The Rules According to Malcolm Gladwell

The Gist

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🗓️ 29 September 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Malcolm Gladwell's career has been all about ideas—but what he really specializes in is their packaging and delivery. On The Gist, Gladwell tells the story behind his earliest obsessions and explains what he's learned trafficking in unconventional theories. He is working on the second season of his hit Panoply podcast, Revisionist History. For the Spiel, a contrarian take on Donald Trump's comments about former Miss Universe Alicia Machado. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.4	It's Thursday, September 29, 2016, from Slated's The Gisdymeik Peska.
0:13.6	And now news you can use, if you can use, useless news.
0:17.1	FBI director James Comey has stood silent and stalwart through all of the Hillary Clinton
0:22.2	email scandal fallout.
0:24.1	So he gave a press conference, which is unusual.
0:26.7	He announced her crimes did not rise to the level of prosecution.
0:30.4	Then he testified before Congress, saying a version of her crimes did not rise to the level
0:35.4	of prosecution about 55 different times.
0:38.4	But he has been laconic until today when he lashed out at those who would compare him
0:43.6	to members of the genus Mustela.
0:46.0	You can call us wrong, but don't call us weasels.
0:49.0	We are not weasels.
0:50.3	In fact, he went on to say, we do not carry water for one side or the other.
0:56.7	He is not a weasel.
0:58.1	He is not a carrier of water.
1:00.3	Director Comey very clearly wants you to know he specifically is not an otter.
1:05.3	Famous waterborne weasel.
1:07.3	Comey.
1:08.5	Not an otter.
1:09.5	In other news, both biting and animalistic, an Australian man was hospitalized after a venomous
1:15.5	snake bit him on the penis.
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