Tom Hanks And Typewriters: A Love Story
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2017
⏱️ 26 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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| 0:13.6 | This is I love them. |
| 0:16.0 | Look at this thing. |
| 0:17.9 | Have you uh, have you changed the ribbon recently? |
| 0:21.2 | I have not. |
| 0:22.2 | You don't tell that I need to. No you know you don't really need to because are you |
| 0:27.2 | Rolling do you want to get this stuff? Oh, we're rolling. Oh, fantastic |
| 0:32.1 | From WBEZ.E.Z. Chicago, this is Nurdette. |
| 0:35.8 | I'm Greta Johnson. |
| 0:37.0 | And I'm Tricia Bobita. |
| 0:38.3 | And we're kicking off our new season of Nurdette with our biggest guest ever. |
| 0:42.1 | I'm going to say ever. Yeah ever here with us this |
| 0:44.2 | week is Tom Hanks and my typewriter because Tom Hanks the winner of two |
| 0:50.0 | Oscars and four Golden Globes a a presidential medal of freedom recipient, and |
| 0:54.2 | probably the most famous movie star on the planet, is joining us on Nurdat this week |
| 0:58.5 | to chat with us about his obsession with typewriters. |
| 1:02.4 | I brought my 1939 Underwood typewriter into the studio here at W be Z. |
| 1:06.6 | And here's what happened when Tom Hanks saw it. |
| 1:09.2 | All right, here's your margins. |
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