Happy day before turkey day from Washington. I'm Chuck Todd and this is the Chuck Todd

Cas. I hope you'll be enjoying this holiday with family and friends. It's my single favorite

holiday. Taking Thanksgiving, you turn it into your holiday. That's the beauty of it. There's

no religious pressure. There's no gift pressure. There's just pressure of being a half decent

cook. A pretty good bartender if that is what you choose to do. That's nothing have to

be alcoholic. It could be non-alcoholic. Bloody Mary's in the morning or nothing wrong with

that on Thanksgiving. And you get to pick the relatives mostly that you get to hang out

with. But in case you don't get to pick the relatives you get to hang out with and you're

know you're going to get into some fights or arguments, then do I have the podcast for

you? It is this one. This is your political fifth. So for this special edition, I've chosen

three of my favorite interviews to help you break down the deep schisms running throughout

the country and to show us where we go from here just in time for your travels to debate

your quirky uncle. First up, there's no one who can help you see the world through

someone else's eyes, quite like author Malcolm Gladwell. Malcolm sat down on the end September

11th shortly before his book Talking to Strangers was released. He was moved to write as he

watched racial tensions play out across the country spurred on by the death of African

American Sandra Bland. And it was all after a routine traffic stop. Here's an excerpt

of our conversation. Let me do what I'm supposed to be doing here. We're just talking about

your book a little bit. I will say this. What I thought the book would be, and of course

after reading what it was, two different things. The first thing I thought of and this

maybe just may tell you more about me and where my head is at, talking to Strangers, oh,

finally he's going to blow up social media. And yet I don't mention the word social media

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