Why Does John Hodgman Like Malört So Much?
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2017
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Comedian John Hodgman, longtime fan of the lovingly-reviled Swedish spirit called Malört, tells Nerdette, “I’m fascinated with things that are still regional in an increasingly non-regional country.” He also calls the disagreeable beverage "“a delightful, heady blend of pencil shavings and shame.”
Nerdette's Tricia Bobeda talked with Hodgman about his new book, Vacationland, before inviting in Sam Mechling, director of marketing for Jeppson's Malört, to better help us all understand this unique, wormwood-based liqueur. Prost!
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| 0:00.0 | This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events. |
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| 0:09.0 | Check out the full calendar now at W be easy.org |
| 0:12.6 | slash events. |
| 0:15.0 | I don't want to drink any. |
| 0:16.0 | I well just gonna keep it |
| 0:18.2 | keep it handy well I'll just have a little |
| 0:20.7 | jest. |
| 0:21.7 | From W be easy Chicago. just have a little. |
| 0:23.6 | From W.B.E.Z Chicago, this is Nurdett. |
| 0:26.1 | I am Greta Johnson. |
| 0:27.1 | And I'm Tricia Bobita. |
| 0:28.1 | And Tricia, I'm a little worried about the quality of your voice this morning. |
| 0:31.5 | How you doing, buddy? |
| 0:32.3 | I'm okay. I lost my voice. |
| 0:33.7 | You feel okay though? You don't feel sick, you just sound sick. |
| 0:39.4 | Yeah I'm totally fine, don't worry everybody. Okay so I'm hoping that maybe we can warm up your vocal cords a little bit before starting this |
| 0:45.5 | episode with something very special that is actually like very close to the heart of our |
| 0:50.4 | guest this week too. |
| 0:51.4 | Oh yeah, I see this bottle. |
| 0:52.4 | So our guest this week too. Oh yeah, I see this bottle. |
| 0:54.0 | So our guest this week is John Hodgman, |
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