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The Rubin Report

Larry King on Interviewing, Donald Trump, and the Meaning of Life

The Rubin Report

Emma Dog Productions

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.513.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Larry King (TV & Radio Host) joins Dave to discuss his legendary career as an interviewer, his interviewing style and how it’s influenced Dave’s own style, his views on the state of the world, his friendship with Donald Trump, his thoughts on life and death, and more. We're dropping this weeks episode two days early, just for our podcast listeners! Thank you for your support! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:11.7

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0:14.0

Joining me today is the original king of interviewing a friend, a mentor, a living legend, and a man

0:23.3

who loves a good Brooklyn water bagel. Larry King, welcome to the Ruben Report.

0:28.8

You know whenever I hear a legend, I think one thing, old.

0:33.8

Well, every time we've sat down, I feel that I have to say living legend at the beginning

0:39.3

because you are. You are. I tell you what you are.

0:42.7

One of the best compliments I ever got was Derek Jeter, great Yankee. Now owner of the

0:48.2

Marlins came over to me at the All Star Game some years ago and said, you, he said, there

0:55.3

are a lot of phony legends. You're a true legend. Wow. That's pretty good. Yeah, that

1:00.8

warm my heart. And that's coming from a legend because that guy's a true baseball

1:05.5

legend too. Did you ever think that after all your years in radio, in cable news, now

1:12.6

doing the digital thing that you'd be sitting in a garage, being interviewed like this, going

1:18.1

out to hundreds of thousands and millions of people? Let me tell you that, Trills Ruben,

1:23.1

this is the pinnacle of my career. If you to told me 61 years ago when I started, 61

1:31.6

years from today, you'll be known around the world. You'll be called an icon, a living

1:37.0

legend. And at the height of your career, you'll be in a garage with David Ruben. It's

1:46.3

a powerful circle. It's a powerful circle. You're killing me, Larry. We're killing me,

1:50.6

David. But what does that, what does that say about just how everything has changed? I

1:54.4

mean, the only thing sure is change. The only thing constant has changed. When I started

2:01.7

in radio, we had landlines, went through a phone line. I did, I started radio, did

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