Malcolm gladwell is the host of rebitionist history, a podcast about things overlooked and misunderstood. This week he's on a mission to understand why macdonalds betrayed him so many years ago. Or tory begins in a nondescript office park in foster city, california,. just south of san francisco. He came here to walk back the cat, as they say in the intelligence business, to figure out what happened on july 20 third, 19 90, the day mac donalds changed the recipe of their fries for and turn their backs on everything i once held dear.