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I want to begin by telling you about the worst question that I ever asked in an interview.

At the time, I was a student at Kansas State University, Go Wildcats, and I was working for

the student newspaper, the Kansas State Collegian. And I was working on a story about student

athletes, and they're on the field and off the field lives. And on this particular day, I was at the football press conference to interview Brian Casey. He was a tight end for the Wildcats on the football team. And he was an all-conference player, so he's really good. He was an academic All-American, so he was really smart, and he was a husband and a father as well.

So we had a family life at home besides just being a student and an athlete.

So perfect subject for my story.

Well, at the press conference, I pulled Brian aside to do a one-on-one interview with him,

and I started asking my questions that I had prepared in anticipation

of this interview, and I got to the point where I asked the worst question I ever asked.

Now, somewhere in my research and in my prep leading up to this interview with Brian, I had

written down in my notebook with all of my questions, I had written down

that Brian's wife was pregnant with her second child.

And you could probably tell where I'm going with this.

She was not pregnant with her second child.

But I still asked the question that was in my notebook, how do you think life is going to

change with baby number two on the way?

Yeah, that question lingered out there.

Brian was quiet for a moment and his face kind of twisted as he processed what I had just asked him.

And then he finally said, do you know something? I don't. I was so embarrassed. It was so embarrassing.

Other reporters had joined the interview at the time, so I was surrounded by my peers, people

I looked up to, actual real professional reporters.

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