but i'm the kid from brooklyn i left brooklyn but brooklyn never left me so that's part of my soul that's and that's what i brought to the to the business being curious being that kid that went to dodger games all my friends would want autographs i would want to ask questions i remember running down the street with call for oh there are ways you get that on how did you learn to throw the 3rd base like that i was fascinated with asking questions born to do interviews where i was born to be what i do this whole thing started in miami for you did brooklyn miami get us there i always wanted to get into broadcasting i didn't go to college my brother did. i'm walkin on the street in new york and a friend introduces me the james term and it's who was chief of staff announcers at

c.b.s. wonderful man and i said to i want to get in a radio what should i do and he said get down to miami you know union lot of stations lot of radio more stations and the market needs and so you'll find older guys. and younger guys. very few 40 year olds. to be good chance of breaking in and i knocked on doors and small station w.h.r. in miami beach gave me a job was a dish sarky and on may 1st 19 fifties. i saw it on the air and from that moment when that light went on and i told the audience it was my 1st day i never never gave a lively audience. i. i found my magic so

my dreams of what it was always were now i had program directors i didn't like i had management maybe but i never ever. and that light went on. didn't like what i was doing. your natural yeah i think i think the good broadcasters. are naturals and i had the good fortune to be around people like the godfrey and jackie gleason while godfrey i co-host of the show with him for a week and taught me so much and jackie told me the only secret in this business is there's no secret. be yourself. if you're yourself. that's what it was. a member. i was being interviewed in canada of

all places and the guy said to me well supposing you were walking down the hall of n.b.c. some grapes are. sitting down says tom brokaw's sic juran what we do. i would say i was walking down the hall disguised just grabbed me and said tom brokaw sick and i'm on. ok now i'm going to do the best i can transparency i have an anchor the news but you tell the audience so you goof they just grab them to do this how can you go wrong if you tell us what's happening share the process love you for it you're absolutely right. so here you are in miami 50 bucks a day brand new kid from brooklyn suddenly is the kid from south florida you get your very 1st interview with

a celebrity because you're doing your show from pumper nick's restaurant in miami beach and a guy walks in who sings saw. the sea and his name was bob oh to shock they. did. use it. bob you walked in he didn't sleep he was working at the deauville across the street and so he got to start listening to me and he wanted to see what it was all about. so what pumper next. bobby was a great guess and after the show we walked down collins. and i said to him where is all this energy going he was so hyper. where's it all gone he says well i'm not going to live 40 he had requests as a child heart disease so he knew he would he was going to have

a long life and he said i want it all now. you never saw him and i clipped it will. detain he and sammy davis. were running around playing drums told of drumsticks in the cat to behind his back play with the audience and he was a. wonderful guy i felt so safe and he pass but he was the 1st the interesting thing is the day before you were interviewing a waitress at pump are next and then you're interviewing bobby darin and it just goes to show that i guess what larry described to us when you interview someone whether it's a hip hop artist or the president of the united states is it the same interview. in a sense it is who what where when why who what where when why is the essence of all interviews and i try to get a lot into the whys why do you want to do this when you get out of it

and my curiosity someone asked me if you had interviewed. osama bin ladin. and would you ask him. well the stupidest 1st question would be in my opinion why do bomb all of people. because then you get him on the defense oh you want what do i want when i'm interviewing also about a lot of information i want to know about him so my question would be. you were born into one of the richest families in saudi arabia why do you leave. why do you go live in caves. now i'm going to get to his motivation and i learned this a long time ago. nobody thinks they're bad hitler didn't get up in

the morning thomas here and say i am an evil terrible person. osama bin laden had a goal now where it manifests itself we're going to learn as we go along in the interview how he got to be how we felt about the witness but i'm going to find out about him. and then the event 1st him and then the event if i go to the event 1st and i have a tough time learning about him so i'm curious about. people the the person the event comes later. so it's the same whether it's a president. or bobby down or rick sanchez or a camera man. and studs terkel told me once the great chicago everybody's interesting. everybody's interesting yes good

question and you learn a lot. i'm a be said to me once sinatra anyone can interview sinatra interview the elevator operator. he's interesting to. you tell a great story when you were 1st starting in the business where like all of us you made a significant mistake you walked away from the studio to do something and i think what was it you left you left a song playing and it. didn't skip i have 1st started and i was on the like 3 months and i was loving it and i was doing disc jockey and sports and news and you know you worked. went to you were on the it was a day and and one day the general manager station said hey is sick would you do the all night show sure i'll do anything so all you do is play

records and talk and the engineer they didn't have an all night engine it was a small station so i'm talking playing records at 3 in the morning. i answered a phone. and this voice. this woman's voice says. i want you. and i suddenly realize there were other pluses in this business. so i said i get off at 6 and she said i got to go to work at 6 wanted to come over now i said up while i'm on the air she says well live 9 blocks away here's my address figure out something is i'm very attracted to you and i got my 1st though i'm a. moral dilemma i want to be in review all my life and this is the 1st woman that has ever in my life said to me i want you so what the audience for

was. i was special treat for you tonight you're going to you're going to hear your entire harry belafonte congregate all album uninterrupted. i had 33 minutes which is all the time i mean here which is still true to this day so i put the record on went to her house the light was on right over the door i walked in i never really saw her clearly she was in a white and it was. sitting on the couch the review was on harry saying and i put my arms around my cheek it's against her right cheek and hairy sing in jamaica farewell and he gets to die on the way where the nights where the nights where the nights oh no record get stuck i place her back on a couch i get into the car i get the radio on it's called jewish masochism i'm driving back to the radio station hearing where the nights where the nights where

my. and you know i thought i'd lose my job but i didn't but i'm answering a phone apologising to people and the last call i picked up was like an old jewish guy i said he goes. you're driving me crazy nights i said by going to change the station and he said i'm an invalid. takes care of me during the day and the radio is up on top of the dress i can't reach it so i keep your station on all day long. that was one of my 1st adventures but i did not luckily lose my job. i did in the media a long time. t. is one of the few channels. he does know this is my country. tell the truth.

right now there are 2000000000 people who are overweight or obese it's profitable to self and. and sugary and salty and addict and it's not at the individual level it's not individual well power and if we go on believing that never change this obesity epidemic that industry has been influencing very deeply the medical and scientific establishment the result of what's driving the obesity epidemic it's corporate profit. move.

war suspenders in my honor another for the. never hold on to our community where there were people who never. even knew a llama in my long career judged me in the shade in everything if you. you did something interesting larry you were the 1st one to do a national broadcast on the radio with i believe it was the mutual network it was called larry king live i believe and a larry king show it was a mutual network little's idea he ran the network and i was the house and the match

was 1st national talk show 1000 national talk show going to work i mean how's it going to be interesting. if i've got the mayor of chicago on why would someone in l.a. you know. and he said chris you're the perfect person to do this because you curious about everything and what that show did i would sit there and i. had 20 incoming lines that are all wrong and i looked up to my left was a bookcase from virginia but i'd see the holes wasn't midnight or 5 and i had a ball i had guests. bill clinton called in one night when he was governor at 3 of the morning and i saw where you 2 were not but 3 in the morning said never mind. cause we ran from washington through the streets come up to. so many i was addicted to that show so many of us were

that show blew up and it was the kind of show where after you got to where you needed to be if you were driving in your car for 45 minutes you'd sit in your car in the parking lot because you wanted to hear the rest of the conversation is going to happen next people calling some of the funniest people in the world would call him because he would be open phone america guess what we've anything could happen one guy could call about the dominicans a republican extra i call about the red sox and i was so into all of that. that that was probably i mean c.n.n. was great. and i love what i'm doing now. but that was the most fun i have but it seems to me correct me if i'm wrong you never really stopped doing radio when you went to t.v. a lot of people i don't want to say sell out but suddenly become an armored with

the camera and the look at all you would never stop doing that you got it rick taste. i regard it television right now what we're doing is radio with a camera. ok toll it is people can see us but you could turn turn that thing off the camera and listen to us so i said to myself. i'm not going to a lot of radio guys didn't do well in television because they reacted to it. you know i reacted to it like a. camera find me. i'm with rick asking me questions and it's radio with pictures it's all it's every show i've ever done you can just listen to was that your decision because when you went on c.n.n. then i never thought about it was a decision. ted turner like me he had guessed it on my radio

show he had seen my local television work always did. television in miami years and so when he put me on c.n.n. i've ever. and ever. larry king live mariel cuomo was the 1st guests and remember that night june 1st 1905 it was the 5th anniversary of c.n.n. and i go on and it's just like a. guess is governor cuomo drugs town little studios. but i knew that night that would work i just knew it would work and ted turner turned out to be. for nobody like. paul newman told me some once it's so true any successful person in any

field who when discussing his or her life doesn't use the word luck is a liar. are. played a part left right. what if i didn't. say. now someone would say well you have been successful is the residue of design for a keyset that. rather be lucky than good yeah one of the great quotes of all time if you are lucky. you got it may look faults you don't know what it is. but when you hit the ball a guy makes the. and then you take advantage of the. luck. so c.n.n. is doing very well and the star at c.n.n.

. not to embarrass you was larry king you had the highest ratings for the show so there's an upstart called fox news and they've got this guy named bill o'reilly on and bill o'reilly comes on and he figures he's going to he's kind of a bully and he's going to become famous by going after the big guy at c.n.n. so night in and night out he starts punching you in the nose on the air and saying you're no good and you're boring and this and that and then i think there's finally a moment one day larry as i recall where he finally gets to confront you and you said something interesting to him because he was saying he was criticizing the way you do t.v. and you said something like you do it your way and i'll do it my way. and it just ended the moment and it was so sincere and so. take me through that ms there's room for everybody. in the business you find your schtick and he was a broadcast bully and it worked and fox worked to call it fox news is an oxymoron.

it's not news and no where you would do in the last news show on television there's no news c.n.n. doesn't do was say it's trump all the time it's trump t.v. and c.n.n. helped make trump by covering him from the minute he announced they covered his speeches when they were 20 guys running the cover trump they covered trump we used to have a thing called equal time in our business where our news directors would tell us no you can't interview that guy because then we got to bring in the other guy. fairness doctrine we have to be fair what was wrong with that you couldn't force news couldn't exist under that law you have to give equal time of your time he did something so i i'm a little said about the business today and i don't like

a lot of what i see. so i count on sports. i watch i think r t under-rated. they really do a lot of good things they've got this bad misnomer like russia controls and that's baloney i have never. ever had a guest that they didn't run i've had putin criticized 3 times a week they have never shot that. they're really nice people who work for they don't deserve the image they got that there's some sort of foreign entity i don't think the phone i don't think the phone news is news and good questions are good questions and great stories are great stories and it doesn't matter whether you're working for the british or the russians or the french or the americans right yeah i told you take the job. yes you did you were the 1st person i called your

advice was great as there's an interview i was watching. which really was interesting because it's one of the few times and then we'll talk about a few more i don't know they were doing this woman who was miss california her name was carrie prejean on and that's one of the few times i've ever seen you get a little flustered because. she got mad at me because i was running and she didn't want to answer a question when she was running from a skull and she said that was improper that she takes the microphone all of. and i just went with it you know i just i wasn't really flustered you know on television and so when the intel of was no matter what's happening the producers say keep going. you did yeah hey the place is burning keep the fire going to close in on the fire she takes your microphone off and you're telling her you can be mad and you can say whatever you need to say but make sure you have your my god. there's

a lot of you know. funny moment it's a funny business but the figure i loved and the thing i miss the most is a live. i did live radio all my life i did live television. on our t.v. an aura. is taped and tape is still professional i treated as a professional but live. nothing beats. that moment. you've been married 8 times 7 times 7 times. the last woman sporting 2 years. and i don't remember not being. do you just fall in and out of love i thought i had a theory that what i like when i was 20. was not what i like

when i was 30 and to me i'm a maze like. 30 people. 22 years now. people like my in-laws 65 years 65 years how much compromising did you do in those 65 years and i might be my major problem was my. c.n.n. came ahead of the wife. i o. d. came ahead of the wife so i used to say if i got 2 messages call home call c n n call c n n 1st. and that changed in this matter. you go through a lot of ups and downs. i'm not sure the institution. it is great

in other words. why is the state involved. in a marriage. why why do you need a state license why. ok i understand children and judges have to deal with children why why is. monogamy. you tell me it's easy. hey. the word retired as it even exists in your vocabulary. as. if you're going to retire and he said to what. i what would i do. saw the 85 of love the long life i've beaten so many health issues i've had heart attacks. bypass surgery. prostate

cancer. lung surgery. i recently got diagnosed with leukemia but it was chronic not acute so i take a pill every day and. then i have to watch my so good shortness of breath sometimes you know you don't get young. but i still. love the day. what's going to happen today when you're curious and by the way the whole key is a success to me is curiosity. there's no reason i'm so curious as to what's going to win today. what's going to happen tomorrow. what the hell is for x. . here's what i'd like my obit to read.

oldest man in the history of the world. as the way to. shop. jealous but. it took 3 weeks to wipe the smile off as. i've got to go but i don't want to go but i think. i'm proud of what i've done. he is one of the few channels. this is my country.

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