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October 10, 2012

Podcast Host Bribes Tom Hanks With A Vintage Typewriter

How would you get the rather hard to get hold of Tom Hanks on to your podcast? Money? Women? Wine? A song perhaps? Nope, the correct answer is a 1934 Smith Corona typewriter.

How would you get the rather hard to get hold of Tom Hanks on to your podcast? Money? Women? Wine? A song perhaps? Nope, the correct answer is a 1934 Smith Corona typewriter.

Current Nerdist Podcast frontman Chris Hardwick, knowing that Hanks has a fondness for typewriters, attempted to get the the two-time Academy Award winner to do an interview by sending him the vintage machine. In a show of total awesomeness, Hanks not only agreed to the interview, but did it in unbridled style.

Hank’s response:

The resulting podcast was, obviously, also amazing.

The typewriter:

[Source: Nerdist]