{"id":938,"date":"2026-10-21T15:00:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T19:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/?p=938"},"modified":"2026-10-21T15:00:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T19:00:04","slug":"our-podcast-discusses-the-1996-film-that-thing-you-do-on-its-30th-anniversary-written-and-directed-by-tom-hanks-and-featuring-fictional-band-the-wonders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/?p=938","title":{"rendered":"Our podcast discusses the 1996 film That Thing You Do! on it&#8217;s 30th anniversary! Written and directed by Tom Hanks, and featuring fictional band The Wonders!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/il_1140xN.6609590193_62le.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[938]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"758\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/il_1140xN.6609590193_62le-758x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/il_1140xN.6609590193_62le-758x1024.jpg 758w, https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/il_1140xN.6609590193_62le-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/il_1140xN.6609590193_62le-768x1038.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/il_1140xN.6609590193_62le-1136x1536.jpg 1136w, https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/il_1140xN.6609590193_62le.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 758px) 100vw, 758px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>One of the greatest fake band movies ever, starring Tom Hanks, Tom Everett Scott, Johnathon Schaech, Steve Zahn, Ethan Embry, Liv Tyler, Giovanni Ribisi, and featuring the music of Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne.<\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/2FHScDrBradptjPoKOCGxt\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/that-thing-you-do\/id1738865725?i=1000793177905\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Podcasts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everything <a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/rocklopedia\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">else<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the greatest fake band movies ever, starring Tom Hanks, Tom Everett Scott, Johnathon Schaech, Steve Zahn, Ethan Embry, Liv Tyler, Giovanni Ribisi, and featuring the music of Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne. On Spotify On Apple Podcasts Everything else!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paCRfe-f8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":940,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}