Malcolm Gladwell

We had never met before.

What were your impressions?

There I was, skinny Malcolm.

What did you think?

Well, I knew your work coming in and I had read the outline of your- I'd given you an outline of some suggested ideas I had for the first season.

I remember that perfectly.

The minute I heard that, I fell in love with you.

I so want to work with this woman.

This is fantastic.

It was a show called Revisionist History.

The tagline was, because sometimes the past deserves a second chance.

The premise of the show was that you needed to go back over things that had happened because chances are you got them wrong the first time.

And Mia walks in, looks at the proposed lineup of episodes and says, you need to go back over them.

You got them wrong the first time.

Under the circumstances, who could say no?

After talking to Mia, I thought of one of my all-time favorite songs.

David Allen Coe's You Never Even Called Me By My Name, which begins with the perfect country opening line.

If you've never heard of David Allen Coe, by the way, let me just read you a line taken at random from his Wikipedia page.

After concluding another prison term in 1967, Coe embarked on a music career in Nashville, living in a hearse, which he parked in front of the Ryman Auditorium while he performed on the street.

How can you not love David Allen Coe?