Katie Couric

I'm sorry.

You don't want to talk to him as a friend?

I think so much of it honestly is emotional intelligence, your ability to kind of read a room, read a person, help that person feel relaxed so that you get the most out of them.

Of course, in some cases, you don't want the person to be relaxed.

If you're interviewing a politician, for example, and you're really holding them accountable for certain points of view.

But I think generally just feeling comfortable in your own skin and not trying to be someone you're not.

Yeah, and being too judgmental I think.

I think we've sort of lost the art of listening and kind of just hearing what people have to say without automatically judging, without lashing out, without making them super nervous about what they have to say.

And I don't know.

I do think it's a bit of a skill or something that you're really born with.

I know Larry King used to have this attitude like I'll be a blank slate because the viewer knows about the same amount I do.

But I do think that it's a hybrid of really understanding who someone is and doing your homework.

I really appreciate when I'm interviewed and someone –

knows a little bit about me or has at least put some thought into kinds of the things they want to broach with me.

So no pressure, Adam.

Hopefully you've done a little bit of homework.

No, no.

But your dad was a teacher and your mom was on welfare and she got a degree in Chicano studies at Cal State Northridge.

Damn you.

No.