Michael Peter what do you know about the world is flat nothing not even enough to make a joke

So I know the music kicked in but like I'm not making a joke. I really know nothing

Well, what do you know about Thomas Friedman? I know that he's a New York Times columnist

I know that a lot of people on the left like really dislike him

But I've never really known why like he's he's always been somebody who's been in the side mirror for me as

Someone who people like me talk about a lot, but like I've never really understood why right?

He's how I regarded Taylor Swift until you told me about 1989

There is no need to know about Thomas Friedman

He doesn't add any value to the world in any meaningful way the background is actually relatively simple

He made a name for himself covering the Lebanese Civil War in the late 70s the times picks him up

They dispatch him to Beirut for a bit. He's covering the conflicts in the region

He's winning Pulitzer prizes and then in the 90s

He sort of drifts his way over to the op-ed pages

Where he has remained ever since and but I think like the reason that he's so annoying

Is not just his ideology. It's his style. Oh, yeah Malcolm Gladwell was like an anecdote guy

Right, he tells us anecdote and then he follows it up with some

Data that we ended up thinking was maybe some cherry-picked data

Friedman does the anecdote part and then just stops. Oh, and then he starts speculating wildly

He could be like in a bodega in New York and if two guys walked in in sandals

He would write a column that starts with like in New York City. No one wears shoes. Yeah

That's the level of reasoning that I was reading over and over again for

600 pages no way this book is 600 pages long six

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