The Problem With Saturnight Live Is They're Not Insanivized to Do That Kind of Deep Thinking

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The problem with doing satire through the vehicle of show like saturit live is they're not insanivized to do that kind of deep thinking. Tinafe is infinitely more popular, a more accomplished, more whatever, than sara pellam will ever be. And so she's using sara pelam to further her own ends. That's backwards. So long as satire is done by a a television show which has such a lofty position in the cultural hierarchy, it's always going to be the case that that is go.

Journalist, author, and podcaster Malcolm Gladwell joins Tyler for a conversation on Joyce Gladwell, Caribbean identity, satire as a weapon, Daniel Ellsberg and Edward Snowden, Harvard’s under-theorized endowment, why early childhood intervention is overrated, long-distance running, and Malcolm’s happy risk-averse career going from one “fur-lined rat hole to the next.”

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