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Introducing Revisionist History Season Two · Revisionist History

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  Speaker 1: Pushkin.
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  Speaker 2: If you listen to season one of Revisionist History, I
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  Speaker 2: think you know that I have a weakness for the
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  Speaker 2: big idea, maybe even a fatal weakness. On my tombstone,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to say, Malcolm Gladwell rest in peace. His
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  Speaker 2: one big idea is that there was one big idea
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  Speaker 2: to explain everything. I began season two of Revisionist History
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  Speaker 2: with the same obsession. I think I interviewed thirty or
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  Speaker 2: forty people, read a few dozen books, camped out in
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  Speaker 2: the NYU library, all in search of that little tingle,
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  Speaker 2: that moment when you realize that actually this is just
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  Speaker 2: weird enough. This is totally some history with revising ladies
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  Speaker 2: and gentlemen. I give you Mark Cohen, philosopher.
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  Speaker 1: Step in the same river twice, because each time you
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  Speaker 1: step in the river, you're stepping into different water.
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  Speaker 2: And then the professor starts talking about Heraclitis rivers and
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  Speaker 2: the ship of theseus and light bulbs, light bombs go off.
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  Speaker 3: The question is if you change, If you have a
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  Speaker 3: ship and you change a sex on ancient grief thinking,
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  Speaker 3: and you change one board at a time, is at
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  Speaker 3: the end of the day's ship different. That's what this is.
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  Speaker 2: In the season coming up, I'm going to take you
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  Speaker 2: to McDonald's and the French fries they had back in
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  Speaker 2: the day.
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  Speaker 1: Texture on six thirty seven is shatteringly crisp, but's amazing,
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  Speaker 1: perfect French frye texture.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to take you on a little tour of
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  Speaker 2: the golf courses of Los Angeles and the dark secret
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  Speaker 2: behind their existence.
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  Speaker 3: Looks like a couple of layers of barboyre.
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  Speaker 2: This looks like the Berlin Wall. If they want us
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  Speaker 2: to get in there and tell you a story, worry
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  Speaker 2: about a truly dysfunctional friendship.
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  Speaker 1: It was clearly the only person he ever loved in
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  Speaker 1: his life. There was no one else.
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  Speaker 2: It's possible, possible that all of that is about the river, and.
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  Speaker 1: That leads to the thought that no compound material object
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  Speaker 1: lasts any time at all. It's constantly being renewed and
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  Speaker 1: replaced by new objects or not.
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  Speaker 2: As always with revisionist history, reasonable minds will probably disagree
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  Speaker 2: Revisionist History, because sometimes the past deserves a second chance.
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  Speaker 2: Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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  Speaker 3: Season two of Revisionist History launches June fifteenth,