Big Questions with Cal Fussman
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Big Questions with Cal Fussman
As a bestselling author, speaker and one of the greatest interviewers of this generation, Cal Fussman has sat down with some of the world's most influential individuals: Muhammad Ali, Mikhail Gorbachev, Serena Williams, Jeff Bezos, Jack Welch, John Wooden, Al Pacino and hundreds of others, digging d...
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Walking With The Monks
A brief encounter with Buddhist monks on their walk for peace from Fort Worth to Washington, D.C., leads Cal to wonder what Martin Luther King Jr. mig...
An 18 Year Old Just Showed Us The Future
A high school student named Matteo Paz uses old NASA data and new AI to find 1.5 million objects never noticed before in space (including planets in o...
Play It Forward | 2026
In the age of artificial intelligence, it isn't a machine that stops Cal in his tracks—it's a deeply human idea. What if playing a video game could he...
The Year A Genius Couldn't Keep Up
Imagine a mind that can solve a Rubik's Cube in 17 seconds. A mind that contributed to the development of OpenAI. A mind that directed AI for Elon Mus...
The First Job – After AI
When Cal visits an old mentor, he's struck by two realizations. First: Some of the most profound moments in a young person's life can happen in entry-...
The AI Argument: 2026
There are those believe artificial intelligence will cure cancer, reverse global warming, and unlock human potential. There are others who believe it...
Cal Finds His Destiny
When Cal returns to Tampa's Ybor City to speak, he keeps a ritual that's become almost sacred: a meal at the legendary 120-year-old Columbia Restauran...
AI Job Advice: Look Back, Leap Forward
The future may not be hiding in Silicon Valley. It could be hidden in your childhood. When a bright young grad sits down at Cal's Thanksgiving table w...
Till Tech Do Us Part
Here is a question Cal never thought he'd ask. Let's just say a human marries an AI and they get divorced. Does ChatGPT get the alimony? This is the w...
Boredom Never Stood A Chance
When Cal looks back on his life, he sees a relentless drive that's guided him to his 69th birthday: Never be bored. His past reveals a simple truth. B...
Your Best Thanksgiving
Cal looks over a bountiful breakfast menu and remembers the statistics he heard about kids going hungry in Tampa Bay — a city that, through his travel...
Turning Fandom Into Family
When Kobe Bryant watched the Eagles win Super Bowl 52 on television, he wasn't alone — he was holding his 1-year-old daughter, Bianka, in his arms. Th...
Your Future Life: When Love Outlives Death
After actress and author Suzanne Somers passed away, her husband couldn't let go — so he brought her back. Not in memory. But as an AI twin. He create...
Johnny Depp, Hemingway, And The Question That Changes
Everything An unexpected e-mail sends Cal spiraling back to a conversation with the actor Johnny Depp — and to Ernest Hemingway's brush with death in...
The Future Of Policing Has Four Wheels – And No Cops
A police van that drives itself, launches drones, reads license plates, and streams live infrared video straight to headquarters. Miami-Dade just unve...
Sam Altman Shoplifting & Other Strange Sights
In a week when companies propose growing human eggs from male skin and gestating babies inside robots, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is seen in a viral video...
Don’t Be 1 in 93
Roughly 1 in 93 Americans will die in a car accident. According to the National Safety Council, that's the math—even after seatbelts, airbags, sensors...
Turbulence, Tranquility & Central Park
Cal comes upon a book called The Fourth Turning Is Here which suggests that we're in a historical cycle of crisis when institutions collapse and a new...
April 20, 1999, September 10, 2025, And The Future
Two dates. Separated by decades. Bound by a thread we'd all prefer didn't exist. Cal revisits the first—a day etched in memory that too many now treat...
Great Advice From George Raveling
Raveling passed away early this month at 88 after living a life shaped by being in the right place at the right time — and knowing what to do when he...
Billie Eilish & My Friend Phillip
Billie Eilish was just 13 when she recorded the song Ocean Eyes in the bedroom of her home and her brother Finneas uploaded it to SoundCloud. Within w...
Old Is New In The Age of AI
Cal was ready to dump his storage bins of CDs, tape cassettes, and DVDs — until he discovered a twist: the world is racing back to the very things he...
The Last Book Written By A Human
Cal sits down with Jeff Burningham, author of The Last Book Written by a Human, to unpack the AI tidal wave about to hit classrooms, boardrooms, gover...
If The NFL Can Overlook Shedeur Sanders, What Are Algorithms Doing To You?
The NFL passed on Shedeur Sanders — son of Deion "Prime Time" Sanders — through the first four rounds of its 2025 draft, despite the quarterback's two...
Jim Carrey’s $10 Million Lesson
Jim Carrey's $10 Million Lesson
Cal has an epiphany as he's giving one of his storytelling workshops. He's able to tie the thought to the mome...
First A Scam, Then The Future Of Trust
On a sunny Sunday morning, Cal shares breakfast with friends—when a woman reveals how a shady third-party travel site jacked up her airline ticket pri...
Your New Therapist: Talk To Ash
It was during the pandemic when Cal first realized how many people were searching for mental health professionals and couldn't find them. Cal wished e...
De Niro And A Day Of No Regrets
Cal has long believed the best way to avoid regret is to really listen when someone talks about theirs. One answer came to him during an interview wit...
Mr. Wonderful, Bill Gates & Free Money
Cal hears an interview with Kevin O'Leary – Mr. Wonderful on Shark Tank -- that puts into focus the loss of jobs coming with the onset of AI. Then he...
Then I Look At AI . . . And The World’s Alright With Me
Cal reads a Wall Street Journal story about a graduation speech that ends with the audience asked to sing Bill Withers' Lean On Me—a soulful anthem fo...
AI & Your Job
After speaking at a CREW conference in Texas, Cal meets a smart young Uber driver who was curious about the number of jobs that we can anticipate losi...
Elon, AI & The Curious Key To Peace
When an interview on AI and the future of warfare gets postponed by the birth of a child,Cal turns to the web to satisfy his curiosity on the topic —a...
AI & The Great Photographer
Cal reads about artificial intelligence models that have written their own code in order to escape being shut down. He ponders the friction between th...
A Breath Of The Future
Cal takes a breath of fresh air after a friend goes through double lung-transplant surgery and comes out with a new life. This story will make anyone...
Two Marathons A Day For 12 Days — And A Bold Question About AI
What kind of person runs 1,000 kilometers in 12 days – twice? Meet Natalie Dau, a Guinness World Record holder who doesn't just push the limits of hum...
Education, Cheating & AI
In times when college students are using artificial intelligence to answer even introductory course questions like: "Briefly introduce yourself and sa...
Our AI Evolution
In ten years, we'll create content as fast as we can think it. That's what the owner of a cutting-edge AI studio told Cal—and something clicked. This...
From Paralyzed To Powerful
After a devastating rugby injury to his spine seven years ago to this day, Robert Paylor was told he'd never walk again and the best he could hope for...
How 2025 Will Shape History Forever
A single year can easily get lost in time or echo for centuries. A thought-provoking conversation with Simon Sinek makes Cal take a look back at 1925,...
Learning From Weight Loss Drugs
For decades, Cal steered clear of pharmaceuticals. But after assembling a new team of doctors and stepping on the scale and noticing a few extra pound...