Post#309 » by Stanford » Wed Apr 8, 2015 7:27 pm
I feel like I have to show some support for Jericho.
None of the podcast guys are particularly good interviewers, but Jericho has the greatest level of interview skills by a wide margin. Austin and Colt are two of the worst interviewers I've ever listened to. The only time they get a good interview out of anyone is when they're close with the guests, or the guests is strong enough to carry the show. Neither one of them have any idea how to ask a question.
Austin might want to ask a guess who he thought threw the best working punch. This is how he’d do it:
“Hey man, I love a good, snug working punch. There are a lot of guys out there who throw a good one. I was wondering who you thought threw the best working punch. I mean, I grew up idolizing Ric Flair, but he threw chops. So when I started with USWA at the Dallas Sportatorium I went up against some great workers who threw a great punch. One of those guys was Chris Adams”
And then he’d tell a Chris Adams anecdote.
Finally, after a few minutes of this, he’d say “So who are some of the guys you like, who threw a good working punch?”
He spends way too much time not engaging with the guest.
Listen to the Jericho podcast with Vickie that he uploaded today. His questions are terse and succinct. That, believe it or not, is a skill, and a lot of the podcasters don’t have it. He’s not perfect, but he always gets good interviews out of his guests, because he knows how to ask a question.