I agree. He interviews a lot of fascinating people with highly-specialized backgrounds. To research their work and understand it enough to have great conversational flow and remain highly insightful would take a lot of time.
But since this isn't his full-time job, I think trading-off asking very good questions for the flow of the dialogue is worth it.
But since this isn't his full-time job, I think trading-off asking very good questions for the flow of the dialogue is worth it.