013 -A- Cal Fussman (Bestselling Author, Writer, Interviewer)

The Good Parts with Andy Grammer

Andy Grammer | Multi-Platinum Selling Pop Artist

Arts, Music

4.8 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2019

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Cal Fussman is a New York Times bestselling author, keynote speaker, world-renowned interviewer, and host of the Big Questions podcast. For over four decades, Cal has interviewed hundreds of the world’s most influential individuals: Muhammad Ali, Jack Welch, Mikhail Gorbachev, Serena Williams, Jeff Bezos, Jimmy Carter, Kobe Bryant, Richard Branson, and the list goes on.

Fussman travels the world teaching the world’s largest companies, universities, and associations about leadership, storytelling, innovation, teamwork, and more. When Cal speaks, you’re listening to everyone he’s ever interviewed. Lessons and stories from hundreds of world icons, all coming through one man in a fedora.

Listen as Andy and Cal dive into topics from fatherhood, highlights from some of Cal's biggest celebrity interviews, the beginnings of his career, his long developed interview tactics and much much more!

Cal then turned around and interviewed Andy right after and has just released it on his own podcast "Big Questions with Cal Fussman". Look for his interview posted here titled "Ep 013 -B- Cal Fussman Interviews Andy".

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, Andy Grammer here, and you are listening to The Good Parts podcast.
0:04.0	Tell me your story, but don't leave the good parts out.
0:13.0	What up, episode 13 of the Good Parts? This episode features Cal Fussman, who is an incredible interviewer.
0:22.5	He's interviewed everybody from like presidents, Jimmy Carter, to Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, to Kobe Bryant, to Dr. Dre.
0:33.4	I mean, Muhammad Ali, who else did he say?
0:39.0	Will Smith, just like the craziest high profile people.
0:43.7	He's also just like an extreme liver of life.
0:47.9	Sometimes you run into people and you're like, man, you live harder and cooler and better than most.
0:53.1	And so it was really, really good to get the bottom of what makes him tick.
0:58.6	I think you're going to dig it.
1:00.3	I love this guy.
1:01.9	I initially, I originally heard him on Tim Ferriss's podcast, and I couldn't get enough of
1:06.1	them.
1:06.7	So we had the opportunity to, we're doing like a swap here.
1:10.8	So he was on my podcast and I was on his podcast and we're going to release them both at the same time.
1:18.2	I'm releasing them both so you can hear me on his and you can hear him on mine.
1:23.1	And then he did the same on his podcast, which is awesome, which is called Big Questions with Cal Fusman.
1:28.0	So please get into it.
1:30.3	It's freaking awesome.
1:31.4	I, for sure, am going to be a much better interviewer after doing this one.
1:36.5	And I missed you all over the break, and I'm excited to get back into this.
1:41.6	So here it is, Good Parts, episode 13 with Cal Fusman.
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