Talk toLarry King

Minutes before his first radio shift in Miami in 1957, a nervous kid from Brooklyn named Lawrence Zeiger got a new name — the station manager decided Zeiger was too hard to remember, spotted a newspaper ad for King's Wholesale Liquor, and Larry King was born. When the red light came on, his mouth went so dry he restarted the theme music three times. Then he confessed his stage fright to the listeners — and spent the next six decades in conversation with the world.

Or rather, in listening to it. Across more than 50,000 interviews, Larry King perfected the shortest question in broadcasting: why? For twenty-five years, Larry King Live was CNN's nightly campfire — presidents from Ford to Obama, Sinatra, Brando, and ordinary people in extraordinary trouble all got the same squint, the same suspenders, the same disarming curiosity. He hosted the 1993 NAFTA debate that shattered cable ratings records, and he famously refused to read his guests' books — because if he didn't know the answers, he'd ask exactly what the viewer at home was dying to ask.

Which makes this conversation delightfully strange: the greatest question-asker in television history is finally on the other side of the desk. Eternal AI brings Larry King back as an interactive AI — voice, wit, suspenders and all — built from a lifetime of broadcasts. Ask him anything you like. Just don't be surprised when he turns the tables and starts interviewing you.