The Many Theories of Malcolm Gladwell

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🗓️ 21 August 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Malcolm Gladwell's hit podcast Revisionist History spits out neat, distilled theories in every episode. Some of them are careful, others are reductive. But Gladwell says his theories aren't all meant to be airtight: They just help him organize his stories, or merely spruce them up. "In some of them I'm trying to make a very, very serious, moral point. Sometimes I'm just—I'm making intellectual mischief." In the Spiel: the parallels between the Obama administration and the Trump administration on race relations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:06.9	It's Monday, August 21st, 2017 from Slate.
0:10.0	It's the GIST-DIMIC PESCA.
0:12.0	How's your eclipse?
0:13.4	Were you in the path of totality?
0:15.2	I wasn't the local real estate agents
0:17.4	or marketing it as totality adjacent.
0:20.2	Path of totality?
0:21.2	Well, it's a path of totality garden.
0:24.4	So technically a different zip code,
0:26.4	but you share the same sewer and police.
0:28.8	I like the eclipse.
0:30.2	I had low expectations and they were ever so slightly exceeded.
0:33.8	So basically like every food fighter's album.
0:36.7	You know what I liked about the eclipse?
0:38.5	I liked the camaraderie.
0:39.9	I liked the community.
0:41.5	Here in New York, when you see a crowd of people looking upwards,
0:44.6	usually means we got a jumper.
0:46.8	So it was nice that we were just watching a natural phenomenon.
0:50.7	Though jumping can't be that too.
0:52.8	And of course, there are always lots of large gatherings
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