Tom Hanks on Talk Easy

Double Date with Marlo Thomas & Phil Donahue

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Relationships, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Listen to this special episode from another podcast you'll love called Talk Easy! Actor Tom Hanks joins host Sam Fragoso for an in-depth conversation about his debut novel, his film career, the transformative, eight-year process of making "Cast Away," and his formative friendships with actor Holland Taylor and the late Nora Ephron. Hear more episode: https://apple.co/talkeasy

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0:00.0	The V2 was a rocket-powered bomb, traveling faster than the speed of sound you couldn't
0:14.5	hear it coming.
0:15.5	A technological miracle, but a military and economic disaster for Nazi Germany.
0:20.8	How did the V2 come into existence?
0:23.1	And why were so many of the people it hurt, not the people you might expect?
0:27.0	Join me, Tim Halford, the host of cautionary tales from my brand new mini-series on the
0:32.1	V2 rocket.
0:33.1	All the episodes are available now, add free exclusively for subscribers to push in
0:38.0	plus.
0:54.2	This is talk easy, I'm standing for a go, so welcome to the show.
1:01.0	Today, I'm joined by the one and only, Tom Hanks.
1:16.0	Since breaking out in bosom buddies in 1980, Hanks has become something of a national treasure,
1:22.6	a permanent fixture in American life.
1:25.6	Steven Spielberg, who directed Hanks in films like Saving Private Ryan and Catch Me If You
1:30.5	Can, once said if Norman Rockwell were alive today, he would paint a portrait of Tom.
1:37.3	And that tends to be how many think and talk about Hanks, the prototypical American,
1:42.0	the Everyman.
1:43.3	And yet, when you think about it, Rockwell's paintings and Hanks performances are guided
1:48.6	by a similar spirit to observe and reflect not just the world as it is, but as it could
1:55.8	be.
1:56.8	In the 90s, he tackled big social themes like women's equality in a league of their
2:01.3	own, the AIDS epidemic in Philadelphia, the 60s in Vietnam and Forest Gump, capital punishment
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