Outliers, Revisited

Revisionist History

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Did Malcolm Gladwell blow it in his bestselling book Outliers? What if all he did was write a primer for neurotic helicopter parents? To find out, Revisionist History descends on the University of Pennsylvania to run a roomful of eager students through a mysterious experiment, complete with Sharpies, huge white stickers, and a calculator. It does not end well.

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0:00.0	I'm Barry Edelstein, artistic director of the old globe in San Diego.
0:04.8	One of the country's leading Shakespeare theaters, my podcast, where there's a will
0:08.7	finding Shakespeare from the globe and push-in industries, is kind of a scavenger hunt
0:13.9	for Shakespeare, because Shakespeare keeps popping up in all sorts of unexpected places.
0:19.6	Why?
0:20.6	What does it mean about him and what does it mean about us?
0:23.9	Listen to where there's a will on the IHART radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever
0:28.3	you get your podcasts.
0:30.3	Here in the last archive, I've been trying to figure out what happened to truth.
0:33.6	I've been telling stories about how we know what we know, and why it seems sometimes
0:37.7	lately is if we don't know anything at all.
0:40.9	But I am done with the problems of truth.
0:43.2	I want solutions.
0:45.2	The season of the last archive is all about common knowledge.
0:48.4	Is that kind of knowledge still possible?
0:51.3	I tried to find out, coming soon.
0:55.1	Listen to the last archive on the IHART radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get
0:59.3	your podcasts.
1:06.7	Pushkin.
1:15.0	In the middle of our preparations for season 7 of this, your favorite podcast, the revisionist
1:21.8	history team got on a train to Philadelphia, four of us, carrying props, recording equipment,
1:30.1	and extra microphones.
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