The definitive Seth Reiss, Thor exceeds expectations, and Scrabble tournaments as nerd havens
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2013
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Seth Reiss, head writer for The Onion, talks about their encyclopedia, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and gives great homework. Also, a weekend round up of our weekend activities-- Tricia liked Thor, especially Natalie Portman's call for girls in STEM fields, and Greta got to check out a Scrabble tournament.
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| 0:00.0 | This is not your grandmother scrabble. |
| 0:08.5 | I want to create magic with science for other people to be inspired by. |
| 0:17.9 | I'm Tricia Bobita. |
| 0:19.3 | I'm Greta Johnson. |
| 0:20.4 | And this is the Nerdat podcast. Great episode coming up. We're talking with Seth Reese this week. He's the head writer for The Onion. We'll also talk a little bit about how we spent our weekends because I saw Thor and Greta, you... I went to a Scrabble tournament, which it turns out the world of competitive Scrabble is amazing. But first, let's talk Thor. What's the deal? |
| 0:39.1 | Okay, well, I have to admit that I don't think I saw Thor 1, but I did see Thor 2 this weekend, Thor the |
| 0:44.9 | Dark World. And it really exceeded my expectations. That is to say, I didn't have a lot of expectations. |
| 0:53.5 | But I'm feeling really sort of warm and fuzzy about the Marvel Universe lately. |
| 0:57.3 | And actually, the reason I ended up going to see this movie, I would have watched it eventually, but I wasn't going to run right out and see it until I saw what Marvel was doing with Natalie Portman. |
| 1:05.9 | So this is perfect because the Marvel Universe is one of my nerd fails. |
| 1:09.6 | So explain it. |
| 1:10.5 | What's going on here? |
| 1:11.6 | So the world of comics isn't always known for being, shall we say, perhaps the most feminist. |
| 1:17.2 | I get you. And, you know, sometimes the characters in superhero movies are love interests and don't get a whole lot else to do. |
| 1:25.3 | But I think Marvel has been doing a lot better on this front |
| 1:28.0 | in their recent films. And Natalie Portman in the Thor movies plays a fancy scientist in addition to |
| 1:34.1 | Thor's love interest. And Natalie Portman, as many of you probably already know, is a pretty |
| 1:39.2 | brilliant woman in real life. She's got degrees from Harvard and really loves science. So she and Marvel teamed up |
| 1:45.8 | with the release of Thor for a really amazing contest for teenage girls who might be interested |
| 1:51.6 | in STEM fields. And here's her explaining a little bit of why they did it. They called STEM. It's like |
| 1:56.6 | science, technology, engineering, and math that women are underrepresented in those fields. |
| 2:02.7 | And so they're trying to encourage girls to choose those fields of study more because there's |
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