Speaker 1: Pushkin.
Speaker 2: I think we're bad historians. Something happens, we see it,
Speaker 2: watch it, remember it, file it away. But then if
Speaker 2: you look back at what you filed away closely, you
Speaker 2: discover it's all wrong.
Speaker 3: I was offended when the leader of the Opposition went
Speaker 3: outside in the front of Parliament and stood next to
Speaker 3: a sign that said ditch the witch, misogyny, sexism every
Speaker 3: day from this labor of the Opposition.
Speaker 1: You came to see me and as if I might
Speaker 1: make a donation to the scholarship fund of fifteen hundred
Speaker 1: dollars find I said, philm what would you do hundred
Speaker 1: and man dollars.
Speaker 2: I'm Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, blink Outliers,
Speaker 2: David and Goliath, and now host of Revisionist History from
Speaker 2: Panoicle Media. This show is my attempt to correct the record.
Speaker 1: I shot the free throw guy in the stands yells.
Speaker 3: Out, hey, Marry a big siss age shooting like that.
Speaker 2: Over the course of ten episodes, I'll take you back
Speaker 2: to something that happened one hundred years ago, last year,
Speaker 2: an event, a person, an idea, something we all missed,
Speaker 2: something we all remembered but misunderstood and.
Speaker 1: The guy next to him, and I heard it very clearly, said,
Speaker 1: what are you making fun of him for? He doesn't miss.
Speaker 2: I'll revisit a mysterious car crash outside of San Diego.
Speaker 2: We are passing up where are were passing.
Speaker 1: We're going to hundred twenty mission Gorge. We're in trouble.
Speaker 1: We can't we bike okay, Gorge.
Speaker 3: Its reely a half mile okay, and.
Speaker 1: You don't have the ability to turn the vehicle off
Speaker 1: or anything.
Speaker 3: A personally interception.
Speaker 2: I'll explore why Wilt Chamberlain made a choice he knew
Speaker 2: would diminish his greatness as a basketball player.
Speaker 3: Roger got the ball, He's gone up.
Speaker 2: I'll examine a song, a song that nobody realized was brilliant,
Speaker 2: not even the guy who wrote it and sang it
Speaker 2: until much much later.
Speaker 1: When we did the playback, punched the clock. We got
Speaker 1: quite drunk and played it back really loud, and he
Speaker 1: kind of freaked out, said, it's all rubbish.
Speaker 3: You know, it's terrible, it's terrible.
Speaker 2: We're fine with the future. The future is in our
Speaker 2: imagination and we can be as upbeat or excited or
Speaker 2: delusional as we want about it. But the past is
Speaker 2: where the truth lies, and so I love with more
Speaker 2: questions than answers. Revisionist history, sometimes the past deserves the
Speaker 2: second chance. Listen and subscribe at revisionististory dot com