Movies Of The '90s: ‘White Men Can’t Jump’

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🗓️ 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	From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerd at Recaps.
0:07.3	I'm Greta Johnson.
0:08.3	I'm Tricia Bobita, and joining us, as always, is Peter Sego.
0:11.6	Hey, guys, I just want you to know, I have no talent for this.
0:14.2	There's no way I'm going to be able to say anything interesting about this movie.
0:17.2	So, gosh, if I do, I'll just be lucky.
0:20.4	I see what you're doing there. The old podcast
0:23.7	Hustle. Exactly. So today we're recapping the 1992 film White Men Can't Jump. It takes place in
0:31.6	Southern California. And it's about Billy, a white guy hustler who pretends to be bad at basketball,
0:36.9	played by Woody Harrelson. And he ends up teaming up with another hustler who pretends to be bad at basketball played by Woody Harrelson. And he ends
0:39.2	up teaming up with another hustler basketball player, Sydney, played by Wesley Snipes. And essentially,
0:45.4	they talk a lot of shit and like hustle off into the sunset. That's, that's very good. Hey, before we
0:51.2	get started, I just wanted to check something on last week's episode, where talked about Independence Day, Greta swore more than I've ever heard her swear
0:59.0	in real life, let alone on the podcast. And I had always understood that, you know, we were all
1:04.5	trying to be very polite and public radio. But if we're allowed to swear, let's fucking swear.
1:10.4	I mean, is that the rule now?
1:11.9	This is definitely our first R-rated movie that we've recapped.
1:14.8	There's a lot of fuckens in this movie.
1:16.6	There's fucks and fucking.
1:17.8	There's all kinds of, yeah.
1:19.8	Let copulation thrive, ladies and gentlemen.
1:22.4	Let's do it.
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