-Are you kidding me? Come on!
No, no. [ Horn honks ]
Come on, old man! Hurry it up!
Time to upgrade to a new walker, okay, Methuselah?
You are so old,
you make Justin Bieber look like Larry King.
Larry King.
Larry King, you're my idol. -So?
-You're a talk-show God.
You're a legend. -What do you want?
-I have a talk show in the back of my van.
-What? -Come in for half an hour.
I'm gonna interview you.
It's gonna change your life and mine. Please.
This can make your career.
Come with me. -Okay.
-Do you trust me? -I trust you.
I don't know why, but I trust you.
-Sorry for what I said before. I didn't mean any of it.
-Here we go. Here we go.
Go ahead.
-Oh, my God. It's really a van.
-Larry King!
[ Laughs ]
-Take a sip from your soul
On a metaphysical milkshake
-Larry King. -Rainn.
-You're in my talk show.
-I am in your truck. -You're in my --
-What are we in? I am in a van.
-It's a van. -It's a 1976 Chevy custom van.
-I am not a van kind of guy. -You're not?
-I'm a Jew from Brooklyn.
It's not a van kind of -- -You know what?
You've been in California for a long time.
-I know, but I'm still not a van person.
I'm not a mountain person. -No?
-No, I'm not an outdoors person.
-What kind of person are you? -I'm a neighborhood guy.
-Yeah. -I'm not a limo guy.
-No? -No.
I mean, I'm driven around in limos,
but I'm not a limo guy.
My friends are friends since 9 years old.
-You keep in touch with your friends from 9 years old?
-Oh, yeah, three of us meet every day for breakfast.
I have some great friends I've made in later life,
and I treasure.
And the heart and soul of me is also with the friends I grew up.
-Will you treasure our new burgeoning friendship?
-Oh, Rainn, yes. -This is incredible.
Hey, YouTube viewers, just while we're going here.
Do you guys have friends from when you were 9 years old
that you still keep in touch with?
Larry King here is 127 years old.
He still has friends from when he was nine years old
he has breakfast with.
What about you?
Let us know. Type in your comments.
Or do a video response below. Thank you.
-Yeah, listen to him when he tells you that.
Except I'm not 127. I'll be 127 November 19th.
-November 19th. You're 126.
Forgive me. -Correct.
-Thank you for revealing your suspenders.
How many pairs of suspenders do you own?
-Over 100. People make suspenders.
I had a guy in Ghana -- Ghana -- make suspenders
and send them to me.
-Did he make them out of human skin?
-I didn't ask. -That would've been cool.
-Cannibalistic, ooh.
-As you know, this van can go anywhere.
We can be transported to the deepest recesses
of your wildest imagination.
Where do you want to go, Larry King?
-I'd like to go to my favorite city,
San Francisco. -San Francisco?
-Never had a bad day in San Francisco.
Went to San Francisco, opened up the drawer,
found Tony Bennett's heart.
-[ Laughs ] -It has everything
a city should have -- hills and sophisticated people
and great restaurants and a beautiful ballpark.
-But it's also got that.
-Oh, my gosh.
-Who was your first interview?
-On CNN? -Ever.
-Well, first interview ever was in a restaurant in Miami.
It was a waitress.
But the first significant interview was Bobby Darin,
who was performing across the street
at the Deauville Hotel.
-I thought you were gonna say he was performing
somewhere across the sea.
-Beyond the sea. -[ Groans ]
-Well, I had no prep on Bobby Darin.
I had no notes on Bobby Darin.
So I had to come from here out to him.
And I loved that.
So I never had notes, and I never did prep.
And then, I did now with Bobby Darin,
and suddenly Danny Thomas came, Ed Sullivan, Jimmy Hoffa,
and it just started a boom. -What happened to Jimmy Hoffa?
Where's the body? -I have no idea.
-You hid the body, didn't you, King?
-I liked Jimmy Hoffa.
-Did he have any special demands on his rider
for, like, his dressing room or anything like that?
-Nothing. -Colt .45?
Now, you said that you were gonna teach me
some tricks of interviewing 'cause I'm a terrible...
-Yeah. It's not a trick. -...interviewer.
I just need some pointers. -Some secrets --
I never use the word "I." Short questions --
Every question should have a question mark at the end.
It's all about me. It's not about you.
-I'm the worst. -And there's a lot of show-offs.
-I'm feeling terrible right now. I talk about me all the time.
-Don't do this.
"My guest is Rainn Wilson. His new book is
'SoulPancake: Choose -- Chew on Life's Big Questions.'
I'm looking forward to reading it
because I have a great interest in things like this.
-Thanks for having me, Larry. -You know, I love pancakes.
[ Both laugh ]
-This is the best interview of my life!
This is one of the greatest moments in my life right now.
-I do a lot of comedy, you know?
Nothing beats laughter. It beats sex.
I'm not kidding. -Laughter beats sex?
-Oh, absolutely. -Do you agree --
Hold on one second. Hold that thought.
Hey, SoulPancake viewers, do you agree with Larry King,
laughter -- -Beats sex --
[ Slo-mo ] Beats sex -- Beats sex --
-Let's get to some of life's big questions.
-Okay, life's big questions.
-With Larry King.
Define happiness in 10 words or less.
-To me, happiness is the absence of unhappiness.
The only way to know happiness is unhappiness.
To appreciate life, you have to know death.
To appreciate life, you have to have lost someone.
I lost my father when I was 9 1/2 years old.
That was a very unhappy day to me.
-So, you learn about happiness from the unhappiness.
-Correct. -What drains your soul?
What recharges it?
-I don't know what a soul is. -Okay.
-You know, and I --
Heart and soul, I fell in love with you
Heart and soul -- I understand the "heart" part.
-You'd be, like, heart and brain.
-Heart and brain -- I don't know this --
-Or heart and penis. -I don't know.
Heart and penis was very -- I don't know the soul.
-So, it is hard to ask what is.
-You're asking me? -I'm asking the world.
-You have other senses that have been developing
in this world that we have no idea.
-Since you have no idea, why do you believe it?
-Because I just know it to be true.
I don't believe it. I know it.
-How can you know? You can't know?
-I'll tell you how you can know. -You can believe.
-No, I'll tell you a story of how I know -- My son was born.
-I was there for my son's birth. -Were you there
for my son's birth? -Well, I cut the cord.
-You were there cutting the cord?
-You went to the bathroom. -That was you?
-You went to the bathroom. I cut the cord.
-You were wearing a nurse's outfit?
-Oh, yeah, yeah. -You have cute legs.
I'm holding my son, who has been in the air
for about six minutes,
and such love fills my chest and my brain
like it's beyond all measure.
And no one can tell me that "love" is
a series of chemical reflexes bouncing around in my brain,
that it's just an autonomous human response
to my offspring and I'm there to preserve the species
and it's just chemicals bouncing around in my brain.
No one can tell me that.
I know I have this deep profound love
for this tiny infant.
And God and the afterlife or the soul
or whatever works in the same way.
I have this knowledge that it exists.
It goes beyond my brain and my thoughts.
-I'll give you a simple answer to that.
I have it. I take my boys to school.
I have a 13-year-old and a 12-year-old.
I have three grown and a 13-year-old and a 12-year-old.
I take them to school every day.
When they go out of the car
and they walk into the school with their little backpacks,
my heart fills.
I love them so much,
like the moment I held them in my hand
when I cut the cord on both of their births.
-So, you know you love them. -I know I love them.
-Right, you don't believe you love them.
-But it wasn't some metaphysical thing that came to me.
-It is a metaphysical thing. -No, it isn't. I love them.
I have produced them. -So, what is that? Love?
It makes no sense. We're just beings?
We sh-t and we f-ck and we eat. That's it.
So, what has this love got to do with it?
-I don't know where it comes from.
-Is it just for preservation of the species?
-I don't know.
-[ Laughs ] -I'm amazed.
Bertrand Russell, he was at a dinner,
and someone said to him, "Dr. Russell, what do you know?"
And he gave a brilliant answer. This would be my answer.
-Mm-hmm.
-"The only thing I know is that I don't know."
-And scene.
Thank you for watching.
-I am insanely curious. -Mm.
-You do not want to sit next to me on an airplane.
-I really do want to sit next to you on an airplane.
-No, no you don't because I'm the kind of guy, when I --
-'Cause you fart? -Well, 126 years old, you fart.
-SoulPancake
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