Surprisingly Awesome

The Facts

Surprisingly Awesome’s Theme Music is “This is How We Do” by Nicholas Britell and our ad music is by Build Buildings. We were edited this week by Annie-Rose Strasser, and produced by Rachel Ward, Christine Driscoll and Elizabeth Kulas. Andrew Dunn mixed the episode.

Additional music came from Danca, Nathan Michel, and Marmoset.  

Jacob Cruz, Cheyna Roth, Emma Jacobs, Rikki Novetsky, Anna Stitt, NPR West and WERU in Blue Hill, Maine provided production assistance.

Our Sponsor

Lenovo - See what Lenovo is doing to revolutionize datacenter technology at www.lenovo.com/datacenter

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Don't fret - we'll have a regularly scheduled Surprisingly Awesome for you next week, but this week, we wanted to share something special with you, since Surprisingly Awesome listeners love learning new things.

It's a new Gimlet Media show called Science Vs., that pits the facts against everything else: everything your uncle says at Thanksgiving, everything you read on the internet, and everything you half overheard in a coffee shop.

We're sending you a segment of the Science Vs. series about gun control. If you want to hear more, subscribe where ever you get your podcasts!

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, we found many surprising twists, turns, and holds in the story of modern yoga. 

The Facts

Surprisingly Awesome’s Theme Music is “This is How We Do” by Nicholas Britell and our ad music is by Build Buildings. We were edited this week by Annie-Rose Strasser, and produced by Rachel Ward, Christine Driscoll and Elizabeth Kulas. Andrew Dunn mixed the episode. 

Jacob Cruz, James T. Green, Emma Jacobs, Rikki Novetsky, and Benjamin Riskin provided production assistance. 

Additional music in this episode is "Santoor and Tabla at Assi Ghat, Varanasi" by Samuel Corwin and "Electronica Tanpura 9" by sankalp.

Learn More

If you want to learn more about Wendy Doniger’s banned book, you can check out its page on Amazon here -- Christine is in the middle of reading it and highly recommends it, and we are linking through Amazon so you can check out the reviews and get a window into the controversy surrounding it. 

Or if you just wanna hear more about Indra Devi (and who wouldn’t?!) you can read more about her and get a copy of Michelle Goldberg’s book here. Adam “can’t recommend it enough!” 

And if you're like, "no way, take me to the science!" You can read more about the current research on the health benefits of yoga, by checking out UCLA’s longer interview with Dr. Helen Lavretsky, or a super informative article from Julia Belluz at Vox -- "I read more than 50 scientific studies about yoga. Here's what I learned."

Finally... Flossgate continues! You can head to our show page at www.gimletmedia.com/surprisinglyawesome to hear an extra interview and read some of the studies we looked at while building our flossing show.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Is it really true that you never need to floss again?

The Facts 

Surprisingly Awesome’s theme music is “How We Do” by Nicholas Britell. Our ad music is by Build Buildings. Andrew Dunn and Austin Thompson mixed this episode. This episode was edited by Annie-Rose Strasser and produced by Rachel Ward and Christine Driscoll.

Sponsor

Spotify Discover

Learn More

Read the AP article that everyone is talking about.

Read the systematic review that no one is talking about.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Facts

This week, we're joined by comedian Maeve Higgins.

Surprisingly Awesome’s theme music is “How We Do” by Nicholas Britell. Our ad music is by Build Buildings. Andrew Dun mixed this episode.This episode was edited by Annie-Rose Strasser, and Peter Clowney and produced by Rachel Ward, Christine Driscoll, and Elizabeth Kulas. 

Jacob Cruz, David Pitman, and Laura Varela provided production assistance. 

Thank you to New England Public Radio and KQED in San Francisco. 

Learn More

Impress us and Punmaster Gary Roma with your best #flossipher puns and send them to us at @SurprisingShow

Did you like our incredibly fast description of biofilm? You can read a very approachable primer about the biofilm in your mouth here.

Not enough floss, hoss? You can get more flossing fix in the ebook - The Joy of Flossing, which we read for this episode. It's just 42 pages and it you'll even find some philosophy in there, too.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Journey with us back in time - but also forward in time because this is a new episode, revisiting old topics.

The Facts

Surprisingly Awesome’s theme song is by Nicholas Britell.  Our ad music is by Build Buildings. We were edited this week by Annie-Rose Strasser. We were produced by Christine Driscoll, Kalila Holt,Elizabeth Kulas, and Rachel Ward.

Rikki Novetsky provided production assistance. Additional music for this episode came from The Brotherhood.

Andrew Dunn mixed the episode.

Did you have fun with Wendy? Subscribe to Science Vs. so you don't miss the first episode, out July 28!

Intern for Reply All!

Sponsors

eBay

Spotify

Squarespace

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

John Hodgman learns that the advantage of extinct hockey is that it can't break your heart.

The Facts

Surprisingly Awesome’s theme song is by Nicholas Britell.  Our ad music is by Build Buildings. We were edited this week by Annie-Rose Strasser. We were produced by Kalila Holt and Rachel Ward.

Isabel Angel, Misha Euceph, Piers Gelly, Elizabeth Kulas, Kyle McAuley, and Rikki Novetsky provided production assistance. Additional music for this episode came from Podington Bear and Lux Finite.

Andrew Dunn mixed the episode.

Notes

After you listen to the episode, take a look at John's new logo, designed by Peter Good.

If you're curious, here's the article that helped us track down the hipster.

Sponsors

eBay

Squarespace

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

To all the haters, and all the doubters, we told you we could make anything awesome.

The Facts

Surprisingly Awesome’s theme music is “How We Do” by Nicholas Britell. Our ad music is by Build Buildings. Andrew Dunn mixed the episode.This episode was edited by Annie-Rose Strasser and Alex Blumberg, and produced by Rachel Ward and Kalila Holt. Lily Ames, Isabel Angel, Jacob Cruz, James Green, and Kyle McAuley provided production assistance.

Here's the Bill Blankschaen post about how Jesus gets to say I told you so.

We're still taking your I Told You So stories!  Email us a voice memo about a time you were right, and someone else was wrong, at [email protected].  Keep it to around a minute.

Sponsor

Eero

Wealthsimple

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Yo mama so fat we did a whole podcast about her.

The Facts

Surprisingly Awesome’s theme music is “How We Do” by Nicholas Britell. Our ad music is by Build Buildings. 

This episode was edited by Annie-Rose Strasser, and produced by Rachel Ward and Kalila Holt.   Isabel Angell, Jacob Cruz, James Green, Katie Klocksin and Tarek Fouda provided production assistance.  

Zac Schmidt and Austin Thompson mixed the episode.

Sponsors

Ford

Wealthsimple

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Adam and Adam get chased out of a mattress store.

The Facts

Surprisingly Awesome’s theme music is “How We Do” by Nicholas Britell. Our ad music is by Build Buildings.  Original music in this episode was composed by Trouble Books, and Nick DePrey and Louis Weeks.

This episode was edited by Annie-Rose Strasser, and produced by Rachel Ward and Kalila Holt.  Isabel Angell, Jacob Cruz, Emma Jacobs and Robyn Wholey provided production assistance.

Special thanks to Karla Webb at the Bienenstock Furniture Library, Peter McCarthy at the University of South Wales, Sandy Jap at Emory University, author of Partnering with the Frenemy, Dave Perry at FurnitureToday, and Kevin Purdy at The Sweethome.

Sponsors

Ford

Squarespace

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices