The Derek Chauvin Trial: What the Media Missed in the Transcripts
Malcolm Gladwell and Neal Brennan discuss the Revisionist History episode about the Derek Chauvin trial, and what the media missed in the transcripts.
Full episode: https://youtu.be/oOz97usF7LM
Watch Neal Brennan: Crazy Good on Netflix:
https://www.netflix.com/title/81728557
Theme music by Electric Guest (unreleased).
Edited by Will Hagle (wthagle@gmail.com)
#podcast #malcolmgladwell #newyorktimes #introspection #blocks #derekchauvin #trial #truecrime #2020
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@donniemoder1466
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
HR does not care about the worker. HR cares about keeping their own HR job. Corporate bosses care about keeping HR expenses down, keeping worker claims and costs down. Corporate bosses want to be able to fire workers without cost.
@Mr.RGBiggsGuyRGBG
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
We need to stop cops from thinking cops vs everyone else…police need transparency and internal and external oversight and collaboration…its too closed off and adversarial
@jl789nz
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
Seems like a lot of people are struggling with some basic comprehension in this comment section.
– Gladwell isn't defending Chauvin and has never said he thought he was innocent.
– The court hearings Gladwell is talking about no reporters being there is the last of the varsity blues cases, not Cauvin's court hearings.
– Gladwell is critiquing modern journalism when he is talking about journalist not being at court cases or reading transcripts.
– He is not shilling for the HR industry here.
– The jury does NOT read or HEAR transcripts. A transcript is a written record of what was spoken in court while they were there. (yes I know a jury can request a transcript though)
@incubusrok
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
Imagine being swayed more by court transcripts than the full video of the actual crime that everybody saw. Malcolm is truly a galaxy brain.
@cjlb49
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
No one reads the transcripts? Pretty sure several thousands, maybe millions, watched the trial. The whole thing was streamed on YouTube.
@njt002
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
This is very profound.
@OHLefty78
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
But, I've seen the video. Like my eyeballs saw that.
@drstevej2527
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
These are important issues. A journalist isn’t the person to do such analysis.
@Lip_Gallagher
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
BS, he didn’t read all the transcripts and nothing he said was profound or anything people already didn’t know
@NotCoolNancy
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
What was this conversation? Highlighting most people know nothing about anything? I agree.
I wouldnt want to be on trial. My fate in you peoples hands. No thanks. Most of you are dumb city people
@forestgreenjindra9686
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
One thing to keep in mind is that chuavin and floyd had known each other for years. Both bounced and did security together at 2 different latin bars/clubs in mpls. I lived next to both. Literally above one of them. My assumption is that chauvin didn’t care if floyd got hurt and he felt immune if george incurred worse physical injury. He wasn’t trying to kill floyd but he also wasn’t trying to treat him with basic humanity. Chuavin couldn’t have been who he was as a cop with lethal weapons and protection without the 3rd precinct which was a product of the morally depraved mpls police department, which has always been a danger to the public, and that P.D. Has the power it does because of the national police union, and all of it relies on the white oligarchic families and the lies of 911 which gave us the patriot act 1&2. My broad point is that, this incident is the result of war profiteering by the wealthy few in the US and chauvin, while definitely guilty of murder, was only a tool for .001% wealth holders who are the ultimate cause of the problem. Yes, racism plays a role, but the cults which encourage the growth of such beliefs would have already died out without their funding and protection by the uber wealthy
@veggiemoto
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
Gladwell has long had a weird desire to excuse killer cops, look at his shitty take on the murder of Amodou Diallo in his book Blink.
@tontovia
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
"This is why what you do matters. They didn't get it." Yeah dipshit thats because thats not what HR does
@tontovia
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
Lol Malcolm gladwell is a faux intellectual. 🗑
@SparkyJ2010
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
Somebody let this genius Goadwell guy know he could have just read a couple articles about the case instead of the whole transcripts. Lol this isn't news because it was already in the news. People have to be really really dumb to fall for these smart guy acts.
@ryenschimerman2127
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
Malcolm Gladwell weaves a great story, sometimes those stories seem poignant and important . . . then he pretends to make an investigative piece on a major corporation that's actually just a paid ad that he never admits to.
So you have to ask, who is Gladwell shilling for now? How's that fit into the traditional "structure and commitment to journalism?"
@VoteForBukele
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
When Derek Chauvin farts now, does it make a sound? 🤔
@distracted-dad
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
"the presence of a bad apple screws everything up." you could even say it spoils the barrel.
@FlorbioGlayvin-q3n
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
He's not wrong, but listening to MG talk is like reading Ayn Rand. Take forever and say almost nothing, two second pause every 5 words, um…uh…long pause…um "To my mind i…i…the speech was all about…to them my point was…". Serious question, does this guy have a speech impediment? Cause if so I'll apologize but goddamn if not what a bloviating jackass.
@Talkitrhrough
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
Other than Blink I’ve enjoyed his books. He asks a lot of interesting questions. Doesn’t always answer them, but his takes are often fascinating.
@MaxKevinComedy
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
At no point in this video did they explain What the Media Missed in the Transcripts
@PremiumWater
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
I wonder what gentle george is doing as he burns in hell 🤔
@Coprogustiac
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
I'll never forgive this man for making Douglas Murray sound like a reasonable guy.
@zotw-101
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
Wow the comments here are like no one understands what Gladwell is saying. Let me help: he thinks Chauvin should have been fired long before the murder of Floyd because he was evidently a terrible cop who often used excessive violence. He also thinks HR should have been able to stop him sooner, but the police union was protecting him against their own interests. Many fail points can be true at once.
@frank2778
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
It’s all very uncomplicated. If serious character flaws don’t get treated before the end of adolescence, they will unravel in deep trouble.
@ShannonJacobs0
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
How about solution-oriented journalism as an alternative funding model?
@lagoonlane
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
WTF are they talking about?
@Cerevisi
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
Malcolm Gladwell is my spirit animal, I really vibe with his energy!
@jtaztin
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
If you understand contracts and union contracts then you get it. And if you don’t know now you know.
@UTube-g8q
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
Malcolm is another insane conservative because everyone ignores progrssives wanting the rich to be hunted
@Coprogustiac
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
People who pay too much attention to individual court cases that they have nothing to do with are just wanting entertainment.
@jabarnes77
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
Dude, is it me or are they talking a lot and saying nothing?
@JOHN53PAUL
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
Here the biggest problem. Whether anyone agrees he did what he was trained to do. Maybe he shouldnt be a cop but whoever signed off on that training needs to be in prison way more than him.
@leftistLizard92
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
What about Michael Moore and the clip from Fahrenheit? I never heard that story, can anyone elaborate
@cunard-unfinished
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
i lasted 6 minutes before realizing this conversation is going absolutely nowhere
@tresjordan982
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
Stop the fucking presses !! Are you serious?? Gaslighting from Gladwell !! We all saw the smirk on his face !! What more do you need?? He was enjoying it !! If I'd been there I'd have tackled that asshole !! Cops sat around and watched!! The Blue wall didn't save you.
@freakinduck
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
Chauvin is a murderer. ACAB. We need to defund the police. All of these things are still true.
@commonwunder
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
Chauvin was obviously high on his own ego… but he got a dispatch call stating,
a suspect with nine formal arrests. eight convictions, and with eight years served in prison.
Was involved and he knew him. This is a career criminal with years of police arrest experience.
He will do everything to evade a peaceful arrest and was obviously 'high'.
Within three minutes of chauvin arriving… an ambulance was called.
The police officers were awaiting the ambulances arrival with a criminal 'high on drugs',
physically unwieldy, uncooperative and resisting arrest.
Covid was for many people a huge mental strain. Chauvin offered the public a release valve.
An excuse to vent their anxiety and anger at dealing with an invisible pathogen as an enemy.
Here was something real and tangible to hate and feel contempt and disgust towards.
But it was societal madness and shows exactly how venerable society is to mass psychosis.
@JPW3
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
Not to be rude but Radley Balko has studied and written about policing in the US, including the Derek Chauvin trial.
@yuckmouth
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
I like both of these men, but it's sad to see two intelligent men being so stupid and out of touch.
These two couldn't survive in a world without Derek Chauvin.
Free Derek Chauvin.
@AgingStudent
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
4:00 uh…..a kid? No. A grown adult man who took an oath and a gun to protect and serve without fear or favor
@SlimWtheTiItdßrim
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
The major mainstream "journalists" are mostly rich kids who have no sense of duty to the truth or they're Colombia Journalism School grads in six figure debt who just need a fat paycheck to climb out. Independent media is a toss of the coin, you're either listening to some who's highly determined and honest or a lunatic who shouldn't have access to electricity.
@Teeveepicksures
May 23, 2026 at 4:41 pm
Malcom "those poor young cops" Gladwell 😂