Tom Hanks And Typewriters: A Love Story

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4.6 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Tom Hanks is a little obsessed with typewriters. So when we put the Academy Award-winning actor in front of a pre-WWII Underwood Champion, he gave Nerdette hosts Tricia Bobeda and Greta Johnsen an impromptu master class on the machines he calls “self-contained printing presses with which you can change the world.”

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0:52.2	I'm Greta Johnson.
0:53.3	And I'm Trisha Bobita. And we're kicking off our new season of Nerdette with our biggest guest ever.
0:57.5	I'm going to say ever.
0:58.4	Yeah, ever. Here with us this week is Tom Hanks.
1:01.8	And my typewriter.
1:03.3	Because Tom Hanks, the winner of two Oscars and four Golden Globes, a presidential medal of freedom recipient, and probably the most famous
1:10.9	movie star on the planet, is joining us on Nerdat this week to chat with us about his obsession
1:16.0	with typewriters.
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