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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 3: Season two of Revisionist History launches June fifteenth,