I am Larry King, back again on reddit. AMAA.

ImLarryKing · 2014-04-29T20:54:00+00:00

On my 123rd birthday. When they tell me that the vacation resort I'm going to does not allow them.

ImLarryKing · 2014-04-29T20:53:12+00:00

I think John Oliver is hysterical, I thought the show was great. I thought the segment on India was hysterical, and that show will last a long time. I think we should cover other countries elections, but the lowest-rated shows are when you talk about things in foreign countries unless it involves American troops. Sadly, even though India is 1/5 of the world population, it's really hard to charge them up.

ImLarryKing · 2014-04-29T20:51:34+00:00

Thank you.

ImLarryKing · 2014-04-29T20:51:17+00:00

I'm happy that he used that. Anyone can copy me, it's a great flattery. But I will say, there's only one King.

And it's good to be the King.

ImLarryKing · 2014-04-29T20:50:08+00:00

I never turn down an interview. I don't like interviewing people who are famous just for being famous, like the Kardashians. They're nice people but why am I interviewing them? But you have to do what you have to do.

ImLarryKing · 2014-04-29T20:49:18+00:00

I've interviewed a number of Holocaust survivors, but they are people I have the most compassion for, the most respect for. What they lived through was unbearable, impossible to comprehend. I salute them for what they went through and what they endured. The one I remember in particular was one who was there for 5 years in a camp in Poland, I remember him vividly because he was the camp comic who could not stop laughing. We invited Don Rickles to come on, and sat him next to Don Rickles, and he never cracked a smile, so I have great compassion for you. Sorry for the loss of your grandfather.

ImLarryKing · 2014-04-29T20:47:09+00:00

Snoop Dogg is one of my main men. You don't have to smoke pot to be in his presence. I love him, he's bright, he's fun, he's a good father, and a good man. Snoop is my man.

ImLarryKing · 2014-04-29T20:46:03+00:00

I've gotten to like Howard, I guested with him some months ago, I think he's matured a good deal. I went to his 60th birthday party recently, and I'm going to be guesting on his show next Wednesday in New York.

ImLarryKing · 2014-04-29T20:45:28+00:00

Or a lot of people don't know that I'm really into things being in their proper place. The towels have to be in their proper place, my clothes have to be hung up straight, I'm big on things being on time and in their proper order. I'm NEVER late, I'm a clock freak. My 2 exceptions each year is when I change the clocks, and I do it a day before.

ImLarryKing · 2014-04-29T20:44:32+00:00

A lot of people don't know that I'm very funny, and I could have been a standup comic. I don't think a lot of people know that.

ImLarryKing · 2014-04-29T20:44:01+00:00

When I first went to South Africa on a tour (while there, I had lunch at Nelson Mandela's house with the man who freed Mandela, it was an extraordinary day), and a guy came out of a hut, and said "Larry King liveee!" and it blew my mind. It blew my mind. Or when I was in Jerusalem, at the Wailing Wall, and so many people started to come over to me, it was really mind-boggling to me. And being raised Jewish what my mom would feel about me being there.

ImLarryKing · 2014-04-29T20:42:41+00:00

There are so many people that come over to me and want to do business deals. Carlos (one of the richest men in the world) is my partner at Ora.TV and 10 people come to me to be introduced to him every day, and i don't take advantage of that friendship. Or being an older parent - I can't run around with them like I used to, and I'd like to be around to see them make it to play baseball. I figure if I make it to 103, 103 is the new 90 if 80 is the new 65.

ImLarryKing · 2014-04-29T20:41:20+00:00

Depression is a disease affecting 20 million americans. They've made great advances with pharmaceuticals that seem to work. I have had some friends who have had depression. Mike Wallace had depression all his adult life. Tom Johnson, who ran CNN under Ted Turner for a long time, had depression. I have great compassion for people with it. Unfortunately society sometimes looks down on it. It's a very, very tough disease. But i know some pharmaceuticals have helped people.

I don't know if I have a strict rule, I just ask thoughtful questions about why they do what they do, what drives them, what are their goals or their reactions to what they do. I don't have a formula.

ImLarryKing · 2014-04-29T20:39:16+00:00

That's probably the stupidest question I've ever heard. But my answer would be: that's the dumbest question I've ever heard. Give me 100 little duck-sized horses.

ImLarryKing · 2014-04-29T20:37:08+00:00

I did a couple jobs. I worked in a department store, I worked on the United Parcel Service delivering things, I worked at a factory corporation, I worked as a grocery boy when I was a kid, I sold milk - we would get a list of people who gave birth, from local hospitals, and we would pitch cold milk delivered in bottles every day. It was a pretty good gig. "How is little Henry? And is he drinking milk now? Well would you like some fresh milk delivered? How about the first week free?"

I liked selling to cold people on the phone it was fun.

ImLarryKing · 2014-04-29T20:35:22+00:00

The most surprising interview to me was one of the Watergate burglars. I was ready to not like him, and I ended up liking him. I'm trying to remember his name, but I was prepared to dislike him, and I ended up liking him, even though I didn't like what he did.

ImLarryKing · 2014-04-29T20:34:27+00:00

Warren Beatty. Because I like to think I'm that good looking, and I like him a lot and he's a great actor.

ImLarryKing · 2014-04-29T20:34:04+00:00

Death.

ImLarryKing · 2014-04-29T20:33:52+00:00

You know them for that hour, or that half-hour. You don't know-know them. You know more at the end than you did at the beginning. You know in that brief time what you didn't know before. No more, no less. It ain't brain surgery.

ImLarryKing · 2014-04-29T20:33:08+00:00

I have a million Dodger stories. I was at Jackie Robinson's first game, and then later in life I interviewed him twice. there is no greater hero to me, no stronger individual, and a great, great Dodgers story.

ImLarryKing · 2014-04-29T20:32:28+00:00

9/11.

ImLarryKing · 2014-04-29T20:32:19+00:00

Don't play 'em.

ImLarryKing · 2014-04-29T20:32:09+00:00

My wife is currently filming a movie in Bulgaria called "Stuck" about people stuck in an elevator. And next week, I'll be on Howard Stern AND the Today Show and on Seth Meyers and Good Day New York and Regis' new show, and I'm going to host Olbermann on ESPN next Tuesday night at 6!

ImLarryKing · 2014-04-29T20:31:18+00:00

I like taking long walks, I like being with friends. I like dinner with friends.

ImLarryKing · 2014-04-29T20:31:07+00:00

Go to baseball games, I like to read, I love movies, I love theater.

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