Peter Sagal: A nerd we're thankful for
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2014
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
This week we revisit our conversation with Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me host Peter Sagal. Hear him discuss his love of running, Lord of the Rings and Ray Bradbury.
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| 0:00.0 | When I was a young nerd. |
| 0:08.4 | If I could only find a man like Aragorn. |
| 0:13.8 | I'm Tricia Bobita. |
| 0:15.3 | I'm Greta Johnson. |
| 0:16.3 | And from W.BeeZ Chicago, this is the Nerdette podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | This week on the show, the origin story of one of the greatest nerds in all of public radio. |
| 0:24.8 | And one of my favorites in all of pop culture. |
| 0:28.5 | Peter Sagal, host of NPR's quiz show, Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me, is here to talk to us about when he once turned his back on his nerdy passions, why he now loves Game of Thrones, and why you should get a dog. |
| 0:43.9 | We are now officially part of the WB Easy Podcast family. |
| 0:47.1 | This is the first episode launching season two, but it's not really a Be Easy podcast until you make an appearance. |
| 0:51.7 | So thank you for coming. |
| 0:52.9 | And until you get the tattoos. |
| 0:54.6 | Right. This is our bat mitzv by you being here. We're now official in the family. Today you are a podcast. |
| 0:59.7 | Exactly. |
| 0:50.6 | That's hilarious. |
| 0:52.4 | Now it's official. |
| 0:53.5 | Yep. |
| 0:53.9 | So here on Nerdette, we like to think of nerd as a verb. |
| 0:56.7 | So it's just anything that people are sort of obsessed with, passionate about, you could be a baseball nerd, you could be a Star Trek nerd, you could be a nerd about just about anything. |
| 1:04.4 | I have a... just anything that people are sort of obsessed with, passionate about, you could be a baseball nerd, you could be a Star Trek nerd, you could be a nerd about just about anything. |
| 1:14.0 | I have a problem with that. You do? Right off the top. All right. Because, and I've been somewhat vocal about this, when I was a young nerd, it was not a term of approbation. No one ever walked |
| 1:19.5 | around and said, hey, I'm a nerd for whatever. |
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