Julian Sancton

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🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Julian Sancton: dry martini (3 ounces gin, 2 drops dry vermouth, lemon twist) Julian shares the greatest sunken treasure story of all time (and it’s real) that makes the treasure of the Outer Banks tv series look puny, warns of the harm that Bob Iger and Disney’s move into OpenAI could do, discusses the impact that podcasts will have on the media landscape, reveals the pros and cons of growing up with a father and grandfather who are published authors.

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0:39.9	Welcome to Dedicated. I'm your host Doug Brunt. Today we're with Julian Sankton. Julian has the
0:44.6	amazing claim to fame that he has reported from every continent on the earth. He's also the
0:51.0	best-selling author of nonfiction, two non-fiction books.
0:56.8	His second is called Neptune's Fortune. This is an insanely fun, incredible tale of a Spanish galleon loaded with gold and silver,
1:03.7	another treasure from the new world.
1:05.7	It sinks in 1708 off the coast of Colombia.
1:09.0	And Julian tells the story of how the ship goes down, and then the centuries-long quest
1:13.3	to find the treasure, and then a crazy saga about what to do with the treasure once it's
1:20.1	found.
1:20.4	It's an incredible story, brilliantly told.
1:23.2	Julian, welcome.
1:24.0	Great to have you.
1:24.6	Thank you.
1:25.1	It's great to be here.
1:26.0	It's great to be here, and it's great to be making a dry martini with a twist.
1:31.4	Yes.
1:32.2	Which will I get started on. We were just talking about going light on the vermouth in this.
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