He asked a question in the debate:  What steps will your energy policy take to meet our energy needs while at the same time remaining environmentally friendly and minimizing job loss for fossil power plant workers?  Which, fair enough, is a reasonable setup to get some details from the candidates. Apparently the media isn't able to do that on their own, so somebody doing that becomes some sort of a sensation ... Then afterwards he was on Jimmy Kimmel:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqchRR1tZvc