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Hello, hello everyone, Gather round.

Malcolm Gladwell here.

If you're a fan of my show, Revisionist History, then you know my deep and abiding obsession

with American higher education.

How it's broken, how it can be fixed.

Over our next couple of episodes, we dive into this topic again.

And as you will hear, one story makes me really angry.

And the other gives me hope.

Listen to Revisionist History, wherever you get your podcasts,

and you can always get our shows early and at-free by subscribing to Pushkin Plus.

Rick Rubin, Bruce Hadlam and I are back.

Eight more weeks of conversation with some of the most talented musicians in the world.

We're going to talk to them, they're going to play for us.

And we're starting with an insane two-part interview with a mere Questlove Thompson.

Drummer for the Roots, a hip-hop band from Philly,

that has become the tonight's shows house band.

Quest is also a producer, a DJ, and an all-around musical polyman.

I sat down with him in Manhattan after a taping of the tonight's show.

Rick joined us by a Skype from a studio in Hawaii.

We didn't think we'd talk to Quest for nearly three hours,

but he kept pulling us in, story after story.

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