896: Captain Max Hardberger | The Man Who Steals Ships from Pirates

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Jordan Harbinger

Science, Education, Business

4.8 • 12.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Recovering stolen ships from pirates in the world's most troubled waters is big business, and Captain Max Hardberger is here to steer us through it.

What We Learn in Conversation with Captain Max Hardberger:

Not all pirates are impoverished desperados with nothing to lose — the most vicious ones wear suits and hobnob with royalty.
The surprising places where ships are illegitimately seized by the rich and powerful who know how to play the game.
When ship owners can't recover their seized property through legal channels in corrupt courts, they turn to people like Captain Max Hardberger.
How Max determines if someone's claim to a seized ship is valid, or if they're trying to scam him into heisting somebody else's property.
The extreme "extraction" methods Max is prepared to employ when ships can't be reclaimed by mere paperwork.
And much more...

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1:31.4	Today, we're talking to a high seas repo man, literally a good pirate. Well,
1:35.5	figuratively, I suppose, in some ways. He takes ships that are taken hostage in corrupt ports.
1:42.6	His job is to essentially sneak onto seized ships, illegally seized ships,
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