Rogan has strengths being a good interviewer. He will sit back and let his guest talk, explain things and engage with them. It's more refreshing than seeing someone on a mainstream news channel pitch softball questions and a short interview section.
I've seen some interviews that were interesting; David Lee Roth, James Hetfield, Dale Earnhardt Jr and John Carmack. These were all great interviews and he engaged with them on questions they normally wouldn't be asked, which led to Roth going into detail about how disappointed he was with Van Halen as a band after their third album, Junior talking personal details about his late father, and Carmack explaining what made him move on from making video games. These are little details he can bring out of someone as an interviewer.
He's problematic for many reasons, but the biggest one is that he gives a platform to just about every alt right speaker that comes up, and often humors them by sitting back and letting them run their mouths and talk about their views, often unquestioned. He did have Bernie Sanders on his show last year, and Sanders managed to win him over and that was a great interview. Problem for Rogan though is that he plays himself as a naïve guy and rarely questions his guests, which leads to him being a useful idiot when he has someone like Shapiro on there.
That's the thing, even if he isn't the sharpest tool he does have some pretty solid interviewing skills and is really able to get his guests to give interesting answers by just letting them talk.
Rogan has strengths being a good interviewer. He will sit back and let his guest talk, explain things and engage with them. It's more refreshing than seeing someone on a mainstream news channel pitch softball questions and a short interview section.
I've seen some interviews that were interesting; David Lee Roth, James Hetfield, Dale Earnhardt Jr and John Carmack. These were all great interviews and he engaged with them on questions they normally wouldn't be asked, which led to Roth going into detail about how disappointed he was with Van Halen as a band after their third album, Junior talking personal details about his late father, and Carmack explaining what made him move on from making video games. These are little details he can bring out of someone as an interviewer.
He's problematic for many reasons, but the biggest one is that he gives a platform to just about every alt right speaker that comes up, and often humors them by sitting back and letting them run their mouths and talk about their views, often unquestioned. He did have Bernie Sanders on his show last year, and Sanders managed to win him over and that was a great interview. Problem for Rogan though is that he plays himself as a naïve guy and rarely questions his guests, which leads to him being a useful idiot when he has someone like Shapiro on there.
That's the thing, even if he isn't the sharpest tool he does have some pretty solid interviewing skills and is really able to get his guests to give interesting answers by just letting them talk.