Preview: Nerdette Is About To Recap Movies Like It's 1999 ... with Peter Sagal
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2020
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Quick! Name six iconic movies that hit theaters in the year 1999.
Nothing?! Ok. We'll do it for you:
- The Matrix
- The Blair Witch Project
- Election
- Boys Don't Cry
- 10 Things I Hate About You
- Office Space
And the craziest thing is? That's not even the half of it!
In honor of that crazy year in movies, Nerdette Recaps with Peter Sagal is back again, featuring recaps and analysis of the six films listed above (as well as updates on whatever Peter was doing 21 years ago).
Take a listen to the trailer, and make sure to join Tricia, Greta and Peter for their first recap on Wednesday, Oct. 21!
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 nerdetterecaps@gmail.com. We record early on Mondays, so send them in on Fridays if you can!
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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. |
| 0:08.0 | Your support is even more critical now than ever. Make your donation today at W be easy.org |
| 0:13.8 | slash donnie. Hey it's Peter Saggle here. If you've ever to listen to any of the |
| 0:17.8 | Nurdette Recaps podcasts, you know I am famous for my theories. Well, here's one. |
| 0:22.7 | 1999 was the greatest year in cinema history. |
| 0:27.0 | Oh yeah, don't step to me with your 1939s and your Wizards of Oz and Gones with the |
| 0:37.0 | wind, but your 1974s with Godfathers of various numbers? No. |
| 0:41.0 | 1999 is the year. |
| 0:44.0 | Why, it had the Matrix. |
| 0:46.0 | I know Kung Fu. |
| 0:47.6 | You could pretty much win the argument there, |
| 0:49.2 | but there's also election. |
| 0:50.3 | Who cares about this stupid election? |
| 0:53.7 | The Blair Witch Project. |
| 0:54.7 | I think it's safe to save this point, but we lost. |
| 0:58.4 | An amazing number of amazing movies in one amazing year, |
| 1:01.6 | and for that reason, and we've also been prodded by a lot of |
| 1:05.4 | bots on the internet we will be back with another season of Nurdett recaps with |
| 1:10.0 | Peter Siegel we're recapping like it's 1999. |
| 1:13.5 | I guess in this society of being male and an asshole makes you worthy of our time. |
| 1:17.4 | As always, we'll announce the movies you can watch them and listen along, send in your |
| 1:21.1 | voicemail. We'll get started October 21st, and you can find us wherever |
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