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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
I used to maintain that the Joe Rogan Experience was the best fucking place to see people be interviewed. 

Rogan used to be an actually phenomenal interviewer. His questions were insightful, his guests always felt welcome to expand on their views or experiences. 

You’d have people who would share just incredible life stories, like the black musician who worked to convert KKK members (I feel bad that I can’t remember his name).

And then you’d also have the political episodes. I mean, where else would Bernie Sanders, Andrew Yang, and Ben Shapiro do interviews where there was no manufactured pushback and instead just a genuine conversation on their views? 

Seemed like with COVID that all this was flipped on its head and instead Rogan became the focus of his own podcast.
gpt
He really was an amazing interviewer. I used to do interviews (was really good at it too) and I always said joe rogan and the hot wings guy were some of the best interviewers I'd seen. You can tell if they can ask off-script questions and then meander back to planned questions with little effort. That shows that they are both prepared for the interview and active listeners. It's really tough to know enough about your interviewee, and their subject matter, and then actively listen to someone for hours at a time, in order to formulate un-planned questions on the spot in response to prior answers, that are not only on-topic, but also trigger interesting and informative responses. Yes, he definitely had a team of researchers helping, but he would provide mostly un-cut, multiple-hour interviews where he was solely asking questions of the subject. That means he really dug into the research, and has the unique ability to be a truly active listener. Not everyone has it. I still occasionally find an old joe rogan episode and listen to it, because it is compelling interviewing. (and I'm a woman.) His interviews with paul stamets or integrative medicine doctors are really compelling.