Malcolm Gladwell

And why does everyone have a theory?

Because there is absolutely something weird going on with Zootopia 2 that requires a theory.

That's after the break.

We're back with Angus Fletcher and Gary Goldman, and the sensitive topic of the sequel has finally come up.

The sequel's central character is a snake called Gary the Snake.

So your immediate thought when you heard of this character, Gary the Snake, is that it was... An attack on me.

Now, of course, this could just be a coincidence.

Gary is a common name.

There are lots of Garys in the world, so maybe it makes sense there should be lots of snakes named Gary as well.

This is essentially what the Zootopia 2 screenwriter said in a publicity interview with the New York Times.

He's named Gary because I think Gary is a hilarious name.

I apologize to the Garys of the world.

But multiple times over the years, when I've been writing a nice guy character, it's Gary.

But needless to say, the Goldman family, fresh off seven years of legal hell, do not see things this way.

Who gets the angriest among all the Goldmans?

Who gets the angriest?

The repository of Goldman anger is in The Young Ascent.

Do you know that the psychological principle here is called transactive memory?

You know how in families, we store our memories in other members of our family.

That's why the family unit is so powerful.