Tight Values, Loose Ideas with Malcolm Gladwell

What Now? with Trevor Noah

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News, Comedy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Malcolm Gladwell sits down with Trevor and Christiana to discuss his new book, and why values should be held tightly but ideas should be held loosely. The trio also delve into the importance of television in shaping culture, and into their respective African roots (yes, Malcolm has African roots). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Trubb, you don't know this yet. You will someday.
0:03.4	The, you know, the, the market share capture, the brain share capture of toddlers by Sesame Street is like 95%.
0:11.4	It's insane. Wait, it's still that high? Oh, was all like cocoa melon and no oh that's really good.
0:22.6	They have got a strangle. They have your kid in the head.
0:24.6	Yeah, it's so Sesame Street.
0:26.6	That's a healthy headline.
0:27.6	Pepper pig and cocoa melon.
0:28.6	Oh, pepper pig is like crack.
0:30.6	Coca melon, I have outlawed coconut.
0:32.6	Cocomelon is dangerous.
0:33.6	Yeah, it's dangerous.
0:34.6	I call them the Cocofellas, the kids that watch that stuff.
0:37.7	I don't know what's happening with Coca-Medin.
0:39.8	If I have to listen to any more cocoa melon, I'm bringing back stock and frisk.
0:43.9	That's how much it will radicalize me.
0:51.1	This is What Now with Trevor Noah.
1:05.8	We were telling people, when we talked about you, I was like, do you know black people don't know Malcolm Flat, but white people don't know Malcolm Black.
1:09.2	Yeah, no.
1:09.5	You're talking about, I was like, white people don't know. I'm stealth.
1:12.9	I would have, back in the day, it would have been very, I was born in the wrong century.
1:16.3	19th century, I was fantastic for me.
1:22.6	You would have taken the system down from the inside out.
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