Wired.com presents the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello and welcome to episode 334 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Richard A Clark.

He has over 30 years of experience in national security,

including over a decade working in the White House,

and he's now the CEO of a cybersecurity consulting firm.

In his 2004 book Against All Enemies, he harshly criticized the U.S. government for failing

to prevent the 9-11 terrorist attacks.

His other books include novels such as Breakpoint, Sting of the Drug. the will be speaking with him today about his new podcast Future State and his recent book

Warnings, finding Cassandra's to stop catastrophes, in which he and his co-author

R.P. Eddie survey seven future threat scenarios, including artificial intelligence, Sea Level Rise, and Meteor Strike.

And now here's her interview with Richard A Clark.

All right, so we're here with Richard A Clark.

Welcome to the show.

Good to be with you. Okay, so your new podcast is called Future State.

So why do you want to get involved in podcasting?

Well, I want to get my voice out and I think the old way of doing that which I did for 15 years of being a

talking head on a TV network just doesn't reach the right audience. I did ABC News as a talking head on national security

issues for 15 years and when I looked at the demographic of who's watching you know you get maybe 8 million people a night watching

the ABC news main broadcast, but most of them are in their 60s and 70s and 80s and their minds are kind of made up.

Yeah, and so what was the process of getting your podcast up and running?

Well, we met with cadence 13 which has I think

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