NOTE: This is Day 15 of Podcast Interviewing School, a 28-day series from Build A Big Podcast that focuses on the skill of being a better podcast interviewer.
If you do enough interviews on your podcast, sooner or later, you're going to end up with a guest who is a complete jerk. Even with the best vetting and pre-interview, some people will slip through the cracks and you won't know what they're really like until you actually do the interview (or try to).
Such was the case when I ended up with a well-known rock musician in my car. The plan was to pick him up at his hotel for an hour-long interview in my studio. And that's almost what happened...