Peter Sagal: A nerd we're thankful for

Nerdette

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4.7 • 1.4K 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	This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events.
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0:16.0	When I was a young nerd.
0:25.0	If I could only find a man like Aragorn, I'm Tricia Bobita.
0:30.0	I'm Greta Johnson and from W.asy Chicago this is the nerdette podcast.
0:35.0	This week on the show The origin story of one of the greatest nerds in all of public radio.
0:40.0	And one of my favorites in all of pop culture.
0:42.0	Peter Segal, host of NPR's Quiz Show, Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, is here to talk to us about
0:48.1	when he once turned his back on his nerdy passions, why he now loves Game of Thrones, and why you should get a dog.
0:57.0	We are now officially part of the W-B-Eze podcast family.
1:02.0	This is the first
1:02.7	episode launching season two but it's not really a B easy podcast until you make an
1:06.3	appearance. So thank you for coming and until you get the tattoos.
1:09.2	Right. This is our botnets for by you being here. We're now official in the family.
1:13.0	Today you are a podcast.
1:15.0	Exactly.
1:16.0	That's hilarious.
1:17.0	Now it's official.
1:18.0	Yep.
1:19.0	So here on Nurdette, we like to think of nerd as a verb.
1:21.0	So it's just anything that people are sort of
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