47. Malcolm Gladwell: 10,000 Hours of Jokes

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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You can hear the excitement in Mike's voice as he welcomes legendary author Malcolm Gladwell, host of Revisionist History and author of 'Outliers' as well as his latest, 'The Bomber Mafia.' Malcolm brings Gladwellian theory to why the re-telling of jokes is never as funny. They riff on evil golf courses, evil search engines, & where that YMCA pool smell might actually come from. Even Malcolm’s mom Joyce makes a cameo. This may just be the tipping point for Working It Out. https://www.yesscholars.org/

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, we are back. We're the new episode of Working It Out. This is, I think this
0:11.5	is the most exciting episode that we've ever had. This, okay, before I get into it, I just
0:19.5	want to say we're announcing some new tour dates in the fall. You probably know I'm going
0:24.4	to be at the Chicago Theater. I'm going to be in Madison. This week we're announcing Milwaukee.
0:30.9	You're the first to know. This week we're announcing a third show in Denver. You're the first
0:35.7	to know. All of that is on Burbigs.com. Also, we're making announcements about some shows
0:40.4	I'm doing, working out material in New York City at City Winery. If you want to be the first
0:45.7	to know about those, sign up for my mailing list on Burbigs.com. Today on the show, we
0:52.6	have Malcolm Gladwell. I don't even know how we got him. Do you know? Ask your friends. I
0:59.1	don't even know how this happened. But I'm very happy it did. He's one of my favorite authors
1:04.2	of all time. He has written not only books, but he's written books you've heard of. He's
1:11.9	very, very, wrote the tipping point. He wrote Blink. He wrote what the dogs saw. David
1:16.8	Galai talking to strangers. I've read all these books. I love his books. The new one I love
1:23.1	is called The Bomber Mafia. His podcast is one of my favorite podcasts. It's called
1:28.3	Revisioness History. There's a new season out right now that I love. We reference today.
1:34.8	Enjoy my surprisingly comedic conversation with the great Malcolm Gladwell.
1:41.5	Hi. Good morning. How are you? I'm very well. Thanks for doing this. That at all. I don't
1:56.1	know. My pleasure. I've listened to your voice so much lately, Malcolm, because I listened
2:01.1	to almost all of our visioness history every season. I listened to Bomber Mafia, which
2:06.4	I highly recommend people listen to. It's funny because I was going to read the hard
2:11.9	copy book and then a friend explained to me, no, no, no, no. It is meant to be listened
2:18.5	to. Yes. It is meant to be listened to. Yes. It's designed. It's got a sound design.
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