The Nerdette Summer Homework Special
Nerdette Recaps With Peter Sagal
WBEZ
4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2017
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
The best part about the summer? Plenty of extra time to do homework! Guests on Nerdette always assign listeners homework, and we’ve compiled the BEST OF THE BEST into this hour-long Nerdette summer homework special. Tom Hanks talks typewriters, Jane the Virgin actor Jaime Camil recommends a show about aliens, and Jessamyn Stanley explains why yoga is meant for all body types. We’ll also hear from Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!’s Peter Sagal, space doctor Sheyna Gifford, astronomer Jill Tarter, and many more. Do your homework!
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| 0:34.9 | I'm Greta Johnson. |
| 0:35.9 | And I'm Trisha Bobita. |
| 0:37.4 | So, Trisha, what are you doing this summer? |
| 0:41.5 | Well, it turns out, jobs are not like school. You don't get summers off. |
| 0:45.5 | Yeah, but I mean like in the meantime. I mean, no plans. |
| 0:57.5 | Incorrect. You've got homework. Lots of it. From Jill Tarter, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Tom Hanks. You're the one who still hasn't done your homework from Tom Hanks. Oh, yeah. In honor of summer and the pursuit of meaningful aims, |
| 1:01.8 | we combed through 150 episodes of Nerdette to create The Nerdette Summer Homework Special. |
| 1:06.0 | You may recall from grade school that many of your fellow classmates, |
| 1:09.9 | people of a certain academic persuasion. |
| 1:12.5 | Not only did they enjoy doing their homework, but they actively sought it out. |
| 1:16.9 | Extra credit assignments, AP classes, maybe they were like me and they did that thing where they dual enrolled in community college while they were in high school. |
| 1:24.3 | On Nerdette, our conversations with fascinatingly nerdy people conclude with homework |
| 1:28.4 | assignments, recommendations of something to read or watch or do. We've been collecting our |
| 1:32.6 | homework from Nerdat guests for four years, and this is our first ever homework compendium. |
| 1:37.6 | So we're playing some of our very best interviews and sharing with you some of our very |
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