Nerdette's Finest: Tom Hanks
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2018
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
On a scale of 1 to famous, Tom Hanks is off the charts.
So how did we land this amazing interview? Easy! We put a 1939 Underwood Champion typewriter into a recording studio and lured him in Elmer Fudd style! (Bugs Bunny:Carrots::Tom Hanks:Typewriters)
The reason we're rebroadcasting part of this episode right now is because our little show is celebrating a birthday. We've been around for FIVE YEARS! To celebrate, we're showcasing some of our favorite episodes AND we're asking you to support the future of the show.
These five years of Nerdette have been made possible by you. You're a part of the team. And if you donate today, we're going to thank you with some killer swag. We've got mugs, sweatbands, buttons, and even Lady Nerds of History posters. We really hope you contribute and join in on the magic.
Here's the place to go: www.wbez.org/nerdalert and seriously, thank you.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Natalie Moore. I fell in love with soap operas when I was just five years old, and I still |
| 0:06.1 | watch them. Their television's longest scripted series and have zero reruns. Now let me tell you, |
| 0:12.7 | soap operas aren't just some silly art form. They are significant. In this season of making, |
| 0:18.0 | Stories Without End from WBEZ Chicago. |
| 0:25.7 | Join me as I share how the genre began, their social impact, and why these stories endure. |
| 0:28.3 | Listen wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:37.8 | From WBEZ Chicago, I am Greta, and this is Nerdette's finest. |
| 0:45.2 | Nerdette is almost exactly five years old, so we are celebrating by bringing you snippets of our favorite interviews. Why do you ask, are we doing this? Well, we figured, as we reflect |
| 0:51.7 | on five years of Nerdette, we want to ask you to also help support the future of Nerdette. |
| 0:57.1 | Because Nerdette has been a part of your life for maybe all of these five years, or maybe you just started listening. |
| 1:02.9 | Regardless, here's the deal. This is listener supported, which means we are asking you to help support us. |
| 1:09.6 | We want to dive right into the good stuff. We have a special episode today. We are asking you to help support us. We want to dive right into the good stuff. We have a special |
| 1:12.9 | episode today. We are bringing you part of our interview with Tom Hanks. Yes, the Tom Hanks. |
| 1:19.9 | So yeah, I'm going to tell you all about the fun gifts we have later. And let me tell you, |
| 1:23.8 | we do have some super fun gifts. But if you can't wait, that is totally cool. |
| 1:29.0 | You can go to our website right this second. |
| 1:30.7 | It is wb-e-e-Z.org slash nerd alert. |
| 1:34.9 | Okay. |
| 1:36.3 | So we talked to Tom Hanks. |
| 1:38.1 | In January of 2017, he was guest hosting. |
| 1:41.3 | Wait, wait, wait, don't tell me. |
| 1:42.4 | The NPR News Show that just happens to be produced here in Chicago as well. |
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