Simon Pegg, king of the nerds
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
It’s summer blockbuster season! Northwestern University’s Arionne Nettles and Chalkbeat Chicago’s Becky Vevea stop by to get excited about the opening week of both ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer.’ We also chat about this year’s Emmy nominations and what in the world “girl dinner” is.
Then, Simon Pegg reflects on an extremely nerdy career, his role in the latest ‘Mission Impossible’ movie, and whether he’s jealous of Tom Cruise’s absolutely deranged stunt skills.
Plus, we have a book club announcement! August’s Book Club pick is ‘The Country of the Blind’ by Andrew Leland. It’s a memoir about the author’s transition from sightedness to blindness. You can send us a voice memo about it or July’s book ‘Loot’ at NerdettePodcast@gmail.com.
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| 0:48.5 | From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette. I'm Greta Johnson. We did it. We made it to another weekend. Coming up, Mission Impossible actor Simon Pegg tells us why he would never on earth try to do some of the stunts that Tom Cruise can pull off. I don't know if I've got the time. You know, I feel like I also need to go play Minecraft with my daughter and, you know, watch TV, eat things. |
| 0:58.0 | But first, let's kick back and unwind from the week that was with two excellent humans with us. This week, we have the director of audio journalism at Northwestern University's Medell School, Ariane Nettles. |
| 1:08.4 | Ariane, hello. |
| 1:09.8 | Hi, Greta. |
| 1:11.1 | Also here is the Bureau Chief for Chalk Beat, Chicago, Becky V. |
| 1:14.5 | Becky, welcome to the show. |
| 1:16.1 | Thanks so much for having me. |
| 1:17.2 | I'm thrilled. |
| 1:17.9 | Yay. |
| 1:18.3 | Okay, so next Friday, two huge summer movies come out. |
| 1:22.6 | They are both directed by critically acclaimed directors. |
| 1:25.0 | They both have huge marketing budgets. One is the Barbie movie and |
| 1:29.1 | one is Oppenheimer, which is about the Adam bomb. I think it is fascinating that these two are both |
| 1:34.4 | coming out on the same day. It's kind of causing like chatter about, you know, are you an Oppenheimer |
| 1:39.1 | person or a Barbie person? So, Ariane, which one are you going to go see next week? |
| 1:46.0 | So, okay, I'm not going to lie to you. |
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