Movies Of The '90s: ‘White Men Can’t Jump’
Nerdette Recaps With Peter Sagal
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4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
We didn’t ask him, but I think we can say it with certainty: Peter Sagal definitely cannot dunk.
Episode 3 of Nerdette Recaps features our very first sportsball movie: 1992’s White Men Can’t Jump, starring Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson and Rosie Perez. It’s director Ron Shelton’s followup to Bull Durham and the script might just contain more obscenities than non-obscenities.
Listen to this conversation with Peter, Tricia and Greta, then join us next week for our discussion of Dazed and Confused.
And don’t forget, we want to hear from you! Join the party and send us a voice recording about any of the movies we’re featuring. Just record yourself on your smartphone and send the audio file to [email protected]. Do it by Thursday!
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| 0:00.0 | Only one in five W be easy listeners financially support our work. We need to get that number up to keep our budget year on track. |
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| 0:13.8 | slash donate. From W bez Chicago this is nerd Recaps. I'm Greta Johnson. |
| 0:23.2 | I'm Tricia Bobita and joining us as always is Peter Sego. |
| 0:26.6 | Hey guys, I just want you to know, I have no talent for this. There's no way I'm going to be able to say anything |
| 0:30.9 | interesting about this movie. So, gosh,osh if I do I'll just be lucky. |
| 0:36.1 | I see what you're doing there. The old podcast hustle. |
| 0:40.0 | Exactly! |
| 0:46.7 | So today we're recapping the 1992 film White Men Can't Jump. It takes place in Southern California and it's about Billy a white guy hustler who pretends to be bad |
| 0:51.0 | at basketball played by Woody Harrelson and he ends up |
| 0:54.4 | teaming up with another hustler basketball player Sydney played by Wesley Snipes |
| 0:58.8 | and essentially they talk a lot of shit and hustle off into the sunset. |
| 1:04.6 | That's very good. |
| 1:05.6 | Hey, before we get started, I just wanted to check something. |
| 1:08.6 | On last week's episode where we talked about Independence Day, Greta swore more than I've ever heard her swear |
| 1:14.8 | in real life, let alone on the podcast. |
| 1:17.8 | And I had always understood that we were all |
| 1:19.7 | trying to be very polite in public radio. |
| 1:21.6 | But if we're allowed to swear let's |
| 1:24.3 | fucking swear I mean is that the rule now this is definitely our first R-rated |
| 1:28.8 | movie that we've recapped there's a lot of fuckins oh yeah there's fucks and |
| 1:32.4 | fucking there's all lot of fuckins. Oh yeah, there's fucks and fucking and there's all kinds of yeah |
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