malcolm gladwell. welcome to "the daily social distancing show. >> thank you.to be on it. >> trevor: i'm honored to have you here because, i said this to you before we started recording but i'll say it again while people are watching so there are witnesses, you are one of the people who always taught me to question what i think i know about the world. you're an expert in doing that in your books. you create and tell stories about things that are seemingly unconnected and then, by the end of the story or the book, we start to realize how everything is connected or affects something else in a way we never thought possible. your podcast does that as well. one of my favorite things in the podcast is when you talk about elections. what was mind blowing is realizing as human beings we are horrible at predicting who will be a good leader. i found myself at the end of the podcast saying maybe elections should be lotteries. maybe we should have no elections, no money spent, no people campaigning, just a lottery system of all the people who want to run should run. do you

malcolm gladwell. excellent. this other one is new, the color of compromise. he talks about how racism and slavery influence the church in its early years. highly recommended. we talked about it in the last segment, immigration and climate change. would like to say a word about either? >> we were mentioning with immigration comes this whole terrible practice of family separation. how can that btualjf anyway? any shape, any parents, come on. that should unite folks from across the religious spectrum. >> one of those things you are looking at my folks are going back 20 or 30 years to find out if they have a misdemeanor or some other charges? using that as a basis to separate your kids where they have lived a clean life, a decent life, a hard-working life . so, just a separation of the families is just unconscionable but some of our members in the past years have said please don't talk about politics. you addressed to that in an article recently. >> i wrote an article about how christmas is really profoundly political. there is taxes, empires, housing shortages,

i looked up these writers net worth so i'm guessing their struggle is internal not financial malcolm gladwell for instance who's named at the zoo is worth $30000000.00 he's known for is extremely original technique of simplifying and misrepresenting scientific research oh yeah like i ripped off the 10000 hours i've made anyone believe they could become a professional in anything you know want to lay i've spent 10000 hours trying to unlock safe and i never got better at it i got arrested i want my money back these authors and publishers want to shut down the whole library the lawsuit does not object to the national emergency library but to the way the internet archive has long operated it functions like a library book on line with wait lists and holds and you borrow a book for 2 weeks at a time just without the smell and the lawsuit demands the internet archive destroy all their copies of books. which is a modern day book burning and i have to admit it's much more difficult one kindle requires like a liter of later fluid no doubt so what's the problem move the internet archive is a library yes

they — malcolm gladwell doesn't need to sign a letter or do anything else.ch for joining me on hardtalk. it's a pleasure. thank you. hello there. in many places over the weekend, it felt like summer — with temperatures as high as 25 degrees. the new week gets off to a summery start as well, but it will not end that way. things through this week are going to become much more autumnal, as this band of cloud starts to work its way in our direction. now, this area of cloud is going to bring some outbreaks of rain, but it also separates the relatively warm air we have had lately from some much, much colder air — which is going to head our way, sweeping in from the northwest as we head through the coming days. but in the shorter term, through monday morning, some mist and fog, some low cloud too could affect parts of england and wales. that will tend to clear as we go through the day, and then it should be largely dry and sunny. sunnier than it was on sunday across northeast england, also southeast scotland brighter, some sunshine into parts of aberdeenshire, temp