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Malcolm Gladwell

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2722 total appearances

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Revisionist History
The Big Birthday Party

Do you find yourself making the kind of errors, sometimes even subtle ones, that we've been talking about?

Revisionist History
The Big Birthday Party

Wait, what's the specific line that's gone is which one?

Revisionist History
The Big Birthday Party

Why is it that long?

Revisionist History
The Big Birthday Party

I go to Nashville to write a story about parapraxis.

Revisionist History
The Big Birthday Party

And what happens?

Revisionist History
The Big Birthday Party

I find parapraxis.

Revisionist History
The Big Birthday Party

It occurs before my eyes.

Revisionist History
The Big Birthday Party

And I was lucky enough to have the tape recorder running.

Revisionist History
The Big Birthday Party

And the reason I love that episode and why so many listeners over the years have said it's their favorite is that you, the listener, and me, the host, get to participate in this little golden moment of serendipity together.

Revisionist History
The Big Birthday Party

Wait, Casey, can you play that song for us?

Revisionist History
The Big Birthday Party

Or is it going to be two?

Revisionist History
The Big Birthday Party

There it is again.

Revisionist History
The Big Birthday Party

What I've learned over the last 10 years of doing this is that I much prefer finding things.

Revisionist History
The Big Birthday Party

So I wanted to go over our greatest found moment.

Revisionist History
The Big Birthday Party

And I want to see whether you believe this is our greatest found moment.

Revisionist History
The Big Birthday Party

I called up Ben Nadaf-Haffrey again to talk about the time we went to Los Angeles for our 1936 Olympic Series.

Revisionist History
The Big Birthday Party

And we go and see the legendary Milan Tiff, who I've been obsessed with since I was a kid.

Revisionist History
The Big Birthday Party

Almost no one has ever heard of Melan Tiff because he was briefly the greatest triple jumper in the world at some point in the 1970s.