Your stepmom's guide to Game of Thrones, 538's Walt Hickey on women in film and more
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Maria's back! We talk Game of Thrones with our favorite stepmother and chat about HBO's new Silicon Valley and the return of Veep. Plus Walter Hickey from fivethirtyeight.com breaks down the numbers on women in film. Plus homework from Tricia's trip down a Steve Jobs-related Netflix rabbit hole and Greta wants you to read The Leftovers.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Tell your father I'm here. |
| 0:05.0 | Tell him the Lannisters are the only ones who be their deads. |
| 0:12.0 | Is this one a caucus goer? |
| 0:19.0 | Could be. Is that a Star Wars reference, a new beginning? |
| 0:22.9 | No, this is actually some new beginnings, our next American journey. |
| 0:27.4 | Too late to change it? |
| 0:29.0 | It is. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm Greta Johnson. |
| 0:34.5 | I'm Tricia Bobita. |
| 0:35.7 | And this is the Nerdette podcast. |
| 0:38.5 | Coming up, Game of Thrones is back, which means so is Maria. |
| 0:43.0 | Megan, you love to read. |
| 0:46.4 | You love mysteries. |
| 0:48.1 | Even if you don't like to watch and read the books, you will be so fascinating the way the twist and the turns and you think you realize, |
| 0:56.4 | oh, I know what is going to happen? Oh, hell no. It's happening. And it's going to keep you |
| 1:01.7 | forever guessing. For those of you who are not familiar with Maria, we featured her in one of our |
| 1:07.2 | earliest episodes, actually. Episode six. Episode six, that is wild. |
| 1:12.5 | Nerdette contributor Megan Murphy Gill called Maria, her stepmother, to talk to her about Game of |
| 1:18.2 | Thrones because whenever the family gets together, Maria wants to talk about Game of Thrones. |
| 1:22.0 | And at that point, Megan was not watching the show, and Maria thought she could convince her, |
| 1:26.6 | so we had her do it on |
| 1:27.7 | Nurdette here's a little more of that conversation that they had last year I keep HBO for a |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Greta Johnsen, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Greta Johnsen and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.