- Welcome to Meet Your Emmy Nominee
and I'm here with Larry King today.
Hi Larry.
- You're thrilled, aren't you Mariah?
- I'm thrilled, we're in your green room today.
- I can tell a tingle is going through you.
(laughs)
You can't wait to do this.
- We're in the green room of Larry King Now
- Correct.
- And we are talking about your seventh nomination
with this particular show.
- Well, I'll tell you the wild thing about
Larry King Now and the seven nominations.
This is our seventh year.
We've done 900 episodes.
But in 2010,
after I left CNN,
I was honored to get a Lifetime Achievement Award
- Yes
- from the Emmy's big event in New York.
Was a wonderful night.
Now usually, when you get a Lifetime Achievement
it means that you accomplished something
and you're going to die.
Your life is over, all right.
(laughs)
But then I hooked up with Carlos Slim
and we started Larry King Now with a great crew
and we've been doing it now
for quite a while.
And then I get, this is, seven Emmy nominations
since getting a Lifetime Achievement.
And so, I don't know if there is a way to check this,
did anyone get a Lifetime Achievement Award
and get seven Emmy's?
Did anyone win an Oscar
and get seven Oscar nominations after the Oscar?
- Uh huh, yeah.
- You know, a Lifetime Achievement is...
No, an Oscar is a bad example.
Lifetime Achievement from the Academy.
- I mean, them are posthumously.
- So I pinch myself everyday.
(laughs)
- Would the victory be even sweeter to win this year?
- Yeah, I guess it would be sweet.
You know,
I've had such good fortune.
I'm so
happy with what I've obtained.
I'm very grateful.
All I ever wanted to be was to be on the radio
when I was a kid.
That was my goal, be on the radio.
I never thought I'd be on worldwide television
or there was an internet coming.
I never thought that, so.
Yeah, a win would be nice because it's nice to be nominated.
Especially, because we are the only digital show nominated.
You know, for a long time
cable shows weren't eligible for Emmy's.
We won 10 CableACE Awards, see.
The CableACE.
- Yes.
- And then the Emmy's came into being and we won an Emmy
on CNN.
And now to have this, so it would be very nice.
- Yeah.
- It's nice to be alive.
(laughs)
- Do you prepare an acceptance speech?
- No, I don't do that.
- You never do that?
- No.
That's pompous.
(laughs)
- Do you have one interview from the past year
that you keep thinking about, that's always on your mind?
- Not always on my mind because usually when I finish,
I just did an interview today,
that was the subject.
I totally concentrated on that.
I'm totally into it.
And then once it's over, I go to the next.
- Yeah, clear it away.
- So I never dwell on a subject.
Now the subject we're nominated for is Caitlyn Jenner
but that was a very interesting day.
You called yourself a republican in the past,
some people are angry at that.
You voted for Trump, didn't you?
- Uh huh. It was hard.
I was a Republican and he was our candidate.
- Has he disappointed you?
- In some cases he has and in some cases it's been okay.
Gorsuch with the Supreme Court, things like that.
I think, the right move for our country.
But yeah, he has disappointed me in some ways.
This whole healthcare deal.
If you're on the conservative side,
I want the Federal government out of healthcare.
I believe in a little thing
called the Constitution, you know.
- But Trump has said in the past he was in favor
of a single payer health system.
- He did say a long time ago, yes he did.
Then he kind of switched.
He's become a typical politician.
- That was a very interesting day
because I knew Bruce Jenner very well,
interviewed him many times.
Great athlete and a great guy and a great bird.
No idea that he had a woman inside a man's body
and that was a very thoughtful, very interesting interview.
I had done transgenders before.
In fact, I had interviewed Christine Jorgensen,
who was the first.
I interviewed her many, many years ago.
And of course, I've interviewed others who have
gone through that whole surgery and become another gender.
But Caitlyn was beautiful,
she was thoughtful,
she wasn't angry that Trump wasn't treating
people the right way.
I liked her a lot.
I liked her as Bruce. I like her as Caitlyn.
- Can you tell when people are being honest with you?
- You do the best you can.
If you have facts in front of you, you'll know.
I don't come with an agenda.
I don't come "I'm going to get this guy."
I just try to draw people out.
I've just been curious all my life.
I've never explained that, Mariah, I've just been...
My friends, we'd go to baseball games as kids.
And they would all want autographs
and I never was interested in autographs.
I wanted to ask questions.
So the player would come out after the game
and I would go "well, why'd you punt, why'd you do this,
what happened in the seventh inning?"
It still amazes me
that this curiosity
never leaves me.
In other words, if we had more time
I'd want to know all about you.
(laughs)
Really, I'd want to know all about guys here.
Why does a pilot want to fly a plane?
What does a bus driver get out of driving a bus?
What do you...
And I put yesterdays away and tomorrow is the next one
and so that keeps me going.
I'm 84 years old. My father died when he was 46.
I was 9. I never thought I'd live past 46.
I've had a heart attack, heart surgery,
early-stage lung cancer. I've beat them all.
- Yeah, that's wonderful.
- But there are two things I've never had
for someone of my age; never had a backache,
- Wow. That's impressive.
- never had a bad headache, never had a bad headache,
- That's very incredible.
- but then I'm also surprised by how young people know me.
Hip hop people come over to me.
I'm eating in a restaurant and this guy comes over,
I don't know who he is,
he says "Larry, I have to meet you."
Well, who are you?
I'm 21 Savage.
(laughs)
21 Savage?
Then I tell my kids, I got teenage boys, I met 21--
You what?
(laughs)
- Speaking of your boys, are there two baseball players
you would love them to emulate?
Two players you'd like them to become?
- I'd like them to become Jackie Robinson.
Who I knew well, I saw his first game.
I interviewed him twice.
But they are two terrific kids.
One, the pitcher is 19. He was drafted by the White Sox.
He is going to a junior college.
He had some hip surgery but he is fine now.
I think he's going to go to University of Miami
or the University of Tampa.
For some reason, he grew up in Beverly Hills,
he loves Florida.
(laughs)
Probably because of the girls.
(laughs)
And my son, Cannon, who will be 18 in May,
he's a hell of a shortstop.
A lot of teams are looking at him.
A lot of colleges are looking at him.
He is a hell of a player.
But basically, two good kids.
But for a father who was not a good athlete,
to get to see them play,
starting little league all the way up.
No bigger thrill.
- Do you have hope for the younger generation?
Do you feel a positive or a negative feeling
when you think about the future?
- Very positive.
- Yeah.
- This generation, yeah.
Just look at what they did in Florida
at that terrible shooting.
Look at the youth of today, mobilizing themselves.
You're going to see it in the ballot box.
They historically do not vote.
- Yeah.
- Historically. That will change.
This group will vote. You'll see it in November.
I love their activism. I love their involvement.
No matter what side of the political agenda they're on.
They're into it.
Much more than my generation was.
- Yeah.
- But I think,
if we don't do something stupid like a nuclear war.
They're going to be something.
- Yeah. Can you name one thing from the past
you'd like to bring back?
- Typewriter.
I used to do a column everyday for the Miami Harold,
USA Today once a week when I started,
I worked for USA Today for 20 years.
Now I love the typewriter. I learned typing in eighth grade
and I never forgot how to type. I was a good typist.
I love the typewriter.
I like regular phones.
I'm not into iPhones. I have a flip phone.
Bubba phones, you know, you'd pick it up a little heavy
and you'd dial and you'd
(imitates rotary)
I love the sound.
(imitates rotary)
You'd have to hold it out to here.
You didn't have to worry about brain cancer.
(laughs)
Didn't have to worry about oh, my god, have I lost my phone.
Where's my phone? I can't live without my phone.
Where's my phone?
(laughs)
- Can you name three moments,
let's say within your own lifetime
that you would have liked to have been a fly a on the wall?
- I'd like to have been a fly on the wall
the day Harry Truman, the president,
decided to use the atomic bomb.
What that meeting must have been like.
I'd like to have been a fly on the wall
during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
To be in the White House. Kennedy, his brother Robert.
All these problems of missiles in Cuba.
What was going to happen.
And I'd like to be a fly on the wall
at every meeting I was ever at when I walked out.
(laughs)
To hear what they said about me.
- That's great.
Last question to you.
Could you look into the camera
and invite one person onto your show right now?
- The person I would like to interview now
would be Angela Merkel.
I call her Anna Merkel because I'm American.
I never knew anyone named An-gah-la.
President of Germany, who may be, at this moment
the most powerful woman in the world.
Certainly influential.
Certainly kind of progressive
with her view on immigrants and the...
Yeah, Anna Merkel,
running the country that Hitler ran.
- Wow.
What a change.
- Wow. Larry King, thank you so much.
- Thank you Mariah.
- Have a good day.
- They Call the Wind Mariah.
- They do.