back when good old James Cook was sailing the world after he discovered Australia and he called it Pleasant Island. And then Everyone came and took all of their beautiful phosphate, which was used to feed the world. And so now you have 80% of the island that's uninhabitable. Then they handed the country back to the people of Nauru.
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