#17 Flossing

Surprisingly Awesome

Gimlet

Comedy, Society & Culture, Education

4.1 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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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

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0:00.0	It's a bit.
0:02.0	all the growth.
0:03.0	I'm just really worried I'm going to like bleed in his bathroom.
0:06.0	So invasive.
0:08.0	How long... Josh, how long do you normally do it for?
0:11.0	So like, I just do all the... I try to work my way into all the gaps and they tell you to like each one go like up and down a little bit it's just like one two three or a blood in my mouth and it's like, it tastes like iron.
0:25.0	It tastes like Josh, Gondaman, punch me in the face.
0:28.0	Ah, sorry. Hi I'm Rachel Ward and this is surprisingly awesome from Gimlet Media, and this week my co-host in this endeavor is Mave Higgins.
0:49.0	Mave, for listeners who maybe have not heard of you, can you tell us who you are?
0:54.4	I can, Rachel. Thank you for having me.
0:57.3	I am, I used to describe myself as Ireland's answer to Bill Cosby.
1:01.8	I stopped doing that a while ago actually.
1:05.0	That is very understandable.
1:07.0	And I understand you are a comedian and you're a writer and you have your own show every month in
1:14.6	Brooklyn at Union Hall and you are also a co-host of Star Talk with Neil
1:20.8	degrass Tyson on National Geographic.
1:23.0	Yes, and I'm a comedian co-host, so I'm not like an astrophysicist and I'm just a
1:28.2	joker, but I love thinking and talking about huge cosmic queries and I spend a lot of my time
1:34.5	like wondering about space and the galaxy and humans and like where we fit into it
1:39.2	all and learning about that big stuff really does appeal to me.
1:43.4	So when Adam Davidson, who is a regular host of this show,
1:46.4	when he and I asked you to come in and help us explore
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