Season 2 of the Unimaginable hones in on individuals who have led unimaginable lives by following

their instinct from guests like Tyco White TT. This season delivers behind the scenes conversations

about the many roads to success. Listen to the Unimaginable on the iHeart Radio app Apple podcasts

or wherever you get your podcasts.

Malcolm Gladwell here. This season on Revisionist History, I am diving into one of the weirdest

and most infuriating corners in American life. Guns. All the crazy myths we have about them,

everything we get wrong. We're going to talk about TV Westerns about a crime and a little town

in rural Alabama. About the nuttiness of the Supreme Court, it's our biggest series ever,

and one you won't want to miss. Listen to Revisionist History on the iHeart Radio app

Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

If you haven't heard the loser line before, it works like this. Let's say someone approaches you

while you're out at the club and uses this charming pickup line on you. Hey girl, are you terms and

conditions? Because whatever you say, I'll agree with. Whatever you do.

Is this the urge to turn your mouth into a giant waterfall and slowly spit your drink onto

his shoes? Instead, ask him if he has an ugly twin that can come over and watch.

That's your turn. And then you get the digits to the loser line and hopefully he calls it and

leaves an awkward voicemail that we can play on the air for you voicemails like this one.

Next message. Hey baby, it's a f**k. I just wanted to see if you wanted to hang out again

sometime. I just figured you'd want to hang out with a guy like me, not everyone can last six

hours in a Super Mario suit outside of GameStop. I've been doing this for a long time and it's not easy.

It takes a lot of toughness, mental toughness, physical toughness, a lot of muscle, a lot of mental

muscle. He's actually harder when I got to do Yoshi because the kids ride on my back and stuff.

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