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Happy To Be Here

Sharon Creech talks writing for kids, robot yetis on Doctor Who, and some hip homework

Happy To Be Here

Greta Johnsen

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

4.6924 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2013

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Author Sharon Creech talks about her new book The Boy on the Porch. Plus Tricia counts down to the 50th anniversary special of Doctor Who, Lauren Chooljian provides the perfect playlist for sweater weather music and we've got some hip (hop) homework for you. http://nerdettepodcast.com 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

As Byron once said, more money, mo quandaries.

0:08.2

Niche.

0:09.5

You mean Nietzsche?

0:10.8

It's actually pronounced niche.

0:14.3

I'm Greta Johnson.

0:15.6

I'm Tricia Bobita.

0:16.6

And this is the Nerdat podcast.

0:19.0

This week, an interview with Sharon Crereech, who I have to say

0:22.1

wrote some of the books that totally rocked my world when I was about eight years old and has a new

0:26.7

book out, The Boy on the Porch. And then a look at some fall music with our playlist guru,

0:32.5

Lauren Chulgin. So Tricia, how excited were you last week with this Doctor Who news? Oh, man.

0:38.6

New Doctor Who episodes that we thought had been lost to history have been found.

0:43.0

They were just on a shelf in a TV station in Nigeria.

0:46.4

No one knew they were there.

0:47.9

Labelled Doctor Who with masking tape.

0:50.9

And by the way, the person doing the wiping of the masking tape is a guy named Philip Morris, who calls himself the Indiana Jones of film restoration and preservation.

0:59.5

I would like to get to a point someday where I can call myself the Indiana Jones of something.

1:04.9

It could be like of cupcakes or, I don't know, galoshes, but just of something.

1:10.7

Okay, we'll work on that, Trisha. I got to say this is one of those stories that I almost felt like was just made up when I first heard about it. It's like, no, you're kidding. This isn't a real thing. You thought it was guerrilla marketing for the 50th anniversary special airing November 23rd worldwide? Wow, I guess maybe I did, Tricia, now that you mention it. No, I believe it's real,

1:32.2

and there's still almost 100 lost episodes of Doctor Who, this film that they found on a shelf

1:37.5

in a TV station in Nigeria, which they then pretty much immediately were able to digitally

1:42.5

restore and throw up on iTunes. So you can watch

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