Revisionist History is Back

Revisionist History will be back with an all-new season starting March 13th. We’ll be investigating everything from Paw Patrol to the secret behind English muffins to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Plus much, much more. To start, a two-part series that revisits the death of George Floyd in 2020. That’s next week – stay tuned. See omnystudio.com/listener https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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• 0:06Malcolm Gladwell?

  Hello, hello. Malcolm Gladwell here to give you a preview of the upcoming season of Revisionist History, where we once again go where no podcast has ever been so foolish to go.

• 0:24Speaker 01

  Pop Patrol, we're on the double. Whatever the problem, round of adventure day.

• 0:32Malcolm Gladwell?

  You heard that correctly. Pop Patrol. Me and my three-year-old will defend one of the world's most popular children's television shows against its critics. Then, we get serious. It's been five years since the death of George Floyd. We're going to go back and tell that story from a different perspective.

• 0:49Speaker 02

  I can tell you this, that nobody despises bad cops more than good cops.

• 0:54Malcolm Gladwell?

  Ben Nadaf-Hafrin, my esteemed colleague, will launch a detailed investigation into Thomas's English muffins.

• 1:03Speaker 03

  We've got the 75-year-old-plus secret of how to bake Thomas's English muffins. It's a half a billion-dollar product, and he knows it.

• 1:12Malcolm Gladwell?

  You thought you understood all that there was to understand about English muffins? You are wrong. And then Ben takes a raccoon down a rabbit hole.

• 1:22Speaker 04

  Well, the main challenge is they work at night, so they're nocturnal. Researchers are typically not nocturnal.

• 1:28Malcolm Gladwell?

  Oh, yeah, baby. We're going to have a contribution from the newest member of the Revisionist team, Lucy Sullivan.

• 1:36Speaker 05

  I was like, oh, I have trouble recognizing faces. She goes, is that why you ignored me for a week? And I said, what do you mean? This is my nightmare.

• 1:44Malcolm Gladwell?

  Oh, and I nearly forgot to mention, we're going to spend a lot of time with the newly minted Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., because I listened to Joe Rogan tell the story of how he met Kennedy, and I was riveted.

• 1:59Speaker 06

  That was the weirdest moment, because we were both staring at each other. Yeah, I noticed you walking. I'm like, that's, yeah, it is. So I said, hey, what's up?

• 2:08Malcolm Gladwell?

  Exactly. What's up with these guys? We have a very full year coming up. Stay tuned, my friends.

• 2:23Malcolm Gladwell?

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