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Surprisingly Awesome

#8 Frequent Flyer Miles

Surprisingly Awesome

Gimlet

Comedy, Society & Culture, Education

4.11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The world in a cup of pudding - or rather, 12,000 cups of pudding. The Facts Surprisingly Awesome’s theme music is “How We Do” by Nicholas Britell. Our ad music is by Build Buildings. This episode was edited by Alex Blumberg, Caitlin Kenney, and Annie-Rose Strasser. It was produced by Kalila Holt and Rachel Ward. It was mixed by David Herman. Emma Jacobs, Andrew Norton, Jacob Cruz and the Block House in Austin, Texas provided production assistance. Special thanks to Steve Belkin, Gary Leff, Mara Lederman, Conor Henderson and Michael McCall. Sponsors Casper Ford Squarespace Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Samsung Galaxy Buds FE are the perfect partner for your smartphone.

0:06.0

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

0:11.0

unwanted background noise.

0:12.6

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

0:17.5

and easy touch controls that make changing settings a breeze.

0:21.4

That's a lot to love for just 99 pounds rarp the new

0:25.8

Galaxy Bud Zephi by now at Samsung.com.

0:29.2

Hey John. Oh hey Adam.

0:32.1

Hey so um explain to me what your status is with Delta Airlines.

0:38.0

Oh, I am Delta Diamond Medallion status. That is very impressive because I have spent a not

0:48.6

insignificant amount of the last several years craving and finally achieving Delta Platinum

0:55.5

medallion status. Oh your Platinum? Which as you know all too well is one one very

1:01.8

big level below diamond and so I don't even know why I'm talking to you right now

1:05.4

goodbye. From Gimlet Media, this is surprisingly awesome. I'm Adam Davidson and our co-host Adam McKay will be back soon, but this

1:26.8

week we have a very special guest host, a man who is a friend of both the Adams.

1:32.4

Mr. John Hodgman, thanks for doing the show, John.

1:34.8

It's my pleasure, and I'm glad to break up the monopoly Adams have had over this show for so long.

1:40.1

We should say, I'm sure you need no introduction but you host the phenomenal Judge John

1:48.6

Hodgman that is a great podcast thank you very much you have been a regular on the daily show in those famous ads. I'm a Mac, I'm a PC. You are the PC. I was and in my heart still am. If anyone at Apple is listening, I'm in wardrobe and ready to go back to work.

2:04.5

So you and I were talking about, hey, what should we do? What's a topic that we could do for

2:08.1

surprisingly awesome? And remarkably quickly, you and I realize that we are both obsessed with this topic of frequent flyer programs.

2:19.0

Yes and not just the programs themselves but the imaginary status levels that the airlines confer upon

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