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Revisionist History Season 7: The Experiment Experience · Revisionist History

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  Speaker 1: Pushkin. Lately, I've been calling up all my scientists friends
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  Speaker 1: and granting their wishes.
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  Speaker 2: And I know that down sounds crazy, but I'm going
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  Speaker 2: pie in the sky like you.
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  Speaker 1: Said, Yes, no, you get that request granted. I'm the
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  Speaker 1: Czar of the Magic wand I have granted that request.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, baby, I'm the Czar of the Magic wand
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  Speaker 1: my name is Malcolm Gladwell. And in season seven of
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  Speaker 1: my podcast Revisionist History, we throw off the shackles of
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  Speaker 1: convention and go where no podcast is dared to go before.
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  Speaker 1: We don't see his boyfriend? No, no, what other podcasts
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  Speaker 1: put some magnifying glass to the early nineteen nineties made
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  Speaker 1: for TV movie Doing Time on Maple Drive. He's doing time?
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  Speaker 1: Is it comic in the Airstilian sense? Do they resolve?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it is comic in the Airstilian sense.
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  Speaker 2: All television movies are.
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  Speaker 1: Season seven, Never Sleeps, We take you Everywhere. A factory
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  Speaker 1: way up near the Canadian border, the set of the
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  Speaker 1: original A Star Is Born movie, A forgotten laboratory under
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  Speaker 1: the seats in the old University of Minnesota football stadium.
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  Speaker 1: A swanky party in Beverly Hills.
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  Speaker 2: My husband tapped me on the shoulder because I was
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  Speaker 2: so busy eating these minikiche. And he said, put your
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  Speaker 2: food down, ady, put your free patty.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, and we go to Ohio. We spend lots of
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  Speaker 1: time in Ohio.
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  Speaker 2: I have my own hypothesis, but I can't. Oh, come on,
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  Speaker 2: what if I'm wrong?
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  Speaker 1: That's this is all about being wrong. Oh, we don't
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  Speaker 1: worry about being wrong. Not this season, because every episode
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  Speaker 1: is about an experiment, thought, experiments, what if experiments, natural experiments,
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  Speaker 1: a little something I call magic wand experiments. Why a
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  Speaker 1: season devoted to experiments? Because if we're honest about ourselves,
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  Speaker 1: the list of things we don't know is longer than
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  Speaker 1: the list of things we do, And the only way
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  Speaker 1: to fix that problem is to put our unknowns to
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  Speaker 1: the test. Come join the Revisionist History Experiment starting June thirtieth,
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  Speaker 1: or if you can't wait a moment longer June twenty third.
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  Speaker 1: For Pushkin Plus subscribers, find Pushkin Plus on the Revisionist
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  Speaker 1: History Show page, an Apple podcasts, or a pushkin dot FM.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody step up, come and feed me. I close. I
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  Speaker 1: have no idea whether I'm having bowl in the left
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  Speaker 1: or bowl in the right. Oh, Okay, why don't I
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  Speaker 1: just hear it. Yeah, well, you're not going to feed me, yeah,