OK, here’s the deal. As much as I really admire & respect David Stockman, the problem is he all too often gets hung up and trapped in the minutiae (David, please, spare me the grisly details). And this frequently leads him down the bunny trail path and tends to cause him to ramble on, and the listener loses interest. Simply stated, he gets lost in the weeds.

Somebody needs to put a leash or a governor on him and make it known upfront that the interview needs to be a back-n-forth two-way conversation. Like most of David’s interviews, the host is practically shut-out of the conversation and it turns into a monologue. It would be so much more entertaining if it was an alternating back & forth discussion and an exchange of ideas, especially with a host like Woods. Unlike most interviewers, Tom has the intellectual horsepower to really energize a conversation which I often wish would never end.

Now I’m sure whoever the show’s host might be, they certainly don’t want to step on this guy’s toes as it’s not easy to attract a noted guest with the stature of a D.S. Any host would be doing Stockman a favor by suggesting he come up for air once in a while, take some deep breaths, and share the time with the person on the other side of the microphone. I think many people are turned off by this unfortunate habit he’s developed.