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Happy To Be Here

Fall TV: Mindy Project, Homeland and comedy pilots

Happy To Be Here

Greta Johnsen

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

4.6924 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2013

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Ideas for filling the impending Breaking Bad-shaped hole in our lives. Plus we taste test 3 ABC comedy pilots in a round of Marry, Frack, Kill with Rebecca Poulson and nerd out about our favorite actors returning to TV this fall. Allison Janney! Bradley Whitford! Will Arnett! JB Smoove?

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0:00.0

I'm marrying Cotsworth Hay.

0:08.5

The people on these sites, they're the cast of one flew over the cuckoo's nest.

0:16.7

I'm Tricia Bobita.

0:18.2

I'm Greta Johnson.

0:19.2

And this is the Nerdat podcast.

0:23.0

We've got a lot coming up this week.

0:24.7

We're going to talk about Fall TV.

0:28.3

We're playing Mary Frack Kill with three ABC pilots.

0:31.7

And then some word nerd homework if you choose to accept it.

0:34.5

Greta, can I quickly tell you the nerdiest thing I did all week?

0:35.1

Oh my gosh.

0:35.7

I would love that.

0:36.7

I'm kind of proud of it.

0:37.5

Oh, my gosh, I would love that. I'm kind of proud of it. Oh, good. So, all last week, I was doing training at work to learn more about how to do data reporting, and I was building fusion tables. But my favorite thing that happened last week is that I learned how to do a bunch of Excel functions that I didn't know before. Ooh, that is exciting. And so now I walk up to other reporters who were in the training and I hold up a pen and I say concatenate.

0:39.4

Nah, ah. Ooh, that is exciting. And so now I walk up to other reporters who were in the training, and I hold up a pen and I say, concatenate! N'-a-a. I do. Because it sounds like a Harry Potter spell when you say, concatinate. I was just about to say it reminds me of a Harry Potter spell. I know. Is that really how you pronounce that word? I don't know. Being a word nerd, I have to question your pronunciation, but I have no idea myself.

0:54.6

I'll't know. Being a word nerd, I have to question your pronunciation, but I have no idea myself.

1:12.8

I'll find out.

1:16.0

Stop, stop, stop. You're going to take someone's eye out.

1:20.7

Besides, you're saying it wrong. It's Leviosa, not Leviosa.

1:27.1

You do it then if you're so clever. Go on, go on. Guardian, not Leviosa. You do it, then, if you're so clever.

1:29.3

Go on, go on.

1:32.5

Vingardium Leviosa.

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