What should I do better than ask a low effort question that should require a low effort but high value response? My supposition is that the person I was respon

What should I do better than ask a low effort question that should require a low effort but high value response? My supposition is that the person I was responding to has not heard of voice of America broadcast recently--in spite of supporting it-- but I was hoping to be proven wrong. It sounds like you yourself are not someone who values voice of America enough to tune in. I'm not either. I have no idea what sort of "soft power" a radio broadcast yields these days and for whom it yields it. It seems like it is more the cavalry ca. 1950