As I plan for 2026, one of the things I want to do is conduct more long-form interviews on YouTube.
As a result, I’ve spent much of the year — and especially the last three months — watching a ton of long-form interviews. I’ve got a few favorite interviewers: folks who put together a combination of interview subjects and their own ability to ask questions (and to let the guests talk).
So, while I plot my own next steps, allow me to share some of the best videos I’ve watched during 2025. (And there are two bonuses at the end: a couple good interviews that I conducted.) Here goes:
Triggernometry Interviews Richard Miniter
I’ve gone from “hey these guys are pretty good” to “OMG, ANOTHER VIDEO? I HAVE TO STOP EVERYTHING AND WATCH.” Francis Foster and Konstantin Kisin know what they’re doing when they interview someone. So I have three of their chats on this list…
This first one was actually crazy memorable for me; I was shocked that a couple British folks wanted to talk with Richard about America.
The interview is a discussion of how America became…America. Big fun.
It’s great, I’ve watched it at least twice all the way through.
Triggernometry Interviews Jonathan Wilson
The subject, “The Real History of Football.” This is fun and *weird*, IMHO. As opposed to a discussion of American Football, this analysis of how football became “FOOTBALL” is really something.
It also just dropped within the past couple days, proving that sometimes they have a “run, don’t walk” subject. A propos as we enter a World Cup year.
Triggernometry Interviews Dr. Peter Attia
Dr. Peter Attia’s “Outlive” sits on my nightstand. It’s because of his work that I’ve tried to incorporate a combination of exercise, diet, and genetic predispositions — I just learned I’m A LOT MORE Italian than I had originally been told; I grew up being told I’m 0% Italian, so 20% is quite a lot more — to my own health journey.
I’m also now closer to 60 than I am to 50; so I’m hopeful that I can lean more on the part of the family that lived into its 80s (Mom just turned 80) than on the part of the family where the men die in their 60s (Grandpa was 61, Dad lived to 65). This is going to take a combination of…exercise — which Dr. Attia champions throughout his work — and diet; perhaps a few other medications can help me to ward off bad health.
Jordan Peterson Interviews Scott Adams
This becomes even better under the sober light of day: Jordan and Scott have both had some significant health challenges this year, so it is even more illuminating.
Chris Williamson Interviews Peter Zeihan
With the title of “The New World Order Is Here,” we get to listen to Peter Zeihan as he waxes poetic about the state of the world.
It’s all about demographics: and China’s demographics — and those of Russia and South Korea, too — are not good.
Chris Williamson Interviews Dave Ramsey
Big fans of both. But it’s real cool to watch a long-form interviewer (Chris) talk to someone who is used to five-to-ten-minute calls (Dave) over and over.
Dave Van de Walle (that’s me!) Interviews Stephen Barrigar
I interviewed Stephen three times in 2025, but this one was my favorite; partly because of the wide-eyed innocence we both had. Neither of us could have predicted how much impact the Trump tariffs would have had on Canadian politics — Stephen went so far as to say that Pierre Poilievre would be the next prime minister, and I didn’t dispute that assertion — but here we are.
Worth a watch to see just how wrong we both were.
Dave Van de Walle Interviews Jennifer Brown
Jennifer is a fun interview; the fact that she’s in Minnesota and, as I write this, news of possible widespread Somali fraud is making the rounds makes it all the more interesting and timely.
Also, the low number of views is a testament to me as a marketer, not her as an interview subject. SO WATCH, WILL YA???
See you in 2026. (And don’t forget to Like and Subscribe over at The Vandy Program.)
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