Introducing Revisionist History Season Two

From bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell, season two of Revisionist History launches June 15th.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Pushkin.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
If you listen to season one of Revisionist History, I
think you know that I have a weakness for the
big idea, maybe even a fatal weakness. On my tombstone,
it's going to say, Malcolm Gladwell rest in peace. His
one big idea is that there was one big idea
to explain everything. I began season two of Revisionist History

(00:42):
with the same obsession. I think I interviewed thirty or
forty people, read a few dozen books, camped out in
the NYU library, all in search of that little tingle,
that moment when you realize that actually this is just
weird enough. This is totally some history with revising ladies

(01:05):
and gentlemen. I give you Mark Cohen, philosopher.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Step in the same river twice, because each time you
step in the river, you're stepping into different water.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
And then the professor starts talking about Heraclitis rivers and
the ship of theseus and light bulbs, light bombs go off.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
The question is if you change, If you have a
ship and you change a sex on ancient grief thinking,
and you change one board at a time, is at
the end of the day's ship different. That's what this is.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
In the season coming up, I'm going to take you
to McDonald's and the French fries they had back in
the day.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Texture on six thirty seven is shatteringly crisp, but's amazing,
perfect French frye texture.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
I'm going to take you on a little tour of
the golf courses of Los Angeles and the dark secret
behind their existence.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Looks like a couple of layers of barboyre.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
This looks like the Berlin Wall. If they want us
to get in there and tell you a story, worry
about a truly dysfunctional friendship.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
It was clearly the only person he ever loved in
his life. There was no one else.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
It's possible, possible that all of that is about the river, and.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
That leads to the thought that no compound material object
lasts any time at all. It's constantly being renewed and
replaced by new objects or not.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
As always with revisionist history, reasonable minds will probably disagree
Revisionist History, because sometimes the past deserves a second chance.
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Speaker 3 (03:03):
Season two of Revisionist History launches June fifteenth,