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Happy To Be Here

Doctor Who news, Breaking Bad hopes, a Dexter rant and NPR's Audie Cornish

Happy To Be Here

Greta Johnsen

Improvement, Nerd, Culture, Wbez, Pop, Books, Society & Culture, Nerdette, Self, Tv & Film, Technology, Nerds, Tv

4.6924 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2013

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

NPR's Audie Cornish offers up nerd homework. Lots of Doctor Who news, Breaking Bad predictions and a Dexter rant. Plus our booze nerd brews up an Orange is the New Black inspired cocktail. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

That laptop might as well be on the moon.

0:08.0

What about a magnet?

0:09.0

What magnet?

0:10.0

What about it?

0:11.0

I'm Greta Johnson.

0:16.0

I'm Trisha Bobita.

0:17.0

And this is the Nerdat Podcast.

0:19.0

Greta.

0:20.0

What? New doctor. Yes, Trisha will get there. But first, NPR's Adi Cornish nerds out with us. Plus, an orange is the new black-inspired cocktail. Toilet Hooch. Are we giving listeners' recipe for Toilet Hooch? I was hoping for bathtub gin. We'll have to wait and see. We'll hear from the A students who did their breaking bad homework from last week.

0:38.0

And talk about what the heck is going on with Dexter.

0:41.0

Why is this show still happening?

0:44.6

Okay, Trisha, it's nerd confession time.

0:47.5

Go on.

0:49.1

I try really hard to never let my fan-girling impede my journalistic objectivity. Of course not. You

0:55.8

are fair and balanced and whatnot. Right, but last week I did an interview with someone who I cannot

1:01.3

deny. I am an enormous fan of. Ah yes. Is it the same person who is now the voice on your answering machine?

1:07.6

Yes. G-R-E-T-A. We cannot hold this against you. Carl Castle is on my list of exceptions, too. Wait, which list of exceptions? The list of people who we, as journalism nerds, cannot help but be unabashed of fans of. Ooh, that list. Yes. Wait, what list were you talking about? Never mind, Tricia. Don't worry about it. So we talked to Adi Cornish

1:28.3

last week. She's the super hip co-host of NPR's All Things Considered, and she's also one of our favorites on Twitter. Adi says Twitter is like feeding the Tomogachi pet she never wanted. She knows she's got to feed the beast, but she didn't really want it in the first place. This is something I can totally relate to. I'd like to think I'm getting better at it, but I may still kind of suck at the Twitters. Adi may not be super into Twitter, but she is really good at it. We asked about one of our favorite tweets ever, where she mentions the ultimate nerd dilemma. When you go to a 3D movie and you have to wear the 3D glasses on top of

2:01.4

your regular seeing eye glasses. Yeah, nothing nerdier than glasses on glasses. Because I've seen

2:07.1

so many of these movies for work. That's the funny thing. Like a lot of these are movies that

2:11.7

I would see and I'm excited to see them, but I'm actually also seeing them because I'm going to

2:16.1

do an interview.

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