Hello everyone. I'm Stephen West. This is philosophize this.

So at the end of last episode I asked about the possibility of doing an interview with

Slava Jijek in the coming weeks.

And the response was overwhelmingly positive, but there were some people expressing their concerns, like don't change the format of the show Stephen West, don't turn this into an interview show.

And sorry I wasn't more clear about it last time, We're doing a series of the show on

Geechak right now and then several other big thinkers doing their work today and

that's the direction we're moving in. And I really just wanted to know if anyone

was interested in a conversation totally additional to the podcast that I'd put out there

if anybody wanted to hear it. I mean do you guys think I want to make this into an

interview show? Do you think I want to turn what we're doing here into just you know

background noise that people put on whenever they're doing actually

important stuff. Please I love this show. I love how much we can pack into 30

minutes. Just feel the need to reiterate I just want to keep doing the stuff

you find people enjoy that's

what I'm going for that said in retrospect I probably should have waited to

ask if anyone wanted to hear about Geechak until after I did this first episode of

the series reason being is with every one of these podcasts there's always

a different challenge that comes up specific to the episode that needs to be

solved and the one that came up for Jijek was how do you make someone that's as

complex as Jijek can be sometimes, accessible

to people who may not even know who he is or what he's even talking about, but do that in a way

where it also doesn't make it too boring for people that are already fans of his work.

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