Oz Veloshian

So, I mean, talk about what listeners can expect tangibly from the podcast.

We're going to play your episode with Ian Bremmer after this conversation between the two of us.

But you mentioned Sebastian Malaby is also Anne-Marie Slaughter and Anthony Scaramucci.

A big list of household names.

What's your approach to a booking?

And then what do you do with the guests once you've got them in the seat?

So aspiration, I want to get as much of a conversation as possible.

That's hard to do, you know.

As we've observed, and I do the same thing, you know, people promoting a book want to promote the book.

They don't want to have a conversation about whatever, even though having that conversation, in fact, promotes them in the book.

So I want to have a conversation and a back and forth.

I want people to challenge me.

I want to challenge them.

Sometimes that works better than other times, and that depends on the chemistry with the guests.

And I want to engage ideas that they're passionate about, whether that's AI, whether that's global politics, whether that's domestic politics, whether that's our economy, how we're living socially, education.

social isolation, you know, any of these topics, environment, engage them with an eye to be constructive.

And often the conversation is going to be looking at what's going wrong, but it's looking at it from a perspective of, are we missing something?

Are we missing something?

You know, we're missing the green shoots because we're focused on the dark clouds.

And I hope these conversations allow for a different tonality, a different sensibility.