Rick, I am glad the interviews are gaining a wider audience. I think they deserve that.
I chuckled to myself though as I read your preparations for the interview. The thought that popped into my head was, "Does he think he is interviewing God?" I'm just a crazy SOB. ---In [email protected], <rick@...> wrote : From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of steve.sundur@... Sent: Sunday, May 4, 2014 6:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Note to Rick Conderning his interview with Sam Harris Jesus Christ, Rick, are you going to propose marriage to the guy, or just interview him! Well, he and I are both married, not gay, and there’s a big age difference, so that would probably be hard to arrange. But hey, stranger things have happened. ---In [email protected] mailto:[email protected], <rick@... mailto:rick@...> wrote : I’m going to read all of his books before even inviting him, and take notes as I go along, which I’ll share and discuss with you. Then I’ll carefully compose an invitation letter, which I’ll bounce off you also. So it may even be a year before the interview happens, if he agrees to one. But I would want it to be one that really did justice to the guy. From: [email protected] mailto:[email protected] [mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of curtisdeltablues@... Sent: Saturday, May 3, 2014 8:59 AM To: [email protected] mailto:[email protected] Subject: [FairfieldLife] Note to Rick Conderning his interview with Sam Harris Hey Rick, If you follow the threads from Lawson about Sam Harris you will gain some insight into Harris' world. In most debates and interviews he has to spend most of this time sorting out the misunderstandings about his position caused by people quoting people misrepresenting his ideas rather than his actual points in his books. Richard even posted a attribution to his book under statements from other people misrepresenting his positions, and this is very common all over the internet. If you get a chance to interview him your ability to state his actual points will be a huge rapport builder. And this seems like just an obvious point for any interview but controversial guys like him are more prone to people misrepresenting their ideas to make them look bad so he is extra touchy about this. Just focusing on his actual points that can be challenged for good reasons will make your interview a breath of fresh air for him I am sure.
