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1. Introduction: Science. What is it
all about technology? Or is that all about? Is it good? Or is it walk? I'm sure you've seen a ton of bad interviews and you've
been annoyed by them, but maybe he couldn't quite put your finger on what
exactly was wrong. Well, in this course, I'm going to review excerpts from several such
annoying interviews. And I'll talk through the issues with
these interviews and discuss what can be done about them if you're also
interviewing someone. And I will of course, use
interviews with celebrities. My name is Zachary risky. I'm a sociologist here in the Netherlands where I
conduct research and teach, among other things,
qualitative interviewing. In the past, I've
worked for years as professional written
press journalists. And overall, I've conducted
hundreds of interviews. There were short and the long, they were face-to-face
and remote. I talked with young and old, rich and poor and people
from many walks of life in general and from different countries and
cultural backgrounds. You may have seen
like crash course on professional interviewing
for beginners. And this is its
companion course. So maybe you're a
college student, dinars culture and
media studies, or you're a young professional launching a YouTube
or a podcast project. I always say that
the next best thing to learn how to interview people than going out there is observing how others do it. So let's analyze
some interviews. Or when this is not to
make fun of anybody, I, everyone makes mistakes. This is only for
educational purposes.
2. Interview #1: Alright, so let's jump into
analyzing the interviews. The first one is an
interview with Trevor Noah, the famous us talk show, late, late show host, interviewed here
by Howard Stern. Howard Stern is of course, an experienced and
well-known interviewer with a longstanding career. So let's see what how they
handle how he handles the interview and how
the interviewee reacts. We don't hear about
your relationships. I know you were
in a relationship for like three years, right. But you're you're
pretty easily like We don't see you walking
around with anyone. You keep this all very low-key. You're off the television life. Yeah. So right away, a comment that the voice of the
interviewer is very good. Obviously, he has a
great microphone there. If you can get one of those, it will really amplify
your voice the same way. Well, of course, in your
sound engineer as well. But that voice really helps
if you're on a radio, if you're doing a podcast.
Because it sounds nice. But I'm not, I'm not
a fan of celebrity. You're not a part of the yeah. I don't see you on
the Daily Mail. I don't see a big
fan of Celebrity. How do you keep it all so quiet? How do you fly on the radar? Where do you meet people? I'm lucky. Okay. So the interviewer asked
two questions in a row. First, he said, How
do you do this? How do you keep it under
wraps your relationship? And then he immediately follow this up with
another question, where do you meet people? So that's a big no-no. You shouldn't do that because the interviewee will focus
only on the last one. I typically on the
last question. And also it's
completely confuses the person you're
talking to when you ask a bunch of different
questions in a row. I gravitate towards
real people in life. Women everywhere. Okay, so here's a
big annoying thing that people sometimes do. He just interrupted him, he asked a question, Trevor started answering
and he immediately Howard immediately interrupted him and pose another question,
another question. So it's a bit annoying, especially when you are
doing it for an audience. Because the ordinance
might be interested in the answer and you
are just interrupting the person and just I'm asking you your next
question right away. Let's say big no-no. I would say big no-no. That's the thing is like, I think you'll ever be married. I will not opposed to it, but it's not going
to happen to it. Maybe you'll come
down with the work and Viola, I don t know, I can only know where
I am now in life, and that's what I've
learned to enjoy a poet. And when you meet a woman, you, you lay out your philosophy. So listen, I'm into,
I'm open to low, which is what we should all do. Well, Yes. When we meet people, we should tell me who we are. Be honest, you don't. Why? You should have the person love you or hate you
for who you are, not for who you
portray yourself to be how many people go
into relationships like a used car salesman? Yes. So ******** about
who they are and what I love long
walks on the beach. And yes, I love, I love adventure.
You don't like it. Or you hate whitewater rafting. You hate adventure, you
hate or leaving the house. Be honest and say, I like sitting on the
couch and watching too much TV and I'm a slob. And then if somebody goes, I love that and
they're being honest, you have now found true love or happens with
people as you go. I'm Tom Cruise. I like
hanging on the set of planes and living
a good life, right? And then two years and
the loves starts fading, that the infatuation
starts fading. And then the person goes, you
want to go outside and you look why we're always going
outside and they're like, Why don't you never
want to go outside and you'd like garment and
then it's like you change, new change like No, you didn't change, your just weren't on. And really our guys
are trained to be salesman where we're trying
to seduce all the time. So, oh, I love going
to tennis match. You can produce without being dishonest about who
you are, who you are. What I'm trying to be
honest all the time. That's what I'm
trying to be looking at you. Now listen to this. That is true romance
when you lose the naivety of like
you just enjoy it all. That's why I'm announcing.
Living together before you get married. I'm a big advocate for not living together ever
even if you're married. Really. I think let me hear this. I think one of the biggest
reasons people get divorced and relationships break up is because of this
cohabiting ******** that we've come to believe as the way relationships are
supposed to be. I'm going to recommend a
relationship with Robin, cleverest person who doesn't want to live with
anybody want to say. But that's what I'm saying.
That's good for you. You cannot tell me that everyone was designed to
guide every same way night every and
that's why I'm saying our intimacy can wonder, I don t know, beautiful. And here's the next. Another interruption. Really traveled was onto
something interesting. And the interviewer may be interested in
his own question. Cut him off. And we didn't hear the rest of his answer of Trevor's
answer. Big no-no. Try not to do that. It's annoying. And the worst
part is that the question, the answer to the question
that he did ask was bad. It was boring, so I don't
know, that was the answer. So we could have gotten a much better and much
more interesting answer if I've traveled, wasn't
interrupted. Okay.
3. Interview #2: Okay, For the second interview, let's watch an interview
with Elon Musk by Chris Anderson, had of dead. He is a journalist in the past, journalists turned
businessman and entrepreneur. And I mean Chris
Anderson with that. But let's see how he interviews Elon Musk and what kind of
conversation they have. Wants to switch now to think a bit about artificial
intelligence, I'm curious about your timelines and how you predict and how
come some things are so amazingly on the money and
some art when it comes to predicting sales of Tesla
vehicles, for example. I mean, you kinda been
amazing. I think in 2014 when Tesla had sold that
year 60 thousand cars. You said 2020, I think we
will do 0.5 million a year. It's exactly half
million five years ago. Last time you came
to town, I asked you about full self-driving
and you say, Yep, this very year, I am confident
that we will have a car going from LA to New York
without any intervention. Yeah. Alright, so this guy, obviously he's in a professional
interviewer working at, despite his a bit of an annoying enthusiasm for
speaking with Elon Musk, he's doing a great
job introducing or starting the interview. So he's really
making eye contact, is nowhere is doing.
He's confident. He's speaking fluently
as as as if it's a normal conversation and he does make it a
normal conversation, he is in the control, but he's not speaking
way too long. So that's the perfect amount of introductory statement before he gets to his first question. So that's great. Maybe a bit too much
a flattering remarks, but that's just, that's just me. I don't want to blow your mind, but I'm not always
right toward the top. One. Example of an
arrogant interviewee. And this guy deals with it. Well, it could be more critical, he could be more teasing
a little bit here. I think he placed
too much along with his arrogance here as to why, why, why has full
self-driving and particular been so
hard to predict? I mean, the thing that really
got me and I think he's gonna get a lot of
other people is that there are just so many
false dawns with a self-driving where you think, you think you've
got the problem, have a handle on the problem, and then it nope, it turns
out you just hit a ceiling. And because what if you
were to plot the progress? The progress looks
like a log curve. So it's like a series
of luck curves. So obvious I suppose, but it shows how it goes. It goes up sort of a sort of a fairly straight
way and then it starts tailing off, right? Props to the interviewer
here for finding quickly solution to a problem. He says, show it
with your hands. Instead of making Elon Musk, explain about
logarithms and stuff. He just says, Show me
your hands and works here at IU start and there's a kind of
sharing diminishing returns. In retrospect they seem obvious, but in order to solve for
self-driving properly, you actually just have
to solve real-world AI. Because he said like, What
are the road networks designed to work with? They're designed to work with a biological neural
net to our brains, and with vision, our eyes. And so in order to make
it work with computers, you basically need to solve
real-world AI envision. Because, because we need, we need cameras and silicon
neural nets in order to have a self-driving work
for a system that was designed for eyes and
biological neural nets. I guess when you put it
that way, it's quite obvious that the only
way to solve for self-driving is to solve real-world ai and
sophisticated vision. What do you feel about
the current architecture? Do you think you have an
architecture now wet, where there is a chance for the logarithmic curve not to
tell R for any anytime soon. Well, I mean, so notice here that there's the interviewer
has his questions. He kept comes up with his
questions on the fly. Or at least it seems this way. So key keeps this
a conversation. So probably he has his
questions somewhere on the notepad or his
phone or wherever. But its promise to him that
he comes up with them without breaking eye contact and just as if it's part of
a normal conversation. This may be an
infamous last words, but I actually am confident that we will
solve it this year. That we will exceed the
probability of an accident. What points do you exceed that of the average person, right? I think we will exceed
that this year. Where you could be here talking again
in a year it's like, well, yeah, another year went
by and it didn't happen. But I think I think
this is the year. Is there an element that
you actually deliberately make aggressive
prediction timelines too? Dr. People to be ambitious. Without that, nothing
gets stopped. So it feels like it's okay. So this was not a
question and this was pure flat-out, flattering. And the only thing that's Elon
Musk could do it just to, not, of course, yes,
I'm a genius indeed. So I would try to avoid
that kind of flattering. Unless I'm doing an
investigative TV program in that I am trying to expose maybe a corrupt
politician or, or some, somebody who, who I want to tease
out information from. So I want to first to
suspend their guards. I want to lower their
guards with a bit of flattery in the
beginning so that they are more at ease to answer my more critical
questions or yeah, or at least they are a bit less guarded against
tricky questions. But normally, otherwise,
in all other situations, I would probably not resort to these kind of
unnecessary flattering. Some point in the last year, seeing the progress on
understanding the AI, the Tesla AI, understanding
the world around it led to a kind
of an aha moment. It has because you
already surprise people recently when you said, probably the most important
product development going on at Tesla this year, is this robot optimists? Yes. Is it something that happened in the development of
force AB driving that gave you the
confidence to say, you know what, we could do,
something special here. Yeah, exactly. So alright, So I'm beginning to think
that this is kind of a, mostly, mostly a
PR for Elon Musk. Maybe he paid for it
for the whole thing. Because the interviewer
is completely uncritical up till this point. And in this question, he really, in this question here
really leads him. Lets the interviewee
the question. So how is this, what happened? Is this like the, the thing that made you create this whatever beautiful
thing or majors, maybe it made you
start to develop this brilliant special idea. Here. Elon Musk readily says, Yeah, this is actually
exactly what, what's, what's, what's this all interviewer
makes me think this was more of a PR stunt than genuine and interview,
which makes sense. This is not an investigative
network or whatever. Or critical journalism is literally to
showcase cool stuff. So I guess here this is the setting then it
serves the purpose. For this line of questioning
serves a purpose. It took me a while
to sort of realize is that in order to
solve self-driving, you really needed to
solve real-world AI. The point at which you
solve real-world ai for a car which is really
a robot on four wheels. You can then generalize that
to a robot on legs as well. The thing that the things
that are currently missing are enough intelligence and other talent intelligence for the robot to navigate
through a world that do useful things without being
explicitly instructed. The missing things are basically real-world intelligence and
scaling up, manufacturing. Those are two things that
Tesla is very good at. And so then we basically
just need to design the specialized actuators and sensors that are needed
for humanoid robot. People have no idea this is going to be bigger than the car. I mean, I think the
first applications you've mentioned are probably
going to be manufacturing, but eventually the vision is to, to have these available
for people at home. If you had a robot that really understood the 3D architecture
of your house and knew where every
object in that house was always supposed to be and could recognize
all those objects. I mean, that's kind of amazing. Is that like, like that the kind of thing
that you could ask a robot to do would be what? Tidy up. Yeah, absolutely. Make make dinner, I
guess, mow the lawn, take take a cup of tea to grandma and show her
family pictures? Exactly. It. Take care of my grandmother and make
sure Yeah, exactly. Okay. So I'm expecting
or at least I'm hoping that his next
question would be, well, what about the privacy
aspects of this robot? What about asking more of
more critical questions? So far, he is very, as I said, he's very playing. What's the, what's the term
singing into the fluid? Into a mosque solute. So he's being very supportive
of the interviewee. And it makes sense because you want to make them comfortable. But you would also, when, when interviewing people with
such power Like Elon Musk, you also want to be critical
about the products, about their activities because
there have been a lot of, if you are a good interviewer, you've done your homework
and you know that there are many questions rising surrounding Elon
Musk and Tesla and SpaceX and all other
businesses that he's running. And also he is he's
a public figure. So normally I would expect more critical questions in a good interview over a powerful person
such as Elon Musk. But again, within the setting of Ted, It's probably
not gonna happen. So I'm not holding my breath. Or you could recognize obviously recognize everyone in the home. Could play catch with your kids? Yes. I mean, obviously we
need to be careful that this doesn't become
dystopian situation. Like I think one of the things that's
going to be important just to have localized ROM chip on the robot that cannot
be updated over the air. So he's bringing it
up for himself. Okay. Fair enough. But that's I don't think
that was the intention of the interviewer.
Well, let's see. Because it is a good technique when you're being provocative without actually
voicing the question. So it's interesting
when you are yeah, influencing the interviewee in such a way, in indirect way. But I kind of doubt that this
is what this guy was doing. But yeah, let's see
what happens next. Where if you, for example, were to say stop,
stop, stop that. If anyone said that, then the robot would
stop type of thing. And that's not
updateable remotely. I think it's gonna
be important to have safety features like that. Yeah. That sounds wise. And I do think there should
be a regulatory gray. Yeah, absolutely. I see. So he was a bit of guard. The interviewer was caught off guard by the reaction
of the interviewee. Note the reaction
of the audience. So this is, this is recorded. So they are not aware of
the audience, of course. And this really shows the, how you can be enveloped into the discussion where you're having with
the interviewee. And from the outside, it could look very different
than what you are, You two are expecting. For video interviews,
it's especially important to keep track to be, not be only in your head when
you're doing the interview. When you have, when you're
doing a video interview, you need to keep in
mind that the actual, the end result is not what you are going to
proceed from the interview. Maybe you write it up
later in written form, but actually what the
audience sees later on. So many years, I don't
love being regulated, but I think this is an important
thing for public safety. Do you think that
will be basically like safe to say
2050 or whatever, like a robot in most homes, this is what they
will be on people. Well, I think the problem
with them and count on them. You have your own
Butler basically. Yeah, you'll have your sort
of body robot? Probably. Yeah. Alright. See the interviewee
now he's holding his hands. That means he's withdrawing a little bit from
the conversation so the topic is
uncomfortable for him. This means or he wants
to hide something. Usually this is what it means. It's unlikely that he's
feeling cold here. Probably, Probably not. So I'm wondering what the next steps of this
interviewer will be. What kind of questions is he
going to ask next to bring back the interviewee to
the into the conversation. So what I would do
is probably ask a very different
kind of question or to change the subject. Or two. You know, to just your
behave more warm. I mean, he's quite warm
this guy, the interviewer, but maybe his line of questioning is now really
not something that's enjoys. So he could try to become
even more warm for, for this next question. So
let's see what happens. I mean, how much would
you like to have having that patients who
thought is that can you have a romantic
partner, sex part? I did promise the
Internet that are red cat girls who could make a robot cargo into that. Here I think what happened
is that the interviewer didn't quite understand what
Elon was talking about. I also I also have a
little bit lost with his whole thing about the cats. But what the
interviewer did was he didn't lose rapport
with the interviewee. Because of that. She just set a
general common which would still be relevant
to what he's saying. So he said that be careful what you promised the Internet. That's good. Yeah. I guess it'll be worth
whatever if you want really. What's sort of
timeline should we be thinking about enough? The first, the first
models that are actually made and sold. Well, the first units
that we intend to make art for jobs
that are dangerous, boring, repetitive, and things that people
don't wanna do. And I think we'll have like an interesting prototype
sometime this year. We might have something
useful next year, but I think quite likely
within at least two years. And then we'll see rapid
growth year over year of the usefulness of
the humanoid robots. And decrease in cost
and skin scaling up production helped me on
the economics of this. So what do you picture
the customer these being? Well, I think the cost
is actually not going to be crazy high, like less than a car. But thinking about the
economics of this, if you can replace a $30,000.40 thousand
dollars a year worker, which you have to pay every year with a onetime payment of $25 thousand for a robot
that can work longer hours. It doesn't go on vacation. In that there could be a pretty rapid replacement
of certain types of jobs. How worried should
be about that? I wouldn't worry about the okay, So he leads the viewer managed to regain their rapport
with Elon Musk. Good for him. And yeah. That's sort of putting
people out of a job thing. I think we're actually
going to have an already do have a
massive shortage of labor. So I think we will have NOT, NOT people out of work, but actually still a shortage
labor even in the future. But this really won't be
a world of abundance. Any goods and services will be available to
anyone who wants them. It'll be so cheap to have goods and services will be ridiculous. So this is the end. I do think. Well, the report, their rapport was rediscovered
among these two. So the interviewer did
his job quite well. I still think it's, it's more of a advertisement for Tesla and Elon Musk
than anything else.
4. Interview #3: This is Krishnan Murthy interviewing Quentin
Tarantino in 2013. So this is the controversial
interviewer who famously outraged or made to Robert Downey Junior Film
outrage during an interview. But I think actually
my real reason, I've always wanted
to explore slavery, but I guess the reason that, that actually made
me put pen to paper was to give black American
males, a western hero, give them a cool
folkloric hero that could actually be empowering and actually payback
blood for blood. That's the revenge bits.
Is that essential? Well, well, well,
in the case of, in the case of laying waste to a genocidal white racist class and the institution of slavery. Yes, that would be
the reason to do it, as opposed to just a historical
story where this happens, then this happens,
then this happens, then this happens,
and that happens. So you can't be surprised by the controversy that's come
along with it when you can, I don't think you can
actually make a movie about slavery in America
that it's not going to be controversial or you've
already disappointed by some of the reactions
slightly as well. I couldn't be happier with the reaction to this
movie. It's been fantastic. Good publicity, I suppose. It's true, creating
a nice debate, even though the people
who don't like the film, alright, are actually work. I am responsible for people
talking about slavery in America in a way that they
have not and in 30 years. But you must care very deeply that this doesn't
become a film that stands out from the rest of
your body of work as one that is trashed by more
people or anything? It's not trashed by more people. Yeah. What you're saying,
isn't that correct? I'm not saying it is. I'm
saying Are you concerned? I mean, I'm talking about
the movie right now. You're talking about,
I'm talking about there is actually
a dialogue going on about slavery right now that has not been happening at all. It's a subject people are
afraid to talk about. Now because of this movie, people aren't afraid
to talk about it. People are talking about it. Somebody likes the movie and
they write a review on this. Especially in a world
right now where you actually have the Internet, were actually, anybody
can actually now speak publicly, which
was not the case before. So it's very fortunate when interviewee is very talkative because unlike the previous one, like Elon Musk, they have a
lot to say and then you need, don't need to tease out as much or spend as much energy teasing out
information from them. So that the other
side, of course, is when they are too talkative
and then you need to steer them back to the question or back to the topic that
you're interested in. Now somebody actually writes a review for the movie
and they like it. Then you read the comments
sections and some people who don't like it
attack them and say they're saying somebody who doesn't like the movie
writes a blog about it and the people who liked the movie hold them to task in
the comments section, that's an actual dialogue. Let me ask you about violence. I mean, you said Everyone
knows you make violent movies. You like violent movie. Why do you like making
violent movies? So it's like asking
jotted epitope, why do you like making comedy? You just get a kick out of
it or you just enjoy it. I think it's okay. So this was a bit of
borderline question. Borderline question
where the interviewer is provocative to
the point of well, threatening to annoy
the interviewee, especially if it's a celebrity. I think. I think
it's good cinema. I consider a good cinema. You sit there and
you sit there in a movie theater when these cathartic violence
scenes happened. I'm talking about the
cathartic violence scenes. I'm not talking about there's two types of violence
in this movie. There's the, there's the
brutality of the violence in the day put upon the slaves during the time that there's any rape going
on in the movie, alright? But there's, there's
brutality to the slaves that hasn't been dealt
with in America to the extent that
I deal with it. And I'm showing
you that there was
5. Interview #4: Alright, And for the last
interview to analyze, let's watch and 1997 interview
of the British Home, Home Office Minister
Michael Howard. Interviewed here by the
famous interviewer, Jeremy Pac-Man, famous
British interviewer. He's still going. This was on BBC. And let's see how it went. That's pretty famous one. So I'm very sympathetic
to you though. Well, not necessarily
at all. I have no idea who they came from. If you've looked at the
article as a whole, it's not a particularly
sympathetic piece. Would you agree that
such stories are cheap and nasty and bring shame
on anyone who spreads them. I didn't think we
should be wasting anybody's time talking
about stories like that. I don't think they
should ever have appeared in the public prints. I didn't think we should waste our time talking about them. There are serious issues to
be discussed since they've been raised about the dismissal of Derek Louis as head
of the prison service. A decision which I had
to take in the light of an independent report not
mentioned in your introduction, which came to the
conclusion that there were inexcusable weaknesses
in the management of the prison service
from top to bottom. Why did you ball out and would account for sending
flowers in it, what she calls a Christian
gesture to Mrs. Lewis. So this BBC interview is kind of has a
confrontational feel to it. It can also be seen even in the positioning of
the actors speaking here opposite each other and the very conversational
tone of the interviewer and kind of a defensive
tone of the guests. There. He is very confident, but he's still different. Mau sounds defensive. So let's see what happens next. I didn't as she indeed
has just confirmed, she said You are extremely she
said I didn't call her up. She said she objected
to the words ball out, but she said You were
extremely agitated about it. I thought it was an
inappropriate thing to do given that I had just dismissed
Mrs. Lewis's husband, but I hope we're not
going to spend this week talking about flowers
and things like that. Mr. Howard, have you ever
lied in any public statement? Certainly not. You have to be impressed by the British interviewing style. And this is from the 90's. Apparently. I wish we had more
of that today. Say direct. It's really puts the person, the politician here on the
edge of their seats for sure. So normally you, unless you have your questioning and official or some sort of a politician, you don't want to create a confrontation
conversational setting. Also, especially
with the question, with the style of
your questioning. Unless you really want, in a normal interview, you want to you want
to that injury to be more of a conversation
than, than, than this. Of course, as I said before, reading in the previous example, this is a particular setting targeted towards
particular audience. I guess it's a
political show here. And it really is grilling. So as the Home Secretary Howard
from the UK in the 1997, let's see what happens next. I gave a very full account of the dismissal of Derek Louis to the House of Commons
Select Committee. And the House of Commons itself, in a debate that took place, there can have
been few decisions that have been subjected to more close and
minute scrutiny in recent years than that decision. It was a decision
that it was necessary for me to take after terrorists
had escaped from white, more other dangerous prisoners had escaped from Parkhurst. An independent reported
found that there were serious weaknesses
in the management of the prison service
from top to bottom. Is there anything
you would wish to change about your statement to the House of Commons or any other public statements
you made about this matter? No. Nothing. No. I gave a full account of what had happened in
relation to my decision. Right. Can you help
us with this then? You stated in your statement
that the leader of the opposition had said that I that is you
personally tell Mr. Lewis, the governor of Parker, should
be suspended immediately that where Mr. Lewis objected As it was an operational matter, how threatened to
instruct him to do it? Derek Lewis says Howard
had certainly told me that the governor of Parker should be suspended and had
threatened to overrule me. Are you saying Mr. Lewis's life? I have given a full account of this and the position is what I tell the
House of Commons. And let me tell you
what the position you are saying that Mr. Lewis, Let me tell you exactly
what the position is. I was entitled to be consulted. Yes. And I was consulted. I was entitled to
express an opinion. I did express an opinion. I was not entitled to
instruct Derek Louis what to do and I did not
instruct him what to do. And you will understand
and recall that Mr. Marriott was not
suspended, he was moved. And Derek Lewis total the Select Committee of
the House of Commons, that it was his opinion, Derek Lewis is opinion that he should be
removed immediately. That is what happened. Mr. Lewis says I that is MR. Lewis told him what
we had decided about Marriott and why he that is you exploded simply moving the governor was
politically unpalatable. It sounded indecisive. It would be seen as a fudge if I did not change my mind
and suspend Marriott, he would have to
consider overruling me. Mr. Marion both be right. Mr. Marriott was not suspended. I was entitled to
express my views. I was entitled to be
consulted, to threaten to it. I was not entitled to instruct Derek Lewis and I
did not instruct him to overrule the
truth of the matter is that Mr. Marriott
was not suspended. I did not have overruled him. I did not overruled. Derek, you threaten to overrule. I took advice on what I could or could not do fresh and
die. Overruled him, Mr. Loosely, in accordance
with that advice, I did not have a rule
that you address into the Marriott
was not suspended, threatened to overrule him. I have accounted. Okay. So this interview is
really persistent, busy. I think everybody
should do that. So I want to be
honest with you guys. But addition to that,
for my decision to dismiss Derek Lewis
did use aggression to roll him detail before
the House of Commons. You're not answering
the question whether you threatened to overrule the important
aspect of this, which it's very clear
to bear in mind. I'm sorry, I'm gonna be
rightfully rude, but yes. Sorry. Isn't quite right. If you threaten to overrule him. I discussed this matter
with Derek Louis. I gave him the benefit
of my opinion. I gave him the benefit of my
opinion in strong language, but I did not
instruct him because I was not entitled
to instruct him. I was entitled to
express my opinion, and that is what I did
with respect that is not answering the question
of whether you threatened to overrule him. It's dealing with
the relevant point, which is what I was entitled to do and what I was
not entitled to do. And I have dealt
with this in detail before the House of Commons and before the select committee. With respect, you
haven't answered the question whether you
threaten to overrule them. Well, you see, this is
really getting ridiculous. But when you are in such a situation at
being an interviewer, I think you should I think he's doing everything, correct. I think you should not back down and continue questioning,
especially if it's a, such a public figure and it's a question of
public importance. So this is really delving into the journalistic site
of interviewing. Here. The question is, what
was I entitled to do and what was I
not entitled to do? I was not entitled to instruct
him and I did not do that. Right.
6. Wrap-up and PROJECT!: This concludes the course on learning from real interviews, a companion course for the crash course for professional interviewing
for beginners, which again find
here on Skillshare. By now you have a better idea how to tell a bad interview from a good one and how to identify issues with how the
interview is going. Now, I would like to ask
you to watch or listen to any interview of at
least ten minutes long with one interviewee. I'd like to ask
you to be critical about what the interviewer does well and where there
are shortcomings. So Write a short
report describing this and write down the
reasons for these issues, as well as what could be
improved about this interview. So looking forward
to read the reports and wish you success
with interviewing.