Introducing Revisionist History

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Pushkin.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
I think we're bad historians. Something happens, we see it,
watch it, remember it, file it away. But then if
you look back at what you filed away closely, you
discover it's all wrong.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
I was offended when the leader of the Opposition went
outside in the front of Parliament and stood next to
a sign that said ditch the witch, misogyny, sexism every
day from this labor of the Opposition.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
You came to see me and as if I might
make a donation to the scholarship fund of fifteen hundred
dollars find I said, philm what would you do hundred
and man dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
I'm Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, blink Outliers,
David and Goliath, and now host of Revisionist History from
Panoicle Media. This show is my attempt to correct the record.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
I shot the free throw guy in the stands yells.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Out, hey, Marry a big siss age shooting like that.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Over the course of ten episodes, I'll take you back
to something that happened one hundred years ago, last year,
an event, a person, an idea, something we all missed,
something we all remembered but misunderstood and.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
The guy next to him, and I heard it very clearly, said,
what are you making fun of him for? He doesn't miss.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
I'll revisit a mysterious car crash outside of San Diego.
We are passing up where are were passing.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
We're going to hundred twenty mission Gorge. We're in trouble.
We can't we bike okay, Gorge.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Its reely a half mile okay, and.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
You don't have the ability to turn the vehicle off
or anything.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
A personally interception.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
I'll explore why Wilt Chamberlain made a choice he knew
would diminish his greatness as a basketball player.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
Roger got the ball, He's gone up.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
I'll examine a song, a song that nobody realized was brilliant,
not even the guy who wrote it and sang it
until much much later.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
When we did the playback, punched the clock. We got
quite drunk and played it back really loud, and he
kind of freaked out, said, it's all rubbish.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
You know, it's terrible, it's terrible.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
We're fine with the future. The future is in our
imagination and we can be as upbeat or excited or
delusional as we want about it. But the past is
where the truth lies, and so I love with more
questions than answers. Revisionist history, sometimes the past deserves the

(03:10):
second chance. Listen and subscribe at revisionististory dot com