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The James Altucher Show

689 - Goodbye to Larry King with Cal Fussman (Part 2): Path to THE Storyteller

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Society & Culture, Talk Radio, Writer, Philosophy, Comedy, Chess, How To, Entrepreneurship, Jay, James, The James Altucher Show, Altucher, Author, Jay Yow, Education, Jay The Engineer, Business, James Altucher

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

IF you're listening to this episode, make sure you also listen to Episode 688: Goodbye to Larry King with Cal Fussman (Part 1): 1 Step Back, 2 Steps Forward. This is Part 2 of Cal Fussman telling his experience and stories with Larry King. In this episode, Cal describes how he went on his journey to become one of Larry King's close and best friends. From being invited to the breakfast table to writing a book for Larry. He also describes how he was encouraged by Larry, and become the great storyteller that he is today! On a side note, Cal also did an obituary for Larry King on this podcast. It's called Larry King: The Great Farewell. Make sure you go check it out as well. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to “The James Altucher Show” and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook Linkedin

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0:00.0

This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

0:06.8

This is the James Altiger Show.

0:12.8

Today on the James Altiger Show.

0:16.6

Part one was earlier today of Cal's experiences with Larry King, the legendary radio show host.

0:23.8

And I didn't know Larry King had to go over 60,000 people.

0:26.8

There's a lot to learn from someone who did that. But Cal also learned so much personal stuff by spending 13 years having breakfast every day, going to his shows.

0:36.2

Anyway, we'll let Cal describe some of it's pretty intense.

0:39.2

This is part two. Part one was available today as well. Enjoy.

0:43.4

So again, like how did you end up having two, three infinite breakfast with him every day? Like how did you get into his so deep into his inner circle?

1:02.0

He's you're sitting next to him on a shows.

1:04.1

So what happened was I did this what I've learned interview with him when he got to a place where he was one of the most famous people on the planet.

1:15.3

This is right around maybe the year 2000 or so.

1:20.5

It was a great interview really memorable and that story of Lady Forley in the horse.

1:28.4

That's what appeared in the S. Square, what I've learned column.

1:31.6

And it wasn't in my view like I just sent.

1:37.0

I was usually when I would send my stories in they were so crafted.

1:42.8

It's like the way Hitchcock makes movies where Hitchcock didn't want the editor messing with his movie.

1:52.6

So he would only shoot exactly what he wanted.

1:56.7

And then basically the actors knew like you got a nail at this way so that when it went to the editor they had no choice.

2:04.6

But to adhere to Hitchcock's vision.

2:08.0

And that's the way I basically tried to handle the what I've learned columns where I would get all this information and I would assemble them almost cinematically.

2:19.4

Because you can really influence a story by putting one fact at the top and another in the middle and another at the bottom.

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