Episode Zero
Episode Zero — coming Three minutes with Simer and Sayeed, before the show begins.
The Long Work
The main series. Long-form interviews with people who've built, mastered, or questioned something worth understanding. Filmed inside their actual world, edited carefully, released when ready.
Coming soon.
The Field Work
Outside, under the same brand. Questions we'd ask anyone, asked to whoever's walking past. The honest part of the same idea: that real people, asked real questions, will tell you something true. New clips weekly.
Watch on Instagram & YouTube.
What We Look For
We're chasing a particular kind of person. Not necessarily famous. Not necessarily anyone you'd recognise from a list.
What we look for is the rare mix of substance, taste, instinct, and discipline, the people who've built something, mastered something, questioned something, or carried real responsibility. The kind of person you can spend an hour with and want another hour. We're as interested in a quiet master at the top of their craft as we are in someone making noise in public.
If you know someone like that, tell us about them.
Host · 01
She believes the best interviews happen when someone forgets they're being interviewed.
Simer runs CAN WE SEE? from Sydney. She started this project after spending years collecting questions she wished someone would ask people she admired. The show is the answer.
Her interest is in the part of someone that doesn't fit into a bio, the contradictions, the unfinished thinking, the small obsessions. The work behind the work.
Host · 02
On camera, he listens harder than most people talk.
Sayeed is the co-host on camera. He's there to ask the questions Simer doesn't, to push when she pulls back, and to slow down the conversation when it needs slowing.
Off camera, he writes music and reads more than he sleeps. He believes the room changes once people stop formally explaining themselves.
“We're not interested in catching anyone out or chasing a viral moment. We just want to see you properly.” — Simer & Sayeed
What We're Into Right Now
The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten, by Julian Baggini. A hundred thought experiments, taken one a night. It keeps handing us questions we want to ask people.
— Simer
This Month We're Asking
Last month's results, below.
First results publish after the first month. — See full survey archive →
The Feed
An Open Invitation
Suggestions, compliments, disagreements, a question you can't stop thinking about, a person we should know. One of us reads every email. Sometimes that is where the next conversation starts.
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