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Surprisingly Awesome

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Surprisingly Awesome

Gimlet

Comedy, Society & Culture, Education

4.11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

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

Transcript

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0:00.0

You could hit the slopes without an instructor.

0:05.0

Or you could have a go at cutting your own hair.

0:08.0

Heck, why not? You should rewire the house.

0:11.0

At 80s, Euromaster, we think there are times when things are better left to the experts,

0:16.0

things like vehicle maintenance and getting yours through the winter.

0:19.1

Pick up a set of Michelin cross-climb at two tires and drive with confidence whatever the weather

0:24.0

at yes euro master you're in good hands

0:28.6

the Samsung Galaxy Buds Effie are the perfect partner for your smartphone.

0:36.0

Stay immersed thanks to active noise cancellation with AI technology that filters out

0:41.2

unwanted background noise.

0:42.8

Listen to your audio in comfort hour after hour with the new wingtip design

0:47.6

and easy touch controls that make changing settings a breeze.

0:51.6

That's a lot to love, just 99 pounds RRP, the new Galaxy Bud Zefi, by now at Samsung.com.

0:59.4

So, uh, guess what? I got in the mail.

1:03.0

Is it a riveting and floridly written tale of a 19th century captain of industry?

1:10.0

Yeah, a copy of H Allen Smith's, I'm going to say best-selling book, Robert Gare, a study.

1:20.9

Let me read to you what I've learned. This is what it says here. We know only his name was Sam.

1:26.0

I'm quoting now. Sam had set a type rule too high in the printing form on his press.

1:30.0

The weight of his great sin lay heavily upon him. He was undone. His job was gone. In his

1:38.8

arms he carried 20,000 seed bags that would never hold seed for each had been neatly slit across the face

1:47.0

by that Satan-placed type rule

1:50.5

There was no glimmer of hope in Sam's heart as he confessed his sin, the sin that was sacrilege in the eyes of Robert Gare,

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