Meanwhile, Ben was prepping for an interview of his own, and he suggested that I write this week’s column about the best and worst interviews of my career. It was around 1997, early in my career, when I answered the phone fully prepped to interview Mr. Simmons, known for his cheerfulness, weight loss and exercise program in the ’80s. I told him “When She Kisses Me” was our wedding song a couple of years earlier, and he just muttered, “Oh. My first interview was with Dave Dederer of then huge Seattle band The Presidents of The United States of America. I actually talked to him twice in my career, once in Tampa and again here in 2007.