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Life is Short with Justin Long

Malcolm Gladwell :)

Life is Short with Justin Long

Wondery

Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Comedy

4.89.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Malcolm Gladwell (Revisionist History) and Justin talk about the 20+ years since he wrote his influential book The Tipping Point (and why he’s working on a sequel now), they discuss the latest season of his podcast Revisionist History about guns in America, and they debate why mayonnaise doesn’t belong in a sandwich.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm drinking.

0:01.0

Are you drinking?

0:07.0

Frisian's drinking.

0:08.0

Are you drinking a Todd?

0:09.0

I'm actually not.

0:11.0

I'm drinking a Joe.

0:12.0

Oh, why have you, I noticed you haven't been drinking Todd's recently.

0:16.0

Really?

0:17.0

People might, I happen.

0:18.0

People who are just tuning in and not familiar with the show might be wondering what Todd means, why we're saying Todd so casually.

0:25.2

Todd is something, a word that Christian came up with to refer to a cappuccino.

0:28.6

The way coffee is called Joe.

0:30.1

Yes, I'm trying very hard to make it a thing as the kids would say, but I fear that I'm not successful yet at making it a thing.

0:40.4

Although, although I will say people who write into the show have commented on Todd's.

0:46.7

So I think avid listeners know it by now.

0:50.3

A Todd friend of ours just texted us about Todd's and because we were talking about

0:54.5

Todd's but yeah we've been trying to make it a thing as they say that's from

0:58.0

mean girls right? Stop trying to make a fetch. Yes. Fetch a thing.

1:01.6

I'm confident that Todd, the term Todd for a cappuccino

1:05.1

has not caught on in popular culture yet.

1:08.3

But I will say pretty confidently

1:10.5

that if it ever does catch on then I will have been the tipping point.

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