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I'm Malcolm Gladwell here with some great news for revisionist history fans.

This year we're making more shows than ever and we're giving them early to Pushkin Plus subscribers.

If you become a member of Pushkin Plus. You get to hear every episode of

revisionist history two full weeks before everyone else. And you get the

shows without any ads. And when we do a special mini series on the show, like

we will this summer, you get that whole set of shows all at once. A binge drop just for you.

And without giving too much away, I'll tell you, our special series this upcoming season is

bananas.

More episodes, more stories you won't hear anywhere else.

This year, you've got it.

Revision is history heads from New York to New Orleans to the Wild West.

From the High Plains to High School Debate Club.

Listen wherever you get your podcast.

You can find Pushkin Plus at Pushkin.

F.M. slash Plus, or head over to the Revisionist History show page in Apple Podcast. I'm Miles Johnson and I'm an investigative journalist with the Financial Times and the story I'm going to tell you it's not a love story, but it starts with a wedding.

It's a wedding that takes place in Dubai in 2017.

It's a hot summer's day at the Burge Alarab,

one of the most expensive hotels in the world.

It's a skyscraper, shaped like the sail of a ship, rising up from the glittering water of the

Persian Gulf.

Guests can arrive across a private bridge in the hotel's fleet of Rolls-Royce

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