{"podcast":{"title":"Big Questions with Cal Fussman","slug":"big-questions-with-cal-fussman-9404","podcast_index_feed_id":9404,"rss_url":"https://bigquestions-calfussman.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://www.calfussman.com/podcast","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/2/6/a/2/26a240670f26b2b2/bigquestions.jpg","author":"Midroll Media","episode_count":446,"summary":"As a bestselling author, speaker and one of the greatest interviewers of this generation, Cal Fussman has sat down with some of the world's most influential individuals: Muhammad Ali, Mikhail Gorbachev, Serena Williams, Jeff Bezos, Jack Welch, John Wooden, Al Pacino and hundreds of others, digging deep into their hearts and delivering their wisdom to the rest of the world. Now, in Big Questions, Cal continues his journey. Uncovering the heart, head, and soul of his guests in thoughtful, deep and entertaining conversations.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-07T16:19:42.182101+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/big-questions-with-cal-fussman-9404"},"episode":{"title":"Something Big Is Happening","slug":"something-big-is-happening","published_at":"2026-02-17T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/big-questions-with-cal-fussman-9404/something-big-is-happening","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/big-questions-with-cal-fussman-9404","url":"https://bigquestions-calfussman.libsyn.com/something-big-is-happening","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bigquestions-calfussman/Big_Questions-S04-164-MattShumer-V01.mp3?dest-id=767084","summary":"As the world worked on last week, something exploded online. An article about AI by Matt Shumer was posted on X. It has already been downloaded more than 80 million times. The title? Something Big Is Happening. The implications couldn't be more personal. Your job. Your family. Your future. Instead of summarizing it or debating it, Cal does something simple and Old School on Big Questions. He reads it aloud. Not as commentary. But as a marker in time. If you haven't come across Something Big Is Happening, you might want to look up from your work and listen.","meta_description":"As the world worked on last week, something exploded online. An article about AI by Matt Shumer was posted on X. It has already been downloaded more than…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2317,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/big-questions-with-cal-fussman-9404/episodes/something-big-is-happening/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/big-questions-with-cal-fussman-9404/something-big-is-happening.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}