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Revisionist History Season 7: The Experiment Experience

Publish Date: 2022/6/16
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Lately, I've been calling up all my scientist friends and granting their wishes. And I know that sounds crazy, but I'm going pie in the sky like you said. Yes. No, you get that. Request granted. I'm the czar of the magic wand. I have granted you that request. Oh, yeah, baby. I'm the czar of the magic wand.

My name is Malcolm Gladwell, and in season seven of my podcast, Revisionist History, we throw off the shackles of convention and go where no podcast has dared to go before. We don't see his boyfriend. No. No. What other podcast puts a magnifying glass to the early 1990s made-for-TV movie Doing Time on Maple Drive?

Is doing time, is it comic in the Aristotelian sense? Do they resolve? Yes, yes, it is comic in the Aristotelian sense. All television movies are. Season 7 never sleeps. We take you everywhere. A factory way up near the Canadian border. The set of the original A Star is Born movie. A forgotten laboratory under the seats in the old University of Minnesota football stadium.

A swanky party in Beverly Hills. My husband tapped me on the shoulder because I was so busy eating these mini quiche. And he said, put your food down. Fatty. Put your food down, fatty. Oh, and we go to Ohio. We spend lots of time in Ohio. ♪

I have my own hypothesis, but I can't. Oh, come on. What if I'm wrong? This is all about being wrong. Oh, we don't worry about being wrong. Not this season. Because every episode is about an experiment. Thought experiments. What if experiments? Natural experiments. A little something I call magic wand experiments.

Why a season devoted to experiments? Because if we're honest about ourselves, the list of things we don't know is longer than the list of things we do. And the only way to fix that problem is to put our unknowns to the test.

Come join the Revisionist History Experiment starting June 30th, or if you can't wait a moment longer, June 23rd for Pushkin Plus subscribers. Find Pushkin Plus on the Revisionist History Show page, in Apple Podcasts, or at pushkin.fm. Somebody step up. Feed. Come and feed me. Eyes are closed. I have no idea whether I'm having bowl on the left or bowl on the right. With a spoon? Okay, why don't I just hand you the spoon? Yeah, on the spoon. Yeah. Yeah.

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