In my opinion, asking clever questions actually is quite important in an interviewer and Lex Fridman is no Joe Rogan in terms of letting the other person talk.
He had John Carmack on his show which piqued my interest, but he was asking questions like "what's the best programming language" and "what's the best IDE." Such a blown opportunity to be asking useless first year CS student questions like that when interviewing a great mind like Carmack.
It makes sense to get touchy-feely with Bert Kreischer, who’s basically an alcoholic gigantic third grader. Or with Michael Malice because they’re goofy best buds.
Still it’s nice when a serious guest kind of shrugs and sticks to the topic.
I can’t listen to Neil Degrasse Tyson talk because of that same kind of “the wonder of the poetry of the cosmic ballet” nonsense.