The Importance of Human Connection | Cal Fussman

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🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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"If you're connected, there's always hope, there's always a solution. If you feel disconnected, man…it's all on you!" In this episode of the podcast, James Altucher sits down with Cal Fussman to discuss the need for human contact and social connectivity in a world that has been forever changed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Cal shares his personal experience of the daily breakfast group he was a part of for many years with his friend and confidant Larry King, where the motto was "Seize the Day".

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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.
0:17.8	Cal has been an interviewer of the stars.
0:20.8	But we were having a conversation the other day that it made me think a lot.
0:24.8	Basically, it started off when we were talking about how when we were kids, everybody would
0:31.1	watch the same show on a Tuesday night, like let's say Happy Days with the fans.
0:35.3	And then Wednesday morning on the school bus, everyone would be talking about that show.
0:39.8	And I'm not saying Happy Days are so great or this is such a wonderful thing.
0:43.5	There were all the TV shows were pretty horrible.
0:45.7	But now there's nothing that connects us culturally.
0:48.8	You know what I mean?
0:49.8	Like I can't say to you, hey, did you see?
0:52.4	I can't even say did you see the Super Bowl?
0:54.4	I didn't see it.
0:55.4	You probably saw it.
0:56.4	You know, it's interesting.
0:58.2	You mentioned that James, because while I was watching the Super Bowl, I was thinking of
1:03.9	our conversation.
1:05.3	Huh.
1:06.3	That might be the last thing that everybody watches at the same time, except I don't watch
1:10.6	it.
1:11.6	Beyond that, all the commercials were filled with movie stars or in this case an athlete
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