So here's one of the book's first big ideas.

And Gladwell calls this the friend's fallacy.

Before I go into it, I'm going to go around the table the table not you Alice because you know what I'm about to say yes

what do we think the friends fallacy refers to friends they're not real I've never

had any they're not real I don't know Toby young Felix what do you think the

friends fallacy refers to all right so the reason that like Ross was good at archaeology was that he was friends with the time when he was child growing up in the, in the series, like in the canon of the series.

Lath of heaven.

Lath of heaven.

Here's the thing, Felix.

He actually is referring to the show Friends.

I knew it.

I knew it. I knew it. I just like, I pulled something out of my, like, I tried to like go from existing Gladwell.

I don't know what his thesis about friends possibly could be.

But like, I knew it would be.

Like, I knew it would be because it's like every Gladwell book, there's a rhythm.

It's like one of those pop songs that's been written by the same Swedish men since like 2003,

where it's like, all right, you know, tough idea first. And then like, all right, we got a little

something fun, but it's going to make you think. That's exactly what's happening. He starts out with

brutal police murder and then transitions to, here's what's interesting about the show,

Friends. And here's why it explains all that murder.

Down.

So, here's what he says.

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