Guest Interviews - The 3 Moments
Ever since I was a kid watching Parky, then Russell Harty, and now Andrew Denton and Larry King, I’ve loved interviews. Interesting people with interesting things to say. Inspirations. I like the Parky interview style. The guests don’t have to be grilled or caught off their guard, or sensationalised. Just conversations. Interest and curiosity in the guest, and what they have to tell and teach us.
And not just the famous and the stars, but some of my favourites were Barbara Castle, Jonathan Miller, Peter Ustinov, Michael Caine, Bette Midler, and latterly, Paul McCartney talking about his ego. That was Part 1.
Part 2 for me, came just before the start of podcasting, and in fact partly created podcasting. The Chris Lydon interviews. Wonderful political and technological conversations published as mp3 files to download and listen to. This coupled with Doug Kaye’s I.T Conversations, led to a world of mp3 downloads for me. And still to this day, I manually download mp3s to listen to instead of using podcast software to automatically download to my laptop or mp3 player.
Since 2003 I’ve pondered who I’d like to interview. I’ve never had the platform to interview anyone. Sure I’ve podcast on The Productivity Show, dabbled, had some great guests, but I realise I want to go beyond productivity. And I’ve feared and procrastinated for 5 years. No longer.
It’s simple really. All I have to do is list the 100 people I’d most like to interview in the world, and invite them!! Yeah sure, most won’t reply, or will say no, or it will become too difficult. But you know what? At least 5 will say yes, and it will be magnificent.
So I’m starting with a simple website, a banner, and name…The 3 Moments. Why “The 3 Moments”? Well, when I look at the people I’d like to interview, it’s about their journey, their highs, their lows, the ending of something and that “Oh Shit” moment, the Harrison Owen (Open Space Technology) writes about in his book Wave Rider, and how people deal with set-back and grief. If you ask someone to draw a timeline of their life from birth to now, the chances are there will be two or three peaks/troughs, so let’s hear about those things, The Hero/Heroine’s Journey.
Build it and let them come. So let’s see what happens.
The article and Gladwell’s forthcoming book suggests that a minimum of 10,000 hours practise and the opportunity of being around in the right place at the right time in history will create giftedness, genius, and riches.


Mark Purdey was a UK farmer who fought the UK Ministry of Agriculture and then the scientific establishment to try to prove that BSE(Mad Cows Disease) is not a disease passed on through sheep or bovine feed, but a chemical imbalance either set off by organophosphates, or an environmental chemical imbalance. In the case of BSE or CJD, it's a high manganese/ low copper footprint. What's even more fascinating is that Mark Purdey also suggested that other neurodegenerative diseases may also have a mineral imbalance footprint. Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. In the case of Alzheimer's, it a high aluminum and low zinc, I think. Has this brilliant and radical hypothesis died with Mark Purdey. Was he zapped? Ironically, he died from a brain tumor.
Why can't we have centre-left policies. Does that really have to bankrupt a country? I don't get why spending the money on infrastructure instead of bombs is a dud economic policy. Do bombs really have a better economic return? I'd much rather see infrastructure, water, air, transport, telecomms, nationalised and run by the government. By all means have private enterprise run on the infrastructure and sell services using the infrastructure, but some things are too big and risky for commercial enterprises to take on, and we the population suffer, and in some cases aren't able to compete with countries who centrally invest in say, the latest telecomm infrastructure. It's not just a shareholder payback thing.