Hello and welcome to Under the Skin from Loominary Media with Russell Brand. I'm Russell Brand. I spoke with journalist and author Malcolm Gladwell this week in his new book Talking the Strangers,

What we should know about the people we don't know

which is out this week 10th September we get to see a powerful examination

of our interactions with strangers and why they often go wrong. I've read some of it

it's bloody good and you know Malcolm Gladwell of

course you do and you're interested in Malcolm Gladwell because he gives you

uh, tidbits of conversation and academic insight in a way that you can appreciate and understand at least that's my relationship with his previous work books like outliers and blink and all that kind of stuff.

He's also the host of the Revisionist History

podcast and author of the number one New York Times bestseller book

Outlies I told you about that already. Thanks for all your comments on last

week's podcast with Anna White like I'm going to do those in a moment,

but first I'm going to exhort you to look at my YouTube channel, subscribe to it, click on the thing that makes

a little bell ring on your phone and also to subscribe to my

mailing list. I'm going to send you such intimate videos on there I mean they're

professional across any boundaries of taste but you'll get stuff that I really think's going to shake you up.

So let's have a look at these Anna Whitelock comments.

Roller-Goaster said, I'd love to see the back of the lot of them, he's referring to the royal family who Anna and I were discussing,

bowing and scraping to someone is just beyond me in the 21st century just because they're born into particular class.

Britain is still class

ridden because of this archaic outdated institution. It's an interesting opinion in

roller-goaster and I'm inclined to agree to a point, although Jordan Peterson

might say that bowing and scraping and hierarchies is inherent within not just human cultures but all animal cultures

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