169: The Ultimate Tom Hanks Episode
The Unmade Podcast
The Unmade Podcast
4.9 • 883 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
It’s award season and we are dishing out colonelships and medals - plus some West Wing stuff and an idea called “since when”.
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USEFUL LINKS
Alan Stewart - https://www.numberphile.com/podcast/alan-stewart
The Owl’s spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yBjcOPMrSETwZxiQTpupODC4EAYVZFSauuqJFKZIGcw
Tom Hanks - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000158/
Tom Hanks filmography - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tom_Hanks_performances_and_credits
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | There are medals to be given today, but we'll get to that in a minute. |
| 0:07.3 | It's award season. |
| 0:09.0 | Award season for movies doesn't really come around until January, February, doesn't it? |
| 0:13.3 | Today. |
| 0:14.1 | Today it's award season for us. |
| 0:16.1 | Octoberfest, award season for the Unmade podcast. |
| 0:19.7 | But first, let's do some parish notices quickly. |
| 0:22.1 | Last episode, Tim talked about naps, and we heard a lot about that. |
| 0:27.1 | So I just thought I'd read a couple of messages from you guys. |
| 0:30.0 | BC me, BC me said, napping is the worst. |
| 0:33.9 | I always wake up more tired than I was before. |
| 0:36.4 | I have never found the perfect nap time. |
| 0:38.6 | And nap is a crappy trailer for a good night's sleep. Controversial. |
| 0:43.3 | That's a nice line. I do agree. It's a bit of a gamble, isn't it? I think the shorter the nap, |
| 0:50.0 | the better, or the safer at least anyway. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Like, we came home from church yesterday and I just sat, you know, eating some lunch on the |
| 0:58.3 | couch and then was watching, catching up on a political show from the morning that I'd missed. |
| 1:03.1 | And I fell asleep and then woke up again in the same sitting up position with my hand |
| 1:08.2 | rest against, you know, the edge of the couch. So it was a total |
| 1:11.9 | sit-up, lean kind of nap. And I felt like a whole new girl. Like it was really reinvigorating. |
| 1:20.3 | Well, Tim, you're going to love this message that came from Form Firm, who says, greatest nap. |
| 1:25.1 | My grandfather, who was Dutch, would come home from hard physical labour |
| 1:30.9 | to eat at 12pm. After eating mashed potatoes with vegetables and half a meat bowl, he would nap, |
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