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Surprisingly Awesome

#17.5 Untangling Flossgate 2016

Surprisingly Awesome

Gimlet

Comedy, Society & Culture, Education

4.11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2016

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

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

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0:00.0

Adam, what you got there?

0:01.8

I have in my hands, I believe for the first time in my life,

0:06.5

I have a major breaking global news story about flossing. And that is prompting our first ever, surprisingly awesome, update.

0:17.0

Special report.

0:18.0

I'm Adam Davidson. I'm Rachel Ward and Rachel did you have the same experience I had oh my God yeah the

0:28.6

AP the Associated Press seems to have come out with a report that directly contradicts what we said on our show.

0:36.4

We did a flossing show last week.

0:39.2

The flossing component of it is so important because if you think about it each two

0:43.4

tooth has five surfaces and so you're brushing only three of the five so you're

0:48.0

only taking care of and removing the bacteria from three of the five surfaces when

0:51.3

you're brushing and then just a few days later, there's

0:54.7

this news story out about flossing,

0:57.4

and it just overtook my Twitter feed, my Facebook

1:01.1

posts.

1:01.4

We got emails from surprisingly awesome emails we do read all of your

1:05.7

emails to surprisingly awesome at gimlet media.com and there was like five in a row where

1:10.6

the subject line was flossing flossing flossing to an update was flossing. Flossing. Flossing.

1:13.2

Do an update on flossing.

1:14.4

Is flossing worthless?

1:16.0

And then some tweets?

1:17.3

Christine was monitoring the Twitter feed.

1:19.5

Christine, our producer.

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