A kid from brooklyn who. Walked the streets with my friends and who always want to be on the air i dont know why but i was trance was really you know and i was that little poor kid we won relief my father had died when i was in. New york city bought my 1st pair of glasses i think what it means is rick i never forgot where i came from and thats true to this minute i never forgot where i came from so im 85 years old but im the kid from brooklyn ive lived brooklyn but brooklyn never left me so thats part of my soul thats and thats what i brought to the business being curious being that kid went to dodger games all my friends. I would want autographs i would want to ask questions i remember running down the street with car for oh there are roads 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 didnt go to college. My brother did a more can on the street in new york and a friend introduces me the james term and its 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 youll find older guys and younger guys. Very few 40 year olds. To be good chance of break in and i knocked on doors and small station w. H. R. In miami beach gave me a job was a dish arche and on may 1st 19 fifties. I saw that on the air and from that moment when that light went on. I told the audience it was my 1st day never never have a Live Audience i. I found my magic so my dreams of what it was always were now i had Program Directors i didnt like i had management maybe but i never ever. And that light went on. Didnt 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 cohost of the show with him for a week and me. So much and jackie told me the only secret in this business is theres no secret. Be yourself. If youre yourself. Thats 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. Someone grabbed. Sitting down says tom brokaws sic juran what we do. I would say i was walking down the whole disk i just grabbed me said tom brokaw sic and im on. Ok now im going to do the best i can transparency i have an anchor the news but you tell the audience or so you goof a they just grab them to do this how can you go wrong if you tell us whats happening share the process correct i love you for it youre 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 youre doing your show from pumper nicks restaurant in miami beach and a guy walks in who sings saw. The sea and his name was bob oh it was shock has teeth. And he can use it. Bob you walked in he didnt 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 guests and after the show we walked down collins. And i said to him where is all this energy going he was so hyper. Wheres it all gone he says well im 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 sad 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 youre interviewing bobby darin and it just goes to show that i guess what larry described to us when you interview someone whether its 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 what 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 stupors 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 im 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 im going to get to his motivation and i learned this a long time ago nobody thinks theyre bad hitler didnt get up in the morning tomas him and say i am an evil terrible person. Osama bin laden had a goal now where it manifests itself were going to learn as we go along in the interview how he got to be how we felt about the witness but im 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 im curious about people the the person the event comes later so its the same whether its a president. Or bobby down or rick sanchez or a camera man. And studs terkel told me once the great chicago. Everybodys interesting. Everybodys interesting. Yes good question and you learn a lot. Im a be said to me once i. Can interview sinatra interview the elevator operator. Hes 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 at school didnt skip i have 1st started and i was on the like 3 months and i was loving it and i was doing to shockey in sports and news and you know you worked went you were on the it was a day and and one day the general manager station said the all night guy is sick would you do the all night you sure ill do anything so all you do is play records and talk and the engineer they didnt have an all night engine it was a small station so im talking playing records at 3 in the morning. I answered a phone. And his voice. This womans 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 gotta go to work at 6 wanted to come over now i set up all the money. She says why live 9 blocks away heres my address figure out something is im very attracted to you. And i got my 1st though im 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. Youre going to youre going to. Have a belafonte Carnegie Hall album uninterrupted. I had 33 minutes which is all the time i mean yeah which is still true to this day so i put the record on went to her house the light was on white over the door i walked in i never really saw her clearly she was in a white neck was. Sitting on a couch the review was on harry saying and i put my arms around my cheek its against her right cheek and hairy sing in jamaica farewell and he gets to the way where the nights where the nights where the night record gets stuck i place a back on a couch i get into the car i get the radio on its called jewish masochism. Im driving back to the Radio Station hearing where the nights where the night with the night. And you know i thought id lose my job but i didnt but im answering a phone apologising to people and the last call i picked up was like an old jewish guy and i said he goes. Youre driving me crazy nights i said why are you going to change the station and he said im an invalid. Takes care of me during the day and the radio is up on top of the dress i cant reach it so i keep your station on all day long. And i was im one of my 1st adventures but i did not luckily lose my job. A long time. 2 years one of the few channels. This is my country. Tell the truth. World. Thinks. We are here to ask. What is the lets stand for today. With working in Civil Liberties now it appears to prioritize. Issues we hear the word would be a lot but not if you can use their place. You know politics in. War suspenders in my honor. And never thought. Of my long just in the same but with. 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 it was a little zoo 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 hows it going to be interesting. If ive got the mayor of chicago on why would someone in l. A. And he said chris youre the perfect time a person to do this because she carries well everything and what that show did i would sit there at night worked had 20 incoming lines that were all wrong and i looked up to my left on what was a bookcase from virginia but i see the whole see a washington. Midnight of 5 and i had a ball i had great gas. Bill clinton called him one night when he was governor. At 3 of the morning and i saw where you 2 were not at 3 in the morning said never mind. Cause we ran from washington through the streets come up to the regulation 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 youd sit in your car in the parking lot because you wanted to hear the rest of the conversation is going to happen next people call in some of the funniest people in the world would call him because he would be open for an america guess what weve anything could happen one guy could call about the dominicans 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 im doing now but that was the most fun i have but it seems to me correct me if im wrong you never really stopped doing radio when you went to t. V. A lot of people i dont want to say sell out but suddenly become and them are dead with the camera and the look at all you would never stop doing that you got it rick. I would go to television right now what were doing is review 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. Im not going to a lot of radio guys didnt do well in television because they reacted to it. You know i reacted to it like a. Camera find me. Im with rick and im asking the questions and its radio with pictures its all its every show ive 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. Ive ever. I never thought i have the. Larry king live mariel cuomo was a 1st guests and remember that night june 1st 1905 it was the 5th anniversary of c. N. N. And i go on and its 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. Work for nobody like him. And so theres luck too by the way paul newman told me something once its so true any successful person. In any field. Who when discussing his or her life doesnt use the word luck is a liar. I dont care who you are look played a part. Left turn right. What if i didnt. Know someone would say whoa youve been successful look is the residue of Design Branch rickey said that not so sure. Rather be lucky than good yeah one of the great quotes of all time if you are lucky you got it may look false you dont know what it is. But when you hit the ball the 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 theres an upstart called fox news and they got this guy named bill oreilly and bill oreilly comes on and he figures hes going to hes kind of a bully and hes 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 youre no good and youre boring and this and that and then i think theres 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 ill do it my way. And it just ended the moment and it was so sincere and so. Take me through that ms theres 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 its not news and know where youre doing the last news show on television this theres no news c. N. N. Doesnt do was say its trump all the time its 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 cant interview that guy because then we got to bring in the other guy. Fairness doctrine we had to be fair what was wrong with that. You couldnt force news couldnt exist under that law you have to give equal time of attorney did something so i. Im a little sad about the Business Today i dont like a lot of what i see. So i count on sports. I watch i think r. T. D. Underrated channel they really do a lot of good things theyve got this bad misnomer like russia controls and thats baloney i have never. Ever had a guest that they didnt run. Ive had putin criticized 3 times a week they have never shot that. Theyre really nice people who work for. They dont deserve the image they got that theres some sort of foreign entity i dont think their phone phone news is news and good questions are good questions and Great Stories are Great Stories and it doesnt matter whether youre 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 theres an interview i was watching. Which really was interesting because its one of the few times and then well talk about a few more i dont know they were doing this woman who was miss california her name was Carrie Prejean on and thats one of the few times ive ever seen you get a little flustered because. She got mad at me because i was running and she didnt want to answer a question when she was running from the 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 wasnt really flustered you know on television its one thing in television another whats happening the producers say keep it go on. You did yeah hey the place is burning keep the fire going close in on the fire she takes her microphone off and youre telling her you can be mad and you can say whatever you need to say but make sure you have your my god. Theres a lot of you know funny moment its a funny business but the things i loved about it and the thing i miss the most is alive i did live radio all my life i did live television. On our t. V. An aura. Is taped and tape is still professionally treated as a professional but live. Nothing. Is that moment. Youve been married 8 times 7 times 7 times. But the last when sporting 2 years. Is or i dont remember not being. 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 im a maze like a lot of years 30 people. 22 years now. People like my inlaws 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 im not sure the institution. 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 1st of all monogamy come on you tell me its easy. Hate. The word retired as it even exists in your vocabulary. As as milton berle once youre going to retire and he said to what. I what would i do. Saw the 85 of live the long life ive beaten so many Health Issues ive 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. And i have to watch my so good shortness of breath sometimes you know you dont get young. But i still. Love the day whats going to happen today and when youre curious and by the way the whole key is a success to me is curiosity and you lose curiosity. Theres no reason im so curious as to whats going to win today. Whats going to happen tomorrow what is this all about what the hell is for x. Heres what id like my obit to read. Oldest man in the history of the world. As the way. A jealous but. It took 3 weeks to wipe the smile off as. Ive got to go but i dont want to go but i think. Im proud of what ive done. Ive been in the media a long time. 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