#11 Boredom

Surprisingly Awesome

Gimlet

Comedy, Society & Culture, Education

4.1 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The Facts Surprisingly Awesome’s theme music is “How We Do” by Nicholas Britell. Our ad music is by Build Buildings. Nick DePrey and Louis Weeks composed original music for this week's episode. This episode was edited by Alex Blumberg and Annie-Rose Strasser. It was produced by Kalila Holt and Rachel Ward. It was mixed by David Herman with assistance from Matthew Boll. Robyn Wholey provided production assistance. Special thanks to Jacob Cruz and Isabel Angell. Additional thanksto Peter Toohey at the University of Calgary, Richard Wolff at the New School, and Mary Mann, author of the upcoming book “Yawn.” Gillian Tett’s very good book is “The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers.” Sponsors Ford Audible Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The new Samsung Galaxy Z-Flip 5 and Chromebook are better together.
0:07.0	Take hands-free selfies which automatically sync to your Chromebook, ready to edit, and access
0:11.5	recent chrome tabs across both devices.
0:14.0	The new Galaxy Z Flip5 and Chromebook, better together.
0:18.0	Available on Sky Mobile.
0:20.0	Bluetooth and internet connection required.
0:22.0	You must be signed into the same Google account on both your phone and Chromebook.
0:27.0	Okay, so I'm setting my timer now. He does not know how long the timer is for, but the
0:38.0	timer is for 15 minutes. Okay, and what's he doing? He's just, he smiled at us.
0:44.0	Robin, can we ask you what you think might happen in this scenario?
0:49.0	He'll fall asleep.
0:51.0	Absolutely.
0:52.0	Can you tell us who you are? He'll fall asleep. Absolutely.
0:53.1	Can you tell us who you are?
0:54.7	I am Robin.
0:56.6	I work day in, day out with Adam McKay. Your main job is keeping him from falling asleep.
1:05.0	Or waking him up from sleep. From Gimlet Media, this is surprisingly awesome. I'm Adam Davidson and I'm Adam McKay the reason you heard our colleague Robin Woolley predicting that I was going to fall asleep is because the producers were experimenting on us,
1:33.3	an experiment we did for the sake of today's topic.
1:36.8	It's an exciting one, get ready, boredom.
1:40.3	That's right. Maybe our most meta show ever. This is a show about taking things that are
1:50.6	boring and revealing them to be awesome and so we went to boredom itself.
1:56.4	It's got to exist for some reason.
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