Introducing Revisionist History Season Two
From bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell, season two of Revisionist History launches June 15th.
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2017-05-26
2 min
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00:00:15 Speaker 1: Pushkin. 00:00:20 Speaker 2: 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 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 and gentlemen. I give you Mark Cohen, philosopher. 00:01:09 Speaker 1: Step in the same river twice, because each time you step in the river, you're stepping into different water. 00:01:18 Speaker 2: And then the professor starts talking about Heraclitis rivers and the ship of theseus and light bulbs, light bombs go off. 00:01:28 Speaker 3: 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. 00:01:41 Speaker 2: In the season coming up, I'm going to take you to McDonald's and the French fries they had back in the day. 00:01:47 Speaker 1: Texture on six thirty seven is shatteringly crisp, but's amazing, perfect French frye texture. 00:01:54 Speaker 2: I'm going to take you on a little tour of the golf courses of Los Angeles and the dark secret behind their existence. 00:02:01 Speaker 3: Looks like a couple of layers of barboyre. 00:02:04 Speaker 2: 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. 00:02:12 Speaker 1: It was clearly the only person he ever loved in his life. There was no one else. 00:02:19 Speaker 2: It's possible, possible that all of that is about the river, and. 00:02:26 Speaker 1: 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. 00:02:40 Speaker 2: As always with revisionist history, reasonable minds will probably disagree Revisionist History, because sometimes the past deserves a second chance. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. 00:03:03 Speaker 3: Season two of Revisionist History launches June fifteenth,
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