4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2022
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Lies, lies, and more lies! For today's commissioned episode, we watched the 1984 made-for-TV movie Nadia, a Very Highly Extremely Unauthorized biography of Nadia Comaneci, and we seriously just can't with it. We discuss:
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0:00.0 | Remember, the show is PG-13, so you might hear a naughty word or two. |
0:05.1 | Today, possibly the greatest example of male washing and |
0:10.0 | commie fierce exploitation of all time. A story so filled with bold-based lies, |
0:17.4 | it might as well be a mockumentary. The only reason to watch is to enjoy the mega bad |
0:24.2 | assness of the one and only Marsha Fredrick in the 1984 TV movie Nadia, |
0:31.6 | Vibella Corolley. This is episode 68 for 2021, the week of November 8th, and welcome to the |
0:40.0 | number one gymnastics podcast. In the galaxy, I'm Jessica Amher with Spencer from the |
0:44.0 | Balanced View situation, and this is a commissioned episode from a club gym nerd member. |
0:50.1 | Bri commissioned this episode, and club gym nerd members like her make this show possible. |
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1:20.4 | It's very exciting. This episode was recorded in November 2021. We'll be back on January 6th. |
1:25.5 | That's a Friday for college and cocktails. Check the form at gymcastic.com for the schedule or your |
1:31.4 | email if you're a club gym nerd member for details in January. See then. So Spencer, can you set |
1:38.0 | the scene? It's 1980. I mean, I may not have the energy, but yes, I can set the scene of |
1:43.6 | not the other movie. Okay, so this is, if you're not familiar, it's a made for TV movie from 1984. |
1:51.2 | And if you haven't seen it, just the words made for TV movie from 1984 should give you a solid |
1:56.3 | picture of what we're watching here and what the quality level and everything that's happening. |
2:02.0 | So this aired just before the start of the 84 Olympics. Look at that. Very convenient. |
2:09.6 | Timely. Yeah, so that's what we're watching here. That's what we watched this weekend. |
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