"I feel that part and parcel of who i am is to ask questions that might occasionally feel a little bit negative or snarky," he says. Perse: "i try to never really put the subject on the defensive, even if i'm challenging the findings" If you are interviewing someone in a journalistic way, his advice would be to warm them up with lots of flattery before asking tough questions. He also uses piak end theory from danny n and donald relmire about colon scopes.