What do you do if you're in the middle of an interview, a satellite interview, and your earpiece pops out, you're in one location, the host is in another and you're only hearing people through an earpiece. This has happened to me on live national TV. My recommendation is if it pops out and you're in the middle of your thought, your speaking middle of your answer, just continue what you're saying finish your thought. be relatively brief, because you don't know now someone's trying to interrupt you. Finish your thought. Don't say oh my gosh, my earpiece popped out.
Just finish your thought. Smile. pause for a second and then reach for the earpiece. continue looking at the camera, and it's hard to sort of fiddle around here in front of a camera but find it and put it back in now. Occasionally, you'll be doing a live interview. You're hearing people talk and all of a sudden, it goes dead.
You can see others People are talking there, perhaps other guests and other locations speaking. And you can't hear anything. That's a scary feeling. Because you're feeling Oh, the anchor is going to be asking me questions. And I'm going to be looking stupid like, ooh, I don't know what to say. And really, you can't hear it.
So it's an understandable fear. Here's what I would do. And I have had to do in these situations. You don't say, Oh, my God and start cursing and say, No, I can't hear anything. Because just because you can't hear doesn't mean you're not being broadcast live to an audience. What I would do and what I have done is to simply say, this is TJ Walker in New York, I've lost audio contact.
Wait a few seconds. Say it again. Because if someone's in a control room, in another city, or even in the same building, they're in a different place, they can hear that and maybe they realized they had adjusted something the wrong way and cut you off. They can get you back here also, they can alert the host not to Ask questions of you. If they know you can't hear, simple solution, don't panic. It does happen to everyone sooner or later if you do enough interviews with satellite and with earpiece