Do You Still Need More Adventure Celebrities?

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i'm very glad to hear that answer. Why is that argument, which we decided we didn't like it when they set the goal post at zero a, somehow it's like superimportant and and legitimate? It's the same kind of fatalism that i thought wehad defeated. Your number one, however, was shame that this was a city that needed more shame. Do you still feel that we need more adventure celebrities? E pretty sure my opinion would change if i was dering it to day. Rely, yes. No memory of this. I know it will be very hard for this crowd to believe, but you actually evince an ever so slight preference for new york

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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Recorded February 27th, 2017 Other ways to connect

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