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Entrepreneurs on Fire

BONUS: Gene Simmons of KISS. My most AWKWARD interview EVER.

Entrepreneurs on Fire

John Lee Dumas

Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

4.84.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2016

⏱️ 46 minutes

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0:00.0

get up and get moving.

0:01.3

Stop watching TV and dip in your chips.

0:03.8

Hey, what's up, Fire Nation.

0:05.3

JLD here with a bonus episode here on EO Fire.

0:09.5

We don't do this very often except for our income reports, but I wanted to just flip

0:13.0

on the mic here and just kind of talk a free flow of conscious with you because this is

0:18.6

a pretty interesting and unique experience.

0:20.6

And to give you the full background and to why I'm actually calling this my most awkward

0:26.2

interview ever.

0:27.6

And I truly believe in the over 1200 interviews that I've done that this is the most awkward

0:33.6

interview that I've ever conducted as a host.

0:37.2

The most flustered I've been, the most floundering that I've been.

0:41.3

Now I'm, we'll get into more detail in a second here, but I do want to explain.

0:45.3

It's not going to sound like I'm that flustered or I'm floundering that much or it's super awkward.

0:50.3

The interview goes off pretty well.

0:52.7

You know, there's definitely some points you'll hear me not really at my level that I usually

0:57.5

want to be at as a host.

0:59.5

But the reality is I was very flustered and floundering in a lot of areas in the pre-interview

1:05.2

chat.

1:06.2

That's where I really personally feel like I failed as a host.

1:09.6

But I want to explain why because this is going to happen no matter whether you've done

1:13.2

one interview, 1200 interviews, you're just going to have these type of scenarios.

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