Tal Galili is, in many ways, a central spoke of the R community. Both gregarious and thoughtful, he has grown his website r-bloggers.com into the definitive aggregation of the R community’s voice through his genuine, passion-driven intensity. Tal had a simple desire as a young programmer - to learn more about his chosen tools - and looked to the internet to find other voices like his. When googling for “R blogs”, Tal found numerous blogs about pirates, but only a handful about R. This interview details how Tal started R-Bloggers and decided to challenge the status quo, as well as his new projects.