Big Questions with Cal Fussman

Tower 2 Fell On His Head: 25 Years Later

Sep 1, 2026

As the 25th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, Cal replays one of the most powerful conversations in Big Questions’ archive: his interview with Michael Wright, a survivor who was buried alive when Tower 2 of the World Trade Center collapsed on him.

Michael was a 30-year-old account executive on an ordinary Tuesday...

The Future, Interrupted by a Tornado

Aug 25, 2026

Mike Bechtel doesn't just study the future — he makes a living seeing it before the rest of us. As a historian, futurist, and professor at the University of Notre Dame, he spends his days tracing the throughlines between what's come before and what's coming next in technology and corporate innovation. In...

Seeing the Path

Aug 18, 2026

Lachi is a blind musician who has produced GRAMMY nominated projects. She’s also a GRAMMY trustee. And the voice behind Diseducation — a song built on the idea that the world needs a new way of thinking about disabilityHer latest album, Magnificent, features more than 70 human collaborators at a moment when many...

From A Chicken To Infinite

Aug 11, 2026

"If you want to know what life's like when you're not the apex of intelligence, ask a chicken."That's the line that Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning "Godfather of AI" dropped on Steven Bartlett's podcast. It stopped Cal cold. Along with a lot of other people. One of them was a digital anthropologist and...

Be Happy, Kevin’s Here!

Aug 4, 2026

Everybody's telling you that AI is coming for your job. Kevin Surace is here to tell you what they're not telling you. Kevin's the father of the artificial assistant. A CNBC Top Innovator of the Decade. He’s the holder of more than 90 patents. And now he’s the author of The Joy-Success Cycle – a book that is going...