You know, it's so important to ask the right questions.

I'm not talking about just in a podcast, you need to show that you're interested in

and curious about the people you're with.

But knowing how to ask questions, knowing how to be a good interviewer, I studied all

of them. Whether you like these people or not, Howard Stern, Joe Rogan, David Letterman,

and Larry King. I want to study the master interviewers so that I could be a good interviewer.

And 1300 podcasts in, I feel I'm still learning the craft. So that's why it was such a pleasure

to have one of the best interviewers on the planet, Cal Fustman, who interviewed people

like Mikhail Gorbachev and 1000 other people for Esquire magazine. He was also best friends

with Larry King. They had breakfast together every single morning for years. And you know,

Larry King, Reston PC, explains to me exactly what Larry King, how he did it, why did it,

how he came to be doing it. And it was like a masterclass in interviewing. So I hope

you enjoy this as much as I did. Thanks. This isn't your average business podcast. And he's

not your average host. This is the James Altiger show.

So Cal, Cal Fustman, you were arguably one of Larry King's best friends. And I'm not

exaggerating too much when I say this, particularly in his latter years.

Yeah, I had breakfast with him almost every day for more than a decade.

Well, every single day, not Saturday and Sunday.

No, every single day when we were both in town. Now, there were times, especially toward

the end when I started to speak around the world. And so I would leave. But when I came

back, there would Larry be at the breakfast table. And sometimes he went out. But when

we were both in LA, we had breakfast every day. And sometimes in the beginning, when

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