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Surprisingly Awesome

#3 Concrete

Surprisingly Awesome

Gimlet

Comedy, Society & Culture, Education

4.11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2015

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

From the dawn of human civilization, to the end of days: Concrete will outlast us all. The Facts The Reverend John DeLore and Michael Garafalo mixed this episode. John performed music for this episode, along with his bandmates, Jordan Scanella, Sam Merrick, Isamu McGregor, Jon LaDeau, Dominic Fallacaro. Thanks to Matthew Nelson for production assistance. Our theme music is “How We Do,” written, performed, and produced by Nicholas Britell. Our ad music is by Build Buildings. Sponsors Audible.com PC Does Whaaaat?! – This week, we featured PC Carlos Arteaga, a 7th grader at Lighthouse Community Charter School. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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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

0:23.8

your phone and Chromebook.

0:27.8

From Gimlet Media, this is surprisingly awesome. I'm Adam Davidson.

0:32.1

I'm Adam Davidson. I'm Adam McKay.

0:33.0

The idea of the show.

0:34.0

The idea of this show is to take a topic that seems like, eh, sounds kind of boring and reveal, no, it is not boring.

0:48.8

It is fascinating.

0:50.8

It is rich.

0:51.8

It is exciting. It is rich. It is exciting. It is surprisingly awesome.

0:56.0

So you have brought me a doozy today to bore me to shatter my natural interest in subjects.

1:09.7

Oh man, McKay, I cannot wait to get into this with you.

1:14.6

Concrete.

1:16.2

God damn, that's boring.

1:18.3

I mean, I don't know if it's the most boring words

1:20.2

you could say.

1:20.6

There's a few others like credit card tray particle board yeah

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