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Why?

It seems like something you would not do on a podcast you would host.

I don't know if that's true.

As you know, I'm now in the same business, and I expect to be doing the same...

Same kind of socks shilling.

Yes. Well, I think it's kind of great. I kind of like it too, actually. It's very novel for me. Like you said, you're the podcast business. You are a world renowned and really excellent writer from New Yorker. You've written many famous books. And now you are making a podcast and that's why you're here today. You've made the podcast. You'll be able to hear it when this drops.

Tell us what it is and why you're doing it.

It's called Robitianist History. It's 10 episodes, and they're all, it's reported. It's not... It's not this. It's not two guys talking. It's not two guys talking. It's like, you know, this American life sort of storytelling. And each

episode is about something from the past that has been either misunderstood or unjustly forgotten.

And hence revisionist history, I go back and I revise our understanding. So give me an example

of something you're revising. Everyone's. I mean, I admit, you know, the truth is the great advantage of that rubric for a show is it allows you to do virtually anything, which is what I wanted.

So a good chunk of these are simply Malcolm ranting about his favorite things.

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