Let’s Face It
The Last Archive
Pushkin Industries
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
An exploration of how this one thing – facial recognition – colors so many of our perceptions about ourselves and each other. For better or worse.
Revisionist History producer Lucie Sullivan, a board-certified super recognizer, explores what’s really going on in our brains when we see someone we know.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:09.5 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:13.9 | Hey, Last Archive listeners. Today on the show, we have an episode from my colleague Lucy Sullivan. |
| 0:19.5 | Lucy's been around the last archive for years, |
| 0:21.9 | and she works on revisionist history with me now. And she just made a story about, |
| 0:26.4 | I'm not going to tell you what it's about, because that would spoil the opening mystery, |
| 0:30.0 | which is great. Suffice it to say, it has to do with your face, and something that a lot of you |
| 0:35.6 | have probably experienced before. |
| 0:43.4 | You can listen to more episodes of Revisionous History wherever you get your podcasts. Enjoy this one. |
| 0:50.9 | Hello, hello, Malcolm Gladwell here. Today, I'm in the studio with my producer Lucy Sullivan, Lucy. |
| 0:56.0 | Hi, Malcolm. I understand you have a story for me about a particular misunderstanding. That is true. |
| 0:58.0 | We're here because I want to tell you about something I'm calling the Missy incident. |
| 1:02.0 | Oh, my goodness. |
| 1:03.0 | It totally changed the way that I think about something foundational, and it also reminded me of you. |
| 1:08.0 | Of me? |
| 1:09.0 | Of you. |
| 1:10.0 | Oh, my God. Where are we going? |
| 1:12.2 | So it all happened at this coffee shop that I go to all the time. |
| 1:16.6 | Can you tell me what the name of the coffee shop is? |
| 1:19.3 | Malcolm, I can tell you the name of the coffee shop off mic, but my fellow cafe goers did not want me to name it on this podcast because it's that good. Oh, it's that good. |
| 1:29.3 | Yeah, it's so good. It's the kind of place that's always packed, so you have to be comfortable |
| 1:33.6 | sitting with a stranger if you want to get a seat. And that's where this all starts. So the person |
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