Malcolm Gladwell: I love you Waymo. It's me and Lance and Jonathan Vaudres and Jacob with his beach ball taking back the road. We tweet out the announcement of the show and you know what happens? Waymo retweets the tweet. They're like, we love the show. And then we started to get emails from... he'll read you some of the emails we got from readers. He says people think that you can only have a narrative that conforms with your expectations. "What a real story does is betray your expectations," said Gladwell.
Every writer, podcaster and storyteller obsesses about how they begin a story. But they rarely pay enough attention to endings. Nothing matters more. Malcolm and Mike Birbiglia solve endings for you.
From our first-ever Revisionist History: LIVE events at the Town Hall in New York City and the Fillmore Philadelphia, Malcolm revisits how he’s tried to land the narrative plane.
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