Tom Hanks talks Prius on Letterman

Today's Letterman had Tom Hanks on tonite, and they spent a whole 5 minutes talking about his electric car and his hybrid. He also mentioned he's involved with a company trying to get into the electric car market again.

BTW, I recorded it on DVD-RAM and can rip it if someone is willing to host it.

 

OK, ripped, but this 5.5 minute clip is over 350 MB. That won't do.

I could probably compress it down to a 10-15 MB file or something tonite, and still maintain reasonable quality. Is that size OK?

 

Thx, Danny, the file is uploaded now.

Tom Hanks talks Prius

EDIT: Hmmm... The audio is out of sync at the end. Oh well, close enough for now.

EDIT: Audio sync has been corrected.

 

Hmmm... I can't seem to get the audio sync'd up properly. Off by a second or so by the end of the 5.5 minutes. Time to look into the software again...

BTW, the file is over 16 MB. For those who only want the audio, I also uploaded a 1.8 MB MP3 file, here.

EDIT:

Audio sync has now been corrected. 20.5 MB now.

 

Yep. Tom Hanks is already known to own a Prius, and he does mention the car with Batman computer was a hybrid a bit earlier in the conversation.

The file has been corrected - no more audio sync issues. It's 20 MB now unfortunately. File is here. (It's in the same location as before.)

And again for those who just want the audio, the 1.8 MB MP3 file is here.

 

If you're having problems keeping a fast enough data rate for watching the stream in your browser, you can get the whole QuickTime file by right-clicking (or ctrl-clicking on a Mac) and downloading the file to disk.

 

Yes. I don't know if he owned a prior Prius model too though.

A Prius-Hummer War Divides Hollywood, Hedonism vs Holier-Than-Though PC

Entertainment industry executives like Jim Wiatt, the president of the William Morris Agency, who used to be seen in a big fancy Mercedes-Benz, drove to the Vanity Fair party in a hybrid. Tom Hanks just bought the redesigned 2004 Prius, the second generation of the car Toyota first introduced in 2000. It is the movie people who can afford mansions who are driving the $20,000 hybrids. And it is the rappers who just made their first couple of million dollars who are buying the $50,000 Hummer. It is the kids of entertainment industry executives who rent Hummer limos for their proms and big nights out.