Arthur and Jalen break down Malcolm Gladwell's appearance on Rick Rubin's podcast (3/19/2025).
🔥 Topics we cover:
- The Holocaust miniseries shock: How ONE 1978 TV show rewrote American moral consciousness
- Before Meryl Streep: Why survivors stayed silent for 30 years (and only ONE museum existed)
- "Are we ready for this?" - How two NBC executives reshaped generational understanding
- The missing miniseries: Armenian genocide, Native American genocide - where are those prime-time shows?
- Education's conflict crisis: Why students SHOULD be fighting about Gaza (not hiding from it)
- "You're 20, you'll never be in a better position for conflict" - Gladwell's brutal college truth
- Monoculture suicide epidemic: When everyone worships the same achievement gods
- The beautiful chaos theory: Why rebels, weirdos, and druggies make communities stronger
- "Overstory" forces: How moving cities literally changes your brain and behavior
- Sackler's 1% strategy: How corrupting a tiny fraction of doctors poisoned a nation
- "If I know who writes your songs, I care not who writes your laws" - The real power structure
- Historical accuracy vs. cultural impact: Sometimes you NEED Hollywood to make people care
- The gatekeepers revealed: Who decides when America's "ready" to hear the truth
