Big Questions with Cal Fussman

The United States is $28 trillion in debt, and it was going to run out of money on October 18th if it couldn't borrow more. Fortunately, an agreement was reached in Congress to temporarily raise the d...

19 Okt 202159min

For years, Cal wanted to have a conversation with the greatest wrestler who ever lived. Dan Gable went undefeated in high school, won two national championships at Iowa State University and took a gol...

12 Okt 202156min

After putting on a bunch of weight during COVID, Cal says enough is enough. Just as he does, he hears about a book that promises to bring back his six pack. The last time Cal saw that six pack was thi...

5 Okt 202143min

Cal comes across the mindset of overcoming adversity when he talks with a 19-year-old who has a fatal disease called Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Elijah avoided an operation that would have straighten...

28 Sep 202152min

Cal raced home from the hospital for a brief time while he was caring for his 90-year-old dad to have this conversation with the actor and author Matthew McConaughey, and he's sure glad he did. The tw...

21 Sep 20211h

Cal asks the retired general of the U.S. Army why the U.S. can't seem to plan ahead in the aftermath of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan after 20 years and trillions of dollars of U.S. assistance. ...

14 Sep 20211h

Cal talks with a primary care physician we all wished we could have, a man whose life was changed by a singular moment very early in his career. It's led him on a path to continually think about reinv...

7 Sep 202158min

Cal talks with the author of Preventable: The Inside Story Of How Leadership Failures, Politics, And Selfishness Doomed The U.S. Coronavirus Response. Slavitt was the guy who came to the rescue of the...

31 Aug 202143min