I'm 100% in agreement. I'll put it on record as this one being one of my favourite interviews ever. If I was verbose in my question-asking and it tilted listeners, I apologize, but it was the product of enthusiasm.

Would love to do it again soon, Faraz!

Emphasis mine. This wasn't so much an interview as it was a conversation between peers and friends that happened to be recorded. I'd take it any day.

+1

Fun show. If he wants to go another hour, hope it is soon.

The odds of pulling that off at the court must be about the same as winning the main.

I think what you're hearing with Faraz and T.Chan are two people who have done lots of long distance communication, professionals, who understand the delay inherent in international lines and are trying to anticipate eachother.

If they were not being so polite and pardoning themselves, you would not have noticed.

Besides that, there are very good reasons to ask long questions. First, asking specific questions will often generate more interesting and longer responses. The interviewee may answer the specific question, will likely explain the general question and how the specific fits with the general. For example, T.Chan's question about 3-Star restaurants and hostels.

Also the long question gives the interviewee time to sort his thoughts, he can choose parts of the question to answer or ignore.

The short version of a question can seem very basic, I often hear T.Chan asking for something more interesting from his subjects.

You do hear leading questions in sports quite a bit, but they are generally very short interviews and the questions are not open-ended like what T.Chan is asking.

I agree that this was very conversational and quite enjoyable.

Hammer putting it better than I ever could.

Interviewing seems very easy, but in fact it can be difficult to get the most out of someone. For each interviewee it takes a different approach, but finding the GTO approach for that person on the fly is challenging.

There are some who should just never do interviews. That isn't to say they are bad people or anything, just that public speaking isn't their strong point. If you've been a long time listener to the show you've heard us try to talk to a few like this. It's somewhat our fault as well, because we should have used better judgment when selecting guests. In a couple instances, we set them up to fail.

I don't claim to be any good at it, but listening to Stern helps. There is simply nobody better at the art of conversation than he is.

Of course, none of that matters for this week's guest from Boston.

An article on icy showers:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/03/15....facebook.com/

**** it, let's do this.

TR:

I managed ~50 seconds, including the first 20+ in which the shock of the cold water caused my lungs to cease to really work. Did not scream. Within 20 seconds of coming out, I experienced what can only be described as an all over body glow, very pleasurable. Can;'t really say that it impacted the rest of my day either way.