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Cal Fussman

lines on the record: 206
first: 2024-06-04
most recent: 2024-06-04
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Two things. I wanted to see my face over a column in a big city newspaper, and I wanted to write a magazine story about Mohammed Ali.”
2024-06-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #743: Dr. Jane Goodall and Cal Fussman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“How is it that a black guy can go when a gold medal in Australia and come back after representing his country and not be able to sit at a lunchroom counter at a Woolworths next to white people? He would defy the government and refuse draft injunction, wouldn't go into the army and basically say, hey, I ain't got nothing against no Viet Cong. And he would make you think, hey, what is going on over there in Vietnam? So that was a huge, huge part of my childhood.”
2024-06-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #743: Dr. Jane Goodall and Cal Fussman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Maybe they did in that my dad loved sports. You know, I grew up in the sixties at a time where Muhammad Ali came into play. He was my childhood hero, and in a some sense, that was the start of it because he was more than my hero just because he was the heavyweight champ of the world and he could dance and make sure nobody ever hit him. And then when he wanted to hit you, he could hit you 16 times before you even blinked. It was more than the fact that he could Make predictions with poetry and make you always laugh. His actions made you ask questions. He would take his Olympic gold medal and throw it in the Ohio River. And it would make you wonder hold it.”
2024-06-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #743: Dr. Jane Goodall and Cal Fussman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think part of that has to do with the evolution as an interviewer, as a journalist, because as we talk it through, you'll see that I interview differently when I was, say, 18 than when I was 24 and differently in my 40s than I was when I was 25. So it really is like a lifelong voyage of learning about questions and reactions is only when I started to think back on that first letter did I realize, okay, this is, I guess it would sort of be like being a basketball player and you know that you're born with big hands. If I go up for dunk, I can grip the ball with one hand. Carmelo Anthony can't. It's like a big secret. He can't get his hands around the basket. He's great, but some people are just born with big hands and some people don't have big hands. And I'm only now starting to realize, okay, I was kind of born to do this.”
2024-06-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #743: Dr. Jane Goodall and Cal Fussman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly. And here this guy has spent decades knowing everything about Lyndon Johnson as possible. And I'm telling him this story. And he's like getting goosebumps when I say Juanita D. Roberts. You got a letter from Juanita D. Roberts. And he started asking me all these questions about the letter and where it could be and how I sent it. And I realized as he was doing it, yeah, he was made to be a historian. Nobody else in the world would have gotten that. High over the words Juanita D Roberts, but some people are just born with the proclivity to do certain things”
2024-06-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #743: Dr. Jane Goodall and Cal Fussman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And move him on next. He will stop. As everyone who they are, and then The line may be around the block he'll be there till three in the morning. The”
2024-06-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #743: Dr. Jane Goodall and Cal Fussman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT