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Special Guest Malcolm Gladwell

Unholy: Two Jews on the News

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Comedy and the Risks of It

I think comedy should be the place where you can try virtually anything and we let's not get caught up in this game of trying to of treating it as if it's a social policy or an economic intervention. I worry sometimes that people say because the immediate impact of that sketch or skit was counterproductive or because many people were offended or because this or that it shouldn't have been done. We don't need to do cost benefit analysis on its impact or like coming to this trend save the worldYeah I've just because it's about comedy and and the risks of it well I want to ask you about one of my favorite pieces of your writing which is the story you told for the moth about

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