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The James Altucher Show

Ep. 11 - Ken Kurson: Who Will Be the Next President of the United States?

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2014

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Ken Kurson, editor of The New York Observer, political consultant, journalist, and author, joins The James Altucher Show"You've created a 'Choose Yourself Career.'" Nobody could have just given you the career you've had. You've had to go and hunt for that career. You had to kill for that career. You made it up yourself as you went along.This week, Ken Kurson, editor of The New York Observer, political consultant, journalist, and author, joins The James Altucher Show to talk about who will be the next President of the United States, the future of the media, and Ken's million-dollar deal that's still out there for the right entrepreneur to grab and run with."Green was my one great idea in my life." There really is room, in my opinion, for a legitimate inheritor to the Greenmantle." James and Ken then jump right into what it was like to work with America's Mayor, Rudy Guilliani. You'll get a firsthand look at what it's like running for President of the United States and what it takes to win.James asks Ken who he thinks the 2016 Republican and Democratic front runners are right now. You might be very surprised by his picks.They talk about getting rid of our two-party system because, as James says, "It doesn't seem to work at all. The candidates are very similar. I mean, in very rare cases, can I tell a difference in policy, actually, between Obama and Bush. It just seems like the two-party system and the lack of democracy, as you mentioned, is just a total failure."But Ken disagrees... "Yeah, I don't agree. I think the two-party system is a disaster except for all the other systems that have tried democracy which is an inversion of the old democracy is terrible except for all the other systems."And so James offers up a brand-new, high-tech system that he believes could really help.Plus, James asks Ken "So what's next in the media industry?" I think you'll be very surprised by Ken's answer... "I don't think Twitter is the end of news. I believe we're kind of in a golden age of attention span. There's never been a time where people would watch 13 hours of beautifully written television in a row; the same show. I think it's really the beginning."Hope you enjoy. ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

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

0:06.5

This is the James Altature Show on the Standsbury Radio Network.

0:16.0

This is James Altature.

0:17.0

We're bringing you once again the James Altature Show and I'm here with my very good friend

0:21.8

Ken Kerson who can, I can't believe how many things you've done in your career.

0:27.8

So welcome, first off welcome to the show.

0:29.8

James thank you for that kind introduction I'd like to make clear to all of your listeners

0:34.2

that we are not related.

0:35.6

No but you are paying me a lot of money to say good things about you so I have to keep

0:42.9

on saying them, I'm just kidding about that.

0:45.7

But first I want to give a little brief interview you're the editor-in-chief of the New

0:50.4

York Observer newspaper which I just want to say has been one of my favorite newspapers

0:55.3

for 20 years and the reason I can tell you that is I remember 20 years ago reading this

1:00.2

newspaper right before a date because I thought the date would be interested in me that I

1:04.8

was reading such a high culture newspaper as a New York Observer this is like a 1995.

1:10.4

And now you're the editor-in-chief of that.

1:12.4

I feel the exact same way you know I've only been the editor here for a little over a year

1:16.4

but I've been a huge fan and reader of the observer almost its entire existence of the

1:22.4

newspaper was started about 25 years ago when I first moved to New York you know pre-internet

1:28.3

early 90s it was just trying to figure out what was going on in the city at this was this

1:33.8

was my entry point I read the observer like cover to cover because you know you can find

1:38.9

out news in a lot of places but if you really wanted to understand how the city worked

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