Hey, Isaac.

Hey, Tyler. How are you?

Good. Thanks so much for being here.

My pleasure.

I guess I wonder, like, what you kind of see your goal is, you know, when you're seeking out interviews.

Like, if it's to provide people with contacts or maybe like a different take on an issue that

they're probably already following closely or is it to like introduce them to information

that they never would have encountered otherwise?

Yeah, I think sometimes it's to kind of narrow down and focus on something that I myself

of having trouble understanding and really want to try and laser in on.

I did a lot of interviews about the humanitarian situation in Gaza, especially when Israel cut off

aid. And I think the reason that I was interested in that was because I really kind of wanted

to understand the mechanism of how the aid shut off was working. and then the sort of basically half-hearted attempts

to increase food in the months after the total age shutoff. And so that was an area where I just

thought, if I could do multiple interviews on it, I could try and understand and hopefully

explain to readers exactly what was going on and the intentions of the principal parties, in this case,

Israel and the United States. So that's definitely one thing. It's sometimes trying to understand

kind of breaking news. It's sometimes trying to kind of laser focus on an issue and do a bunch of

things on it to try and get a sort of broader understanding of it. And sometimes it's to try and highlight

something that I don't think is getting much attention. And I think hopefully sometimes is to do

interviews that are, you know, somewhat lighter and dare I say even fun or interesting to readers

in a lighthearted manner. Those are kind of the different goals that I have with the interviews.

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