Hi, it's me, Milo, and what you're about to hear is our unlocked recording of our conversation

with Felix Biederman about one of the most galaxy brain thinkers to have ever lived Malcolm Gladwell.

So if you're wondering how everything is giving you cancer or why, actually, when you really

think about it, the key to solving gun crime is if everyone grows mushrooms in their back garden,

then go ahead and

listen along. The reason why I've unlocked an episode this week is because it's been Christmas,

so you haven't recorded quite as much as we usually do, but if you're a bonus subscriber,

you'll be getting a bonus in your inbox this Thursday as per usual. Now, as you're hearing my

voice, you're probably aware that the reason for this is I have some dates to plug. I have ill-advisedly booked a room in Liverpool to do my show on the 17th of January, and I don't

know anyone in Liverpool. If you live in Liverpool, if you know anyone who does live in Liverpool,

please buy a ticket to that. It's a critically acclaim show, and it's going to be at the Hot Water

Comedy Club. There is a link in the description, which takes you to a kind of general splash page for all my gigs of Liverpool ones near the top. Also, I'm doing a date in London on

the 18th, which is actually a filming of the show. So if you want to come and see that and be

immortalised on film and say hi to the guys. Do come down to that. I'm also doing Lester Comedy

Festival in February. And I'm doing the Vault Festival in London in like late February, early March,

any of those dates you can catch on the same link. And I'm also now doing Melbourne Comedy

Festival in Australia in March and April. So do get down to those. Cheers and enjoy the episode.

The last time we did this, we did an episode about a public intellectual with you, Felix. It was

Stephen Pinker. It was the new year it was the first

episode we did of 2019 and I feel like a lot has happened since then um like everything well yeah no

I was just going to say that I actually I didn't read the Stephen Pinker book before the episode

but I sort of read it like during the episode and you know okay that was

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