EP13 Gladwell and the Bomber Mafia

it's hardcore history well it is way past time isn't it for just about any content from us um you know hardcore history addendum shows long overdue i've been working on tying up the loose ends that develop over a six-part multi-year long is that even right a series on the second world war so uh sorry patience required on that front but uh when we wrap that up um we'll be done with the second world war for a while i need a palette cleanser a medieval or an ancient palette cleanser for a while but at the risk of going down that same road that the history channel went down once when they started referring to it as the world war ii channel uh the topic of the you know long put off hardcore history addendum show here involves the second world war but i couldn't resist and you'll understand why when you hear who i'm talking with um it's it's one of the people that you can say i mean i know he's on a book tour right now but i just i feel like we're the right people to sort of interview him because well we're other history podcasters and um and this book is actually more an audiobook although i read the pdf version and i'm sure he's going to sell a ton of of copies of this in print but i think he wants it to be heard and there are sounds and like he says in the interview when you hear the principles in the story talked about you hear their voice all of a sudden um so that would be really cool i didn't realize i was going to get so grabbed by the story when i read it but it's one of those things that it's right up our alley same sorts of cultural societal questions that come into play with shows we've done like logical insanity or the destroyer of worlds the guest i'm talking about is malcolm gladwell host of the revisionist history podcast which he's been doing to rave reviews and large audiences for years he's written multiple books been on the new york times bestseller multiple times as a public speaker he does a lot of stuff and you know in the last hardcore history addendum show we got out was in july so i mean there's ...