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I'm Jesse Thorn, live on tape from my house in Los Angeles.

It's the Sound of Young America from maximumfund.org and PRI,

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It's the Sound of Young America, I'm Jesse Thorn.

My guest is Simon Pegg, actor, writer, memoirist, geek.

His new book is called Nerd Do Well.

It's the story of how, well, let's be honest, a nerd did well.

And a nerd did well through nerdiness.

Almost all of Pegg's work has drawn on his identity

as not just creator but also fan.

He co-created and starred in the British sitcom Space,

which saw the world of the sitcom,

sort of the romantic sitcom, through a pop culture lens.

He made his reputation here in the United States with the hit

Zomcom, Sean of the Dead, that's Zomcom,

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