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Big Questions with Cal Fussman

Aug 31, 2021

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 Affordable Care Act when it got off to a rocky start in the Obama administration. Cal asks him to look ahead to show us...


Aug 24, 2021

Cal talks with the former Navy Seal Commander who had a severe case of survivor’s guilt in Afghanistan and locked it away until it festered and led him to some dark places. But a simple breathing exercise led him on a path toward meditation and mindfulness and back to good health. It comes in handy for Cal after...


Aug 17, 2021

Cal doesn’t feel well after watching videos coming from Afghanistan – especially as he hears that America has left roughly 80,000 of its friends in the country behind when the Taliban took over. He offers President Joe Biden a plan on how to stand by those friends.


Aug 10, 2021

Ever since he was a kid, Marc Hodosh wondered why people had to get old and die. Now, as he prepares to co-host a healthcare conference called Life Itself with CNN’s Sanjay Gupta, he looks into the possibilities we have of living longer and longer and ultimately forever. He cites the Immortal Jellyfish as an...


Aug 3, 2021

Cal goes into his archives to listen to a conversation he had with Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield about their early years as friends and business partners in Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream. He remembers the conversation being filled with funny stories and the power of ice cream to bring people together, which seems at odds...