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Think Again - a Big Think Podcast

81. Isy Suttie (Comedian) – There's Something a Bit Smug about the Sea

Think Again - a Big Think Podcast

Big Think / Panoply

Arts, Society & Culture

4.6594 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Since 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. The Think Again podcast takes us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives. Isy Suttie is a comedian, actress, and writer who played the character Dobby in the British TV comedy Peep Show, of which Jason has watched all 54 episodes. Isy has written for the Guardian, the Observer, and Glamour, and is a regular writer and performer on BBC Radio 4. Her book The Actual One: How I Tried and Failed to Avoid Adulthood Forever will be released on January 31st, 2017 in the United States, but thousands of British people will have already read and enjoyed it, three days earlier. So there. Surprise conversation starter interview clips in this episode: Maysoon Zayid on the media representation of people with disabilities, Slavoj Žižek on love, and Paul Bloom on empathy and politics About Think Again - A Big Think Podcast: You've got 10 minutes with Einstein. What do you talk about? Black holes? Time travel? Why not gambling? The Art of War? Contemporary parenting? Some of the best conversations happen when we're pushed outside of our comfort zones. Each week on Think Again, we surprise smart people you may have heard of with short clips from Big Think's interview archives on every imaginable subject. These conversations could, and do, go anywhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Huh, have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?

0:03.0

Not much to it, is there?

0:06.0

Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich.

0:09.0

Mmm, that is good.

0:13.0

Now that's what Asani should sound like.

0:16.0

Go all crisp in with walkers.

0:18.0

Delicious.

0:20.0

Hey there, I'm Jason Gatz and you're listening to Think Again, a Big Think podcast.

0:25.6

Started in 2008, Big Think is a kind of online think tank of important emerging ideas from some of the most creative thinkers on the planet.

0:38.3

On this podcast, we revisit these ideas in new ways.

0:41.3

Our producers surprise me and my guests with short interview clips from Big Things Archives,

0:46.3

ideas that we didn't necessarily come here expecting to discuss.

0:50.3

My guest today is the very awesome Izzy Sudi.

0:53.3

She is a comedian, actress, and writer who played the character Dobby in the British TV comedy peep show,

0:59.0

of which I have watched all 54 episodes.

1:02.0

Izzy has written for The Guardian, The Observer, and Glamour, and is a regular writer and performer on BBC Radio 4.

1:09.0

Her book, The Actual One, How I Tried and

1:12.2

Failed to Avoid Adulthood Forever, will be released on January 31st in the United States,

1:17.9

but thousands of British people will already have read and enjoyed it three days earlier.

1:22.4

Welcome to Think Again, Izzy. Thank you. I didn't even know how many episodes of Peep

1:26.8

Show there were. I'll admit that I didn't either. I'm not that much of a nerd. I didn't even know how many episodes of peep show there were. I'll admit that I didn't

1:29.3

either. I'm not that much of a nerd. I went to IMDB and looked it up and I actually did the math.

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